Upcoming Schedule
View our conference calendar for more KQED education event opportunities.
Transformative Stories: Create Audio Essays with 826 National and KQED
August 12, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grades 6-12 educators (Free)
Storytelling offers essential space for students to share their personal experiences, memories, and ideas for the future. Join 826 National and KQED for an interactive workshop to explore how first-person audio essays can support community building and creative expression at the beginning of the school year. We’ll also unpack ready-to-use curriculum and tools to make audio production possible, and learn about ways to share beyond the classroom, including publishing on KQED’s Youth Media Showcase. Support your students to find power in their story and their voice with audio storytelling.
"Well-designed, responsive to teachers, enthusiastic and knowledgeable instructors, good pacing, skillful use of the technology--loved it!"
- Middle school educator
Picture This: Powerful Photo Essays with Adobe Express and KQED
August 26, 4-5:30pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade K-12 educators (Free)
In a world fueled by visuals and stories, photo essays offer students a powerful way to blend critical thinking, creativity, and communication. Pairing images and words can help bring stories to life. In this workshop, participants will learn how to guide students through crafting compelling visual narratives that amplify their experiences and connect to academic content across all subject areas. Get ready to start creating your own photo essay, and explore ready-to-use tools and resources to bring this accessible medium to students.
Past Events
Catch up on the workshops you missed with these recordings.
Our online workshops are interactive and designed to be attended live. The recordings may not reflect the same level of interactivity and engagement. We encourage you to attend our workshops in community with other educators in real time.
Unpack KQED’s GenAI guidelines for productive, ethical and student-focused media creation, and explore one possible use case: how AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be customized to provide supportive feedback on writing in a way that supports student voice and encourages self-expression.
Recorded on August 5, 2025
Help students reflect on their identity, values, and experiences through personal audio essays. Discover how storytelling can strengthen literacy skills, boost confidence, and center student voice. Participants will get hands-on with audio creation and access to bilingual curriculum resources.
Recorded on July 30, 2025
Learn how to do a photo essay project based on the PBS American Creed films. It invites young people to use images and words to tell the story of an issue they care about in their community. In this workshop, educators receive free curriculum and start their own model photo essay.
Recorded on June 24, 2025
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About KQED
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.