Participants will learn how to identify, address, and take action to improve school practices, policies, and systems that could be creating inequities, deficits, and barriers for queer and trans students. This will be an informative training that will include many opportunities for discussion and action planning.

This program series will provide an opportunity for mathematics educators to learn or enhance their knowledge and skills in facilitating high-quality mathematics learning in an independent school setting. This series is open for educators across grades Pre-K to Grade 12.

In this virtual workshop, educators and school staff will have the chance to learn about the dimensions and complexities of gender. Participants will reflect on their own genders, explore what they know and what they can learn about transgender identities, and practice pronouns and inclusive language around gender.

​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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.