PD Sessions for September updated (focusing on the first 2 weeks)
Trying to get initial events posted, but a lot of providers waited until this week to start announcing their September plans. Putting up events for the first two weeks, but like I started doing at the end of last school year I will update again the week after Labor Day with events for later September.
We then have several sessions available immediately after Labor Day:
EconEdLink is getting started back up with 1-hour sessions after their 3-day Summer Institute in July. For the start of September I'm featuring their Sep 8th session "Keynes v Hayek: Clash of Ideas that Shaped the World" focusing on how their debates still impact so many economic and political issues today. They have several more topics later in the month - I will select one of them to feature next time.
The following day (Sep 9th) has two sessions sort of overlapping. NGPF has several sessions over the next couple of weeks, but I'm featuring their session on "The Math and the History of Investing" as author & financial expert Paul Merriman discusses four simple tables he says can teach investing lessons students may remember for life. The same night Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) is hosting a class on "The Ultimatum Game", a simple yet powerful simulation in which one player proposes how to split a sum of money and the other chooses to accept or reject the offer.
Finally on Thursday the 10th, Federal Reserve Education is offering a special morning PD session on their collection of concise, 15-minute economics lessons and activities designed to enhance student skills. Not sure if a morning session will work for most teachers, but a lot of times you can sign up and get the recording even if you can't attend live.
This last one is a repeat from last month, because Sphere Education had to reschedule their session on "Advance Your Pedagogical Expertise with Sphere’s New Human Progress Curriculum" from Aug 25th to Sep 15th. I thought it was worth keeping, but I will probably start replacing the other sessions as they take place with new sessions for the second half of the month.
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, though I still owe you some articles from both my travels and some of the events I attended this summer. Hoping now that I am getting back into a more regular routine I can play "catch-up" with new content while continuing to keep the PD sessions, resources, and regular updates coming. 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!
Finally I mentioned above that with the summer over I'm going to try to continue updating the PD sessions twice a month, BUT that will not all be at the same time. As events come and go, I will sometimes insert a new opportunity sooner rather than later - for example, NCSS has an event on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 coming up this Thursday, but once that is done I will probably replace it with another event taking place mid-month (even if I don't announce it in the blog until the following week). So if you want more notice on new PD choices, stop by and take a look!
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 the one I mentioned above - the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is starting up their series of educator roundtables with a session on the shifting perspectives of the generations who lived through 9/11 and the lasting and lingering effects that affect today's students (and you do NOT have to be a member of NCSS to attend). I know there will be a LOT of news-oriented remembrances of the 25th anniversary - I've already seen several scheduled for the major networks and CNN/FOX/C-SPAN, but this is the only one I have seen focusing on teachers and what to focus on now that it is "history" and not "current events". I remember having that discussion right before I retired 10 years ago when people began to realize that our current students were not even born at the time of 9/11
Below I'm going to continue documenting the PD items I put on the home page - keep in mind I will then start replacing the earliest ones with offerings for late September by the end of next week. 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:
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), "9/11 the Lasting Legacy 25 Years Later", 9/3, 6-7pm CT
Council for Economic Education, "Keynes v Hayek: Clash of Ideas that Shaped the World", 9/8, 4-5pm CT
NextGen Personal Finance (NGPF), "The Math and the History of Investing", 9/9, 6-7pm CT
Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), "The Ultimatum Game", 9/9, 5-6:30pm CT
Federal Reserve Education, "Bite-Sized Brilliance: Short Lessons and Activities to Boost Student Skills", 9/10, 10:30-11:30am CT
Sphere Education, "Advance Your Pedagogical Expertise with Sphere’s New Human Progress Curriculum", 9/15, 6-7pm CT
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