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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 two (2) seats. This can be two individuals or one person taking 2 classes.

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)