Upcoming Webinars

Posted on January 13, 2025

We have three webinars this January! We have student voices joining us on January 15th and January 21st!

January 15, 2025 • 7-8 PM ET: The Supports Needed to Aid Districts with the Teacher Shortage. Our guests include PDK International CEO James Lane and Alan Mather from Golden Apple. Their conversation will showcase how national non-profits like Educators Rising and Golden Apple are providing supports that include mentorship, high school Grow Your Own, and how to approch teaching with a younger generation. Attendees will have a better understanding of the types of support young teachers need and how our organizations are partnering with districts to ensure young educator success.
January 16, 2025 • 4:30-5 PM ET: How to Leverage Paraprofessional Avenues to Support Grow Your Own. Our host is PDK’s Dr. John Hendron with guest Vinay Ganti from ETS. We’ll discuss the benefits of the Parapro Assessment for your Educators Rising students and what this assessment means post-graduation. We’ll cover a current promotion with Educators Rising facilitating purchase of ParaPro assessments directly from Educators Rising.
January 21, 2025 • 4:30-5:30 PM ET: Choosing Education: Candid Conversations About Why Students Choose Teaching and Other Education Careers. Our host Dr. Lisa Rollins chats with students who have been through the Educators Rising experience and are committed to becoming future educators. Learn about how to make the most of your students’ high school experience in preparation for a future education career!
Feburary 11, 2025 • 4:30-5 PM ET: Grow Your Own: Innovative Solutions to Addressing the Teacher Shortage. In this webinar hosted by Dr. Lisa Rollins, we’ll explore how different types of Grow Your Own solutions are helping districts overcome the teacher shortage. Our guest, David Donaldson, will share insight into the national landscape and how these solutions are providing realworld benefits to districts struggling to ensure that every classroom is staffed with a highly-qualified educator.

Eight Pennsylvania Colleges are now awarding credit for Educators Rising Micro-credentials

This post has pricing information that is accurate at the time of publication. Pennsylvania’s teacher shortage is no accident — it's the result of a decade-long erosion of the educator pipeline. According to the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) in...

Is the Screen the Problem, or the Lesson Plan?

Something striking landed before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in January. Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, drawing from decades of international assessment data, delivered a finding that has since rippled across education policy circles: Gen Z is the first...

Something New for Curriculum Subscribers

If you've been thinking about bringing the Educators Rising Curriculum into your school or district — or you're already using it and want to get more out of it — here's news worth reading: curriculum subscribers now have access to a brand-new online training center,...

The education workforce is bigger than you think. Your students should know that.

When we say "education career," most people picture a classroom teacher. And teaching is a remarkable career — one where a single professional can impact over 3,000 lives and boost a classroom's cumulative lifetime earnings by $250,000. But here's what...

Student Perspectives on Classroom Environments

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Classroom Environments & Spring Cleaning

Spring Forward: Start Building Your Future Teacher Pipeline Today

Across the country, school districts are facing the same challenge: finding and keeping great teachers. Recruiting new educators is increasingly difficult, expensive, and uncertain. Yet one of the most effective long-term solutions is already sitting in...

Next-Generation Educators Share What Will Shape Their Decision to Teach

At a time when schools across the country are struggling to recruit and retain teachers, a new RapidResponse poll from Educators Rising offers something rare and powerful: direct insight from the next generation of educators. Respect and support will determine whether...

Webinar: Showcasing Educators Rising Kentucky • 3/26/26

Molly Kauffman hosts Bree Massie, the EdRising state coordinator to highlight how districts across Kentucky are leveraging our solutions to develop their districts’ own Grow Your Own programs. Educators Rising is a national CTSO that has enabled Kentucky districts to...

Rapid Response Survey – Attitudes and Resources

This month, during Educators Rising week, our student leaders polled our student RapidResponders within the Educators Rising community about their opinions about issues relating to the impact of attitudes and availability of resources on the school experience. In this...

Be the Judge who Shapes the Future of Teaching

Every great educator remembers the moment someone believed in them. In 2026, you have the opportunity to be that person for the next generation of teachers. PDK International is seeking volunteers to serve as judges at the 2026 Educators Rising National Conference,...

Teacher Shortage by the Numbers

Schools across the country are struggling to hire and retain highly-qualified teachers. Declining numbers of new teachers and rising vacancies are leaving many classrooms without certified educators. Nationwide Shortfall: Roughly 406,000 teaching positions are...

A message from Jeanie Lee

I want to offer a warm welcome to the PDK International community. My name is Jeanie Lee, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve as chief executive of an organization with a long and trusted legacy in the education profession. I am thankful to the PDK...

Why the ParaPro Assessment Is a Smart Investment for Your Educators Rising Students

What Makes ParaPro a Dual-Purpose Powerhouse? The ParaPro Assessment serves two critical functions that make it uniquely valuable for students exploring careers in education: 1. CTE Pathway Certification In 24 states, ParaPro is recognized as an official CTE pathway...

Becoming a National Student Officer

The primary responsibility of the national student officers of Educators Rising is to be ambassadors for the organization and the future of the teacher profession. Effective national officers are articulate, self-motivated, outgoing, conscientious students with a...

The 2025 PDK Poll Through Student Eyes

This year’s PDK poll explored a variety of timely topics related to public education. We recently sent out an informal poll to our student volunteers at Educators Rising, PDK International’s CTSO focused upon developing today’s students into tomorrow’s educators,...

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