Curriculum & Pedagogy
Making Thinking Visible: 4 Key Practices to Support Learning
Drawing on the book The Power of Making Thinking Visible, this interactive workshop with author and educational leader Ron Ritchhart will provide participants with the chance to learn how teachers at all levels can make students’ thinking visible through 4 key strategies: thinking routines, documentation, questioning, and listening. The effective use of these practices can transform classrooms into cultures of thinking.
Foundations in Practice: Tools and Community for Assistant Teachers
This virtual ongoing program offers practical tools and strategies to enhance the work of assistant teachers in the classroom, with a focus on effective collaboration, student engagement, and responsive support. In addition to skill-building, the ongoing sessions will provide a space for assistant teachers to share experiences, ask questions, and build a strong sense of community with colleagues throughout the state.
Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging Book Group
Explore The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging alongside authors Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott in this nine-session learning community. Participants will reflect, create, exchange ideas, and experience practical arts-based strategies for fostering connection, belonging, and joy in classrooms.
From Identity to Impact: A Book Study on Identity Consciousness for Educators
Grounded in Liza Talusan’s The Identity-Conscious Educator, this ongoing book group invites independent school educators into structured, reflective, and actionable exploration of identity and its impact on professional practice. It approaches identity as formative and centers educator growth as a pathway to belonging and culture shift in independent schools.
Instructional Rounds in Action
Instructional Rounds in Action is a dynamic professional-learning program that connects and empowers teachers across schools and strengthens teaching & learning practice through observation, inquiry, and collaboration.
Teaching and Learning Reimagined: Renewing Practice, Purpose, and Impact
This virtual program is designed for independent school educators with 5–15 years of experience who are ready to deepen their practice, reconnect with purpose, and expand their impact.
Teaching Tools and Strategies for Arts Educators
This unique virtual program is designed for independent school visual, performing and music arts educators who are eager to expand their practice in middle and upper school contexts.
The Executive Function Connection: Strategies for Supporting Neurodiverse Learners in Middle School (Grades 5-8)
This interactive, 1-day workshop equips middle school educators with practical insights and tools to strengthen students’ EF skills. By explicitly integrating EF instruction into the curriculum, teachers can foster stronger academic performance and more positive classroom behaviors.
Partnering with Teachers: Connections & Strategies for Instructional Impact
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.
Reimagining World Language Teaching: Finding Common Ground Between Research & Classroom Practice
Explore what second language acquisition research tells us about how languages are learned and what it means for the choices we make in our classrooms every day. Connect with fellow K–12 world language educators to reflect on practice and leave with practical, research-informed ideas to try.
Engaging Students on Generative AI: What, Why, How
Explore how decision-making can be taught as a practical skill for helping students navigate generative AI thoughtfully and responsibly. Participants will examine AI’s impact on learning and wellness, student autonomy and agency, and strategies for engaging Middle and Upper School students in productive conversations about AI.
No events found.