FREE WEBINAR: Engaging Gen Alpha and Gen Z: Strategies That Slay!
Today’s classrooms are filled with tech-savvy Gen Z and Gen Alpha students, each with distinct learning preferences and challenges, which makes digital citizenship skills more important than ever.
Join Common Sense Education Ambassador Halo Rogers as she explores engagement strategies, including station rotation, AI-powered tools, and digital resources to engage students across grades 3–12.
Monthly Webinars to Help Your ELL & Newcomer Students
Click HERE to find information about the monthly Webinar or to access previous recordings and tech tool tutorials.
Sign Up As Beta Tester of Academic Digital Signage
Are you responsible for managing your school’s digital signage or want to make your digital signage more engaging (and different every day)?
Enroll as a beta tester to provide periodic feedback on our media packs. In exchange, we will provide FREE custom content for your high school flatscreen digital signage monitors that is educational, motivational and entertaining. All you need to add to our drop-in content is your lunch menu.
Email: FurahicommunicationsLLC@gmail.com for information.
You're invited to Edcamp: YouthMADE on Feb. 8
Are you looking to connect with educators on supporting youth creativity and innovation? Join us on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET at Edcamp: YouthMADE, an online unconference-style professional development for and by educators.
We invite in-school and out-of-school educators worldwide to share their experiences and expertise as they discuss ways to support youth making, activism, art, and design in education. Together, we will hold space for discussions, sharing, and networking as we build a community among educators interested in designing learning experiences that foster youth voice, creativity, and innovation.
Register to join us on Saturday, Feb. 8!
Invite your colleagues, staff, and anyone you think would be interested in attending this incredible opportunity!
To learn how to showcase student work during the YouthMADE Festival, head to youthmade.org.
Chill Out With Cool Winter Science ❄️
Why Are Winters Getting Worse if the Planet Is Getting Warmer? (9-12)
Do your students understand that rising global temperatures are creating more extreme snowstorms? Use this lesson from Weathered and the accompanying discussion questions, teaching tips, and classroom activities to introduce your students to topics like how major air currents work together to form winter storms and how improvements are being made to climate modeling systems.
Interactive Winter Activities for Early Learners (PreK-2)
How do animals camouflage in winter? Is it possible to create ice towers? And why do mittens protect our hands from the cold? These fun winter STEM investigations will have your young learners explore the world around them in a hands-on way through engaging science, math, and art activities that feature characters from their favorite PBS KIDS shows!
Explore More PBS LearningMedia Resources
- Where Do Birds Go During the Winter? (6-12)
- Five Physics Experiments for the Holidays (6-12)
- Create an Insulation Station with SciGirls (3-8)
- Cool Ways Animals Adapt for the Winter (3-8)
- The Real Rudolph Has Bloody Antlers and Super Vision (9-12)
- Explore the Seasonal Science of Frostbite (6-12)
- Explore Weird Winter Phenomena (3-8)
LEGO® Build the Change Institutes-Cohort 7 & 8 Registration Open--Last Two Cohorts
LEGO® Build the Change Institutes
LEGO® Build the Change and Take Action Global are excited to announce open call for registration for the 2024-2025 Institutes.
Accepted educators will have the opportunity to join for a free, month-long educator experience with professional development, resources, and certification.
Free and open to educators who work with students in grades 5-8.
Educator Alexander Consulting Provides FREE Google Training for Your District Through Google's EPSO
You may be wondering what districts are eligible and how to redeem this offer?
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Dr. Desiree Alexander, Educator Alexander Consulting
Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator, speaker, and author who has been in the educational field since 2002. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC and the Deputy Director for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana. She consults with members of several schools/businesses and presents at conferences globally.
Dr. Alexander is lifetime certified in Louisiana in Secondary English Education, as a Reading Specialist, as a School Librarian, as an Educational Technology Facilitator, as an Educational Technology Leader and in Educational Leadership 1. She is certified in Texas as a Principal, in English Language Arts and Reading for grades 4-8 and grades 8-12, as a Reading Specialist for grades EC-12, and as a School Librarian. She holds multiple technology certifications, including, but not limited to, IC3 certification, Google Certified Trainer, Innovator and Partner, Apple Teacher, and Microsoft Office Specialists.
She holds a Bachelor, a Master + 30, and an Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Louisiana State University, a Master of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Technology Leadership from Nicholls State University. She also holds a Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Educational Leadership from Lamar University.
She is the author of Ready to Be an Educational Leader: Your Guide for Passing the SLLA 6990, the 2024 Common Sense Education Ambassador of the Year, a 2024 Common Sense Ambassador of the Year, a 2024 Illinois Digital Educators Alliance Conference (IDEAcon) Thought Leader, 2023 Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators (LACUE) Conference Featured Speaker, 2022 & 2021 Texas Computer Education Association Conference (TCEA) Featured Thought Leader, 2020 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Featured Voice, 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) Featured Presenter, 2019 Customer Commitment Award Honoree from Better Business Bureau's (BBB) Torch Awards for Ethics, a 2019 Shreveport National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Mover and Shaker, a 2017 Young Professional Initiative 40 Under 40 Awards Honoree, 2017 Center for Digital Education Top 30 Technologists, Transformers & Trailblazers, 2017 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Learning Media Digital Innovator for Louisiana, 2016 Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana Member of the Year, 2015 Librarian of the Year for Louisiana Librarian Association, 2015 Campus Teacher of the Year in the Zachary Community School District and 2014 Leader of the Year for Region 2 Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators.
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