Professional Learning Opportunities

Explore how AI tools can help differentiate instruction, visualize math concepts, and provide step-by-step problem solving. Ideal for building student confidence and deepening conceptual understanding.

Explore how AI can support teacher well-being, including stress reduction, time management, work-life balance, and emotional reflection.

Learn to use tools that help you thrive, not just survive.

This session offers practical ways to strengthen academic instruction while supporting students’ thinking and feelings about learning.

Participants will explore the differences between fixed and growth mindsets and identify classroom strategies they can use right away to help students approach learning with confidence, persistence, and a willingness to try.

The 2024 California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTPs) are here and they bring a powerful opportunity to deepen our understanding of effective teaching.

This six-session professional learning series is designed for both coaches and candidates who want to engage meaningfully with the revised standards and explore how they show up in classrooms.

We’ll begin with a Foundations session to unpack the structure, shifts, and vision of the 2024 CSTPs. Then, each following session will dive into one of the six standards, offering practical tools, reflection prompts, and classroom-based examples to bring each domain to life.

Whether you're mentoring a candidate or growing in your own practice, this series will strengthen your ability to recognize, support, and reflect on high-quality teaching grounded in the updated CSTPs.

Candidates synthesize their induction journey by creating a Digital Reflection Website to share at Colloquium.

Participants in this workshop will gain a clear understanding of the digital reflection criteria, have hands-on experience with Google Sites, and walk away with a personalized template that can be used for their digital reflection portfolio.

Join us for a creative and insightful session on creating a Digital Reflection Website.

Join other CTI teachers for a collaborative session where teachers share favorite AI tools, classroom wins, time-saving hacks, and lessons learned.

Bring a tip, leave with ten!

This session focuses on establishing and sustaining structures, routines, and strategies that support positive, proactive behavior and maximize instructional time for diverse learners.

Participants will explore how to design classroom routines, expectations, and transitions with clarity, consistency, and student buy-in, while using proactive approaches such as scaffolds, visual supports, and behavioral cues rather than relying solely on reactive discipline.

The session also examines how to apply differentiated behavior supports aligned with students’ needs, including Tier 1 universal practices, Tier 2 targeted supports, and individualized behavior plans.

Educators will learn strategies for monitoring classroom climate and student engagement, using data to adjust management approaches, and integrating management practices with IEP/SDI planning and instructional differentiation to create coherence across instruction and support.

Thriving YOUniversity will be presenting four sessions throughout the year, each focusing on different aspects of SEAL (Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning). Each session offers unique takeaways and resources. Participants may register for one session or as many as they like.

Research shows that social and emotional skills are foundational for success in school, the workplace, and life. For SEL to be successful and sustainable with students, it must start with the adults.

In this session, participants will explore the research supporting SEAL and engage in self-reflection, discussions, and activities that can be immediately replicated with students and colleagues. The session is designed to deepen participants’ understanding of SEAL, strengthen their own social-emotional competencies, boost efficacy in modeling and teaching these skills, and build capacity to infuse this mindset into site and classroom practices.

Session 4: More Than a Strategy – Using SEL to Transform Your Classroom
Lasting impact comes when SEL isn’t just a strategy, but part of the fabric of your classroom and school. Participants will explore how routines, rituals, and structures create psychological safety and strengthen schoolwide culture, and leave with practical tools to make SEL sustainable, scalable, and a natural part of how communities learn and thrive together.

What makes students want to show up, stay engaged, and thrive? In this powerful discussion, students share how after-school programs, clubs, and campus connections help them feel seen, valued, and safe—beyond academics and beyond the school day.

Explore how belonging fuels engagement, improves school culture, and keeps every student connected to a community that cares.