Emerging Leaders (Northern California)
This ongoing program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles with the tools and strategies to lead more successfully. With a focus on fostering our own personal growth as well as furthering our responsibility for the growth and development of others, participants will identify and hone the skills and habits of effective leaders, including locating one’s authentic leadership style, leveraging position within an institution, fostering high functioning teams, making informed decisions, navigating change and conflict, and creating and maintaining inclusive school environments in predominantly white institutions.
Read MoreSupport for Supporters (Northern California)
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.
Read MorePartnering with Teachers: Connection & Strategies for Instructional Support Roles
This 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.
Read MoreLeadership Fellows Program
This year-long fellowship for experienced educators from throughout California supports the unique demands of independent school leaders—the only program of its kind in California!
Read MoreElevating School Culture in Contentious Times
This retreat is designed to offer dedicated time and space away from our everyday surroundings in order to ground and connect with what we really matters. This retreat is purposefully located in the Sierra Nevada Foothills on a beautifully appointed private property situated against natural forest, surrounded by an inspiring skyline. The intentional setting is meant to inspire an interruption to routines and patterns so we can be more available to think creatively about our school communities and the power of culture and counter-culture.
Read MoreThe Design Lab: Transforming Professional Learning
Transform your meetings, professional development, and facilitation with The Design Lab workshop series. Over three days, you’ll explore evidence-based practices that breathe new life into your meetings, professional development sessions, and group facilitation, and you’ll come away with practical tools you can use right away.
Read MoreTeaching Foundations (Northern California)
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 teaching.
Read MoreSupporting Neurodivergence in Early Childhood Education
This day-long workshop for early childhood educators will explore how to support neurodivergent learners through sensory regulation, classroom design, and motor development. Participants will learn to create environments that reduce overstimulation and support emotional regulation while integrating strategies to enhance fine motor, gross motor, and visual motor skills essential for student success.
Read MoreExploring Race & Identity as White Educators in Community
This one-day workshop is a supportive space for white-identifying educators and staff to explore how our racial identity shapes our daily work in schools. Antiracism requires this foundational work, and when we do it together, we grow and change and build the community we need to keep going.
Read MoreTransformative Teaching Conference
In collaboration with Crystal Springs Uplands School, the inaugural Transformative Teaching Conference @ Crystal invites teachers, innovators, and thought leaders to participate in a day-long conference dedicated to transformative teaching practices. The goal of Transformative Teaching is to increase students’ mastery of skills and concepts, while at the same time cultivating in students a love of learning and positive sense of self and ability. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from the dynamic insights, experiences, and research of your peers that challenge conventional approaches and inspire all of us to enhance our teaching methodologies.
Read MoreWomen + Leadership Conference
Join the California Teacher Development Collaborative for our annual Women + Leadership Conference! This powerful event brings together women educators from our schools to celebrate our journeys and strengthen our individual and collective impact. In celebration of CATDC’s 25th year, we are hosting one statewide gathering on February 7, 2025 in San Francisco at Futures Without Violence.
Read MoreSchool Culture is a Verb: Finding Kindness and Belonging in Contentious Times
This in-person workshop will allow educators to share their experiences and find common ground; elaborate the connections between different cultural challenges involving students and identify root causes; develop a shared vocabulary around the key elements of a healthy school culture; share a framework around an actual problem of practice in small groups, and of course throughout this process we will build community amongst each other.
Read MoreBeyond the ABC’s of ADHD and Executive Functioning: Empowering Neurodivergent Children and Teens for Success in School and Life
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, participants will learn concrete strategies to meet neurodiverse learners where they are and help them strengthen essential executive functioning and social-emotional skills.
Read MorePractical Approaches for Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Effective coaches and mentors utilize purposeful practices in their relationships and conversations. Join us in this two-part series to learn and apply best practices for engaging in meaningful and productive coaching and mentoring. Through small group discussion, individual reflection, scenario analysis, and role play, attendees will learn to better navigate the current reality and develop skills that increase impact and foster resilience and agency.
Read MoreSupport for Supporters (Northern California)
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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