Upcoming Schedule
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America 250 in the Classroom: Engaging Students with History, Media & Civic Voice
March 11, 4-5pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade K-12 educators (Free)
Join us online during Civic Learning Week and discover classroom-ready civics resources to support teaching the America 250 anniversary in this fast-paced virtual resource slam and Q&A with leading education organizations, including: Center for Civic Education, Facing History & Ourselves, KQED, National Writing Project and PBS LearningMedia. Leave with practical ideas and resources you can use right away to teach this landmark anniversary.
American Creed: Telling Place-based Stories with Photos and Words
March 17, 4-6pm PST
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Fairness, Freedom, Equality, Opportunity. How do ideals derived from America’s foundational documents inform our sense of civic purpose? Since 2018, the American Creed multiformat PBS project has travelled the country to tell stories of Americans who come from different backgrounds and have different life experiences but share a passion for improving their communities. A newly updated collection of American Creed films on PBS LearningMedia opens a door into the lives of young people across the nation. Their stories provide powerful inspiration for a place-based photo essay project that invites young people to use images and words to tell important stories of their communities.
In this hands-on workshop, educators will hear from an educator who has implemented the project, preview powerful student stories, explore a flexible photo essay curriculum from the National Writing Project, and begin creating their own model essays.
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.
Learn how to analyze GenAI creative outputs to actively disrupt harmful stereotypes baked into AI training data. Explore the origins of this bias and learn how to produce AI-generated images that represent who our students are and who they aspire to be.
Recorded on February 24, 2026
Explore the Feast of Reason, a civic dialogue activity that encourages students to share their perspectives and learn from each other. Then discover how your students can reflect on their learning through media making.
Recorded on February 10, 2026
Bring together research skills and visual design to open new pathways for students’ civic learning and expression. Explore Facing History's new unit, Teaching What Makes Democracy Work, and learn how infographics can empower students to share their voice and communicate complex ideas and data.
Recorded on January 20, 2026
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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.