Professional Opportunity Visits — 2024-2025

CAIS Commission on School Growth & Collaboration
  • Pre-Registration Required
  • multiple schools throughout the state
  • Posted 2 weeks ago

Details

When : Nov. 12 or 14 || Feb. 4 || April 4 or 9
Where : multiple schools throughout the state
Topics : Community, teaching, pedagogy, school culture
Cost : $125 per person

Description

What: Professional Opportunity Visits (POVs)
When: 3 half-day school visits throughout the school year (November 2024, February 2025, April 2025)
Where: 3 schools across the state (including a boarding school; a school with a lower school; and a school with a unique mission, philosophy, or demographic (single gender; religious, Montessori, learning support program, etc.)
Who: This program is open to any CAIS educator but is limited to 3 participants per school
What can you expect from the POV? 
As a member of a POV cohort, you will:
  • Join a group of 8-10 educators interested in learning more about different schools.
  • Visit 3 schools during the school year with distinctly different missions and profiles
    • Each cohort will visit: a boarding school; a school with a lower school; and a school with a unique mission or profile (single gender, religious, Montessori or Waldorf, students with different learning needs, etc.)
  • Spend a half-day at each school (approximately 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM), starting with a welcome coffee and ending with lunch provided by the host school.
  • Participate in conversation with educators at the host school.
  • Observe a combination of classes, assemblies and special programs. 
  • Build a cross-school community of peers and resources.
Participation would entail:
  • A recognition that the schools will be spread out across the state and may involve an atypical commute
  • Attendance at a virtual preliminary cohort meeting and a concluding virtual cohort meeting 
  • A commitment to your cohort and to the schools to attend all three school visits
Before you register using the link below, please remember:
  • Given what we expect to be high interest in the program, schools are initially asked to limit participation to 3 educators to ensure a range of CAIS schools have access to the opportunity.
  • Registrants will commit to a trio of school visits spread out over the school year. You must be able to commit to all three dates for the cohort you select.
  • Participants will not learn which three schools their cohort will visit until October 7.
  • Please confirm with your immediate supervisor that you are able to be absent from school on any of the dates you select.
  • Cohort dates / Trio of visits. *Please note that while there are overlapping dates, each cohort below has a distinct trio of dates.
    • Cohort dates #1: Tuesday, November 12 || *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 || Friday, April 4, 2025
    • Cohort dates #2: Thursday, November 14 || *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 || Friday, April 4, 2025
    • Cohort dates #3: Tuesday, November 12 || *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 || Wednesday, April 9, 2025
    • Cohort dates #4: Thursday, November 14 || *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 || Wednesday, April 9, 2025
    • **Snow day for the February date is Thursday, February 6; please ensure you would be available on that date as well if needed

Space is limited – this program had a waitlist last year.

Register today!

*Participation is limited to CAIS member school educators.

Location multiple schools throughout the state