Breakout Sessions — 2025 ICGS Conference

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These 50-minute sessions will be delivered in various locations throughout the Conference venue.

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ADVANCEMENT/DEVELOPMENT/SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION:

ICGS Strategic Partner Graham-Pelton, a fundraising firm chosen by leading nonprofits worldwide, is offering a special breakout session track designed for professionals working in advancement/development and other school leadership positions. Those sessions are noted below.

Click on the Session Letters below for full descriptions.

*Global Action Research Collaborative on Girls’ Education Research Presentations

Breakout Session A
June 23, 2025
2:20-3:10 p.m.

  1. Inspiring Humans, Not Donors: How to Develop a Case for Support that Inspires Action – sponsored by Graham-Pelton
  2. Progress for Women Means Progress for All – Breaking Down Barriers, Building Allies and Raising Voices through Education
  3. Faith in Inclusion: Expanding Learning Support in Girls’ Schools
  4. Mastery, Not Metrics: Reducing Stress and Redefining Success in Girls’ Education
  5. Who is a Scientist? Broadening Girls’ Vision of STEM Role Models
  6. Healthy Dialogue in Schools: Greenwich Academy & Living Room Conversations
  7. Designed with Girls in Mind: A Philosophy for Learning
  8. Beyond the Lens: Navigating Consent, Student Agency, and Privacy in School Media
  9. The Cultural Norms of Inclusivity and Safe Spaces
  10. AI in Girls Schools: Benefits, Challenges, and Considerations
  11. Vital Signs: Using Pulse Survey Data to Nurture Student Belonging and Faculty Engagement
  12. Redefining Leadership with Lean In Girls: Empowering Girls to Lead with Confidence

Breakout Session B
June 23, 2025
3:40-4:30 p.m.

  1. Rewriting the Playbook: Bold Strategies for Women’s Million-Dollar Giving – sponsored by Graham-Pelton
  2. Developing Teaching and Learning Through Professional Learning Cycles
  3. Seeing Themselves as Leaders: Developing Leadership in Every Girl
  4. CS, AI, and Student Leadership: A Hands-On Session & Lessons
  5. Motivating High School Students in the World Language Classroom
  6. Intentional Feminism: The Hidden Potential of Girls’ Schools
  7. Unplug to Plug In: Go Tech Free for a Week
  8. Co-Teaching and Collaboration to Scaffold Students’ Written Responses
  9. Fostering Connection and Belonging in Secondary Math
  10. Promoting Student Wellness Through Community Partnerships: Planning a Wellness Summit for Upper School Students
  11. Fostering Ownership in Learning: Exploring Creative Pedagogy and Motivation in Girls’ Education*
  12. Out of the Shadows: Developing Agency, Leadership and Inclusion in Young Girls*

Breakout Session C
June 23, 2025
4:40-5:30 p.m.

  1. Strategic Planning: Ignite Your Girls’ School’s Future
  2. A Recipe for Inquisitive, Healthy and Reflective Learners
  3. All-Girls High Schools that Work
  4. Purpose Meets Sustainability: Designing Digital Experiences That Reflect and Sustain Your School’s Mission
  5. Creating Inclusive Spaces: Embracing Gender Diversity in a Traditionally All-Girls School
  6. High Expectations, High Support. ND Cares: A Data Driven Approach to Well-Being
  7. Promoting Responsible and Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence
  8. Cultural Competency: Theory into Action
  9. Girls in STEM: Empowering Innovators, Inspiring Change!
  10. Agency in Action: Empowering Girls Through Leadership and Peer Mentorship*
  11. Making Space for Inquiry: Enhancing Agency Through Student Voice and Choice*
  12. Empowering Young Mathematicians: Fostering Student Agency to Build Confidence, Courage and Independence in Learning*

Breakout Session D
June 24, 2025
10:20-11:10 a.m.

  1. Bolstering Resilience in Girls’ Schools by Building Supportive Relationships
  2. Prompting Change: Girls Publish Breakthrough AI Research on Prompt Injections
  3. Teaching with Disciplined Nonpartisanship
  4. What happens when a high school eliminates cell phones completely?
  5. Assessing and Supporting Well-Being: A Rubric for Emotional and Academic Success
  6. No Good Girls Here
  7. Engineering for US All (e4usa): High School Engineering Curriculum
  8. “I, Enheduanna, wrote this”: Literature, Self-Agency, and High School Girls
  9. Mammyfication of Black Women in Independent Schools
  10. From Knowledge to Power: Teaching Consent and Inspiring Leadership in Girls
  11. The Superpower of Mentorship: Cultivating Agency, Self-Belief and Belonging in Girls*
  12. Empowering Every Girl: Student Agency in Diverse Classrooms*
  13. From Safe Spaces to Bold Voices: How to foster girls’ agency through empathetic, collaborative, and risk-taking classrooms*

Breakout Session E
June 24, 2025
1:00-1:50 p.m.

  1. Messages and Meaning: Decoding Teen Communication through Adolescence
  2. Building an Inclusive Culture to Support all Student Leaders
  3. Youth-Led Civic Engagement: Tactics and Tools for Supporting Students and Clubs When Influencing Decision Makers
  4. The Power of Insight: Leveraging Data to Support Young Women’s Mental Health
  5. Creating an Infinite Space for Girls: Using Systems Engineering to Foster Leadership and Agency
  6. Building a Research Community
  7. Implementing a Transformative Partnership for Holistic Well-Being
  8. Leading with Impact: Equity, Collaboration and School Climate
  9. Extricating the Teacher: The Power and Pitfalls of Minimising the Role of the Teacher*
  10. Talking About Solutions: Using Discussion to Cultivate Agency in Girls’ Mathematics Classes*

Breakout Session F
June 24, 2025
2:00-2:50 p.m.

  1. Heads Panel on Institutional Sustainability
  2. Rooted in Voice: Centering Girls Through Targeted Universalism
  3. ICGS & Challenge Success: Using Data for Actionable Change
  4. Beyond Crisis Management: The Significance of a School Critical Incident Team
  5. Cross-Cultural Experiences for Girls’ Education
  6. Leading With Empathy
  7. The Attack on Transgender Youth: What’s a Girls’ School To Do?
  8. Unlocking Potential: Reflecting and Refining Integrated Math in Year 1
  9. Doing Phones Differently: Researching the Wise Phone Initiative
  10. From Classroom Project to CNN Hero: Fostering Student Innovation That Changes The World
  11. AI-Enhanced Learning: How Chatbots Can Boost Student Confidence and Independence*
  12. Taking Matters into Their Own Hands: Cultivating Life Skills and Civic Agency Among 11- to 15-Year-Old Girls*

Breakout Session G
June 25, 2025
9:40-10:30 a.m.

  1. Where Have All the Teachers Gone?
  2. Schedule Innovation as Reputation Game Changer in Girls’ Schools: Transforming Constraints into Competitive Advantage
  3. The Sisterhood Experience: Exploring Caring Relationships and Community in All-Girls Catholic Schools
  4. Cultivating a School Culture: Building the Office of Student Life
  5. The Artist and Historian
  6. Transformative Leadership Lessons from the Springbok Rugby Team
  7. Unlocking Nexus: Shaping Future-Ready Learners Beyond Grades
  8. Empowering Global Citizens: Collaborative Programming in Girls’ Education
  9. Digital Classroom
  10. Using Evaluations to Impact Teacher Growth, Retention and Student Outcomes
  11. Adapt, Create, Thrive: Empowering Young Women Through Applied Improvisation
  12. More Than Words: 8th Grade Capstone Projects as the Culmination of Experiential Learning in Middle School
  13. Student Learning Growth & Well-Being: Tying Outcomes to the Independent School Value Proposition

Breakout Session H
June 25, 2025
10:40-11:30 a.m.

  1. Mission Alignment: When Curriculum and Collaboration Finally Swipe Right
  2. Brand, Rebrand, or Uplift Thee Brand!
  3. Building Motorcycles and Building Confidence: Shop Class as an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering through Motogo
  4. How We HUMM: Harnessing Leadership through Curriculum Design and Experiential Outreach
  5. Nurturing Professional Growth through Reflective Practice
  6. Building Effective Student Support Systems for Lasting Change
  7. EMPOWERHer – Giving Our Girls a Global Voice
  8. Dux femina facti: Latin, Leadership Curriculum, and the Mission of Girls’ Schools
  9. A Week Without Walls (WWOW): Empowering Girls in Nature Through Mentorship
  10. The Magic of a Student Tour Guide: How to Create an Effective Ambassador Program
  11. Perfectionism and the Neurodivergent Student: Making Good Enough Work for Tween and Teen Girls
  12. Supporting K-4 Emergent Multilingual Students in their Heritage Language Maintenance