Educators Rising Webinar Series

Our Next Webinar

Are you looking to start or expand your Educator Pathway for this year or 2024-2025? Now is the time to start planning! To help you begin the school year strong, we are hosting a series of webinars. Each webinar will highlight a different aspect of how to grow-your-own teachers starting in high school.

PDK International provides research and advocacy to support the next generation of educators who reflect the demographics of the communities they serve. Through Educators Rising, we offer schools the opportunity to foster interest in the education profession while providing comprehensive programming that is flexible, interactive, and prepares students to enter the education profession.

Join us for our next webinar on Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 4:30 PM ET (3:30 PM CT) featuring current student teachers who went through the Educators Rising program as they share their experiences and how Educators Rising helped prepare them for student teaching.

Our Past Webinars

Grow Your Own: It Works! Grow Your Own: Sustainable Funding for Educators Pathway Grow Your Own: Advocating for Your Community Growing Your Own: How to Start Recruiting the Next Generation of Teachers Today GYO 101: How to Start a High School Grow Your Own Program

PDK International hosted an enriching student showcase webinar, “Grow Your Own: It Works!” This event offered participants a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from current and former Educators Rising students who have successfully transitioned into roles as educators in their communities or are currently on the path to a rewarding career in education.

Feburary 2024

Panelists for the Grow Your Own: Sustainable Funding for Educator Pathways webinar included representatives from the U.S. Department of Education and New America. They discussed many available funding options that support GYO Pathways at the local, state, and federal level.

Feburary 2023

PDK International hosted Grow Your Own: Advocating for Your Community, providing viewers with information on how to gain support from the community to start a GYO Program. Featured speaker, Raven DeRamus-Byers, Coordinator and Program Associate at New America, shared practical action steps and highlighted new resources available to schools interested in starting a GYO Program.
January 2023

Educators Rising is an opportunity for school systems to stem the teacher shortage and build capacity for the next generation of educators that reflect the demographics of the community they serve. Our webinar will bring awareness to the resources we offer and the benefits of being an Educators Rising member.

Watch our first video of the 2022 school year on Grow Your Own: How to start recruiting the next generation of teachers today and learn PDK International is serving our communities.

September 2022

How do I start implementing a high school Grow Your Own Program to inspire future educators? Back by popular demand, PDK International revisited this question in our April webinar. Learn how to get started by hearing directly from educators who are successfully using Grow Your Own Programs.

April 2022

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