Events
Information about conferences and other professional learning
Share this PD calendar with your teachers!
The transformED Spring Calendar is packed with 30+ FREE PD events for you and your teachers. Learn the latest in innovation in teaching and learning with transformED!
Host a Diffit Lunch & Learn at your school, and we'll send you a gift card to cover snacks and give you a special promo code to extend your teachers' premium trial access!
This popular program is an easy way to share the power of Diffit with other teachers in your school, and we'll get you everything you need to make it a smashing success.
Book Love Classroom Library Grant Opportunity
The Book Love Foundation seeks teachers who demonstrate a passion for promoting a hunger for books. These teachers recognize the diversity of every class of readers and they challenge each student to build an independent reading life of increasing depth and joy.
Teachers who apply for a Book Love Foundation grant must demonstrate that they are already committed to the support of readers through current classroom practices such as maintaining access to a range of books, conferring regularly and purposefully to understand and support students' changing needs, and sharing their own contagious passion for reading inside and outside of their classroom. This year, we will be awarding three types of grants - Classroom Library grants, Book Clubs grants in honor of Dr. Teri Lesesne, and the new Preservice Teachers grants.
For requirements and applications, please visit https://www.booklovefoundation.org/apply
Better Conversations - Jim Knight Cohort
What change can you make that would have the most significant, positive impact on what happens in school? We think it's to encourage the development of better conversations.
Join our upcoming virtual Better Conversations cohort designed to empower you with the tools and strategies to enhance your interactions both personally and professionally.
With a focus on practical techniques and real-world examples, our Better Conversations workshop will guide you through:
Active Listening: Learn how to truly listen and understand others, fostering deeper connections and mutual respect.
Asking Powerful Questions: Discover the art of asking questions that spark meaningful dialogue and drive positive change.
Providing Constructive Feedback: Master the skill of delivering feedback that inspires growth and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
Building Trust and Rapport: Explore strategies for building trust and establishing authentic relationships in both personal and professional settings.
Whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting your journey, this workshop will empower you to communicate with clarity, empathy, and confidence.
One-Day Workshop Details
Three Options: March 13, 2024 or August 14, 2024 or November 13, 2024
Time: 9am-3:30pm CST
Location: via Zoom
Cost: $395 per individual
Don't miss this opportunity to invest in yourself and unleash the power of better conversations. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today!
Visit The Instructional Coaching Group's website for details and registration.
Share with Colleagues Teaching or Interested in Computer Science:
The 7-12 CS Praxis Prep Pathway helps educators prepare for the Pennsylvania 7-12 Computer Science (CS) Certification Exam (Praxis exam 5652) via an online, self-paced course. The Pathway engages educators in activities to develop foundational CS content area knowledge and skills via the online We_Teach CS program.
As a result of the Pathway, LEAs will have a CS-certified educator to offer a standards-aligned middle or high school CS course.
Children's Museum: Summer Opportunities for Coaches or Coach-Teacher Teams
Email Debbie Coppula from the Children's Museum with questions: dcoppula@pittsburghkids.org.
ALSO: Educators can visit the museum for FREE in February and June with their school ID!
Explore the potential for learning and personal development through making! Join museum professionals in a four-day immersive maker experience where you are the learner. Examine the value and importance of making in education by experiencing it for yourself.
Participate in hands-on making, engage with other educators and explore MAKESHOP’s Principles of Practice and other research-based tools and strategies. Whether you are an experienced educator, maker expert, new to teaching/makerspaces or anywhere in between, this professional development experience will offer insight into the people, processes, tools and materials necessary to cultivate maker-centered learning for any space, formal or informal. (Group discounts and scholarships available; 8/5-8/8)
Genius, Joy and Love: Liberating Educators' Creative Capacities for Change (w/ Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Education)
Explore ways to center racial justice and equity through creative, arts-informed, and relevant curricular engagements. Through this five-day institute, educators and youth will work together to explore questions about how to center racial justice and equity through creative, arts-informed, innovative and relevant curricular engagements. Activities and discussion throughout the institute engage educators to reflect on their identities, lives and literacies; center their hopes, desires, dreams and themselves as significant in our movement toward freedom; critically examine meanings of equity in learning; and lovingly understand the valuable role played by our very own creativities, such as poetry, spoken word, art and song. (No cost, stipend likely available, 7/29-8/2)
"Inanimate Alice" Training
Learn about an immersive online novel and how it can be used as a standalone unit, in a student club or as part of an interdisciplinary project. You will receive support from the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. See details here, and email Debbie Coppula for details at dcoppula@pittsburghkids.org. (Note: This is geared toward middle school students.)