Apple Learning

Apple Workflow for Educators

Begin your Apple Teacher journey by exploring 120 skill-building tutorials that make it easy to use iPad and Mac and Apple apps like Pages, Keynote, Numbers, GarageBand, and iMovie for teaching and learning.

Format: Self-paced

3 PDH

Apple Teacher Certification

Once you have a foundational grasp of Apple devices, its time to earn your Apple Teacher designation. Learn and earn badges for Mac, iPad, Swift Coding, or Lesson Integration. This course can be taken up to four times.

Format: Self-paced

3 PDH

Apple Teacher Portfolio

Apple Teacher Portfolio is for teachers who have already earned their Apple Teacher designation. Participants will learn from example lessons and templates to get new ideas for creating their own collection of creative and powerful lessons. The completed portfolio of original lessons can be shared with fellow teachers and administrators.

Format: Self-paced

6 PDH

Everyone Can Create: Jumpstart

The Everyone Can Create collection of guides is designed to foster creative expression in each of your students through drawing, video, photography, and music with iPad. The Jumpstart course introduces participants to all four areas with an emphasis on integrating ideas into future lessons.

Format: Self-paced

6 PDH

Everyone Can Create: Deep Dive

The Everyone Can Create collection of guides is designed to foster creative expression in each of your students through drawing, video, photography, and music with iPad. The Deep Dive course immerses participants in one of the four areas to develop expertise in a given area of creative expression.

Format: Self-paced

6 PDH

Apple Classroom

Classroom is a powerful app for iPad and Mac that helps you guide learning, share work, and manage student devices. It supports both in-person and remote learning environments. Teachers can use Classroom to manage the workflow if their students within the learning environment. This live demonstration can be customized to fit anywhere between 30 and 120 minute sessions.

Format: In-person live demonstration

Apple Distinguished Educator

The Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program was started in 1995 as a way of recognizing innovative educators who are transforming teaching and learning with Apple technology. ADE's are a community of educational leaders and trailblazers who want to increase their impact as advisors, authors, advocates, and ambassadors of meaningful and personalized learning.

All Barrington 220 certified staff members are invited to request more information about becoming an Apple Distinguished Educator.

Apple Distinguished School

Apple Distinguished Schools are recognized among the most innovative schools in the world. They leverage instructional technology to provide personal and meaningful learning environments for their students and staff. Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of continuous innovation with establish cultures of effective use of instructional technology.

All Barrington 220 Principals are invited to request information about becoming an Apple Distinguished School.

Apple Distinguished Schools in Barrington 220:

Barrington High School

Apple Learning Coach

A free professional learning program that trains instructional coaches, digital learning specialists, and other coaching educators to help teachers get more out of Apple technology. It's a dynamic mix of self-p[aced lessons, workshop sessions, and personal creative projects.

All Barrington 220 iDAL Coaches are invited to request more information about this program.

Apple Residency

Build relationships and develop a meaningful long-term partnership with an Apple Professional Learning Specialist while you explore how Apple devices can transform student learning in your classroom. Apple Professional Learning Specialists deliver weekly one-hour workshops on a variety of topics over the course of a two-month residency. Individual coaching and co-teaching are possible.

All Barrington 220 staff members are invited to participate in the Apple Residency experience

Executive Briefing

Teams and small groups can join Apple Learning Specialists at the Apple Headquarters in Chicago for an immersive day of learning. Educators will learn how to leverage Apple technology to create powerful learning experiences for their students and improve their own creativity and workflow with an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.

All Barrington 220 Administrators are invited to request more information about this experience.

Executive Coaching

Designed for education leaders who want to identify, explore, and support effective student learning with Apple technology. In a series of six remote one-hour sessions, participants engage one-on-one with an Apple Professional Learning (APL) Specialist using collaborative apps and online conference tools.

All Barrington 220 administrators are invited to participate in the Executive Coaching experience.

Vision in Practice (ViP)

This customized experience is for schools who want to see their mission and vision come to life in every day practice. Teachers and administrators participate in an immersive week-long workshop where they merge the school's vision for learning with the innovative 1:1 learning environment in which they teach. The goal of this experience is to take the school's vision statement from theory to reality.

All Barrington 220 principals are invited to request more information about this experience.