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Find inspiration and practical support for the start of the next school year! Join one of our summer mini courses for teachers and teacher leaders, instructional leaders, administrators, and other educators. Choose from a variety of topics to fit your learning needs and interests. Discounted registration rates are available for educators paying for their own registration fees. Find your course today!

Teachers are Learners Too!  Creating Robust Professional Development Based on Adult Learning Theories

Teachers spend their career exploring how children learn best.  They take courses on child development, learning theory, and pedagogy.  However, those who teach teachers, rarely study adult development, adult learning, and andragogy (the art and science of teaching adults).  This course provides opportunities for anyone supporting teacher learning to explore these topics and consider implications for the upcoming school year in collaboration with others.  

In this three-session online course, we will explore theories of adult development and workplace learning, discuss how the theories can be applied in the context of K-12 schooling, and utilize the theories as individuals and teams to plan for the 2025-2026 school year.  

If you are interested in how teachers learn best, whether through formal professional development or informal interactions with one another, this course is for you!

Online  |  July 8, 15, 22  |  9 clock hours  |  $225

Facilitated by Dr. Maxine Alloway

About the Facilitator

Maxine Alloway is a Teaching Associate at the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ.  She began her career as an elementary school teacher and teacher leader in Boston and Philadelphia, as well as England and Israel.  She moved to Seattle in 2006 to pursue her doctorate degree, with a focus on teacher learning.  For the past thirteen years, Maxine has worked with teacher candidates, teachers, and teacher leaders throughout the Puget Sound area, as both a literacy instructor and an instructional coach.  She has served on the organizing committee for the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference and volunteered with University Beyond Bars.   Maxine’s work focuses on literacy and learning for liberation. 

Watch Maxine's presentations from the ConnectEd Webinar Series

Media Literacy Institute

In the AI age, media literacy education has never been more important. This course addresses the pressing need for students to develop media literacy skills, including critical thinking and deeper insights about the media messages they consume and produce each day. Media literacy promotes inquiry into stereotypes, representation, biases, ethical challenges, and other concerns that must be addressed in a world where AI s becoming ubiquitous.

Media literacy is not just an essential subject, but also an engaging approach to support teaching in all disciplines. Through the Media Literacy Institute, participants will gain skills to effectively utilize the Center for Media Literacy's evidence-based framework so that users of AI can create engaging lessons that empower students. The course will employ active learning techniques that are sure to yield "Aha!" moments. By the end of this program, educators will have the confidence and knowledge to foster media literacy in their classrooms.

Online  |  August 4-8  |  16 clock hours (with an optional project for an additional 4 clock hours)  |  $300

This course is a collaboration between and the Center for Media Literacy

Every Teacher Can Lead: Finding Your Niche as a Strengths-Based Teacher Leader

All teachers are capable of impacting student growth and systemic change, both within and beyond their own classroom. In this interactive session, we will use a strengths-based approach to explore the various ways you can bring your passion, knowledge, and equity-focused orientation to a variety of teacher leadership roles, ranging from leading teams to coaching and mentoring colleagues, and much more. We will look at the unique dispositions and skills that promote collegial learning among teaching peers, with a specific focus on why teacher leadership is more important now than ever. This course is recommended for classroom teachers, teacher-leaders, instructional coaches, or administrators hoping to gain an understanding of how they might promote teacher leadership at their school site(s).

Online  |  August 5-7  |  9 clock hours  |  $225 

Facilitated by Dr. Sylvia Bagley

About the Facilitator

Sylvia Bagley (she/her) is Assistant Teaching Professor of Equitable Instructional Leadership in the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ at the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, Seattle, where she directs the Instructional Leadership master’s program. She teaches courses on coaching and mentoring, action research, data use for student thriving, education policy for teachers, building professional community, and supporting equity-focused teacher leadership. Prior to joining the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, Dr. Bagley was the Fritz Burns Endowed Chair in Instructional Leadership at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. She received her doctorate degree in the Philosophy and History of Education from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Bagley previously taught fourth and fifth grade at a culturally diverse elementary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where she also served as her school's English Learner Coordinator and Instructional Math Coach.  

In conversation with Sylvia are teacher leaders Christine Butcher, Yazmín Gil-Preciado, Emily Pierce, Natalee Saber, Andrea Slack, Jessica Sollitt, and Beth Thompson.

Watch Sylvia's presentations from the ConnectEd Webinar Series

EDUDESIGN LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Are you looking for teacher community to inspire and sustain you next year? EduDesign Fellowships are teacher-led, justice focused & year-round collective professional learning cohorts. Each cohort provides space for fellows to build community, make sense of big ideas together, grow their justice work and support one another as professionals.

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GET CONNECTED

ConnectEd, the College's professional and community learning office, offers a variety of professional learning opportunities from webinars, clock hour courses, and ongoing professional development designed specifically for your school or district. Join our mailing list to stay in the loop about upcoming courses and events or let us know about a request you have for custom professional development.

Have questions? Feel free to reach out directly to the ConnectEd professional learning team at ConnectEd@uw.edu. 

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