Workshops Exploring the Current State of Public Discourse
Apply today for the Sphere Summit: Teaching Civic Culture Together 2021. The annual Sphere Summit is a full-scholarship professional development program for educators of grades 5–12 that will take place June 27–July 1 and July 25–July 29 in Washington, DC. The summits will offer a hybrid experience, which will allow for both in-person and online attendance.
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Funding & Recognition
Recognition of Outstanding Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 fundamentally changed the world, but none more radically than in the classroom. The National Society of High School Scholars created My Virtual Learning Success Story, an award to recognize those who were presented with a tough situation and, through the trials and tribulations of virtual learning, came out successful.
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Mobile Learning
Portal to Mars in Augmented Reality
With the new Mission to Mars app for iOS, users can drive a rover, walk the Martian surface, and play robot geologist, all in augmented reality. The Mission to Mars app offers seven experiences, starting with an overview of Martian geography.
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Professional Growth
Take Your STEM Teaching Skills to the Next Level
The University of Cincinnati Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction is a top-ranked, 100 percent online program. An MEd in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in STEM Education will deepen your understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education in the classroom. This concentration is ideal for teachers looking to improve their STEM teaching skills, including problem-based and project-based learning activities, as well as mathematics and science investigation-based learning tasks. UC Online also offers a Certificate in STEM Teaching and Learning to advance your knowledge in several STEM areas. Sign up for a top-ranked program with renowned faculty, start-to-graduation support, and personalized mentoring for a capstone project.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Native Poetry Rooted in the History of America
Living Nations, Living Words, the signature project of United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, conveys through poetry that Native people and poets have vital and unequivocal roots in this country. The project features 47 contemporary Native poets reading and discussing their original poems.
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Funding & Recognition
Grants to Enhance Delivery of STEAM-Related Activities
The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) is providing five $1,000 STEAM Educator grants to enhance STEAM-related activities, innovation, and classroom excellence for teachers in a STEAM field. Any high school STEAM teacher currently employed at a public or private high school in the United States or internationally is eligible to apply.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
How Fulton Keeps 94,000 Students Engaged with ClassLink
Dr. Emily Bell, Chief Information Officer for Fulton County Schools, in Georgia, says ClassLink helps her district’s 94,000 students stay engaged, whether they are remote or in class. Students access digital resources from one place with one login, while leaders and teachers track engagement with usage analytics. Bell says using ClassLink Analytics, teachers can monitor which digital resources students engage with and for how long, allowing them to step in quickly when students need support. “For us, ClassLink is an important element in our success whether we are in school or in remote learning,” says Bell.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Inspiring Stories of People Using Engineering Skills
Engineering Design Workshop: Powered by MathWorks is a new hands-on engineering and computer science exhibition for families and children at the Museum of Science, Boston. Visitors think like an engineer as they design, build, and test different solutions in design.
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educatingforamericandemocracy.org
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Professional Growth
Inquiry-based Approach to History and Civic Education
A large, diverse group of leading civic education providers and research universities has collaborated to develop a roadmap to Educating for American Democracy, offering guidance for the content and instructional strategies of K–12 history and civic education across the United States, along with an implementation plan.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On Women Who Changed the World
International Women’s Day has been commemorated across the world on March 8 since 1911, and every United States President has marked March as Women’s History Month since 1995. Although the right to vote is a common topic of study in classrooms when students examine women’s history, many more issues, perspectives, and accomplishments require investigation across history, literature, and the arts to more fully appreciate and understand what women’s history in the United States encompasses. On the next page, you’ll find five sources for free lessons and other resources for diving deeply into women’s triumphs in every arena.
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Funding & Recognition
Award for Exceptional Literacy Educators of Color
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)) is accepting applications for its Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Awards. The program supports these teachers as they build accomplished teaching careers in literacy education.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Podcast and Student Contest on the Basics of Democracy
What’s the difference between the House and the Senate? How do congressional investigations work? What is Federalist X actually about? Civics 101 is a podcast series for middle school and high school students on the basics of how our democracy works.
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Professional Growth
Curricula Fostering Belonging and Purpose
Project Wayfinder is a new approach to social–emotional learning called Purpose Learning. It was born at the Stanford Institute of Design to answer a key design question: how can we reimagine adolescent education to develop a student’s sense of meaning, purpose, and belonging?
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Magazine Offering a Glimpse into the Wonders of STEM
OYLA is a popular science magazine for young readers and their families. Every issue offers a look into world-changing discoveries, unsolved mysteries, and surprising scientific principles behind everyday objects..
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weareamericaproject.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Voices of America’s Future
The We Are America Project has engendered powerful, honest stories by high school students about their lives in America. The project was started by 18 students from Lowell High School (in Lowell, Massachusetts), who are working with teachers and young people across the country to define what it means to be American.
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Mobile Learning
Worldwide Science and Conservation Project
eBird is among the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed annually by eBirders around the world.
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