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
RegisterJoin 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.
View MoreEmerging Leaders (Southern California)
Oct 10, 2023 10:00AM—Apr 23, 2024 2:00PM
Marlborough School
RegisterThis 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 (Northern California)
Oct 13, 2023 9:00AM—Mar 01, 2024 2:00PM
Prospect Sierra School
RegisterThis 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 MoreSustaining and Evolving Anti-Racist Practices: An Affinity Space for White Educators Leading Change
Oct 17, 2023 3:30PM—Apr 30, 2024 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterJoin 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.
Practicing Equity as a Supervisor Series
Nov 01, 2023 2:30PM—Jan 24, 2024 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterParticipants 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.
View More(Re)Introducing the California Indian Genocide in 6-12 Curriculum
Nov 01, 2023 9:00AM—Nov 08, 2023 12:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 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 MoreAffinity Spaces 2.0
Nov 09, 2023 10:00AM—Jan 18, 2024 3:00PM
New Roads School
RegisterThis 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 MoreGender Sexuality Professional Alliance
Nov 14, 2023 9:30AM—Apr 16, 2024 12:30PM
Children's Day School in San Francisco
RegisterThis 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 MoreValues-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Nov 15, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 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 MoreEffective & Equitable Practices and Improving Mathematics Instruction through Sound Assessment Practices: A Series for Mathematics Teachers
Jan 12, 2024 9:00AM—Apr 12, 2024 2:30PM
Pilgrim School
RegisterThis 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.
View MoreValues-Based Responding to Bias Incidents
Feb 06, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.
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