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Empower Teachers
We empower teachers with free professional learning through virtual courses, face-to-face workshops, and hands-on training, all offering SCECHs.
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Upcoming Events
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26 May
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Discovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends June 1712:00 AM to 12:01 AMDiscovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends Jun 17Date: May 26Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: OnlineCalendar: WW CalendarThe at-your-own-pace course is asynchronous and delivered via Google Classroom by Discovery Education personnel. No Zoom calls to make or deadlines to meet. Simply sign up for the course, complete the activities at your own pace, participate in the discussions and submit a few simple assignments. Earn up to 5 SCECH, one for each assignment completed. It is that easy! By completing each section you will learn about Discovery Education resources, instructional strategies, student access, ready to use lesson activities and more!
SPECIAL NOTES: This course will be hosted in a Google Classroom by Discovery Education specialists.
You will need to use a personal Google account to join the course due to safety restrictions placed on school Google domains.
You will need a Discovery Streaming or Discovery Experience account for use during the course. Contact your school DE administrator if you do not know your account. Contact the course instructor if you are unsure if your district has Discovery Streaming.All activities completed between May 15 and the end of the day June 21, 2023 will be considered for SCECH credit.
New registrants will be sent course information on May 15, or the Friday after they register.
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2 Jun
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Discovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends June 1712:00 AM to 12:01 AMDiscovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends Jun 17Date: Jun 2Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: OnlineCalendar: WW CalendarThe at-your-own-pace course is asynchronous and delivered via Google Classroom by Discovery Education personnel. No Zoom calls to make or deadlines to meet. Simply sign up for the course, complete the activities at your own pace, participate in the discussions and submit a few simple assignments. Earn up to 5 SCECH, one for each assignment completed. It is that easy! By completing each section you will learn about Discovery Education resources, instructional strategies, student access, ready to use lesson activities and more!
SPECIAL NOTES: This course will be hosted in a Google Classroom by Discovery Education specialists.
You will need to use a personal Google account to join the course due to safety restrictions placed on school Google domains.
You will need a Discovery Streaming or Discovery Experience account for use during the course. Contact your school DE administrator if you do not know your account. Contact the course instructor if you are unsure if your district has Discovery Streaming.All activities completed between May 15 and the end of the day June 21, 2023 will be considered for SCECH credit.
New registrants will be sent course information on May 15, or the Friday after they register.
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5 Jun
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Coding in the ClassroomRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 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 Thinking Made PracticalRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW Calendar
Design Thinking is a practical methodology that provides innovative approaches to critical thinking and in-depth inquiry using STEM, STEAM, Inquiry-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, and other structures. The program emphasizes standards-based authenticity and using the student's voice. Design Thinking is a highly optimistic mindset that brings a human element of support to students, teachers, and administrators in the variety of challenges that face them. Gain an understanding of Design Thinking and the Design Process used to create and evolve ideas. Craft learning experiences based on design thinking.
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Explore what is Design Thinking and what it looks like.
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Understand how to connect Design Thinking to other innovative approaches to learning.
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Explore how the Design Process puts Design Thinking into Action.
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Create a learning experience based on Design Thinking
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Digital Tools For Classroom CollaborationRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarIt’s easy to communicate and collaborate with almost anyone anywhere, anytime just by clicking a button. Educators can use the same collaborative tools in the classroom to engage students in learning, collaboration, and critical thinking. Learn to use collaborative tools for projects. Teach students to give and receive constructive feedback from fellow classmates to students around the world. Explore tools for note-taking, multimedia bulletin boards, and more.
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Energize Student Writing Through Author CraftRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarEnergize students to level up their writing across all styles and content? Explore author’s craft through the writing process structure. Help writers improve their craft through immersive experiences where they explore and sculpt ideas into meaningful drafts to share with various audiences. Join us on this writing journey.
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Gamification for Student Engagement & LearningRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 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 Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 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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Increasing Efficiency and ProductivityRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarBecome more productive, efficient and organized in your professional and personal life. Increase and improve productivity using apps and other simple technology. Tech Tip 1: When selecting an app, learn to use it regularly. For example, update and check a calendar each day. Or create tasks in a list app, then complete and check them off.Tech Tip 2: Don’t try using everything at once. Start with one or two applications and then add more as needed.
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Leading a Culture of Change in Your SchoolRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarExplore the essential needs of Leadership and Culture. This course is designed for school, district, and teacher leaders who wish to implement a change effort in their school or schools. Leaders is a broad category, and can include coaches, teachers, technology specialists, aspiring leaders, or other interested in supporting school change. This course will focus on technology initiatives and other ideas that incorporate change.
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Power Up: Meaningful DataRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarDuring your career, you will have many new experiences utilizing teaching strategies and methodologies to achieve goals for yourself and your students. This course will expand your ability to effectively use data to increase the chances of reaching those goals.
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Remixing and Revising Open Educational Resources from #GoOpenMichiganRegistration ends June 112:00 AM to 12:02 AMRemixing and Revising Open Educational Resources from #GoOpenMichiganRegistration ends Jun 1Date: Jun 5Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 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. It’s easy to find multiple OER for your lessons or curriculum by using the comprehensive search tools on the #GoOpenMichigan website. Now learn to customize any lesson, presentation, activity or other OER from #GoOpenMichigan to help students achieve learning goals and standards. Remixing and revising OER provides endless opportunities to create fresh approaches to content and learning.
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9 Jun
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Discovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends June 1712:00 AM to 12:01 AMDiscovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends Jun 17Date: Jun 9Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: OnlineCalendar: WW CalendarThe at-your-own-pace course is asynchronous and delivered via Google Classroom by Discovery Education personnel. No Zoom calls to make or deadlines to meet. Simply sign up for the course, complete the activities at your own pace, participate in the discussions and submit a few simple assignments. Earn up to 5 SCECH, one for each assignment completed. It is that easy! By completing each section you will learn about Discovery Education resources, instructional strategies, student access, ready to use lesson activities and more!
SPECIAL NOTES: This course will be hosted in a Google Classroom by Discovery Education specialists.
You will need to use a personal Google account to join the course due to safety restrictions placed on school Google domains.
You will need a Discovery Streaming or Discovery Experience account for use during the course. Contact your school DE administrator if you do not know your account. Contact the course instructor if you are unsure if your district has Discovery Streaming.All activities completed between May 15 and the end of the day June 21, 2023 will be considered for SCECH credit.
New registrants will be sent course information on May 15, or the Friday after they register.
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16 Jun
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Discovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends June 1712:00 AM to 12:01 AMDiscovery Interactive Event - Open Window: 5/15/2023-6/17/2023Registration ends Jun 17Date: Jun 16Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: OnlineCalendar: WW CalendarThe at-your-own-pace course is asynchronous and delivered via Google Classroom by Discovery Education personnel. No Zoom calls to make or deadlines to meet. Simply sign up for the course, complete the activities at your own pace, participate in the discussions and submit a few simple assignments. Earn up to 5 SCECH, one for each assignment completed. It is that easy! By completing each section you will learn about Discovery Education resources, instructional strategies, student access, ready to use lesson activities and more!
SPECIAL NOTES: This course will be hosted in a Google Classroom by Discovery Education specialists.
You will need to use a personal Google account to join the course due to safety restrictions placed on school Google domains.
You will need a Discovery Streaming or Discovery Experience account for use during the course. Contact your school DE administrator if you do not know your account. Contact the course instructor if you are unsure if your district has Discovery Streaming.All activities completed between May 15 and the end of the day June 21, 2023 will be considered for SCECH credit.
New registrants will be sent course information on May 15, or the Friday after they register.
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20 Jun
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June 20 Podcasting Mastermind MeetingRegistration ends Jun 16Date: Jun 20Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW CalendarOnline meet-ups for troubleshooting and brainstorming with like minded edu-podcasters across the state of Michigan. Each meeting will be facilitated with topics for discussion originating from a weekly survey and in-meeting conversations.
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27 Jun
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June 27 Podcasting Mastermind MeetingRegistration ends Jun 23Date: Jun 27Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW CalendarOnline meet-ups for troubleshooting and brainstorming with like minded edu-podcasters across the state of Michigan. Each meeting will be facilitated with topics for discussion originating from a weekly survey and in-meeting conversations.
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10 Jul
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Student-Centered Learning Across Michigan Cohort 4: July 10 - August 20, 2023Registration ends July 712:00 AM to 12:01 AMStudent-Centered Learning Across Michigan Cohort 4: July 10 - August 20, 2023Registration ends Jul 7Date: Jul 10Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
In this learning opportunity, we will utilize Modern Classrooms Project’s free course to pause, reset and create a local support structure as you work to design your own elements of a blended, self-paced, and mastery-based classroom. The Modern Classrooms Project is a nonprofit that has developed an instructional framework grounded in blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
In this 6 week largely asynchronous, self-paced course, we’ll work to design learning for your students that makes it easier to meet the needs of all your students (even when they’re absent), allows you to have a clearer picture of student learning, and includes a blended learning framework to allow you to work with smaller groups of students while the learning continues in your classroom.
This Virtual course will be offered:
Cohort 1 - October 31, 2022 - December 11, 2022
Cohort 2 - January 9, 2023 - February 19, 2023
Cohort 3 - April 10, 2023 - May 21, 2023
Cohort 4 - July 10, 2023 - August 27, 2023
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Constructing Your Blended Learning ClassroomRegistration ends Jul 6Date: Jul 10Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW Calendar"How do you take the best of the new tools and skills you used during virtual learning, and make them work in your face-to-face classroom? What new strategies does this open up for better connection with your students in all circumstances?
This course will provide you with resources to support learning and increase efficiency when teaching. You will leave this course with tools and strategies that will minimize and often prevent disruption in student learning."
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