Podcast PD
Podcast PD is an asynchronous and new format for professional development and learning that is being offered by North Dakota United. You listen and reflect as time allows without having to meet weekly deadlines, meet in person, or access Zoom meetings.
Podcast PD allows educators to make personal choices for their learning based on their content area and professional interests while helping them to earn up to five credits.
With six different podcasts to choose from you can choose any of the sessions that relate to education, professional interest, content that work for you.
Each session requires a reflection paper and seven sessions and reflections equal one credit. Participants can mix and match podcasts to meet the requirements for credit.
The six podcasts that can be used for credit:
- Sold a Story (Science of Reading based) Podcast
- The Educator’s Room: The Teacher Self-Care Podcast
- Those Who Can’t Do Podcast
- The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
- The Creative Class with John Spence Podcast
- Too Dope Teachers Podcast
Podcasts can be heard on any format you may currently use for podcasts or on the free version of Spotify from your smart phone or your computer. (You will have to download the app if you do not have a podcast format you currently use.) After registration is complete, information to begin Podcast PD will be emailed to you.
Podcast PD will begin on September 1, 2024, and must be completed by August 31, 2025. The credit fee is $50 payable to UND.
Book Studies
All NDU professional development courses are FREE to North Dakota United members thanks to funding from the North Dakota United Foundation. Participants are responsible for the cost of the book and the $50 credit fee to UND to have your credit recorded onto your transcript. The fee to participate in an NDU professional development course for non-members is $100, plus the cost of the book and the credit fee to UND.
Book studies are typically one credit courses that last approximately six weeks. One credit equates to 15 hours of study. Expectations include reading the book, answering discussion questions, responding to others’ responses, and a reflection paper/action plan.
Upcoming Fall Book Studies
AI
Anxiety/Trauma
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, Worry – September 16
- Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls – November 11
Behavior
- Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World – September 16
- Take Control of the Noisy Class: From Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds – September 23
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – October 7
- Looking Beyond Behavior to Make Connections – December 9
- Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain Body Sensory Strategies That Really Work – December 16
Communication
Discipline
- Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation – November 4
- Discipline Win: Strategies to Improve Behavior, Increase Ownership, and Give Every Student a Chance – December 16
Instruction/Strategies
- Plan Like A Pirate: Designing Extraordinary Learning Journeys for Every Student – September 30
- Overcoming Dyslexia – October 7
- Project Based Teaching: How to Create Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences – October 21
- Ditch the Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete – October 28
- Differently Wired: A Parent's Guide to Raising an Atypical Child with Confidence and Hope – November 11
- Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity and Transform Your Life as an Educator – December 2
- (K-2) Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom – December 2
SEL
Self-Care/Positivity
- FISH: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results – September 23
- The Last Lecture – September 30
- Happy Teacher Habits: 11 Habits of the Happiest, Most Effective Teachers on Earth – October 14
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – October 21
Trauma
Early Career Cohorts
North Dakota United is continuing to sponsor early career educator cohorts, the next beginning in January 2025. The cohort will last approximately fourteen months and will include thirty early career educators (service years 1-7). This is a closed group forum so you can establish comraderies, collaboration, and network with educators in similar situations as yourself.
The educators will complete six courses for six credits that can be used for re-licensure and lane changes, at no cost to the educators. That’s right – FREE!
North Dakota United is currently accepting educators for the 2025 cohorts. If you are interested, please contact Professional Development Director Amy Flicek at [email protected].
