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Webinars
Throughout the Ciena Solutions Challenge, Digital Promise and Ciena offer professional learning opportunities for teachers as they support students to reach their Challenge solution. Stay tuned for upcoming live events and webinars, and view recordings of previously aired sessions below.
About the Ciena Solutions Challenge
Watch this playlist of three videos about each phase of Challenge Based Learning: Engage , Investigate , and Act. This playlist also includes a video about how to connect the Ciena Solutions Challenge to the subject and content you teach. (Start with the first video in the playlist and the subsequent video will play automtically after.)
Unlocking Student Potential: Empowering Independence in the Classroom
View the recording to discover the key skills educators need to cultivate autonomous learners in this January 21, 2025 edWebinar. Global educators from the Ciena Solutions Challenge share their experiences and offer practical examples of guiding students to becoming autonomous learners through real-world experiences.
Learn effective strategies and techniques to empower students to take charge of their learning journey, fostering a classroom environment that supports growth and self-reliance. This session is perfect for middle and high school teachers looking to enhance their ability to nurture independent learners.
Quick Tips
Watch our playlist of three Quick Tips videos to get started with each phase of Challenge Based Learning: Engage ,Investigate, and Act. (Start with the first video in the playlist and the subsequent video will play automtically after.)
Educator Panels
Watch our playlist of recorded webinars with educators who have successfully run the Ciena Solutions Challenge with their students. (Start with the first video in the playlist and the subsequent video will play automtically after.)
A Research-Backed Guide to Sparking Powerful Collaboration Within and Beyond the Classroom
Unlock the potential of collaborative learning with research-backed, practice-proven strategies to foster powerful, meaningful collaboration in your classroom.
This edWebinar is for teachers, coaches, principals, and school leaders seeking to build and support essential collaboration skills in their students.
Join Linette Victor, Ed.D., Senior Research Program Manager at Digital Promise, to learn best practices from the free Collaborative Learning Toolkit. Then, hear from Jose Gonzalez, 21st Century Learning Specialist at Davis Middle School, who will share compelling classroom examples and insights from facilitating a cross-cultural collaboration between his students in Compton, California, and students in Manaus, Brazil.
You’ll leave with ready-to-use strategies and resources to implement high-impact collaborative learning in your classroom. You’ll also learn how to apply best practices in collaborative learning to the Ciena Solutions Challenge, a global design challenge for middle and high school students to design solutions to issues they care about. Through March 5th, participating teachers can apply for a $3,000 Ciena Solutions Challenge Sustainability Award to sustain and scale students’ projects.
This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, coaches, principals, and school leaders.
Can't make this time? This session will presented again at the Global Learning for an Open World conference on November 20 at 2 p.m. ET.