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Teaching Foundations (Southern California)
Jul 29, 2025 9:00AM—Aug 01, 2025 12:00PM
Marlborough School
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, 2025—Aug 01, 2025
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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The Design Lab: Transforming Professional Learning
Jul 28, 2025 9:00AM—Jul 30, 2025 3:00PM
Jewish Community High School | San Francisco
Transform your meetings, professional development, and facilitation with The Design Lab workshop series. Over three days, you’ll explore evidence-based practices that breathe new life into your meetings, professional development sessions, and group facilitation, and you’ll come away with practical tools you can use right away.
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Leveraging UDL 3.0 to Increase Engagement
Jul 25, 2025 9:30AM—3:30PM
Virtual
Join us for a full-day virtual workshop to gain familiarity with UDL and the major shifts associated with the recent 3.0 updates. We will then reconnect for three, 90-minute virtual sessions across the school year to focus on the design process, applying and reflecting on UDL-aligned strategies, and addressing relevant problems of practice.
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Making Sense of AI
Apr 21, 2025 9:00AM—3:00PM
Riviera Ridge School
What is our job as educators in a world being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence (AI)? How do we embrace the potential of this powerful tool while staying aware of, and hopefully avoiding, its pitfalls? This introductory workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI.
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Retreat for Women in Senior Administrator Positions
Apr 13, 2025 12:30PM—Apr 15, 2025 12:00PM
Santa Barbara Inn
Led by experienced senior leaders in diverse roles, CATDC’s retreat for women in senior leadership positions will build community for women-identified leaders as they navigate the opportunities and challenges of varied positions. Facilitators will design a retreat that addresses the inherent complexity of senior leadership work and offers participants opportunities to share experiences, discuss their school’s dynamics, and provide one another with support.
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Supporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education
Mar 27, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Phillips Brooks School
This day-long workshop for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development. Participants will learn to create environments that reduce overstimulation and support emotional regulation while integrating strategies to enhance fine motor, gross motor, and visual motor skills essential for student success.
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Exploring Race & Identity as White Educators in Community
Mar 21, 2025 9:00AM—3:00PM
Katherine Delmar Burke School
This one-day workshop is a supportive space for white-identifying educators and staff to explore how our racial identity shapes our daily work in schools. Antiracism requires this foundational work, and when we do it together, we grow and change and build the community we need to keep going.
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Executive Function Strategies for Student Success: Supporting Neurodiverse Learners in Grades TK-5
Mar 19, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Pilgrim School
This interactive 1-day workshop is designed to equip Grades K-5 educators with the insights and resources needed to support and enhance the development of executive function (EF) skills in their students. By integrating these skills into the classroom curriculum, teachers will help improve overall academic performance and promote positive classroom behaviors.
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Men of Color + Leadership: Trailblazing Pathways For Success and Community
Mar 10, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Polytechnic School
Men of Color + Leadership is dedicated to creating connections and establishing a supportive community that understands the unique joys, challenges, and opportunities faced by leaders who are men of color in independent schools. The workshop will facilitate conversations specific to attendees’ current roles and exchange insights that can directly impact their day-to-day responsibilities. Participants will also receive meaningful insight regarding their own personal growth and professional advancement.
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Transformative Teaching Conference
Mar 01, 2025 8:00AM—5:00PM
Crystal Springs Uplands School
In collaboration with Crystal Springs Uplands School, the inaugural Transformative Teaching Conference @ Crystal invites teachers, innovators, and thought leaders to participate in a day-long conference dedicated to transformative teaching practices. The goal of Transformative Teaching is to increase students’ mastery of skills and concepts, while at the same time cultivating in students a love of learning and positive sense of self and ability. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from the dynamic insights, experiences, and research of your peers that challenge conventional approaches and inspire all of us to enhance our teaching methodologies.
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Women + Leadership Conference
Feb 07, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Futures Without Violence in San Francisco
Join the California Teacher Development Collaborative for our annual Women + Leadership Conference! This powerful event brings together women educators from our schools to celebrate our journeys and strengthen our individual and collective impact. In celebration of CATDC’s 25th year, we are hosting one statewide gathering on February 7, 2025 in San Francisco at Futures Without Violence.
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Doing “The Work”: Community, Connection, and Support for DEIB Practitioners
Nov 15, 2024 ALL DAY
Prospect Sierra Lower School
Facilitated by members of The San Francisco Equity Leaders (SFEL), a cohort of DEI Directors from Bay Area independent schools and consultants, this ongoing program is intended for people who are doing DEIB work in official and “unofficial” roles. It is meant to provide participants with a safe and supportive community to reflect, share stories, and learn from each other.
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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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Beyond the ABC’s of ADHD and Executive Functioning: Empowering Neurodivergent Children and Teens for Success in School and Life
Nov 12, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, participants will learn concrete strategies to meet neurodiverse learners where they are and help them strengthen essential executive functioning and social-emotional skills.
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Teaching Foundations (Southern California)
Jul 29, 2025 9:00AM—Aug 01, 2025 12:00PM
Marlborough School
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.
View MoreTeaching Foundations (Northern California)
Jul 29, 2025—Aug 01, 2025
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.
View MoreThe Design Lab: Transforming Professional Learning
Jul 28, 2025 9:00AM—Jul 30, 2025 3:00PM
Jewish Community High School | San Francisco
Transform your meetings, professional development, and facilitation with The Design Lab workshop series. Over three days, you’ll explore evidence-based practices that breathe new life into your meetings, professional development sessions, and group facilitation, and you’ll come away with practical tools you can use right away.
View MoreLeveraging UDL 3.0 to Increase Engagement
Jul 25, 2025 9:30AM—3:30PM
Virtual
Join us for a full-day virtual workshop to gain familiarity with UDL and the major shifts associated with the recent 3.0 updates. We will then reconnect for three, 90-minute virtual sessions across the school year to focus on the design process, applying and reflecting on UDL-aligned strategies, and addressing relevant problems of practice.
View MoreMaking Sense of AI
Apr 21, 2025 9:00AM—3:00PM
Riviera Ridge School
What is our job as educators in a world being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence (AI)? How do we embrace the potential of this powerful tool while staying aware of, and hopefully avoiding, its pitfalls? This introductory workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI.
View MoreRetreat for Women in Senior Administrator Positions
Apr 13, 2025 12:30PM—Apr 15, 2025 12:00PM
Santa Barbara Inn
Led by experienced senior leaders in diverse roles, CATDC’s retreat for women in senior leadership positions will build community for women-identified leaders as they navigate the opportunities and challenges of varied positions. Facilitators will design a retreat that addresses the inherent complexity of senior leadership work and offers participants opportunities to share experiences, discuss their school’s dynamics, and provide one another with support.
View MoreSupporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education
Mar 27, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Phillips Brooks School
This day-long workshop for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development. Participants will learn to create environments that reduce overstimulation and support emotional regulation while integrating strategies to enhance fine motor, gross motor, and visual motor skills essential for student success.
View MoreExploring Race & Identity as White Educators in Community
Mar 21, 2025 9:00AM—3:00PM
Katherine Delmar Burke School
This one-day workshop is a supportive space for white-identifying educators and staff to explore how our racial identity shapes our daily work in schools. Antiracism requires this foundational work, and when we do it together, we grow and change and build the community we need to keep going.
View MoreExecutive Function Strategies for Student Success: Supporting Neurodiverse Learners in Grades TK-5
Mar 19, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Pilgrim School
This interactive 1-day workshop is designed to equip Grades K-5 educators with the insights and resources needed to support and enhance the development of executive function (EF) skills in their students. By integrating these skills into the classroom curriculum, teachers will help improve overall academic performance and promote positive classroom behaviors.
View MoreMen of Color + Leadership: Trailblazing Pathways For Success and Community
Mar 10, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Polytechnic School
Men of Color + Leadership is dedicated to creating connections and establishing a supportive community that understands the unique joys, challenges, and opportunities faced by leaders who are men of color in independent schools. The workshop will facilitate conversations specific to attendees’ current roles and exchange insights that can directly impact their day-to-day responsibilities. Participants will also receive meaningful insight regarding their own personal growth and professional advancement.
View MoreTransformative Teaching Conference
Mar 01, 2025 8:00AM—5:00PM
Crystal Springs Uplands School
In collaboration with Crystal Springs Uplands School, the inaugural Transformative Teaching Conference @ Crystal invites teachers, innovators, and thought leaders to participate in a day-long conference dedicated to transformative teaching practices. The goal of Transformative Teaching is to increase students’ mastery of skills and concepts, while at the same time cultivating in students a love of learning and positive sense of self and ability. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from the dynamic insights, experiences, and research of your peers that challenge conventional approaches and inspire all of us to enhance our teaching methodologies.
View MoreWomen + Leadership Conference
Feb 07, 2025 9:00AM—4:00PM
Futures Without Violence in San Francisco
Join the California Teacher Development Collaborative for our annual Women + Leadership Conference! This powerful event brings together women educators from our schools to celebrate our journeys and strengthen our individual and collective impact. In celebration of CATDC’s 25th year, we are hosting one statewide gathering on February 7, 2025 in San Francisco at Futures Without Violence.
View MoreDoing “The Work”: Community, Connection, and Support for DEIB Practitioners
Nov 15, 2024 ALL DAY
Prospect Sierra Lower School
Facilitated by members of The San Francisco Equity Leaders (SFEL), a cohort of DEI Directors from Bay Area independent schools and consultants, this ongoing program is intended for people who are doing DEIB work in official and “unofficial” roles. It is meant to provide participants with a safe and supportive community to reflect, share stories, and learn from each other.
View MoreSchool 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.
View MoreBeyond the ABC’s of ADHD and Executive Functioning: Empowering Neurodivergent Children and Teens for Success in School and Life
Nov 12, 2024 9:00AM—3:00PM
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, participants will learn concrete strategies to meet neurodiverse learners where they are and help them strengthen essential executive functioning and social-emotional skills.
View More