Interested in attending Summer Institute 2026?
July 13–17, 2026 | Salt Lake City, UT
If you’re new to your role, hoping to excel in a recent promotion, or interested in further exploring leadership within your school or department, our Summer Institute workshops are for you! Sign up for our interest list to be notified when registration opens for our 2026 workshops.
Empowered to Excel
Participants joined us to develop effective strategies, take home tangible resources, and network with their peers and colleagues. There was an offering for everyone from Board members to School Heads, Business and Advancement Officers divisions, and academic leaders. Summer Institute, unlike larger conferences, is designed for a maximum of 24 participants in each workshop, providing hands-on learning experiences on each specific topic.
Here's a quick recap of Summer Institute 2025. You can also see photos from the event on our Facebook page.
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Curious about the workshops we offer?
These were 2025’s Summer Institute workshops. Stay tuned for next year’s lineup!
Learn how to bolster your leadership capabilities, sharpen your communications skills, manage your team with confidence, and support your school’s long-term goals.
Learn how you can become an even better leader in your school as you assist your School Head.
Join us to reexamine your learning support offerings and explore what’s new in recommended success strategies.
Turn your lower school division into an exceptional environment that provides a stable, student-centered learning community through ISM’s research-based strategies.
Create an experiential and practical middle school roadmap to support your school’s mission and culture, engage faculty and staff, and enrich the student experience.
Explore your personal leadership style while analyzing and reflecting on strategies for evaluating upper school faculty, navigating school change, promoting a healthy school culture, and designing an up-to-date schedule.
Discover how to build an effective admission process that attracts and enrolls mission-appropriate students and supports applicants.
Understanding the components of an effective development operation—and how those components interface with your school’s strategic priorities—is critical to your success as a Development Officer.
Become a great middle school leader. Support your school’s mission and culture, engage your faculty and staff, and enrich the student experience.
Manage every aspect of your ever-growing role as an upper school Dean of Students. Fulfill your responsibilities with confidence, keeping students first in everything you do.
Excel as a strategic business leader, whether you’re new to the profession, starting in independent schools for the first time, or a seasoned professional.
Discover how to manage the nuances and demands of school headship.
Learn how to excel as a Marketing Communications Director by combining foundational, practical topics with efficient marketing communications procedures.
Thanks to all who joined us at Summer Institute!
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Transforming Curriculum: Leading Change at a Traditional School
Date(s): 10/7/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Hear directly from educators leading a major curriculum redesign at a 90-year-old, tradition-bound school. Their case study illustrates how they moved from a topic-based curriculum to one built on transferable skills and enduring understandings — and how they built the buy-in, capacity, and structures to make it stick.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Unified Advancement Leadership: From Silos to Strategy
Date(s): 10/14/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Learn how a unified advancement approach aligns your admission, development, and marketing teams and strengthens your school’s enrollment, retention, and philanthropic support.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Design a Faculty Growth System That Works
Date(s): 10/20/2026 — 10/21/2026 ● Status: Open
Build a faculty culture where educators feel supported, accountable, and confident enough to take the risks that lead to meaningful professional growth.
$675.00
General & Silver
$540.00 Gold
$510.00 3+ Person
Govern AI Without Managing It: ISM’s Framework for Board Oversight
Date(s): 10/28/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Learn how your Board can govern your school's AI vision and strategy — without stepping into day-to-day school operations.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Build a Sustainable Culture of Coaching and Growth
Date(s): 12/1/2026 — 12/2/2026 ● Status: Open
Learn how peer-to-peer coaching drives a structured, energized system for continuous faculty growth, year after year.
$675.00
General & Silver
$540.00 Gold
$510.00 3+ Person









