Check out the following professional development opportunities for educators.
Washington State Ethnic Studies Now
WAESN is offering two different series of professional development: Professional Learning Series, and Professional Learning Communities Series. See below for details about both opportunities.
Professional Learning Communities:
WAESN is proud to host virtual professional learning communities designed to provide collaborative spaces for Ethnic Studies educators to dig deep into their practice.
WAESN will host sessions led by Flordelrio Correa, Elisa Yzaguirre, Andrea Chorney, and Erin Herda. Each session will be different racial affinity spaces. Starting Saturday, August 8th, WAESN will host an integrated PLC. September will be for Educators of Color, followed by a white educator PLC space in October.
Registration for the August 22nd integrated PLC is open.
Professional Learning Series:
WAESN has developed an 18-hour professional learning series to prepare educators to teach Ethnic Studies available as nine virtual modules, facilitated by our Executive Director, Tracy Castro-Gill.
These modules were designed to be completed in order and all participants must complete one before moving to the next. WAESN will be rolling them out each month, starting August 1st 10am-Noon, PST with Module 1: Historicizing Race & Contextualizing Anti-Blackness is SOLD OUT.
The OER Project | The OC for Social Studies
Challenging times require ingenuity and collaboration. Now more than ever, teachers need opportunities to gather and discuss how teaching practices can and should progress to meet future learning needs – in or out of the classroom – to address pandemic needs.
This first-ever OER Conference for Social Studies is a three day online virtual event for social studies teachers. Help us help you keep learning going. (And maybe even earn some clock hours!)
The OER Conference for K-12 Social Studies is happening August 5-7
This conference features:
Education tracks and discussion groups aligned to your state standards and grade level
Keynote speakers include John Green, Nate Bowling, Linda Darling Hammond, Dr. Yohuru Williams, and Jill Lepore
This conference is free, online and designed for educators facing a new teaching reality
Washington State Historical Society:
August 2020 marks the National Women’s Suffrage Centennial and to celebrate, we invite you to climb aboard the digitally delivered Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour!
The Suffrage Speical Whistle Stop Tour
This eight-episode video series explores our state’s connections to the larger national history of women’s suffrage, and honors Washington’s women changemakers who led the way then as well as those who continue to do so today. It is thematically based on the real-life 1909 “Suffrage Special” train which carried local and national suffragists across the country and through Washington State from Spokane to Seattle in support of women’s fight for the vote.
Ride along with the Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour! We’re posting one segment daily from August 19-26 on the Historical Society and Votes for Women Suffrage Centennial Facebook pages.
