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Teach Election 2024 with Multimedia Projects from Public Media
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Presented by Maura Nugent, English and ESL Teacher, Chicago Public Schools (IL); Jennifer Velazquez, English and Film Studies Teacher, John Hancock College Prep (IL); and Rachel Roberson, Senior Program Manager – Education Content, KQED
Sponsored by KQED Education
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Student voice matters in 2024. View this edWebinar to hear from classroom teachers about the impact media projects can have on students’ civic engagement, motivation, and media literacy. The session also looks at KQED’s Call for Change: Your Election 2024 Project, a free, ready-to-use project from public media focused on issues, not candidates. Students choose any local or global issue they care about, then research and create an audio or video commentary or editorial cartoon to share their views beyond the classroom on KQED’s Youth Media Showcase.
Viewers leave with modifiable curricula in English and Spanish to use with students and receive access to free professional development resources designed to support and enrich educators’ digital media skills. The Call for Change project has been developed for grades 6-12 and is grounded in project-based learning (PBL) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) best practices. Center your students’ voices in 2024 starting with this edWebinar.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 educators, particularly those teaching social studies, journalism, media, English language arts, and creative writing.
About the Presenters
Maura Nugent has 16 years of experience teaching all levels of English and ESL in Chicago Public Schools. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis where she studied English literature, Spanish, and educational studies, and a master’s degree from DePaul University. In addition to a love of poetry and great works of literature, Maura brings a passion for social justice and student voice to her work in the classroom.
Jennifer Velazquez has been an English and film studies teacher at John Hancock College Prep (IL) for the past four years. She minored in Latino and Latin American Studies and received a bachelor’s degree in secondary education English from Northeastern Illinois University. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as a youth organizer and founded the club Estudiantes Sin Fronteras, whose work on immigration issues was recognized by the Obama Foundation.
Rachel Roberson is an experienced teacher leader and curriculum content developer who has served as a classroom teacher and administrator at public, charter, and international schools. Rachel specializes in professional learning facilitation and curriculum development, strategy, and implementation. As Senior Program Manager – Education Content at KQED, she works to connect educators and students to KQED online education sites, KQED Learn, and KQED Teach, by creating humanities curricula and professional learning content, supporting product development, championing youth-created media in and out of the classroom, and leading projects and partnerships focused on teachers and classrooms. Rachel is a graduate of Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and received her California teaching credential in secondary English and social studies from Mills College.
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KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.
