Professional Learning


NAF NEXT 2025 NAF Next Learning Session Resources Access NAF Next Learning Session resources from our 2025 conference in Colorado! In the folder, you will find slide decks and resources from many of our dynamic and timely sessions. From WBL and new curriculum to AI and industry based certifications, there is something for every educator!
Curriculum & WBL Webinar Turning NAF Expeditions into WBL Activities In this webinar, learn how NAF’s 25+ Expeditions can be turned into WBL activities, enabling your students to earn credit towards NAFTrack certification and you to earn credit towards your Academy Assessment.
Featuring: KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success Explore The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success with experts from KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Learn how to market yourself, build a compelling online presence, and how to set yourself up for success in internships, college, and future careers. Quick tip: You can hover over chapter segments to see timestamps and chapter titles. You can also share links to specific chapter segments by clicking on the Chapters icon located at the bottom right-hand corner of the video player.
Featuring: RTX and Verizon NAF Celebrates Black Engineers with RTX and Verizon NAF, RTX, and Verizon are working to inspire and enable the next generation of young people seeking exciting engineering careers by celebrating Black engineers during this panel discussion. Each year, the US needs about 400,000 new engineers. While Black or African-Americans represent 14% of the US population, they represent only 9% of new engineering degrees every year. Join us to learn about their stories, hear their tips, and celebrate their success.
WBL Webinar - Preparing Students & Supervisors for Internship Success Learn about strategies and NAF resources for preparing students and internship supervisors. Parimala Rao from Infosys provides a demo of the Infosys Springboard Digital Academy, with free courses for NAF Network members (students, educators, and supervisors).
WBL Webinar - LinkedIn Skills Workshop for Educators Cris Charbonneau, Director of Social Impact, Fidelity Investments, shares how to build and leverage your personal brand on LinkedIn and Kirsten Kirby, Director of WBL, demos new features you can be tapping into.
Curriculum Webinar - NAF’s Entrepreneurship Curriculum Learn about BevLaunch, a FREE entrepreneurship simulator that empowers students to innovate and create their own beverage company.
WBL Webinar - Completing the Future Ready Skills Assessment This webinar covers how the Internship Assessment has been updated to align with the 6 Future Ready Skills, with an increased emphasis on students receiving feedback on their skill development.
Webinar - Artificial Intelligence Curricula, Projects, and Tools for Educators Check our webinar and slide deck with links to further EMPOWER educators by sharing insights into the latest industry developments in AI; access to valuable AI resources, curricula, and projects to enhance student learning; and ideas to incorporate AI to support instructional planning or educator tasks. Thank you to Verizon for serving as panelists and collaborating on our NAF Expeditions.
Google Career Certificates Webinar Recording Watch this Google Career Certificates webinar with Coursera to learn how NAF educator Denise Hinds Cruz facilitates a Google Career Certificate program in her classroom and how you can do the same.
Ace Your Interview - Resume & Interview Tips for Success from KPMG and World Wide Technology Career and internship opportunities often begin with a well-crafted resume to help you get noticed followed by a successful interview. This virtual skills workshop, led by experts from leading professional services firm, KPMG LLP and global technology solutions provider, World Wide Technology, will help you confidently “ace the interview” for an upcoming internship or job search.
Educator Competencies Toolkit Students at the Center Hub Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments, created by KnowldegWorks in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), is designed to serve as a customizable tool to guide educator development.The intent is to enable a growing number of teachers to implement and scale up a transformation of their classrooms into places of personalized, student-centered learning.
Domain: Content Expertise Certifying Adobe Skills in Your Classroom This course is for educators looking to set up Adobe certification at their school or institution.
Domain \| Content Expertise Basic Principles of Design Understanding the fundamentals of good design is essential for communicating with impact. This course helps teachers enrich their creative skillset and deepen their design knowledge
Domain: Content Expertise Python for Beginners Join this free online course to learn how to program with Python. You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of the programming language like variables, data types, and loops. More complex topics like functions, libraries, and file input and output will also be covered.
Domain: Content Expertise AI Foundations A Collaboration of ISTE and IBM - complete all five modules and earn a badge! Free after registration with SkillsBuild
Domain: Content Expertise IBM AI Skills for Educators This badge earner understands what AI is & how delivering AI education can prepare students for the 21st century workforce. Through hands-on experiences (including "plugged/unplugged" activities) this educator knows the importance of data & how it is being used for social good. They can articulate AI terms like Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Neural Networks. They have enhanced their skills to implement new learning opportunities to help students become more successful in pursuing AI careers.
Domain: Content Expertise NextGen Personal Finance These free NGPF virtual professional development courses are designed for educators wanting to brush up on their content knowledge, find support for personal finance activities, and hear from other teachers about how they use NGPF resources.
Domain: Content Expertise Economics Fundamentals In this collection, educators will obtain an overview of economics’ introductory level content. Our Master Teachers have developed this content to support all economics level courses.
Fundamentals of A.P. Economics Webinar Series Are you teaching A.P. I.B. or College level economics classes? This webinar series reviews the Advanced Placement Economics macro and micro curriculum from College Board to prepare your students for A.P. level content.
Domain: Content Expertise Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technology In this course from Princeton, you will gain an understanding of Bitcoin and how it works at a technical level.
Domain: Instructional Practice Start Here: Go Places Professional articles curated by AICPA for the accounting educator
Domain: Content Expertise Warehousing and Distribution The Prologis Learning Academy is a fast, free online training program designed to prepare you for today’s jobs in the warehousing and distribution industry. Providing crucial insights into supply-chain logistics, it will enhance your skills and prepare you for an exciting career in one of the fastest-growing industries in today’s global economy.
Domain: Content Expertise Help build a sustainable CS Program with the Teals Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) is a Microsoft Philanthropies program that builds sustainable CS programs in high schools. We focus on serving students excluded from learning CS because of race, gender, or geography. TEALS helps teachers learn to teach CS by pairing them with industry volunteers and proven curricula.
Domain: Content Expertise Introduction to the Travel and Tourism Industry: Passport to the World The muli-module course developed by The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership provides a comprehensive introduction for students enrolled in hospitality and tourism academies. Registration is required in order to access the content.
Domain: Intrapersonal Teach with Harvard LabXChange This pathway is designed to support educators in using the LabXchange platform with learners. The pathway provides an overview of LabXchange and tutorials for the features educators will need, such as how to create a class and enroll learners, how to find and assign relevant content for learners, and how to add their own content to their private library.
Domain \| Content Expertise Wednesday Webinars: Health Science Education Provided by NCHSE, connect with fellow educators and industry members. Learn about important topics and resources in the health science education
Domain: Content Expertise Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health Offered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Domain: Content Expertise Introductory Human Physiology In this course from Duke University, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.
Content Expertise Domain: John Hopkins University and Medical Center Curated by HOSA, these courses may be used as the basis of classroom and/or chapter projects and studies. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a nonprofit academic medical center, is the teaching and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The hospital has ranked in the Top 3 Hospitals in the U.S.by U.S. News and World Report for several years.
Domain: Content Expertise Stories of Infection This course from Stanford University introduces learners to a variety of infectious diseases using a patient-centered, story-based approach.
Domain: Content Expertise Teaching with MIT App Inventor Everything an educator needs to know about teaching with MIT App Inventor.
Domain: Content Expertise World Chefs Academy Free online Pre-Commis Chef training program
Domain: Intrapersonal CTE for Students with Disabilities: A Framework for Understanding Learn about the numerous pieces of legislation that impact students with disabilities, including Perkins V. You will also learn strategies to support students with disabilities in secondary CTE through appropriate CTE program placement.
Domain: Intrapersonal Culturally Responsive Teaching The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is supporting teachers and students by presenting a two-part professional development webinar series that focuses on culturally responsive teaching.
Domain: Intrapersonal CTE Research Network Practitioner Training Modules Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules strengthen capacity to access, understand, and use CTE data and research as well as conduct research, particularly causal research.
Domain: Instructional Practice EdTech Webinar Series This webinar collection focuses on best practices and strategies for using edtech tools and incorporating them into personal finance and economics lessons.
Domain: Content Expertise Enhance Learning with Augmented Reality Provided by our partner Verizon, explore the benefits of designing learning experiences with augmented reality and earn a micro-credential from Digitial Promise
Domain: Instructional Practice Effectively Leveraging Virtual Reality in the Classroom Educators will learn how to adapt their lessons to incorporate simulated experiences that are similar to or completely different from the real world. A micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion.
Domain: Instructional Practice Developing and Facilitating Virtual Projects Educators will acquire the knowledge and skills to demonstrate a basic understanding of Project-based Learning. Earn a micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion
Domain: Instructional Practice USPTO's National Summer Teacher Institute The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office of Education will conduct a virtual National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on innovation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and intellectual property during the week of July 25-29, 2022. NSTI combines experiential training tools, practices, and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and high school teachers and increase their knowledge of inventing and innovating. The deadline to submit applications for the NSTI is May 16, 2022.
Domain: Content Expertise Artificial Intelligence Explorations - Preview Course This is a demo version of the course. You will be able to see one content module and you will have access for 2 weeks. This course will introduce educators to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in classroom environments through presentations, examples of practical uses, tools and resources for implementation. The focus will be on aspects of AI technologies that have the potential to facilitate and leverage learning, and solve real problems in schools and communities. You'll also acquire techniques to help you unveil to your students how AI technologies are embedded in many different aspects of our lives. You'll actively engage in course content as you experience and reflect on activities and complete hands-on assignments. Throughout the course, you'll learn strategies to draw upon as you develop a project-based unit where students apply artificial intelligence to solve a problem.
Domain: Instructional Practice Digital Literacy in the Classroom This course from ISTE is built to support K-12 educators in developing digitally literate students and empowered digital citizens. You will explore various digital literacy skills including the knowledge of and ability to use digital technologies to locate information; evaluate information; synthesize, create, and communicate information; and understand the human and technological complexities of a digital media landscape. After engaging with these five interactive modules, you will be equipped to foster digital literacy skills in your students – and yourself.
Domain: Instructional Practice Computational Thinking The computational thinking (CT) course developed with support from Google will provide you with a clear definition of CT, explain how it differs from computer science and unpack how it can be integrated into a variety of subject areas. As a course participant, you'll increase your awareness of CT, experiment with examples of CT-integrated activities for the subject areas you teach and create a plan to integrate CT into your own curricula.
Domain: Instructional Practice Foundations Course Design for Delight Intuit's Design for Delight Foundations Course is an online learning path that you can take at your own pace. Learn design thinking basics to help build creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration skills.