EU Bootcamp

Zoom

Nine virtual webinars covering European Union-related topics on social science, humanities, and STEM.

Free

Language Teacher Summer Institute

Zoom

Maximizing foreign language output in the classroom: An in-depth, interactive, two-week, virtual course

Free

The World As It Could Be: Speculative Fiction from around the World

This ORIAS summer institute will feature short works from around the world. Participants will read, view, and analyze short works from a variety of regions, using speculative fiction as a lens to understand and contextualize current issues in the real world. We'll explore the role of speculative fiction in helping students develop cultural literacy and experiment with teaching methods that encourage creative engagement with works of fiction.

Free

Exploring Place through Literature: Using StoryMaps and Picture Books to Highlight Innovations in Kenya, The Gambia, and Cape Coast, Ghana

Zoom

StoryMaps are an excellent multimedia platform for students to analyze content in a global context. Combining maps and spatial information, visuals and narrative, StoryMaps create content and communicate in a format other than a paper or another PowerPoint. We'll learn how to access existing StoryMaps to provide background for your students who are exploring place […]

$50

China-Africa Contemporary Relations: a Summer Institute for Educators

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota

China’s ascendancy as a dominant economic and political global power has been the subject of much scholarly and political debate. More specifically, China’s renewed interest in Africa continues to beg the question, what is China’s Africa strategy or Africa – China Strategy? Some scholars suggest that China’s strategic interests in Africa are purely economic, resource […]

Free

Foundational Seminar: Crossroads of East Asia, STEAM, and SEL

Zoom

(Monday - Fridays only) Join us for a virtual journey that will introduce East Asia’s diverse cultures and environment while building and enhancing your tool chest of teaching resources for the classroom. Focusing on the regions that comprise present-day China, Japan, and Korea, participants in this free online seminar will engage with experts and other […]

Free

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Climate Justice

Tulane 6801 Freret Ave., New Orleans, LA, United States

This institute is part of a four year series in collaboration with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University. This summer’s institute is hosted by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and will take place on campus in New Orleans, LA. The year's institute introduces K-12 educators […]

$150.00

Summer Teacher Institute 2023: “The Long 19th Century in the Middle East and North Africa, and Its Global Impact”

ICC 241, CCAS Georgetown University ICC #241, 3700 O St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Annual institute sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding The Summer Teacher Institute 2023 will continue the thread of past institutes for educators looking at the MENA region in a global context, and in close relation to European cultural trends that play a major role in […]

Free

How Archaeology is Changing What We Know about Medieval West Africa

Virtual Zoom

Virtual Summer Institute for Educators In this institute, art historian Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss recent archaeological findings that demonstrate the global reach of West Africa trade items. Jacques Aymeric Nsangou, Harvard University and Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, University of Cambridge UK will discuss archaeology in medieval West Africa. For more information and to […]

Free
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