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3 CPDU credits per seminar

Northeastern Illinois University is once again offering a series of exciting interdisciplinary seminars to feed the intellectual hunger of community college and high school teacher of all disciplines who see professional development and a nourishing space to explore the challenges our evolving and volatile world present for us as teachers. Taught by Northeastern faculty members, these seminars are designed to spur intellectual growth by offering ways to reinvigorate classrooms that are relevant to our contemporary world.

Seminars are held on Friday mornings on Northeastern Illinois University's Main Campus (Library, 3rd floor) on Chicago's Northwest Side. Seminars ear teachers three (3) CPDU credits.

Pricing: Individual = $110, 5 = $100 each, 10 = $90 each, 20 = $75 each

This purchase is for five (5) seats.

Seminar Selections:

Allowing Race in the Classroom (500)

The Problem of the American "Self" in US literature, culture and history (501)

Brain Development, Self-Regulation, and Learning (502)

Stereotypes in the Classroom (503)

Particle Physics and Dark Matter (504)

Iran, Islam, and Contemporary Middle Easter Politics (505)

It's Not Easy Being Green: Infusing sustainability studies across disciplines (506)

Literary Nuts and Bolts (507)

Problems with Shakespeare (508)

Cribbing Hybrid-Form Texts for the Writing Classroom (509)

Mold Making and Casting Workshop (510)

Coding as Feminist Practice (511)

Why Did They Write That? Using Error Analysis in the Classroom (512)

Teaching Cultural Studies in the High School Classroom (513)

Thinking Through "Race": Exploring Supremacist thought in American history, literature, and culture (514)

The Impact of Vocabulary Knowledge on Students' Academic Success (515)

Literatures and Theories of Love (516)

Enrich Spatial Thinking in the Classroom Through Open Source GIS (517)

Teaching LGBTQ Literature, Part II (518)

My Other Teacher Would Give This an "A": Uncovering What We Value in Student Writing (519)

IMPROV for Educators: Cultivating Creativity in your Classroom (520)

Creating Engaging Materials for the Spanish Language Classroom (521)

Crime and Violence in Chicago in Historical Perspective (522)

From Drama to Melodrama: Latin American and US Latinx Television in the Classroom (523)

Teaching Mindfulness in the Classroom (524)

Active Learning: What, Why, and How (525

Teaching Star Wars: Culture, Politics, and Economics (526)

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: New Perspectives on Old Debates (527)

Caravans and Crisis: How US Interventions in Central America Contribute to the 'Crisis' on Our Southern Border (528)

How to be a Macho or a Vieja in Latin America (529)

Re-claiming Work in American Literature and Life (530)

Seminar Selections:

Allowing Race in the Classroom (500)

The Trans-Atlantic Salve Trade: New Perspectives on Old Debates (501)

Workshop Safety and Scrap Wood Sculpture Workshop (502)

Teaching Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (503)

"Oh No, You Didn't" Teaching Conflict Resolution and Cooperative Strategies (504)

The Elastic President: Presidential Power Under and Above the Constitution (505)

Gender in the Classroom: Affirming and Inclusive Teaching Practices (506)

Understanding Linguistic Discrimination in the Classroom (507)

Stereotypes in the Classroom (508)

Challenging Racism Within and Beyond the High School Classroom (509)

Is it Time to Talk about Marxism Yet? How a basic understanding of what Marx actually thought about can help us teach social and literary analysis(510)

Coloniality in the Classroom: Using Decolonial Perspectives to Enrich Engagement with US Latino/a/x and Latin American History and Culture(511)

Democracy in the Era of Popular Discontent(512)

Teaching Theories of Non-Violence in the High School Classroom (513)

Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator: Understanding the Social Construction of Difference and Access in Public Education (514)

Problem-Solving "Spanglish" in the Classroom (515)

Beauty is a Verb: Teaching Disability Studies in the High School Classroom (516)

We the People Remixed: Teaching the US Constitution with poems, manifestos, and music (517)

From Drama to Melodrama: Latin American and US Latinx Television in the Classroom (518)

Work, Money, and Shopping: Teaching the Global History of Capitalism (519)

Teaching Food History (520)

Canonizing Cruelty: How the American Literary Tradition Helps Make Cruelty a Cultural Classic (521)

Teaching Immigrants in the Classroom (522)

What's With the X? (523)

The Search for the "Good" Story: Making "Other" Lives Matter (524)