Join the Global EdTech Academy – 14 Weeks of Free PD

This morning I received my final email alerting me that every single education event I am supposed to have been a part of between March and September have all been cancelled. While it was expected, my heart still sank for so many reasons. When I interact with others, I learn so much. When we learn together, we all grow. When we come together and share not just our accomplishments but also our moments of failure, we can continue on the path of learning we have been on for so long, together. I know I grow further when I walk with others and get to question my own practices.

So imagine my sheer delight at being invited to be a part of an incredible collaboration between CUE and Microsoft that will run for the next 14 weeks featuring global education speakers on a wide range of topics. Need ed-tech inspiration; there are sessions for you, need to further your pedagogy; there are sessions for you. There are so many sessions and so many speakers available, it is pretty amazing.

The 14 weeks will feature hour-long sessions from many international presenters at many different times, as well as master classes where you can go deeper into a topic with the speakers offering it (I am hoping to learn from Ken Shelton’s!). There will also be weekly office hours offered, a chance for you to collaborate and brainstorm with the speakers that you choose to work with. Bring your questions, they will try to help. The sessions will be live, but they will also be archived to be accessed later if you want. This is definitely helpful when it comes to navigating time zones.

But did I mention the best part? It’s free. Yup; FREE.

So how do you get signed up, well, this week’s sessions can be seen right now – note, that these are not the only speakers involved, just this week’s.

And what will I be doing? I will be offering three separate master classes, with one being repeated, the first one kicking off tomorrow at 11 AM PST! Join me there if you can or join me in the future when it works for you.

Date	Time	Session Title
5/19	11 AM PST/1 PM CST	Masterclass – How Do We Learn Best – Embedding Authentic Choice and Voice: Part 1
5/26	11 AM PST/1 PM CST	Masterclass – How Do We Learn Best – Embedding Authentic Choice and Voice: Part 2
6/2	11 AM PST/1 PM CST	Masterclass – How Do We Learn Best – Embedding Authentic Choice and Voice: Part 3
6/10	7 AM/9 AM PST	Masterclass – Reimagining School Part 1
6/17	7 AM/9 AM PST	Masterclass – Reimagining School Part 2
6/24	7 AM/9 AM PST	Masterclass – Reimagining School Part 3
7/23	1 PM CST	Passionate Readers – The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child
7/29	1 PM CST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 1
8/6	1 PM CST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 2
8/13	1 PM CST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 3
8/17	7 AM/9 AM PST	Passionate Readers – The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child
8/24	7 AM/9 AM PST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 1
8/31	7 AM/9 AM PST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 2
9/8	6 AM/8 AM PST	Masterclass: But They Still Hate Reading – Establishing and Cultivating a Personal Reading Identity Part 3

Thank you Microsoft and Cue for offering up this partnership and including me in it. I can’t wait to learn with all of you.

If you are wondering where I will be in the coming year or would like to have me speak, please see this page. I offer up workshops and presentations both live and virtually that are based on the work I do with my own students as we pursue engaging, personalized, and independent learning opportunities. I also write more about the design of my classroom and how to give control of their learning back to students in my first book, Passionate Learners.