This workshop is open to all educators, particularly those connected to the recruitment, hiring, and onboarding and mentoring of teachers, administrators, and staff. Through a series of small-group discussions and activities, participants will walk away with practical tips and strategies to reinvigorate ways new faculty and staff members enter a school’s community.

In what ways can educators lay the foundation for all students to engage in mathematics? In this one day workshop PK-12 educators will learn about teacher and student mindsets that develop cultures of mathematical thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. Participants will analyze their belief systems about learning mathematics and understand how their beliefs impact student learning.

In this 2-hour virtual workshop, educators will have a chance to explore resources and methods that allow them to infuse environmental sustainability and climate literacy across their existing curriculum using an inquiry-based approach rooted in project-based learning. Using a sustainability education framework teachers will gain a theoretical perspective with which to view their materials and pedagogy.

Engage with veteran facilitators to learn common facilitation models, avoid pitfalls, and manage polarity. Learn visual facilitation from experts to help people see issues and perspectives more clearly. Through this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to unpack practical strategies on facilitating courageous conversations, practice facilitating, and leave with a visual toolset to deepen their practice.

Leadership is often assessed by one’s words and actions. But the work of being a leader is as much an inward exploration as it is an outward-facing experience. In this two-hour workshop, you will learn skills and tools to attend to yourself while supporting the adults you lead.

Join arts educator Flavia Zuñiga-West to learn how to co-create community in the classroom and understand students’ cultures and identities through a deep dive into the practice and theory of Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies in the Arts, with a focus on anti-bias and anti-racist education.

Join the California Teacher Development Collaborative at the 12th annual Women + Leadership Conference! This one-day event provides inspiration and support for equity-centered women educators in navigating their professional journeys with purpose.

Join Dr. Liza Talusan and Dr. Keith Hinderlie, two experienced DEI professionals and scholars, in this dynamic and interactive workshop to explore institutional and individual frameworks for assessing and addressing red flags in DEI positions.

Trends demonstrate this is the tip of the iceberg making now a critical time for school administrators to invest in proven strategies to mitigate the short and long term fallouts while maximizing the opportunities for Organizational Resilience. In this interactive workshop, we will explore the most up to date trends, strategies, and tools.

In this one day in-person workshop, we will explore what a differentiated classroom looks like using the work of researchers Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Dr. John Hattie. Participants will develop an understanding of differentiation and will gain practical skills and tools to use right away to foster a community of respect, engagement, and learning with their students.

In this two-part workshop, school leaders will explore ways their schools can build cultural competence and practice racial equity, community-building, and solidarity for social justice. In a real world shaped by COVID-19 and the continued sanctioned murder of Black and other racialized people, this work in education is urgent.

Words are powerful. As educators, we need to equip ourselves with strategies to respond when oppressive language is used. Participants will leave with new insights into how to proactively and reactively address racialized situations along with an electronic publication with resources to use at their school sites.

This interactive workshop provides you with the opportunity to be brave, awkward, kind, and more when engaging in social justice conversations with children and adults.

In this workshop participants will gain concrete recommendations to support Organizational Resilience and develop action steps to bring back and implement at their school sites.

Institutions that are looking to be more equitable, diverse and anti-racist are also doing so at the emotional and psychological cost of people of color. Learn to identify the signs for stereotype threat, imposter syndrome, gaslighting and racial trauma. This session is designed to be a safe, brave, supportive space for Black/African American women.