Upcoming Schedule
View our conference calendar for more KQED education event opportunities.
Bringing Student Civic Learning & Reflection to Life with Infographics
January 20, 4-6pm PST
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Bring together research skills and visual design as a way to open new, differentiated pathways for students’ civic learning and expression with Facing History & Ourselves and KQED Education.
Join us to explore teaching strategies and ready-to-use curricular resources that develop student's civic knowledge and skills using Facing History's new unit, Teaching What Makes Democracy Work. We’ll also create infographics with KQED and learn first hand how the language of visual design can inspire students to share their voice and communicate complex ideas and data. Participants will walk away with planning tools for student-created infographics and methods to research civic issues.
A Feast of Reason and Creativity: Civic Dialogue and Media Creation
February 10, 4-6pm PST
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Bring civic dialogue and media storytelling to your classroom with Monticello and KQED! Inspired by dinners that Thomas Jefferson hosted, Feast of Reason is an activity that encourages dialogue about civics over a metaphorical (or literal) 4-course meal. As the meal progresses, so do the questions, allowing participants to share perspectives and learn from each other. After the discussion, students can reflect and share what they’ve learned about democracy and civic life through media storytelling.
Join Monticello as they introduce the Feast of Reason activity and how educators can incorporate it into their classroom instruction. Then get hands-on with KQED and start a model media project students can use to reflect on their learning.
Analyze and Disrupt GenAI Bias to Create with Confidence
February 24, 4-5pm PST
Online workshop; for grade 4-12 educators (Free)
Generative AI tools reflect the biases baked into their training data and our society. As media literate educators, our job is to analyze GenAI creative outputs to actively disrupt harmful stereotypes and support students to recognize bias and create with confidence. In this hands-on virtual workshop, we’ll 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. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of GenAI large language models and practical strategies for how these tools can work in your classroom to support student voice.
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.
Inspire students to create an audio project on the American Revolution. Explore the resources from PBS LearningMedia and learn how to support students in creating a podcast in the classroom setting. Leave with a pathway to empower and share student voice beyond the classroom.
Recorded on January 13, 2026
Transform research into powerful films that bring the past to life and help make sense of complex topics. Explore ready-to-use curriculum from National History Day, practice video pre-production strategies, start a sample mini-documentary, and learn how students can publish their work.
Recorded on December 09, 2025
Learn the strategies professional fact-checkers, journalists, and media producers use to find reliable sources. You'll practice source evaluation methods, including Share or Beware! (KQED’s easily modifiable source evaluation game) and leave with ideas, teaching tips and ready-to-use resources.
Recorded on November 4, 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.