De-Stressing Affordability for Families

Reimagine your tuition affordability messaging and approaches with new NAIS research.

De-Stressing Affordability for Families is a three-hour virtual session for school teams to rethink how to improve your processes and communications around tuition and better manage families’ overall experience paying for it, in light of new insights from NAIS’s latest study on “How Parents Pay.”

Learn what the tuition-paying experience is like for families in independent schools and how attitudes and mindsets have shifted over the last several years. With these insights, your team will utilize NAIS Strategy Lab design thinking tools and frameworks to focus on updating your communication strategies, brainstorm new policies to reduce pain points for parents, and revamp processes to reduce affordability-related stress among current and prospective families. 

If you have questions about this session, please contact the Strategy Lab team at strategylab@nais.org.

2024–2025 Lead Facilitators

  • Mark Mitchell, Vice President of Access & Affordability, NAIS
  • Jackie Wolking, Director of Innovation Programs, NAIS 
  • Brenna Foley, Research Analyst, NAIS

Registration Information

Schools determine up to six participants who will make up their innovation sprint team. The ideal team size is three to six participants, but schools can decide to send only two participants. Individuals are not recommended due to the significant amount of team work time built into the agenda. You will need to know the number of attendees at the time of registration. You can make updates to the attendee names that fill your spots until two weeks before the event.  

Cancellations received up to 30 business days before the start date of the program will be fully refunded, minus a $75 administration fee. Cancellations received less than 30 business days before the program will not be refunded. Cancellation requests should be emailed tostrategylab@nais.org

Dates

Wednesday, October 16, 2024; 1:00 - 4:00 PM ET

Location

Online

Audience

This is a team-based experience, so a diverse group representing a cross section of your school (from two to six people) is important. Heads, CFOs, admissions or enrollment directors, strategic initiative directors, or other administrators in similar roles are the primary audience.

Cost

$180 per person (members); $250 per person (nonmembers)
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