Head of School Roundtable

Speaker: Eric Heilman, Executive Director, Center for Institutional Research in Independent Schools (CIRIS)

Traditionally, independent schools use data merely as a means to complete specific tasks like producing transcripts, making admissions decisions, or tracking attendance. The field of institutional research aims to leverage school data to derive insights about how well a school is achieving the aims laid out in its mission statement. In this session, you will learn about what is possible with data and see examples of institutional research projects schools use to inform marketing strategy, analyze academic outcomes, measure student engagement in areas of school life beyond academics, and guide faculty development.