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THE COALITION CONNECTION
April 8, 2016
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Dear NCGS Community,
During this busy time of the year, our schools are completing important work in the current school year while planning for the next. Traditions celebrating milestones marking the passing of time -- ring ceremonies and commencements -- coincide with acceptances for the incoming class, college admissions decisions, and the hiring of faculty and staff for the next school year.
To help with the new faculty hiring process, NCGS offers exclusively to its member schools complimentary online job postings. Listings reach an international audience of over 9,500 girls' schools administrators, educators, and advocates bi-monthly. A direct link to all job postings is included in the NCGS Quick Links box on the left-hand side of this newsletter, which consistently receives the highest click-through rates for every issue of The Coalition Connection. If you would like to post a complimentary job opening, please send the position description to Eliza McGehee.
Once new hires are made, there is limited time to orient incoming faculty to the unique culture of girls' schools. NCGS and One Schoolhouse (formerly the Online School for Girls) are once again teaming up to help with this process. This summer and fall we are offering the highly successful "Introduction to Girls' Schools" course. This online professional development opportunity provides instructional insight to all teachers new to girls' schools, be they seasoned educators or new professionals. In order for your newly hired faculty to thrive and succeed at a girls' school, it is valuable to provide them with an orientation to the most effective methods for teaching girls.
 Led by accomplished, respected girls' school educators, participants will connect and collaborate with each other to explore best practice and research. They will also discuss ways to create a collaborative student-centered learning space, including how technology can help achieve these goals. Ultimately, your new faculty will gain a clearer understanding of what it means to work in an all-girls school, come away with ideas of how to create a classroom atmosphere and curriculum that maximizes how girls learn, and connect to an international cohort of girls' school faculty members. "Introduction to Girls' Schools" is a four-week long course and requires participants to spend approximately four hours a week engaged in the class. The class is entirely asynchronous -- meaning there is no specific required time to be online -- and class-paced so participants can collaborate and engage in discussion. Three sessions will be offered: - June 20 - July 15, 2016
- July 25 - August 19, 2016
- October 10 - November 4, 2016
Session I will be taught by Laurel School's Head and NCGS Trustee Ann V. Klotz and Assistant Head & Director of Enrollment Management Kathryn Purcell. Sessions II and III will be taught by St. Margaret's School's retired Head and former NCGS Board President Margaret Broad. Click here for more information about the course and to register. We look forward to welcoming your new faculty and staff as they join the extraordinary girls' school community!
Best wishes,
Megan
Megan Murphy Executive Director
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Diversity & Inclusion Research Reports Expanded with Transgender Studies
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At the start of this year, NCGS added to its Research Reports online database a Diversity & Inclusion category featuring studies dedicated to educational experiences of minorities. The reports in this section have since doubled in quantity to include research related to the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in K-12 schools.
Additional resources on the NCGS website to help our members work through issues related to transgender/gender identity persons include a Peer Network of girls' school administrators who can be contacted to share their professional experience related to serving on a transgender/gender identity task force and/or developing transgender/gender identity policy or guidelines.
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Making and Learning Institute at Marymount School of New York Seeking Chapter Submissions
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 The Making and Learning Institute at Marymount School of New York is calling for chapter submissions for its initial publication, From Prototype to Pitch: New Pathways in Design, Maker and Entrepreneurship Education (expected publication date of September 2016). This is an excellent opportunity to share your best practices, exemplar projects, ideas, and frameworks that you and your students are implementing in the areas of design, making, and entrepreneurship. Chapters can take whatever form best represents your work and initiative as well as reflective of the emerging paradigms for transformative teaching and learning in the 21st century. Click here for more infomation and to access the online submission form. You may submit more than one chapter. If you submit a proposal by the initial submission deadline of May 1 and it is accepted, you will be eligible for $50 off the registration cost for the inaugural Social Entrepreneurship + Design Thinking Conference, to be held at Marymount School June 22-24, 2016.
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2016 Girl Up Leadership Summit
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 This July 11-13, NCGS strategic partner Girl Up will host its 2016 Leadership Summit for students in Washington, D.C. Nearly 300 passionate girl advocates from around the world will convene for the 5th annual summit to participate in three days of leadership training, learn from influential speakers, and engage in skills-based workshops. The summit culminates in an official lobby day on Capitol Hill where participants will meet with their elected officials. Issue-area experts, business leaders, and celebrities join the summit to share their best and brightest ideas. Students walk away more educated, motivated, and inspired to continue tackling the inequalities facing adolescent girls in developing countries. Registration is now open and the early bird rate extends until April 30. All girls ages 12-22 from around the world are encouraged to attend. Need-based financial assistance is available to those who apply during the early bird period. Don't let your students miss out on this opportunity to empower and educate themselves through knowledge building and networking. Together, we can make a positive impact on girls everywhere. Share this link with your middle and high school students for more info and to register.
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Highlights from the NCGS "Listening & Learning Tour"
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Earlier this week, Executive Director Megan Murphy and Program Associate Eliza McGehee traveled to North Carolina to learn about advancing girls in STEM. Megan continued her STEM education in New York as well as gained insight about women in philanthropy. Here's what they had to say from the road:
"Over 100 girls from schools across the country came together in North Carolina for the second GAINS (Girls Advancing in STEM) Conference hosted by Greenwich Academy at Duke University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The goals of the conference were to connect students interested in STEM with each other and to learn from mentors about STEM programs in higher education and career opportunities in the STEM industry. Students heard from a wide range of female students and professionals in STEM fields and also toured the impressive STEM facilities on both campuses. We enjoyed spending time with students and faculty attending the conference from NCGS member schools."
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NCGS Executive Director Megan Murphy and Trinity Hall
Head Mary Sciarrillo at Miss Hall's School Philanthropic Round Table
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"Thank you, Julia Heaton, Head of Miss Hall's School (MHS)! I was honored to attend the 20th anniversary of Miss Hall's School Philanthropic Round Table at the Cornell Club in New York City. The breakfast program included all-star panelists who shared their perspectives on women's philanthropy - past, present, and future. In the words of former MHS Head Jeanne Norris, 'When we talk about philanthropy we have to first be in touch with our 'authentic selves' and connect our aspirations to the needs of others; it starts when we're young, especially for girls.' This annual program is a 'not to be missed' for NCGS advancement officers and school leaders, and I look forward to attending again next year.
While in New York, I visited Marymount School to learn more about their maker culture where students imagine and build, engineer and design, prototype and make. Beginning with a Fab Lab in 2012, the school has developed new maker spaces at all grade levels to include the addition of STEAM, Tinker, Media, and Idea Labs. Just yesterday, Ayah Bdeir, founder of littleBits™, cited Marymount's maker culture at a White House panel on media and toys as a leading example of a school that is instilling a love of STEAM through invention."
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