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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

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Online | School Leaders | Fee
CSET School Leaders Program
March 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025
Center: Center to Support Excellence in Teaching
This national program is a two-year opportunity for site leaders to deepen their knowledge, skills, and impact in a community of practice where collaboration enables transformational change.

Online | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
Virtual Challenge Success S.P.A.C.E Camp
June 27, 2023
Center: Challenge Success
new professional development opportunity for K-12 educators to explore our research-based, equity-centered SPACE Framework and learn practical problem-solving strategies grounded in Continuous Improvement to drive meaningful school change.

Online | History | Fee
Going Deeper with Reading Like a Historian: Local History, OUTs, & Discussion
July 11, 2023 - July 13, 2023
Center: Stanford History Education Group
In this interactive institute, participants will learn about adapting historical documents, teaching local history with document-based lessons, using Opening Up the Textbook (OUTs) lesson plans, and supporting student discourse.

In-person | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
Challenge Success S.P.A.C.E Camp at Stanford
July 19, 2023
Center: Challenge Success
New, full-day professional development opportunity for K-12 educators to explore our research-based, equity-centered SPACE Framework and learn practical problem-solving strategies grounded in Continuous Improvement to drive meaningful school change.

Online | Social Studies | Fee
Civic Online Reasoning: Sorting Fact from Fiction on the Internet
July 25, 2023 - July 27, 2023
Center: Stanford History Education Group
This institute will introduce participants to the Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum. Participants will learn strategies to help their students become more discerning consumers of information they encounter online.

In-person | Math | Data science | Fee
Teaching the Youcubed Data Science Course
July 31, 2023 - August 4, 2023
Center: youcubed
High school teachers, join the youcubed curriculum writing team for an introductory workshop to prepare to teach all 8 units of Explorations in Data Science! The training is conducted in person at Stanford University over four and a half days.

Online | Math | Data science | Fee
Data Science Virtual Workshop (Units 5-8 of HS Curriculum)
October 3 and November 1, 2023
Center: youcubed
High school teachers, join the youcubed curriculum writing team for an introductory workshop to prepare to teach Units 5-8 of Explorations in Data Science! The training is conducted remotely via Zoom and includes in-depth sessions over two separate days.

Online | Math | Fee
Teaching Mathematics through Big Ideas in the Elementary Years
October 5, 2023
Center: youcubed
Focused on Grades 3-5 but applicable to any elementary school teacher or leader. We explore the big ideas for this grade level and how to use them to teach students in an engaging way, while covering all relevant mathematical standards.

In-person | Math | Fee
Teaching Mathematics through Big Ideas in the Elementary Years
November 13, 2023 - November 14, 2023
Center: youcubed
Focused on Grades 3-5 but applicable to any elementary school teacher or leader. We explore the Big Ideas for this grade level and how to use them to teach students in an engaging way, while covering all relevant mathematical standards.

In-person | Math | Fee
Mathematics Leadership Summit
January 23, 2024 - January 24, 2024
Center: youcubed
Join Jo Boaler and Cathy Williams for two days of professional learning focused on leading mindset and mathematics change in schools, districts, counties and beyond. This is an interactive format where we will discuss challenges and solutions.

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 | History | Fee
Introduction to Reading Like a Historian and Beyond the Bubble Assessments
Center: Stanford History Education Group
During this interactive institute, participants will learn about the Stanford History Education Group’s Reading Like a Historian lessons and Beyond the Bubble assessments.

Wheel of learners resources: imagine, persist, innovate, problem solve, etc.
Hybrid | All content areas | Fee
Pedagogy for Powerful Learning: Leveraging technology, materials, and thinking routines to create creative and joyful learning for all students
Center: Center to Support Excellence in Teaching
This workshop will engage participants as learners, designers, and facilitators through collaborative and creative hands-on experiences.

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
21st Century Teaching and Learning
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.

Hybrid
Preparing for National Board Certification

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.


Online
How to Learn Math for Teachers

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
Mathematical Mindsets Online Course

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.


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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