Resources for Educators
Teaching Presidential Elections (from NAMLE and Teaching for Democracy Alliance)
presented by: The National Association for Media Literacy Education
View the archive of this NAMLE and the Teaching for Democracy Alliance co-streamed webinar about Teaching Presidential Elections, which originally...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
From Research to Public Voice: Supporting Youth’s Writing for Civic Advocacy
presented by: Educator Innovator
Youth’s research into civic issues that engage their interests and ignite their passions can represent powerful learning experiences. Yet the genre ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Listening, Leading, and Learning in Community during the 2016 Election
presented by: Educator Innovator
How do teachers invite students to both be themselves and become a community in these times? Alan Singer has been sharing suggestions at Huffington P...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
An Invitation to Share Ideas: How Will You Be Teaching Election 2016?
presented by: New York Times Learning Network
As the New York Times Learning Network gets ready to bring you new lesson plans for a new school year, including many more resources for Election 201...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Dan Doernberg Previews NowComment’s New Image and Video/Audio Annotation Features
presented by: National Writing Project
Join +Dan Doernberg from http://nowcomment.com on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers from August 24th, 2016. (http://edtechtalk.com/ttt). ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Why Election 2016 is All About Remix
presented by: Lamp
Just as the 1960 election is remembered for being changed by television, the 2016 elections may be remembered as being changed by remix. Candidates ha...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
A New School Year And Our Greatest Fear
presented by: Teaching Channel
In this blog post for Tchers’ Voice, 2014 National Teacher of the Year and current Teaching Channel Laureate Sean McComb reflects on how teacher...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Argumentative Writing Helps Students Become Participants in the Real World
This blog post from Casey Olsen, a secondary English teacher affiliated with the Montana Writing Project, touches on the importance of argument writin...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Teaching Debate and Media Literacy in a Polarized Political Climate
presented by: Educator Innovator
In this hangout, participants asked what impact the current political climate, often characterized by its divisiveness, has on teaching debate and me...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Looking Back, Learning Forward: Supporting Project- and Problem-Based Learning with Historical Primary Sources
presented by: Educator Innovator
Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about tea...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Make a Video Letter with Your Phone
presented by: Educator Innovator
View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, p...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Primary Sources, Problem-based Learning, and L2P 2.0: Stimulating and Supporting Youth Learning in Science
presented by: National Writing Project
Trey Smith, Teacher Consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project and 2015-16 Science Teacher-in-Residence at the Library of Congress led a round...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Teaching Controversial Topics – Webinar
The Teaching for Democracy Alliance is made up of organizations working together to equip teachers and administrators to talk about elections & v...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Hangout: Spoken Word Letters
presented by: Educator Innovator
Spoken word, or oral poetry, can help students critically examine dominant narratives to make sense of their own experience through language and expre...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
KQED Teach
presented by: KQED
KQED Teach is a fun and social online learning platform for educators to improve their media literacy skills. KQED Teach is dedicated to engaging edu...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Arguing the CRWP Way: Establishing a Classroom Climate for Inquiry and Generosity
presented by: National Writing Project
Join members of the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) leadership team for a discussion of how CRWP materials and principles encourage students to ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Creating a Culture of Argument
presented by: National Writing Project
This BloomBoard collection by the National Writing Project offers middle and high school teachers multiple ways to approach “creating a culture ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Webinar: Remix to Speak Back to Media
presented by: Educator Innovator
In the midst of the 2016 US President Election cycle, how can we support the youth we work with in being critical media creators and agents around to...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Growing L2P 2.0 Into a Project That Can Have Impact Beyond the Classroom
presented by: National Writing Project
Steven Zemelman’s newest Heinemann title, From Inquiry to Action, combines two of his education passions: Choice-based inquiry approaches and ci...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Teachers Teaching Teachers: From Inquiry to Action with Steven Zemelman
presented by: National Writing Project
Annotate Steven Zemelman’s introduction for his latest book, From Inquiry to Action, and check out the archive of an NWP Teachers Teaching Teach...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
NWP Radio—Design Thinking for Letters to the Next President 2.0
presented by: National Writing Project
Over the last couple of months, Writing Project colleagues have been thinking and talking about the opportunity of Letters to the Next President 2.0 t...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Media Make: Make Your Own Political Art (How-to Hangout)
presented by: KQED
As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this Media Make examined the elements of influential politi...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Political Investigative Journalism: Playing the Watchdog Role
presented by: Educator Innovator
Join host Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project for a conversation with Chicago Sun-Times reporters, Chris Fusco and Tim Novak. Fusco and Novak d...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Empowering Youth Around the World: Mozilla L2P 2.0 Curriculum Workshop & Civic Engagement Guide
presented by: Mozilla Foundation
How can today’s youth get started in civic engagement at home and in the world? After discussing that question during the latest Mozilla Curriculum ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Media Make #3: Argue with Images! Infographics (How-to Hangout)
presented by: KQED
As part of a special series designed for Letters to the Next President 2.0, this Media Make how-to hangout focused on the power of data visualizatio...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Evidence & Arguments: Lesson Planning
presented by: Teaching Channel
This video from Teaching Channel contains an in-depth conversation on lesson planning for a High School English Language Arts class. Using a popular t...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning