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2024-2025 Webinars and workshops

Teacher Workshop: Teaching the Holocaust with primary sources
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 6 – 8 p.m.
Hillsborough Education Foundation, 2306 N Howard Ave., Tampa, FL 33607

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Register for the workshop ($5/person)

This in-person workshop will introduce teachers to the use of historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to examine the Holocaust.

  • Featuring guest speaker Harry Heuman, Second Generation
  • Guest presenter Kristi Carroll, Associate Educator, Florida Holocaust Museum
  • Attendees receive certificate of completion and materials including Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die by Holocaust survivor Sidney Finkel
  • Dinner provided

Teacher Webinar: Using the News
January TBD, 2025

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Register for the webinar (free)

This webinar will focus on ABC’s of using the digital edition of the Tampa Bay Times in your classroom. In addition, the webinar will show teachers the lesson plans, curriculum and resources the NIE program provides.

Teacher Webinar: Teaching the Holocaust with primary sources
January TBD, 2025

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Register for the webinar (free)

This webinar will introduce teachers to the use of historical newspapers, interviews, photographs and other primary sources to examine the Holocaust.

In-Person Teacher Workshop: Understanding wastewater impact
Tuesday April 22, 2025, 5 - 8 p.m.
Hillsborough County Customer Service Center, 332 N Falkenberg Rd., Tampa, FL 33619

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Register for the workshop (free)

Teachers will gain firsthand insight into Hillsborough County’s wastewater system and explore environmental outreach efforts and customer programs that communities can engage in to improve wastewater practices.

  • Wastewater facility tour (optional)
  • Dinner provided
  • Door prizes and giveaways

Webinar Archive

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.”