Teaching Channel - Enhancing Educators Rising Curriculum

Teaching Channel – Enhancing Educators Rising Curriculum

Posted on April 7, 2025

On Tuesday, April 8th at 4:30 PM ET, we’ll be hosting a webinar to highlight the Educators Rising Curriculum (featuring our newly-minted beta lessons), and provide a tour of the Teaching Channel video library.

You can now watch a recording of this event:

The library from Teaching Channel has over 2,100 exemplars that highlight authentic classroom experiences from schools across the United States. These can be used as discussion starters, as part of assessments, or used to highlight pedagogy in the context of seeing and hearing real teachers in real classrooms with students.

Educators Rising teacher leaders—whether or not they use the Educators Rising Curriculum—have access to the Teaching Channel library.

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