Professional Learning

NAF Future Ready Educators engage in personalized, learner-centered educational practices as they strive to create equitable learning environments to ensure learners fulfill their potential and are future-ready.

The four domains of the Educator Framework are Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Cognitive, and Instructional (KnowledgeWorks).

Featuring: KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group

The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success

Explore The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success with experts from KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Learn how to market yourself, build a compelling online presence, and how to set yourself up for success in internships, college, and future careers. Quick tip: You can hover over chapter segments to see timestamps and chapter titles. You can also share links to specific chapter segments by clicking on the Chapters icon located at the bottom right-hand corner of the video player.

NAF Next 2023 Digital Participant Badge

Double the value of your learning from NAF Next 2023 by earning a digital badge by reflecting on key takeaways from the sessions you attended. Validate your participation and learning at NAF Next and amplify your accomplishments on your social media, website, digital portfolio, or email signature.

AI 101 for Teachers

Partners Code.org, ETS, ISTE and Khan Academy are offering this free, foundational online learning series that will demystify AI, explore responsible implementation, address bias, and showcase how AI-powered learning can revolutionize student outcomes. Sessions feature renowned experts.

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Free Google Professional Certificates

NAF has been awarded scholarships to distribute for Google Professional Certificates for NAF Educators and Alumni: Google Data Analytics, Google Project Management, Google UX Design, Google IT Support Professional, Digital Marketing & E-commerce, and Google IT Automation. Validate your skills through a Google Professional Certificate and prepare your learners for competitively-paid jobs in high-growth fields. There will also be an opportunity to extend this FREE program to your academy students.

Professional Learning

Future Ready Learning for Educators

The professional learning modules provided have been carefully curated to support the NAF curricular offerings. Please complete our short survey to help us improve the NAF library.

Earn a Digital Marketing Skills Certification

Earn a digital marketing skills certificate from Meta for Facebook. Learn about advertising, the value of Facebook and much more.

Top Scholars working for racial justice

Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Education

The Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Education project fellows are top scholars working for racial justice. Their fields include science, education, public health, and sociology. In their video narratives, the fellows discuss their research, their journeys, challenges they've had to overcome, and their advice to Black students, who are underrepresented in their career fields. The fellows are developing content for two upcoming clusters: Racism as a Public Health Crisis, and Inclusive and Antiracist Teaching Strategies. For more narrative stories, check out the pathway, Meet the Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Education Fellows.

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CTE Learn Career Lounge

Join over 210,000 CTE educators in this shared community. The Career Lounge enables you to share best practices across many career pathways.

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Featuring: KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success Explore The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success with experts from KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Learn how to market yourself, build a compelling online presence, and how to set yourself up for success in internships, college, and future careers. Quick tip: You can hover over chapter segments to see timestamps and chapter titles. You can also share links to specific chapter segments by clicking on the Chapters icon located at the bottom right-hand corner of the video player.
Featuring: RTX and Verizon NAF Celebrates Black Engineers with RTX and Verizon NAF, RTX, and Verizon are working to inspire and enable the next generation of young people seeking exciting engineering careers by celebrating Black engineers during this panel discussion. Each year, the US needs about 400,000 new engineers. While Black or African-Americans represent 14% of the US population, they represent only 9% of new engineering degrees every year. Join us to learn about their stories, hear their tips, and celebrate their success.
WBL Webinar - Preparing Students & Supervisors for Internship Success Learn about strategies and NAF resources for preparing students and internship supervisors. Parimala Rao from Infosys provides a demo of the Infosys Springboard Digital Academy, with free courses for NAF Network members (students, educators, and supervisors).
WBL Webinar - LinkedIn Skills Workshop for Educators Cris Charbonneau, Director of Social Impact, Fidelity Investments, shares how to build and leverage your personal brand on LinkedIn and Kirsten Kirby, Director of WBL, demos new features you can be tapping into.
Curriculum Webinar - NAF’s Entrepreneurship Curriculum Learn about BevLaunch, a FREE entrepreneurship simulator that empowers students to innovate and create their own beverage company.
WBL Webinar - Using Student Voice & Input for WBL Planning This webinar provides information about the WBL Reflection Form students complete after each activity, how you can use the data to continue improving your WBL program, and resources to support you.
WBL Webinar - Completing the Future Ready Skills Assessment This webinar covers how the Internship Assessment has been updated to align with the 6 Future Ready Skills, with an increased emphasis on students receiving feedback on their skill development.
Elevating WBL in the Classroom WBL Webinar - Mentored Industry Projects District C's Teamship model is an innovative, impactful way to bring Mentored Industry Projects directly into your classroom. Learn more from Dan Gonzalez, co-Founder of District C and 3 exceptional NAF teachers - Joy Tavano, Heather Hartmann, and Ashley Fahey, who earned District C coach certifications and have implemented Teamship in their NAF academies.
WBL Webinar - ODWBL Resources Learn more about the new ODWBL resources and features, as well as strategies for using them.
Webinar - Artificial Intelligence Curricula, Projects, and Tools for Educators Check our webinar and slide deck with links to further EMPOWER educators by sharing insights into the latest industry developments in AI; access to valuable AI resources, curricula, and projects to enhance student learning; and ideas to incorporate AI to support instructional planning or educator tasks. Thank you to Verizon for serving as panelists and collaborating on our NAF Expeditions.
Google Career Certificates Webinar Recording Watch this Google Career Certificates webinar with Coursera to learn how NAF educator Denise Hinds Cruz facilitates a Google Career Certificate program in her classroom and how you can do the same.
WBL Webinar - WBL Tracker, AA, & NAFTrack Certification Now that the WBL Participation Tracker and Reflection Form tools have been live for a year, what’s next? How will this data be used in the Academy Assessment? This webinar covers next steps and how these will impact you.
Webinar - Annual Data Collection and Academy Assessment Tips This webinar covers essential tips to complete NAF's 2023-24 Annual Data Collection and Academy Assessment. Discover completion deadlines, changes from previous years, and advice on navigating ASH's Quality Center.
Webinar - What's Changing with NAFTrack? This webinar provides an overview of the new formula for NAFTrack Certification, ways we have streamlined data entry and improved the platform, and answers to frequently asked questions.
WBL Webinar - Intro. to the Tech Tools of ODWBL This webinar highlights new and existing tech tools that support the outcomes-driven approach including the WBL Participation Tracker, Reflection Form, Skills Feedback Survey, Future Ready Skills Assessment, NAFTrack, and more.
Building Quality Academies Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on Reimagining Stakeholder Engagement; Leadership Matters; Amplifying Youth Voice for Academy Improvement ; Year of Planning (YOP) ; New to NAF: Advisory Boards ; and the Launch Year Session .
The Impact of Partnerships Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on Reimagining Stakeholder Engagement; Alumni Mentoring; Leveraging Partners to Impact WBL; Robotics and the Workforce; STEM Education for Hispanic Students and Caregivers
The NAF Student Experience Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on the NAF Student Experience related to Social Capital: Developing Student Networks and STEM Engagement.
Promoting My Academy Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on Marketing and Branding Your Academy and Equitable Access to Recruitment and Marketing.
Teaching in NAF Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on Google Applied Skills, Authentic Learning Projects, AppInventor, Techniques in Obtaining Industry Certs, and more.
Work-Based Learning Find resources from our NAF Next sessions on WBL, such as NAF's Outcomes Driven Approach; What is WBL; Mentored Industry Projects; Empowering Advisory Boards and Industry Partners through WBL; Preparing for Internship Success
Earn Your NAF Next 2023 Participant Badge NAF Next 2023: Perspectives is NAF's annual professional learning conference held in Phoenix, AZ, from July 12-14. The aim of this conference is to share innovative and proven practices to support academy teams and increase academy quality. Earners of this badge attended NAF Next learning sessions, plenaries, and the Innovation Studio and have submitted a reflection on their learning and how they'll leverage it to benefit their academy(ies).
WBL Webinar - WBL Action Planning This webinar covers strategies for action planning, NAF's expectations for WBL, the tools, data, and resources you can use, how to engage Advisory Board members in action planning, and how to work with your Portfolio Manager.
The Strategic Planning Process for Advisory Boards A NAF Pro Series Network Discussion featuring two board chairs from Miami-Dade: Carlos Vasquez, President of Miami EdTech (STEM Board Chair) and Wendy Kallergis, President and CEO of the Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association (AOHT Board Chair), who share how they manage their strategic plan and their tips and advice on engaging your board to plan work-based learning activities and other events to support students.
Ace Your Interview - Resume & Interview Tips for Success from KPMG and World Wide Technology Career and internship opportunities often begin with a well-crafted resume to help you get noticed followed by a successful interview. This virtual skills workshop, led by experts from leading professional services firm, KPMG LLP and global technology solutions provider, World Wide Technology, will help you confidently “ace the interview” for an upcoming internship or job search.
WBL Webinar - Expanding Your WBL Approach This webinar explores how to engage students in WBL planning and implementation, integrating WBL into the classroom, expanding stakeholders, and planning impactful WBL.
WBL Webinar - Analyzing Your WBL Participation Tracker & Reflection Form Data In this webinar, we explore systems and strategies for analyzing your WBL data and looking at ways you can use that knowledge to inform future planning.
WBL Webinar - Best Practices for Internship Readiness This WBL webinar covers strategies and specific activities to help students put their best foot forward during each phase of the internship recruitment process and get the most out of their internship experience. We also explore NAF’s new Internship Prep Modules lesson plan collection and Internship Supervisor Resource Hub.
The Benefits of Advisory Board Subcommittees A NAF Pro Series Network Discussion, this webinar focuses on how high-performing advisory boards develop committees aligned to their strategic goals to differentiate responsibilities as a management technique and how committees are a great strategy to help your board achieve results and impact.
WBL Webinar - WBL Participation Tracker and Reflection Form Training Complete step-by-step training on NAF's two new tools for tracking work-based learning activities and receiving student feedback.
WBL Webinar - A World of Resources Dive into NAF’s work-based learning resources for student, educator, and partner use and connect these to upcoming WBL activities.
WBL Webinar - National & Local Internships Overview Learn how to identify internship opportunities for students and about NAF's National Partner Internship Program.
WBL Webinar - Planning WBL It’s time to implement your work-based learning plan! We explore planning resources and elements of high-quality work-based learning.
WBL Webinar - How to Connect with Health Professions Associations Webinar Learn what Health Professions Associations are, how they can support WBL activities, and strategies for locating and contacting them.
WBL Webinar - Unique Sources for WBL Partners & Volunteers In this webinar, you'll learn 7 specific sources and strategies for recruiting new WBL volunteers and partners.
Educator Competencies NAF Educator Framework NAF Future Ready Educators engage in personalized, learner-centered educational practices as they strive towards creating equitable learning environments to ensure learners fulfill their potential and are future-ready.They implement career-pathway curricula and integrate competency-based education using authentic project learning experiences and enhance learners' capacity to act independently through voice and choice and produce empowered learners who readily transfer their content knowledge and skillsets to succeed in their college and career pursuits.
Educator Competencies Toolkit Students at the Center Hub Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments, created by KnowldegWorks in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), is designed to serve as a customizable tool to guide educator development.The intent is to enable a growing number of teachers to implement and scale up a transformation of their classrooms into places of personalized, student-centered learning.
Domain: Content Expertise Certifying Adobe Skills in Your Classroom This course is for educators looking to set up Adobe certification at their school or institution.
Domain \| Content Expertise Basic Principles of Design Understanding the fundamentals of good design is essential for communicating with impact. This course helps teachers enrich their creative skillset and deepen their design knowledge
Domain: Content Expertise Teaching Computer Science Discoveries Interested in teaching Code.org's Computer Science Discoveries? NAF recommends starting with this professional learning self-paced course.
Domain: Content Expertise Cyber.org Professional Learning Events Free, asynchronous professional development for 6th – 12th grade teachers! Check out Cyber.org's professional learning events that are free, asynchronous, and available for 6th – 12th grade teachers! These sessions include cyber:bot, Computational Thinking in High School, Intro Cybersecurity, and Cyber Society.
Domain: Content Expertise Cybersecurity Basics (15 hrs, self-paced course) This free course from Teach Cyber is a good starting point to understand the relatively new world of cybersecurity. Explore some common threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities (for example: malware, buffer overflow, DDoS, social engineering). Investigate some data protection measures. No prerequisites required.By the end of this course, you will be able to:Understand the importance of safe on-line behaviorsDescribe the different types of malware and attacksDescribe the protection strategies used organizations against attacks Upon course completion earn a Cisco Digital Badge.
Domain: Content Expertise Cybersecurity Essentials (30 hrs, self-paced course) Build upon your cybersecurity knowledge and explore the essential information security principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Understand the types of attackers, common threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. The McCumber Cube, the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, the National Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, and the ethics of working as a cybersecurity specialist are among the topics covered in this course. Cybersecurity Basics or comparable knowledge is recommended. Upon course completion earn a Cisco Digital Badge
Domain: Content Expertise Introduction to Packet Tracer (10 hrs, self-paced course) This course is designed for new users of Packet Tracer for self-study and familiarization with the tool used in many Networking Academy courses. It is not the intention of this course to teach networking and IoT technology.Packet Tracer is an exciting network design, simulation and modelling tool that allows you to develop your skill set in networking, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things (IoT).Upon course completion earn a Cisco Digital Badge
Domain: Content Expertise Networking Essentials (70 hrs, self-paced course) This course is designed for teachers wanting to learn more about communication in a connected world. There are 20 modules covering topics such as: the Internet, networking protocols, TCP/IP and OSI models, IP addressing, building a home network, security threats and attacks, and troubleshooting common network problems.
Domain: Content Expertise Python for Beginners Join this free online course to learn how to program with Python. You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of the programming language like variables, data types, and loops. More complex topics like functions, libraries, and file input and output will also be covered.
Domain: Content Expertise AI Foundations A Collaboration of ISTE and IBM - complete all five modules and earn a badge! Free after registration with SkillsBuild
Domain: Content Expertise IBM AI Skills for Educators This badge earner understands what AI is & how delivering AI education can prepare students for the 21st century workforce. Through hands-on experiences (including "plugged/unplugged" activities) this educator knows the importance of data & how it is being used for social good. They can articulate AI terms like Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Neural Networks. They have enhanced their skills to implement new learning opportunities to help students become more successful in pursuing AI careers.
Domain: Content Expertise NextGen Personal Finance These free NGPF virtual professional development courses are designed for educators wanting to brush up on their content knowledge, find support for personal finance activities, and hear from other teachers about how they use NGPF resources.
Domain: Content Expertise Economics Fundamentals In this collection, educators will obtain an overview of economics’ introductory level content. Our Master Teachers have developed this content to support all economics level courses.
Fundamentals of A.P. Economics Webinar Series Are you teaching A.P. I.B. or College level economics classes? This webinar series reviews the Advanced Placement Economics macro and micro curriculum from College Board to prepare your students for A.P. level content.
Invest in Girls Invest in Girls, a program of the Council for Economic Education, provides high school girls with personal finance education and pathways to careers in finance.
Domain: Content Expertise Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technology In this course from Princeton, you will gain an understanding of Bitcoin and how it works at a technical level.
Domain: Instructional Practice Start Here: Go Places Professional articles curated by AICPA for the accounting educator
Domain: Content Expertise Warehousing and Distribution The Prologis Learning Academy is a fast, free online training program designed to prepare you for today’s jobs in the warehousing and distribution industry. Providing crucial insights into supply-chain logistics, it will enhance your skills and prepare you for an exciting career in one of the fastest-growing industries in today’s global economy.
Domain: Content Expertise Help build a sustainable CS Program with the Teals Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) is a Microsoft Philanthropies program that builds sustainable CS programs in high schools. We focus on serving students excluded from learning CS because of race, gender, or geography. TEALS helps teachers learn to teach CS by pairing them with industry volunteers and proven curricula.
Domain: Content Expertise Introduction to the Travel and Tourism Industry: Passport to the World The muli-module course developed by The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership provides a comprehensive introduction for students enrolled in hospitality and tourism academies. Registration is required in order to access the content.
Domain: Intrapersonal Teach with Harvard LabXChange This pathway is designed to support educators in using the LabXchange platform with learners. The pathway provides an overview of LabXchange and tutorials for the features educators will need, such as how to create a class and enroll learners, how to find and assign relevant content for learners, and how to add their own content to their private library.
Domain \| Content Expertise Wednesday Webinars: Health Science Education Provided by NCHSE, connect with fellow educators and industry members. Learn about important topics and resources in the health science education
Domain: Content Expertise Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health Offered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Domain: Content Expertise Introductory Human Physiology In this course from Duke University, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.
Content Expertise Domain: John Hopkins University and Medical Center Curated by HOSA, these courses may be used as the basis of classroom and/or chapter projects and studies. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a nonprofit academic medical center, is the teaching and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The hospital has ranked in the Top 3 Hospitals in the U.S.by U.S. News and World Report for several years.
Domain: Content Expertise Stories of Infection This course from Stanford University introduces learners to a variety of infectious diseases using a patient-centered, story-based approach.
Domain: Content Expertise Teaching with MIT App Inventor Everything an educator needs to know about teaching with MIT App Inventor.
Domain: Content Expertise World Chefs Academy Free online Pre-Commis Chef training program
Domain: Intrapersonal CTE for Students with Disabilities: A Framework for Understanding Learn about the numerous pieces of legislation that impact students with disabilities, including Perkins V. You will also learn strategies to support students with disabilities in secondary CTE through appropriate CTE program placement.
Domain: Intrapersonal Culturally Responsive Teaching The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is supporting teachers and students by presenting a two-part professional development webinar series that focuses on culturally responsive teaching.
Domain: Intrapersonal The Talk: Valuing Diversity in Teaching Practices The educator will demonstrate evidence of classroom culture or environment in which students’ diverse identities are visible. In addition, the educator will demonstrate evidence of inclusive instructional strategies that reduce barriers for students. Earn a micro-credential from Digitial Promise upon completion
Domain: Intrapersonal CTE Research Network Practitioner Training Modules Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules strengthen capacity to access, understand, and use CTE data and research as well as conduct research, particularly causal research.
Domain: Instructional Practice EdTech Webinar Series This webinar collection focuses on best practices and strategies for using edtech tools and incorporating them into personal finance and economics lessons.
Domain: Content Expertise Enhance Learning with Augmented Reality Provided by our partner Verizon, explore the benefits of designing learning experiences with augmented reality and earn a micro-credential from Digitial Promise
Domain: Instructional Practice Effectively Leveraging Virtual Reality in the Classroom Educators will learn how to adapt their lessons to incorporate simulated experiences that are similar to or completely different from the real world. A micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion.
Domain: Instructional Practice Developing and Facilitating Virtual Projects Educators will acquire the knowledge and skills to demonstrate a basic understanding of Project-based Learning. Earn a micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion
Domain: Instructional Practice USPTO's National Summer Teacher Institute The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office of Education will conduct a virtual National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on innovation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and intellectual property during the week of July 25-29, 2022. NSTI combines experiential training tools, practices, and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and high school teachers and increase their knowledge of inventing and innovating. The deadline to submit applications for the NSTI is May 16, 2022.
Domain: Content Expertise Artificial Intelligence Explorations - Preview Course This is a demo version of the course. You will be able to see one content module and you will have access for 2 weeks. This course will introduce educators to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in classroom environments through presentations, examples of practical uses, tools and resources for implementation. The focus will be on aspects of AI technologies that have the potential to facilitate and leverage learning, and solve real problems in schools and communities. You'll also acquire techniques to help you unveil to your students how AI technologies are embedded in many different aspects of our lives. You'll actively engage in course content as you experience and reflect on activities and complete hands-on assignments. Throughout the course, you'll learn strategies to draw upon as you develop a project-based unit where students apply artificial intelligence to solve a problem.
Domain: Instructional Practice Digital Literacy in the Classroom This course from ISTE is built to support K-12 educators in developing digitally literate students and empowered digital citizens. You will explore various digital literacy skills including the knowledge of and ability to use digital technologies to locate information; evaluate information; synthesize, create, and communicate information; and understand the human and technological complexities of a digital media landscape. After engaging with these five interactive modules, you will be equipped to foster digital literacy skills in your students – and yourself.
Domain: Instructional Practice Computational Thinking The computational thinking (CT) course developed with support from Google will provide you with a clear definition of CT, explain how it differs from computer science and unpack how it can be integrated into a variety of subject areas. As a course participant, you'll increase your awareness of CT, experiment with examples of CT-integrated activities for the subject areas you teach and create a plan to integrate CT into your own curricula.
Domain: Instructional Practice Foundations Course Design for Delight Intuit's Design for Delight Foundations Course is an online learning path that you can take at your own pace. Learn design thinking basics to help build creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration skills.