Events
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” I always think I’ll watch the recording, but it never happens. So I’ve learned to make time to join these calls live. I schedule time for MY professional learning.”
Karen Coffelt
Director of Teaching & Learning
Antilles School
myFolio Learning Lab
Starting the Year Strong with Strategic myFolio Setup
Tuesday, July 22, 2026 • 12:15 PM ET
Getting your platform ready in July means one less major project on your plate when teachers and students return.
In this 45-minute session, Melissa Fast, Director of School Success, will show you how to set up myFolio to match your school’s specific goals for the upcoming year before the back-to-school rush begins.
Folio Spark Session
Creating Buy-In and Momentum with Your Professional Growth Process & myFolio
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • 12:15 PM ET
One of the greatest hurdles school leaders face is generating authentic engagement with professional learning. How do you move past "getting people to log in" and instead get them deeply invested in their own development? The secret lies in putting the professional growth process center stage, using myFolio as the powerful engine that brings it to life.
Folio Spark Session
Elevating Peer Collaboration & Observations Through myFolio
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 • 12:15 PM ET
When classroom observations are driven solely by supervisors, administration gains insight—but teaching faculty misses out on vital opportunities to learn directly from one another. True momentum occurs when educators pull back the curtain on their classrooms to share practices, highlight instructional bright spots, and actively reflect together.
Folio Signature Workshop
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 • 1:30 PM ET
As educators at independent schools, having meaningful and sometimes difficult conversations is a vital part of professional growth and student success. "Navigating Difficult Conversations" is an interactive workshop designed to help you approach these critical discussions with confidence, empathy, and clarity.
This session will help you reflect on your current communication practices and build stronger relationships within your team. Participants will explore the true value of feedback, learning how to solicit it genuinely, process it productively, and deliver it effectively to support transformative change.
myFolio Learning Lab
Build Institutional Strength with Dynamic Feedback Loops in myFolio
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 • 12:15 PM ET
Feedback can feel intimidating. It’s often formal, bureaucratic, and saved exclusively for end-of-year evaluations. If we want to help teachers grow, a single annual review isn't enough. We need low-stakes, ongoing feedback loops that happen in real time, allowing educators to celebrate strengths and course-correct on the fly.
Join Melissa Fast, Director of School Success for this hands-on session. where you’ll learn how to use myFolio to move past compliance and build a practical, 360-degree feedback process that fits into a busy school day.
Folio Signature Workshop
Integrating SEL Competencies in Faculty Growth and Classroom Practice
Wednesday, January 27, 2027 • 11:30 AM ET
Each day, our world becomes more complex as global connectivity and technological advances accelerate. In order to thrive, students need strong relationships and relevant, enduring skills—such as self-regulation, communication, problem-solving, adaptability, collaboration, and conflict resolution. Heads of school, academic leaders, and educators must intentionally design the learning environment to cultivate these skills, while simultaneously promoting student wellness, belonging, and agency.
This interactive session will deepen your understanding of the role of SEL in future readiness. It will also provide a framework of simple but meaningful school-wide approaches and effective classroom strategies that can be effortlessly infused into any independent school campus, division, or classroom.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentation
Leverage Your Professional Growth System to Drive Retention
SAIS Annual Conference • Chattanooga, TN
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 • 10:30 AM ET
Learn how two forward-thinking schools leverage dynamic professional growth systems to create a culture of continuous learning and boost retention. Building an intentional professional growth system ensures you spend more time supporting, growing, and deepening engagement with the teachers and staff you want to keep at your school, instead of spending time, money, and effort on constantly recruiting and onboarding.
Move beyond outdated, "check-the-box" professional development to drive retention and the success of your entire school. Join this interactive case study session to explore how two forward-thinking schools have built dynamic, scaffolded professional growth systems.
Conference Presentation
The Stakes Are Higher For Boarding Schools: How to Leverage Your Professional Growth System to Drive Retention
TABS Conference • Washington, DC
November 4-6, 2026
The adult community is the foundation of a successful boarding school. In these unique environments, educators are expected to excel in multiple roles—as teachers, coaches, advisors, and dorm leaders. Moving beyond outdated, "check-the-box" professional development is not just beneficial, it is critical for retention and the success of your entire school. When you lose a teacher at a boarding school, you are just not losing that one single role: the loss reverberates through all aspects of school life.
Join this interactive case study session to explore how three forward-thinking boarding schools—Millbrook School (NY), Pomfret School (CT), and Oregon Episcopal School (OR)—have built dynamic, scaffolded professional growth systems. Learn how they foster positive, feedback-rich communities where educators feel valued and supported. This session will demonstrate that a culture of continuous learning, supported by thoughtful and personalized growth systems, is the most powerful retention tool for boarding schools.
I love to hear what is working at peer schools and then working to adapt/adopt those approaches to support our faculty growth and development. As an example, I saved and watched a recording that was about student feedback a year or two ago. We took a few of the ideas from that webinar and used them in planning our end-of-year faculty meetings that June. We created some activities exploring the use of AI as a tool for engaging in data analysis and meaning-making related to the student feedback we collected that spring.
In addition to the more task-oriented components, I always appreciate the philosophical framework and human-centered approach that is embedded in Folio sessions and conversations.
Jennifer Willis
Director of Teaching & Learning
Cushing Academy