Maintaining Meaningful Connections with Your K-5 Students Online (CATDC Online)
Now more than ever, we want to feel connected to our students. But how do you do that with distance learning, especially with those in the earlier grades? Join us to learn the benefits of and practical strategies for making meaningful connections in an online environment.
Read MoreSEL for Educators in Uncertain Times (CATDC Online)
In this interactive online session, we will address some simple and specific strategies for remaining grounded in the presence of upheaval. There will be time set aside to address specific questions related to the challenges you are facing.
Read MoreSEL for Educators in Uncertain Times (Online)
In this interactive online session, we will address some simple and specific strategies for remaining grounded in the presence of upheaval. There will be time set aside to address specific questions related to the challenges you are facing.
Read MoreLeading Through Challenge (Online)
Join us in this online interactive workshop to build capacity, connect with colleagues and gain new perspectives and strategies. Explore what social science indicates are key approaches in supporting others and moving your organization through challenging times.
Read MoreSEL for Educators in Uncertain Times (Online)
In this interactive online session, we will address some simple and specific strategies for remaining grounded in the presence of upheaval. There will be time set aside to address specific questions related to the challenges you are facing.
Read MoreTeaching Foundations: Northern California (CATDC Online)
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.
Read MoreCreating Cultures of Thinking and Empowered Learning
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.
Read MoreMastering Group Facilitation: Northern California (CATDC Online)
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.
Read MoreDo You See What I Mean? Facilitating Courageous Conversations Visually
In this interactive, one-day workshop participants will learn practical strategies for facilitating courageous conversations, collaborate with other facilitators advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion work, and gain a visual toolset to support their facilitation practice.
Read MoreWomen + Leadership (Bay Area)
This one day event for women brings together educators from schools throughout the Bay Area to build community and gain support on their path toward more powerful and empowering leadership.
Read MoreA Mindful Approach to Whiteness
This workshop is for self-identified white educators and will provide a chance to engage in a mindfulness-informed exploration of our white racial conditioning together in community.
Read MoreThe Art of Teaching Gender and Sexuality to Elementary Students
In this workshop, participants will explore strategies, gain new resources, and develop classroom activities and lessons to guide elementary students in learning age appropriate concepts.
Read MoreLeading for Equity and Inclusion: Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, Climate and Accountability
This Intensive will provide opportunities to reflect on, discuss, and adapt approaches and practices that move schools in the direction of greater cultural competence in the policies and procedures that govern hiring, retention, and climate.
Read MoreTending to Our Inner Teacher: Courage and Renewal for Mid-Career Educators
This mid-year retreat is an extraordinary opportunity for mid-career teachers to engage in reflection and find personal and professional rejuvenation. Our work will be grounded in the Circles of Trust® approach as described in Parker Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness, intended for those who want to live and work more wholeheartedly, connecting who they are with what they do
Read MoreNavigating Those Tricky Conversations
The purpose of this workshop is to make each participant a better leader, teacher, and communicator as they navigate the tricky and sticky moments that arise each day. In this 2-day workshop, participants will share previous experiences, define areas of needed focus, practice using a case study from their experience, and make plans to implement new communication strategies.
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