Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s featured conference, Next Generation Instruction Summit: Creating High Impact Practices, June 26 in Denver, Colo., will focus on Common Core State Standards, higher performance, and international competition as today’s teachers need a wider range of skills and support to meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations to help close the persistent gaps in learning. http://www.leadandlearn.com/conferences/next-generation-instruction-summit-creating-high-impact-practices-denver-colorado.
Principal’s Leadership Institute: Preparing Principals for Next Generation Accountability, will be held July 10-11 in Denver, Colo. and will provide school principals a unique learning experience designed to prepare them for the challenges and demands inherent in Next Generation Common Core Assessments and the new state Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems. http://www.leadandlearn.com/conferences/principal%E2%80%99s-leadership-institute-denver
University of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies is offering professional development for educators through programs that encourage educators to explore current issues in international studies through conferences, seminars, short courses, and faculty presentations. Topics include “The Holocaust in European Memory,” Integrating Sustainability Topics in the Second Language Classroom,” and more. Programs begin June 17 and run through August 27 in Minn. http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/profdev.html
The Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) is offering many workshops that offer school educators the opportunity to experience cross-disciplinary investigations and to create the “synergy of science, technology, engineering, literacy, and social sciences in the classroom.” These STEM courses for K-12 teacher are offered throughout Mass. and range from hybrid coursed to two-week site institute visits throughout June and July. http://mits.org/summer-institute/
The School Improvement Network will host its Innovation Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 8-11. This annual meeting features some of the world’s leading education innovators, and is a forum where experts gather to share knowledge and best practices for improving education and discuss the developments that will shape education in the future. Topics include “Innovation Leadership that leads to 100 percent college and career readiness,” “Equity tied to practice that works for all students,” and more. http://www.siis2013.com/siis/.
The Curriculum Mapping Institute, also part of the School Improvement Network, is hosting a conference July 10-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah, that will provide interactive training on how to align your curriculum and assessments to the Common Core State Standards for all levels of learning. http://www.siis2013.com/cmi/about/#four
SolutionTree offers a number of summer institutes for educators; but hurry, they’re selling out quickly! “Simplifying RTI” will be held in Denver, Colo., June 26-28, and Grand Rapids, Mich., July 31 to Aug. 2.
“Professional Learning Communities at Work” will be held in Minneapolis, Minn., July 8-10; Pasadena, Calif., July 17-19; Orlando, Fla., July 24-26; and Seattle, Wash., Aug. 12-14. “Common Core NOW” will be held in Boston, Mass., Aug. 12-13.
“Assessment NOW” will be held in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 21-23. http://www.solution-tree.com/events/institutes.html
Professional development for educators will be offered at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, including the Stanford Summer Teaching Institute: Going Deeper with the Common Core. Created for K-12 teacher and educational leaders, these courses use the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching’s studio model to give educators the opportunity to learn alongside experts and then develop, design, and practice specific teaching and leadership strategies that can be applied immediately to classroom instruction and school leadership. http://cset.stanford.edu/programs/ssti
The STEM Center for STEM Education for Girls is hosting the STEM Think Tank and Conference July 17-19 in Nashville, Tenn. with the theme “Girl Meets STEM: Developing the Next Generation of Professionals.” http://stemefg.org/index.php/think-tank-and-conference/. Many other STEM-related summer workshops can be found on the STEM Center’s website http://www.stemefg.org/index.php/resources/teacher-professional-development-opportunities/, including Engineering is Elementary, ACS/American Chemical Society, and the NSTA National Conference.
Vernier Software & Technology will offer 25 full-day, hands-on training institutes to help science teachers integrate data-collection technology into their science curriculum. During the institutes, teachers will work alongside a training specialist and use Vernier’s hardware and software technology to explore classroom-ready labs and activities. The six-hour institutes are designed to meet the needs of teachers from a wide variety of grade levels and STEM disciplines. In addition to the training, each participating teacher will receive a Workshop Training Manual on CD; a Vernier lab book or $50 Vernier gift certificate; and more. The workshops additionally offer attendees the option of earning two (quarter) Graduate Science credit hours through the Portland State University Center for Science Education. These institutes will be offered in multiple locations throughout the U.S. during the summer. http://www.vernier.com/training/summer-institutes/
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