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.
Start Strong with Back to School Webinars
Back to School Elementary Toolkit
Discover powerful planning tools, get a first look at a new elementary video series, and access resources to cover Constitution Day and elections with ease.
Back to School with iCivics
Empower your middle or high school students to thrive from day one. Join us to discover free planning tools and preview new resources, including the new Rule Play multimedia game.
Back to School with iCivics: Admin Edition
Support your teachers and protect instructional time. This on-demand webinar previews our new AI co-planner, explores civic frameworks, and gives you an exclusive Back-to-School One-Pager to share with your team.
Learn at your convenience with professional development resources available on demand and through live online webinars.
We Can Teach Hard Things Series
You can teach hard things—and should! But you don’t have to do it alone. Let iCivics support you as you navigate the growing challenges of teaching essential civics concepts amidst historic polarization.
Civic Digital Literacy Professional Development
Equip yourself to be more effective in teaching and understanding the key pillars of digital literacy with professional development videos made just for you.
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. All for only $150.
Menu of Services for Individual Offerings
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 and foster critical thinking and collaboration.
- Build inquiry skills: questions, sources, tasks.
- Create relevant questions, curate primary and secondary sources, and build tasks that scaffold literacy.
- Cultivate classroom inquiry, empowering engaged, informed citizens.
Offered to K-12 Educators
Completion time: Approximately 12 hours
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.
Teaching Media and Information Literacy in the Digital Age
Fostering a healthy democracy starts with building media and information literacy (MIL) skills by equipping educators with the dispositions, skills, and knowledge to teach students how to critically analyze, evaluate, and responsibly act on information.
Objectives:
- Educators will become more mindful of the importance of the “pursuit of accuracy” and recognize that MIL practices are vital for a healthy classroom and democracy.
- Educators will be introduced to the five key practices of MIL–Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, Act–and apply strategic inquiry methods, such as lateral reading and effective search strategies.
- Educators will be introduced to the five key practices of MIL–Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, Act–and apply strategic inquiry methods, such as lateral reading and effective search strategies.
Offered to K-12 Educators
Completion time: Approximately 12 hours
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.
Enhancing 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
Completion time: Approximately 12 hours
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.
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
Completion time: Approximately 12 hours
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.
