Creating 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.
Read MoreGetting Better with AGE: Appreciation, Growth, and Evaluation Cycles
In this one-day intensive workshop, participants will explore the roles appreciation, growth, and evaluation play at their school sites, investigate the strengths and opportunities of these three topics, and revise/re-envision an AGE cycle that promotes meaningful professional learning and growth.
Read MoreLeadership Lab
In this two-part workshop you will explore four cornerstones to a powerful leadership practice, and is appropriate for early leaders who are in the process of establishing themselves in a new role or are interested in taking on the next level of leadership.
Read MoreBuilding Better Brains: Fostering Academic Success through Developing Executive Functioning Skills
In this dynamic and interactive workshop designed for K-12 teachers, administrators and school counselors, participants will learn how and why executive functioning skills are critical to the learning process for all students, especially for kids learning disabilities, ADHD and high functioning autism.
Read MoreGender-Sexuality Professional Alliance Group
This working group of LGBTQ+* professionals will provide a unique opportunity for educators to connect in a confidential, respectful, and relaxed atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to develop a network of LGBTQ+ educators which continues well beyond the four meetings.
Read MoreHistory Professional Learning Community
This ongoing program will create a community of learners that will explore tools to redesign history curriculum and assessments in light of current scholarship, while also deepening cultural fluency in content and pedagogy to support all our students.
Read MoreDepartment Chairs Program
The goal of the Department Chairs Program is to provide the opportunity for exploring the multilayered challenges of this unique position and to support its participants in becoming more effective and satisfied in their work.
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