Virtual Professional Learning

from Virginia ACTE:

Professional Learning Opportunity for Canvas/Virtual Virginia. All resources are free and created for Virginia teachers. Great Opportunities for CTE teachers.

The Virtual Virginia's Professional Learning Program: Self-paced courses (including one on getting started with Canvas and one on using Canvas with Google).

The Canvas Countdown (CTE-facilitated cohort): Self-paced and focused on CTE-related needs.

The Virginia Virginia Professional Learning Network: Sign up for LMS support, best practices, and a shared space for participants to learn from one another.

SREB facilitating CTE / STEM teacher training programs

 from SREB:

Great teachers are the key to preparing students for success. SREB’s Teaching to Lead teacher preparation program offers intensive professional development and coaching supports that build the capacity of teachers from business and industry to plan instruction, engage diverse students, manage classrooms, create standards-driven assessments, gain confidence and remain in the profession. 

SREB’s Teaching to Lead teacher preparation program helps new career and technical education teachers become great teachers.

Developed by SREB and the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, T2L supports CTE teachers who are entering the classroom after successful careers. T2L has been shown to improve teacher competence and self-efficacy in a study of the model (PDF) conducted by the NRCCTE at SREB.

T2L can be used by states, districts or schools to support new or

Einstein explains the relationship between mass and energy.

Female Body Changes during Fetal Development

A student impresses his math teacher.

Round pegs, square holes.

AFCEA pilots its first "Engineer the Planet" Hackathon

 from AFCEA Signals

BELVOIR CHAPTER CHAPTER - Dec 16, 2021

The chapter is excited to announce its inaugural Escape the Planet hackathon event. Developed in conjunction with the AFCEA Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) Student Chapter, AFCEA International, representatives from military academies and Fairfax County Public School faculty and high school students, Escape the Planet is a series of basic coding challenges built around a space exploration mission storyline. The challenge engages middle school students to assist the fictional Belvoir AFCEA Space Alliance (BASA) on their mission of discovery to Planet X to bring back recently detected evidence of "proof-of-life." This pilot effort was held December 16 - 17 and with support for ongoing coding curriculum being taught at each of the competing schools with the hope of seeding future interest and participation in Science Technology Engineering Arts & Math (STEAM) events.  As part of the ongoing mission of the chapter, grants are being offered to each of the competing schools to help further their STEAM curriculums. Upon receipt of their BASA support mission, students from Belvoir Upper School and Walt Whitman Middle School formed Mission Specialist teams. Each Mission Specialist team will have a Ground Support Team comprised of AFCEA NVCC students, AFCEA Emerging Leaders, U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets and members of high school cyber clubs.  Students at Fort Belvoir Upper School in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, familiarize themselves with micro:bit devices that will be used in the Escape the Planet hackathon in December. Students at Fort Belvoir Upper School get a first look at micro:bit devices to be used in the Escape the Planet hackathon in December. Students use micro:bit devices in preparation for the December hackathon.