Summer PD Opportunities
PRofessional Learning Institutes (BPS Partners)- Summer 24
Priority registration deadline is June 30, 2024!
See the BDL website and flyer for more info.
Reach out to BDL Educator institute co-directors Sarah Mayper (smayper@bostondebate.org) and Carlos Monteiro (cmonteiro@bostondebate.org) with any questions.
SUMMER 2024 DEBATE-INSPIRED EDUCATOR INSTITUTE
The Boston Debate League is excited to announce our new two-day Debate-Inspired Summer Learning Educator Institute for educators in Boston and beyond. The Institute will take place on August 21-22 at Suffolk University. It will feature a menu of introductory and advanced workshops on debate-inspired classroom strategies, taught by teachers, for teachers; a series of workshops for policy debate coaches, preparing coaches for the 2024-25 resolution and cases; and opportunities to learn and be inspired with a community of debate-inspired educators. Lunch will be provided on both days.
All educators interested in what debate-inspired learning can offer young people - debate coaches, educators experienced in debate-inspired classroom practices, and those brand new to the work - are encouraged to attend the BDL Educator Institute. The two days will be packed with engaging, thoughtful, and useful learning that teachers and coaches will be able to put into practice in September.
For teachers interested in continuing their development of debate-inspired practices in their classrooms, the BDL will offer a yearlong virtual 3-credit graduate class for the 2024-25 school year. The class, called “Debate-Inspired Classrooms: Cross-School Cohort Learning,” will bring together teachers across grade levels, content, and geographic areas, who will work collaboratively with one another and an experienced Debate-Inspired Classrooms instructional coach, to develop their own DI lessons, collect and share artifacts including student work and classroom videos, and learn how to make debate-inspired practices an integral part of their classrooms.
Costs:
Aug 21-22 Educator Institute: $325 (or free for Boston Debate League coaches)
Educator Institute + School Year Virtual Grad Class: $2000 (provides 3 graduate credits)
Summer Institutes
Boston Athenaeum & Museum of African American History Boston
“Abolition and Activism: Black Women in 19th Century Boston”
July 30- Aug. 1 9:00-3:30PM
This workshop will focus around collections and locations in Boston that can be used to teach about the fight for racial equality and suffrage by 19th century Black Bostonians with a focus on the central role of women. Following up the Boston Athenaeum’s recent exhibition, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums, educators will engage deeply with primary sources, especially photography, learn about the fight to desegregate the Boston Public Schools at the Museum of African American History and experience the Beacon Hill and West End community of Black women activists with the National Park Service.
Cost: $50 Participating educators will receive a one-year membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Participants can take the course for one graduate credit from Westfield State (for an additional $200) or 22.5 PDPs.
Register through the Boston Athenaeum calendar.
Questions? education@bostonathenaeum.org
Massachusetts
Humanizing the History of Genocide in the Classroom
Collaborative for Educational Services (Northampton) - Register
July 15 - 8:30am - 3pm - CES, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Led by 20+ year genocide education teacher Kate Todhunter.
Gain materials and resources on the Holocaust and Armenian, Khmer Rouge, and Rwandan genocides and legacy of colonialization in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the Northampton Public Schools.
Supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Massachusetts teachers complete summer program and school-year sessions and project for a $525 honorarium and 15 content-area PDPs.
Application Already Closed for this year:
Harvard University--Democratic Knowledge Project/Safra Center for Ethics
"Past to Present: Teaching the History & Legacies of Enslavement and Facilitating Classroom Conversations on Complex Topics" → Application Closed
July 8-12, 2024
The Past to Present Summer Institute seeks to establish a robust learning community among K-12 educational professionals nationwide. Participants will delve into curricular materials designed for teaching the history of enslavement. Through critical discussions, they will address the challenges of navigating and facilitating complex conversations related to this history and its enduring legacies across diverse perspectives. The Institute will take place in Cambridge, MA from July 8th-July 12th 2024. Participation is by application and some scholarship funds are available to support housing and travel for qualifying participants. Applications are now open! Learn more on the institute website.
Applications are due Monday, April 15th, 2024. A
“Bringing the Campus of Boston into Your Classroom: Teaching with Historic Places”
Mon, July 29th – Fri, August 2nd 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Boston’s richness of place-based resources expands across the city and links neighborhoods and schoolyards to sites of international significance. Teachers will work with museum, historic site and national park educators to explore the value of place-based teaching and learning, on site and in your classroom. Participants will be partnered with Place-Based Boston sites to complete their final projects
Course Details:
Free and open to all Boston teachers; 3 Grad. Credits (through Framingham State). This year, Cambridge, Chelsea, Malden, Medford, Quincy, Revere, Somerville and Winthrop will also be participating)
Monday, June 15th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Virtual pre-course session to go through capstone requirements and answer questions
Summer Institute: Mon, July 29th – Fri, August 2nd 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (In person)
Tuesday, August 20th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Virtual teacher project share out
Feel Free to Contact: elisabeth_colby@nps.gov
Leventhal Map Center 2024 Summer Institute--Application Closed
“Teaching With Maps: Community and Resilience in Maritime New England.”
In partnership with the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, next summer we will welcome 25 educators (grades 3-12) to Portland, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts, from July 14 to July 26, 2024 for the NEH Summer Institute “Teaching With Maps: Community and Resilience in Maritime New England.” Teachers will explore how maps and landscapes reflect, erase, obscure, and celebrate Black and Indigenous geographies and histories along New England’s maritime coast. Participants receive a $2,200 stipend for participating in the two-week program.
