Professional Learning Services

Next Gen Change Makers: Constructing Your Leadership Identity

Oct 15, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Refine your leadership identity with reflection, feedback, and real evidence. The series is designed for emerging change makers, early-career educators, and folks navigating big shifts in their leadership.

Member Meetup – Peer Consultancies

Oct 16, 2026

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT

Come together with other members of our professional learning community to network and form new connections! Bring a challenge you’d like help working through, or come ready to ask probing questions and help others think expansively about their dilemma!

Poetry in Science Learning – Fall offering

Oct 21, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Including poetry in science learning experiences can offer opportunities for reflection, meaning making, knowledge integration, & leveraging students’ personal & cultural expertise.

Multi-session Course

Leadership Essentials for Organizational Systems Change: Collaboration, Feedback, and Accountability

Oct 27, 2026 +3 more

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

We all have capacity for leadership. This multi-session course offers skills development and resources for intentional and effective collaboration.

Evaluation & Impact

Evaluation 101: Designing Towards Your Goals

Oct 28, 2026

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

Learn the fundamentals of program evaluation to measure and improve your organization’s impact!

Next Gen Change Makers: Seeing the System

Oct 29, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Look at the system, not just the symptom, and then make a choice about your leadership. The series is designed for emerging change makers, early-career educators, and folks navigating big shifts in their leadership.

BEETLES Free session!

Promoting Discussion: Discussion in Action

Nov 5, 2026

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

In this session, participants will explore the impact of meaningful discussions in science learning and the strategies that support them.

Next Gen Change Makers: Making the Case for Change

Nov 12, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Turn your observations to a broader understanding of fairness and access, and help others see the need for change. The series is designed for emerging change makers, early-career educators, and folks navigating big shifts in their leadership.

BEETLES

Integrating Field Journaling Into Lessons and Programs

Nov 18, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Nature and science journaling is a powerful practice that supports observation, thinking, and learning. Explore strategies for incorporating journaling in your programs.

Free session!

Open House Information Session

Nov 19, 2026

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM PT

Join us for this free, informational session to learn more about the Lawrence’s professional learning workshops, courses and memberships! Q&A time included!

Winter Open Space Conference

Dec 1, 2026

12:30 PM - 3:00 PM PT

We invite attendees to pitch discussion topics in this open style of conferencing. Join folks from across the field to have generative conversations and cross-pollinate!

Evaluation & Impact Free session!

Introducing the Lawrence STEM Impact Hub: Streamlining Program Evaluation

Dec 8, 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT

In this session, participants will explore the STEM Impact Hub, a subscription service that streamlines survey creation, data analysis, and reporting.

BEETLES

Promoting Discussion: Applying Strategies and Tools

Dec 10, 2026

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

In this session, participants will practice using strategies, tools, and frameworks to support meaning-making discussions in science.

Multi-session Course

Onboarding Staff into the Museum Science Field

Jan 15, 2027 +2 more

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

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Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Developing Adaptive Capacities

Jan 19, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, dig into a framework for “Adaptive Leadership” and identify a key leadership challenge that you’ll focus on throughout the series.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Leading with Your Superpowers

Feb 2, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, identify your leadership superpowers and map them onto real-life leadership challenges.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Staying Centered in the Eye of the Storm

Feb 16, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, identify your leadership “sanctuary”, and explore strategies for staying centered in moments of distress and turmoil.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Mar 2, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, consider the “unwritten rules” of your organization – the “water” that you all swim in – and explore strategies for shifting the tide towards your organization’s goals.

Multi-session Course

Leadership Essentials for Organizational Systems Change: Designing an Action Plan

Mar 4, 2027 +3 more

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

In the final course of our Leadership Essentials program, we support participants in action planning towards their systems change goals.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Building (not Breaking) Trust through Transparency

Mar 16, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, dig into the “anatomy” of trust, identify trust gaps at your organization, and brainstorm strategies for building long-term trust.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Advancing Equity and Belonging

Mar 30, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, strengthen your toolkit for advancing equity and belonging at your organization and hone in on your goals.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Cultivating Your Deep Bench

Apr 13, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, consider succession planning from a new angle, and explore tools and exercises for strengthening your organization’s approach.

Multi-session Course

Leadership Essentials for Organizational Systems Change: Designing an Action Plan

Apr 16, 2027 +3 more

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT

In the final course of our Leadership Essentials program, we support participants in action planning towards their systems change goals.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Disruption as An Opportunity for Progress

Apr 27, 2027

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT

A seminar series designed for executive leaders of educational organizations. In this session, reflect on the many tools from the series, and consider how they can support you as you lean in to the opportunities that disruption brings.