Pre-Conference Seminars

Pulling Ahead of the Marketing Mad Dash

If you want to create and deploy, both internally and externally, a better-than-ever marketing blueprint-the kind that solidifies revenue, encourages engagement, aligns stakeholders, and spots opportunities-please join Patti Crane, founder and president of Crane MetaMarketing, and Kathy Hanson, senior consultant at Marts & Lundy, as they share practical methods for your school to establish your strategy once and for all-making future tactics not only easier to decide upon, but also more efficient and effective.

Patti Crane, Founder and President, Crane MetaMarketing

Kathy Hanson, Senior Consultant, Marts and Lundy

Girls School Coalition – Internal marketing.ppt

http://conferences.cranebrandwork.com/

Coastal Studies for Girls: Pioneer Semester of a Unique Seaside Learning Community

Coastal Studies for Girls, the country’s first and only residential science and leadership semester school for 10th grade girls, welcomed their Pioneer Class to the coastal Maine campus during the spring term of 2010, graduating 13 girls from Maine to California. Explore how a semester school experience can build confidence and self-esteem, increase high school, college and life aspirations, and complement and enhance a student’s traditional four-year high school degree program. Learn about their unique hands-on marine science research leadership and adventure curriculum through stories and photos from the first semester and explore ways for students, teachers and supporters to be involved.

Tara Treichel, Director of Education, Coastal Studies for Girls

CSG announcement.doc

http://www.coastalstudiesforgirls.org/

Building Better Indoor Environments: Simple Ways to Improve a Space

With the implementation of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for buildings and the growing awareness of the necessity for better indoor environments for children and adults alike, we may stop to ask, what is possible for me to do with my space? How can I make the most of my budget for improvements? What kind of benefits will it have on the staff and students at my school? How can I use this information?

Color, space, form and light have great impacts on the way we perceive our surroundings and the way we respond to them, especially in an academic environment. Whether your school is embarking on renovations, new design or just a freshening of an existing space, color and lighting choices play a critical role in every project’s success and there are often simple things that can be done to make a space better. This seminar includes an overview of the science behind color theory, lighting and the benefits of providing a better indoor environment. It relates research directly to both the academic performance of students as well as the daily productivity of adult staff members.

Beth Phillips, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Street Dixon Rick Architecture, PLC

http://www.sdrarch.com/index01.php

Circle of Women

We’re a young nonprofit dedicated to building schools for girls in developing countries. Our first project is a secondary school for 1200 girls in Afghanistan, where the female literacy rate is only 12% (UNICEF). While a group of college students and recent grads fund-raise, organize, and spread awareness at home, experienced collaborators manage construction locally.

Our mission is to equip girls with self-reliance, knowledge, and increased capacities to both enhance their own lives and to contribute productively to their societies. We believe this is the best way to affect positive, global change. Our philosophy is that one school will affect one community. One community will make a world of change.

Lizzie Brook, Co-director of Circle of Women

Meher Iqbal, student, Harvard University

Book Signing