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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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Unlocking Joy at Work: The Power of Your Personal Values
Mar 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this special workshop for CATDC, Mission Minded Founding Partner & Leadership Coach Jennie Winton will lead you through a series of exercises and conversations to help you tap into what you truly value to improve both your well-being and impact. When you’re more connected and joyful at work, everyone around you benefits, too.
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Equitable Hiring Practices in Independent Schools
Feb 29, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual intensive, participants will review policies, California and Federal laws, and statutes to ensure adherence to search and hiring procedures. Using data, research, best practices, and case studies, participants will learn equitable hiring practices for hiring committees with alignment to the CAIS Strategic Plan (2023 – 2027) Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging Principles.
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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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Values-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Feb 06, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
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CATDC Leadership Series: Critical Skills for Navigating Conflict
Jan 25, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
In this three session program, we will explore the neuroscience of conflict in schools today, discuss how burnout impacts relationships and accelerates escalations, find creative ways to navigate tough conversations, and discover what to do about conflict addiction.
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Transformative Justice for Queer and Trans Students
Jan 24, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
Participants will learn how to identify, address, and take action to improve school practices, policies, and systems that could be creating inequities, deficits, and barriers for queer and trans students. This will be an informative training that will include many opportunities for discussion and action planning.
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Gender Basics for Educators
Dec 06, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual workshop, educators and school staff will have the chance to learn about the dimensions and complexities of gender. Participants will reflect on their own genders, explore what they know and what they can learn about transgender identities, and practice pronouns and inclusive language around gender.
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Values-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Nov 15, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
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Skill Up! Centering Student Voices During Challenging Times
Nov 15, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 90-minute, interactive Skill Up! is intended to equip educators with ideas and approaches to centering students voice, agency, and self reflection during challenging times. The current and evolving tragedies, crises and confusion in the world can be disorienting to the classroom and tricky to navigate with students at different ages. How can we create more space for our students to express and think for themselves when we as educators are struggling to process events?
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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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(Re)Introducing the California Indian Genocide in 6-12 Curriculum
Nov 01, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This 3-hour interactive workshop, presented by Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their understanding of California history through a decolonial lens. The session aims to empower educators with culturally sustaining curricula that encompass topics such as the Gold Rush and California Statehood. Educators will learn more about how today’s Native peoples are tirelessly striving to heal and revitalize Indigenous lands and communities.
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Talking with Students about AI
Oct 24, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will introduce some guiding principles, talking points, and sample activities we can do with students to begin a conversation with them about how we might use AI for learning, not instead of it. This is an interactive, participatory session, so participants should expect to engage in breakout activities where they discuss and share their work with colleagues.
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Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 18, 2023 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial management skills necessary for leadership roles in K12 schools, both day schools and boarding schools. Moving beyond the theoretical and foundational principles of finance, we will ground our work together in the practical tools that educators and schools can use to understand trends, articulate current and potential economic challenges, and develop strategic and action-oriented approaches to sound financial management and financial sustainability.
View More
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.
View MoreUnlocking Joy at Work: The Power of Your Personal Values
Mar 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this special workshop for CATDC, Mission Minded Founding Partner & Leadership Coach Jennie Winton will lead you through a series of exercises and conversations to help you tap into what you truly value to improve both your well-being and impact. When you’re more connected and joyful at work, everyone around you benefits, too.
View MoreEquitable Hiring Practices in Independent Schools
Feb 29, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual intensive, participants will review policies, California and Federal laws, and statutes to ensure adherence to search and hiring procedures. Using data, research, best practices, and case studies, participants will learn equitable hiring practices for hiring committees with alignment to the CAIS Strategic Plan (2023 – 2027) Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging Principles.
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 MoreValues-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Feb 06, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
View MoreCATDC Leadership Series: Critical Skills for Navigating Conflict
Jan 25, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
In this three session program, we will explore the neuroscience of conflict in schools today, discuss how burnout impacts relationships and accelerates escalations, find creative ways to navigate tough conversations, and discover what to do about conflict addiction.
View MoreTransformative Justice for Queer and Trans Students
Jan 24, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
Participants will learn how to identify, address, and take action to improve school practices, policies, and systems that could be creating inequities, deficits, and barriers for queer and trans students. This will be an informative training that will include many opportunities for discussion and action planning.
View MoreGender Basics for Educators
Dec 06, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual workshop, educators and school staff will have the chance to learn about the dimensions and complexities of gender. Participants will reflect on their own genders, explore what they know and what they can learn about transgender identities, and practice pronouns and inclusive language around gender.
View MoreValues-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Nov 15, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
View MoreSkill Up! Centering Student Voices During Challenging Times
Nov 15, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 90-minute, interactive Skill Up! is intended to equip educators with ideas and approaches to centering students voice, agency, and self reflection during challenging times. The current and evolving tragedies, crises and confusion in the world can be disorienting to the classroom and tricky to navigate with students at different ages. How can we create more space for our students to express and think for themselves when we as educators are struggling to process events?
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(Re)Introducing the California Indian Genocide in 6-12 Curriculum
Nov 01, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This 3-hour interactive workshop, presented by Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their understanding of California history through a decolonial lens. The session aims to empower educators with culturally sustaining curricula that encompass topics such as the Gold Rush and California Statehood. Educators will learn more about how today’s Native peoples are tirelessly striving to heal and revitalize Indigenous lands and communities.
View MoreTalking with Students about AI
Oct 24, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will introduce some guiding principles, talking points, and sample activities we can do with students to begin a conversation with them about how we might use AI for learning, not instead of it. This is an interactive, participatory session, so participants should expect to engage in breakout activities where they discuss and share their work with colleagues.
View MoreFinance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 18, 2023 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial management skills necessary for leadership roles in K12 schools, both day schools and boarding schools. Moving beyond the theoretical and foundational principles of finance, we will ground our work together in the practical tools that educators and schools can use to understand trends, articulate current and potential economic challenges, and develop strategic and action-oriented approaches to sound financial management and financial sustainability.
View More