Professional Learning in Educational Innovation

Professional Development Workshops

We are excited to announce we are hosting Ed Innovation Professional Development workshops for school teams. Sign up your school or district for one of our engaging workshops covering an array of ed innovation topics including: social good innovation, global competencies, UDL, STEAM, emerging technologies and more! These virtual or in-person sessions are customizable and can be completed as a one-hour, half-day or full-day workshop depending on your organization’s goals. All workshops will help you gain the experience, knowledge, network and mentoring to take your innovation skills to the next level! 

Ed Innovation Workshops

• Become a Social Good Innovator and Create Access to Innovation Culture
  Participants will work in teams using design thinking, aligned to the UN’s Global Goals, to identify and work through a local or global problem and pitch a solution. This hands-on primer activity will bring design thinking and innovation skills to life in a practical way that educators can take back to their classrooms. The activity will be supported by Pactful, a research-based app to support social good innovation for teenagers.
• Creating Cultures of Inclusive Innovation in Your District or School
  How can education leaders use an innovator's mindset that operates from a lens of inclusiveness to guide and model innovation for their schools? What emerging trends are proving to make a difference in the lives of students? In this session, we'll explore the spectrum of inclusive educational innovation, why it's important to build educational communities and strong learners for now and the future. You'll be introduced to the education innovation framework, a model for considering multiple contexts of equitable innovation, along with important trends in SEL, future possible selves, social good innovation and design thinking, global competencies, anti-racism, learning space design and emerging technologies.
• Creating Teen Access to Social Innovation Culture
  Social good innovation builds strong communities and economies. Yet, a major question driving our work is how does innovation happen and who becomes an innovator? There are estimated millions of "lost Einsteins," those students who have the potential to become innovators, yet don't have access to innovation culture. Access to innovation culture can be influenced by gender, geographic location, socio-economic status, and race. We'll share our work to break down the access barriers and develop thousands of teen and teacher changemakers around the globe. Opportunities for virtual exchanges will be shared, along with free curriculum resources, networking and training opportunities.
• Creative Collaboration Stations: A Mindfulness Experience
  Come learn more about universal design for learning principles and understand how the flexible classroom helps foster collaboration.  Participants will engage in experiential learning in a makerspace setting through mindfulness techniques including guided meditation VR, calming self-management activities, art therapy, DIY bath bombs and more!
• Design Thinking: "Create Your Own Tea" Workshop
  Do you want to help make the world a better place to live? Come find out how using the design thinking process can be used to make a global impact on the world. Pactful, a social good innovation app for teens & teachers, will be introduced and global problems will be explored through a"Create Your Own Tea" activity, allowing participants to embrace the innovator’s mindset!
• Dream, Design, Do: The Disney® Way
  Participants will experience the magic of Disney® design to create the next generation of changemakers! Ed Imagineering principles will be introduced as attendees engage in activities and develop skills to inspire innovation culture with their students. Participants will rotate around Innovation Stations, while actively building their own “Bag of Tricks” equipped with tools they can use to unleash the innovator’s mindset within their classroom. Additional option to add a one-day leadership experience onsite at Disneyland.
• Escaping Reality: Engaging Students Using AR/VR in the Classroom
  Come take a journey into another dimension in this workshop filled with augmented and virtual reality! Educators and youth leaders will learn how to inspire and engage students using AR/VR in their classrooms.  Best practices will be highlighted and attendees will experiment with exciting hands-on activities to enhance the learning experience. Practical ways and tips to integrate immersive technology into your classroom will be explored.
• Global Book Bags Workshop

  Teachers explore children's books with global themes to identify the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of global competence within the stories. Participants review examples of learning activities designed to promote global competence and literacy skills based on these books, then create their own with facilitation and feedback. The books and learning activities are used to create a set of global book bags, which circulate among students as home-school learning resources or remain in the classroom for read aloud activities, independent studies, or small group learning.

  Offered by the California Global Education Project 

• Global Dialogue

  What are the essentials of dialogue? Teachers practice and discuss dialogue strategies that can be used with students in the classroom to enhance peer-to-peer communications locally and globally. With an introduction to virtual exchange platforms, participants learn about opportunities for their students to communicate and collaborate with their peers in places across the state, nation, and world to address issues of global significance. 

  Offered by the California Global Education Project 

• Global Voices & Digital Storytelling

  Teachers identify elements of culture that apply to people locally and globally as they explore stories from around the world -- presented in short film, photo essays, podcasts, and writing. These stories become teaching artifacts as participants develop plans to engage students in their own digital storytelling based on elements from their personal culture.

  Offered by the California Global Education Project 

• Introduction to Data Strategies for Educational Innovation
  Successfully using data to demonstrate the outcomes and visualize the impacts of educational innovation is crucial. What is meaningful data and how to collect data wisely? More importantly, how do you generate insights from data and visualize in a way that all stakeholders can understand? Inthis workshop, you will learn the different approaches to think about and utilize data. You will also learn how to use data visualization/dashboards/infographics to communicate actionable insights or inform the decision-making process. You will have an opportunity to critically evaluate different data strategies and come up with a plan that will work the best for your program, your dataset, or your question. We want to give visibility to new data analytics tools and resources. If you have a data set, idea or a problem related to data use in education, please bring it to this workshop.
• Learning Space Design for Creativity & Innovation
  In this workshop, we’ll explore options for learning space design that engage students in content creation, design, prototyping, making, STEAM, and collaboration. Building on principles of Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Designing for Joy, we’ll look at real examples of innovative learning environments that position students as inquirers, makers and builders, and consider what’s next for innovative learning spaces in your schools. Concepts of color, flexible space design, lighting, layout, furniture, technology, UDL, and more will be discussed.
• Measuring SEL & The Protective Factors Index
  The PFI is a valid and reliable instrument that teachers, counselors, and other school personnel can use to assess students' social-emotional state by age across four areas: motivation, self-knowledge, self-direction, and relationships. Completed at intervals throughout the year, in a very brief time, the PFI offers educators a reliable way to track students’ SEL growth over time.
• Super Storytelling through Coding
  Create the future of storytelling using the power of coding! Using the Ozobot Evo robot, educators will learn how to teach the basic elements of a story by designing a color-coded pathway, aligned to one of their favorite literature classics. This workshop will introduce participants to the foundations of coding and engaging practices for teaching narrative writing and communication skills.

See our workshops and classroom facilities here.

Educational Innovation Certificate Program

This program is designed to support professionals seeking to advance to the next level in their careers. Participants are able to choose from a unique blend of coursework to meet their career and business goals, learning from leading educational innovators and entrepreneurs. Work with us to develop and offer a certificate in Ed Innovation to teachers in your schools. 

Fully online workshops with facilitated optional synchronous experiences

• 3 courses (9 credits total) to complete the certificate
• Optional Professional and Continuing Eduation graduate extension credits will be available for purchase

Upon completion of requirements, students will receive a non-transcripted, printed certificate.