Global Refugees: Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Responses from the Choices Leadership Institute

Choices Leadership Institute

Global Refugees: Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Responses

Brown University, Providence, RI

July 11-15, 2016

**Deadline is approaching: March 1, 2016**

Leadership Institute Benefits:

• Professional growth through content-rich presentations and discussions on the dimensions of and responses to the global refugee crisis, using the Syrian crisis as a case study;
• Immersion in the Choices approach to teaching contested international issues; 
• Resources and ongoing support from the Choices Program to conduct professional development activities in your school, district, and/or region as outlined in your self-designed Action Plan;
• Recognition as a Brown University Choices Teaching Fellow, and participation in this professional network of outstanding educators; and
• A 32-hour certificate of completion.

For more information and application materials, please visit our Institute page.

Check out this Opportunity with History Colorado in April!

Calling All Teachers of Colorado History! Teaching with Primary Sources at Metropolitan State University of Denver (Library of Congress) and the Colorado Encyclopedia (Colorado Humanities) are offering 20 teachers the opportunity to extend their Colorado Council for Social Studies Conference experience.  Selected teachers will: Attend a workshop on Friday afternoon (following the conference lunch and the keynote speaker) and all day Saturday at MSU Denver on April 8 and 9 on the Auraria Campus. Receive reimbursement for the conference registration and a $100 stipend for developing an Annotated Resource Set related to Colorado History. Explore and learn about the new Colorado Encyclopedia – a digital collection of “all things Colorado” – resources for teachers and students related to Colorado History. Join, explore, and use the tools of the TPS Teachers Network, a nationwide social media network designed specifically to support teaching with Library of Congress primary sources. Develop an “Annotated Resource Set” (ARS) of Colorado-themed resources that will be submitted to the Education Editorial Committee for inclusion in the Education Section of the Colorado Encyclopedia. Participants will also receive TPS certification for 12 hours that can be used toward license renewal. Teachers interested in this opportunity should contact Cynthia Stout at ckstout@comcast.net

Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institutes

Summer Teacher Institute

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its week-long summer institutes for K-12 educators. Held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., this professional development opportunity provides educators with tools and resources to effectively integrate primary sources into K-12 classroom teaching, with an emphasis on student engagement, critical thinking, and construction of knowledge. Applications are due February 29 and require a letter of recommendation. Click here to find out more.

Fully Funded Summer Institute

June 28 - 30, Portland State University

$300 stipend available (for attendance and travel) for first 25 registered participants.

The Institute for Curriculum Services, in collaboration with the Library of Congress and Portland State University, invites middle and high school social studies teachers to attend a dynamic 3-day workshop, Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process.

With an emphasis on inquiry based learning using Teaching with Primary Sources strategies and content-specific lectures from university scholars, this institute will enhance your professional practice and deepen your historical content knowledge.

For more information and to request applications materials please contact Jacqueline Regev, jregev@icsresources.org.

UCCS programs named partners in national network to grow STEM teaching force

NEW YORK — 100Kin10, a national network coordinating and accelerating efforts to bring 100,000 new excellent science, technology, engineering, and math teachers into elementary and secondary schools by 2021, announced two University of Colorado Colorado Springs programs as new partners Feb. 17.

The programs are UCCSTeach and the Colorado Geographic Alliance’s “Moving GIS into the Classroom.” The UCCS programs are among 49 new partner organizations announced as part of a national network of more than 280 of the country’s top businesses, nonprofits, foundations, and academic institutions working toward the goal of more STEM teachers. The two programs complement each other. UCCS Teach focuses on preparing new teachers and Colorado Geographic Alliance works to improve existing science and math education.

Get the full article here.

Putting Social Studies in its Place Using GIS to Enhance the Classroom

Check out this upcoming workshop on Social Studies.

TPS Workshop February 27th in Greeley

Essentials Exploration - Saturday, February 27, 2016: 8:30-4:00 - also requires pre-workshop viewing of online module.  Location: Greeley UNC Campus

This introductory workshop is a prerequisite for all other TPS offerings.

Take advantage of this opportunity to meet the requirement to be eligible to attend future UNC-TPS Special Topics workshops.

This free hands-on Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) workshop introduces you to the next Library of Congress' wealth of inline resources for teachers and immerses you in strategies for engaging students with primary sources.  Investigate informal texts, explore ways to enhance visual literacy, and practice strategies to promote critical thinking and hypothesis testing.  Learn from primary source-based activities aligned to standards, incorporating the millions, of digitized primary sources available on the Library of Congress website, applicable to all grade levels and teaching disciplines.  Optional fee-based graduate credit available through UNC.

For more information on registration contact primary.sources@unco.edu or call 970-351-1555.

Geotechnologies Webinar Feb. 25th

Teaching EE with Geotechnologies

Join Geographer Joseph Kerski and the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education as we explore relevant and rigorous geotechnology tools that can enhance environmental education in a dynamic manner. 

In this webinar, we will

• Examine spatial patterns of weather, climate, biomes, ocean currents, landforms, watersheds, human health, and other environmental topics with dynamic web maps and satellite images.

• Explore how you can map your field-collected data, and how you and your students can create multimedia story maps and other web mapping applications to communicate environmental issues.

Presented by Joseph Kerski, ESRI

Thursday, February 25th

4:00-5:00 p.m. Online

Members $20

Non-Members $30

 Register Today!  

Survey Available for Teachers in creating a new Colorado DNR "careers in natural resources" website

The state of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is creating a new "careers in natural resources" website aimed at showing children and young adults the opportunities available (both generally and specifically) in natural resource fields such as geology, botany, range science, hydrology, and environmental science. The DNR has engaged Notchcode Creative, a marketing and outreach firm in Colorado, to create a strategy for delivering appropriate content to the site's intended audiences. 

The audiences for this website are:

  • elementary school-aged children and their teachers,

  • middle- to high-school-aged children and their teachers, and 

  • undergraduate and recent college graduates. 

Each audience will have different content needs, varying from general interest in what people in different fields do, to more specific details on how they work, where they work, and what types of volunteer, internship, and employment opportunities might be available. We want you to help us form a better picture of what our audiences' content needs are.

Thank you for taking the time to help us! All survey responses are confidential, and will only be used for the purposes of creating an effective careers website for the DNR. If you have any questions, please contact Alan Bucknam at Notchcode Creative.

This 15-question survey should take only about five minutes to complete.

Map series available to enhance your students' learning

Whether you teach Ancient Civilizations, World Religions, Geography, or World History, ICS's beautiful new map series will enhance your students' understanding of the Middle East. 

ICS's new colorized maps vividly illustrate the physical and political geography of the Levant region from the time period of the Ottoman Empire through the present. Here is just one example.

  

Access ICS's full map series on our website here.

Looking for lessons that support a deeper understanding of refugees?ICS's curricular resources Jews from the Middle East and North Africa  and Jewish Refugees from the Middle East and North Africa are excellent resources to support world history standards and provide a connection to current events and global issues. 

Implementing Spacial Thinking in the Classroom Webinar Feb 10th

Join Sarah Bednarz for this upcoming webinar that will introduce you to spatial thinking, and ways to ensure that your students have opportunities to acquire this essential cognitive skill. Following a discussion of three types of spatial thinking and its role in learning geography, social studies, and science, the webinar will focus on a framework to support teachers interested in making their own teaching more "spatial."

Click here to learn more and register. 

Power of Data Project in Flagstaff, AZ this July

The Power of Data (POD) Project 

The POD Facilitation Academy will be held in Flagstaff, Arizona July 11-15, 2016

This project is currently recruiting 15 exceptional professional development coordinators, science/STEM curriculum coordinators, college faculty, and any individuals who support teachers on a regular basis to apply to attend our POD Facilitation Academy to learn to replicate POD Teacher Workshops across the nation. Applications are due March 4, 2016.  Facilitators will receive stipends for travel along with compensation for completion of the Facilitation Academy and other exepenses.  Click here to learn more.

Crow Canyon Mesa Verde Workshop Opportunity

Mesa Verde National Park and the Construction of Pueblo History

 

A One-Week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Landmarks Workshop
Two sessions: June 26–July 2, 2016 | July 17–23, 2016

• Daily Schedule & Reading List

Join us at Crow Canyon in southwestern Colorado for an extraordinary professional development opportunity for educators. The program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which provides stipends to help cover expenses. Information about all 2016 NEH Summer Institutes and Workshops is available on the NEH website.

IQWST Webinar February 4th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm MST

Looking for ways to shift your instruction with the inception of the new science standards? Come engage in Three Dimensional Learning using IQWST (Investigating And Questioning Our World Through Science And Technology), a program drafted by developers of the K-12 Science Framework and Next Generation Science Standards. 

Don't wait to sign up! Space will be limited to the first 30 registrants!

Sign up for the Webinar taking place Thursday February 4th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm MST.

AirWaterGas Project Development Program

The UCAR Center for Science Education and University of Colorado's AirWaterGas Project are pleased to present:

Teaching about the Impacts of Fossil Fuels on the Environment

A Professional Development Program for Middle and High School Science Teachers

• Six weeks online : April 8  - May 22, 2016
• Two days in-person: June 1-2 (*Greeley) or June 7-6 (*Grand Junction) *locations tentative
• Cost: FREE with support from the National Science Foundation
• Optional credits: 3 credits from University of Colorado (a cost of $210).

During the online course we will consider how air, water, the land, and people are affected by oil and gas development in the Mountain West and how these topics can be included in secondary science classrooms. Each week you’ll hear from a researcher working with the AirWaterGas Project. Science content will be combined with classroom activities, group discussions, and recorded presentations. Each of the six modules in this course will take 8-10 hours to complete and can be done at any time over a 10-day period.

The two-day June workshop allows you to put what you learned in the online course to work, trying out classroom activities, collaborating with fellow educators, and considering how you can bring the science of the oil and gas boom into your classroom. The two-day workshop will be offered twice: June 1-2 in eastern Colorado (Weld County) and June 7-8 in western Colorado.

In this course, you’ll explore:

• what fracking is and why it’s used in unconventional oil and gas development.
• how water and air quality can be affected by oil and gas development.
• the connections between fossil fuels and climate change.
• where we get energy from and how that might change in the future.
• how communities and ecosystems are affected by oil and gas development.
• how researchers are learning more about the tradeoffs involved in oil and gas development - economic, environmental, and social.

Apply today!

Admissions decisions will be made on a rolling basis and the course is limited to 30 teachers, so fill out the application form soon to make sure you get a space. Priority will be given to middle and high school science teachers from areas of the Mountain West that have oil and gas development.