Intensive
Current & Upcoming
Practical Approaches for Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Sep 30, 2024 9:00AM—Jan 15, 2025 3:00PM
The International School of San Francisco
RegisterEffective coaches and mentors utilize purposeful practices in their relationships and conversations. Join us in this two-part series to learn and apply best practices for engaging in meaningful and productive coaching and mentoring. Through small group discussion, individual reflection, scenario analysis, and role play, attendees will learn to better navigate the current reality and develop skills that increase impact and foster resilience and agency.
View MoreMaking Sense of AI
Oct 15, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 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.
View MoreFostering a Classroom Culture to Support Students’ Mental Health: Strategies and Practices for Classroom Teachers
Oct 21, 2024 9:00AM—3:30PM
Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences
RegisterIn this day-long intensive, educators will learn more about the current mental health climate and how this widespread epidemic is affecting young people. During this program, educators will develop strategies, curricular guidelines, and pedagogical approaches to address how physical health and mental health intersect in classrooms. Educators will leave this workshop with tools to support students in recognizing their stressors, coping mechanisms, nervous systems, and social wellness and to begin facilitating age-appropriate discussions about mental health.
View MoreBeyond Land Acknowledgements in Independent Schools: Building Relationships and Partnerships with Native Governments and Communities
Oct 28, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 3-hour workshop, led by the Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their cultural and historical understanding of Native communities, land acknowledgment practices, and their personal and school relationships with Native peoples.
View MoreTaking Accountability: Interrogating Our Biases to Better Support All Students
Nov 08, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM
Head-Royce School
RegisterIn this workshop, we will develop a deeper understanding of how our own cultural frames of reference inform our beliefs about student behavioral and mental health concerns. We will explore how our biases and narratives around student learning and behavior can affect student outcomes.
View MoreAccountability in the Digital World: Navigating the Complex Social Media Landscape in Partnership with our Students
Nov 12, 2024 2:00PM—Dec 10, 2024 5:00PM
Virtual
RegisterIn this two-part virtual workshop series, participants will have the opportunity to unpack incidents that have taken place at their own schools, discuss how to make lasting repairs in partnership with students, rather than fall into damage control patterns, and to think long-term about what it means for young people to be accountable in the digital world.
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
RegisterIn 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 MoreSchool Culture is a Verb: Finding Kindness and Belonging in Contentious Times
Nov 15, 2024 9:30AM—2:30PM
Crystal Springs Uplands School
RegisterThis 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 MoreEducating to Empower
Nov 21, 2024 3:30PM—Mar 20, 2025 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterThis workshop is a beginner’s guide to becoming a liberatory educator who centers social justice within and beyond their classroom community. We will delve into transformative educational strategies that focus on community building, decentering Western narratives, and fostering critical consciousness.
This comprehensive exploration of liberatory education aims to empower educators to cultivate inclusive learning environments that challenge traditional power dynamics and promote equity and empathy.
Adapting Together
Dec 11, 2024 1:00PM—4:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis session offers practical insights and empathetic guidance for fostering open communication and understanding within the family. Discover tools to strengthen family bonds, promote empathy, and foster a supportive environment for every family member. This program will support educators, parents, grandparents, family, friends, colleagues, social workers, therapists, and community members.
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