Ongoing Program

Current & Upcoming

Foundations in Practice: Tools and Community for Assistant Teachers

Oct 14, 2025 8:30AM—Apr 21, 2026 10:00AM

Virtual

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This virtual ongoing program offers practical tools and strategies to enhance the work of assistant teachers in the classroom, with a focus on effective collaboration, student engagement, and responsive support. In addition to skill-building, the ongoing sessions will provide a space for assistant teachers to share experiences, ask questions, and build a strong sense of community with colleagues throughout the state.

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Practical Approaches for Effective Coaching and Mentoring (Southern California)

Oct 17, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 24, 2026 2:00PM

Harvard-Westlake Upper School

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This 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.

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Emerging 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.

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Support for Supporters (Southern California)

Oct 21, 2025 9:00AM—Apr 21, 2026 2:00PM

Flintridge Prep

This 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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Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation

Oct 22, 2025 2:30PM—Apr 22, 2026 5:30PM

Virtual

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This 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.

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Leadership Fellows Program

Oct 24, 2025 6:00PM—Oct 26, 2025 12:00PM

Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara

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This 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!

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Emerging Leaders (Southern California)

Oct 24, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 28, 2026 2:00PM

Polytechnic School

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This 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.

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Leading From The Middle: Managing Up, Down, and Across

Oct 29, 2025 10:00AM—Apr 29, 2026 12:00PM

Virtual

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This 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.

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Partnering with Teachers: Connection & Strategies for Instructional Support Roles

Nov 04, 2025 9:00AM—Mar 17, 2026 2:00PM

The Carey School

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This 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.

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Support for Supporters (Northern California)

Nov 06, 2025 9:30AM—Apr 23, 2026 2:30PM

Presidio, San Francisco

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This 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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Past | Archive

Deepening our AI Practice

Oct 31, 2024 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

Leadership Fellows Program

Oct 25, 2024 6:00PM—Oct 27, 2024 12:00PM

Santa Barbara Inn

Anti-Racist White Affinity Space Online Cohort

Oct 24, 2024 3:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

Emerging Leaders (Northern California)

Oct 18, 2024 9:00AM—2:00PM

Prospect Sierra Middle School