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SUMMARY:Registration & Welcome Table
DESCRIPTION:New teachers are welcomed as they check in and collect their materials for the institute. Rather than a standard registration table\, this arrival moment is intentionally designed as a first act of care. Facilitators greet participants by name\, and the space is set to signal warmth from the first step through the door. Participants are encouraged to connect with a table partner before the formal program begins.
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SUMMARY:Welcome & Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:This opening session establishes the tone and purpose of the entire institute. Participants are invited to reflect on why they chose this work and what they hope it will mean for themselves and for their students. Facilitators share SAIS’s commitment to early career educators and walk through what the three days will hold. The session builds connections between participants from different schools and creates the psychological safety needed for genuine learning. Rooted in SAIS’s “The First Years Matter” research\, this kick-off is intentionally designed to communicate: we see you\, we’re glad you’re here\, and we’re investing in you.
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SUMMARY:Classroom Culture & Role Clarity
DESCRIPTION:Starting a new role in a new school can feel like learning the rules of a game no one has fully explained. This session gives new teachers a candid framework for understanding what their role actually includes and\, just as importantly\, what it doesn’t. Participants explore what a healthy classroom culture looks and feels like in independent schools\, examine common sources of workload ambiguity\, and practice language for setting appropriate boundaries. Facilitators model how to have early\, honest conversations with supervisors about expectations\, extra duties\, and professional norms. The goal is to leave this session with both clarity and confidence in establishing your own classroom culture.
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SUMMARY:Community-Building Social
DESCRIPTION:Connection doesn’t happen by accident. It has to be designed. This structured social experience goes beyond a casual pizza gathering to create real relational bonds among the cohort. Participants move through facilitated peer introductions organized around meaningful questions: what drew them to independent education\, where they are in their careers\, and what they most want to learn from the people in the room. Light food and informal conversation follow.
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SUMMARY:Breakfast & Cohort Check-In
DESCRIPTION:Each morning begins with a facilitated cohort check-in over breakfast. Rather than a passive warm-up\, this is an intentional relational practice where participants are seated in small cohort groups and invited into a brief\, structured conversation. Wednesday’s prompt invites participants to share one hope and one worry for the day ahead. These morning check-ins serve a dual purpose: they build the habit of honest peer dialogue and give facilitators real-time insight into participant experience that can shape the day’s facilitation.
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SUMMARY:Transition to Classrooms
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SUMMARY:Demo Lessons - Round One
DESCRIPTION:Participants move to classrooms to observe and take part in instruction with feedback led by experienced independent school educators. Demo Lessons are among the most valued elements of the Institute for New Teachers experience. They give new teachers a chance to see effective practice in action\, ask questions\, and experience what teaching looks and feels like from the learner’s side. Participants are encouraged to take notes on specific strategies they want to try in their own classrooms. A structured debrief follows each round.
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SUMMARY:Teachers of Children
DESCRIPTION:Independent school students bring a full range of developmental needs\, learning profiles\, and life experiences into the classroom. This session grounds new teachers in child and adolescent development\, with attention to what “teaching the whole child” actually requires. Participants explore relationship-centered pedagogical approaches and strategies for building the classroom conditions in which all students feel seen and supported. The session draws on both research and practitioner experience to connect developmental science to the realities of the independent school classroom.
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SUMMARY:Peer Lunch Connection
DESCRIPTION:Before the lunch break\, participants spend fifteen minutes in a structured cross-school connection activity. Seated by school type or division\, tables are given a set of conversation-starter questions designed to move quickly past small talk and into the kind of genuine exchange that forms lasting professional relationships. Participants learn who else in the room is teaching their age group\, navigating their first year\, or wrestling with the same challenges\, and they leave with at least one new peer they can reach out to after the institute ends.
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SUMMARY:Instructional Design & Curriculum Planning
DESCRIPTION:Strong teaching starts with intentional design. This session introduces new teachers to the planning frameworks that guide experienced independent school educators\, including backward design\, unit mapping\, and scope and sequence thinking. Participants work through practical templates they can bring back to their classrooms and begin applying immediately. Attention is given to curriculum planning in the context of the full school year\, including how to pace instruction\, build in flexibility\, and maintain alignment with school-wide learning goals. Time is provided for individual planning with facilitator support.
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SUMMARY:Demo Lessons - Round Two
DESCRIPTION:Participants move to classrooms to observe and take part in instruction with feedback led by experienced independent school educators. Demo Lessons are among the most valued elements of the Institute for New Teachers experience. They give new teachers a chance to see effective practice in action\, ask questions\, and experience what teaching looks and feels like from the learner’s side. Participants are encouraged to take notes on specific strategies they want to try in their own classrooms. A structured debrief follows each round. With the morning’s teaching frameworks now in mind\, participants bring a more analytical lens to this second observation\, noticing how instructional design choices show up in real-time practice. The debrief is more expansive in this round\, with a structured conversation around what participants saw\, what questions it raised\, and what they want to try.
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SUMMARY:Authentic Assessments
DESCRIPTION:Assessment is one of the areas new teachers find most challenging and most consequential. This session moves beyond grades and rubrics to explore what it means to assess authentically: gathering meaningful evidence of student understanding\, providing feedback that opens doors rather than closes them\, and designing assessments that actually align with what was taught. Participants examine the difference between formative and summative assessment\, practice giving growth-oriented feedback on student work samples\, and discuss how to manage assessment workload sustainably. The session is grounded in the understanding that how teachers assess shapes how students learn and how teachers feel about their work.
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SUMMARY:Reflection & Affirmation Practice
DESCRIPTION:The day closes with a two-part practice in reflection and recognition. First\, participants take time for individual written reflection: what landed today\, what shifted\, what they want to carry forward. Then the group moves into a facilitated peer affirmation round\, and each person hears from two or three colleagues who share something specific they noticed or appreciated. &nbsp\;SAIS’s research found that recognition and feeling seen are among the strongest retention drivers for early career educators. Modeling this practice here gives new teachers both an experience of being affirmed and a tool for building affirmation into their own classrooms and teams.
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SUMMARY:Breakfast & Cohort Check-In
DESCRIPTION:Thursday morning check-in returns to the small cohort format over breakfast. The facilitator prompt invites participants to reflect on what has surprised them most during the institute so far about independent school teaching\, about their cohort\, or about themselves. This prompt is designed to surface the kind of honest\, sometimes unexpected insight that two days of immersive professional learning tends to generate. Short share-outs help the full group arrive together before the final day of programming begins.
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SUMMARY:Demo Lessons - Round Three
DESCRIPTION:The final round of demo lessons brings the three-day arc of model instruction to a close. By Thursday\, participants have developed a richer vocabulary for what they’re observing\, and the debrief is structured accordingly\, moving from description (“what happened”) to interpretation (“why it worked”) to application (“how I’ll adapt this”). Participants are invited to share at least one concrete strategy from the three days of demo teaching that they plan to try in their first week of school.
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SUMMARY:Working & Communicating With Families
DESCRIPTION:Family relationships are one of the most distinctive and sometimes most complex dimensions of independent school teaching. This session prepares new teachers for the family communication realities they will encounter: the first-week introduction email\, the challenging parent conversation\, and the expectation of responsiveness. Participants explore communication frameworks that are warm and professional\, practice navigating a difficult scenario in pairs\, and discuss how to build trust with families over time. Facilitators draw on real examples from independent school contexts to ground the conversation in what participants will actually face.
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SUMMARY:Your First Three Years: A Frank Conversation
DESCRIPTION:This brief but important session gives new teachers an honest look at the arc of early career experience in independent schools\, including the research finding that perceived organizational support tends to decline the longer someone is in a role. Rather than leaving new teachers to discover this on their own\, this conversation names the pattern directly and equips participants with language for advocating for themselves. Participants discuss what support looks like at years one\, three\, and five\; how to ask for what they need\; and who in their school community is positioned to help. The goal is to leave not with worry\, but with agency.
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SUMMARY:Lunch
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SUMMARY:Demo Lessons - Round Four
DESCRIPTION:The final round of demo lessons brings the three-day arc of model instruction to a close. By Thursday\, participants have developed a richer vocabulary for what they’re observing\, and the debrief is structured accordingly\, moving from description (“what happened”) to interpretation (“why it worked”) to application (“how I’ll adapt this”). Participants are invited to share at least one concrete strategy from the three days of demo teaching that they plan to try in their first week of school.
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SUMMARY:Career Pathways\, PD & What’s Next
DESCRIPTION:Independent school careers don’t follow a single ladder\; they unfold through relationships\, opportunities\, and intentional conversations that new teachers often don’t know how to initiate. This session demystifies the professional growth landscape: what career pathways look like in independent schools\, how to have a productive conversation with a supervisor about goals and development\, and what SAIS offers in terms of professional learning\, networks\, and resources. Participants learn about specific PD opportunities and how to stay connected to a professional community beyond their school. SAIS’s research found that investment in professional development is one of the most powerful retention drivers for early career educators. This session makes that investment visible and actionable.
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SUMMARY:Closing Reflection & Action Planning
DESCRIPTION:The institute closes with a structured reflection and forward-looking commitment exercise. Each participant identifies one specific action they will take in their first week of school\, one question they want to bring back to their school community\, and then writes a brief letter to their future self to be opened at mid-year. This closing ritual honors the weight of what the cohort has shared and learned together\, and grounds the experience in something concrete and personal. Facilitators close with a final affirmation of the cohort before participants leave.
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