A Teacher-Nerd Never Rests

My Summer PD Plans

With my trip to India with Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms on hold, I've been on the hunt for things to keep my teacher-brain honed and ready for whatever will be happening in the fall.

Here's what I have so far...

June 9

Can speculative fiction help us prepare for the future?, a "virtual discussion" sponsored by Climateworks Foundation and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination

and

Design Challenge: Imagining Classrooms in Fall 2020, a workshop sponsored by UC Berkeley's Office of Resources for International and Area Studies

June 11

Teaching With Graphs From The New York Times (part of their Summer Webinar Series for Educators)

June 24

White Folks (Part I): We Have to Talk About Race (a webinar from Pr(ism) Resistance Coalition; read more about it here)

June 24-August 5

Mapping as a Visualization and Communication Tool in Your Classroom an online class from National Geographic Education (one of six courses they're offering this summer)

June 25

Using Photos to Promote Critical Thinking Across Subjects (also from NYT)

July ??-??

Youcubed's data science course. More info TBA (read more about it in this post).

July 28-30

Global Teaching Dialogue 2020, U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

August 3-7

Connected Histories of the Renaissance, a virtual institute from Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

August 4-6

Voices from the Gold Road: Medieval Ghana, Mali, Songhai, a virtual institute from Howard University's Center for African Studies

July is looking a little bare, but that first week of August could be a doozy!

On-going:

Google certification

Classes from Coursera and Edx (see my previous post)

• Fashion as Design

• Smithsonian's Objects that Define America

• Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

Other things on my radar:

• Easy PZ – a collection of short PD lessons from the Smithsonian Learning Lab using Project Zero's resources (check out a recent post about PZ)

• Discovery Education Network's interactive courses

• KQED Teach's Media Academy for Educators

• Apple Teacher, Apple's certification program for teachers

• Maker Ed's Maker Education Microcredentials

• The National Education Associations micro-credential offerings