Fall Retreat Schedule & Dashboard
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- Heads of School
- Board Members
- Academic Leadership
- Advancement
- Philosophy & Worldview
- Retreat Themes
Click any breakout session title for more info and to join.
10:00/9:00c | Livestream Morning Session
Trauma and Resilience - Latest research on the Impact and Opportunities for Our schools
Brooke Hempell
Senior VP of Research at the Barna Group
Understanding a Biblical View of Race
Juan Sanchez
Senior Pastor, High Pointe Baptist Church
Getting the Culture Right for Academic Achievement
George Sanker
Head of School, The Covenant School
Leading and Caring for Yourself and Your Team
Keith McCurdy
President and CEO, Total Life Counseling, Inc.
11:30/10:30c | Breakout Session I
- Patio Q&A
with Keith McCurdy - How to Build a More Resilient Gen Z
with Brooke Hempell (sponsored by Schola Inbound Marketing) - The Board in the Real World: Three Board Chairs Talk About Their Boards' Work This Year
with John A. Riley, Elizabeth Butler, Alex Ray - A Liberal Education for All: Lessons from Charlotte Mason for the Modern Classical Renewal
with Jason Barney (sponsored by The CiRCE Institute) - Time-Saving Tools for Admission & Marketing Professionals
with Amy Burgess - Financial Sustainability
with Kelly Blake (sponsored by The Champion Group) - A Thought Experiment for Our Divided Times
with Dr. Michael Young - Great Books and Great Questions: Diverse Voices in Pursuit of the True, Good, and Beautiful
with Dr. Angel Adams Parham, Dr. Brian Williams (sponsored by The University of Dallas) - Great Books: A Polaris for the African American People
with Dr. Anika Prather (sponsored by CLT)
12:30/11:30c | Breakout Session II
- Kingdom Diversity and Belonging
with Karmen Johnson, Keith Nix, Warren Smith (sponsored by Houston Baptist University) - Legal Considerations for Religious Schools During a Pandemic
with Kristin Smith - Using Assessments and Analytics Data to Better Support Your Teachers
with Soren Schwab (sponsored by CLT) - Raising the Annual Fund Without Being Able to Have Events
with Brad Layland - 2020 School Growth Case Studies: Results from Implementing a Story Marketing System
with Ralph Cochran (sponsored by Schola Inbound Marketing) - The Sacred Synthesis: How the Church Transformed the Inherited Thought of Greece and Rome to Create Classical Christian Education
with Dr. Christopher Perrin (sponsored by The University of Dallas) - The Canon at Work in Today’s Complex World
with Dr. Angel Adams Parham - Forbidden Love: A Black Woman's Journey to Falling in Love with Classical Education
with Dr. Anika Prather - Prayer Room
with Rim Hinckley
2:00/1:00c | Livestream Afternoon Session
Fear, Faithfulness, and Fatigue with fundraising during covid-19
Brad Layland
CEO, The FOCUS Group
Telling the Stories: Classical Education and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Dr. Brian Williams
Dean, Templeton Honors College
Clearly Communicating Your Mission & Vision
Kristin Cole
President, A. Larry Ross Communications
Listening for Truth in a Chaotic World
Dr. Angel Adams Parham
Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans
3:15/2:15c | Breakout Session III
- What Has COVID Taught Us About Leading Well
with Travis Koch, David Nees, Katharine Savage and David Seibel (sponsored by John Brown University) - The Three Things a Board Must Do and Not Do This Year
with Eric Cook (sponsored by LatinPerDiem) - Finding Us Doing Human Things — Educational Travel in a Time of Pandemic
with Dr. Bill Miller - Patio Q&A
with Kristin Cole - Achieving Success in Your Captial Campaign
with Kelly Blake (sponsored by The Champion Group) - Would Socrates Zoom?
with Dr. Grant Horner - Reading the Texts: An Introduction to the Writings of Three Black Classical Christian Educators—Alexander Crummell, William Sanders Scarborough, and Anna Julia Cooper
with Dr. Brian Williams (sponsored by The CiRCE Institute) - Patio Q&A
with Dr. Angel Adams Parham, Dr. Anika Prather - Prayer Room
with Davies Owens
4:15/3:15c | Workgroups
This breakout session is an opportunity for you to connect with others in your affinity group and to discuss the issues you are currently facing at your school. Below select the workgroup that best aligns with your position at your school.
After a brief address to the entire group, you will break out into smaller groups for a guided discussion.
These workgroups should last between for an hour to an hour-and-a-half.
Heads of School
This workgroup is suggested for Heads of Schools and Principals.
Boards
This workgroup is suggested for Board Heads and Members.
Academic Leaders
This workgroup is suggested for Academic Deans and Curriculum Specialists.
Advancement
This workgroup is suggested for Advancement Directors and Fundraisers for Schools.
Admissions & Marketing
This workgroup is suggested for Admissions and Marketing Directors.
Teachers
This workgroup is suggested for Lead Teachers, Teachers, and Faculty.
Upper School Heads
This workgroup is suggested for Upper School Heads and Principals.
Lower School Heads
This workgroup is suggested for Lower School (Grammar) Heads and Principals.
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