Workshops

April 14-15, 2022 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School
 

Looking to build or improve your Advisory Program?

Advisory 101 sets the standard in Advisory program development workshops. Create a new program or re-tool your existing one. Design a program to fit your school—public, charter, or private—and a plan to succeed. Participants will:

• Analyze current research on Advisory practices and social-emotional learning (SEL)

• Generate targets for program success and criteria for evaluation

• Envision a program to foster each student's sense of purpose and belonging

• Gain and utilize versatile program development tools (with applications beyond Advisory)

For Grades 5-12 Advisory Program Leaders and Development Teams at All Schools

• April 14-15, 2022 (two-day workshop)
• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus)
• $375 per participant (30% discount for public and charter schools)

 

• Click Here to Register / New Dates Coming Fall 2022

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

 

Facilitator: Steve Barrett

Steve is Wildwood School's Director of Outreach with 30 years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools. Advisory is one of Steve's professional passions and he has facilitated professional learning at schools and presented at conferences across the US and the world.

April 26, 2022 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School
 

Looking to level up your advising?

This session provides strategies for advisors to strengthen their practice and abilities to connect with students and serve their needs to develop a sense of purpose and belonging. Participants will:

• Focus on applying current Advisory research and best practices

• Participate in a mock Advisory session and analyze its structure and content

• Practice Advisory facilitation protocols to enhance their advising, increase student engagement, and embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into their advisories

For Grades 5-12 Advisors at Public, Private, and Charter Schools
$199 per participant (30% discount for public and charter schools). 

• April 26, 2022
• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus)

 

• Click Here to Register / New Dates Coming Fall 2022

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

 

Facilitator: Steve Barrett

Steve is Wildwood School's Director of Outreach with 30 years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools. Advisory is one of Steve's professional passions and he has facilitated professional learning at schools and presented at conferences across the US and the world.

June 27-30, 2022 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School

Registration Closed! Accepting Waitlist Entries
 

Interested in deepening and sustaining DEI work in your school?

Come with your personal and institutional DEI goals and leave with deeper insights and plans for action.

This intensive, four-day institute is designed for educators to create and sustain authentically multicultural schools through reflection, inspiration, and planning.

Our Multicultural Leadership Institute provides responsive professional development by leveraging current research and practice, along with Wildwood School's institutional experiences. The setting is intimate and intentionally small, limited to 30 participants (with no more than 5 from any single school). 

Please note: MLI sells out quickly!

The Institute supports individuals and cohorts committed to developing a shared vision of institutional and cultural change within their schools. Participants will consider, generate, and refine strategies to foster authentically inclusive and equitable practices—for themselves and their schools.

The Institute features:

• Expert guest presenters and facilitators
• Dynamic protocols and learning experiences
• Overview of Wildwood School's DEI program
• Personal and school focused DEI application
• DEI leadership team development
• Specific sessions on:
  • Anti-racist practices
  • White racial identity
  • Gender identity
  • Socio-economic diversity
  • and more

Ideal learning opportunity for:

• DEI coordinators
• School leaders
• Deans and curriculum directors
• Teacher leaders
• Board members and parents

For Grades K-12

• June 27-30, 2022
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus)

Early Bird Rates: Through April 15, 2022

$999 per person (3-5 participants from a school)
$1,199 per person (1-2 participants from a school)
All lunches and snacks included

 

• Click Here to add name(s) to waitlist

  • NOTE: Registration page hosted on our Systems Thinking Schools website.

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

 

Institute Co-Director: Karen Dye

Karen is Wildwood's Director of Equity and Inclusion. She brings with her over 30 years of dedicated service in both independent schools and at the collegiate level. An established DEI practitioner, Karen calls upon her experiences in guiding DEI initiatives, as well as admissions and college counseling, to serve the needs of all students and faculty.

 

Institute Co-Director: Jaimi Boehm

Jaimi is Wildwood's Director of Middle School. An experienced facilitator and administrator for over 14 years, Jaimi has excelled as a high school  English teacher, department chair, director of student life, and dean of faculty development. She has been an integral part of Wildwood's Multicultural Leadership Team for the past four years.

Looking to build your ideal school-wide program or upgrade your existing one?

The ultimate back-end builder’s dream: This workshop is designed for educational technology teachers and school leaders looking to construct (or reconstruct) their school-wide ed tech program—suited to tomorrow’s needs.

Participants will gain key insights into EdTech standards selection and program mapping and leave with clear action steps for developing, implementing, and evaluating a meaningful technology scope and sequence—centered on the unique needs of each school’s students and community.

For Grades 6-12, All Schools

• Online workshop: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time
• Nov. 18, 2021 / New Dates Coming Fall 2022

 

Facilitator: Nicholas Smith

Nicholas is an Instructional Technology Coach at Wildwood's middle and upper school. From his career beginnings in the music industry to his current role as an educator and program developer, Nicholas strives to foster creativity in design while providing personalized and accessible professional development. A self-proclaimed futurist and advocate of the inevitability of technology, Nicholas challenges educators to consider all futures when teaching tomorrow's leaders.

June 2, 2022 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School

Registration Closed!
 

Are you ready to broaden your definition of rigor?

Throughout their middle and upper school years, every Wildwood student prepares and delivers reflective, year-end presentations on their intellectual and social-emotional learning to a panel of their teachers, family, and peers. Their goal: Make the case for why they're ready to move on to the next grade (or graduate).

Participants in this unique workshop will be special guests at Wildwood students’ end-of-year Gateway and Exhibition Presentations and will consider ideas to implement rigorous, reflective assessments at their schools.

Participants will:

• Attend multiple student presentations
• Engage in Q & A with student presenters
• Analyze the elements and design of Wildwood's approach to student metacognition and reflection
• Identify ways to prototype and implement authentic student reflections at your school

For Grades 6-12

• June 2, 2022
• 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus) 
• $199 per participant (30% discount for Mastery Transcript Consortium member schools + all public and charter school participants)

 

• Click Here to Register

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

 

Facilitator: Steve Barrett

Steve is Wildwood School's Director of Outreach with 30 years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools. Advisory is one of Steve's professional passions and he has facilitated professional learning at schools and presented at conferences across the US and the world.

July 25-29, 2022 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School

Registration Closed! Waitlist Open
 

Ready to tap your peer coaching potential?

This five-day, intensive national training provides educators with research-based tools for developing a collaborative culture that fosters professional learning and raises student achievement. New Coaches Training offers an opportunity to master the fundamentals of CFG coaching by experiencing them firsthand, as part of a cohort of like-minded professionals from across the country.

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Be CFG coaches certified by The National School Reform Faculty
• Embrace adult learning in service of equitable student outcomes
• Develop and deepen facilitation skills
• Know how to “mine” texts for deeper learning
• Understand how to match protocols to particular examples of student and adult work
• Know how to give and receive productive feedback on professional practice
• Have a plan for launching CFGs at their school or district

For K-12 and University Educators

• July 25-29, 2022
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and  upper campus)
• $850 per participant
• Registration includes a CFG Coaching Certificate and one-year coaches' membership with The National School Reform Faculty^® (NSRF) during which you'll have free access to all coaches' protocols on the NSRF website. 

 

• Click Here to access our waitlist

  • NOTE: Registration page hosted on our Systems Thinking Schools website.

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

 

Certified National Facilitator: Deb Christenson

Deb is a history teacher at Wildwood's middle and upper campus. With over 40 years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools, Deb has helped to start and sustain schools dedicated to authentic and engaged student learning. 

 

 

Certified National Facilitator: Steve Barrett

Steve is Wildwood School's Director of Outreach with 30 years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools. Advisory is one of Steve's professional passions and he has facilitated professional learning at schools and presented at conferences across the US and the world.

June 21-23 and Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 6, 2022 / Online
Registration Closed!

 

Ready to help your students see the world in a whole new way?

This transformative 6-session workshop supports K-8 educators interested in integrating systems thinking into daily practice.

Systems Thinking helps students see concepts, objects, and subjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated entities, in order to enhance learning, deepen understanding, and change their world.

Systems Thinking helps students learn more deeply and effectively and also fosters the exploration of ethical, environmental, and global issues—encouraging increased personal responsibility and social action. It also invigorates teachers' planning and practice.

The Systems Thinking Schools 101 Workshop provides:

• Certification as a Systems Thinking Schools Educator
• Versatile go-to systems thinking tools for classroom use
• Experience and practice with strategies to increase student achievement
• Guided planning time to implement systems thinking in your classroom– for the next day and throughout the year
• Collaboration: Learn, plan, and share with fellow educators
• Dedicated coaching from our expert facilitators

For Grades K-8, All Educators

• Online workshop
• June 21-23, 2022 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time)
• Aug. 11, Sept. 8, and Oct. 6, 2022 (4 to 6 p.m. Pacific Time)

 

• Click Here to Register

 

Facilitators: The Educators of Systems Thinking Schools

The hosts and facilitators of this workshop are a team of teachers, administrators, and consultants from schools across Los Angeles. These include independent schools like Wildwood, as well as LAUSD’s Palms Elementary and Mid-City's Prescott Schools—the founding partners of Systems Thinking Schools, our educator community of committed to student success through systems thinking. 

 

Click here for our video gallery to see Systems Thinking in action at Palms Elementary and Wildwood School.

Click here for a research study from Chapman University on the teaching and learning implications of systems thinking in a 5th grade classroom.

Visit us at systemsthinkingschools.org for more videos, lesson plans, our podcast, and much more.

Ready to raise your science curriculum to a higher power?

Calling all upper elementary homeroom and science teachers! Unlock new ways to strengthen your science curriculum with rich project-based learning, Systems Thinking, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) work. Join us for this unique online series of five, practical 1-hour sessions with our Wildwood expert, upper elementary science teacher, Anna Boucher. 

Participants will explore and discuss a variety of interdisciplinary science-focused projects based on the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s framework for project-based learning, and consider how they might inform their own classroom practice.

For Grades 3-6, All Teachers / New Dates Coming Fall 2022

• Online sessions: Various Thursdays this spring
• 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time
• Just $79 for all five sessions!

Session 1: Scientists Who Selfie (March 10, 2022)

Unpack this innovative project fortified with an infusion of technology skills and DEIB work–inspired by #ScientistsWhoSelfie, a social media campaign that challenges stereotypes around representation in the STEM fields.

Session 2: How Science Works (March 24, 2022)

Examine ways that students uncover the questions and systems embedded in scientific inquiry. Using a model developed by UC Berkeley, students enhance their learning by grappling with two key concepts: that scientific thinking is rarely linear and the scientific process is ongoing.

Session 3: Preserving Local Ecosystems (April 14, 2022)

Analyze students’ undertakings to deeply understand their local ecosystems and, applying a systems thinking lens, identify actions to preserve and protect them. This project emphasizes the interconnectivity of all systems and the real impact that students can make in their communities.

Session 4: The Solar System–Fact and [Science] Fiction (May 5, 2022)

Probe deeply into how students simulate astronomers’ work by investigating the properties of the planets in our solar system. Students boost their learning by applying knowledge in novel ways—crafting travel guides for future planetary travelers that combine science facts and science fiction.

Session 5: Illuminating Identity with Electronics (May 19, 2022)

Delve into this multi-layered project that combines DEIB work with chemistry and engineering. Students personalize their learning by identifying their multicultural identities and then use Chibitronics—an arts-based circuit building platform—to illuminate their identities that others may not see.

 

• Click Here to Register

  • NOTE: Registration page hosted on our Systems Thinking Schools website.

 

Facilitator: Anna Boucher

Anna teaches upper-grade science at Wildwood’s elementary school. With over 20 years of experience as an upper elementary homeroom teacher, science specialist, and division coordinator, Anna continuously seeks to deepen her practice, most recently having completed the rigorous project-based learning certification program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Cancellation Policy for All Workshops:

• Full refund or credit prior to 30 days out of workshop start date
• 50% refund or credit after that up to two weeks out from the scheduled start date
• No refund or credit within two weeks of the training date
• COVID-19 Provisions: Exceptions will be made for illness and other unexpected circumstances
• If we need to cancel a workshop for any reason, we'll give at least one week's advance notice and provide full refunds or offer credit for future workshops

COVID-19 Mitigation Requirements for In-Person Workshops (per Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Guidelines):

• Proof of vaccination and booster required
• Proof of negative test results required (no longer than 48 hours prior to first day of training)
• Mask wearing required indoors throughout training (KN94/95 or higher required)