TRANSFORM for TOMORROW and PittEd Justice Collective: Justice Learning and Leading

You are preparing already for what will be a very different 2020-21 school year. You’re adjusting to new ways of preparing your teachers, educating your students, and supporting your parents. Have you also integrated matters of justice? Are you constructing anti-racist systems? This virtual series presents opportunities to share and learn from one another about […]

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TRANSFORM for TOMORROW and PittEd Justice Collective: Justice Teaching in STEM

You are preparing already for what will be a very different 2020-21 school year. You’re adjusting to new ways of preparing your teachers, educating your students, and supporting your parents. Have you also integrated matters of justice? Are you constructing anti-racist systems? This virtual series presents opportunities to share and learn from one another about […]

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Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”

National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi discusses “How to Be an Antiracist.” About this Event 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi will discuss his renowned book “How to Be an Antiracist” on Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. with Dr. Charlene M. […]

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TRANSFORM for TOMORROW and PittEd Justice Collective: Justice Listening and Strategizing

You are preparing already for what will be a very different 2020-21 school year. You’re adjusting to new ways of preparing your teachers, educating your students, and supporting your parents. Have you also integrated matters of justice? Are you constructing anti-racist systems? This virtual series presents opportunities to share and learn from one another about […]

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Education Now: Can We Actually Reopen Schools Safely?

SPECIAL EPISODE: Friday, July 31, at noon EDT — Can We Actually Reopen Schools Safely? With disease outbreaks flaring in various states, and a shortage of reliable guidance from the federal government, the country is grappling with the challenges of sending children back to school. Families, local leaders, and school-based educators hold much of the burden of balancing trade-offs […]

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Berkeley Lab K-12: Live Science Series: Science in the Sky

Join us as atmospheric and climate scientists will be talking about atmospheric rivers. We’ll be engaging attendees in community science and sharing how you can collect data from the comfort of your home. Finally, something new to tell your friends “what’s up!”

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Education Now: Practicing Antiracism in Your School

The disparities that students face today, magnified during the COVID-19 outbreak, are rooted in systemic racism that has been ingrained in education for generations. But even as we reevaluate the system, we must also recognize the critical impact of individual educators who are committed to the fight against racism and injustice. Educators — people — […]

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What do students need most this Fall?

How Oakland Unified’s Office of SEL is supporting teachers and students to build social and emotional skills in service of learning Now, more than ever, students and teachers must draw on their social and emotional capacities in order to be resilient and to learn through this pandemic. Both adults and students need vibrant communities of […]

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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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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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