Sofia Center

Our Story

​The Sofia Center for Professional Development provides a vital resource to educators by engaging them in reflection, dialogue, and action focused on essential questions about teaching and learning. The Center nurtures and restores educators’ sense of calling and purpose, and empowers educators to be creators of innovative change in their schools and communities.

The work of the Sofia Center is rooted in its home ground – the beautiful high desert campus of Bosque School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Nestled against the cottonwood forest along the Rio Grande, the Center serves as guide, resource, and leadership opportunity for the faculty at Bosque, while also providing a vital resource to educators from diverse schools and organizations throughout the community. The Sofia Center manifests Bosque School’s commitment to innovative leadership in professional development and to serving the larger public through collaborative partnerships and good work.

The Sofia Center opened its doors in January 2013 with Reflect : Innovate : Act, our first community-wide public event, and Global Issues : Local Voices, an in-house professional development conference for Bosque faculty and staff. Since that time and with the support of many generous people and institutions, the Sofia Center has welcomed educators from over 200 schools and organizations to its programs and built a vibrant professional learning culture at Bosque School.

We are grateful for your interest and hope you will add your voice to our shared learning.