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We empower educators with free professional learning through virtual courses, face-to-face workshops, and hands-on training, all offering free SCECHs.
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Upcoming Events
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13 August
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CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification (Hancock)Registration ends Aug 7Date: Aug 13Time: 8:00 AM to 3:00 PMLocation: 811 Hecla St., Hancock, MI 49930 (REMC 1)Calendar: WW CalendarThe CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification training will guide your IT staff through educational best practices and EDU Workspace Admin console skills and techniques. This Fundamentals course covers Admin Console basics and key settings configurations for the educational use of Workspace for Education. This in person class also provides access to a test console environment, so participants can experiment in the console without making any changes to their own environment. The day concludes with an online exam/certification that may be taken onsite or at home.
Level 1:
8:00-8:30: Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30-10:30: Domain Management, Security, Users & OUs, Services & Inheritance
10:30 Short Break
10:45-12:00: Directory & Groups, Drive & Shared Drives
12:00-12:30: Lunch (provided by REMC 1)
12:30 - 2:00: General Gmail Settings, Chrome Management, Chrome Device Settings
2:00 Short Break
2:15-3:00: Admin Roles, Google Vault, Reports Basics
3:00 - 4:30: Exam
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14 August
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CDW Amplified Admin Level 2 Certification (Hancock)Registration ends Aug 7Date: Aug 14Time: 8:00 AM to 2:00 PMLocation: 811 Hecla St., Hancock, MI 49930 (REMC 1)Calendar: WW CalendarThe CDW Amplified Admin Level 2 Certification training will guide your IT staff through educational best practices and EDU Workspace Admin console skills and techniques. This Fundamentals course covers Admin Console basics and key settings configurations for the educational use of Workspace for Education. This in person class also provides access to a test console environment, so participants can experiment in the console without making any changes to their own environment. The day concludes with an online exam/certification that may be taken onsite or at home.
Level 2:
8:00-8:30: Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30-10:30: Gmail Advanced Settings, Groups, Chrome User Settings
10:30-11:30: Chrome User Settings, Drive Protection Rules, Shared Drives
11:30 am-12:00 pm: Lunch (Lunch is being provided by REMC 1)
12:00 - 1:30: API Controls & 3rd Party Apps, Security Rules, Storage
1:30-2:00: Chat/Meet Settings, Google Classroom Settings, Calendar Settings
2:00 - 3:30: Exam
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21 August
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CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification (Traverse City)Registration ends 8/14/20258:00 AM to 3:00 PMCDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification (Traverse City)Registration ends Aug 14Date: Aug 21Time: 8:00 AM to 3:00 PMLocation: Traverse Bay Area ISDCalendar: WW CalendarThe CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification training will guide your IT staff through educational best practices and EDU Workspace Admin console skills and techniques. This Fundamentals course covers Admin Console basics and key settings configurations for the educational use of Workspace for Education. This in person class also provides access to a test console environment, so participants can experiment in the console without making any changes to their own environment. The day concludes with an online exam/certification that may be taken onsite or at home.
Level 1:
8:00-8:30: Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30-10:30: Domain Management, Security, Users & OUs, Services & Inheritance
10:30 Short Break
10:45-12:00: Directory & Groups, Drive & Shared Drives
12:00-12:30: Lunch (Lunch is being provided by REMC 2C.)
12:30 - 2:00: General Gmail Settings, Chrome Management, Chrome Device Settings
2:00 Short Break
2:15-3:00: Admin Roles, Google Vault, Reports Basics
3:00 - 4:30: Exam
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8 September
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AI Prompting Essentials for TeachingRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarLearn how AI-driven prompting can boost teaching efficiency and classroom impact. This course equips educators with essential AI literacy and prompt engineering skills to create engaging and customized classroom applications. We'll discover techniques for lesson design and managing workload with AI prompts that save time and improve learning. Participants will leave this course ready to incorporate prompt engineering into their daily practice with clarity and confidence.
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Assessment Tools for the ClassroomRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarFormative Assessment is an essential part of the learning process leading to student success. Using Formative Assessment, teachers involve students in ongoing self-assessment so they are aware of expectations, gauge where they are in their learning, and then adjust to close the gap between them. Learn about digital tools to support this process. Explore and use quiz and polling tools, interactive and video assessments, portfolios, interactive lessons, and online bulletin boards. Leave with new tools to engage and assist your students in taking responsibility for their learning and achievement.
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Coding in the ClassroomRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarCoding is becoming an essential classroom skill. It inspires critical thinking, engages students' problem-solving skills and promotes creativity. By combining coding and technology to tell stories and create, STEM becomes STEAM! Teachers and students can learn to code using several introductory coding programs designed for K-12 students. We will introduce several free coding platforms, hardware, plus teaching strategies and lessons so that participants will be comfortable coding by the course conclusion.
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Design, Engage, Transform with CanvaRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarUnleash the creative potential of your classroom with Canva! This course is your one-stop shop for mastering Canva in the classroom, whether you're a design enthusiast or a template champion. Learn to craft eye-catching visuals. Dive into a treasure trove of pre-built lessons and resources, ready to plug-and-play or customize to your heart's content. No design experience necessary! This course starts you from the ground up, guiding you with user-friendly steps and practical tips.
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Gamification for Student Engagement & LearningRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarStudent engagement is a key element for learning and academic achievement. Gamification is a system of tools such as badges, achievements, levels, and leaderboards to engage participants. Explore how to combine strategies to inspire students to practice, study, and learn more academic content. These gamification strategies result in increased student-led learning, critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving.
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Helping Struggling ReadersRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarLearn to use Immersive Reader. Explore apps that address areas of phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency/reading rate, and comprehension, support ESL and specific-need or special needs students. During the course, participants will consider reading challenges students often face. Next they will review reading roadblocks using informal and observational assessments. Finally, they will apply this learning to their target audience (students or others). This course provides a toolkit of apps and strategies to address a wide variety of reading needs.
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Igniting Student Curiosity with Inquiry and TechnologyRegistration ends 9/4/202512:00 AM to 12:01 AMIgniting Student Curiosity with Inquiry and TechnologyRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarWhat makes YOU curious? Students who ask questions engage themselves in learning to find answers as curiosity is the simplest and most effective way of learning. Join other educators as we spark our curiosity about the importance of asking questions. Explore how to nurture a culture of inquiry in the classroom by helping students formulate great questions in their learning and how to integrate technology to ignite and sustain critical thinking.
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Learning to use Open Educational Resources on #GoOpen MichiganRegistration ends 9/4/202512:00 AM to 12:01 AMLearning to use Open Educational Resources on #GoOpen MichiganRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarOpen Educational Resources (OER) are free, high quality, openly licensed educational tools that can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed. Explore the dynamic collections of OER on the #GoOpen Michigan website. OER are available/searchable by subject area, grade level, and standards. Educational resources include lesson plans, presentations, activities, assessments and much more.
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Media Literacy: Fake or Real?Registration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarWhich media sites are reporting the truth? How to discern the difference between real and “fake” or false information? More importantly, can students differentiate between real and fake news? Most children have a difficult time discerning between what is real or fake, how to differentiate between an advertisement and a news article, and identifying where they got their news. We need to stop the cycle of passing forward news and information that has not been substantiated. This course will help educators and their students become smarter consumers and producers of information.
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Power Up: Digital LeaderRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarLearn about resources and practice with job-embedded exercises to extend your and your students’ digital citizenship. Explore how you can extend this impact beyond the classroom by moving beyond digital citizenship to a digital leader in your school and community, and encourage your students to do so as well.
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Power Up: Learning EnvironmentRegistration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarLearn to be intentional with how you establish your learning space to facilitate the day-to-day interactions with and among your students. Start with designing the space itself, move on to building classroom culture, and then mold that culture into a community. Create a learning environment that meets the needs of today’s learners in ways that fully traditional classrooms may not.
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12 September
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CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification (Macomb ISD)Registration ends 9/4/20258:00 AM to 3:00 PMCDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification (Macomb ISD)Registration ends Sep 4Date: Sep 12Time: 8:00 AM to 3:00 PMLocation: Macomb ISDCalendar: WW CalendarThe CDW Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification training will guide your IT staff through educational best practices and EDU Workspace Admin console skills and techniques. This Fundamentals course covers Admin Console basics and key settings configurations for the educational use of Workspace for Education. This in person class also provides access to a test console environment, so participants can experiment in the console without making any changes to their own environment. The day concludes with an online exam/certification that may be taken onsite or at home.
Level 1:
8:00-8:30: Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30-10:30: Domain Management, Security, Users & OUs, Services & Inheritance
10:30 Short Break
10:45-12:00: Directory & Groups, Drive & Shared Drives
12:00-12:30: Lunch (Lunch is being provided by REMC 18S.)
12:30 - 2:00: General Gmail Settings, Chrome Management, Chrome Device Settings
2:00 Short Break
2:15-3:00: Admin Roles, Google Vault, Reports Basics
3:00 - 4:30: Exam
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22 September
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Unveiling the Future: Fundamentals of AIRegistration ends Sep 18Date: Sep 22Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW CalendarGain a comprehensive understanding of Generative AI and its distinctions from traditional AI, along with the vital skill of prompt engineering to effectively engage with AI tools. Delve into the capabilities and limitations of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity. Connect with MI educators to learn how others think about and apply Generative AI in their work. The session promises a collaborative hands-on learning experience, empowering participants to apply newfound knowledge seamlessly.
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29 September
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Responsible AI: Examining Risks and Best Practices in EducationRegistration ends 9/25/20254:00 PM to 5:15 PMResponsible AI: Examining Risks and Best Practices in EducationRegistration ends Sep 25Date: Sep 29Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW CalendarDelve into the legal and ethical implications associated with leveraging AI to enhance teaching, learning, and operational aspects, addressing critical areas such as student privacy, data protection, and responsible AI practices. Join us as we navigate the complexities of AI implementation and dive into strategies to mitigate potential risks with AI and equity gaps for students. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights and connect with like-minded professionals around the ethical integration of AI in education.
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6 October
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Applying Google Apps in ChromeRegistration ends Oct 2Date: Oct 6Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarGoogle Workspace for Education provides an expansive repertoire of tools for empowering students and managing instruction. Learn how to promote collaboration and communication seamlessly within your educational community. Participants will explore Google Workspace to boost productivity, organize digital files and transform the learning environment in the classroom and beyond.
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July 2025
2025 REMC President's Award recipient is Steve Kass
REMC honors excellence! Steve Kass is the 2025 President’s Award recipient for outstanding leadership, dedication to digital learning & innovative focus on technology in the workplace. Steve was presented with the award, plaque and jacket during the REMC Summer Inservice held in northern Michigan.