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Professional Development Webinar Series for New Jersey Educators

The Professional Growth Academy Webinar Series is brought exclusively to New Jersey educators by Discovery Education and Plymouth Rock Assurance – Teachers' Insurance Plan of NJ. Register here for this free monthly webinar series, designed to equip educators with state-of-the-art digital tools to enhance student learning and engagement.

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Free featured webinars:

Connecting & Collaborating In and Out of the Classroom
Research shows that the most in-demand careers will require students to work together to solve problems. Join us as we model tools and techniques for connecting and collaborating in and outside the classroom. We’ll even provide opportunities for your students to work with peers from around the world.

Students as Curators: Managing New Information in the Digital Classroom
Each year the amount of published information continues to expand at a staggering pace. From books and periodicals to web-based content, it’s easy for students to get lost in this information explosion. How can we manage what our students view on the web? What tools allow students to keep only relevant information that helps them to understand new content? Join us as we explore a new category of web-based tools—tools for curating information—and see how these tools allow students to work together.

Creativity in the Digital Classroom
From digital storytelling to building wikis, the Internet provides numerous tools that allow students to demonstrate the highest form of comprehension: Creativity. During this webinar, you’ll learn about a wide variety of tools that enable students to express themselves and publish to a global audience.

Top 10 from 2012-2013
Learn more about some of the best and brightest from our webinar series over the past year. You won’t want to miss this action-packed event, especially if you didn’t catch all of our previous topics. Join us for this roundup of resources for connecting, collaborating, curating, and creating in today’s classroom.