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Looking to enhance your educators' skills and create a thriving environment for students? Through a custom designed workshop series that merges authentic connection, higher-order thinking skills and your specific needs, you will receive an empowering learning experience that will elevate classroom effectiveness and joy.
Whether you’re seeking a single workshop or a comprehensive series, start transforming your educational environment by filling out our Inquiry Request Form.
Short on funds? Consider using Measure G, G1, or Prop 28 funds* for this investment.
*Approximate pricing ranges from $200 - $700 per educator per workshop.
Discover: Single Sessions | Semester Series | Year-long Fellowships | Choose Your Own Adventure
Program Type
Single Sessions
1 session each
2 - 6 hours
1 CEU available
Description
Want to fully engage staff at any stage in a professional development cycle? Select from the wide range of topics we offer; our tools and strategies can be used in a variety of contexts and content areas.
These are also great introductions for those considering engaging in one of our longer series.
Check out some of our sample offerings below.
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Foundations of Maker-Centered Learning
Experience the power of maker-centered learning in this hands-on workshop that will introduce you to the why and how of MCL.
Intro to Designing for Belonging
Explore the levers of belonging and see your classroom as a system. Identify a routine or ritual you can redesign for greater belonging? tion text goes here
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The Power of Play
Play is integral to developing a multitude of asset based skills such as collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking. How might you incorporate play into your classroom or school site?
Making as Healing
As educators, we are often told to cultivate joy and healing in our young people, yet we don’t do it for ourselves. How might we increase our own capacity for joy and healing alongside our students?
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Systems Thinking 101
Our world is full of systems that have been intentionally designed to produce certain outcomes. We will explore how examining these systems more closely can cultivate empowered learners who can then tweak/hack/change these systems for greater equity.
Thinking Routine Primer
Thinking routines are a great way to differentiate learning in any content area. In this workshop educators will experience at least two different thinking routines that they can immediately use with their students.
Semester Series
4 sessions
Coaching
2-4 CEUs available
Yearlong Fellowships
10 sessions (1 per month spanning a school year)
Monthly coaching
4 - 6 CEUs available
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Tailored to meet your needs
These short professional development series are for beginners as well as those with some experience in the focal area. We combine our inquiry model with individual or team coaching to support educators to lead their learning within school-wide/organizational goals.
Check out some of our Sample Programs below:
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Practical tools and strategies to draw out the inner worlds of students and make their thinking visible. Great for alternative assessments and to deepen understanding of content.
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The concept of repair is explored as a pathway to healing - not just objects, but ourselves and our designed world. Educators will use thinking routines that help students to see objects as systems that can be repaired or repurposed.
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Understand the design principles of routines, rituals and space that create places for our students to connect, grow and shine.
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Transform traditional academic tasks within any content area by incorporating the pedagogical principles of Ethnic Studies and arts-integration to deepen engagement and comprehension.
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This series uses arts-integrated strategies and tools that promote student discourse across all content areas.
Through the course of an academic year, participants will take a deep dive in the focal area and receive practical tools to build relationships, cultivate agency, belonging and joy, to support a holistic approach to academic thriving. Participants are also given the time and space to reflect on their own pedagogy and practice.
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With a focus on cultivating joy and belonging through rounds of inquiry, and collecting data of uncommon and common measures, school site teams shift and strengthen their site’s culture and climate.
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Teachers use design thinking and inquiry in order to address real issues impacting your school community, both academic & socio-emotional.
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Develop and elevate your leadership and facilitation skills. This fellowship includes a focus on identity, values, joy and healing in addition to concrete facilitation skills. Ideally for a cohort of 8 - 12 people.
*can be adapted to varying time frames
In collaboration with you, we can design learning series tailored to meet the needs of your staff:
A four-session, introductory, professional development series
A six-session intensive series to deepen understanding of your chosen area
A yearlong fellowship that delves deeply into the focal area of your choice