Programs
Women Rising: Cultivating Clarity, Courage, and Community
Born out of the powerful conversations and reflection at the CATDC Women + Leadership Conference, Women Rising creates an intentional space for women leaders to pause, reflect, and grow together. Beginning with a retreat grounded in nature and community, and continuing with a combination of in-person and virtual convening, participants will explore the inner work of leadership while strengthening the tools needed to lead schools, teams, and communities with confidence and authenticity.
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.
Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial and risk 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.
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.
Leadership Fellows Program
This year-long fellowship for experienced educators from throughout California supports the unique demands of independent school leaders—the only program of its kind in California!
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.
Support for Supporters (Southern California)
This ongoing program offers a small, confidential and welcoming environment designed to foster connections, learning, support and dialogue between Administrative Assistants working at independent schools.
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.
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