Balance Your Contrasting Roles as Dean of Students

Workshop Description

Workshop Leader Bio

Elinor S. Griffin

Ellie is the former Director of Health and Counseling Services at Milton Academy (MA) where she has taught Developmental Psychology, Psychology AP, and Social Sciences. She engages in both individual and group counseling with students and has worked on program development, including Human Sexuality and Relationships, Drug and Alcohol Education, Crisis Management, Stress, and areas of Human Development. 

She is a co-founder and co-director of the Human Development Institute and, since 1979, has consulted with schools and developed summer conferences on human development issues for educators. She has also served on the staff of Milton Academy’s summer Boarding Conference for the past 23 years. In 2011, Ellie was awarded The Ruzicka Compass Award for Excellence in Leadership by The Association of Boarding Schools. 

Ellie co-leads Balance Your Contrasting Roles as Dean of Students and Power and Influence: The Effective Female Leader with Susan Hazell.

She served both on the committee and as chair of the Council for Women in Independent School for NAIS, and is co-founder and co-director of the Independent School Gender Project which has been addressing issues of equity for girls and women in a number of independent schools since 1997.

Over the past 27 years, Ellie has counseled adolescents, led workshops, and provided consulting services to independent school administrators and faculty. She earned her masters in counseling psychology at Lesley College and her BA at Gordon College, both in Massachusetts.

Susan E. Hazell

Susan is Executive Director of Advancement for Collingwood School in Canada. She was formerly the Executive Director, Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), visiting, promoting, and consulting to schools across Canada.

From 1993 to 2002, she was Assistant Head, School Life at Lakefield College School in Ontario. Prior to that, she served as Dean of Residence at the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, and as a housemaster, teacher, coach, and admission officer at Ridley College in St. Catharine’s in Ontario.

An ISM Summer Institute workshop leader since 1995, she co-leads Balance Your Contrasting Roles as Dean of Students and Power and Influence: The Effective Female Leader with Ellie Griffin. She is also a member of the ISM Advancement Academy faculty.

Susan has developed policies for substance use and abuse, harassment, crisis management and emergency protocol plans, and has written residential-faculty and student handbooks. She has chaired the Steering Committee for the annual CIS Residential Life Conference that she helped initiate in 1997. Susan is a member of the Independent School Gender Project (ISGP), a project concerned with perceptions of men and women/boys and girls in independent schools.

Susan holds a BED from Queen’s University and a BA Honors from Mount Allison University, both in Canada.

Schedule

6-DAY WORKSHOP

Sunday:
3–3:30 p.m.: Pick up your nametag 
3:30–5:30 p.m.: Session 
5:45–6:30 p.m.: Reception
6:30–7:30 p.m.: Dinner with ISM 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:
7:30–8:30 a.m.: Continental breakfast
8:30–10 a.m.: Session
10–10:30 a.m.: Break
10:30–11:45 a.m.: Session
12–1:30 p.m.: Lunch 
1:30–3 p.m.: Session
3–3:15 p.m.: Break
3:15–4:45 p.m.: Session 
5–6 p.m.: Reception

Wednesday:
7:30-8:30 a.m.: Continental breakfast
8:30–10 a.m.: Session
10–10:15 a.m.: Break
10:15–11:45 a.m.: Session
12–1:30 p.m.: Lunch on your own
1:30–4:45 p.m.: Optional session at the leader's discretion
5:45-6:30 p.m.: Reception
6:30–7:30 p.m.: Dinner with ISM 

Last day:
7:30–8:30 a.m.: Continental breakfast
8:30–10 a.m.: Session
10–10:15 a.m.: Break
10:15–11:45 a.m.: Session 
(Salt Lake City concludes at 10 a.m.)