Professional Learning

Engage in the active development of a podcast designed to amplify your voice, as well as that of your students or colleagues.  This workshop is a hands-on experience, equipping you with knowledge, skills, and time to begin developing and creating your own podcast. Teams or individuals are both welcome.

NOTE: Participants will need to provide their own equipment.

This session is in person at:
Ingham ISD, Thorburn Educational Center Room 302

2630 W Howell Rd, Mason, MI 48854

From 8:30am-3:00pm on October 24, 2023.

Engage in the active development of a podcast designed to amplify your voice, as well as that of your students or colleagues.  This workshop is a hands-on experience, equipping you with knowledge, skills, and time to begin developing and creating your own podcast. Teams or individuals are both welcome. 

This virtual workshop will be held March 22, 2023 from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm

The Esports Academy is designed to provide training and support for schools interested in starting a scholastic esports team. The goal is to train individuals on how to start and support an esports program as well as provide an opportunity for newly created school esports teams to gain experience by participating in an organized esports tournament. The REMC Esports Academy will provide an entry point for schools wanting to explore the benefits of participating in scholastic esports.

Lunch will be provided for this in-person workshop.

Use literature to get your students excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by actively involving them in the design thinking process. Participants in this virtual event learn to use these resources with students in a virtual environment and how to implement Design Thinking.

Each of the titles selected for the project shares a story where something was built or invented by designing, planning, gathering materials, and creating. In addition to strengthening literacy skills, your students will develop inquiry and problem-solving skills. They will also see that with perseverance, anyone can be innovative and invent new things. The project is available for free at stemandlit.com.

Participation will be confirmed 3 weeks in advance so a box of materials (including a free book that is part of our project) can be shipped to each participant before the event.  

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

 Cohort 5 - October 30, 2023 to December 11, 2023

Cohort 6 - January 8, 2024 to February 19, 2024

Cohort 7 - April 15, 2024 - May 27, 2024

Cohort 8 - June 17, 2024 to August 5, 2024

Explore the essential elements of podcasting allowing learners the opportunity to understand the essential elements needed to amplify the voices of others and bring new insights into the world through audio.

This session will be held online on October 30, 2023 from 4:00-5:00pm. 

The Esports Academy is designed to provide training and support for schools interested in starting a scholastic esports team. The goal is to train individuals on how to start and support an esports program as well as provide an opportunity for newly created school esports teams to gain experience by participating in an organized esports tournament. The REMC Esports Academy will provide an entry point for schools wanting to explore the benefits of participating in scholastic esports.

Lunch will be provided for this in-person workshop.

Examine the unique nature of educational podcasting, learning how to curate best practices, voices from the field, and leveraging opportunities for community engagement.

This session will be held from 4:00-5:00pm, 1 hour, November 6, 2023

With the demands of life that educators face in their personal and professional lives, it can sometimes be difficult to channel creativity into teaching and learning.  This course is designed to teach you the art of sketchnoting, a visual note-taking technique that combines drawings, typography, and symbols to create engaging and memorable and visually appealing notes.  By learning the fundamental principles of sketchnoting and how to apply them to your content, you will be able to build confidence and create visually engaging and effective visual representations of content that will help you remember and understand information better.

Please Note: as materials will be mailed to participants for this session, you will be asked to confirm your participation via email 3 weeks prior to the start date.  If you choose not to respond to the confirmation email we will unregister you so a waitlist participant may join. 

Moving from understanding to application, this week we will begin taking the steps towards producing a unique podcast to share with the world. We begin applying the principles learned in previous weeks to make evaluative decisions to get the podcast of our dreams started.

This session will be held from 4:00-5:00pm, 1 hour, November 13, 2023

Through the use of collaborative protocols, this week we will begin evaluating and refining the basic elements of our podcast design and development.

This session will be held from 4:00pm-5:30pm, 1.5 hours, November 20, 2023