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Adapting Together
Dec 11, 2024 1:00PM—4:00PM
Virtual
This session offers practical insights and empathetic guidance for fostering open communication and understanding within families with transgender, nonbinary, or gender-diverse youth. Discover tools to strengthen family bonds, promote empathy, and foster a supportive environment for every family member throughout their unique journey. This program will support educators, parents, grandparents, family, friends, colleagues, social workers, therapists, and community members.
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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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Beyond Land Acknowledgements in Independent Schools: Building Relationships and Partnerships with Native Governments and Communities
Oct 28, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 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.
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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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Fostering Authentic Asian and Black Solidarity in Divisive Times, Moving Toward Action
May 23, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive is designed for educators seeking grounded understanding and practical support to negotiate the complex racial dynamics resulting from how Black and Asian communities in the United States have been historically (and still are!) pitted against one another as a strategy for upholding racial oppression.
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Onboarding for Belonging and Connection: Building, Iterating, and Evolving Your School’s Process
May 08, 2024 2:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
This virtual workshop will offer tools and strategies that emphasize care and belonging, supporting new and returning participants in redesigning their onboarding processes to meet the unique needs of their school cultures and communities.
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From Stress to Strategy: How to Fearlessly Tackle School Challenges (like Admissions) Through a Strength-Based Lens
May 01, 2024 10:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
Using admissions as an example, we will in this virtual intensive explore how to move from a deficit to a strength-based model and generate new ideas and strategies so our organizations can thrive.
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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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Unlocking Joy at Work: The Power of Your Personal Values
Mar 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this special workshop for CATDC, Mission Minded Founding Partner & Leadership Coach Jennie Winton will lead you through a series of exercises and conversations to help you tap into what you truly value to improve both your well-being and impact. When you’re more connected and joyful at work, everyone around you benefits, too.
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Supporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education Through Sensory Regulation, Classroom Design, and Motor Development
Mar 07, 2024 9:00AM—4:00PM
Hollywood Schoolhouse
This one-day intensive for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development.
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Equitable Hiring Practices in Independent Schools
Feb 29, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual intensive, participants will review policies, California and Federal laws, and statutes to ensure adherence to search and hiring procedures. Using data, research, best practices, and case studies, participants will learn equitable hiring practices for hiring committees with alignment to the CAIS Strategic Plan (2023 – 2027) Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging Principles.
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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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Adapting Together
Dec 11, 2024 1:00PM—4:00PM
Virtual
This session offers practical insights and empathetic guidance for fostering open communication and understanding within families with transgender, nonbinary, or gender-diverse youth. Discover tools to strengthen family bonds, promote empathy, and foster a supportive environment for every family member throughout their unique journey. This program will support educators, parents, grandparents, family, friends, colleagues, social workers, therapists, and community members.
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 MoreBeyond Land Acknowledgements in Independent Schools: Building Relationships and Partnerships with Native Governments and Communities
Oct 28, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 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 MoreMaking 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.
View MoreFostering Authentic Asian and Black Solidarity in Divisive Times, Moving Toward Action
May 23, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This virtual intensive is designed for educators seeking grounded understanding and practical support to negotiate the complex racial dynamics resulting from how Black and Asian communities in the United States have been historically (and still are!) pitted against one another as a strategy for upholding racial oppression.
View MoreOnboarding for Belonging and Connection: Building, Iterating, and Evolving Your School’s Process
May 08, 2024 2:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
This virtual workshop will offer tools and strategies that emphasize care and belonging, supporting new and returning participants in redesigning their onboarding processes to meet the unique needs of their school cultures and communities.
View MoreFrom Stress to Strategy: How to Fearlessly Tackle School Challenges (like Admissions) Through a Strength-Based Lens
May 01, 2024 10:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
Using admissions as an example, we will in this virtual intensive explore how to move from a deficit to a strength-based model and generate new ideas and strategies so our organizations can thrive.
View MoreFacilitating 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.
View MoreLeveling 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.
View MoreMaking 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.
View MoreUnlocking Joy at Work: The Power of Your Personal Values
Mar 07, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this special workshop for CATDC, Mission Minded Founding Partner & Leadership Coach Jennie Winton will lead you through a series of exercises and conversations to help you tap into what you truly value to improve both your well-being and impact. When you’re more connected and joyful at work, everyone around you benefits, too.
View MoreSupporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education Through Sensory Regulation, Classroom Design, and Motor Development
Mar 07, 2024 9:00AM—4:00PM
Hollywood Schoolhouse
This one-day intensive for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development.
View MoreEquitable Hiring Practices in Independent Schools
Feb 29, 2024 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
In this virtual intensive, participants will review policies, California and Federal laws, and statutes to ensure adherence to search and hiring procedures. Using data, research, best practices, and case studies, participants will learn equitable hiring practices for hiring committees with alignment to the CAIS Strategic Plan (2023 – 2027) Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging Principles.
View MoreMeeting 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.
View More