Executive Function: Strategies for Student Success in Middle School (Grades 5-8)

Executive Funcitioning workshop with CATDC

In this interactive 1-day workshop, learn how to define the different EF skills and understand their impact on the brain’s ability to be in an optimal state for learning. Discover why it is important to add the teaching of EF skills along with your academic curriculum. Discuss and develop a scope and sequence for front-loading the explicit instruction of these skills during the first few months of school.

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Leadership Fellows Program

educators collaborating in a professional development workshop

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!

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Unlocking Your Facilitation Potential

Facilitator training at CATDC workshop

This comprehensive 2-day workshop is designed specifically for educators who want to hone their facilitation skills. Whether you’re an aspiring leader, department head, group leader, or administrator, you recognize the pivotal role of facilitation in driving productive group dynamics.

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The Design Lab: A Transformative Professional Design and Facilitation Journey

Teams collaborating at a CATDC workshop

This two-day Summer Institute is designed to take you on a journey through transformative professional design and facilitation experiences. Drawing upon research-informed practices, transformational adult learning theory, Universal Design for Learning, and liberatory design, The Design Lab provides a unique opportunity to revitalize your meeting ideas, opening week workshops, professional learning days, or any other gathering.

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Women + Leadership (Southern California)

Join the California Teacher Development Collaborative for our annual Women + Leadership Conference! This powerful event brings together women educators from schools throughout the region to celebrate our journeys and strengthen our individual and collective impact.

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Affinity Spaces 2.0

This three-part hybrid series will provide practical tools, resources, templates, strategies, and mutual support for educators who are currently facilitating racial affinity groups. Participants will engage in practices that support their facilitation of affinity spaces, develop affinity group curriculum, including scope and sequence, to support student and adult affinity spaces at their schools, and work through scenarios that arise when implementing and sustaining affinity space structures and frameworks.

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Emerging Leaders (Southern California)

This program will provide new leaders and educators growing into leadership roles, with tools and strategies to transition successfully into their current position. Participants will engage in focused conversations around navigating colleague dynamics, becoming a supervisor, prioritizing tasks, and engaging in effective communication strategies.

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Leadership Fellows Program

educators collaborating in a professional development workshop

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!

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Unleashing Potential: A Retreat for School Leadership Teams to Start Strong

This dynamic and interactive retreat is designed to help senior leadership teams unlock their potential and set the stage for a successful school year. Through theory and practice, group activities, and facilitated discussions, participants will explore strategies for building stronger connections, enhancing collaboration, and creating a culture of accountability within the team.

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