We are open to designing a workshop series that best fits your needs. Consider contracting with us using Measure G, G1, or Prop 28 funds*.
All of our professional development offerings are grounded in inquiry and relationship building.
*Approximate pricing ranges from $200 - $700 per educator per workshop.
Single Sessions
1 session each | 2 - 6 hours |1 CEU available
Want a PD to fully engage staff at the beginning, middle or end of a 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 great introductions for those considering taking one of our longer series.
WORKSHOPS :
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Developing Empathy within our Learners
As adults, it is our job to have our students “perspective-take” in order to develop empathy. Experience a simple yet powerful thinking routine in this workshop and modify it in real time to bring it alive with your students.
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.
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.
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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?
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?
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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.
Scaffolding for Agency: Maker-Centered Learning Instructional Strategies
How might a student-centered and distributed learning model cultivate agency in your learners? Educators will walk away with practical tools and plan next steps to do with their students.
Semester Series
4 sessions | Coaching available | 2-4 CEU
OVERVIEW:
These short professional development series are for beginners as well as those with some experience in the focal area. The length of the series allows for depth as we combine teacher-led inquiry with coaching so teachers can align/merge their creativity and agency within the context of district demands.
SAMPLE PROGRAMS:
Making Thinking Visible
Practical tools and strategies to draw out the inner worlds of students and make their thinking visible.
Designing for Belonging
Understand the design principles of routines, rituals and space that create places for our students to connect, grow and shine.
Making x Ethnic Studies x You
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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Student Talk x Arts Integration
This series uses arts-integrated strategies and tools that promote student discourse across all content areas.
Cultivating a Repair Mindset
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.
Yearlong Fellowships
10 sessions (1 per month spanning a school year) | Monthly coaching available | 4 - 6 CEUs available
OVERVIEW:
Through the course of an academic year, participants will take a deep dive into a focal and receive practical tools to build relationships, cultivate agency, belonging and joy, to support a holistic approach to academic thriving. Participants will also be given the time and space to reflect on their own pedagogy and practice.
PROGRAMS:
Culture and Climate
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.
Inquiry for Impact
Teachers use design thinking and inquiry in order to address real issues impacting your school community, both academic & socio-emotional.
Healing-centered leadership*
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
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Tailored to meet your needs
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