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School Culture is a Verb: Finding Kindness and Belonging in Contentious Times
Nov 15, 2024 9:30AM—2:30PM
Crystal Springs Uplands School
This in-person workshop will allow educators to share their experiences and find common ground; elaborate the connections between different cultural challenges involving students and identify root causes; develop a shared vocabulary around the key elements of a healthy school culture; share a framework around an actual problem of practice in small groups, and of course throughout this process we will build community amongst each other.
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Deepening our AI Practice
Oct 31, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This online program is designed for educators who are interested in strengthening their AI skills while exploring how to engage students in productive, ethical use of generative AI tools. By bringing together educators from different schools for learning, discussion, and practice, this program aims to not just deliver knowledge, but share it. Understanding how different schools and people are navigating the ever-changing boundaries of appropriate AI use at school will help us make decisions about the best way to engage our students.
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Partnering with Teachers: Working Inside a School and Outside the Classroom
Oct 24, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
The Carey School
This 5-session series focuses on the unique role and responsibilities of educators who support classroom teachers directly and indirectly from positions outside of senior administration. These professionals inside schools—curriculum coordinators, learning specialists, instructional coaches, assistant teacher program directors, and others—who inhabit the space between classroom teachers and administrators often work within this context and without the power to change the overarching systems.
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Making Sense of AI
Oct 15, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.
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Building Student Capacity: Refining our Approach to Learning Support
Aug 07, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Marin Academy
This one-day Summer Institute for middle and high school educators will focus on building our understanding of executive functioning and give space and opportunity for designing and refining our assessments.
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Teaching Foundations (Southern California)
Jul 30, 2024—Aug 02, 2024
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School | San Juan Capistrano, CA
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.
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Teaching Foundations (Northern California)
Jul 29, 2024—Aug 02, 2024
Head-Royce School | Oakland, CA
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.
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Facilitating Productive Discourse in the Era of Elections and Divisive Issues
Apr 19, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Virtual
This one-day virtual workshop is designed to give all educators tools to create an inclusive classroom that fosters thoughtful, deliberative dialogue around the pressing cultural and political issues facing our world, with a focus on the coming U.S. elections. Educators are encouraged to attend in teams to help create a more cohesive school-wide approach for engaging in conversations around contested issues.
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Leveling Up Our AI Practice
Apr 17, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This session is designed for educators who are already using AI in their practice and are looking to develop more advanced skills. Through strategic, detailed prompting and providing AI with a knowledge base of resources that we curate, we can teach AI to behave in more specific ways and provide more helpful and reliable responses.
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Making Sense of AI
Mar 18, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This introductory workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.
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Supporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education Through Sensory Regulation, Classroom Design, and Motor Development
Mar 07, 2024 9:00AM—4:00PM
Hollywood Schoolhouse
This one-day intensive for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development.
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Meeting the Needs of all Learners: Introduction to UDL
Feb 27, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Virtual
This introductory course is designed to teach educators about the core concepts and foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), practical applications of UDL to lesson design, and how to support flexible, inclusive instruction.
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Decolonizing Science Curriculum Series
Feb 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
In this interactive and practical series, science educators of all levels will engage with the concept of decolonizing their curricula, as well as reflect on concepts, tools, and resources that can be integrated into specific lessons and content. Shifting away from euro-centric, White supremacist structures and classroom power dynamics, participants will debunk the assumption that this work can happen more naturally in the humanities. Throughout the series, participants will have the opportunity to build or workshop lessons with fellow educators and develop a long-term plan for continuing this work within their departments, divisions, and school communities.
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Effective & Equitable Practices and Improving Mathematics Instruction through Sound Assessment Practices: A Series for Mathematics Teachers
Jan 12, 2024 9:00AM—2:30PM
Pilgrim School
This program series will provide an opportunity for mathematics educators to learn or enhance their knowledge and skills in facilitating high-quality mathematics learning in an independent school setting. This series is open for educators across grades Pre-K to Grade 12.
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AI, Assessment, and the Question of Rigor
Nov 07, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will explore the potential impact AI has on the design and facilitation of assessments. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and research on productive struggle as our foundations, we’ll explore ways AI can augment student learning and can make assessments more impactful, not less. We’ll experiment with revising current assessments and imagine what new assessments AI might make possible.
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School Culture is a Verb: Finding Kindness and Belonging in Contentious Times
Nov 15, 2024 9:30AM—2:30PM
Crystal Springs Uplands School
This in-person workshop will allow educators to share their experiences and find common ground; elaborate the connections between different cultural challenges involving students and identify root causes; develop a shared vocabulary around the key elements of a healthy school culture; share a framework around an actual problem of practice in small groups, and of course throughout this process we will build community amongst each other.
View MoreDeepening our AI Practice
Oct 31, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This online program is designed for educators who are interested in strengthening their AI skills while exploring how to engage students in productive, ethical use of generative AI tools. By bringing together educators from different schools for learning, discussion, and practice, this program aims to not just deliver knowledge, but share it. Understanding how different schools and people are navigating the ever-changing boundaries of appropriate AI use at school will help us make decisions about the best way to engage our students.
View MorePartnering with Teachers: Working Inside a School and Outside the Classroom
Oct 24, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
The Carey School
This 5-session series focuses on the unique role and responsibilities of educators who support classroom teachers directly and indirectly from positions outside of senior administration. These professionals inside schools—curriculum coordinators, learning specialists, instructional coaches, assistant teacher program directors, and others—who inhabit the space between classroom teachers and administrators often work within this context and without the power to change the overarching systems.
View MoreMaking Sense of AI
Oct 15, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.
View MoreBuilding Student Capacity: Refining our Approach to Learning Support
Aug 07, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Marin Academy
This one-day Summer Institute for middle and high school educators will focus on building our understanding of executive functioning and give space and opportunity for designing and refining our assessments.
View MoreTeaching Foundations (Southern California)
Jul 30, 2024—Aug 02, 2024
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School | San Juan Capistrano, CA
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.
View MoreTeaching Foundations (Northern California)
Jul 29, 2024—Aug 02, 2024
Head-Royce School | Oakland, CA
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.
View MoreFacilitating Productive Discourse in the Era of Elections and Divisive Issues
Apr 19, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Virtual
This one-day virtual workshop is designed to give all educators tools to create an inclusive classroom that fosters thoughtful, deliberative dialogue around the pressing cultural and political issues facing our world, with a focus on the coming U.S. elections. Educators are encouraged to attend in teams to help create a more cohesive school-wide approach for engaging in conversations around contested issues.
View MoreLeveling Up Our AI Practice
Apr 17, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This session is designed for educators who are already using AI in their practice and are looking to develop more advanced skills. Through strategic, detailed prompting and providing AI with a knowledge base of resources that we curate, we can teach AI to behave in more specific ways and provide more helpful and reliable responses.
View MoreMaking Sense of AI
Mar 18, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This introductory workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.
View MoreSupporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education Through Sensory Regulation, Classroom Design, and Motor Development
Mar 07, 2024 9:00AM—4:00PM
Hollywood Schoolhouse
This one-day intensive for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development.
View MoreMeeting the Needs of all Learners: Introduction to UDL
Feb 27, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Virtual
This introductory course is designed to teach educators about the core concepts and foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), practical applications of UDL to lesson design, and how to support flexible, inclusive instruction.
View MoreDecolonizing Science Curriculum Series
Feb 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
In this interactive and practical series, science educators of all levels will engage with the concept of decolonizing their curricula, as well as reflect on concepts, tools, and resources that can be integrated into specific lessons and content. Shifting away from euro-centric, White supremacist structures and classroom power dynamics, participants will debunk the assumption that this work can happen more naturally in the humanities. Throughout the series, participants will have the opportunity to build or workshop lessons with fellow educators and develop a long-term plan for continuing this work within their departments, divisions, and school communities.
View MoreEffective & Equitable Practices and Improving Mathematics Instruction through Sound Assessment Practices: A Series for Mathematics Teachers
Jan 12, 2024 9:00AM—2:30PM
Pilgrim School
This program series will provide an opportunity for mathematics educators to learn or enhance their knowledge and skills in facilitating high-quality mathematics learning in an independent school setting. This series is open for educators across grades Pre-K to Grade 12.
View MoreAI, Assessment, and the Question of Rigor
Nov 07, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will explore the potential impact AI has on the design and facilitation of assessments. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and research on productive struggle as our foundations, we’ll explore ways AI can augment student learning and can make assessments more impactful, not less. We’ll experiment with revising current assessments and imagine what new assessments AI might make possible.
View More