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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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Support for Supporters (Northern California)
Oct 20, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
Bay School in San Francisco, CA
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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Building LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools and Communities for Elementary Educators
Oct 19, 2022 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
In this 3-part workshop series , participants will review LGBTQ+ identities, learn how to develop an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, train on how to prevent misgendering and address microaggressions, practice the use of gender-neutral/inclusive language, develop LGBTQ+ inclusive and equitable classroom and school policies and infrastructure, and engage in discussions around personal identity reflection.
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Learning from One Another: Cross-Generational Women’s Leadership
Oct 18, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
Bay School in San Francisco, CA
We invite female-identifying humans in different seasons of their careers to come together to talk, reflect, tell stories, build skills, set goals, break bread, and share laughter. Ideally, we’ll build a cohort representing different career phases and offering sustained support into the future.
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Climate Leaders Alliance
Oct 13, 2022 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This 4-session program will help you and your school get grounded in all the facets of climate change: its global impact and local contexts; its relationship with justice, innovation, and governance, and more. With access to hands-on projects and a diverse set of guest speakers and organizations, you will come away not only empowered to take action and ameliorate climate anxiety, but also with a community of other practitioners working alongside you.
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Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 12, 2022 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial 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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Support for Supporters (Southern California)
Oct 11, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, CA
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.
View More
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.
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 MoreSupport for Supporters (Northern California)
Oct 20, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
Bay School in San Francisco, CA
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.
View MoreBuilding LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools and Communities for Elementary Educators
Oct 19, 2022 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
In this 3-part workshop series , participants will review LGBTQ+ identities, learn how to develop an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, train on how to prevent misgendering and address microaggressions, practice the use of gender-neutral/inclusive language, develop LGBTQ+ inclusive and equitable classroom and school policies and infrastructure, and engage in discussions around personal identity reflection.
View MoreLearning from One Another: Cross-Generational Women’s Leadership
Oct 18, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
Bay School in San Francisco, CA
We invite female-identifying humans in different seasons of their careers to come together to talk, reflect, tell stories, build skills, set goals, break bread, and share laughter. Ideally, we’ll build a cohort representing different career phases and offering sustained support into the future.
View MoreClimate Leaders Alliance
Oct 13, 2022 9:00AM—12:00PM
Virtual
This 4-session program will help you and your school get grounded in all the facets of climate change: its global impact and local contexts; its relationship with justice, innovation, and governance, and more. With access to hands-on projects and a diverse set of guest speakers and organizations, you will come away not only empowered to take action and ameliorate climate anxiety, but also with a community of other practitioners working alongside you.
View MoreFinance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 12, 2022 2:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual
This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial 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 MoreSupport for Supporters (Southern California)
Oct 11, 2022 9:00AM—2:00PM
St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, CA
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.
View More