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Teaching for Sustainability: Educating for Climate Action and Environmental Justice Across the Curriculum
Oct 17, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM
Bay School of San Francisco
This immersive and comprehensive ongoing program is designed specifically for teachers who are passionate about integrating climate action, environmental literacy, and sustainability across the curriculum.
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Sustaining and Evolving Anti-Racist Practices: An Affinity Space for White Educators Leading Change
Oct 17, 2023 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
Join CATDC and fellow independent school educators for a virtual
yearlong anti-racist white affinity space led by Liza Gleason and Rob Wasielewski. Whether you facilitate white antiracist spaces, take part in these spaces, or are curious about building and sustaining critical conversations with other white educators in your school community, this workshop will support your growth.
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Emerging Leaders (Northern California)
Oct 13, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Prospect Sierra School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. 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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Emerging Leaders (Southern California)
Oct 10, 2023 10:00AM—2:00PM
Marlborough School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. 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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Building Blocks of Effective Education: A Workshop Series on Foundational Classroom Best Practices
Oct 05, 2023 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
Join us for a unique opportunity to refresh and renew your classroom practices and teacher toolkit with Damaris Saenz, Middle School English teacher and Department Chair at Harvard-Westlake. This 7-session program will focus on topics that offer opportunities to reflect on current strategies, engage in new practices, and cultivate a supportive learning community.
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Growth Starts Here: Designing a Roadmap for Teacher Development through SuperVision, Feedback, and Evaluation
Oct 03, 2023 10:00AM—2:00PM
Archer School for Girls
This program leads participants through an active roadmap for reimagining their schools’ approach to teacher SuperVision and growth-focused feedback. Develop new models of teacher mentorship and support to navigate and embrace post-remote shifts in teaching and learning.
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Gender Sexuality Professional Alliance
Apr 18, 2023 9:30AM—12:30PM
Head-Royce School
This working group of LGBTQ+* professionals will provide a unique opportunity for educators to connect in a confidential, respectful, and relaxed atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to develop a network of LGBTQ+ educators which continues well beyond our three meetings.
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The Why and How of Racial Affinity Groups: Supporting Academic Success and Healthy Identity Development
Mar 21, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM
New Roads School
This three-part hybrid series will provide practical tools, resources, templates, strategies, and mutual support for educators who are currently facilitating, or considering implementing, racial affinity groups. Participants will explore affinity group curriculum topics including scope and sequence, sample model structures and frameworks.
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The Critical Foundation: Developing and Deepening Anti-Bias Education in Early Childhood Practices
Jan 30, 2023 10:00AM—11:00AM
Hybrid
This ongoing program is designed to meet early childhood educators where they are on their journey to integrating anti-bias work into early childhood learning. The blended, ongoing format of the program strives to build community and create space for the reflective practices necessary when committing to this critical work.
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Beyond Inclusion and Support: Racial Equity in Learning Services
Jan 20, 2023 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
Together we will create space for conversations about leveraging our roles and positionalities to advance equity in our school practices, procedures, and systems. Participants will tap into their foundational strengths and navigate their emotions as they tackle racial challenges and seek to center equity within learning services.
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Leaders of Color: A Professional Learning Community for New and Returning Participants
Jan 17, 2023 4:00PM—6:00PM
Hybrid
This professional learning community is an opportunity for leaders of color in independent schools in California and the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS) to reflect on and aspire forward in their journeys as leaders. Open to returning and new participants, this leadership professional learning community is for experienced, emerging and questioning leaders of color at all stages of their careers.
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Now We’re Talking! Innovative Strategies for World Language Instruction
Nov 01, 2022 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This five-part series of interactive workshops will help world language teachers hone their high-leverage instructional practices in service of students’ developing communicative proficiency in the three modes of communication.
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Leadership Fellows Program
Oct 27, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
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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Leveraging Our Learning for More Effective Coaching and Mentoring 
Oct 26, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
Town School for Boys and French American International School in San Francisco, CA
This 5-session series is for novice and experienced coaches who wish to expand their tools and techniques to best equip teachers in their professional growth. Join us to learn and apply best practices for engaging in meaningful and productive coaching and mentoring.
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Enriching our Practice, Connecting our Paths: Women’s Group for Associate and Assistant Heads of School
Oct 21, 2022 10:00AM—11:00AM
Hybrid
Led by two experienced leaders in Associate and Assistant Head roles, the CATDC Assistant/ Associate Heads group will build community for women-identified leaders as they navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with these varied senior leadership positions.
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Teaching for Sustainability: Educating for Climate Action and Environmental Justice Across the Curriculum
Oct 17, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM
Bay School of San Francisco
This immersive and comprehensive ongoing program is designed specifically for teachers who are passionate about integrating climate action, environmental literacy, and sustainability across the curriculum.
View MoreSustaining and Evolving Anti-Racist Practices: An Affinity Space for White Educators Leading Change
Oct 17, 2023 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
Join CATDC and fellow independent school educators for a virtual
yearlong anti-racist white affinity space led by Liza Gleason and Rob Wasielewski. Whether you facilitate white antiracist spaces, take part in these spaces, or are curious about building and sustaining critical conversations with other white educators in your school community, this workshop will support your growth.
Emerging Leaders (Northern California)
Oct 13, 2023 9:00AM—2:00PM
Prospect Sierra School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.
View MoreEmerging Leaders (Southern California)
Oct 10, 2023 10:00AM—2:00PM
Marlborough School
This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.
View MoreBuilding Blocks of Effective Education: A Workshop Series on Foundational Classroom Best Practices
Oct 05, 2023 3:30PM—5:30PM
Virtual
Join us for a unique opportunity to refresh and renew your classroom practices and teacher toolkit with Damaris Saenz, Middle School English teacher and Department Chair at Harvard-Westlake. This 7-session program will focus on topics that offer opportunities to reflect on current strategies, engage in new practices, and cultivate a supportive learning community.
View MoreGrowth Starts Here: Designing a Roadmap for Teacher Development through SuperVision, Feedback, and Evaluation
Oct 03, 2023 10:00AM—2:00PM
Archer School for Girls
This program leads participants through an active roadmap for reimagining their schools’ approach to teacher SuperVision and growth-focused feedback. Develop new models of teacher mentorship and support to navigate and embrace post-remote shifts in teaching and learning.
View MoreGender Sexuality Professional Alliance
Apr 18, 2023 9:30AM—12:30PM
Head-Royce School
This working group of LGBTQ+* professionals will provide a unique opportunity for educators to connect in a confidential, respectful, and relaxed atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to develop a network of LGBTQ+ educators which continues well beyond our three meetings.
View MoreThe Why and How of Racial Affinity Groups: Supporting Academic Success and Healthy Identity Development
Mar 21, 2023 10:00AM—3:00PM
New Roads School
This three-part hybrid series will provide practical tools, resources, templates, strategies, and mutual support for educators who are currently facilitating, or considering implementing, racial affinity groups. Participants will explore affinity group curriculum topics including scope and sequence, sample model structures and frameworks.
View MoreThe Critical Foundation: Developing and Deepening Anti-Bias Education in Early Childhood Practices
Jan 30, 2023 10:00AM—11:00AM
Hybrid
This ongoing program is designed to meet early childhood educators where they are on their journey to integrating anti-bias work into early childhood learning. The blended, ongoing format of the program strives to build community and create space for the reflective practices necessary when committing to this critical work.
View MoreBeyond Inclusion and Support: Racial Equity in Learning Services
Jan 20, 2023 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
Together we will create space for conversations about leveraging our roles and positionalities to advance equity in our school practices, procedures, and systems. Participants will tap into their foundational strengths and navigate their emotions as they tackle racial challenges and seek to center equity within learning services.
View MoreLeaders of Color: A Professional Learning Community for New and Returning Participants
Jan 17, 2023 4:00PM—6:00PM
Hybrid
This professional learning community is an opportunity for leaders of color in independent schools in California and the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS) to reflect on and aspire forward in their journeys as leaders. Open to returning and new participants, this leadership professional learning community is for experienced, emerging and questioning leaders of color at all stages of their careers.
View MoreNow We’re Talking! Innovative Strategies for World Language Instruction
Nov 01, 2022 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This five-part series of interactive workshops will help world language teachers hone their high-leverage instructional practices in service of students’ developing communicative proficiency in the three modes of communication.
View MoreLeadership Fellows Program
Oct 27, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
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!
View MoreLeveraging Our Learning for More Effective Coaching and Mentoring 
Oct 26, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
Town School for Boys and French American International School in San Francisco, CA
This 5-session series is for novice and experienced coaches who wish to expand their tools and techniques to best equip teachers in their professional growth. Join us to learn and apply best practices for engaging in meaningful and productive coaching and mentoring.
View MoreEnriching our Practice, Connecting our Paths: Women’s Group for Associate and Assistant Heads of School
Oct 21, 2022 10:00AM—11:00AM
Hybrid
Led by two experienced leaders in Associate and Assistant Head roles, the CATDC Assistant/ Associate Heads group will build community for women-identified leaders as they navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with these varied senior leadership positions.
View More