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Transformative Justice for Queer and Trans Students

Jan 24, 2024 9:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

Participants will learn how to identify, address, and take action to improve school practices, policies, and systems that could be creating inequities, deficits, and barriers for queer and trans students. This will be an informative training that will include many opportunities for discussion and action planning.

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Gender Basics for Educators

Dec 06, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

In this virtual workshop, educators and school staff will have the chance to learn about the dimensions and complexities of gender. Participants will reflect on their own genders, explore what they know and what they can learn about transgender identities, and practice pronouns and inclusive language around gender.

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Skill Up! Centering Student Voices During Challenging Times

Nov 15, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

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?

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Affinity Spaces 2.0

Nov 09, 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 racial affinity groups. Participants will engage in practices that support their facilitation of affinity spaces, develop affinity group curriculum, including scope and sequence, to support student and adult affinity spaces at their schools, and work through scenarios that arise when implementing and sustaining affinity space structures and frameworks.

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Support for Supporters (Northern California)

Oct 19, 2023 9:30AM—2:30PM

The Bay School of San Francisco

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 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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From Busy to Intentional: Managing Your Work Life for Greater Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Joy

Jun 20, 2023 2:30PM—Jun 23, 2023 4:00PM

Virtual

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.

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Growing Up in Public: Mentoring our Students on the New Digital Milestones

Jun 15, 2023 9:00AM—11:00AM

Virtual

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.

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Skill Up! Reimagining Approaches to Burnout

May 17, 2023 1:00PM—2:00PM

Virtual

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.

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ABS (Asian & Black Solidarity) Power Up: Collective Freedom Dreaming for Black and APISA Educators and Allies 

May 16, 2023 9:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

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!

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Puppet Power: Engaging PreK-2nd Graders in SEL and Identity Development

Mar 22, 2023 9:00AM—3:00PM

Children’s Day School | San Francisco, CA

In this one-day workshop, participants will explore the ways that puppets and stuffed animals can be used in the classroom as tools to support learning of challenging concepts, and develop a lesson plan or activity integrating puppets and stuffed animals.

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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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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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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.

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