2021 Summer Season
Link to the session descriptions can be found at the top of each section.
2021 Summer Institute Opening Session
Building Site-Based Power Part 1: Building Site-Based Action Teams
Retirement: How Leaders are Instrumental in Helping Members Navigate It
Economic Justice Part 1: Connect the Dots
Meeting Students Needs in the Fall through Labor-Management Collaboration
Liberating Learning in a Post-COVID Educational Ecosystem
Building Site-Based Power Part 2: Introduction To Campaigns
Digital Tools and Social Media to Support Local Advocacy Campaigns
Economic Justice Part 2: Who Decides
Building Site-Based Power Part 3: Organizing Conversations
CTA/NEA Member Benefits Part 1: All That Jazz! An Overview for All Members
CTA/NEA Member Benefits Part 2: Jazz It Up! An Engagement Guide for Leaders
Involving Parents and the Community in Advocacy Efforts
2021 Summer Institute – Member Benefits General Session
Building Site-Based Power Part 4: Membership Recruitment and Retainment
2021 Summer Institute Closing Session with Governor Gavin Newsom
New Presidents Training: Module 1-4
Candidate Recruitment and Recommendation Process
Jazz It Up – Tune in to Your CTA/NEA Member Benefit Services and Programs
Employee Leave Rights Under State and Federal Law
Local Control Accountability Plan for Leaders (LCAP)
What Presidents Need to Know About 403(b)s to Help Their Members Enjoy a Good Retirement
Building and Maintaining Relationships with School Board and College Trustees
New for the Fall! CTA/NEA Micro-Certifications for Members
The Intersectionality of Organizing in our Schools and Communities
Working Together While Apart – Organizing Through Technology with CTA’s Membership Tools
Bargaining Rights and Obligations in the New Funding Environment
Early Member Engagement – Buddy Programs to Support New Educators
Expanded Learning – Opportunities for Students and Local Associations
Increase Member Engagement and Union Power by Organizing Around Academic Issues
Leadership Resources and Member Engagement Strategies
eOrganizing Digital Toolbox: New CTA Website + Action Network + Social Media
Strengthening School Mental Health for All
A Local President’s Guide to School Board Elections
Strengthen Your Local – A Leader’s Guide to Membership (Part 1)
An Exploration into SOGI: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools
Strengthen Your Local – A Leader’s Guide to Membership (Part 2)
2020-21 Winter/Spring Season
Link to the session descriptions can be found at the top of each section.
Opening General Session with CTA President E. Toby Boyd
Kelly’s Hollywood Movie Discussion and Q&A
Keynote Session with Heather Calomese, CDE Special Education Director
Bite-Sized Behavior: Answer Five Simple Questions and Have the Classroom of Your Dreams!
CTA/NEA Member Benefits for You, Your Family and Your Career
Dyslexia in the Classroom: A Teachers Guide to Signs and Accommodations
Optimizing Teaching and Learning Through UDL
Decolonizing Special Education
Create a Growth Mindset Learning Environment
Learning Tools for All Learners
Executive Function Skills: Strategies to Bolster Student Learning Online and in the Classroom
IEPs Untangled: How to Write IEPS Like a Pro in Half the Time
Reaching ALL Students: Teaching Students with Disabilities in the General Education Classroom
UDL, Inclusion and Collaboration: Expanding Access for All Students
Mild to Moderate Instructional Strategies
Special Education Evaluation: When Should We Assess?
Transition: A Scope & Sequence
Trauma, Stress, and Behaviors, Oh My!
Opening Keynote Session with CTA President E. Toby Boyd
Create a Positive Learning Environment for ALL: Effective Class Management
Soaring Balloons & Heavy Shackles – Helping the Most Challenged Kids Soar
Fabulous Google Formative Assessments & Grading with Flubaroo
Bullying as a Social Experience: Intervene and Prevent Bullying in the Creation of a Safe Classroom
A-F Grading is Dead: A Research-Based Approach to Anti-Racist Mastery-Based Grading
Keep your Students Engaged and Motivated to Learn
Understand Students and Anger: Looking Deeper into the Student
Googlify Your Teaching to Differentiate for All Learners
Not Your Typical History Class: A Thematic Approach to Teaching History
Digital Interactive Notebooks: Google Slides for a Virtual Science Classroom
Adding More DRAMA and Writing into the Social Studies Classroom
Understanding Students and Trauma
Get Them Moving! Lessons to Help Kinesthetic Learners Online and in the Classroom
Using Nearpod and Interactive Notebooks to Engage Students During Distance Learning
Assessing Students for Learning
An Educators Guide for Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning
Make the Shift from a ‘Fixed’ to a ‘Growth’ Mindset PE Program
Sustaining Notetaking Strategies in a Hybrid Classroom
Creating Conditions to Thrive – A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
Increasing Student Participation Online
When We Fight Together, We Win: Panel
Addressing the Invisibility of Native American Students in K-12 Public Education
Understanding & Unpacking Equity Vocabulary
Segregation, Foreclosures, Housing Crisis? How, Why, and the Fight for Housing and Racial Justice
Males Talking to Males about Male Privilege
Social Media for Social Justice: Unpacking Hashtag Activism
The Second Wave of Abolition: Undoing Whiteness for Collective Liberation
An Exploration into SOGI: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools
Education Civil Rights & Special Education
CTA/NEA Member Benefits for You, Your Family, and Your Career
Interrupt Isms: Speak Up, Point Out, and Call In
Restorative Justice: An Alternative to Zero Tolerance Policies
Seeing and Responding to Student Emotional and Academic Distress Through the Lens of Trauma
Opening General Session with CTA President E. Toby Boyd
Proactive Classroom Management
Get on the Right Track with CTA/NEA Member Benefits
Mathematical Reasoning-The Force Awakens
Effective Communication Techniques: Fostering Cohesiveness and Creating “The Fun” in the Classroom
Not Your Typical History Class – A Thematic Approach to Teaching History
A New Educators Guide to Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning
Secrets of the Fulfilled Teacher
General Session: Creating Our Hope and Joy
Using Universal Design for Learning, To promote Success for All
One Simple Time-Saving (& Sanity-Saving) Tool for Every Teacher
Understand Students and Trauma
Helping Students Own Their Own Learning
IEPs Untangled- Everything You Need to Write and Run IEPs Like a Pro!
Write On! Using Music for Narrative Prompts in Writing
Understanding Student and Anger-Looking Deeper into the Student
General Session with Keynote Presentation from the authors of The Distance Learning Playbook
Creating Student Learning Communities
Embed Positive Mindful Moments in Your Classroom and Beyond
Getting to the heART of ELA and Social Studies Through the ARTS!
Soaring Balloons & Heavy Shackles – Helping the Most Challenged Kids Soar
Not Your Typical History Class: A Thematic Approach to Teaching History
Creating More Time for Teaching: Efficiencies & Empathy in Distance Learning & in the Classroom
Understand Students and Trauma
Making Curriculum Modifications in Minutes!
Googlify Your Teaching to Differentiate for All Learners
Get on the Right Track with CTA/NEA Member Benefits
Keep your Students Engaged and Motivated to Learn
Understanding Students and Anger – Looking Deeper Into the Student
The Beauty and Power of One – Developing Fraction & Division Concepts
Time to Teach: In-Person or Virtual Learning Strategies
Assessing Students for Learning
An Educators Guide for Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning
Adding More DRAMA and Writing into the Social Studies Classroom
Sustaining Notetaking Strategies in a Hybrid Classroom
This Is The Greatest (Slides) Show
Increasing Student Participation Online
Make the Shift from a ‘Fixed’ to a ‘Growth’ Mindset PE Program
COVID-19 Exposes Public Education’s Soft Underbelly
Digital Toolbox Conversations: Using Canva & Action Network to Drive Engagement in your Local
Members Own Their Own Union: Building Union Strength at Your Worksite
Educator Self-Care During COVID: Explorations in Wellness and Strengthening Immunity
Practical Steps for Building Relationships and Partnerships with Parents and Parent Groups
Strengthen Your Local – A Leader’s Guide to Membership
Student Discipline – Your rights in a distance learning environment and during in-person instruction
Taking Action: Contract Enforcement and Intro to Grievance Handling
Keynote Session with Dr. Grace Lee
Addressing Special Education Mid-Pandemic
Bargaining for the Common Good
Building and Maintaining Relationships with School Board Members and Trustees
An Exploration into SOGI: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools
Introduction to the Bargaining Process
Up Your Social Media Game: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Live for Union Building
Working Together While Apart – Organizing Through Technology with CTA’s Membership Tools
All Aboard! Organizing with CTA & NEA Member Benefits
CalSTRS/CalPERS Retirement Essentials
Confessions of a Former LCAP Director
Facilitated Conversation with CTA Officers and the Executive Director
Effective Local Candidate Recruitment
Moving the Needle: Strategies to Create Meaningful Change for Success
Strong Membership: Asking ESP Members to Join the Union
Bargaining Communications and Messaging
Best Practices for New Hires and Doing Member to Member Outreach
Educators Guide to Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning
How Educators Are Organizing Around Special Education Issues and Winning Improvements
An Insider’s Look at Working With Your School Board
Rights, Responsibilities and Hot Topics for ESP Union Leaders
Opening General Session with CTA President E. Toby Boyd
Digital Interactive Notebooks: Google Slides for a Virtual Science Classroom
Entering the Profession: The Rest of the Story
How to Coach Families Through Online Learning and Make Your Life Easier in the Process
Positive Classroom Management Strategies and Discipline Techniques
Apps, Add-Ons, Extensions, Oh My!
Embed a Positive Growth Mindset Within Your Students and Yourself
Get on the Right Track with CTA/NEA Member Benefits
My New Student Has An IEP, Now What?
General Session with Keynote Speaker Dr. Victor Rios
Drawing out the Best in Your Students
Teaching Tough Conversations: How Do We Introduce Race, Politics and Tragedy into our Classrooms
This Is The Greatest (Slides) Show
Understanding Tenure, Collective Bargaining, and Your Rights
A New Educators Guide to Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning
Teaching Toward “WOW!”: The Art of Student Engagement
Understanding Students While Building and Teaching Empathy
General Session with Keynote Presentation from the authors of The Distance Learning Playbook
Distance Learning Up Close: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting
Get Them Moving! Lesson Ideas for Kinesthetic Learners Online and in the Classroom
An Exploration into SOGI: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools
Implementing a Gender Safety and Communication Plan in Schools
LGBTQ+ Safety in Schools Grant and Scholarship
The Rhetoric of Revolution: Analyzing Significant Speeches within the LGBTQ+ Community
General Session featuring CTA President E. Toby Boyd
Current Issues Facing the LGBTQ+ Asian American Community
Get on the Right Track with CTA/NEA Member Benefits
LGBQIA+ 101: Making Sense of this Alphabet Soup
The Intersectionality of Organizing
Creating and Maintaining an Effective GSA
Queer Latinidad: History, Student Supports and Fair Representation
Straight Fragility (with apologies to Robin DiAngelo)
Understanding Anger and Trauma: Looking Deeper into the Student
All Aboard! Organizing with CTA/NEA Member Benefits
An Exploration into SOGI Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Schools
Beyond Surveys Creating Engaging Ways to Get Member Input
Digital Strategy for Strengthening Our Locals Tools to Translate Online Activism into Offline Power
Equity, Agency, Advocacy Building and Sustaining Ethnic Studies Programs
Funding Classroom Projects in a COVID-19 Budget Crisis
Hybrid and Distance Learning in the Context of COVID
Looking at Special Education Through an Equity Lens
Organizing Never Stops Building Site-Based Power
Overcoming Objections & Recruiting Members
Strengthen Your Local – A Leader’s Guide to Membership
Supporting the Members Who Support Students Advocating for Paraprofessionals
The Intersectionality of Organizing
Working Together While Apart – Organizing Through Technology with CTA’s Membership Tool
