Professional Development Update September 1

September 11 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in All Classrooms, Webinar September 12 - 5 Mindfulness Practices for Back to School, Webinar September 25 - Media Literacy: “Ethics & Civil Discourse: Rediscovering Truth”, East Walpole, MA September 25–27–NCTM Regional Conference, Boston, MA October 3-5 - Connected Learning Summit, University of California, Irvine October 10 - An Evening with Isabella Rossellini, Boston, MA October 15-19 WIDA Providence, RI October 16-18 AnchorNets, Crystal City, VA October 18-19 - NEATE Danvers, MA October 23-24 -MASSCue Foxborough, MA October 24 - 26 - MaFLA Springfield, MA November 2 - EdmodoCon 2019, webinars, Miami,FL November 8 & 9 -Northeast Regional Media Literacy Conference, Providence, RI November 9 &10 - MAEA Beverly, MA November 11- December 3 -The Research Behind Motivation, Performance & Well-Being, online course November 18 &19 - Innovation in Education,  Roxbury, MA November 18-20 -2019 Global Education Conference, free, online around the clock November 22-24 Learning How to Learn, Boston, MA January 14-17 - Future of Education Technology, Miami, FL January 30-31 - LearnLaunch, Boston, MA Spring 2020 - STEM Summit, Boston, MA April 2-4 - Personalization 2020, Providence, RI April 2-5 - National Conference on Science Education, Boston, MA April 6-10 - SITE, New Orleans Summer 2020 July 24-26 - Serious Games, Orlando, FL July 2020 -Building Learning Communities, Boston, MA Fall of 2020  October 25-27, 2020 - Literacy for All Conference, Providence, RI On-Going/On-Line EdCamp What began as an idea transformed into a movement! From Philadelphia to Portland, and in 41countries around the globe, participant-driven professional learning is energizing + empowering educators! The first Edcamp was organized in 2010 by a group of teachers in Philadelphia who met up for a computer science "un-conference." At BarCamp, they collaborated with others to create discussion sessions based on the interests of the people in the room. There was no presenter; no boring slideshow. The entire day was personalized and learner driven with those in the room sharing their experience and expertise. At the end of the day, the teachers decided this model was too good to contain! They exchanged contact information, and within the next few months they used the "unconference" model of BarCamp to target educators. Common Sense Educator Learn about the common sense curriculum and how to implement it. Digital Learning for the K-8 Classroom, From Columbia Teachers College, "Ongoing Enrollment: This course is offered in an online, self-paced format. Students are invited to enroll at any time. Digital Learning for the K-8 Classroom was developed in partnership with award-winning educator, Detra Price-Dennis and top professional development platform Teach Away, with the aim of delivering online digital literacy training that helps K-8 educators maximize student learning outcomes in the classroom." PBS TeacherLine facilitated and self-paced PD courses are designed to benefit both beginning and experienced teachers. Topics include science, reading, social studies, math, instructional strategies, and instructional technology. Innovative: Acquire new strategies and tools you can use right away to enhance classroom instruction. Engaging: Interact with peers and experts in a virtual learning environment. Flexible: Discover anytime, anywhere learning that fits into your busy schedule. Choose from 15, 30, or 45-hour facilitated courses or enroll in a 1.5 or 3-hour self-paced course. Learn Robotics Online is a hands-on online workshop series for STEM Teachers developed by the CoderZ Team at Intelitek. They are offering the workshop series for free to CSTA Members and we wanted to encourage you to sign up for this fantastic opportunity. The lessons are a combination of short topical videos and hands-on exercises covering topics such as navigation, sensors and programming. The exercises will be done in the CoderZ virtual robotics learning environment which comes with a realistic simulator so you can see your robot execute your code. No need for any hardware! The series is self paced and online so you can watch the videos and practice the exercises wherever and whenever you want. Go to https://gocoderz.thinkific.com/courses/robotics-for-stem-teachers to view the full curriculum and sign up. Computational Thinking for Educators What: A free online course helping educators integrate computational thinking into their curriculum. Who: Humanities, Math, Science, and Computing educators. When: All of the course materials are available as a self-study program. Class Central’s collection page for Ivy League MOOCs. Here are 250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free. "The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania.  All eight schools place in the top fifteen of the U.S. News and World Report 2017 national university rankings." Harvard is offering a FREE Digital Photography "technology is continually changing, however, the principles behind good photography don't. ALISON's free online photo course gives you the opportunity to gain extensive knowledge and understanding of digital photography including topics such as exposure settings, how to read and use the histogram, how light affects a photograph, how the camera sensor and lenses work, and how to process a photograph using computer software. You will also learn tips and techniques on what not to do when taking a photograph." Google Apps for Education, Certified Educator. "The Google for Education Training Center offers in-depth training for educators at every level. Courses are self-paced, guided, and designed to address real classroom needs.