2026-27 Future-Ready Teaching & Learning Cohort
Zoom
Event Details
What Learning Will Endure After Your Students Leave Your School?
Between managing curriculum, supporting faculty, and responding to daily demands, the big questions about teaching and learning are easy to defer. The Future-Ready Learning Cohort is designed to bring them back to the center with a shared framework, a structured process, and a community of leaders working through the same questions you are.
A cohort build for academic leaders
The Future-Ready Teaching & Learning Cohort uses the SAIS Teaching & Learning Framework as a shared lens and a case study methodology drawn from real independent school contexts. Over six virtual sessions, participants develop the language, tools, and confidence to strengthen instructional practice and lead meaningful faculty conversations at their own schools.
The SAIS Teaching & Learning Framework
The SAIS Teaching & Learning Framework is a practical tool designed to help school leaders reflect on, strengthen, and design learning that endures.
The Framework identifies three competencies essential for leaders, teachers, and students:
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Creative Reasoning
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Relational Intelligence
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Empowered Action
These are deepened by two cross-cutting themes, Well-Being and Digital Literacy, and grounded in the overarching frames of Mission Alignment and Continual Learning, which help schools apply the framework in ways that reflect their unique culture and context.
The result is a vision of future-ready teaching and learning that is both aspirational and actionable, rooted in who your school is, and responsive to where education is heading.
What you’ll leave with
Participants will leave each session with concrete future-ready tools for teaching & learning that lasts. You’ll develop:
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shared language for instructional practice
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tools and takeaways you can use immediately
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confidence to facilitate reflective practice at your school
Take the first step toward learning that lasts. Register now.
Payment may be made by credit/debit or ACH. The form defaults to credit/debit but ACH is selectable.
Cancellations received before October 22 via this form will receive an 80% refund minus the $50 assessment fee. After that date, no refunds are available.
OUTLINE
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Session 1: Foundations
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Session 2: Deepening Creative Reasoning
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Session 3: Leading with Relational Intelligence
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Session 4: Designing for Empowered Action
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Session 5: Applying the Framework
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Session 6: Facilitating the Framework Reflection at Your School
Audience: For Mid-Level Leaders (Division Heads, Department Chairs, Directors) | 6 Weeks | Virtual Synchronous + Asynchronous
The group will meet via Zoom from Noon - 1:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM - Noon Central on six Thursdays:
- November 5
- December 3
- January 7
- February 4
- March 4
- April 1
To get the most from this interactive virtual cohort, participants are strongly encouraged to attend synchronously and engage live in the discussion and activities in real time.
Facilitator: Ann Marsh Rutledge, SAIS Director of Strategic Design & Innovation
Registration:
- $495 per person / SAIS Members; Limited to 20 registrants
Note: By registering for the first session, you'll automatically be enrolled in the other five sessions.