Coming soon from Partnerships...
Opportunities for Everyone, Whether You Attended the Summer Institute or Not!
Are you feeling inspired with new ideas for engaging your students? Want to create “beautiful work” and help “make learning irresistible”? Wondering about your next steps to make that happen? Let us partner with you!
We’re called Partnerships for Authentic Learning and Leadership because we don’t want teachers and leaders to feel alone in innovating their practice. Our team is ready to be in partnership with you as you advance authentic learning in your setting.
We provide professional learning opportunities all year long, not just at the Summer Institute. So we hope you’ll join us as additional information and registration forms become available for the options described here.
Now What??
“When a student finishes her schooling and goes on to adult life, she will be judged for the rest of her life not by standardized test scores, but by two things . . . by the quality of her character and the quality of her work. Imagine what school would be if the focus of school . . . was creating meaningful, valuable, beautiful, important work. Work that matters in the world.”
– Ron Berger, EL Education
Connect, Collaborate, and Create!
Thought Partners
Just reach out! Sometimes all you need is a good listener/”thought partner” to get your idea moving forward. We can help you schedule a short, virtual meeting with a colleague or expert in authentic learning to ask your questions, brainstorm, identify new resources, and hear about the ways others have worked through a similar idea for an authentic learning project.
Want to connect with a "Thought Partner"? Click here to be contacted.
"Sharing the Journey" Podcast
Any interest in sharing your authentic learning journey on a podcast? Sign up (yourself or with a colleague) to be featured in a unique podcast episode that tells the story of your experience in introducing new strategies in your teaching and/or the curriculum. This podcast is simply a conversation between an innovator in education and a member of the Partnerships team, chatting about something relevant to you and your learners and of interest to our audience. Listeners will be inspired by the dialogue of two (or more) educators who love what they do and are passionate about authentic learning.
Please send me more information about the "Sharing the Journey" Podcast opportunity.
Innovation Teams ("I-Teams")
I-Teams are flexible, diverse, and informal innovation communities that are topic-based (e.g., service-learning, PBL, creative approaches to scheduling, etc.) and meet virtually throughout the school year (3-5 times). I-Teams discuss the topic of interest, help to move ideas forward, share resources, and/or learn what others are doing and how they’re doing it! Your partners will be like-minded learners from all over who share a passion for the topic. Some past areas of focus have included: AI in education, authentic structured literacy, student voice, learner agency, and PBL planning.
Please send me more information about the "Innovation Teams" Opportunity.
Innovation Design Incubators
Would having a little more structure than an I-Team be a better way to support you on your authentic learning journey? If so, consider joining an Innovation Design Incubator–a series of three facilitated professional days (6 hours each, scheduled across the school year). We believe that innovators need dedicated time, space, and expert guidance to bring a new teaching idea to life (e.g., integrate work-based learning into your high school class, develop a service-learning project with a community partner, create a PBL experience, etc.). By the end of the three days, you’ll have a project or curriculum plan that brings you and your learners joy, purpose, relevance, and deeper learning! Graduate/CEU credit will be available. Once these are scheduled, we will provide specific registration information.
Please send me more information about the "Innovation Design Incubators" opportunity.
Listen, Learn, and Share
Authentic Learning "Grab and Go"
If the “grab and go” idea works for coffee shops and
grocery stores, why not, then, for Authentic Learning professional development, too?
In these 45-minute, live virtual webinars, you’ll hear from our guest teachers and leaders who have transformed their practice and have stories to share about authentic learning.
Our “Grab and Go” line-up may include: service-learning, shared leadership, instructional coaching, structured literacy, dialogic teaching, career awareness/workforce development, design thinking process, PBL, competency-based learning, co-teaching, mental health, and more!
Please send me more information about the Authentic Learning "Grab and Go" opportunity.
Virtual Visits
Want a front-row seat to authentic learning in real time? Virtual Visits are FREE opportunities to “visit” innovative schools throughout the nation/world on Zoom. “Meet” teachers and leaders and hear their stories of transformation. CEUs will be available.
“Destinations” will include:
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“Transformation in Tallmadge: Updating a Journey in Progress” (fall or winter date TBD, 4:30-6:00 p.m.)
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School District and date to be announced soon (spring 2025, 4:30-6:00 p.m.)
Please send me more information about the Authentic Learning “Virtual Visit” opportunities.
Do a “Deep Dive” via Graduate/CEU Workshops
“Engaging Hearts and Minds”
A FREE and very popular online graduate/CEU workshop designed to engage participants in a series of informative and emotionally impactful films/videos that will inspire their own authentic learning journeys. Six Zoom sessions, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, starting January 29, 2025. (Participants are responsible for the cost of Ashland graduate credit. CEU certificate is free.)
Please send me more information about “Engaging Hearts and Minds” graduate/CEU workshop.
“Making Learning Irresistible”
An online graduate/CEU workshop that helps participants design authentic learning experiences for their students. Service-learning, PBL, design thinking, STEM/STEAM, and other real-world approaches are incorporated. Six Zoom sessions, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm—specific dates determined in collaboration with sponsoring schools/districts. Graduate/CEU credit will be available.
Please send me more information about “Making Learning Irresistible” graduate/CEU workshop.