Professional Development for Educators
Professional Learning & Professional Development for Educators
Enhance your teaching skills, discover innovative strategies, and expand your resources with iCivics’ on-demand professional development and professional learning offerings.
Build Your Capacity & Elevate Your Teaching
For more than a decade, iCivics has provided educators nationwide with high-quality civics and history curriculum. However, we know that you need more support in order to create transformative civic learning opportunities that extend beyond the classroom walls.
We are here to support you with our paid professional learning offerings, which consist of virtual workshops, course videos, community cohorts, and a library of free professional development webinars.
Invest in Professional Learning Services
Cultivate thriving classrooms with our flexible Professional Learning Services. Our team’s coaching—paired with our best-in-class curriculum—can save you time, build capacity, and positively impact student outcomes in your district.
Self-guided Learning Pathway
Receive 1 year of access to course materials through our online learning management services.
Learn on your own time with 30-60-minute asynchronous course videos.
Receive regular digital communications.
Collaborative Learning Pathway
Receive 1 year of access to course materials through our online learning management services.
Learn on your own time with 30-60-minute asynchronous course videos.
Join a six-month cohort that fosters community and interactive collaboration with three 90-minute workshops.
Summer Professional Learning Menu of Services
Fostering an Inquiry-based Classroom
Building a culture of inquiry requires creating and using questions, gathering and adapting primary and secondary sources, and scaffolding skills essential to content, disciplinary, and informational literacies.
Objectives:
• Engage informed citizens through inquiry.
• Build inquiry skills: questions, sources, tasks.
• Create relevant questions, curate primary and secondary sources, and build tasks that scaffold literacy.
• Foster critical thinking and collaboration.
• Cultivate classroom inquiry, empowering engaged, informed citizens.
Offered for K-12 Educators
Self-guided Learning Pathway completion time: Approximately 12 hours
Collaborative Learning Pathway completion time: 20 Hours, including three synchronous virtual sessions
Introducing Civics 101 & 102
Discover methods for incorporating civic education into classroom culture and management. You will make connections between civic education and important pedagogical strategies such as inquiry, differentiation, information literacy, and multilingual learning.
Objectives:
• Foster a collaborative classroom culture through civic education.
• Connect learning to community, building service and leadership skills.
• Explore civic lens applications: inquiry, culture, discussion, media literacy, and iCivics resources.
• Designed for classroom and community needs, this course empowers participatory students.
Offered to K-12 Educators with 0-3 Years of experience teaching Social Studies
Self-guided Learning Pathway completion time: Approximately 12 hours
Collaborative Learning Pathway completion time: 20 Hours, including three synchronous virtual sessions
Coming Soon: Supporting Social Studies Best Practices in Classrooms and Schools
This pathway provides training to instructional leaders to create and foster momentum for pedagogical shifts around inquiry-based learning, information, and media literacy, and implementing iCivics’ core curriculum.
Objectives:
• Empower instructional leaders to support social studies educators. This pathway provides training to create momentum for pedagogical shifts.
• Learn to foster inquiry-based learning, enhance information and media literacy, and effectively implement iCivics’ core curriculum.
• Equip leaders to drive change and enrich student civic engagement.
Offered to School-level instructional coaches & school leaders who support social studies or civics teachers.
Self-guided Learning Pathway completion time: Approximately 12 hours
Collaborative Learning Pathway completion time: 20 Hours, including three synchronous virtual sessions
Coming Soon: Elementary Civics and Social Studies
Make Private i History Detectives and our K-5 social studies and civics curriculum come alive in your classroom. This course offers practical strategies and support for seamlessly integrating our inquiry-based methodology.
Objectives:
• Implement dynamic inquiry in elementary classrooms with Private i History Detectives.
• This K-5 social studies and civics curriculum guides educators, fostering student-driven exploration.
• It supports inquiry-based learning, cultivating critical thinking and historical understanding through active investigation.
Offered to K-5 Teachers and Leaders
Self-guided Learning Pathway completion time: Approximately 12 hours
Collaborative Learning Pathway completion time: 20 Hours, including three synchronous virtual sessions
Our Unique Approach
Elevate your professional development with our paid professional learning offerings. Grounded in effective practices and standards, our offerings— virtual workshops, asynchronous courses, and community cohorts—provide a valuable and distinct learning experience.
Discover the key differentiators that make our pathways impactful.
Lead with Inquiry
Courses are structured inquiries grounded in a compelling question, with carefully curated, research-based sources and tasks.
Drive Continuous Improvement
Courses create a cycle for educators to learn new strategies, put them into practice, and then reflect and improve.
Foster Collaboration
Courses intentionally create collaborative environments for teachers to learn from one another and share challenges and successes.
Cultivate Leadership
Courses provide supportive coaching, walkthroughs, and constructive feedback that nurture and grow educators into leaders.
Learn with Free Professional Development Webinars
Learn at your convenience with professional development resources available on demand and through live online webinars.
The Importance of Digital Literacy in the Classroom
Discover resources to equip your students to build digital literacy skills.
Strengthening Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom
Empower your students to develop a strong foundation in civics and have some fun along the way!
Teachers as Civic Leaders
Hear from educators who model civic engagement for students by taking the next steps into the different levels of civic leadership.
Honoring the Outcome
An insightful discussion with educators on the importance of the peaceful transfer of power for both the nation and for our students.
