Use this Community of Practice webinar to create a district graduate profile which incorporates social and emotional learning and employability skills to best prepare your students for their next steps in life.

Employers share that employability skills are often the most essential skills that an employee can possess (or lack). Find out how your district can address employability skills through the adoption of  Social Emotional Learning competencies.

All students enrolled in grades 6 through 12 in a school district will participate in ACP. This includes students with disabilities who have IEPs and Section 504 accommodation plans. Use this Community of Practice webinar to make sure that ALL of your students have equal access to Academic and Career Planning opportunities.

Teacher externships can prepare teachers to embed ACP in their classrooms and help answer the age-old question,  "Why do I need to know this?" Use the recording and slide deck for this Community of Practice presentation to learn about two teacher externship programs in Wisconsin. Keep reading for additional teacher preparation resources for ACP aligned with specific content areas.

This collection uses primary sources to explore AIDS activism during the 1980s. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Check out these links to various AFNR resources that teachers can use as part of their classroom curriculum today. Disciplinary Literacy resources are included because reading, writing, speaking, and listening in this content area are critical skills for students to master if they are pursuing careers in this content area.

Faced with stiff business opposition, a conservative political climate, hostile courts, and declining membership, leaders of the American Federeration of Labor (AFL) grew increasingly cautious during the 1920s. Labor radicals viewed AFL leaders as overpaid, self-interested functionaries uninterested in organizing unorganized workers into unions. A cartoon by William Gropper published in the Communist Yiddish newspaper Freiheit (and reprinted in English in the New Masses ) caricatures delegates to a 1926 AFL convention in Atlantic City. Well

Students learn to sing the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" with the original verses and learn to sing several new verses that support rhyming concepts. They then brainstorm pairs of rhyming words to create their own verses for the song. As a follow up activity, students can create original verses using other simple rhyming songs as a framework.

The "AI 101 Training" workshop, adapted from Code.org's self-paced course into an engaging in-person format, offers educators and administrators a comprehensive introduction to artificial intelligence and its applications in education. This training is designed to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively integrate AI into their classrooms, enhancing both teaching and learning experiences. Throughout the workshop, attendees will explore fundamental AI concepts, learn practical applications for the classroom, and address the ethical considerations of AI usage. By participating, educators will be better equipped to navigate the evolving educational landscape, ensuring that their students are prepared for the future. This workshop is not just an opportunity to learn about AI but a chance to transform teaching practices and stay at the forefront of educational innovation.

In 1981, the U.S. medical community noticed a significant number of gay men living in urban areas with rare forms of pneumonia, cancer, and lymph disorders. The cluster of ailments was initially dubbed Gay-Related Immune Disease (GRID), but when similar illnesses increased in other groups, the name changed to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The mid-1980s saw a number of advances toward understanding and treating the disease, but no vaccine or cure was forthcoming. Gay advocacy and community-based organizations began providing services and pressuring government to increase funding for finding a cure and helping victims. As two representatives of AIDS health services organizations stated in the following 1987 testimony to Congress, AIDS spread in disproportionately high numbers throughout U.S. minority and disadvantaged communities. They advocated increased federal funding for prevention efforts targeted at minority communities and administered by community-based organizations. Despite such efforts, the number of minority AIDS cases continued to rise sharply, and by 1996, African Americans accounted for a higher percentage of reported adult cases of AIDS (41%) than did whites.

This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a dynamic discussion on the relation between the two - how to fight one and how to solve the other.

AI & Education - AI Foundations is a slide deck to be used to develop educator capacity around the high level functionality of artificial intelligence, the presence of AI in every day life, as well as connections to the Wisconsin Standards for Computer Science. The resource contains embedded links to videos, instructional resources, and engagement activities.

AI & Education - Deep Fakes is a slide deck to be used to build the capacity of educators to teach about Deep Fakes. The resource contains hyperlinks to interactive activities, relevant articles, and instructional resources.

Author: The Genius Group of MadisonGrade Level: fourth/fifthContent Area(s): Social studies, First Nations history, literacy, environmental literacyContext: Students will learn about the American Indian Movement in the United States. The unit is divided into three sections in which primary source images and texts drive inquiry and understanding of this time in history. A slide deck featuring these sources is used in each of the three sections.Section One is a learning provocation with opportunites for rich discussion and wonderings.Section Two is history of the AIM protests and demands, with extra attention to the environment issues revealed.Section Three is for further study, some supplemental resources to investigate the Embridge pipeline dispute with Ojibwe BadRiver Tribe and the history of protests in northern Wisconsin about treaty rights regarding spearfishing.

A video from the Extreme Ice Survey in which Dr. Tad Pfeffer and photographer Jim Balog discuss the dynamics of the Columbia glacier's retreat in recent years through this time-lapse movie. Key point: glacier size is being reduced not just by glacial melting but due to a shift in glacial dynamics brought on by climate change.

The Games and Gaming Round Table (GameRT) of the American Library Association provides a venue for librarians interested in the use of games and gaming in libraries of all types a place to gather and share.

The Games & Gaming Round Table (GameRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) provides a venue for networking and collaboration for library workers interested in the use of games and gaming in libraries.