Leading Boys’ and Girls’ Schools

2022-2023 Schedule and Topics

The Leading Boys’ and Girls’ Schools Headways™ cohort will provide Heads of School, Principals, and Presidents with the opportunity to have interactive, dynamic conversations with other senior leaders of single-gender schools.

Sponsored jointly by ICGS and the International Boys’ School Coalition (IBSC), this program will include a similar number of participants from boys’ schools and girls’ schools and is co-facilitated by Tara Christie Kinsey from ICGS (Head of The Hewitt School) and John Botti from IBSC (Head of The Browning School).

All meetings will occur from 4-5 p.m. ET / 9-10 p.m. GMT.

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This cohort is open to executive leaders (heads, presidents, CEOs, principals) at ICGS and IBSC member schools who report directly to their school’s governing boards.

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October 20, 2022: Leading Single-Gender Schools

Questions to consider: How do we make the case for the contemporary relevance of single-gender schools? What resources have proven especially useful in implementing best practices for educating boys and girls? How do we orient new students, employees, and families to single-gender missions and values?

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November 17, 2022: Supporting Mental Health

Questions to consider: How do we facilitate conversations about stress, depression, body image, perfectionism, healthy risk taking, resilience, compassion, self-care, mindfulness, self-regulation, and social responsibility? What opportunities or challenges does our single-gender identity present to this work? How do we structure counseling services, peer-ed programs, and comprehensive wellness programs? How do we enlist families in supporting this work?

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January 19, 2023: Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity

Questions to consider: To what extent do you prioritize/model self-work around issues of diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI)? How do we engage the board’s commitment to DEI work; auditing curriculum? How do we embrace culturally responsive anti-bias, and anti-racist pedagogy, empowering student voice and leadership? How might we adopt restorative disciplinary practices in our schools? How do we leverage the transformative power of affinity groups? What opportunities or challenges does our single-gender identity present to this work? How do we enlist families in supporting this work?

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February 16, 2023: Promoting Healthy Relationships: Part One

Questions to consider: What does successful health/sexuality education look like in our schools? What are the challenges to realizing those successes and how have those challenges been met? How do we educate about consent, respect, and bodily autonomy? Are there advantages/challenges to doing so in a single-gender context? Does social media amplify these challenges and/or offer opportunities? How do we talk about “digital citizenship,” particularly in the context of larger conversations about civility and leadership?

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March 16, 2023: Promoting Healthy Relationships: Part Two

Questions to consider: How do we make space for social-emotional learning (SEL) education in our schools and what does that education look like? How do we conceive of “leadership” and “citizenship” and what programming exists to support these conceptions? How do we educate for “character” and to what degree is this effort connected to healthy relationships? How do we repair relationships between students (or between students and faculty) that have broken down? How do we enlist families in supporting this work? What opportunities or challenges does our single-gender identity present to this work?

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