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From Busy to Intentional: Leveraging Analog, Digital, and AI tools to Bring Balance to Your Work Life

Jun 16, 2026 2:00PM—Jun 18, 2026 4:00PM

Virtual

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Take control of your time and shift from reactive to strategic in this interactive workshop designed to help busy educators work more efficiently. You’ll practice proven strategies for managing projects, email, and digital workspaces while integrating generative AI tools to streamline tasks. Led by Head of School Andrew Davis, this hands-on experience will equip you with practical systems to make your work more productive and rewarding.

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Effective Group Facilitation

Jun 23, 2026 10:00AM—Jun 25, 2026 12:00PM

Virtual

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You will leave the 3-session Summer Institute with new tactics and a personalized work plan containing strategies to improve your group facilitation techniques. This workshop is transformative for anyone who leads groups of colleagues or students, whether teachers, department chairs, academic deans, or school heads. We also highly encourage you to consider attending the workshop with a team from your school.

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Neurodiversity in Practice: Building Executive Functioning Skills to Support All Learners

Aug 03, 2026 9:00AM—Aug 06, 2026 3:00PM

Campbell Hall School

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Campbell Hall and CATDC are partnering to co-create a two-part professional learning experience that centers educators’ intentional development of students’ executive functioning (EF) skills across grade levels and disciplines. Grounded in a neurodiversity-affirming framework and led by expert facilitator Lindsay Astor Grant, founder of Learning Redesigned, the program positions executive functioning as a universal set of skills that strengthen academic engagement, emotional regulation, collaboration, and lifelong learning for all students.

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Making Thinking Visible: 4 Key Practices to Support Learning

Oct 15, 2026 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

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Drawing on the book The Power of Making Thinking Visible, this interactive workshop with author and educational leader Ron Ritchhart will provide participants with the chance to learn how teachers at all levels can make students’ thinking visible through 4 key strategies: thinking routines, documentation, questioning, and listening. The effective use of these practices can transform classrooms into cultures of thinking.

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

Oct 21, 2026 2:30PM—Apr 21, 2027 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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From Identity to Impact: A Book Study on Identity Consciousness for Educators

Oct 22, 2026 3:00PM—Feb 11, 2027 5:30PM

Virtual

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Grounded in Liza Talusan’s The Identity-Conscious Educator, this ongoing book group invites independent school educators into structured, reflective, and actionable exploration of identity and its impact on professional practice. It approaches identity as formative and centers educator growth as a pathway to belonging and culture shift in independent schools.

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Support for Supporters (Southern California)

Oct 27, 2026 10:00AM—Apr 13, 2027 2:00PM

Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences

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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

Breaking the Boy Code Book Talk

May 05, 2026 3:30PM—4:30PM

Virtual

Support for Supporters (Northern California)

Nov 06, 2025 9:30AM—2:30PM

Presidio, San Francisco