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Stanford Graduate School of Education research centers design and oversee in-person and online learning opportunities for educators and school system leaders.

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Upcoming opportunities

Online | Math | Data science | Fee
Teaching the Youcubed High School Data Science Course
Every Wednesday, 4-6 pm Pacific Time, March 20-May 22
Center: youcubed
High school teachers, join the youcubed curriculum writing team for a workshop series on teaching our full-year course, Explorations in Data Science! The training covers all 8 units of the course through a series of weekly sessions (recordings provided).

Online | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
How to Support Well-Balanced Children
April 4, 2024
Center: Challenge Success
Join us as we discuss research-based strategies for raising and educating healthy preschoolers and early elementary-age children. We’ll explore how to encourage autonomy, cultivate resilience, and promote well-being.

In-person | Math | Fee
Teaching the Youcubed Summer Camp Curriculum
April 15, 2024 - April 16, 2024
Center: youcubed
Join Jo Boaler and the youcubed team to learn how to teach our mindset mathematics camp curriculum to grade K-9 students! In a nationwide study of teachers implementing the camp, it was shown to significantly improve students’ mathematics understanding.

Online | Math | Fee
Number Sense Workshop for Educators (Grades 2-5)
April 30, May 9 & May 23, 2024
Center: youcubed
Evidence shows that students with low and high achievement in mathematics differ significantly in the strategies they use when approaching number problems. This 3-part workshop explores the latest findings on this topic and shares new teaching materials.

Online | Math | Fee
Number Sense Workshop for Educators (Grades 2-5)
May 2, 2024
Center: youcubed
Evidence shows that students with low and high achievement in mathematics differ significantly in the strategies they use when approaching number problems. This one day workshop explores the latest findings on this topic and shares new teaching materials.

Online | Well-being | Free
Elevating AAPI Youth: Uncovering Mental Health Challenges and Enhancing School Support
May 7, 2024
Center: Challenge Success
Designed for educators. This webinar will give participants compelling data and practical resources to better support the mental health of AAPI students.

In-person | Math | Fee
Teaching Mathematics through Big Ideas in the Middle Years
May 13, 2024 - May 14, 2024
Center: youcubed
Join Jo Boaler and the youcubed team to learn how to engage students through rich activities and mathematical connections! We explore big ideas and how to use them to teach students in grades 6-8 in an engaging way while covering all relevant standards.

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Online | School Leaders | Fee
CSET School Leaders Program
July 8, 2024 - May 31, 2025
Center: Center to Support Excellence in Teaching
This international program is an opportunity for site leaders to deepen their knowledge, skills, and impact in a community of practice where collaboration enables transformational change.

Ongoing opportunities

Our research centers offer a variety of ongoing professional learning opportunities—some self-paced and designed for individuals, some designed to be delivered to school or community groups. Explore the possibilities listed here, or reach out to our professional learning staff to explore customized learning experiences for your school or district.

Online | Free
21st Century Teaching and Learning
Center: youcubed
An online course designed to help anyone teach – and learn – with a 21st century approach to knowledge and teaching. The course focuses on data science and how to interact with any content using the tools of data science in a fun, interesting way.

Online | Fee
How to Learn Math for Teachers
Center: youcubed

Explore the new research ideas on mathematics learning and student mindsets that can transform students' experiences with math. Whether you are a teacher preparing to implement the new State Standards, a parent wanting to give your children the best math start in life, an administrator wanting to know ways to encourage math teachers or another helper of math learners, this course will help you.


Online | Fee
Mathematical Mindsets Online Course
Center: youcubed

This course unpacks the teaching approach that was used in an 18-lesson intervention that raised the achievement of students learning mathematics by the equivalent of 2.7 years of school. It includes over 30 videos of the teaching and interviews with students, and will be helpful for teachers and leaders of K-16 mathematics.


Online | In-person | Hybrid | Well-being | Fee
Building Blocks for Belonging
Center: Challenge Success
Explore concrete classroom strategies and school-wide policies that foster belonging and connection.

Online | In-person | Hybrid | Math | Data science | Science | History | Language & literacy | World languages | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
Curriculum Development Workshops
Center: Challenge Success
Explore a "backward design" model and interact with an array of pedagogical tools to help engage students in deep, meaningful learning.

Online | In-person | Hybrid | Math | Data science | Science | History | Language & literacy | World languages | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
Assessment Professional Development Workshops
Center: Challenge Success
Learn assessment strategies that support and better gauge learning in the classroom as well as start conversations about assessment practices in your faculty group.

Online | In-person | Hybrid
Evaluating Student Work from Performance Assessments to Guide NGSS Teaching and Learning
Learn how to develop and use rubrics as part of efficient, responsive, and equitable instructional practices for supporting 3D science learning.

Online
Effective Classroom Conversations
Empowering students to have meaningful conversations is critical to personal and academic success. In this course, you’ll learn teaching methods that are effective in fostering productive and constructive academic discussions for all students.

Online
Formative Assessment Process in Remote Learning Environments
Understanding Language at Stanford has produced guidance on using the Formative Assessment process to support language and content development as well as social emotional learning. UL created two sessions which include key concepts and practices.

Students completing performance assessment
Online | In-person | Hybrid
Developing Performance Assessments for the NGSS Classroom
Learn how to develop performance assessments to support 3D science learning.

Students completing performance assessment
Online | In-person | Hybrid
Performance Assessment in the NGSS Classroom: Implications for Practice
Learn how performance assessments can be used to support NGSS learning.

Online | Fee
Preparing for National Board Certification
Center: Stanford National Board Resource Center

Teachers often state that pursuing National Board certification was their most powerful professional learning experience. It can be challenging to determine what and how best to provide evidence of your accomplished practice. The goal of this course is to support teachers pursuing certification by combining collaboration with other educators and National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) and using a compilation of key resources.


Interested in our resources for educators? Visit our resources page.

To explore other professional learning opportunities, or to inquire about customized learning experiences for your school or district, contact

Heidi Chang
Director of Professional Learning

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