Ideas & News
Explore the latest updates on our programs, partnerships, and resources, and see how we’re creating better outcomes for students and harnessing the power of teaching to create a more just society.
It has been an honor for TeachingWorks to provide resources, programming, and professional learning opportunities in 2019 to support the development of skillful teaching across the country. As we begin the new year, we are careful to remember, in the words of the late Toni Morrison, “What you do to children matters. And they may […]
Join us July 20 – August 5, 2020 at the TeachingWorks Summer Institute, an intensive, multi-program professional learning opportunity for teachers and teacher educators to build vision and skill for teaching and teacher education practice that advances justice. Each program within the institute will provide participants with the opportunity to delve into the complexities of […]
TeachingWorks interviews Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. “View, Voice, and Visibility. Three V’s” These “three V’s” were the focus of Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s TeachingWorks Streaming Seminar talk entitled, “There is a Balm in Gilead: Forging the Connections Between Learning and Justice.” In a sit-down interview with TeachingWorks before her talk, Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot said she is deeply […]
Meet TeachingWorks: Annie Blais from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. TeachingWorks is more than a faceless organization, it is a community of educators, researchers, students, and other change-makers dedicated to advancing education that disrupts injustice. Today, meet Annie Blais, an ELA Research & Design Specialist at TeachingWorks! Read the rest of our November newsletter here.
On October 24, 2019, NBC News Learn hosted Education Now: Detroit, a special event that featured teachers, researchers, advocates, and community members from across Metro-Detroit who, in a series of panel discussions, examined a range of critical education issues in Michigan. These included examining student trauma and its’ impact on learning, addressing chronic absenteeism, combatting teacher […]
Teaching is Powerful from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. Teaching is Powerful. In honor of World Teachers’ Day, we are reminded that teaching has the power to has the power to make possible the dream of public education and a more just society. Read our October newsletter here.
TeachingWorks has been named a new partner in 100kin10, a national network to grow the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching force. As part of its commitment to the program, TeachingWorks will use the Elementary Mathematics Laboratory (EML), to provide innovative professional development to at least 250 elementary and secondary classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, […]
100kIn10, a national organization dedicated to improving STEM education across the country, has highlighted TeachingWorks in its latest report, Doing the Math, for our work to advance skillful elementary mathematics teaching that disrupts injustice in classrooms. Read the full report here.
TeachingWorks wishes you a wonderful school year! Check out some of these news items and resources that will help you gear up for this year! Read the September 2019 newsletter here.