Events Calendar

This three-hour workshop, led by the Redbud Resource Group, will support independent school educators across California in deepening their cultural and historical understanding of Native communities, land acknowledgment practices, and their personal and school relationships with Native peoples.

This ongoing virtual program, with five session from October 2024 through April 2025, is for K-12 educators who have experience beyond the early years of teaching and who are looking to reflect and expand on their practice. CATDC will explore effective strategies and foster the exchange of ideas in a supportive cohort to address some of the challenges that are hindering participants’ ability to shine as their best selves as educators.

Join an interactive teaching lab focused on instructional rounds, one of the most effective tools for fostering teacher growth and development. Instructional leaders will offer school leadership and teacher leaders a chance to learn about the theory and practice behind instructional rounds and their connection to schools’ instructional core. This program includes multiple in-person and virtual sessions.

In this program, which includes multiple virtual sessions, participants who self-identify as queer and/or trans and participants who are active allies for queer and trans communities will meet throughout the school year to build and strengthen their practices as educators in supporting and empowering queer and trans students, staff, and folks within their school communities.

This online program, which includes sessions from October 2024 through April 2025, is designed for educators who are interested in strengthening their AI skills while exploring how to engage students in productive, ethical use of generative AI tools. By bringing together educators from different schools for learning, discussion, and practice, this program aims to not just deliver knowledge, but share it. 

In this two-part virtual workshop series, participants will have the opportunity to unpack incidents that have taken place at their own schools, discuss how to make lasting repairs in partnership with students, rather than fall into damage control patterns, and to think long-term about what it means for young people to be accountable in the digital world.

This three-part virtual workshop is a beginner’s guide to becoming a liberatory educator who centers social justice within and beyond their classroom community. This comprehensive exploration of liberatory education aims to empower educators to cultivate inclusive learning environments that challenge traditional power dynamics and promote equity and empathy.

The NAIS People of Color Conference is the flagship of NAIS’s commitment to equity and justice in teaching, learning, and sustainability for independent schools. This year’s theme—Meeting the Moment: Anchoring and Enriching Our Education Futures—is a call to action for the unique time we’re experiencing.

The NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference is a multiracial, multicultural gathering of student leaders from eligible independent high schools across the U.S. and abroad.

Janna Barkin, author, educator, and coach, will delve into the journey of families with transgender, nonbinary, or gender-diverse youth. This session offers practical insights and empathetic guidance for fostering open communication and understanding within the family. This program will support educators, parents, grandparents, family, friends, colleagues, social workers, therapists, and community members.