Equity & Inclusion

Current & Upcoming

Building Blocks of Effective Education: A Workshop Series on Foundational Classroom Best Practices

Oct 05, 2023 3:30PM—Apr 18, 2024 5:30PM

Virtual

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Join us for a unique opportunity to refresh and renew your classroom practices and teacher toolkit with Damaris Saenz, Middle School English teacher and Department Chair at Harvard-Westlake. This 7-session program will focus on topics that offer opportunities to reflect on current strategies, engage in new practices, and cultivate a supportive learning community.

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Emerging Leaders (Southern California)

Oct 10, 2023 10:00AM—Apr 23, 2024 2:00PM

Marlborough School

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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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Emerging Leaders (Northern California)

Oct 13, 2023 9:00AM—Mar 01, 2024 2:00PM

Prospect Sierra School

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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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Sustaining and Evolving Anti-Racist Practices: An Affinity Space for White Educators Leading Change

Oct 17, 2023 3:30PM—Apr 30, 2024 5:30PM

Virtual

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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.

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Practicing Equity as a Supervisor Series

Nov 01, 2023 2:30PM—Jan 24, 2024 5:30PM

Virtual

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Participants of this virtual series will apply equity-based leadership, management, and decision-making theories to build management and supervision strategies. These strategies will support their engagement with diverse teams using pre-session surveys, case studies, and work time within the program to build a unique management toolkit.

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(Re)Introducing the California Indian Genocide in 6-12 Curriculum

Nov 01, 2023 9:00AM—Nov 08, 2023 12:00PM

Virtual

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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.

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Affinity Spaces 2.0

Nov 09, 2023 10:00AM—Jan 18, 2024 3:00PM

New Roads School

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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.

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Gender Sexuality Professional Alliance

Nov 14, 2023 9:30AM—Apr 16, 2024 12:30PM

Children's Day School in San Francisco

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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.

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Gender Sexuality Professional Alliance

Apr 18, 2023 9:30AM—12:30PM

Head-Royce School

Skill Up! Decolonizing STEM Curricula

Apr 12, 2023 3:30PM—4:30PM

Virtual