Professional Learning Materials

Two-Year Professional Learning (~ 15 hours of virtual learning each year). This experience is designed to help teachers deeply understand and effectively implement the PeBLES2 curriculum. Through approximately 15 hours of virtual learning spread across three months, teachers engage with the curriculum both as learners and educators. Below are our professional learning presentations with embedded videos and the adaptation tool.  Teachers participate in "immersion" activities, where they experience the curriculum as learners, engage in peer discussions, and collaborate with colleagues to prepare for and reflect on their teaching. They also learn strategies to foster meaningful student-to-student discussions that deepen sensemaking and understanding.

This approach helps teachers understand the curriculum's purpose and structure while building their capacity to facilitate and design adaptations for place-based, phenomenon-driven learning that connects to students' lives and communities.

Year 1: Two-day Workshop (4hrs each day), Roundtable 1, 2, 3, 4 (3hrs each roundtable), including breaks

Year 2: Two-day Workshop (4hrs each day), Roundtable 1, 2-3, 4 (3hrs each roundtable), including breaks

Year 1: Learning the unit, exploring sensemaking and phenomena

Year 2: Explore phenomena adaptation through reviewing examples, using the adaptation tool, and applying approaches across lessons

Workshop Highlights 

Roundtable Resources