PD Sessions for mid-to-late September updated
As promised, updating the PD listings for September again to included events for the next two weeks (essentially Sept 14-25). A couple of carry-overs, but mostly new sessions in this update.
Then finally, two more webinars are once again scheduled for the same day (September 24th):
EconEdLink has a full lineup in September (I think 7 webinars this month) but I am featuring a topic I don't believe I have seen anyone do before. Dr. Lynn MacDonald from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota will be doing a session on "Courtside Capital: Economics of the WNBA", using women's professional sports to focus on real-world economic topics like market structures, labor economics, salary caps, sponsorships, and gender pay disparities.
Later the same night, NextGen Personal Finance (NGPF) continues their popular Thursday Speaker Series with a visit from Gunjan Banerji, lead writer for Live Markets at The Wall Street Journal and winner of the 2024 Nellie Bly Award for her reporting on the intersection of gambling and investing. She will be discussing (with Tim Ranzetta) what her reporting reveals about why young people are drawn to risky trades, the real financial and mental health consequences she's documented, and how educators can talk about speculation honestly, without lecturing, in a way students will actually hear.
First, I'm going to repeat a couple of items from last month, assuming some teachers are just getting back into "PD mode" after the rush of getting started with schools. Two weeks ago I mentioned you "might" notice the formatting is a little different right now - I am trying some suggestions from Hostinger (my website host) to see if posts can size a little more consistently across updates. Since that time they have also been encouraging me to use their new AI-based editor to assist with formatting and SEO (search-engine optimization). Probably won't notice it much in this post (since there aren't any images) but a little more "cut-rewrite-paste" type of format. Not sure it has helped with the content posts as much yet, but hoping to avoid a complete re-formatting of the website design.
Second, I am done travelling for the month of September and have really been focusing on new content for the website, though I still owe you some articles from both my travels and some of the events I attended this summer. In particular I still would like to start the new series on Famous American Court Cases - put that off hoping the website issues mentioned above would be resolved by now. My next travelling event will be in early October for the national Economics and Personal Finance conference in the San Diego area - I'll be presenting and working at that one, and plan to make it a road trip from Denver!
Like I started doing over the summer, I will mention a little more detail about each of the new PD opportunities I am adding (especially since in many cases I have to "pick and choose" a single webinar to feature out of multiple choices from that provider). I will start with one I had already updated earlier in the week on the home page (even if I didn't post about it at the time). The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) posted about this one after the start of the month, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible once I heard about it. Professor Kimberlee Josephson of Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month on how college affects the way students view economic systems and how the economy works - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-colleges-produce-socialists-41fe4257 She is now presenting a free webinar for FEE on the costs, benefits, and trade-offs of a college education, as well as how the college experience can shape students’ economic thinking about the benefits of having all your needs taken care of by an all-knowing (and all-caring?) bureaucracy. It is a little early in the day (perhaps) for the western half of the country, but hopefully they will make recordings available for those who register for the session.
Below I'm going to continue documenting the PD items I put on the home page - I will probably start putting up items for early October the week of Sep 21-25. I will not duplicate registration links from the home page, but at least can record what was offered for "posterity". Here are the new listings (in chronological order) as of today:
Sphere Education, "Advance Your Pedagogical Expertise with Sphere’s New Human Progress Curriculum", 9/15, 6-7pm CT
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), "How College Shapes Economic Thinking", 9/15, 3-4pm CT
Federal Reserve Education, "Fun with Page One: Using Page One Articles in the Classroom", 9/15, 3:30-4:30pm CT
National Constitution Center (NCC), "Rediscovering America’s Forgotten Founders: Architects of the Constitution", 9/17, 5:30-6:30pm CT
Council for Economic Education, "Courtside Capital: Economics of the WNBA", 9/24, 4-5pm CT
NextGen Personal Finance (NGPF), "NGPF Speaker Series: Gunjan Banerji on Why Investing Feels Like Gambling & What Educators Need to Know About the New Risk Culture", 9/24, 6-7pm CT
Ironically, two more webinars are scheduled for the same day (September 15th):
Federal Reserve Education (FRE.org) has their St. Louis Fed education staff offering a session on "Fun with Page One: Using Page One Articles in the Classroom" that same afternoon. For those of you who have previous used Page One Economics in your classroom, you know they can fit very well into your existing curriculum and tend to illustrate details on a complicated economic topic at an easier reading level than a lot of textbooks. Again, like the FEE session it is scheduled a little earlier in the day than some teachers may be able to schedule, but they generally make the resources available after the fact.
Sphere Education also still has their rescheduled (from last month) session on "Advance Your Pedagogical Expertise with Sphere’s New Human Progress Curriculum" that same night. As a reminder, that session is introducting their new curriculum connecting world history to other fields.
This next one is another relative latecomer (in terms of how early it got announced) but equally valuable. As their culminating event on Constitution Day (9/17), the National Constitution Center is offering a live session (with a virtual broadcast to those outside the Philadelphia area) on "Rediscovering America’s Forgotten Founders: Architects of the Constitution". The session will focus on 4 lesser-known Founding Fathers - John Dickinson, Gouverneur Morris, Roger Sherman, and James Wilson - with panelists such as Dr. Carol Berkin (now retired from Baruch College), Dr. Jane Calvert from the U. of Kentucky, Scott Greenberger (executive editor of Stateline), and Jesse Wegman (from the Brennan Center for Justice).
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