Are you tired of STEM curriculum being rote, male-centered, Eurocentric, and lacking innovation? Are you frustrated with the lack of diversity in STEM professions and how this is reflected in STEM curriculum and academic conferences? Then this is the session for you! Let's disrupt the current STEM culture and curriculum and implement practices, pedagogy, and activities that students will actually engage with and learn from. Learn about how to decolonize your STEM curriculum, create authentic learning experiences for your students and learners, promote student choice and voice, and infuse pertinent topics into your classrooms. Click here for Webinar Registration

Join us to learn how to create animations and augmented reality - leave the session knowing how it's done! Explore a huge list of free animation tools that meet the needs of the different types. Josh will help you connect the dots in understanding augmented reality as well as where/why you or the students might use it. Unpack the power of animation ...

• For storytelling and explaining; 

• For animated infographics depicting data, facts, figures, etc;

• For advocacy; 

• For math, science, history, literacy, art, English; and

• For elementary to high school. 

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Sexuality is a vital aspect of the human experience that involves our bodies, our identities, our relationships, our health, and our society. That's why sex education is a critical component of youths' well being - now and in the future. Dr Nadine Thornhill, Ed.D is a renowned educator with over 15 years of experience helping families and teachers provide positive, developmentally-appropriate information about sexuality with children and teens. In this webinar, you'll learn: how comprehensive classroom learning about sexuality can help us create healthier, happier students; why you're teaching your students about sexuality, even if you don't think you are; and easy ways to integrate important lessons about consent, gender and relationships into any classroom. Bring your questions, concerns and stories about "those awkward" moments and prepare for a rich, robust discussion about harnessing the power of sex ed! for this webinar. Click here to Register!

Everyone needs science, and science needs everyone. In this webinar, 2020 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient, Sam Long (he/him) will help you plan ways to center diversity in your science class. He will share tools for reflecting on our own science identity, connecting science language with equity language, integrating diverse scientists, and responding to pushback in your school community. Sam will also share his Framework and ready-to-use lesson materials for K-12, with a focus on his area of expertise: teaching about gender, race, and socioeconomic class in high school biology and chemistry. Bring your questions and resources to share. Click here to register!

Learn more about the non-profit organization Pride and Less Prejudice with founder Lisa Foreman and Outreach Coordinator for Pride and Less Prejudice Becca Damante. We know fostering LGBTQ+ inclusion matters. If you are wondering how you can build a more inclusive classroom as well as ways to connect with our organization, join us for this webinar! Click here to register!

Join ELA Educator and Librarian Julie E Torres for this webinar where you will hear about curating collections of inclusive book titles, countering censorship within communities, and responsible use of digital media. This session will be a fast-paced 60-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute Q & A session, so bring your questions, virtual professional learning network colleagues, and any resources to share with the community! Click here to register!

How students feel in our classes, whether it be in person or in digital spaces, matters as much as the content and skills we teach. In this session, English Teacher specializing in English language acquisition - Tan Huynh will share 5 specific strategies to meaningfully integrating emotional intelligence into our already packed teaching schedules. The framework he will share can be applied K-12, and the specific examples that he will share come from his teaching experience (5-12). This is a highly interactive session and you will leave with strategies that you can immediately implement and principles that will make SEL instruction possible in your teaching context. Click here to register for this webinar!

Join Educator and Writer Christina Torres for this webinar designed for classroom teachers to explore the idea of what "safe space" means in classrooms— digital or otherwise. For a space to truly be safe, it must take into consideration racial and power dynamics that exist in our schools. This session will explore the connection between these things and provide examples of how to create racially and culturally conscious safe space in classrooms. Register Here!

In a world filled with unprecedented disruption, how do we leverage this opportunity for growth and for learning with students? It is possible to create experiences that teach students to read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, and tell their truth within their classroom and within their district. Gain insight into ways we can guide students to be solution based and reflective about the role they play in building a better world. We have a responsibility to provide students with purposeful opportunities to use their voice in meaningful ways within their community. Join Enumclaw School District Educators Steve Murphy & JB Blair for this webinar.

In this session we will explore the characteristics of the inquiry classroom, the role of trust and relationship in student-centred learning, and the types of student inquiry. Teachers will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how to implement authentic and sustained inquiry in their classrooms, a clear pathway for their own individual inquiry learning goals as a teacher of inquiry, and tangible methods to immediately bring this work to their classrooms. Join “Dive into Inquiry” & “Inquiry Mindset” Author/Educator, Trevor MacKenzie for this webinar. Registration link available soon.

This webinar with teacher, coach, podcaster, parent and a lifelong learner, Georgina González will help you to evolve a tough conversation into a transformational one, foster strong relationships with teenagers through difficult conversations and help prepare you to provide a place where learners want to engage with anti-bias work. It will help you realise that the outcomes of a conversation with teenagers about uncomfortable or difficult topics, can influence the way in which they see themselves and in the way they will build new relationships in their future. It is important to have these conversations but it is even more important to have them right. We are here to make that possible. Click here to register!