Creating Curious Classrooms:
Supporting Our Teachers

On-Demand Webinar

Teacher wellbeing is always top of mind for education leaders. And right now, their wellbeing needs attention. Professional learning that is meaningful and intentional can play a significant role in improving teacher retention by putting those key actions into play to address factors that affect job satisfaction and commitment.

Professional learning today has evolved to accommodate busy lives and schedules, giving administrators more opportunity to bring targeted learning to address the specific needs of their teachers.

In Creating Curious Classrooms: Supporting Our Teachers edition, join Jamie LaForgia – Discovery Education’s Professional Learning Director with 17 years of experience leading, designing, and facilitating people development curriculum – and Kristen Kruk, the Instructional Design leader, as they demonstrate new ways professional learning can:

  • Reach more educators on a regular basis with flexible delivery methods, such as on-demand webinars or asynchronous learning modules
  • Give teachers a choice in what topics they explore so they can find the best fit for their personal career growth
  • Go beyond teaching and curriculum strategy by offering sessions that focus on teamwork, collaboration, and creating mentorships

With innovative solutions for teacher readiness, like Discovery Education Experience and Cohort Connect, you can take to help address the teacher shortage through professional learning that really works. Join us as to support teachers and inspire students!

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Featured Speakers

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Jaime LaForgia

Professional Learning, Discovery Education
Jaime Laforgia serves as the Senior Director of Professional Learning at Discovery Education and has 17 years of experience leading, designing, and facilitating people development curriculum. Jaime has cultivated a deep expertise in coaching adult learners in both the public and private sectors, yielding growth for both people and organizations alike. Learn more here.

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Kristen Kruk

DE Curriculum Team
Kristen is the Manager of Professional Development with specialization in adult learning principles, instructional design, and leadership. In her role she works iwth decision makers in school districts to design professional learning experiences for teachers that impact student learning and achievement. Her interests include alignment to standards, teacher leadership, and calibrating instructional expectations among school leaders.

Explore the Series: Creating Curious Classrooms

What is curiosity? It’s what drives us to explore and investigate our amazing world. And we believe getting curious is the best way to learn.

Creating Curious Classrooms is a webinar miniseries that helps educators capture that curiosity in students and help them want to become lifelong learners, explorers, solution seekers, and gamechangers.

This series showcases hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom!

Hear first-hand stories of how schools like yours are using standards-aligned content, complete with grab-and-go lessons and hands-on experiences, to turn their science programs into learning expeditions that help students better understand our world and prepare them for success.

Find all all the Creating Curious Classrooms webinars below!

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is curiosity? It’s what drives us to explore and investigate our amazing world. And we believe getting curious is the best way to learn.

Creating Curious Classrooms is a webinar miniseries that helps educators capture that curiosity in students and help them want to become lifelong learners, explorers, solution seekers, and gamechangers.

This series showcases hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom!

Hear first-hand stories of how schools like yours are using standards-aligned content, complete with grab-and-go lessons and hands-on experiences, to turn their science programs into learning expeditions that help students better understand our world and prepare them for success.

Find all upcoming Creating Curious Classrooms webinars at DiscoveryEducation.com/Events

If you’re a school administrator, science department chair, science education leader, or simply someone with a love of science teaching, we invite you to come and get curious!  

You can register for any upcoming Creating Curious Classrooms webinars at DiscoveryEducation.com/Events

We’ll deep dive into a topic for 30-minutes, so anyone can fit it into their schedule!

Yes! We’ll record the session for participants. We’ll also offer an on-demand version after the live date so you can access a refresher anytime.

Creating Curious Classrooms will benefit any educator who wants to build curiosity as a foundation for learning science, regardless of whether you have DE in your classrooms. The series will showcase a variety of hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom — all are welcome.

There is no registration fee for participating in our webinars. But you do need to register in advance to receive access.

You can access a certificate of participation for attending but it is up to your district/local jurisdiction at their discretion whether the session will fulfill credit hours.

The webinar is hosted on Zoom webinars. If you need technical assistance for Zoom or are unable to join the meeting, please visit the Zoom Support Center.

Please contact Education Support at Education_Info@discoveryed.com.