Developed in collaboration with the Improvement Scholars Network, this open access learning series consists of four courses aimed at cultivating a community of impassioned educators, parents, and community stakeholders with capabilities to think globally and to lead locally.

The UM Marsal School Advanced Education Technology Certificate is a competency-based teacher certification aligned with the ISTE Standards for Educators—the national standard in K–16 teaching with technology.

Explore educational responses to trauma and harm that center anti-racism, healing justice, restorative practices, and collective care.

The TeachingWorks Coaching Institute empowers teacher educators and leaders through an immersive, hands-on experience. Participants work together to unpack the complexities of teaching and practice coaching real teacher candidates.

This course examines strategies for community organizing for social justice in a diverse, democratic society. It examines core concepts of social justice and practical steps for bringing people together to set goals and priorities, assess community assets and needs, develop action plans, and build support for implementation. It includes information on how to form core groups, build organizational capacity, and formulate strategy for reaching out to constituents and allies.

Disciplinary literacy instruction—teaching your students to become proficient readers of various disciplines—has quickly become a hot topic among high school educators.

This course explores collaborative, continuous improvement as a locally grounded approach to educational innovation that empowers teachers, leaders, parents, and community members to advance shared ambitions for advancing educational access, quality, and equity.

This course is part of the Transforming Education in an Interconnected World MOOC series.

Explore how to create equitable and supportive learning experiences for K-12 multilingual students in virtual and hybrid environments.

The TeachingWorks Foundations of Practice-Based Teacher Education Workshop is tailored for educators who prepare teachers across a range of settings. From mid-career professionals looking to refine their practice to new teacher educators eager to explore research-backed coaching techniques, these events offer the skills, strategies, and support needed to drive meaningful change in teacher education.

Interested in learning about specific high-leverage practices? Each of these asynchronous courses offers an introduction to a different high-leverage practice. These are introductory courses with no prerequisites, although Introduction to Practice-Based Teacher Education is recommended. You may register for all five courses in this set, or you may opt to register for just one or two courses.

Explore IBL and PBL in secondary mathematics. Algebra and geometry examples and pedagogical lesson planning considerations will be provided.

Explore inquiry-based and local space/place based teaching and learning, data, and data literacy within secondary science education.

This mini-course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples and instructional tools.

This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples and instructional tools.

This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples or instructional tools.

This course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples and instructional tools.

This mini-course includes opportunities to examine the elements of the practice, consider the importance of the practice for novice teachers, and engage with video examples and instructional tools.

Developed in partnership with Microsoft, this education course aims to transform teaching and learning at all levels through explorations of how the features that make video games great learning environments can be used in formal learning environments to increase learner engagement on a local, regional and global scale. By creating classroom learning environments that support learners’ senses of autonomy, competence and relatedness, school leaders are able to promote actively engaged and resilient learning.

This course develops foundational capabilities for iterative analysis, design, evaluation, and implementation to address local needs, opportunities, and problems, with a specific focus on improvement science and networked communities as general methods useful across classrooms, communities, schools, and systems.

This course is part of the Transforming Education in an Interconnected World MOOC series.

The course introduces computational thinking ideas, including real-world cases to illustrate how computational thinking can solve complex problems, and a student project to apply these concepts.

This course explores collaborative, continuous improvement as a locally grounded approach to educational innovation that empowers teachers, leaders, parents, and community members to advance shared ambitions for advancing educational access, quality, and equity.

This course is part of the Transforming Education in an Interconnected World MOOC series.

Resilient teaching means facilitating learning experiences that are responsive to disruption, focusing on dynamic learning contexts that may require new ways for students, content & tools to interact.