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From Busy to Intentional: Managing Your Work Life for Greater Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Joy
Jun 21, 2022 2:30PM—Jun 24, 2022 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.
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Competency Works! Leading Competency-Based Learning Initiatives
Jun 15, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
Marin Academy
Competency-based education is an approach to learning that ensures all learners develop explicitly defined, measurable, and transferable essential skills and dispositions by making continuous progress toward competency. In this 6-hour Summer Institute, participants will spend the morning hearing the story of one’s school’s process and learnings, with opportunities for engagement and connection. In the afternoon, individuals and school teams will work to chart a course for their own school’s journey.
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APISA Study Group: Deconstructing the “Model Minority” Myth Using Our Lived Experience
May 05, 2022 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
This three-day series is a continuation of the APISA (Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian) Study Group that began last June 2021. 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.
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Identity Conscious Facilitation: Race and Identity in the Art of Facilitation
Aug 09, 2021 1:00PM—Aug 10, 2021 1:00PM
Virtual
Identity-Conscious Facilitation centers on the exploration and clarification of identity consciousness and the impact on facilitation. Because identity informs and impacts how we act, interact, and see the world around us, it is important that facilitators develop a deep sense of identity as they work with individuals, groups, adults, and students.
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The Art of Leading Educators
Aug 03, 2021 9:00AM—Aug 05, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
This leadership institute is aimed at building the skills of educators who supervise and support teams at their schools. Through a neurobiology and social science research lens, we can deepen our understanding of the critical factors needed to create environments that support individual and organizational resiliency.
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Teaching Foundations
Aug 03, 2021 10:00AM—Aug 06, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of classroom teaching.
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Department Chairs Institute
Aug 02, 2021 9:00AM—Aug 04, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
The Department Chairs Institute will guide participants in exploring the multilayered challenges of this unique position and in developing the knowledge, skills and strategies to become effective department leaders.
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Restorative Practices: Repairing Harm, Promoting Healing
Jul 27, 2021 9:00AM—Jul 28, 2021 12:30PM
Virtual
Given the current social and political landscape, this workshop will explore the intersection between restorative practices, identity, resiliency, and community healing in the face of racial trauma. During this two-session institute, participants will receive tools and resources, engage in small group discussion, and have the opportunity for individual reflection and application.
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Bringing our Full Selves to the Work of Being White Anti-Racists: A Time to Pause, Reflect, and Reintegrate
Jul 14, 2021 9:00AM—Jul 15, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
In this two day intensive, we’ll spend time unpacking whiteness in courageous, reflective, and somatic ways, exploring our identities and how they have been historically constructed and reconstructed. We’ll slow down and make space for the learning, processing, and questions we have after this year and whatever came before.
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APISA Study Group: Deconstructing the “Model Minority” Myth Using Our Lived Experience
Jun 28, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 30, 2021 11:00AM
Virtual
This three-day series 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.
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Ensuring Organizational Resilience: Upskilling, Assessments, DEI, and Recovery
Jun 17, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 18, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
This interactive Summer Institute will provide opportunities for connection, collaboration, and reflection as the See Change team leads you through the design of a recovery strategy for next year. This process will support your organization in retaining employees and families, increasing effectiveness, and cultivating innovation.
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Creating Cultures of Thinking and Empowered Learning
Jun 15, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 16, 2021 3:00PM
Virtual
This Summer Institute grows out of the explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and make thinking visible. When used powerfully, thinking routines not only provide teachers with a set of practices to engage students, but help advance a broader goal to create classrooms where students’ thinking is visible, valued, and actively promoted.
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Bringing Humanity to Virtual Spaces
Aug 14, 2020 9:00AM—11:00AM
In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn what co-creating classroom culture can look like in online spaces, discuss opportunities available with virtual learning (while being realistic about some of the challenges), practice with some tools for connection and co-creation of classroom culture, and design next steps to prepare for the school year.
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Mastering Group Facilitation: Southern California (CATDC Online)
Aug 10, 2020 9:00AM—Aug 12, 2020 12:00PM
This 3-day Summer Institute is transformative for anyone who leads groups of colleagues or students, especially teachers, administrators, and department chairs. Participants will gain new tools, tactics, and a personalized work plan containing strategies to improve their facilitation techniques.
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How to Manage Conflict in Virtual School Environments
Aug 10, 2020 9:00AM—Aug 12, 2020 11:00AM
In this two-session online workshop you will deepen your understanding of the neuroscience behind escalations and build skills to effectively de-escalate and prevent escalations for more successful relationship management.
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From Busy to Intentional: Managing Your Work Life for Greater Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Joy
Jun 21, 2022 2:30PM—Jun 24, 2022 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.
View MoreCompetency Works! Leading Competency-Based Learning Initiatives
Jun 15, 2022 9:00AM—3:00PM
Marin Academy
Competency-based education is an approach to learning that ensures all learners develop explicitly defined, measurable, and transferable essential skills and dispositions by making continuous progress toward competency. In this 6-hour Summer Institute, participants will spend the morning hearing the story of one’s school’s process and learnings, with opportunities for engagement and connection. In the afternoon, individuals and school teams will work to chart a course for their own school’s journey.
View MoreAPISA Study Group: Deconstructing the “Model Minority” Myth Using Our Lived Experience
May 05, 2022 9:00AM—11:00AM
Virtual
This three-day series is a continuation of the APISA (Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian) Study Group that began last June 2021. 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.
View MoreIdentity Conscious Facilitation: Race and Identity in the Art of Facilitation
Aug 09, 2021 1:00PM—Aug 10, 2021 1:00PM
Virtual
Identity-Conscious Facilitation centers on the exploration and clarification of identity consciousness and the impact on facilitation. Because identity informs and impacts how we act, interact, and see the world around us, it is important that facilitators develop a deep sense of identity as they work with individuals, groups, adults, and students.
View MoreThe Art of Leading Educators
Aug 03, 2021 9:00AM—Aug 05, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
This leadership institute is aimed at building the skills of educators who supervise and support teams at their schools. Through a neurobiology and social science research lens, we can deepen our understanding of the critical factors needed to create environments that support individual and organizational resiliency.
View MoreTeaching Foundations
Aug 03, 2021 10:00AM—Aug 06, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
The Teaching Foundations program is designed to support the growth and success of all teachers—particularly those in their early years at independent schools—by focusing on foundational areas of classroom teaching.
View MoreDepartment Chairs Institute
Aug 02, 2021 9:00AM—Aug 04, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
The Department Chairs Institute will guide participants in exploring the multilayered challenges of this unique position and in developing the knowledge, skills and strategies to become effective department leaders.
View MoreRestorative Practices: Repairing Harm, Promoting Healing
Jul 27, 2021 9:00AM—Jul 28, 2021 12:30PM
Virtual
Given the current social and political landscape, this workshop will explore the intersection between restorative practices, identity, resiliency, and community healing in the face of racial trauma. During this two-session institute, participants will receive tools and resources, engage in small group discussion, and have the opportunity for individual reflection and application.
View MoreBringing our Full Selves to the Work of Being White Anti-Racists: A Time to Pause, Reflect, and Reintegrate
Jul 14, 2021 9:00AM—Jul 15, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
In this two day intensive, we’ll spend time unpacking whiteness in courageous, reflective, and somatic ways, exploring our identities and how they have been historically constructed and reconstructed. We’ll slow down and make space for the learning, processing, and questions we have after this year and whatever came before.
View MoreAPISA Study Group: Deconstructing the “Model Minority” Myth Using Our Lived Experience
Jun 28, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 30, 2021 11:00AM
Virtual
This three-day series 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.
View MoreEnsuring Organizational Resilience: Upskilling, Assessments, DEI, and Recovery
Jun 17, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 18, 2021 2:00PM
Virtual
This interactive Summer Institute will provide opportunities for connection, collaboration, and reflection as the See Change team leads you through the design of a recovery strategy for next year. This process will support your organization in retaining employees and families, increasing effectiveness, and cultivating innovation.
View MoreCreating Cultures of Thinking and Empowered Learning
Jun 15, 2021 9:00AM—Jun 16, 2021 3:00PM
Virtual
This Summer Institute grows out of the explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and make thinking visible. When used powerfully, thinking routines not only provide teachers with a set of practices to engage students, but help advance a broader goal to create classrooms where students’ thinking is visible, valued, and actively promoted.
View MoreBringing Humanity to Virtual Spaces
Aug 14, 2020 9:00AM—11:00AM
In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn what co-creating classroom culture can look like in online spaces, discuss opportunities available with virtual learning (while being realistic about some of the challenges), practice with some tools for connection and co-creation of classroom culture, and design next steps to prepare for the school year.
View MoreMastering Group Facilitation: Southern California (CATDC Online)
Aug 10, 2020 9:00AM—Aug 12, 2020 12:00PM
This 3-day Summer Institute is transformative for anyone who leads groups of colleagues or students, especially teachers, administrators, and department chairs. Participants will gain new tools, tactics, and a personalized work plan containing strategies to improve their facilitation techniques.
View MoreHow to Manage Conflict in Virtual School Environments
Aug 10, 2020 9:00AM—Aug 12, 2020 11:00AM
In this two-session online workshop you will deepen your understanding of the neuroscience behind escalations and build skills to effectively de-escalate and prevent escalations for more successful relationship management.
View More