INSPIRE! Sessions — 2025 ICGS Conference

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These 25-minute interactive “speed innovating” sessions will be delivered around round tables in the Conference ballroom. Participants will be able to select two options during each time slot, as sessions will be delivered twice, back to back. 

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INSPIRE! Session 1
June 24, 2025
3:00-4:00 p.m.

  1. Teaching Feminism and Gender in the Wake of the 2024 Election
  2. Independent School Financing Market Update
  3. Raising #GirlsWhoCode: Building a Coding and Robotics Curriculum on a Budget
  4. From Vision to Distinction: Creating a Signature Program through Design Thinking
  5. Two Sides of The Same Coin: Staff Attitudes to Research-Based Curriculum Change
  6. Fostering Standardized Testing Independence: Self-Study Strategies for Young Women
  7. Coding Across the Curriculum
  8. AstraFemina…because everyone needs a role model
  9. AI in Historical Inquiry: Boosting Critical Thinking & Mattering in the History Classroom
  10. Sustaining Engagement: How Strategic Teams Strengthen Community
  11. Tiny Girls with Big Will: Empowering Our Youngest Learners
  12. Belonging at Mary MacKillop College: The Remarkables Transition Program
  13. How to Keep Connected Through a Campus Closure
  14. Fostering Community, Connection, and Inclusion through Dining

INSPIRE! Session 2
June 25, 2025
8:30-9:30 a.m.

  1. Redefining Success: A Holistic Approach to Student Achievement
  2. AI-Powered Futures: Empowering Girls Through Self-Directed Innovation
  3. Leveraging the Girls’ School Network to Promote Leadership and Service
  4. Consistency and Clarity in Grading: A Data-Informed Grade Study
  5. Equal and Different: The Transformative Power of The New Single-Gender Education
  6. Exploring Engagement: The Influence of Mathematical Mindsets and Gendered Beliefs in an All-Girls Classroom
  7. Assessment of Learning: A Small Shift to Positively Impacting Student Success
  8. The Opportunities and Essential Role of Girls’ Schools in this Moment of Intersecting Crises
  9. Empowering Girls Through Auditory Learning: Creating Student Podcasts with the Power of AI
  10. Addressing Teacher Retention through Strategies Focused on Recognition and Wellbeing
  11. Bridging the Gap: How and Why Cross-Curricular Projects Matter
  12. Create a Toolbox for Advancing Women’s Leadership
  13. Planning for Success – Process and Practice for Campus Master Planning