Events Calendar

The Center for School Climate & Learning (CSCL) has been helping schools improve by amplifying student and teacher voices using a strategy called Youth Participatory Action Research or YPAR for over 20 years (Preble & Gordon, 2011). When diverse groups of students work as “researchers and change leaders” by asking important questions about their schools, collect and analyze site-based data from their peers and adults, and initiate empowering action projects to address the needs they discover, transformative personal and school change happens.

Effective coaches and mentors utilize purposeful practices in their relationships and conversations. Join CATDC 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.

How can independent schools help students become informed citizens who differentiate between credible facts and misleading content? In this session, Sante Mastriana from the nonpartisan civics organization Close Up will share techniques for increasing students’ media literacy. Learn how to foster students’ abilities to critically evaluate messages, dissect competing claims, and draw their own conclusions about important issues.

Head of school agreements and employment are very different from that of many CEOs, including among other nonprofits. In this session, get an overview of the ins and outs of key terms of employment and the contract process, a look at the nuances of overall compensation packages, and insights into the various kinds of evaluations for independent school heads.

Join this free, one-hour meetup about recruiting and supporting international students. Choose the discussion group that meets your needs: Breakout Group 1 on international student recruitment and admissions, or Breakout Group 2 on international student support.

In this webinar, holistic wellness coach and entrepreneur Rocky Kitzmiller will offer techniques and tips for managing stress, setting boundaries, bringing mindfulness into your days, and finding health and happiness in your daily life.

Whether you’re new to the role of being an advisor, or a longtime practitioner, you’ll leave inspired with practical lessons and structures you can implement the next day, creative approaches for authentic advisory alignment, and renewal of your own unique connection to social-emotional learning.

Because hiring and retaining top-notch teachers and administrators is so crucial, small schools often grapple with the financial trade-off involved in using a search firm to aid in the process. Join this webinar to explore creative solutions for hiring and retention that won’t leave you biting the bullet when it comes to high firm fees.

Explore both challenges and opportunities that AI presents to the teaching of writing. We’ll look at the research on writing, consider a variety of classroom approaches, and discuss examples that fall into two categories: AI-resistant pedagogy and AI-assisted pedagogy. Participants will reflect on the way resistant and assisted approaches can deepen student learning and motivation when it comes to writing tasks.

To meet the needs of K-12 students, social-emotional learning can and must come alive within all subject areas. This experiential online course will provide techniques for integrating SEL into all teaching and learning.