​This one-day workshop will provide tools and strategies, rooted in evidence-based psychological science, to help educators respond to bias in values-based ways.

This 90-minute, interactive Skill Up! is intended to equip educators with ideas and approaches to centering students voice, agency, and self reflection during challenging times. The current and evolving tragedies, crises and confusion in the world can be disorienting to the classroom and tricky to navigate with students at different ages. How can we create more space for our students to express and think for themselves when we as educators are struggling to process events?

This 3-hour interactive workshop, presented by Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their understanding of California history through a decolonial lens. The session aims to empower educators with culturally sustaining curricula that encompass topics such as the Gold Rush and California Statehood. Educators will learn more about how today’s Native peoples are tirelessly striving to heal and revitalize Indigenous lands and communities.

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.

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.

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.

In this two-day Summer Institute—led by Liza Gleason and Rob Wasielewski, who co-facilitate a group for white educators at Live Oak School in San Francisco—we will explore how to create and sustain the critical, reflective, and connected conversations about whiteness that our schools, students, families, and we, too, so desperately need. This workshop will help you grow your ability to engage other white educators at your school formally and informally.

The 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.

Kick off your summer with this interactive workshop on value, time, and project management. Over the course of four 60-minute sessions, you will learn and, importantly, put into practice, strategies for work efficiency. In addition, Andrew will be available for a follow-up 30-minute Q&A at the end of each session. Andrew Davis, a practitioner and evangelist of multiple productivity and time management tools, as well as a Head of School, will help you find the blend of strategies that will make your summer and 2023-24 school year more productive and rewarding.

This two-day study group is a continuation of the APISA (Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian) Study Group that began in June 2021 and continued through June 2022. This program is an opportunity to connect with other APISA educators in an affinity setting that will provide a safe and generative space to self-reflect, share stories, and learn from each other’s experiences.

This virtual workshop will support educators and school leaders in cultivating a positive culture of mentorship and digital wellness based on understanding the latest research on kids growing up in public. Rather than encourage students to be anxious that a misstep could cause them to be “canceled” or even jeopardize their admission to college, we can reframe the conversation about “digital footprint” to be a character-based conversation.

This virtual Summer Institute is designed to teach educators about the core concepts and foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), practical applications of UDL to lesson design, and how to support flexible, inclusive instruction. Join us to discuss how all learners can meet high expectations.

Burnout is one of the biggest liabilities facing schools. Levels keep increasing for educators and common methods used to address it struggle to yield lasting positive impact. Failure to address burnout will result in increased escalations, increased rates of disengaged employees, and increased turnover. Addressing burnout is also critical to DEI work as burnout has disproportionate effects on educators. In this free Skill Up! session we will explore types of burnout, causes, and sustainable solutions so your school can reimagine its approach.

The histories and present day realities of all racialized groups in our country are complex and interconnected. Alongside inspiring examples of Black-Asian solidarity, there is a pervasive background racial tension among students and between even the closest of colleagues. Understanding that building our capacity for allyship with one another requires us to acknowledge that we are racialized differently–within our schools and our larger society– Nikkia’s freedom dream for AAPI Heritage Month in 2023 includes co-creating a space for Black and APISA educators and allies to come together to cultivate authentic cross-racial solidarity that nourishes, shelters and uplifts us and our communities. This program will break it down, make it real, make connections, and move toward action!

In this virtual workshop, participants will learn to develop strategies and practices that support personal, professional, and organizational goals for staff development. Participants will learn to apply theories on equity-based leadership, management, and decision-making to how they manage and supervise their diverse teams.