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Thursday, February 7, 2008
7:30 am		Vans depart for The St. Andrew's Campus from the Embassy Suites Hotel (meet in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel at 7:15 am)
8:00 - 8:30 am		Welcome and Introductions
8:30 - 9:30 am		Creating a Vital Residential Community Doug Dickson This opening session will outline the essential components and building blocks for establishing a healthy residential community. It will also focus on the ways a school’s mission statement is incorporated into and guides a residential program.
9:30 - 9:45 am		Break
9:45 - 10:15 am		Challenges to a Residential Community Small Group Work Groups will have three case studies of common residential life issues.  Each group will come up with specific programs or approaches that might effectively address each of these issues.  All groups will report back to the large group for general discussion.
10:15 - 11:00 am		Group Reports (including discussions about general issues and resources)
11:15 am - 12:15 pm		What is a Residential Life Curriculum? Carol Hotchkiss Everybody wants one, accreditation committees say you gotta have one, but nobody is exactly sure what it is.  During this session, we will identify what we need to include in a residential curriculum and how we go about teaching it.
12:15 - 1:30 pm		Lunch at Curtis House
1:30 - 2:30 pm		Residential Life Curriculum in Action Doug Dickson, facilitator The Residential Curriculum can be taught using a variety of techniques and methods.  During this workshop, the presenter will facilitate two residential life curriculum meetings as they would be conducted in a dorm.  This will be activity-based and interactive and will demonstrate the type of sessions that could be successful at your school.
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.		Winter in a Boarding School Carol Hotchkiss, facilitator Even in sunny Florida, winter brings special challenges and doldrums for boarding school staff and students. This session will look at the group dynamics and cycles of living together in an intergenerational community and how to survive the confines, despondency, and bickering of winter.
3:30 - 3:45 pm		Break
3:45 - 5:00 pm		Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Students with Mental Health Problems Doug Dickson, facilitator Studies show that increased numbers of secondary school students are depressed or have other mental health and substance problems. Schools face difficult choices when dealing with these students and their families. This session will open with a video describing a distressed student and her interactions with parents, students, and staff at a fictional campus. Afterward, we will address topics related to mental health awareness, parental involvement, discipline, leaves of absence, withdrawal of enrollment and responsibilities in crisis.
5:00 pm		Tour of St. Andrew’s Campus (optional) Reception and Dinner
7:00 pm		Vans return to the Embassy Suites Hotel
Friday, February 8, 2008
8:00 am		Vans depart for The St. Andrew's Campus from the Embassy Suites Hotel (meet in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel at 7:45 am)
8:30 – 10:00 am		Cost of a Free Ride Carol Hotchkiss Privilege, helicopter parents, and litigation have cleared the adolescent path of many of the obstacles and challenges that previously built self-reliance, resilience, competence, and confidence in young adults. This session examines the challenges that these untested students bring to a boarding school and how we can help students and their parents take the appropriate risks and responsibility necessary for healthy independent and community life
10:00 – 10:15 am		Break
10:15 – 11:00 am		Case Studies on Entitlement (Small group work) Examples of entitlement and privilege and what schools can do to teach life lessons of resilience, competence, and accountability.
11:00 – 12:00 pm		School Emergencies: Practical Lessons in Planning and Protection  Doug Dickson In this session, we will present a real life school emergency, a flood that forced the evacuation of a residential school.  This case study will detail the process of emergency planning and process of developing and revising emergency plans and will share practical lessons learned from this real life emergency.
12:00 – 1:00 pm		Lunch at Curtis House
1:00 – 3:00 pm		Student in Crisis – Who Belongs?  Carol Hotchkiss Eliot, Facilitator Individual student problems often impact the entire community and care must be taken to communicate effectively without violating personal dignity or feeding the rumors that can be so prevalent in our school communities.  This session will focus on managing parents, students, and staff during an individual student crisis.
3:00 – 3:15 pm		Break
3:15 - 4:00 pm		Taking it Home Doug Dickson Conferences present lots of inspiration and great ideas; schools present lots of students and great exhaustion!  This session will focus on practical tools for making a difference once you get back to the front line.  In celebration of the important work that you do, we will send you back with guerrilla warfare tactics and a not so hidden agenda.
4:00 pm		Conclusion of Seminar Vans return to the Embassy Suites Hotel

Schedule subject to change.