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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.

October

Wednesday, October 28 – FREE FOR ALL

 

Folger Community Conversation: Teaching Literature During COVID-19

Join Folger Education and teachers from around the country for a virtual community conversation.

 

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November

Wednesday, November 18

 

Juicy Lesson! The Monologue Project

Banish the old-school essay! Forget that multiple-choice exam! This summative assessment is at once more exciting, more immersive, more authentic, and more rigorous than traditional end-of-unit tests and projects. As long as your literature unit has focused on student ownership of the language, this is a suitable, and pliable, final project. Find out how and why this project works with any text, every student. Maryam Trowell, Manager of Student and Teacher Programs at the Folger, walks you through this Folger Teaching resource.

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December

Wednesday, December 2

 

Shakespeare and Gender: A Conversation with Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos

Dr. Peggy O’Brien, the Folger’s Director of Education, speaks with Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos, Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, about gender in Shakespeare.

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Wednesday, December 9 – FREE FOR ALL

 

The Ultimate Resource: The Folger Shakespeare

Every Folger edition of Shakespeare’s work is online, for free? YES! And the online Folger Shakespeare is a surprisingly robust and wildly effective distance learning universe? YES! We’ll show you how to download, search, cut, manipulate, teach, learn, and do all kinds of powerful things with the online Folger Shakespeare texts. Leave this session with practical tools for getting every student reading closely, making new discoveries, getting excited about literature, and engaging with the digital humanities. Anne Blaney, an English teacher at Syosset High School (NY), and Corinne Viglietta, Folger Education, share the most essential tips for using this ultimate resource.

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Wednesday, December 16

 

Juicy Lesson! Lesson TBD

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