Upcoming Schedule
View our conference calendar for more KQED education event opportunities.
Amplify Authentic Student Voice with Audio Personal Narratives
July 28, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
This school year, support your students to find power in their authentic voice with audio storytelling. Join 826 National and KQED for an interactive, professional development workshop that puts student voice front and center. Together, we’ll explore how personal narratives and audio storytelling not only create essential space for students to reflect on their values and identity—they fuel community-building, skill development, and confidence in their voice.
You'll delve into curriculum from 826 National and KQED, get hands-on with audio production tools, and leave with additional resources and instructional strategies that support students to find power in their story and their voice.
July 31, 10am-3pm PDT
In-person workshop, San Francisco, CA (Free)
For grade 6-12 educators
Calling all Bay Area middle school U.S. history and high school government educators–or anyone who teaches Constitutional principles as an evolving element of the American story. Discover how helping students connect their voice to the long tradition of American civic advocacy reinforces historical thinking, content knowledge and media literacy.
Join us July 31 at KQED headquarters for a curriculum deep dive and audio production workshop centered on Podcasting Democracy: Understanding the Constitution to Inspire Civic Change, two new civic media units for middle and high school written by social studies educators in partnership with KQED. The new units include daily lesson slides, formative check points, rubrics and graphic organizers–all free from public media!
This is a day-long, in-person event from 10am-3pm PDT designed for middle and high school teachers. Space is limited. Registration closes Tuesday, July 28 at 11:45pm.
Outsmart AI to Spot Misinformation and Evaluate Sources
August 4, 5-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 4-12 educators (Free)
Build source-checking habits into your classroom from day one! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to support students to develop healthy skepticism as they gain vital online reasoning skills to use in your classroom and everyday lives. You'll learn the strategies professional fact-checkers and journalists use to find reliable sources, whether the information is produced by humans or AI. Then, practice evaluating sources using a variety of methods, including Share or Beware!, KQED’s ever-evolving, easily modifiable source evaluation game. You’ll leave with ideas, teaching tips and free, ready-to-use resources to help students find reliable sources no matter where they click.
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Inspire Student Civic Voice When Teaching the Constitution
August 25, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Teach the fundamentals of democracy, build student civic voice and connect the founding documents to “real life” with Podcasting Democracy: Understanding the Constitution to Inspire Civic Change, two new civic media units for middle and high school written by social studies educators in partnership with KQED.
In this interactive session, hear from teachers who have taught Podcasting Democracy and explore the impact of the units on student learning, motivation and civic engagement. You’ll listen to student-created podcast examples, unpack media implementation best practices, and start making your own civic commentary podcast to use as a model for students. You’ll leave with audio production know-how and extensive curriculum resources, including daily lesson slides, formative check points, rubrics and graphic organizers–all free from public media.
"Well-designed, responsive to teachers, enthusiastic and knowledgeable instructors, good pacing, skillful use of the technology--loved it!"
- Middle school educator
Media Literacy and Elections: Informed Civic Participation
September 8, 4-5:30pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 4-12 educators (Free)
We live in a time when it can be difficult to identify reliable news sources. Misinformation and disinformation clouds our information landscape, especially around a national election. This interactive session, with our partners at KQED, prepares educators and students to take stock of their media choices, explore media bias, explore tools for differentiating fact from opinion, and think about what healthy news habits they want to adopt. Educators will walk away with classroom ready resources, activities and tools designed to help students develop media literacy and civic skills, stay informed, and share their voices around issues that matter to them.
This workshop us part of Facing History & Ourselves learning series, Democracy in Action: Teaching about Voting, Elections & Civic Participation. This series explores what makes democracy work, the importance of voting and elections, and the pivotal role of young people’s civic participation. Check out the full series!
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From Learners to Creators: Exploring The American Revolution Through Media-Making
September 29, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Discover how your students can connect the foundational principles of the American Revolution to their lives today by amplifying their knowledge through media-making. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the extensive, curriculum-aligned, multimedia resources from The American Revolution Classroom Collection on PBS LearningMedia and hear from a teacher whose students have created a media project for The American Revolution Youth Media Challenge. Then participants will get hands-on, starting a model media project to learn how to create media in a classroom setting and will leave with a pathway to empower and share student voice beyond the classroom. No special equipment or studio required!
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.
Get a close look at our new Podcasting Democracy units where students examine how Constitutional principles have been shaped by the voices of Americans throughout history, then build their civic voice through podcast creation for a public audience. Hear from teachers who have taught the curriculum and start making your own podcast to use as a model for students
Recorded on June 23, 2026
Introducing our new civic media unit, Podcasting Democracy: Understanding the Constitution to Inspire Civic Change! Hear a social studies teacher, who piloted the unit, talk about how it helped her students connect the nation’s founding documents to their own lives and experiences. Explore the extensive curriculum resources and listen to student-created podcast examples.
Recorded on April 7, 2026
Invite young people to tell important stories of their communities with a powerful place-based photo essay project. You’ll explore flexible curriculum from the National Writing Project and get hands-on with KQED creating your own model photo essay.
Recorded on March 17, 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.