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  • Creation and Curation

    Creation and Curation

    Discover how AI can streamline lesson planning, spark ideas, and align goals. Leave with ready-to-use, high-quality lessons and strategies you can use immediately in your classroom.
  • Foundations in eMINTS

    Foundations in eMINTS

    This self-paced professional learning experience is an introduction to the eMINTS Instructional Model and its aligned competencies. Whether you’re new to eMINTS or seeking a refresher, this course will help you build a strong foundation in the program’s core beliefs and practices.
  • Introduction to Computational Thinking

    Introduction to Computational Thinking

    This sprint, or mini-course, will help you learn about norm-setting; the what, why, and how of the practice; and revisiting and revising norms to improve your classroom culture and climate!
  • LEGACY: American Democracy in Action!

    LEGACY: American Democracy in Action!

    Experience PTI firsthand, reflect on its design principles, craft an authentic real‑world problem scenario, and use a guided template to build, assess, and facilitate a high‑quality LEGACY classroom PTI experience.
  • Affiliate Trainer: Year 1 & 2

    Affiliate Trainer: Year 1 & 2

    The Affiliate Trainer journey is a two year exploration of best practices in facilitating high-quality professional learning, coaching and mentoring, nurturing a community of learners, and enriching all of that with just in time technology.
  • eMINTS Designing Games for Education (eDGE)

    eMINTS Designing Games for Education (eDGE)

    Empower learners through game design! Develop computational thinking, problem-solving and math skills while merging math standards and 3D game design using AgentCubes Online.
  • Empowering Educators: A Journey on Planning

    Empowering Educators: A Journey on Planning

    This sprint, or mini-course, will help you learn about the planning cycle itself, each step of the cycle, and how to use the cycle effectively to better plan and improve your facilitation practice.
  • Mirror Moments: A Journey on Reflection

    Mirror Moments: A Journey on Reflection

    This sprint, or mini-course, will help you learn about the reflection cycle itself, each step of the cycle, and how to use the cycle effectively to better your facilitation practice.
  • Nurturing Norms: Crafting Classroom Community

    Nurturing Norms: Crafting Classroom Community

    This sprint, or mini-course, will help you learn about norm-setting; the what, why, and how of the practice; and revisiting and revising norms to improve your classroom community and climate!
  • Prosocial & Active Learning (PAL) Classrooms

    Prosocial & Active Learning (PAL) Classrooms

    Engage in the original 60-hr PD program designed to help students work collaboratively with each other during problem-based, active learning experiences.
  • 101 – Kicking Off the Year

    101 – Kicking Off the Year

    Set off on your journey to becoming an eMINTS certified educator. Learn about the eMINTS National Center, the eMINTS Instructional Model, and what it means to be an eMINTS educator.
  • 102 – Digital Tools for Communication

    102 – Digital Tools for Communication

    Maximize student success by effectively communicating with students and families. This session emphasizes the purposeful use of digital tools for communication, providing insights on timing and methods.
  • 103 – Constructing Knowledge

    103 – Constructing Knowledge

    Explore constructivist principles, and prepare to implement instructional strategies that embrace constructivism where learners actively create knowledge through engagement, collaboration, and reflection.
  • 104 – Classroom Communities that Work

    104 – Classroom Communities that Work

    Recognize the importance of a positive classroom community, and uncover the value and maintenance of a classroom centered on the 4 C's. Explore norms for guiding your learners throughout the year.
  • 105 – Digital Citizenship

    105 – Digital Citizenship

    Foster responsible online conduct through digital citizenship. Empower learners to be responsible digital citizens, contributing to the betterment of the digital society.
  • 106 – Building a Collaborative Classroom

    106 – Building a Collaborative Classroom

    Create a learning community aligned to the eMINTS Model. Social interaction, a constructivist principle, is fostered through cooperative learning. Educators play a vital role in structuring environments for successful learner cooperation.
  • 107 – Digital Information Fluency

    107 – Digital Information Fluency

    Elevate classroom collaboration through reflective practice. Leverage the eMINTS Instructional Model for skilled cooperative learning by enhancing strategies for sustained collaborative learning environments.
  • 108 – Your Classroom Online

    108 – Your Classroom Online

    Craft an online classroom hub to connect students, parents, and educators. Organize and share instructional resources effectively. Strengthen communication, efficiency, and engagement through a versatile classroom web space.
  • 109 – Going Digital with Formative Assessment

    109 – Going Digital with Formative Assessment

    Transform teaching with digital assessment. Explore tools, strategies, and data-driven decisions to elevate classroom practices that are aligned to the eMINTS Instructional Model.
  • 110 – Curriculum-Framing Questions

    110 – Curriculum-Framing Questions

    Explore the significance of questions in igniting student curiosity and fostering meaningful learning. Delve into employing Curriculum-Framing Questions (CFQs) to enhance instruction and promote higher-order thinking.
  • 111 – Inquiry 1: Inquiry as a Mindset

    111 – Inquiry 1: Inquiry as a Mindset

    Cultivate a culture of inquiry in the classroom. Delve into strategies for building a class where learning is guided by discovery and inquiry, allowing learners to strengthen connections between content and learning.
  • 112 – Inquiry 2: The Quest for Inquiry

    112 – Inquiry 2: The Quest for Inquiry

    Discover effective strategies for fostering higher-level learner questions in your classroom. Explore questioning methods to empower inquiry-based learning and create an environment where students use questions for deeper learning.
  • 113 – Inquiry 3: Building Inquiry

    113 – Inquiry 3: Building Inquiry

    Enhance inquiry-based learning experiences in your classroom. Engage learners in tasks that require higher-level thinking and questioning to foster engagement in lessons designed around learning standards.
  • 114 – Assessing What You Value

    114 – Assessing What You Value

    Dive into assessment to support learning and growth. Explore how formative and summative assessments can enhance lessons. Plan, evaluate, and scaffold for learner success.
  • 115 – Collaborating/ Reflecting to Learn (Inquiry)

    115 – Collaborating/ Reflecting to Learn (Inquiry)

    Cultivate a growth mindset, while learning strategies for personal and professional reflection. Participate in a collaborative reflection about the implementation of the inquiry experience with learners in the classroom.
  • 116 – Tools for Thinking

    116 – Tools for Thinking

    Engage cognitive domains through the use of scaffolding to support learners, consider how to engage learners in various levels of thinking, and investigate technology tools that can be integrated to support inquiry tasks.
  • 117 Problem-Solving 1: Exploring Problems for Learning

    117 Problem-Solving 1: Exploring Problems for Learning

    Investigate Problem-Solving Through Inquiry (PTI) as an ideal approach to encourage learners to take initiative and responsibility for their own learning, while solving authentic problems. Focus on the characteristics of this approach and embrace high-quality lesson design.
  • 118 Problem-Solving 2: Problem-Solving Through Inquiry

    118 Problem-Solving 2: Problem-Solving Through Inquiry

    Elevate student understanding through engaging and authentic challenges. Explore how to empower students to solve real-world problems through Problem-Solving Through Inquiry experiences that are aligned with standards.
  • 119 Problem-Solving 3: Designing Problem-based Experiences

    119 Problem-Solving 3: Designing Problem-based Experiences

    Create impactful Problem-Solving Through Inquiry (PTI) experiences with a template, receive guidance on effective assessments, and explore strategies for successful implementation of PTI in your own classroom.
  • 120 – Looking Back/Looking Forward

    120 – Looking Back/Looking Forward

    Celebrate Year 1 accomplishments, set goals, and enhance inquiry in your classroom. Reflect on instructional practices, share insights, and prepare for continued growth in Year 2.
  • 201 – Leaping Forward

    201 – Leaping Forward

    Reconnect to past session topics, and plan for the future. Use the eMINTS competencies to set goals for the year. Consider new ways to enhance your learning environment, and help build community in your classroom.
  • 202 – Student-inspired Instruction 1

    202 – Student-inspired Instruction 1

    Create a supportive classroom community that meets students' varying needs. Gain insights on differentiating instruction for all learners by getting to know them and developing activities to support them.
  • 203 – Break Into Digital Resources

    203 – Break Into Digital Resources

    Engage in a challenge-based online activity to explore Open Educational Resources (OER). Learn to find, evaluate, and incorporate high-quality resources into instructional plans, resulting in a breakout activity for student use.
  • 204 – Student-inspired Instruction 2

    204 – Student-inspired Instruction 2

    Strengthen instructional design by understanding student differences. Utilize student data to inform decisions and discover strategies, along with digital tools, for meeting your students' needs and representing data effectively.
  • 205 – Reaching Beyond the Classroom

    205 – Reaching Beyond the Classroom

    Explore global collaboration to celebrate diversity, enhance your students' empathy, and help them understand their role in addressing global issues. Utilize resources and connections to engage in projects that will positively impact your students' local community.
  • 206 – Enhancing the Collaborative Classroom

    206 – Enhancing the Collaborative Classroom

    Elevate classroom collaboration through reflective practice. Leverage the eMINTS Instructional Model for skilled cooperative learning by enhancing strategies for sustained collaborative classrooms.
  • 207 – DTI 1: Experiencing Design Through Inquiry

    207 – DTI 1: Experiencing Design Through Inquiry

    Inspire learners to innovate using inquiry and design. Explore how to inspire creative problem-solving driven by empathy through an immersive Design Through Inquiry (DTI) experience.

  • 208 – DTI 2: Building an Argument in Design

    208 – DTI 2: Building an Argument in Design

    Harness research data and empathy to construct compelling claims in Design Through Inquiry (DTI). Discover how real-world data and formative thinking shape meaningful, student-centered design and authentic applications.
  • 209 – DTI 3: Using Empathy & Data in Design

    209 – DTI 3: Using Empathy & Data in Design

    Collaboratively plan a student-centered Design Through Inquiry (DTI) experience rooted in real-world problem solving. Focus on building empathy, prototyping, collecting and using data to influence redesign, and framing a design solution around CER.
  • 210 – DTI 4: Applying Design Through Inquiry

    210 – DTI 4: Applying Design Through Inquiry

    Finalize the Design Through Inquiry (DTI) series by planning how students will present their learning, how learners will elaborate on their understandings as they look to future challenges, and how you will evaluate student learning.
  • 211 – The Gamification of Learning

    211 – The Gamification of Learning

    Discover inspiring education through gamifying the learning experience, ultimately fostering student motivation, engagement, and critical thinking across many subjects.
  • 212 – Digital Information Fluency 2

    212 – Digital Information Fluency 2

    Equip digital-age learners to distinguish reliable information from "fake news." Gain strategies for teaching digital media analysis and fostering savvy information consumers.
  • 213 – Literacy in the Digital Age

    213 – Literacy in the Digital Age

    Harness visual media to spark inquiry, convey emotions, inform, and persuade in the inquiry-driven classroom. Foster vital visual literacy skills for today's image-aware students.
  • 214 – My Professional Learning Network

    214 – My Professional Learning Network

    Discover how connected educators leverage digital tools to connect, share, and grow. Learn to build your global community, expanding your expertise and gaining fresh insights and ideas.
  • 215 – Reflecting to Learn (DTI)

    215 – Reflecting to Learn (DTI)

    Empower your teaching journey through reflection using the Critical Friends Group (CFG) approach. Explore your Design Through Inquiry (DTI) experience, and gain insight through critical analysis for effective lesson design and implementation.
  • 215 – Reflecting to Learn (Problem-solving)

    215 – Reflecting to Learn (Problem-solving)

    Empower your teaching journey through reflection using the Critical Friends Group (CFG) approach. Explore your Problem-Solving Through Inquiry (PTI) experience, and gain insight through critical analysis for effective lesson design and implementation.
  • 216 – Digital Storytelling 1

    216 – Digital Storytelling 1

    Dive into digital storytelling in this session, and discover its role in education and its demand in the digital world for effective communication. Determine how students will engage this valuable skill by blending creativity with modern literacy.

  • 217 – Digital Storytelling 2

    217 – Digital Storytelling 2

    Embrace blending personal experience with digital media to communicate a creative and powerful message. Craft your "My eMINTS Journey" digital story, and plan how to empower your learners with vital skills that blend both creativity and learning standards.

  • 218 – Celebrate Success

    218 – Celebrate Success

    Celebrate 2 years of eMINTS learning! Complete your eMINTS Teacher certification requirements as you reflect on your journey, share insights in the "My eMINTS Journey" presentation, and complete your Reflective Journal.
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    D109-112 Focusing with DTI

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  • D205 – Design Cycle 1: Explore & Engineer

    D205 – Design Cycle 1: Explore & Engineer

    This is the training session template for Comp PD & 4All programs. Add a custom description here after making a copy for a specific session. (185 characters)
  • D212 – Design Cycle 2: Explore & Engineer

    D212 – Design Cycle 2: Explore & Engineer

    Design Cycle 2: A self-paced course for educators to design interdisciplinary lessons focusing on argumentation, community, and place-based learning.
  • D219 – Design Cycle 3 Explore & Engineer

    D219 – Design Cycle 3 Explore & Engineer

    Educators will design an interdisciplinary lesson that considers argumentation, community, and place-based learning.
  • 3D Game Design for Beginners (eDGE-C2)

    3D Game Design for Beginners (eDGE-C2)

    Empower learners through game design! Develop computational thinking, problem-solving and math skills while merging math standards and 3D game design using AgentCubes Online.
  • Advanced 3D Simulation Creation (eDGE-C2)

    Advanced 3D Simulation Creation (eDGE-C2)

    Empower learners through game design! Develop computational thinking, problem-solving and math skills while merging math standards and 3D game design using AgentCubes Online.
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