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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Confidence in Community Literacies: Bilingual Writers Reading the World
   In this Web seminar, join Steven Alvarez in considering how the strengths of after-school community programs—connecting with language-minoritized communities in ways that build relationships of trust, or confianza, between parents, extended families, and caring adults in neighborhoods—can inform our practices as teachers of English language learners.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Persuasive Writing
   This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Socratic Seminars
   This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
   Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
   Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Toward a Culturally Responsive Inquiry Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms
   Join us for this third session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore risks and rewards of inquiry in K-2 classroom settings.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   What's So Critical about Critical Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom?
   Join us for this second session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore what critical literacy looks like in a K-2 classroom setting.