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2025-2026 Webinars and workshops

Sept. 2025

Teacher Webinar: Be a Pinellas County Water Protector
Thursday, Sept. 25 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Free (registration required)

This webinar will introduce teachers to the new Newspaper in Education curriculum supplement Be a Pinellas County Water Protector for students in grades 3-5. Learn how to integrate the publication into science and language arts curricula, with lessons and activities focused on teaching students about where their drinking water comes from as well as why and how to protect and conserve it.

  • Featuring guest speaker Warren Hogg, Tampa Bay Water Chief Science Officer.
  • Enter your class in our Letter to the Editor Challenge to win a class pizza party!

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Teacher Webinar: Space4All / World Space Week
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Free (registration required)

Just in time for World Space Week 2025, this webinar will introduce teachers to resources for teaching about space exploration from NASA and Newspaper in Education.

World Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition.

Featuring guest speaker Larry R. Plank, Ed.S., President of the Tampa Bay STEM Network, Visiting Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of South Florida College of Education, and former Executive Director for K-12 Science Education for Hillsborough County Public Schools.

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Oct. 2025

Teacher Webinar: Using the News
Thursday, Oct. 16, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Free (registration required)

The ABC’s of using the Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper in your classroom.

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In-person Teacher Training: Teaching the Holocaust with testimonies, newspapers and other primary sources
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
The Florida Holocaust Museum
55 Fifth Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Free (registration required)

This in-person workshop will feature a tour of the re-imagined museum and special guest speaker Judy Ludin, Second Generation (child of Holocaust survivors). Refreshments provided.

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Teacher Webinar: Using the News to Teach Financial Literacy
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Free (registration required)

This webinar will introduce teachers to the use of news resources including articles, cartoons and advertisements to illustrate and analyze key financial concepts required by the Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act.

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Nov. 2025

Teacher Webinar: Using the News
Thursday, Nov. 6, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Free (registration required)

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Jan. 2026

Teacher Webinar: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6 p.mp. – 8 p.m.
Free (registration required)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27) commemorates the millions of victims of the Nazi regime and promotes Holocaust education. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, by Soviet troops in Poland on Jan. 27, 1945.

Learn how to use historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to examine the Holocaust.

Featuring a guest speaker from the Florida Holocaust Museum.

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Teacher Webinar: Black History Month
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Free (registration required)

This webinar will introduce teachers to Newspaper in Education’s resources for teaching and learning about Tampa Bay and Florida Black history. Learn how to use historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to teach Black history.

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Webinar and Workshop Archive

Teacher Webinar: Space4All
Tuesday, April 8, 5 - 7 p.m.

Florida middle school students are required to study the effects of space exploration on the economy and culture of Florida (SC.8.E.5.12). Join us as we introduce the new Newspaper in Education curriculum supplement and teacher guide Space4All and learn how you can use newspapers to:

  • Explore science beyond the classroom
  • Develop scientific literacy and critical thinking skills
  • Demonstrate practical applications of skills and concepts
  • Relate science to daily news relevant to students' lives

Teacher Webinar: Using the News
February 13, 2025, 5-7 p.m.

This webinar will focus on the ABCs of using the Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper in your classroom and provide an overview of the lesson plans, curriculum and resources the NIE program offers. Presenters include NIE teachers Meredith Myers, M.L.I.S., Library Media/Technology Specialist at Midtown Academy and Kaylin Schemmel, 5th grade science teacher at Oak Park Elementary School.

Teacher Webinar: Teaching the Holocaust with primary sources

This webinar introduces teachers to the use of historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to examine the Holocaust. Guest presenters include Holocaust Survivor Allan J. Hall, Assistant Educator The Florida Holocaust Museum Charles Dickens and Tampa Bay Times NIE Manager Jodi Pushkin.

Teacher Workshop: Teaching the Holocaust with primary sources

This in-person workshop introduces teachers to the use of historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to examine the Holocaust. It features guest speaker Harry Heuman, Second Generation, and guest presenter Kristi Carroll, Associate Educator, Florida Holocaust Museum.

Brown v. Board of Education teacher webinar

This teacher webinar, part of a project commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, explores teaching Brown using newspapers and other primary sources. Featured speakers include H. Roy Kaplan, Ph.D., author and former Executive Director, The National Conference for Community and Justice, and Tammy Briant Spratling, J.D., civil rights lawyer and CEO, Community Tampa Bay.

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) / Genocide in the 20th & 21st centuries public webinar

This webinar features the NIE curriculum supplement Genocide in the 20th & 21st Centuries and explores how individuals, groups and societies can take action to address the root causes of violence and conflict, such as hatred, intolerance, racism and discrimination. It features guest speaker Tammy Briant Spratling, J.D., civil rights lawyer and CEO, Community Tampa Bay.

Water Source Protection teacher webinar

This webinar features 2022 and 2023 NIE Teacher of the Year Runner-Up and SWFWMD SPLASH Grant recipient Rachel Kingdom, who teaches Environmental Science at Central High School in Hernando County. The focus of this webinar is on teaching water conservation.

Genocide in the 20th & 21st centuries public webinar

This webinar uses the NIE curriculum supplement Genocide in the 20th & 21st Centuries to examine the cultural, religious, societal, historical, economic and political factors that lead to genocide. It features guest speaker Andrew Slifkin, Manager of Educational Outreach Programs at The Florida Holocaust Museum, and noted genocide scholar Dr. Edward Kissi, associate professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at University of South Florida

Native Plants and the classroom teacher webinar

This webinar features Dr. Shirley Denton with the Florida Native Plant Society. Denton has four college degrees including a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Natural Resources with a focus on applied plant ecology. Denton has worked for a series of environmental consulting firms. Her specialties are native plant research, surveys of rare plants and land management planning. In addition to her work with the Florida Native Plant Society and Tampa Bay Sierra Club, Denton is a gardener. She says, “My home landscaping has focused on native plants since 1998 when I acquired my current home. I live where I depend on a well, so my landscape is also focused on water conservation (I do not water any established planting areas), and a maintain a “freedom lawn.”

Celebrate Freedom teacher webinar

Each year during Celebrate Freedom Week, students in Florida, Texas, and a number of other states are expected to recite a key passage from the Declaration of Independence and to spend time studying this important document. The NIE curriculum supplement Celebrate Freedom carefully examines this key passage, helping students better understand its meaning and why it is still important today.

This webinar focuses on teaching American Founders’ Month, Constitution Day and Celebrate Freedom Week using Celebrate Freedom and provides lesson ideas using the newspaper and other forms of informational text in the classroom. It features guest speaker William Mattox, Senior Director, The J. Stanley Marshall Center For Education Freedom at The James Madison Institute.

Water Matters teacher webinar

To conserve water means to use it wisely and to not be wasteful. Water conservation is important to meet our current and future water needs as humans, as well as the needs of plants, animals and the environment! In west-central Florida, more than 90 percent of our freshwater supply comes from groundwater, most commonly the Floridan Aquifer. This webinar focuses on the NIE curriculum supplement Water Matters and features guest speaker Katherine Munson, Lead Communications Coordinator at the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

Feature writing in the classroom with Lane DeGregory teacher webinar

Over the last 30 years, Tampa Bay Times reporter Lane DeGregory has written more than 3,000 stories. She came to the Times in 2000 and has followed a feral child who was adopted, a girl whose dad dropped her off a bridge and a dying boy waiting for his miracle. She has won dozens of national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. A listener, a writer, and a podcaster, DeGregory will speak about her special features, tips for teaching writing and her podcast. DeGregory, says “I love embedding in strangers’ lives and sharing their stories. When I was 6 years old, growing up in D.C. during the Watergate scandal, I told my parents I was going to be a journalist. I was editor of the newspaper at the University of Virginia, then worked in newsrooms across the East Coast.”