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ADVIS is proud to be widely considered “the best value in town” by our member schools. We are committed to making ADVIS membership the very best investment schools can make for the professional development of administrative staff and trustees, and the school's advancement. Review the many perks of our membership and become an ADVIS Member School today!

Professional Development

• Roughly 30 local and face-to face, virtual, or blended professional development programs per year for administrators and trustees, many at no charge, with the balance for a reasonable fee. 
• Expertise in Governance Professional Development and Coaching
  • Partnership with ISCA that automatically enrolls every Member School's Board Chair into ISCA and provides all ISCA membership benefits, programing and network.
  • Board Consultation services with Board Source Trained ADVIS President, Ayanna Hill-Gill
  • TrusteeU virtual asynchronous learning
• Special Programs for Leadership Training
  • Expanded, individualized Coaching on Demand Program
  • Dedicated Leadership Training and Learning opportunities via cohorts and Institutes in virtual or hybrid platforms
• DEIJB Learning and Support
  • Our Multicultural Resource Center, MCRC@ADVIS, is dedicated to social justice and support for all aspects of diversity in our schools through providing excellent professional development opportunities for faculty, students and administrators.
  •  DEIJB Learning and Support events, including roundtables for DEIJB practitioners and Institutes for deeper, focused learning, are held each year.
•  We provide Act 48 continuing education credits for most of our programs

Networking and Community

• Access to our network of more than 130 member schools' administrators and trustees from PA, NJ, and DE  
• In-person and virtual networking events with our member schools, with schools from across the country through collaborative events with other school associations
• Access to the ADVIS Online Searchable Member Directory, with contact information for the key administrators of all member schools
• Participation in and access to collaborative projects and special services, such as ADVIS’ Confidential Common Recommendation Form and Notification Dates Survey
• Permission to display the ADVIS Proud Member Badge on your website, which signals that your school follows best practices and is looking to be part of the advancement of the wider educational community

Visibility

• FREE publication of Open House Dates 
• FREE job postings for open administrative and faculty positions in your school
• Inclusion of and link to your school on the ADVIS website

Access to Current, Relevant Data and Resources

• ADVIS Member Dashboard allows a school's top administrators the ability to view and analyze employees’ participation in our professional development programming over a ten year period.  Here you can also view the results of our Flash Surveys, which capture a snapshot of school administration across our Member Schools.
•  Support for NAIS' DASL survey service for individual school benchmarking capability and aggregate association statistics.
• Access to ERV: Essential Resources for (a time of) Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA)
  • Timely Information, consultants, resources, more.

Personalized Attention and Assistance

• Concierge Membership Support
  • Our Membership and Outreach Manager liaises with member schools to answer questions, address requests, and provide information training for ADVIS’s various systems.