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Values-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Nov 15, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
View MoreSkill Up! Centering Student Voices During Challenging Times
Nov 15, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 90-minute, interactive Skill Up! is intended to equip educators with ideas and approaches to centering students voice, agency, and self reflection during challenging times. The current and evolving tragedies, crises and confusion in the world can be disorienting to the classroom and tricky to navigate with students at different ages. How can we create more space for our students to express and think for themselves when we as educators are struggling to process events?
View MoreGender Sexuality Professional Alliance
Nov 14, 2023 9:30AM—12:30PM
Children's Day School in San Francisco
This working group of LGBTQ+* professionals will provide a unique opportunity for educators to connect in a confidential, respectful, and relaxed atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to develop a network of LGBTQ+ educators which continues well beyond our four meetings.
View MoreAffinity Spaces 2.0
Nov 09, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM
New Roads School
This three-part hybrid series will provide practical tools, resources, templates, strategies, and mutual support for educators who are currently facilitating racial affinity groups. Participants will engage in practices that support their facilitation of affinity spaces, develop affinity group curriculum, including scope and sequence, to support student and adult affinity spaces at their schools, and work through scenarios that arise when implementing and sustaining affinity space structures and frameworks.
View MoreAI, Assessment, and the Question of Rigor
Nov 07, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will explore the potential impact AI has on the design and facilitation of assessments. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and research on productive struggle as our foundations, we’ll explore ways AI can augment student learning and can make assessments more impactful, not less. We’ll experiment with revising current assessments and imagine what new assessments AI might make possible.
View More(Re)Introducing the California Indian Genocide in 6-12 Curriculum
Nov 01, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This 3-hour interactive workshop, presented by Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their understanding of California history through a decolonial lens. The session aims to empower educators with culturally sustaining curricula that encompass topics such as the Gold Rush and California Statehood. Educators will learn more about how today’s Native peoples are tirelessly striving to heal and revitalize Indigenous lands and communities.
View MoreLeadership Fellows Program
Oct 27, 2023 6:00PM—Oct 29, 2023 12:00PM
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!
View MoreLeveraging Our Learning for More Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Oct 25, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM
French American International School and The Bay School of San Francisco
This 5-session series is for novice and experienced coaches who wish to expand their tools and techniques to best equip teachers in their professional growth. Join us to learn and apply best practices for engaging in meaningful and productive coaching and mentoring.
View MoreTalking with Students about AI
Oct 24, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive will introduce some guiding principles, talking points, and sample activities we can do with students to begin a conversation with them about how we might use AI for learning, not instead of it. This is an interactive, participatory session, so participants should expect to engage in breakout activities where they discuss and share their work with colleagues.
View MoreSupport for Supporters (Northern California)
Oct 19, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM
The Bay School of 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.
View MoreFinance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 18, 2023 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial 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.
View MoreTeaching for Sustainability: Educating for Climate Action and Environmental Justice Across the Curriculum
Oct 17, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM
Bay School of San Francisco
This immersive and comprehensive ongoing program is designed specifically for teachers who are passionate about integrating climate action, environmental literacy, and sustainability across the curriculum.
View MoreSustaining and Evolving Anti-Racist Practices: An Affinity Space for White Educators Leading Change
Oct 17, 2023 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
Join CATDC and fellow independent school educators for a virtual
yearlong anti-racist white affinity space led by Liza Gleason and Rob Wasielewski. Whether you facilitate white antiracist spaces, take part in these spaces, or are curious about building and sustaining critical conversations with other white educators in your school community, this workshop will support your growth.
Emerging Leaders (Northern California)
Oct 13, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Prospect Sierra School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.
View MoreEmerging Leaders (Southern California)
Oct 10, 2023 10:00AM—2:00PM
Marlborough School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. 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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