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Professional DevelopmentLearn with iCivics at your convenience! Master new skills, explore new ideas, and build your teaching toolbox with our growing library of on-demand professional development resources.

Watch your students’ creativity soar with these FREE Adobe, Khan Academy, and Pixar in a Box lessons, activities, and projects.

In this self-paced course, educators and school leaders learn strategies to support their students’ creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration skills. You’ll learn from expert teachers and access over 100 FREE lesson plans, activities, and projects that combine Khan Academy content and engaging Adobe tools.

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This course with Dr. Catlin Tucker focuses on how to take your offline courses blended and entirely online. The strategies presented are grounded in blended and online learning theory. This course will help teachers design a blended or online course, provide instruction online, and facilitate learning and academic discourse in online environments.

Professional Learning - Kentucky Historical SocietyLearning is a lifelong journey – let us join you. You strive to be an educator who inspires students. But who and what inspire you? The Kentucky Historical Society offers...

Education on AirEducation OnAir offers a curriculum of webinars and digital events to help you get the most out of Google for Education tools and solutions. Whether you are a teacher, IT administrator or superintendent, our Google for Education experts, partners and your peers are here to share their knowledge to help you bring transformative tools to your classrooms.

Modern Classrooms Project PodcastDiscussions on education, teaching, and learning from the perspective of the Modern Classrooms Project

Choose from over 280+ online, self-paced continuing education courses for teacher salary advancement and recertification. Courses are reviewed and offered in partnership with regionally-accredited universities for graduate semester hours of credit and CEU/professional development hours (or their equivalent) in all 50 states.

The Kentucky Writing Project emphasizes embedded PD that involves modeling instruction in classrooms, then following up to analyze student work and plan next-step lessons and interventions to accelerate student literacy learning.

Online Professional Learning for Educators at the Friday Institute

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Reimagine SchoolsHosted by Dr. Greg Goins, the Reimagine Schools Podcast features many of the nation's top educators, authors and innovators in K-12 education with an emphasis on leadership development, scaling innovation and transforming our public school system. Guest have included some of the world's most prolific thought leaders on education, including Ted Dintersmith, Ted Fujimoto, Ian Jukes, Alfie Kohn, Grant Lichtman, Marc Prensky and Dr. Tony Wagner. The Reimagine Schools Podcast is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network (EPN). Be sure to join the conversation with #ReimagineSchools. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greg-goins/support

The Backwards PodcastA.J. Juliani shares insights and stories on how to reverse-engineer any goal with a backward design approach. Drawing on years of experience using the backward design process for curriculum and learning development, he talks with experts and leaders who know a lot more than him about succeeding through backward planning in all kinds of areas (business, learning, sports, and life).

Professional Learning Experiences

Creative Educator PD P.A.R.T.Y.

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Choose from 19 mini-sessions in 5 categories: Google Classroom Maintenance, Instructional Practices, Reimagining Technology, Student Activities, and Tech Tools.

Each mini-session is built for self-paced learning and has links to additional resources to learn more.