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The Executive Function Connection: Practical Tools for Supporting Neurodiverse Learners in Grades TK–5

Nov 14, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM

Aurora School

This interactive 1-day workshop is designed to equip Grades K-5 educators with the insights and resources needed to support and enhance the development of executive function (EF) skills in their students. By integrating these skills into the classroom curriculum, teachers will help improve overall academic performance and promote positive classroom behaviors.

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Community Conversation: Collaborating for Impact in Student Life

Nov 13, 2025 9:00AM—10:00AM

Virtual

This interactive Community Conversation invites deans and student life professionals to reflect on and share how they lead between the lines of formal authority and everyday relationships, addressing challenges as well as breakthroughs. Together, we’ll explore how small choices, language, and presence can shape culture and strengthen trust across our communities.

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Emerging Leaders (Southern California)

Nov 06, 2025 10:00AM—2:00PM

Polytechnic School

This program will provide new and aspiring leaders with tools and strategies to transition successfully into a leadership role. Throughout this program, participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities unique to their roles and schools. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.

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Support for Supporters (Northern California)

Nov 06, 2025 9:30AM—2:30PM

Presidio, San Francisco

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.

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Partnering with Teachers: Connection & Strategies for Instructional Support Roles

Nov 04, 2025 9:00AM—2:00PM

The Carey School

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.

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Leading From The Middle: Managing Up, Down, and Across

Oct 29, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

This program is designed for leaders who want to navigate these complexities with greater confidence and clarity learning with and from a community of practitioners. Together, we’ll tackle the challenges that come with making tough decisions, leading effective meetings, supervising your peers, and giving feedback that builds rather than erodes trust.

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AI in STEM Education: Harnessing AI’s Power and Potential

Oct 28, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

Can AI tools be useful within science, engineering, and math classrooms, where objective scientific facts govern and logical reasoning dominates? Have AI tools been improved to hallucinate less frequently, less intensely, or less confidently? This intensive will provide participants with the opportunity to experiment with AI models using curated prompts, revealing both the power and potential issues with these tools. Together, we will examine best practices in a world where AI will soon be used to make major scientific discoveries.

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Human-Centered AI for Lower School Educators

Oct 28, 2025 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

In this virtual series for lower school educators we will explore the importance of human-centered approaches, share insights into the value of AI literacy, engage with AI tools, and examine supportive leadership frameworks and processes. This dynamic program will meet educators where they are in their AI journeys and build a learning community of educators grappling with the complexity of this work

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Leadership Fellows Program

Oct 24, 2025 6:00PM—Oct 26, 2025 12:00PM

Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara

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!

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Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation

Oct 22, 2025 2:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

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.

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Support for Supporters (Southern California)

Oct 21, 2025 9:00AM—2:00PM

Flintridge Prep

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.

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Practical AI for School Leaders

Oct 15, 2025 10:00AM—11:30AM

Virtual

This session is designed for school leaders who want to better understand how to use generative AI to support their own work and goals. While they are often immersed in questions of philosophy, policy, and supporting students and colleagues, school leaders rarely have the opportunity to explore generative AI in practical terms: learning the skills and tools that will make them more effective users of this powerful technology.

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Foundations in Practice: Tools and Community for Assistant Teachers

Oct 14, 2025 8:30AM—10:00AM

Virtual

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.

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Parent Communication Strategies: Academic Feedback and Narrative Reports

Oct 09, 2025 3:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

Educators navigate increasingly complex parent and caretaker communication situations in person, over the phone, via email, Zoom, and during in-person school events. Please join facilitator Dr. Jawaan Wallace, Director of Enrollment Management and Collegiate Partnerships at Marlborough School to build your toolkit of effective, responsive, and nimble communication strategies.

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