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Folger Teaching Live: Upcoming Professional Development

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Live-streamed professional development is included in Teacher Membership to the Folger. Join us for eye-opening, heart-lifting, mind-stretching learning with wonderful colleagues.

When you participate, you can receive a personalized certificate for your professional file. Schools regularly count these sessions as professional development hours.

The Juicy Lesson! series takes quick dives, led by the Folger staff and mentor teachers who wrote them, into beloved lessons from Folger Teaching. Our Shakespeare and Race and Shakespeare and Gender sessions bring you live conversations with scholars at the leading edge of their fields. Interact with all kinds of experts in real time.

May

Thursday, May 13 – Recording now available!

ALL Students Deserve the Real Thing: Teaching Shakespeare to English-Language Learners

In this 60-minute workshop, Dr. Christina Porter shows you easy-to-use techniques to make Shakespeare’s plays accessible to all students, particularly English-Language Learners. This workshop is free for all educators on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 8:00 – 9:00PM.

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Wednesday, May 26 – Recording now available!

Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race. It is?

Join Corinne Viglietta, Associate Director of Education, for a quick, jam-packed 30-minute exploration of “Teaching Shakespeare is Teaching Race.” This workshop is free for all educators on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 8:00 – 8:30PM.

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Where to Find FolgerED this Summer 

June 27 – July 16, 2021

Teaching Shakespeare Institute 2021: Shakespeare and the Making of America

In this three-week virtual summer institute (June 27 – July 16, 2021) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 25 middle and high school teachers immerse themselves into the hold that Shakespeare and early America have had and continue to have on each other–with full attention to the roles that indigenous, Black, brown and Latinx people play during this slice of history.

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July 19-23, 2021

Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race

Join Folger Education July 19-23, 2021 for a professional learning experience unlike any other, no matter which Shakespeare play you teach. Help students use their own minds and voices—and the power of the humanities—as a force for good. Teach Shakespeare for a changed world.

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