Ruvna on the Road, Coming to a Campus Near You

Four gatherings for independent school leaders this October, hosted at partner schools

We're packing up and heading out this October.

Marshall Singer, our Co-Founder and COO, and Macey Belter, our VP of Marketing, are visiting four cities over two weeks, hosting a day with independent school leaders at each stop. Four campuses, four host schools, and a room full of people who already understand the work you do.

We've spent years at conferences, presenting sessions and learning from the ones we attend, and we'll keep doing it. What we've noticed is that the value stretches well beyond the agenda, into the conversations that happen between sessions with people solving the same problems you are. Those conversations are worth traveling for.  The catch is that they usually happen somewhere else. 

 This October, we're meeting you where you already are.

What Ruvna on the Road Is

Each stop is a day spent with school leaders in your region, working through the parts of the job that don't fit neatly into a job description. Campus operations, emergency preparedness, and the systems everyone is quietly holding together.

There's no fee, and you don't need to be a Ruvna client to attend. If you lead operations, technology, finance, or the school itself, we'd like you in the room.

Where We're Headed

Los Angeles, California • Thursday, October 15
Hosted at Marlborough School

San Francisco, California • Monday, October 19
Hosted at Crystal Springs Uplands School

Denver, Colorado • Thursday, October 22
Hosted at Graland Country Day School

Chicago, Illinois • Monday, October 26
Hosted at Loyola Academy

Every stop is built for the schools around it, so for most of you this is a drive rather than a trip. That opens something up. Instead of choosing one person to attend and asking them to brief everyone else on Monday, you can bring the two or three colleagues who should be in the conversation to begin with.

Why We're Meeting on Campus

There's a reason we asked schools to host rather than booking a hotel conference room.

A front entrance tells you how a school thinks about visitors. A dismissal loop tells you how it thinks about the end of the day. You notice the desk placement, the sightlines, the small workarounds someone invented three years ago that quietly became policy. Those details register differently when you're standing in the building.

We owe the four host schools a real thank you here. Opening your campus to a group of peers takes real effort, and each of these schools said yes because they wanted their regional community in the same room, which says a lot about them.

What We'll Get Into

Each stop is shaped by its host school. That's the point. The people hosting know their region, and the day reflects it.

What stays the same is the tone. Conversation, not presentation. We'll share what we're hearing from schools across the country, host schools will talk about how they're handling safety and daily operations on their own campus, and there's real time set aside for questions. The open questions are usually the most useful part of the day.

A few themes come up everywhere we go. How do you account for every student when a drill interrupts fourth period? What does attendance look like when you're running a lower, middle, and upper school under one roof? How does the front desk hold up on a big admissions day or a packed Friday night game? When the day changes on short notice, how do you get one clear message to every family, and who decides what it says? What actually happens when families start arriving on campus during a reunification?

Each host school has also chosen its own hot topic, the thing their team is working through right now, so the middle of the day looks a little different in each city.

Most stops will wrap with a nearby social hour, where you can settle in and enjoy the company of your fellow school leaders.

RSVP for your city below, and we'll send you the full agenda and venue details as your stop gets closer.

Los Angeles | San Francisco | Denver | Chicago

Who This Day Is Built For

Heads of School. Directors of Operations, Technology, and Finance. Business officers. Anyone serving on a safety or crisis team.

Independent schools operate with lean teams by design. The person who owns your visitor policy probably also owns your facilities calendar and emergency notification system, and that shapes every safety and operations decision you make. These days are built for exactly that person.

The mix is part of the value. Technology directors want to know how integration and rollout actually went for someone else. Operations leaders want the workflow details. Heads and business officers are weighing safety against every other line competing for the same dollars. The idea is to put all of them in one room.

Come whether you're a longtime Ruvna client, actively evaluating options, or simply curious what the school across town is doing, and bring the colleagues who'd get something out of the day.

Why Now

Ask anyone in a school how September went and you'll get a real answer. Ask in August and you'll get a plan. The first weeks are behind you, whatever you built over the summer has met real conditions, and you know what's holding up. You're also early enough that anything useful you pick up can still shape spring planning and next year's budget conversation instead of arriving a month too late.

Another reason is the generosity in this community we don't take for granted. Every time we get independent school administrators together, we're struck by how openly people share. Schools competing for the same families will spend an hour comparing reunification plans without a second thought, because student safety was never something to be competitive about. We'd like to create more of those hours, closer to where you already are.

Join Us in Your City

RSVPs are open for all four cities. Each campus can only hold so many people, so register early and let us know if you're bringing colleagues.

One thing worth doing before you arrive is picking a question you're actively wrestling with. The groups are small, the answers get specific, and more often than not the best one comes from someone else in the room.

RSVP for your city here.

If your city isn't on this list, tell us where you are. We're already looking at where to go next.