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National Coalition of Girls’ Schools ConferenceJune 24-26, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA

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Dream, Dare, Do Meeting Space Locations

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The Girls’ School NET cocktail reception is a unique opportunity for conference attendees to network with fellow educators as well as for schools to engage with their alumnae in the region.

The NET reception is open to all conference attendees.The 2019 Girls’ School NET event is generously sponsored by First Republic Bank.

Monday, June 24, 2019 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.Westridge School | Ayrshire Courtyard

Ayrshire & Foreman Courtyards

Fran Norris Scoble Performing Arts Center (PAC)

Madeline Court

English Classroom Building• EC20 (1st Floor)• EC21 (2nd Floor)• EC24 (2nd Floor)

Rothenberg Humanities Building

• Herrick Commons (Ground Level)

• RB50 (Ground Level)• RB60 (Top Level)• RB61 (Top Level)• RB62 (Top Level)• RB64 (Top Level)• RB65 (Top Level)

Upper School Science Building

• SB72 (Lower Level)• Fish Room

(Lower Level across from SB72)

• SB75 (Lower Level)• SB76 (Lower Level)• SB85 (Ground Level)

Art Studio• AS32

Main Building• ARC/Learning

Commons• STEAMWork

Design Studio• Room 10

(Luggage Storage)

A map highlighting programming spaces is available on the mobile app.

Girls’ School NET: Networking and Empowering Together Reception

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Schedule OverviewMonday, June 248:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Registration Open Ayrshire Courtyard

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Pre-Conference School Visits (additional cost and registration required)

Please gather in the main lobby of The Westin Pasadena at 191 N Los Robles Ave to board your bus.

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.SPONSORED BY CARNEY, SANDOE & ASSOCIATES

Pre-Conference Workshop (additional cost and registration required)

• Answer the Rising Call for Women’s Leadership in Independent Schools ARC/Learning Commons

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Lunch on your own (bag lunches will be provided for

pre-conference activities participants) Madeline Court

12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Exhibit Space Open Ayrshire Courtyard

12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.SPONSORED BY THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

Opening Remarks• Elizabeth McGregor | Trustee, NCGS and Head of

School, Westridge School• Martha Perry | Board President, NCGS and Principal,

St. Clement’s School

Panel Discussion | Walt Disney Imagineers• Robin Reardon | Portfolio Executive Producer• Kristina Dewberry | Construction Manager• Asya Cara Peña | Ride Mechanical Engineer• Kirstin Makela | Art Director• Megan Murphy | Executive Director, NCGS (Moderator) Performing Arts Center

2:15 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.

Breakout Session A • Assessing Failure: Promoting Risk-taking in the Classroom RB50• Dare to STEAM: Building Creative Innovators in a 1-12 School SB76• Everyday Well-being: Supporting Healthy Learning in Our Girls RB60• Future Anything She Can Dream: Attracting Families, Inspiring Students, Engaging Alumnae EC21• Making Space for Entrepreneurs: Classroom Design for Risk-taking, Mistake-making, and Ideas RB61• Mindsets and Tools for Solving Big Problems: Building Tomorrow’s Talent Pipeline RB62• The New Work Reality. The Future Begins Today. RB64

• PBL Real World Immersive Courses SB72• Pop-up School: A Place-based Learning Challenge AS32• Real Science Builds Resilience and Leads to Discovery SB85• Taking a Strategic Plan from a Dream to Reality EC24• Want to Innovate Teaching and Learning? Start by Innovating Curriculum Planning! RB65• We Built This City! Enhancing the Development of Cross-curricular Connections and Learning Through the Design of a Sustainable City Sector Fish Room• What Girls Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI) SB75

3:05 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.

Networking & Snack Break with Sponsors & Exhibitors Ayrshire Courtyard

3:40 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Breakout Session B • Architects of Change @ School RB62• Benefits of a Girl Only STEM Environment SB76• Developing Confidence and Resilience: The Benefits of Experiential Learning and Global Travel in Preparing Girls for Life RB64• Don’t Hire a Dud! A Toolkit for Hiring Practices EC24• Dream of a Better World, Dare to Speak Your Truth, Do Make a Difference RB65• Dream, Dare, Do: Are You Ready for a LeaderShift? SB72• Leadership in Literary Dialogues: Coaching Vision and Risk-taking in a Humanities Classroom EC21• Learning Environments for Growth: Exploring Facets of a “Safe Space” for Growth in All-girls Schools AS32• Promoting Positive Mindsets Towards Teaching and Learning Math SB75• Reflections on “Resistance”: What Girls’ Education Portends for Boys, Healthy Relationships, and Education RB60• Reimagining Curriculum/Reimagining Assessment Fish Room• The Role of Single-sex Education for College-bound Women, Revisited: A Multilevel Analysis RB61• Supporting Girls in STEAM: Developing a STEAM Culture at Your School SB85

SNAP! Session I: Design Thinking & STEAM RB50• Creativity: The Secret to Success in STEAM for Girls • Design Thinking and Social Justice in the Curriculum • Does Making Matter? • StARTup

Info in a SNAP!SNAP! sessions allow you to hear 4-5 rapid-fire stories highlighting the impact girls’ schools have on the lives of individual students. Presenters, with a limited number of slides, convey in only 6-7 minutes the essence of their program or class. Monday’s SNAP! session will focus on Design Thinking and STEAM, and the second session on Tuesday will explore Developing Student Voice and Empathy. See above and on page 5 for SNAP! session titles.

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Schedule Overview

Monday, June 24 (continued)

4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.SPONSORED BY FIRST REPUBLIC BANK

Panel Discussion | Business, Finance, & Philanthropy• Lydia Kennard | President & CEO, KDG Construction

Consulting• Estelle Reyes | SVP, Enhancing Community,

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator• Dina Shoman | Founder & CEO, inherQuests• Paul Burke | Head of School, The Nightingale-Bamford

School (Moderator)

Keynote Remarks• Hafize Gaye Erkan | President, First Republic Bank Performing Arts Center

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.SPONSORED BY FIRST REPUBLIC BANK

Conference Welcome Reception

Girls’ School NET: Networking & Empowering Together Ayrshire Courtyard

Dinner on your own

Tuesday, June 257:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Registration Open Ayrshire Courtyard

7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Networking & Continental Breakfast with Sponsors & Exhibitors Ayrshire Courtyard

Affinity Group Meeting• STEM Education for Girls 2.0 AS32

8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Exhibit Space Open Ayrshire Courtyard

8:30 a.m.– 10:05 a.m.SPONSORED BY CARNEY, SANDOE & ASSOCIATES

Remarks & Presentation of Prizes• Megan Murphy | Executive Director, NCGS• Betty White | Ransome Prize Recipient• Christianne Loupelle | H. William Christ Educator

Prize Recipient• Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus |

Moulton Student Global Citizenship Grant Recipient

Panel Discussion | Entrepreneurship• Ayah Bdeir | Founder & CEO, littleBits• Sarah Prevette | Founder & CEO, Future Design School• Brian Weisfeld | Founder & Chief Squad Officer,

The Startup Squad• Courtney Klein | Co-founder & CEO, SEED SPOT (Moderator) Performing Arts Center

10:15 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

Breakout Session C• Building Communities Beyond Service: Developing Student Voice and Risk-taking Through Academic Public-Private Partnership RB50• Business as (Not) Usual: Ensuring Fundraising Success During Leadership Transitions RB60• Elevating Advisory Curriculum to Meet the Power of Girls of Color EC21• The Elmwood Story Empowered by NoTosh: Educating the Women of the Future RB61• From Mis-takes to First-takes: The Tole of Reframing Errors in Building Innovators and Entrepreneurs in the Classroom RB65• Game-based Learning and Tablet-PC Use: Results from Classroom-based Researches in Miriam College High School SB76• Girl Up STEM for Social Good SB72• Girls walkSTEM: Strengthening Identity and Broadening Participation in STEM/STEAM AS32• A Golden Moment for Women’s Leadership in Schools Fish Room• Growing Dreamers: How Two Schools Built Professional Growth Programs for Faculty that Hold Innovation as Central Components RB62• The READ Dress Project: Student-directed STEAM Inquiry SB85• Real-world Connections to Increase Girls’ Interest in Engineering and Computer Science SB75• Single-sex Schools in a Multi-gender World: Lessons Learned from Research and Experience with Transgender Students at Girls’ Schools RB64• What Encourages Girls to Dream, Dare, and Do? Essential Steps for Partnering with Students, Parents, and Educators to Create a Culture of Marijuana Prevention EC24

Save the Date!A Girls’ School NET reception will be held the evening of Monday, June 22, during the 2020 NCGS Annual Conference, Stand Up, Speak Up: Girls Using Their Voices to Engage, Empower, and Enact in Philadelphia, PA.

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Schedule Overview

11:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. SPONSORED BY GIRL UP

Featured Speaker & Panel• Katlyn Grasso | CEO & Founder, GenHERation• Laura Kelly | Owner & President, The Handwork Studio• Cat Oriel | GenHERation Member• Nancy Molenda | Executive Director, Mattel Children’s Foundation Performing Arts Center

INSPIRE! Session I (select two) Herrick Commons• Alumnae Please! Proven and Effective Events to Engage Alumnae• Assistive Robotics: Preparing Girls to Pursue Engineering with a

Human-centered, Mission-aligned Senior Design Project• Bridging the Gap: Technology and Social-Emotional Learning• Building a Fun and Exciting Computer Science Curriculum• Building a Ladder to the Diving Board: Preparing Students to

Plunge into Language• Classroom as Laboratory: Experimentation to Presentation and

the Messy Middle• Expectations of Brilliance: How Field-specific Assumptions Result in

Female Under-representation• FutureMakers: An Interdisciplinary Research Program for 8th Grade Girls• Gigantic Technological Thinking in the Early Years• Imagine and Create: Engaging Students with Technology• Innovation Across the Curriculum: The Dream of a “Maker” Culture• Makers and Movers: Creating Entrepreneurs in a Top London Girls’ School• Preparing Girls to Thrive as 21st Century Leaders• SPEAK: Vocal Empowerment Curriculum for 6-12 Grade Students• Take & Make: Inspiring DIY Learning• Tear Down the Walls!• Using The Handmaid’s Tale to Bridge the Gender Gap in Computer Science• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A Student-run

Graphic Novel Unit

12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.

Lunch Madeline Court

1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.

Hands-on Workshops • Create, Fail, Iterate: Affective Skills in Makerspace SB76• Engineering for All: A Human-centered Approach to Building 21st Century Skills RB50• From Bleep, Blip, Boop to Variables, Arrays, and Loops: Teaching with Sonic Pi EC24• Girls Hack Blockchain Apps! Demystifying Emergent Technologies Through STEAM RB64• The Harlem STEAM Consortium and littleBits Invent-a-thon SB75• Inspiration Stations: Learn, Dream, Create! ARC/Learning Commons• The Magic in the Space Between: How Coaching and Mentoring Can Transform Leaders RB65• Marlborough Robotics and Onshape: How to Embrace CAD and Create Almost Anything EC21• Portfolio Practicum: Cultivating a Teacher Toolkit for Project Based Learning RB60• Promoting the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Your Entire School Community Fish Room• Rapid Prototyping SB72• Reinforcing Our Unbreakable Commitment to Girls’ STEM Education RB62• Safe, Handy, and Hardy: Empowering Girls Through Industrial Arts SB85• Squishing, Squeezing, and Scribbling: Hands-on Circuitry Projects as an Introduction to STEAM EC20• STEAM Makerspace: 3D Printing and Laser Cutting for Classroom Projects STEAMWork Design Studio• Take a STEMBreak AS32• Using Pop-Up Courses to Help Girls Dream, Dare, and Do RB61

2:40 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Breakout Session D• Building a Growth Mindset for Girls in STEAM SB85• Challenging Gendered Stereotypes and Bias RB60• Creating a Culture of Making: Innovation + Risk-taking in a Traditional Setting SB75• FIL-AM: Making a Difference One Cause at a Time RB61• The Full Span Advisory: Creating, Nurturing, and Supporting Spaces for Well-balanced Girls EC21• It’s All About Relationships! The Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Strategic Planning RB64• Learn to Make Light-up Handmade Journals for Use in Class RB62• Let the Kids Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership and Elevating Student Voice Through Equity and Inclusion SB72• Power & Purpose: Girls Working as Scientists, Mathematicians, and Engineers Fish Room• Reimagining Your Portfolio of Work: Addition by Subtraction to Fuel Your Future Success EC24• Research in the Service of Creativity RB65• Through Service, Girls Embrace Engineering and Creative Design SB76• You Can’t Be What You Don’t See. Creating the Agile Female Female Leaders of the Future AS32

SNAP! Session II: Developing Student Voice & Empathy RB50

• Connecting through Communication• Creating a Culture of Kindness in Schools• Dare to Make a Difference• Finding a Voice in Discussions about Social Justice Issues• Operation Beautiful

Get INSPIREd!INSPIRE! sessions are interactive discussions that allow you to rotate through two 25-minute mini-roundtables presented in a “speed innovating” format. More than 16-20 topics will be offered during each INSPIRE! period. See the schedule below and on page 6 to choose your two topics. All INSPIRE! discussions will be held in the Ayrshire Courtyard, and space is limited to 8-10 participants per table.

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Tuesday, June 25 (continued)

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Networking & Snack Break with Sponsors & Exhibitors Ayrshire Courtyard

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Panel Discussion | InnovationSPONSORED BY GRAHAM-PELTON CONSULTING

• Jordan Richardson | Talent & Business Development Manager, Not Impossible

• Julie Schoenfeld | Vice President, General Motors Cruise Automation

• Gayle Allen | Founder & CEO, The Innovators’ Circle (Moderator) Performing Arts Center

Dinner on your own or join a “Dine Around” (space is limited; stop by the Registration Desk for more information)

Wednesday, June 267:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast Ayrshire Courtyard

Affinity Group Meetings• Global Education & Partnerships AS32

• Student Activism EC20

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Panel Discussion | STEM• Colleen Lewis | McGregor-Girand Associate Professor

of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College• Allison Strom | Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, The

Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science• Janelle Wellons | Instrument Operations Engineer,

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory• Leslie Aaronson | Strategic Director of K12 Initiatives, NCWIT (Moderator) Performing Arts Center

9:40 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Featured Speaker Performing Arts Center

• Karen Hofmann | Provost, Art Center College of Design

INSPIRE! Session II (select two) Herrick Commons• Advocating for Girls’ Schools: NCGS Research & Resources• Alumnae Relations in the Independent School: Small Shop, Big Impact• Changing from a Library to a Learning Commons• Counting Grains of Sand: Inspiring Students to do the Impossible• Create, Collaborate, Innovate: How and Why Maker Education Works!• Curriculum Mashup: The Intersection of Physics, Design, Data

Collection, and Coding

• Effective Visual Storytelling with Girls in Education• Empowering Girls Voices through Student Media• HERSTORY: Disrupting and Diversifying Curriculum to Empower

the Female Voice• Innovative Solutions to Disorders and Disease: A Senior Biology

Exploration• The Plastics Pledge: An Escape Room Challenge• Que Hora Es? Applying STEM to Spanish Class• Seven Keys for Success in Landing a Leadership Position• Think, Make, Share: Creating Creators• Without Bounds: Unconventional Curriculum Discussion

10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Breakout Session E• 10 Insights in 10 Years SB75• Apples, Yoga, and Happiness? How a Traditional Girls’ School Reinvented Itself in 18 Months RB60• Build a Culture of Innovation by Transforming Professional Development RB61• Building Powerful STEAM Pipes Into the Real World SB72• A Collaborative Approach for Igniting Creativity and Computational Thinking SB85• Connection, Community, and Voice: Social Justice and Digital Citizenship RB65• Grit and Grace: How Social-Emotional Learning Enhances Leadership in Girls RB62• Inviting Imperfection: Strategies to Promote Academic Risk Taking in Girls RB50• Women Who Make, Women Who Scribble RB64

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Panel Discussion | Making Movie and TV Magic• Nkechi Okoro Carroll | Executive Producer & Showrunner• Saladin K. Patterson | Showrunner, Producer, & Writer• Elizabeth Kilpatrick | VP, Development & Operations, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (Moderator) Performing Arts Center

Conference Concludes

Lunch on your own (bag lunches will be provided for post-conference activities participants) Madeline Court

1:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Post-Conference School Visit(additional cost and registration required)

Please gather at the State Street entrance to board your bus.

Carnegie Observatories Tour (additional cost and registration required)

Please gather at the State Street entrance to board your bus.

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SAVE THE DATESJune 22-24, 2020NCGS Annual ConferenceStand Up, Speak Up: Girls Using Their Voices to Engage, Empower, and EnactPhiladelphia 201 HotelPhiladelphia, PA

SAVE THE DATEJune 22, 2020Girls’ School NET: Networking & Empowering TogetherReception for girls’ school educators and alumnaePhiladelphia 201 HotelPhiladelphia, PA

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