In this two day intensive, we’ll spend time unpacking whiteness in courageous, reflective, and somatic ways, exploring our identities and how they have been historically constructed and reconstructed. We’ll slow down and make space for the learning, processing, and questions we have after this year and whatever came before.

Equity as Excellence as a summer institute has traditionally offered a unique opportunity for educators to receive concrete tools, research-based strategies, and guided practice to support diversity and equity work in their schools. This year in lieu of the institute, CATDC is offering Equity as Excellence coaching to a limited number of individuals or teams from our member schools.

This three-day series is an opportunity to connect with other APISA educators in an affinity setting that will provide a safe and generative space to self-reflect, share stories, and learn from each other’s experiences.

This interactive Summer Institute will provide opportunities for connection, collaboration, and reflection as the See Change team leads you through the design of a recovery strategy for next year. This process will support your organization in retaining employees and families, increasing effectiveness, and cultivating innovation.

This Summer Institute grows out of the explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and make thinking visible. When used powerfully, thinking routines not only provide teachers with a set of practices to engage students, but help advance a broader goal to create classrooms where students’ thinking is visible, valued, and actively promoted.

Learning specialists need to have a space to talk about how racial identity, inequity, and learning disability intersect. In this Community Conversation, we hope to have an honest conversation about how to identify where racism operates in our schools and programs and develop tools to hold ourselves accountable when serving the needs of our students.

Practicing gratitude has been scientifically proven to improve your mood. When we get busy with life sometimes we forget to stop and give thanks. In honor of teacher appreciation week we want to offer you that space, with a meditation to help cultivate appreciation during this challenging time. Give yourself the gift on this hour to recalibrate before the end of a busy year.

This interactive Skill Up! session will facilitate participants’ transition back to the hybrid and in-person world language classroom by building on the strategies they learned and applied during remote instruction.

In this workshop participants will gain concrete recommendations to support Organizational Resilience and develop action steps to bring back and implement at their school sites.

This Community Conversation will offer a space to express concerns about faculty burnout, share resources, and learn new strategies for better self care during these trying times.

Institutions that are looking to be more equitable, diverse and anti-racist are also doing so at the emotional and psychological cost of people of color. Learn to identify the signs for stereotype threat, imposter syndrome, gaslighting and racial trauma. This session is designed to be a safe, brave, supportive space for Black/African American women.

In the time of COVID—whether your school is in person, fully remote, or using a hybrid model—attending to the social, emotional and physical wellbeing of students and colleagues has become a marathon of perseverance. What do counselors need in order to provide for others while also taking care of themselves?

This workshop will invite participants to understand that there are common and effective development practices that also support values of equity and inclusivity. Through planning and practice, we will consider how our advancement conversations and messaging can be both inclusive and compelling.

What challenges do folks who engage in equity and justice work in schools (administrators and teachers) currently face? This Community Conversation will offer a brief introduction of the issues, move to breakout groups focused on community-building and sharing.

Engage with veteran facilitators to learn common facilitation models, avoid pitfalls, and manage polarity. Learn visual facilitation from experts to help people see issues and perspectives more clearly. Through this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to unpack practical strategies on facilitating courageous conversations, practice facilitating, and leave with a visual toolset to deepen their practice.