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School Culture is a Verb: Finding Kindness and Belonging in Contentious Times

Nov 15, 2024 9:30AM—2:30PM

Crystal Springs Uplands School

This in-person workshop will allow educators to share their experiences and find common ground; elaborate the connections between different cultural challenges involving students and identify root causes; develop a shared vocabulary around the key elements of a healthy school culture; share a framework around an actual problem of practice in small groups, and of course throughout this process we will build community amongst each other.

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Deepening our AI Practice

Oct 31, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This online program is designed for educators who are interested in strengthening their AI skills while exploring how to engage students in productive, ethical use of generative AI tools. By bringing together educators from different schools for learning, discussion, and practice, this program aims to not just deliver knowledge, but share it. Understanding how different schools and people are navigating the ever-changing boundaries of appropriate AI use at school will help us make decisions about the best way to engage our students.

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Partnering with Teachers: Working Inside a School and Outside the Classroom

Oct 24, 2024 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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Making Sense of AI

Oct 15, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.

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Teaching Foundations (Southern California)

Jul 30, 2024—Aug 02, 2024

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School | San Juan Capistrano, CA

The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.

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Teaching Foundations (Northern California)

Jul 29, 2024—Aug 02, 2024

Head-Royce School | Oakland, CA

The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of teaching.

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Facilitating Productive Discourse in the Era of Elections and Divisive Issues 

Apr 19, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM

Virtual

This one-day virtual workshop is designed to give all educators tools to create an inclusive classroom that fosters thoughtful, deliberative dialogue around the pressing cultural and political issues facing our world, with a focus on the coming U.S. elections. Educators are encouraged to attend in teams to help create a more cohesive school-wide approach for engaging in conversations around contested issues.

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Leveling Up Our AI Practice

Apr 17, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This session is designed for educators who are already using AI in their practice and are looking to develop more advanced skills. Through strategic, detailed prompting and providing AI with a knowledge base of resources that we curate, we can teach AI to behave in more specific ways and provide more helpful and reliable responses.

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Making Sense of AI

Mar 18, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This introductory workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.

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Meeting the Needs of all Learners: Introduction to UDL 

Feb 27, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM

Virtual

This introductory course is designed to teach educators about the core concepts and foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), practical applications of UDL to lesson design, and how to support flexible, inclusive instruction.

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Decolonizing Science Curriculum Series

Feb 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

In this interactive and practical series, science educators of all levels will engage with the concept of decolonizing their curricula, as well as reflect on concepts, tools, and resources that can be integrated into specific lessons and content. Shifting away from euro-centric, White supremacist structures and classroom power dynamics, participants will debunk the assumption that this work can happen more naturally in the humanities. Throughout the series, participants will have the opportunity to build or workshop lessons with fellow educators and develop a long-term plan for continuing this work within their departments, divisions, and school communities.

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AI, 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.

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