Workshops

April 24-25, 2023

In-Person @Wildwood School, Middle/Upper Campus
 

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

• Two-day session: April 24-25, 2023
• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School, Middle/Upper Campus
• $415 per participant (25% discount for public and charter schools)

 

• 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.

January 12, 2023, or April 13, 2023

In-Person @Wildwood School, Middle/Upper Campus
 

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

• Two 1-day sessions to choose from: January 12, 2023, or April 13, 2023
• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School, Middle/Upper Campus
• $249 per participant (25% discount for public and charter schools)

 

• 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.

June 26-29, 2023 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School

 

Registration Opens in January!

*CLICK HERE to Fill Out Our MLI 2023 Interest Form*
 

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 26-29, 2023
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus)

Stay Tuned: Registration Opens in January 2023

$1,099 per person (3-5 participants from a school)
$1,299 per person (1-2 participants from a school)
All lunches and snacks included

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.

May 31, 2023 / In-Person @Wildwood School, Middle-Upper Campus

 

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

• May 31, 2023
• 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle and upper campus) 
• $249 per participant (25% 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 24-28, 2023 / In-Person / Location: Wildwood School

Registration 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

• Click HERE to register
• In-person at Wildwood School (middle/upper campus)
• $900 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. 

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.

2023 Dates Coming Soon!

In-Person and Online Session Formats

 

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

• 2023 session dates coming soon
• In-person and online sessions

 

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.

January 18, 2023 / In-Person @Wildwood School, Middle/Upper Campus

FREE Session!

Want an inside look at the future of high school?

The Institutes at Wildwood School are three unique student-powered engines of project-based learning in Wildwood's Upper School (grades 9-12), created to reflect the school's broader commitment to highly-participatory student-centered learning. 

The Institutes provide Wildwood students with the opportunity to learn and apply knowledge and skills in three authentic contexts that realistically mirror work worlds that students may encounter as adults: STEM research and development, social leadership, and entrepreneurship.

In this half-day workshop participants will:

• Visit all three of Wildwood's student-led Institutes
• Learn from student Institute members and the adults who assist them
• Reconsider teachers' roles in student learning
• Consider applications for your own school's program

For All Educators and Accompanied Students In Grades 9-12

• January 18, 2023
• 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• In-person at Wildwood School (Middle/Upper Campus) 
• FREE session (Registration Required)

Host: Steve Barrett, Director of the Wildwood Outreach Center
 

• Click Here to Register

• COVID and Cancellation Policies
   

Wildwood Institute for STEM Research and Development—Est. 2014
5 student-led laboratories: Engineering, augmented & virtual reality (AR/VR), systems integration, earth/space, and life sciences

Wildwood Institute for Social Leadership—Est. 2018
Research and consulting partner for LA-area schools and non-profits working to affect social change. 

Wildwood Institute for Entrepreneurship—Est. 2019
An incubator and collaborative design studio for student-launched start-ups. 

The Institutes at Wildwood School have been recognized for educational leadership by the E. E. Ford Foundation.

February 1, 2023 / In-Person @Wildwood School, Elementary Campus

 

Looking for a practical bridge between social-emotional and academic learning?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is crucial to helping students at any age navigate the challenges of learning and life. Yet an emphasis on SEL alone does not ensure higher academic outcomes. Executive functioning (EF) skills have emerged as key supplements to SEL—providing tools and strategies that help students unlock the benefits of social-emotional learning.

This workshop is designed for a general audience and uncovers the fundamental (and often overlooked) ways that executive functioning (EF) skills enhance the role of social-emotional learning (SEL) in school and beyond.

In this one-day workshop participants will:

• Intentionally focus on and apply the connections between EF and SEL to boost student learning and achievement in the classroom and in life
• Explore key elements of the All Kinds of Minds executive functioning framework and their relationship to SEL and other academic learning
• Consider the role of metacognition as a catalyst for all student learning
• Highlight and practice strategies for enhancing students' and teachers' social-emotional learning
• Synthesize and apply new learning in a plan for their students' success in grade-level breakout groups (i.e., elementary, middle, and high/upper school)

For All Educators In Grades K-12

• February 1, 2023
• 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• In-person at Wildwood School (elementary campus) 
• $249 per participant (15% discount for all public and charter school participants)
   

• Click Here to Register

• COVID and Cancellation Policies

Your facilitators: Wildwood School's student support specialists—our experienced counselors and academic support service coordinators who bring a multitude of knowledge and perspective to their work with students, faculty, and families.

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
• If we need to cancel a workshop for any reason, we'll provide notice and full refunds or offer credit for future workshops

Per Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Guidelines:

• Mask wearing is encouraged (but not required) indoors throughout each workshop