Professional Learning
Empower Educators
We empower educators with free professional learning through virtual courses, face-to-face workshops, and hands-on training, all offering free SCECHs.
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1 Apr
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MI Mystery Connect TrainingRegistration ends Jun 7Date: Apr 1Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW CalendarAsynchronous Training Session for MI Mystery Connect Participants. The objective of this session is to share the MI Mystery Connect project and through it enhance teaching skills among third-grade teachers from different schools in Michigan. Through this initiative, we aim to create a collaborative community of teachers working together to utilize technology to improve the learning experience for third-grade students by engaging them in a “game/challenge” type of learning that will motivate them to use their reasoning skills as well as their knowledge of Michigan geography.
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8 Apr
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Applying Google Apps in ChromeRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarGoogle Workspace for Education provides an expansive repertoire of tools for empowering students and managing instruction. Learn how to promote collaboration and communication seamlessly within your educational community. Participants will explore Google Workspace to boost productivity, organize digital files and transform the learning environment in the classroom and beyond.
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Assessment Tools for the ClassroomRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarFormative Assessment is an essential part of the learning process leading to student success. Using Formative Assessment, teachers involve students in ongoing self-assessment so they are aware of expectations, gauge where they are in their learning, and then adjust to close the gap between them. Learn about digital tools to support this process. Explore and use quiz and polling tools, interactive and video assessments, portfolios, interactive lessons, and online bulletin boards. Leave with new tools to engage and assist your students in taking responsibility for their learning and achievement.
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Creating Digital Breakouts for the ClassroomRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarBreakout boxes have become a popular activity that has students combine critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication. Create your very own digital breakout box to engage and educate your students using Google Workspace tools like Sites, Docs, Drawings, and Forms along with additional resource . By the end of the course, you will have a fully functioning digital breakout that you can use right away with your student.
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Creating Instructional Videos for the ClassroomRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarVideo has made an impact on learning for decades. Now it is easy to create and edit your own instructional videos to teach a concept to students and colleagues using FREE online applications. Learn about best practices for video creation, various video creation applications that fit the educational need, basic video editing, and sharing videos.
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Gamification for Student Engagement & LearningRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarStudent engagement is a key element for learning and academic achievement. Gamification is a system of tools such as badges, achievements, levels, and leaderboards to engage participants. Explore how to combine strategies to inspire students to practice, study, and learn more academic content. These gamification strategies result in increased student-led learning, critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving.
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Increase Math Engagement with TechnologyRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarIncorporating technology into the math classroom offers a range of benefits that enhance the teaching and learning experience. Participants explore classroom management resources, math tech tools, and math routines to increase number sense, classroom discourse, and more that make math fun and engaging for ALL ages.
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Media Literacy: Fake or Real?Registration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarWhich media sites are reporting the truth? How to discern the difference between real and “fake” or false information? More importantly, can students differentiate between real and fake news? Most children have a difficult time discerning between what is real or fake, how to differentiate between an advertisement and a news article, and identifying where they got their news. We need to stop the cycle of passing forward news and information that has not been substantiated. This course will help educators and their students become smarter consumers and producers of information.
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More Professional Presentations, Part 2Registration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarThis second course focuses on the Collaborator and Facilitator roles outlined in the REMC Presentation Skills Toolkit. Learn to maximize learning time and increase engagement with adult learners. Expand and strengthen your professional presentation skills to deliver highly successful presentations and highly engage adult learners during presentations by planning and delivering an actual presentation. "Preparing Professional Presentations" is a prerequisite for this course.
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OER to Support Personalized LearningRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarOpen Educational Resources (OER) are free, editable classroom resources that can be used in curriculum. Competency-Based Education (CBE) personalizes learning for students by focusing on content mastery. Combining OER and CBE supports the flexibility of time, place, and pace while enhancing student agency through choice, voice, and authenticity. Participants will either create an authentic lesson or project incorporating an OER to enhance personalized learning, or develop a plan for personalized professional development in their professional context.
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Power Up: Meaningful DataRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarDuring your career, you will have many new experiences utilizing teaching strategies and methodologies to achieve goals for yourself and your students. This course will expand your ability to effectively use data to increase the chances of reaching those goals.
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Remixing and Revising Open Educational Resources from #GoOpenMichiganRegistration ends April 412:00 AM to 12:02 AMRemixing and Revising Open Educational Resources from #GoOpenMichiganRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 8Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarOpen Educational Resources (OER) are free, high quality, openly licensed educational tools that can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed. It’s easy to find multiple OER for your lessons or curriculum by using the comprehensive search tools on the #GoOpenMichigan website. Now learn to customize any lesson, presentation, activity or other OER from #GoOpenMichigan to help students achieve learning goals and standards. Remixing and revising OER provides endless opportunities to create fresh approaches to content and learning.
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9 Apr
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Discovery Education Unleashed: Transforming Teaching and Learning Part 3 - Studio and Class ToolsRegistration ends April 412:00 AM to 12:01 AMDiscovery Education Unleashed: Transforming Teaching and Learning Part 3 - Studio and Class ToolsRegistration ends Apr 4Date: Apr 9Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
Participants will engage in learning around Discovery Education Studio tools, creating hyperdocs and other interactive elements within the platform to increase engagement in their classrooms. This session is asynchronous but includes one (1) 30 minute synchronous meeting.
You will complete a module in Canvas, the create an artifact of learning and reflection that shows their ability to navigate and utilize and area of Discovery Streaming content for increasing engagement using instructional strategies.
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15 Apr
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Student-Centered Learning Across Michigan Cohort 7: April 15, 2024 - May 27, 2024Registration ends April 1112:00 AM to 12:01 AMStudent-Centered Learning Across Michigan Cohort 7: April 15, 2024 - May 27, 2024Registration ends Apr 11Date: Apr 15Time: 12:00 AM to 12:01 AMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
In this learning opportunity, we will utilize Modern Classrooms Project’s free course to pause, reset and create a local support structure as you work to design your own elements of a blended, self-paced, and mastery-based classroom. The Modern Classrooms Project is a nonprofit that has developed an instructional framework grounded in blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
In this 6 week largely asynchronous, self-paced course, we’ll work to design learning for your students that makes it easier to meet the needs of all your students (even when they’re absent), allows you to have a clearer picture of student learning, and includes a blended learning framework to allow you to work with smaller groups of students while the learning continues in your classroom.
This Virtual course will be offered:
Cohort 1 - October 31, 2022 - December 11, 2022
Cohort 2 - January 9, 2023 - February 19, 2023
Cohort 3 - April 10, 2023 - May 21, 2023
Cohort 4 - July 10, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Cohort 5 - October 30, 2023 to December 11, 2023
Cohort 6 - January 8, 2024 to February 19, 2024
Cohort 7 - April 15, 2024 - May 27, 2024
Cohort 8 - June 17, 2024 to August 5, 2024
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25 Apr
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Esports Academy: What Is Scholastic Esports?Registration ends Apr 18Date: Apr 25Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
What Is Scholastic Esports
4:00-4:10 Traditional Esports Vs Scholastic Esports
4:10-4:25 Getting Started With Scholastic Esports
4:25-4:45 Resources from REMC and NASEF
4:45-5:00 Reflection and Next StepsVirtual: instructions will be emailed no later than the Friday before the start date.
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30 Apr
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Unveiling the Future: Fundamentals of AIRegistration ends Apr 25Date: Apr 30Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
Gain understanding of Generative AI and its distinctions from traditional AI, along with the vital skill of prompt engineering to effectively engage with AI tools. Delve into the capabilities and limitations of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity. Connect with MI educators to learn how others think about and apply Generative AI in their work. The session promises a collaborative learning experience, empowering participants to apply newfound knowledge seamlessly.
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2 May
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Esports Academy: Successful Coaching Models and IdeasRegistration ends Apr 25Date: May 2Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PMLocation: VirtualCalendar: WW Calendar
Successful Coaching Models and Ideas webinar
4:00-4:10 Best Practices for coaching
4:10-4:30 Elementary vs Middle vs High School
4:30-4:45 Coaching Plans and Successful models
4:45-5:00 Reflection and Next StepsVirtual: instructions will be emailed no later than the Friday before the start date.
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6 May
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Blended Learning Environments with Google WorkspaceRegistration ends May 2Date: May 6Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AMLocation: Begin work anytime.Calendar: WW CalendarPersonalize your classroom experience with Google Workspace. Using Google Classroom, Meet, Slides, Forms and Docs, participants will create new digital classroom routines that support struggling students, build robust blended learning environments, design assessments, and learn how to provide valuable feedback. Take your teaching to the next level.
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Judy Bowling receives MACUL President's Award
The REMC Association of Michigan is celebrating Judy Bowling, REMC 20 Director on receiving the 2024 MACUL President’s award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of educational technology and advancing student learning.
Student Podcast Winners Announced
The Regional Educational Media Center (REMC) Association of Michigan, Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) and Michigan Association of School Librarians (MASL) are thrilled to announce the winners of their first ever joint Podcast Challenge. This challenge aimed at showcasing Michigan students’ innovative ideas and perspectives in a podcast format.
New Esports training sessions scheduled for spring
Organized, competitive gameplay is another pathway for students to feel connected and engaged with school. REMC is pleased to offer four new training sessions in April and May. These sessions are designed to provide an entry point for schools exploring the benefits of Esports.
Vinos Kassab new REMC 17 Director
The REMC Association is pleased to introduce Vinos Kassab as the new Director for REMC 17. Vinos is the Digital Learning and Computer Science Consultant for Oakland Schools and is replacing Laura Cummings who retired after serving for over a decade.
Looking to increase student engagement and learning? SLAM has open cohort sessions available!
Student-Centered Learning Across Michigan (SLAM) has upcoming cohort groups starting in April and June!