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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
RegisterTake 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.
View MoreAuthentic Assessment and Learning Experiences in the Age of AI
Jun 27, 2026 9:00AM—3:00PM
The Harker School - Upper School Campus
RegisterIn collaboration with The Harker School, this institute will equip you with strategies to design assessments and experiences that capture authentic learning in ways that AI cannot replicate.
View MoreNeurodiversity in Practice: Building Executive Functioning Skills to Support All Learners
Aug 03, 2026 9:00AM—Aug 06, 2026 3:00PM
Campbell Hall School
RegisterCampbell 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.
View MoreWomen Rising: Cultivating Clarity, Courage, and Community
Oct 14, 2026 10:00AM—Apr 28, 2027 2:00PM
Pacific Ridge School
RegisterBorn out of the powerful conversations and reflection at the CATDC Women + Leadership Conference, Women Rising creates an intentional space for women leaders to pause, reflect, and grow together. Beginning with a retreat grounded in nature and community, and continuing with a combination of in-person and virtual convening, participants will explore the inner work of leadership while strengthening the tools needed to lead schools, teams, and communities with confidence and authenticity.
View MoreMaking Thinking Visible: 4 Key Practices to Support Learning
Oct 15, 2026 3:30PM—5:00PM
Virtual
RegisterDrawing 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.
View MoreFinance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation
Oct 21, 2026 2:30PM—Apr 21, 2027 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterThis 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.
View MoreFrom Identity to Impact: A Book Study on Identity Consciousness for Educators
Oct 22, 2026 3:00PM—Feb 11, 2027 5:30PM
Virtual
RegisterGrounded 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.
View MorePartnering with Teachers: Connections & Strategies for Instructional Impact
Nov 03, 2026 9:00AM—Mar 09, 2027 2:00PM
Drew School
RegisterThis 5-session series focuses on the unique role and responsibilities of educators who support classroom teachers directly and indirectly from positions outside of senior administration. These professionals inside schools—curriculum coordinators, learning specialists, instructional coaches, assistant teacher program directors, and others—who inhabit the space between classroom teachers and administrators often work within this context and without the power to change the overarching systems.
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