In this SY27 SCHED EVENT PAGE you will find registration for professional learning sessions offered from the CPS Office of Teaching and Learning TAKING PLACE JUNE 9, 2026 - JUNE 14, 2027.
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This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing Skyline, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices and navigate the curriculum's digital ecosystem. Participants will gain practical experience in applying these principles to enhance instruction and support priority student groups. There have been no changes to the MS or HS Participate curriculum. This PL will acclimate teachers new to teaching civics to the current curriculum.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing Skyline, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices and navigate the curriculum's digital ecosystem. Participants will gain practical experience in applying these principles to enhance instruction and support priority student groups.
There have been no changes to the MS or HS Participate curriculum. This PL will acclimate teachers new to teaching civics to the current curriculum.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing Skyline, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices and navigate the curriculum's digital ecosystem. Participants will gain practical experience in applying these principles to enhance instruction and support priority student groups. There have been no changes to the MS or HS Participate curriculum. This PL will acclimate teachers new to teaching civics to the current curriculum.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing Skyline, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices and navigate the curriculum's digital ecosystem. Participants will gain practical experience in applying these principles to enhance instruction and support priority student groups. There have been no changes to the MS or HS Participate curriculum. This PL will acclimate teachers new to teaching civics to the current curriculum.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
This PL session will guide participants in understanding an integrity-driven approach to implementing the NEW Skyline Social Science curriculum, enabling them to identify and plan for key instructional practices. Participants will gain practical experience in understanding the revised materials to enhance instruction and support facilitating standards-aligned social science learning.
Facing History and Ourselves’ approach to teaching US History emphasizes students’ capacity for civic agency and develops the historical inquiry skills students need to generate more nuanced understandings of US History. During this interactive workshop, we will share C3-style inquiries and units from our US History Curriculum Collection focusing on Democracy and Freedom and model teaching strategies that can be used in high school classrooms.
The FHAO Case Studies are embedded within New Skyline Social Science curriculum for 10th grade U.S. History.
Key Points: As a result of participating in this workshop, you will: -A deeper understanding of Facing History’s approach to teaching US History through hands-on activities and exploration of voices not often included in textbooks. -New strategies and pedagogy to promote democratic learning environments that allow students to grapple with complex histories and choices. -Recommendations for tools and primary sources that could be used in US History courses.
This sixth grade social studies unit explores themes of identity and community, while helping students and teachers build a productive, safe learning environment. This unit is first unit within the New Skyline Social Science curriculum for 6th grade.
Key Points: As a result of participating in this workshop, you will: - Receive access to a unit, Identity and Community - Engage with the themes of identity and community, and learn how to integrate them into subsequent units throughout the school year - Increase your ability to facilitate respectful classroom discussions - Discover new teaching strategies that help students interrogate texts and write and think critically
Learn more about Facing History's middle school curricula set: Identity and Community (6th), Chicago Neighborhoods (7th), and Choices in Little Rock (8th).
This PL session will center the experiences and stories of the Japanese Chicago community as participants are guided to understanding the critical role of Storytelling in how community identity is shaped, learn and practice key culturally responsive historical thinking skills, and give teachers practical planning supports and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
This PL session will center the experiences and stories of the Persian American community as participants are guided to understanding the critical role of storytelling in how community identity is shaped, engage teachers in learning and practice of key culturally responsive disciplinary inquiry skills, and give teachers practical planning supports and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
This PL session will center the experiences and history of Public Housing in Chicago and the US as participants are guided to understanding the critical role of governments, racist systems, and community advocacy in how public housing policy has been shaped, engage teachers in learning and practice of key culturally responsive disciplinary inquiry skills, and give teachers practical planning supports and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
This PL session will focus on the the experiences and history of the Pullman Porters Union, examining how the union as an example of a successful solidarity movement building between African American and Filipino American Porters, while engaging in learning and practice of key culturally responsive disciplinary inquiry skills, and giving teachers practical planning supports and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
This PL session will focus on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s digital hologram resource as an example of the power of storytelling and how to bring community based experiential resources into class. In the session teachers will engage with the platform to learn from critical stories of resistance, engage in learning and practice of key Culturally Responsive Disciplinary Inquiry skills, and get practical planning support and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within the existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
This PL session will focus on the Marshall Islands, the nuclear tests there, and the film and 67 Bombs to Enid detailing the impacts on the community. In the session teachers will engage with the history of these events to learn about power and resistance from the stories of the Marshallese, engage in learning and practice of key Culturally Responsive Disciplinary Inquiry skills, and get practical planning support and models of how to integrate powerful community resources within the existing CPS Social Science curriculum.
