Professional Resource for telling your story with infographics. Basic design elements and resources are linked. Resources include free downloads from Magnolia Consulting, samples created in Venngage, and examples created by ESU #3.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to interpret and design cognitive formative assessment with respect to a three-dimensional view of learning. The NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education and the resulting Next Generation Science Standards embody this focus on an integrated three-dimensional view of science learning—as one of the signature features of this new vision. The materials for this resource come from a series of PD sessions on 3D formative assessment developed and provided by Katie Van Horne, Shelley Stromholt, Bill Penuel, and Philip Bell.

Archived session from the 2023 Arizona Regional OER Conference. Session Title: There is No Textbook: Using OER in the Classroom This resource includes the session abstract, presenters, PPT, and recording. 

In this book, we offer an introduction to OER publishing, examples of Open Pedagogy, OER-Enabled Pedagogy, and working with learners; and guidelines, best practices, and suggestions for how to plan, create, publish, and distribute your OER textbook and materials.

This book is divided into four chapters:
Teaching with OER, Open Pedagogy, and Working with Learners offers information about teaching with Open Educational Resources (OER), the ideas, practices, and principles behind Open Pedagogy, and working with students using OER and Open Pedagogy. We also provide resources to help orient students to OER, Open Pedagogy, and best practices for digital and online learning.

Planning an OER Project provides guidelines on planning, workflow, and development of Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbooks; guidelines and suggestions on outlining, compiling, and writing your OER textbook and materials; a chapter prototype, and a quick guide to Pressbooks.

Pre-Publication takes you through the steps necessary before you publish your OER textbook or materials. Sections include editing and formatting; assessment, evaluation, and rubrics; accessibility and usability, including localization, culturally appropriate materials, and student-centered pedagogy; and platform decisions.

Post-Publication gives an overview of steps to take after you publish your OER textbook or materials. Topics include formatting output files, post-release considerations, user evaluation, including instructor and student evaluation, as well as peer-review; and updates, sustaining your OER textbook or materials, and considerations around new versions and new editions.

This free, standards-based website developed for elementary teachers provides hand-picked, reviewed, on-line resources to enhance teacher content knowledge regarding reasons for the seasons.

This empirically based curriculum addresses a number of issues related to disparity and disproportionality experienced by African American families involved with child welfare. It is well documented that for decades African American children have been overrepresented in child welfare throughout this country. Yet little is known about what strategies might be implemented in order to reverse this phenomenon. This curriculum is based on findings from a Community-Based Participatory Research Project that brought together African American community leaders and university faculty to examine both the historical evolution and prominent features of a cultural broker approach to promote engagement and partnership with the African American community and the county child welfare agency. This curriculum provides research highlights, historical perspectives, conceptual frameworks, approaches for community engagement, tools and experiential opportunities to strengthen social worker understanding, and knowledge and skills regarding issues related to disproportionality and disparity experienced by African American families in child welfare. It addresses five areas: the history of cultural racism and oppression in child welfare, the prevalence of racial disparities and disproportionality in child welfare, the role of community partnership and collaboration with African American families in child welfare service delivery, the cultural broker approach to community engagement in child welfare practice, and key considerations for improved child welfare partnerships with African American communities. (108 pages) Siegel, D., Jackson, M., Montana, S., & Rondero Hernandez, V. (2011).

A unit of study for teachers to improve their professional skills, understandings, and interests. The objective is for teachers to improve their current knowledge, develop new insights into pedagogy and their own practice. Explore new or advanced understandings of content and resources.

Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference. Session Title: Using AI Tutoring in STEM Courses to Reduce the Equity Achievement Gap.This resource includes the session abstract, presenter(s), resources, and recording. 

Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference. Session Title: Using Open Educational Resources to Support Online Dual Enrollment Chemistry Course.This resource includes the session abstract, presenter(s), resources, and recording. 

Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference. Session Title: Using OpenStax and Derivita in My Asynchronous Online Mathematics Courses.This resource includes the session abstract, presenter(s), and recording. 

Increasingly, public agencies are adopting models of self-assessment in which administrative data are used to guide and then continuously evaluate the implementation of programs and policies. In California, public child welfare agencies track performance outcomes spanning a range of child safety, permanency, and well-being domains, as dictated by federal and state mandates. This curriculum has been designed to provide Title IV-E and others students interested in public child welfare systems with an overview of the state’s Child Welfare Outcomes and Accountability System. Students will be provided with hands-on opportunities to become experienced and “statistically literate” users of aggregate, public child welfare data from the state’s administrative child welfare system, attending to the often missing link between data/research and practice. This curriculum is organized into five teaching modules, providing instructors with student learning activities, PowerPoint slide presentations, and other materials to support graduate IV-E students in the development of practical data analysis skills. Materials focus on publicly available data hosted through the Child Welfare Indicators Project at the University of California at Berkeley, a long-standing agency/university data partnership: http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare. CalSWEC funding for the development of this curriculum was provided to the Child Welfare Performance Indicators Project. Modules were developed to support instructors of both first- and second-year MSW research courses. Module objectives include: (a) to support student (and instructor) understanding of California's child welfare system performance goals and progress to date; (b) to develop students who have highly desirable (and practical) data analysis skills, including the ability to intelligibly distill and present numerical findings; and (c) to prepare a cohort of IV-E MSW students equipped to adopt leadership roles in county child welfare agencies, bringing with them an appreciation for how data can be used to improve practice and inform policies. Putnam-Hornstein, E., Needell, B., Lery, B., King, B., & Weigmann, W. (2013).

Media specialist Victor Darrigrandi explains the process for teaching students how to safely operate video drones. Darrigrandi believes that as drones become more popular in video production, operating them is a valuable skill for students to learn.

This article explains the difference between weather and climate, the role of the polar regions in the global climate system, and how climate change is affecting these areas. Links to content knowledge resources and the National Science Education Standards are provided.

How Federal Funds Can Support Well-Rounded Opportunities, a live presentation by Oregon Department of Education from October 2022.

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a practice that combines training, organization development, and career development efforts to encourage the improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance. Often confused with Human Resource Management (HRM), this video discussed the four basic sections of HRD.

This article provides an overview of research-based resources for engaging girls in math and science available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

This site provides an overview of research-based resources for teaching English Language Learners available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

What is a HyperDoc? How do I create a HyperDoc? What format should I follow to optimize student learning? Work your way through this HyperDoc and discover what they are, why we should be using them as teachers, and experience first hand the value of independent learning.

This module is about Emergent Bilingual students, Professional Development for Teachers, and FREE resources available for students and teachers. 

Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference. Session Title: When Learners Become Creators: Mind-Blowing (and Adaptable) Open Pedagogy Projects. This resource includes the session abstract, presenter(s), resources, and recording.