Upcoming eSeries Events

All eSeries begin at 7 PM Eastern time and cost $20 per person

Wed., Jan. 29, 2025   •   Facilitation: Exploring Your Vision and Values  •  7 PM ET  •  $20

Are you interested in improving your facilitation skills? Whether you are a beginner or have used POGIL for years, there are always ways to refine and improve your practice. Join Marty Perry (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) and Tim Herzog (Weber State University) as they help you begin your journey of self-improvement by asking you to reflect on your vision and values as a POGIL practitioner.

Participants will have an opportunity to:

• Share successes and challenges with each other

• Explore their personal vision and values as facilitators

• Draft goals for continued development

Registration for this event is limited to 36 people.  Registrants will be sent a Zoom meeting link 2 days prior to the webinar.  Please note that the session begins at 7 PM Eastern (6 PM Central/5 PM Mountain/4 PM Pacific).  The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

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Wed., March 19, 2025   •   Using POGIL Activities with OpenSciEd  •  7 PM ET  •  $20

OpenSciEd (OSE) is an open source, phenomenon-based curriculum that many secondary schools have adopted in the last few years. While the lessons use active learning, and are inquiry in nature, they rely a lot on discourse or class discussion to build understanding. Join Laura Trout (Lancaster Country Day School) and Chris Smith (Wauwatosa East HS) as they investigate how small group learning with POGIL activities can be a valuable supplement to this
curriculum. In this session, we will provide examples of unit outlines for high school science courses that illustrate how POGIL can be incorporated into various OSE units. 

Participants will have an opportunity to:

• Become familiar with examples of OSE lessons

• Brainstorm how POGIL can be used with the OSE curriculum

Registration for this event is limited to 36 people.  Registrants will be sent a Zoom meeting link 2 days prior to the webinar.  Please note that the session begins at 7 PM Eastern (6 PM Central/5 PM Mountain/4 PM Pacific).  The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Wed., April 23, 2025   •   Empowering Through Language: Asset-Minded Approaches in Your Classroom  •  7 PM ET  •  $20

Join Kristin Plessel (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) and Sidney Boquiren (Adelphi University) for a thoughtful and practical session on how the language we use in the classroom can help build more inclusive and supportive learning environments.

This workshop will explore what it means to be equity-minded (being aware of and actively addressing what is in your control that impacts student success for all).  We'll look the difference between focusing on what students lack (deficit thinking) versus focusing on their strengths and assets.  You'll reflect on real challenges from your own teaching and learn how to shift to positive language that recognizes students' identities, abilities, and opportunities.

A case study will help bring these ideas to life, showing how these approaches can make a difference in real classrooms.  You'll leave with strategies to better support your students and promote equity through the words you choose.

What you’ll do in this session:

• Explore the meaning of equity, equity-mindedness, deficit-based, and asset-based

• Practice recognizing and rephrasing deficit-based language into strength-based language

• Identify ways to use asset-based practices in your own teaching

Registration for this event is limited to 36 people.  Registrants will be sent a Zoom meeting link 2 days prior to the webinar.  Please note that the session begins at 7 PM Eastern (6 PM Central/5 PM Mountain/4 PM Pacific).  The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

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