Tag: for educators
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Makey Makey: STEM From a Distance: Brown Bag STEAM, Literacy Kits, and Engineering Process
As we head back to school this fall in all its new incarnations, we know that hands-on learning and STEM education face new challenges. It’s time to start brainstorming innovative ways to keep our students engaged, creating, making, and coding. In this new webinar series, we’ll be reaching out to educators all over the world…
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Decolonizing Education and the Role of Restorative Justice in Schools
This webinar is for educators looking at ways to understand the restorative justice movement and its role in education. While restorative justice has been used in various school settings, it is critical that it is approached in an authentic and meaningful way that acknowledges the roots of the work and the practice. Too often education…
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CTE Mission: CubeSat [info session]
Today, we launched CTE Mission: CubeSat, a national challenge to build technical skills for careers in space and beyond. The U.S. Department of Education invites high schools to bring space missions to students by designing and building CubeSat prototypes — in the classroom or at home. Designing and building a CubeSat prototype in this multiphase…
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CA STEAM: Partnering With Parents For Science Education
#DiscoverTogether: Science Activities, Videos & Lessons To Share With Parents Thousands of parents responded to the California State PTA’s (CAPTA) survey about what they need to support their children’s science learning. Join CAPTA leaders to hear survey results and ways you can help families #DiscoverTogether how engaging and fun science learning can be.
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Redesigning Learning Spaces: Prioritizing Flexibility, Equity, and Deeper Learning
As schools plan to reopen for physical learning, there is a profound opportunity to have equity and flexibility guide the creation of student-centered learning environments. Join us for a webinar with school design experts Nathan Strenge & Randy Fielding of Fielding International – an award-winning education design firm, and Dr. Robert Dillon, author of ‘The…
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The First Ingredient: Rising to Meet Challenges to Relationships in Fall 2020
What we have seen in our work at EXPLO Elevate over the last months has revealed the immediate, and at times existential, threats to critical school relationships. The justifiable stress accompanying significant decisions is too often chilling the relationships necessary to allow a school to preserve and deepen culture, to serve students, and to prepare…
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Returning to K-12 Education: Using Science to Keep Children, Teachers and Staff Safe
In the 13th webinar in the COVID-19 Conversations series, we will discuss: takeaways from recent data and expert opinion on opening K-12; lessons from K-12 reopening experiences in Europe; incorporation of pandemic health practices in schools; and plans for the Spring 2021 semester. Our expert panel: Wendy Armstrong, MD, Emory University (Moderator) Caitlin Rivers, PhD,…
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Raising Coconspirators: Talking About Racism With White Kids
Join panelists from We Are and Abolitionist Teaching Network and learn how to raise White coconspirators who disrupt racism
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Live Science: What the Stars Tell Us
Each episode in the series highlights scientists and researchers at Berkeley Lab. Make sure to download the worksheet beforehand (uploaded to k12education.lbl.gov/home-resources/live-science-series) to follow along in easy at-home activities. Register with your preferred email to receive the webinar link. We’ll be partnering with our friends at Lawrence Hall of Science and Science at Cal to…
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Assessment for Good: Ethical, Equitable, and Justice-oriented Assessment Registration
Educating for Good is pleased to announce its premiere virtual conference, August 10-12, 2020. The conference looks at foundational issues around assessment, equity, justice and ethics — particularly those raised by the lock down. Our circle conversations will have implications for assessment in the long term, and also, more importantly, for the school year that…