Summer 2025
Registration is now open for the Association for Academic Leaders summer professional learning opportunities!
Whether you're focusing on GenAI, leadership development, teaching and learning, student mental health, or effective onboarding, our summer lineup offers valuable learning for every Academic Leader on your team. We also have a Summer Book Club!
Have Academic Leaders stepping into new roles? We have offerings designed specifically for them: Preparing for Your First Year in Departmental Leadership and Preparing for Your First Year in Divisional Leadership are great opportunities to help new department chairs and divisions heads start off on the right foot.
Not yet a member, but interested in discussing membership this summer? Click here to send an email to our member services team.
Generative AI
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Building the GPT Your School Needs (No Programming)
June 23 - June 27
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Aligning Mission and Curriculum with Your Custom Bot
June 30 - July 4
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Leading Your Team/Department in Understanding Generative AI in 2025
July 7 - July 11
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AI for YOU, Academic Leader
July 14 - July 18
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Workshop: Generative AI Fundamentals for Academic Leaders
July 10 at 1pm ET
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Meetup: Generative AI Policies & Practices
July 17 at 2pm ET
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Assessing Your Assessments in the Age of AI
July 21 - July 25
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Meetup: Generative AI Policies & Practices
August 21 at 2pm ET
Leadership Development
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Preparing for Your First Year in Department Leadership
June 16 - June 20
August 4 - August 8 -
Preparing for Your First Year in Division Leadership
June 16 - June 20
July 14 - July 18 -
Cultural Competence in 2025
June 30 - July 4
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Let's Talk Not Text: Restoring Face-to-Face Communication in a Screenbound World
July 7 - July 11
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Aligning Teacher Evaluation with Pedagogical Priorities
July 7 - July 11
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Evaluating Department Leaders as Academic Leaders
July 21 - July 25
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Navigating Tough Talks: Managing Challenges with Confidence
August 4 - August 8
Teaching & Learning
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Competency-Based Learning: A Primer for Academic Leaders
June 16 - June 20
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Curriculum Mapping: What You Need to Know Before You Start
June 16 - June 20
July 21 - July 25 -
Curriculum Leadership: Storyboarding for Impact
June 23 - June 27
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Leading Curricular and Pedagogical Change
June 23 - June 27
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Leading a Mission-Aligned Curriculum Audit
June 30 - July 4
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Instructional Rounds: Fostering Reflective Teacher Practice
July 14 - July 18
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Personalized Learning: A Primer for Academic Leaders
July 14 - July 18
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Student Survey Design
July 21 - July 25
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Preparing for Schedule Changes
July 28 - August 1
Student Mental Health
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The Emotional Lives of Teenagers with Dr. Lisa Damour
June 16 - June 27
July 21 - August 1
Welcoming & Onboarding
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Onboarding New Faculty to Your School's Culture and Pedagogy
July 7 - July 18
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Mentoring Matters: Get It Right
July 28 - August 1
Summer Book Club
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The Art of Gathering
The Art of Gathering transforms how Academic Leaders design meaningful interactions, offering proven strategies to elevate routine meetings into purposeful experiences that drive authentic connection and institutional impact.
June 18 at 11am ET
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10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People equips Academic Leaders with research-backed techniques to transform student engagement by combining high expectations with empathetic support, leveraging adolescents' natural drive for social recognition to foster achievement and development.
June 25 at 11am ET
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The Good Fight
The Good Fight shows Academic Leaders how to transform institutional conflict from a liability into a strategic asset, providing practical tools to leverage disagreement for innovation while strengthening organizational relationships and outcomes.
July 9 at 11am ET
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit equips Academic Leaders with the essential framework to balance AI's transformative potential against its profound institutional challenges, providing indispensable guidance for navigating this technological revolution.
July 16 at 11am ET
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The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
Are you aspiring to move into a leadership role within your school, or have you recently stepped into a new leadership position? Join One Schoolhouse President & CEO, Brad Rathgeber, and fellow independent school Academic Leaders in a collaborative and supportive environment as we explore The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant.
July 15 & July 29 at 1pm ET
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Summer Reading Kickoff
Join us for the launch of our Summer Reading where we’ll introduce four engaging titles that dive into some of the most compelling timely and enduring issues for Academic Leaders.
May 21 at 2pm ET -
Summer Reading ICYMI Wrap Up
If you can't make it to your book's scheduled discussion (or want to talk more) join us for our comprehensive Wrap Up session covering all the books.
July 30 at 11am ET