Leadership
Current & Upcoming
The Design Lab: Transforming Professional Learning
Jul 28, 2025 9:00AM—Jul 30, 2025 3:00PM
Jewish Community High School | San Francisco
RegisterTransform 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 MoreCAIS + CATDC Responsive Leadership Workshop: Upholding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Independent Schools
Aug 04, 2025 10:00AM—Aug 06, 2025 12:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis two-day virtual Summer Institute is designed for school leadership teams to meet the moment in upholding and sustaining DEI efforts. We will explore the legal landscape, assess institutional risks, and develop strategies that align with mission and values. Our purpose is to come together to reaffirm and strengthen our shared work fostering equity and inclusion.
View MoreLaunching the Year Artfully: How to Light a Spark and Create Community on Day One
Aug 05, 2025 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThe first days of a new school year are a critical time for creating classroom community and getting students excited to learn, connect, and share the story of who they are. Join Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott for a virtual workshop on using artful practices to explore identity, foster belonging, and set the stage for a joyful year.
View MoreDepartment Chairs Institute
Aug 06, 2025 10:00AM—Aug 08, 2025 3:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThe Department Chairs Institute will guide participants in exploring the multilayered challenges of this unique position and in developing the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to become effective department leaders.
View MoreCoaching Connect: Strategies, Support, and Shared Wisdom
Oct 17, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 24, 2026 2:00PM
Harvard-Westlake Upper School
RegisterThis hybrid ongoing program offers a space for coaches and mentors to evolve their current skills and build community with coaching colleagues. Seasoned coaches will facilitate as you add to your toolkit, refine strategies you can apply immediately, and will differentiate experiences for novice and experienced coaches.
View MoreEmerging Leaders (Northern California)
Oct 17, 2025 9:00AM—Mar 20, 2026 2:00PM
Prospect Sierra Middle School
This ongoing program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles with the tools and strategies to lead more successfully. With a focus on fostering our own personal growth as well as furthering our responsibility for the growth and development of others, participants will identify and hone the skills and habits of effective leaders, including locating one’s authentic leadership style, leveraging position within an institution, fostering high functioning teams, making informed decisions, navigating change and conflict, and creating and maintaining inclusive school environments in predominantly white institutions.
View MoreSupport for Supporters (Southern California)
Oct 21, 2025 9:00AM—Apr 21, 2026 2:00PM
Flintridge Prep
RegisterThis ongoing program offers a small, confidential and welcoming environment designed to foster connections, learning, support and dialogue between Administrative Assistants working at independent schools.
View MoreFinance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 22, 2025 2:30PM—Apr 22, 2026 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial and risk management skills necessary for leadership roles in K12 schools, both day schools and boarding schools. Moving beyond the theoretical and foundational principles of finance, we will ground our work together in the practical tools that educators and schools can use to understand trends, articulate current and potential economic challenges, and develop strategic and action-oriented approaches to sound financial management and financial sustainability.
View MorePractical Approaches for Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Oct 23, 2025 9:00AM—Jan 23, 2026 3:00PM
Presidio, 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 MoreLeadership Fellows Program
Oct 24, 2025 6:00PM—Oct 26, 2025 12:00PM
Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara
RegisterThis year-long fellowship for experienced educators from throughout California supports the unique demands of independent school leaders—the only program of its kind in California!
View MoreEmerging Leaders (Southern California)
Oct 24, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 28, 2026 2:00PM
Polytechnic School
RegisterThis program will provide new and aspiring leaders with tools and strategies to transition successfully into a leadership role. Throughout this program, participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities unique to their roles and schools. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.
View MoreLeading From The Middle: Managing Up, Down, and Across
Oct 29, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 29, 2026 12:00PM
Virtual
RegisterThis program is designed for leaders who want to navigate these complexities with greater confidence and clarity learning with and from a community of practitioners. Together, we’ll tackle the challenges that come with making tough decisions, leading effective meetings, supervising your peers, and giving feedback that builds rather than erodes trust.
View MorePartnering with Teachers: Connection & Strategies for Instructional Support Roles
Nov 04, 2025 9:00AM—Mar 17, 2026 2:00PM
The Carey School
RegisterThis 5-session series focuses on the unique role and responsibilities of educators who support classroom teachers directly and indirectly from positions outside of senior administration. These professionals inside schools—curriculum coordinators, learning specialists, instructional coaches, assistant teacher program directors, and others—who inhabit the space between classroom teachers and administrators often work within this context and without the power to change the overarching systems.
View MoreSupport for Supporters (Northern California)
Nov 06, 2025 9:30AM—Apr 23, 2026 2:30PM
Presidio, San Francisco
RegisterThis ongoing program offers a small, confidential and welcoming environment designed to foster connections, learning, support and dialogue between Administrative Assistants working at independent schools.
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