Northern California Educational Leadership Consortium

NorCal ELC | Event Recording Archives


2024 Winter Leadership Institute (WLI)

The following playlist is a compilation of:

  • Keynote Presentation by Dr. Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
  • Eight (8) Content Session recordings presented by the programs Regional Coaches

Access the full 2024 WLI Event Recording playlist here.(opens in new window)


2023 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)

The following playlist is a compilation of:

  • Keynote Presentation by Dr. Greg Peters, Executive Director of San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
  • Eleven (11) recordings total from this year's content session presesnters
  • Nineteen (19) recordings total from NorCal EL Cohort 1, Year 3 participants sharing their Problem of Practice (PoP) journeys, with thirteen different focus areas around PoP.

Access the full 2023 SLI Event Recording playlist here.


2023 Winter Leadership Institute (WLI)

The following playlist is a compilation of 10 recordings from this year's content session presenters.

Access the 2023 WLI Content Session playlist here.(opens in new window)


2022 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)

The following playlist is a compilation of:

  • Keynote Presentation by Gretchen Livesay, Vice President of Partner Impact at Turnaround for Children
  • Thirteen (13) recordings total from this year's content session presesnters
  • Eleven (11) recordings total from NorCal ELC Year 2 participants sharing their Problem of Practice (PoP) journeys, with nine different focus areas around PoP.

Access the full 2022 SLI Event Recording playlist here(opens in new window).


2021 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)

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Summer Institute Opening

NorCal Info. Session

Keynote by Dr. Doug Reeves

Keynote: Healing-Centered Teaching | Supporting Students & Self

By Dr. J. Gunderson & Dr. R. Justeson

Ignite Presentations



NorCal ELC Sponsored Professional Learning Webinars

We’ve sponsored a series of Webinars that focus on increasing equity in education and social and emotional learning. Please browse below our archived Webinars.

  • Give Kids the Whole Buffet: Reducing Barriers Using UDL

    With Kendra Tyler of the Glenn County Office of Education

    This interactive webinar is packed full of lesson planning and UDL take-away strategies to address barriers within curriculum, instruction, materials, and assessment. Receive support for using UDL guidelines and principles through a "buffet" of digital and non-digital tools so you can support ALL students as you activate engagement, action, expression, and representation, and create expert learners in our schools.

    View recorded webinar here.(opens in new window)

  • Listen to Learn: Authentic | Student Voice as a Powerful Learning Tool

    With Holli Hanson & Chris Hoyos - Abeo School Change & Pat Erwin - Principal, Lincoln HS, Tacoma Public Schools 

    In this session, participants will explore different ways in which student voices can be activated to enhance the learning experience for all. Participants will have access to several readings and tools as well as engage in conversation around several examples of how some schools have elicited student voice in authentic ways. The hope is that everyone will leave with a deeper understanding of student's voices and the next steps to apply ideas to their specific context.

    View recorded webinar here.(opens in new window)
  • You Told Us to Think Outside the Box: River Jim Canoeing, SEL & Improved Life Trajectories

    With Bill Shively, Bill Rich, and Sandra Azevedo

    During this three-series session, participants will learn, via narrative, about the “River Jim” project and the lessons learned over the course of a 15-year experiment and study undertaken by Bill Shively, Teacher, Willows Unified. Bill will share his inspiring and extraordinary dedication, passion and success with taking “at-promise” students out canoeing and camping. Driven by the results he witnessed, Bill pursued a Master’s degree to further develop the unconventional pedagogy to the science of learning and well-being. Specifics to this project will be shared, then generalized applications discussed. Bill has distilled key principles,(opens in new window) backed by brain science, that he believes will support students thriving in any context. Dr. William Rich, Professor Emeritus, will extend the conversation to conditions and actions leaders can take to support innovative teachers and projects like River Jim. Sandra Azevedo, Coordinator, Butte County Office of Education, will connect the principles to core social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies and link to teacher and leader resources.

    View the recorded webinar(s):