2027 Designing Inclusion: A Mission-Centered Institute

Thursday, February 11, 2027

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (EST)

Emory Conference Center Hotel

Overview
Hotel

Inclusion work often lives with one office, one committee, one leader carrying the weight alone. What would it look like if your whole leadership team owned it together?

Designing Inclusion is a full-day, design-inspired working session, not a conference. There are no keynotes and no breakouts. Instead, your school team spends a full day in a structured design process, working through a real inclusion and belonging priority from your own school and leaving with a prototype plan you can start using immediately.

What to Expect

Teams of 2-5 school leaders and practitioners work side by side on one of your school’s inclusion and belonging priorities for a full day.
A facilitated design process replaces lectures and panels.
Your team brings one real priority: an initiative, project, or challenge with the potential for impact in your school community.
You leave with a concrete, ready-to-implement plan, not just ideas.
You connect with other inclusion and belonging practitioners to share ideas and learn from and alongside each other.

A full agenda, additional speakers, and session details to follow soon. Registration will open this fall.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS:

Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA

Group rate: $194
Hotel cut-off date: December 18 or earlier if the block sells out
Reservation link here

If you receive an error message or if the block is full, please contact info@sais.org.

NOTE: Neither SAIS nor the hotel will call you to make reservations over the phone. Occasionally unauthorized third parties may attempt to coordinate your reservations. Please use only the link provided to secure your reservation directly with the host hotel.

Audience: Teams of 2-5 school leaders and practitioners work side by side on one of your school’s inclusion and belonging priorities for a full day

Event Policies & Acknowledgments

Event Policies

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Payment & Cancellation Policy

Payment may be made by credit/debit or ACH. The form defaults to credit/debit but ACH is selectable.

Cancellations received before the stated deadline via this form (January 19) are eligible for an 80% refund. After the stated cancellation date, refunds are not available, but replacement registrants are welcomed. Extenuating circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case basis following the conclusion of the event. In the unlikely event that SAIS cancels a program, 100% of the registration fee will be refunded.

Acknowledgment of Risk & Safety Procedures

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Acknowledgment of Intellectual Property

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Consent to Use of Photographic & Video Images

Questions

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