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Onsite Professional Learning: English Language Arts
GPB Education offers customized, no-cost professional learning sessions and workshops at your request and convenience. Live sessions can be held either virtually or onsite at your location.
Are you interested in free professional learning support at your school or district? Request a session or workshop via the link below:
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The Elementary ELA Educator's Guide to the GPB Galaxy
Grade Level: K-5
Join GPB Education for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive digital resources for elementary school ELA, including some of our favorites from Reading Rainbow, Between the Lions, Martha Speaks, and SuperWhy! Participants will learn more about how to meaningfully engage students with the thousands of online resources available through their free streaming account with PBS LearningMedia.
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The Secondary ELA Educator's Guide to the GPB Galaxy
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB’s education outreach team for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive free digital content for secondary ELA, from grammar and literature to standards-based lesson plans, plus thousands of multimodal learning resources and tools available to all Georgia students and teachers through PBS LearningMedia.
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Booked and Hooked: A Journey through PBS LearningMedia's Literary Treasures!
Grade Level: K-12
GPB Education invites K-12 educators into the world of PBS LearningMedia, where we'll guide you through a treasure trove of quality no-cost open educational resources designed to enrich your literature curriculum.
Explore the Literary Elements and Techniques collection of engaging animated shorts, perfect for both introducing and reviewing fundamental concepts. Delve into classic literature with American Masters, offering classroom-ready videos and articles that illuminate the lives of iconic authors and their creative journeys. Laugh along with It's Lit! - a series of captivating video essays that explore our favorite books, decoding why we love to read and uncovering the magic behind literature. Embark on The Great American Read, a comprehensive exploration of America's 100 best-loved novels and their profound impact on our diverse nation. Immerse yourselves in classic literature adapted for the screen with the Masterpiece collection, which provides a visual and analytical perspective on key literary works. And for our youngest learners, we've selected segments from the classic Between the Lions series that ignites early literacy skills.
As you navigate the rich PBS LearningMedia online library, you'll find resources tailored to young readers, interactive lessons for middle and high school poets, and opportunities to integrate literature and social studies through thought-provoking experiences.
This session will equip you with a toolkit of comprehensive content, practical strategies, lesson plans, and innovative approaches to invigorate your English Language Arts curriculum. Join us on an enlightening journey of literary appreciation and open exciting new doors for your students with PBS LearningMedia.
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Enhancing Visual Literacy in the ELA Classroom
Grade Level: 6-12
According to Adobe’s Visual Literacy White Paper, “Visual images are becoming the predominant form of communication across a range of learning and teaching resources [and] visual literacy is now crucial for obtaining information, constructing knowledge and building successful educational outcomes.” Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for an exploration of PBS LearningMedia’s free digital content and professional development resources with a focus on building visual literacy through literature in the ELA classroom.
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Information Literacy in the 21st Century
Grade Level: 6-12
Fake News! Social media overload! Conspiracy theories! In a fast-paced media environment, our students need as much support as possible in discerning credible information, recognizing attempts to influence them, and creating authentic content for wider audiences. And GPB can help! With dynamic content from Discovery Education and PBS LearningMedia, combined with research from the Stanford History Education Group, participants with leave with active strategies to promote critical thinking, collaboration, and research in the classroom.
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Introducing DBQs to the ELA Classroom
Grade Level: 6-12
As inquiry-based approaches to English Language Arts become more prominent, all levels of education are finding the Document-Based Question to be both useful for teaching critical thinking yet challenging as students are expected to learn more difficult skills in earlier grades. In this session, GPB Education will share clear steps enhanced with creative teaching strategies for introducing DBQs into the elementary, middle, or high school classroom.
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STEM by the Book: Novel Problem Solving Through Novel Engineering
Grade Level: K-12
Happily Ever After rarely comes easily in any great read. But every journey taken - with a beloved or a despised character, to previously unknown places, through harrowing misadventures and inspiring life lessons - teaches us something new about ourselves and our world. Join GPB as we identify problems and design solutions within the context of great literary STEM challenges. With hundreds of digital stories available to you at no cost through GPB Education, the Engineering Design Process is an open book!
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Rights and Freedoms at the End of the World: Exploring the U.S. Bill of Rights Through the Dystopian Novel
Grade Level: 6-12
Mass surveillance, thought crimes, book burnings, blood sport. How do the day-to-day realities of our great dystopian novels hold up against the rights and freedoms that we so often take for granted in American society? Join GPB Education on a harrowing exploration of the United States Bill of Rights in the context of frightfully relevant dystopian fiction. With dozens of associated online resources available to you at no cost and free from unjust censorship, your students will enthusiastically thank our Founding Fathers for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
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Finding Poetry in Primary Sources
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB’s education outreach team for a creative take on social studies education in conjunction with National Poetry Month. We'll explore primary source sets from PBSLearningMedia along with instructional strategies in "found poetry" that will shift how students examine, analyze, and understand documents.
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Celebrating Math Poetry Month With Rhyme and Rhythm
Grade Level: 6-12
Education at GPB | Invites you to accompany | Our professional learning reverie | On poetry and symmetry | Both Rhyme and Reason | ‘Tis the season | For Math Poetry Month!
Join us for an exploration of free PBS LearningMedia resources that pair poems and patterns for unique ways to inspire mathematically creative thinking in your students!
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Shakespeare Resources for Today, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Grade Level: 6-12
For hundreds of years, students and adults alike have struggled to read Shakespeare’s plays. That’s in large part because he wrote his plays to be seen and heard, not read. Reading Shakespeare is like reading a movie script — something that is written for actors so they can then perform for our entertainment. But GPB Education also sponsors hundreds of resources that help Shakespeare reach and inspire us. Join GPB as we get to know the bard even better and discover how his stories can remain culturally relevant into the 21st century.
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To Be or Not To Be Relevant: That is the Question
Grade Level: 6-12
“A bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the lamp which guides their steps along the paths of destiny. ... the golden cord which unites the manifold ages, binding all that is past with all that is yet to come.”
William Shakespeare has been dubbed The Bard for centuries because he is widely believed to be one of the greatest English language poets who ever lived. But four hundred years after he wrote, the world we all live in presents us with a larger and more complex stage. Can Shakespeare still speak for (and to) all of us? Can his songs still bind “all that is past with all that is yet to come”? In short: Is Shakespeare still relevant today? Join Georgia Public Broadcasting and WordPlay Shakespeare for an exploration of Shakespeare’s enduring legacy, in a participatory panel session about whether his words and stories — written at one moment in time and space — can have a lasting impact on the collective human experience of the 21st century.
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Sharing the Inside Story: Building Social Awareness and Emotional Resilience Through Collective Storytelling and Listening
Grade Level: K-12
Engrave this upon your heart: there isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you hear their story. - Mary Lou Kownacki
Stories have the power to connect and inspire us. Stories help us know ourselves and others better. Stories help us remember what we learn. Stories give us a voice. Everyone has a story.
Join GPB Education as we explore the power of storytelling through inspiring content and engaging learning strategies that foster curiosity, empathy, and trust. Stories sometimes lead us to sensitive topics, and that’s okay as long as we start within safe spaces built on universal standards of patience and respect. From safety, we can grow into compassion by hearing and processing the shared stories of strangers that often feel like our own. From their courage, we can find inspiration to trust our own voice and unique impact on our collective understanding as one people.
GPB Education and PBS LearningMedia offer tens of thousands of accessible, vetted, no-cost resources, including the Who Tells Your Story? professional development course, active learning materials from the PBS Kids Ready to Learn initiative, and the storytelling series American Portrait, StoryCorps, and Hope Givers. We will pair selections from these moving collections with effective thinking routines from Harvard Project Zero that help our students model their personal storytelling and listening skills within safe parameters and encouraging guidelines. Participants will walk away with an understanding of and access to quality free content and interactive teaching tools that can be applied immediately in their school and classroom communities.
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Teaching Our Hearts Out: Resources From PBS LearningMedia to Support the Emotional Labor of Education
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB Education for a hands-on exploration of our favorite health and wellness collections, and model ideas for incorporating these OERs into ELA instruction. Participants will leave with no-cost, grab-and grow resources that empower us to invest in our own well-being while simultaneously growing the social-emotional currency of our students.
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It’s a Small World Tour of Online Resources for World Language and Culture
Grade Level: K-12
Join GPB Education for an overview of our comprehensive digital resources for exploring world language and culture, including GPB Education's classic video series Salsa and Irrashai for learning Spanish and Japanese. Participants will also learn more about how to meaningfully engage students with the thousands of additional online educational resources available in 13 different languages through their free streaming accounts with PBS LearningMedia.