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NYSAIS Executive Director
July 2009
A search is underway for the next NYSAIS Executive Director.
Please read the Candidate Information Document. Nominations are most welcome!
Job Fair to Promote Diversity
Date: Saturday - March 07, 2009
Time: 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Liz Fernandez, Job Fair Administrator • Phone: 718-884-3069
Trinity School
115 West 91st Street, New York, NY 10024
Please
note that while no one will be excluded, this event is designed to
increase the numbers of teachers and administrators of color within
independent schools.
How NYSAIS schools hold themselves accountable
Independent schools are voluntary communities in which every member, students and faculty alike, must both earn and choose participation each year. Each school is charged to make its expectations clear to the public, to gather the resources, student body and faculty necessary for operation, and then to meet the challenges it has set for itself. We face the ultimate accountability every year: ineffective independent schools do not endure.
Read entire article by NYSAIS Executive Dirctor Elizabeth Penney Riegelman.
2008
These Best Practices are offered by the Board of Trustees of NYSAIS for highly practical reasons; experience
indicates that when they are followed schools benefit and when they are
not followed it is to the detriment of the individuals and institutions
involved. Open and forthright communication is critical within the
context of appropriate and thoughtful expectations of all involved.
We (NYSAIS staff and teachers and administrators of member schools) are reading....
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Hardcover - Nov 18, 2008)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges (Hardcover - Mar 4, 2008)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges (Paperback - Jan 8, 2008)
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael B. Horn (Hardcover - May 14, 2008)
Predictably Irrational : The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Hardcover - Feb 19, 2008)
A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting by Hara Estroff Marano (Hardcover - April 15, 2008)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (Paperback - Dec 26, 2007)
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Paperback - Jul 24, 2007)
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski (Hardcover - Nov 12, 2007)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (Paperback - Mar 7, 2006)
Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Paperback - Aug 10, 2004)
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer (Paperback - Jul 15, 2000)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback - Jan 7, 2002)
Horace's Compromise: the Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer (Paperback - 1992)
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (Edition 001) by Robert Coles (Paperback - Jan 5, 1990)
Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori (Mass Market Paperback - Jan 12, 1982)
Fiction:
American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld (Hardcover - Sep 2, 2008)
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson and Anne Born (Paperback - April 29, 2008)
On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan (Paperback - Jun 10, 2008)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IRVING (1989)
What are you reading? Please contribute to this list by writing to Barbara Swanson
Professional Development Update
Registration is now open for winter and spring events. A list of upcoming events is listed on the banner to the right. For a complete list go to the Conferences and Workshops Calendar. The calendar opens to 2008, so you need to click the year arrow to view 2009 events. Email barbara@nysais.org should you have questions.
Credit card payment is now accepted for all online registrations.
