Upcoming Live Eventsfor Arizona Educators Join us for live professional learning webinars available to Arizona educators at no cost. As a learning leader, we recognize your need to focus on equitable instruction for all your students. Join us for a 45-minute session to learn how Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform provides your teachers with authentic, real-world content, useful teaching tools, and professional learning strategies. Your educators will be equipped to engage students, address current and relevant topics, and take advantage of ready-to-use lesson activities that address all students’ learning needs. Webinars Healthy Me in 2023! This session, especially designed for health educators, will examine resources to support students’ physical, social, and emotional health in the new year. Join us as we explore a collection of high-quality digital resources for students of all ages and discover more about wellness, the science of the human body, positive behaviors, healthy eating, life & health skills, and more. January 18 | 3:30 PM MST Diving Deeper into Native Stories of the Southwest with Standards-Aligned Content Take a deeper dive into the Native Stories of the Southwest channel to find resources that align to AZ history and social science standards and support the NCSS position on Social Studies education that respects and affirms Indigenous Peoples and Nations. During this session we will delve into the content in this collection to explore the first-person stories and learn about Native changemakers’ historic and present-day influence on the arts, STEM, and politics. January 19 | 3:30 PM MST Reading Informational Text: ConTEXT Matters! Join us as we explore effective strategies for helping students read, comprehend, and synthesize informational text. Explore digital resources to help students cite textual evidence, draw inferences from text and determine a central idea of text. January 24 | 3:30 PM MST Fun with Fractions Discovery Education’s Daily Learning Platform makes learning fractions a fun experience for students at all levels by engaging students with real-world examples and interactives. This session will highlight activities, videos, songs, and images to help students conceptually understand fractions and develop the procedural fluency to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions. Real-world examples will be shared to help students make meaningful connections. January 30 | 3:30 PM MST Let’s Move! Explore creative ways to incorporate physical activity into your instructional process with intentional movement breaks. Join us as we explore instructional strategies like Act it Out and physical activities like brain breaks, power ups & shake it up to help students re-focus and get them moving and learning more. Dress for movement and come prepared to have fun. February 9 | 3:30 PM MST Discover Effective Strategies Uncover effective strategies to use with the content in the Native Stories of the Southwest Channel. Educators will examine research-based strategies for integrating Discovery Education digital curriculum resources in meaningful, effective, and practical ways. Emphasis will be placed on strategies that help educators incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the instructional process. February 16 | 3:30 PM MST Write On Purpose! Bring student writing alive with a clear understanding of author’s purpose. As writers, creators, and authors, we have a purpose in mind when creating written messages. This experiential session will examine various goals for writing to help students understand author’s purpose. Focus will be on helping students write different kinds of texts for different reasons. February 22 | 3:30 PM MST Explore Careers in Computer Science Today, all the devices we use run applications that were created by someone working in the field of computer science. Join us as we explore careers in computer science and discover digital resources to share with students to help them investigate the computer science pathway of STEM. We will hear from experts working in the field as coders, programmers, software engineers, video game designers and more. February 28 | 3:30 PM MST Working with English Language Learners to Develop Academic Vocabulary Acquiring academic vocabulary is a critical component to the overall success of English Language Learners both inside and outside of the classroom. In this session we will present five instructional strategies to help you strengthen the academic vocabulary of your ELL students and create intentional opportunities to promote English language acquisition. March 2 | 3:30 PM MST View the Arizona Partnership Resources page Learn More