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Supporting Great Teachers to Stay
As a former Dean of Faculty at an independent school and now Executive Director of the California Teacher Development Collaborative (CATDC), I know well the ...
Read More Our Growing Team
The CATDC is thrilled to announce that our team is growing! We have hired two Associate Director of Programs to support our program and membership ...
Read More Healthy Sexuality Education
I became the “consent lady” by default. A health educator for 25 years, I value all aspects of wellness--sex education included. While developing the Health ...
Read More A Case for Ongoing Professional Development
The CATDC’s Ongoing Programs, series of 3-5 meetings led by local educators, are some of our most agile and responsive professional development offerings and the ...
Read More Image of the Child and the Reggio Emilia Approach
Last spring I was invited by New School-West—as a parent—to travel to Reggio Emilia, Italy, on a Five State Educator’s Tour with the entire faculty ...
Read More Maintaining Dignity, Integrity, and Community in the Discipline Process
The word discipline originates from the Latin root discere which means “to learn” and forms other derivatives like disciplina which means “instruction” and discipulus which ...
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