Each year we offer six gatherings for teachers, school administrators, and school heads. At our seminars, participants and leaders explore issues, exchange ideas, share common problems and celebrate common successes. The result is a rich experience for all--and enrichment for the participants' schools and classrooms. Descriptions of our seminars are linked to the list at the right. Please read them all and visit each seminar's page. We're sure you'll find something that is just right for you and your school. To order written brochures for the seminars, click the "Brochures" button, above.

In addition to seminars, we offer consulting services for schools throughout the United States and the world--in person, by telephone, or by e-mail. Please feel free to call on us for help in building the life of your school.

• The Experienced Pro
• The Administrator's Life
• First Five Years of the Teaching Career
• Seminar-Treat for the Head of the School
• Writing Our Lives
• Westtown Seminar on Teaching
• Regional Workshops
• Summary of National Seminars

The
Experienced
Pro

A National Seminar
for Ace Teachers!

This gathering is for the school's stars, a treat for them, a chance to come together with fellow Experienced Pros from all over the U.S. to reflect, explore, share news, give and get some perspective, generate some new ideas and plans, and savor and confirm some long-held, valuable ones. It is for Aces, coming together with fellow Aces, finding good company, being good company!

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The
Administrator's
Life

A Seminar for School
Administrators

This is a national seminar for division heads of upper and middle lower schools, deans of faculty, deans of studies, academic deans, department heads, admissions officers, counselors, athletic directors, classroom teachers and coaches juggling teaching and administration, working with students and with adults. It is about using your talents and energies in ways and settings that allow you to flourish as yourself, as part of the team, and as part of your school. It's about the juggle of teaching and working with students and dealing with the wider scope of a part of a school, the whole school, or beyond.

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The First
Five Years
of the
Teaching Career

A Gathering for
New Teachers

This seminar will be a set of vigorous, practical, explorative experiences for people in the first five years of their teaching careers. There will be opportunities for sharing, discussion, examination of questions, problems, strategies, hopes, concerns, reflections, and plans, focusing on such matters as bringing together a teacher's own personal style and vision with the particular students, materials, colleagues, and school he/she is working with; strategies for developing as a teacher as one's career unfolds.

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Seminar-Treat
for the
Head of the
School

For Refreshment
and Renewal

An invitational gathering for school heads offering time alone with 20 or so other people who share the unique experience of heading a school; a chance to engage in active conversation with two educator-authors, Richard Hawley and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot who bring extraordinary perspectives to the table--all in a setting that is comfortable, even a bit elegant, with beautiful grounds for walks, runs, and exploring woods. Click on the link below to learn more about the seminar. Then fill out our on-line form to let us know you are interested.

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Writing
Our
Lives

For People
Who Write
(or Want to Write)

Designed for school people who write (or would like to write), The Writing Our Lives seminar combines a lively discussion of practical presentations, readings, tutorials, and workshops with sustained periods of quiet time set aside for writing. Some work on narrative, memory pieces, parts of screenplays or stage plays, poems, fiction. The staff and the participants will be helpful in responding to people's work, and there is an opportunity at the end for people to read some of their work aloud.

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Westtown
Seminar
on
Teaching

Inspiring Teachers
Since 1963

The Westtown Seminar is an invitational week-long experience which brings together people who are doing something adventurous and innovative in their work in education. Central to the seminar is the exploration of some new and old ways of teaching and learning, experiencing and reflecting. The participants live on the campus of Westtown School in Chester County, Pa., and the experience of the seminar develops each year according to the styles and interests of the people who make up the group. To learn more, click the link below. Then fill out the on-line form to let us know you are interested.

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David Mallery's Regional Engagements

Gatherings to Inspire and Celebrate Great Teachers

Each year, David Mallery arranges with certain individual schools and regional associations for a faculty day focused on celebration of teachers and teaching. To arrange for such an engagement, please contact us by e-mail or by telephone. For more information on David's schedule, click on the link below.

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