You can view recordings of all of the webinars hosted by the Middle East Professional Learning Initiative below.
Engagement by Design: A Back-to-School Strategy Series
Engagement by Design: A Back-to-School Strategy Series
September 2024
In this three-part series, MEPLI Fellows provide strategies for engaging students from the first week of class, creating a class culture of belonging, fostering engagement and strengthening learning through the use of narrative, and involving students and teachers in strategies to engage the community.
Session 1: Starting the School Year Right: Connecting with and Engaging our Students
Session 2: Storytelling in the Classroom: Transforming Lessons into Narratives
Education in Emergencies: Promoting SEL & Well-Being in Times of Crisis
Education in Emergencies: Promoting SEL & Well-Being in Times of Crisis Webinar Series
May-June 2024
In this three part series, MEPLI Fellows provided frameworks for developing social-emotional skills and fostering resilience in times of crisis. They explored activities that can be implemented in both the classroom and at home.
Session 3: Building Resilience in Times of Crisis: Empowering Teachers to Become More Resilient!
Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series
Artificial Education in Education Webinar Series
August 2023
In this three part series, MEPLI Fellows covered topics surrounding the incorporation of artificial intelligence in education.
Session 1: Embrace AI…Transform Education…Engage Minds
Session 2: Empowering Educators: Integrating AI into Classroom Activities and Assessments
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Session 3: Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI
Developing Skills to Lead Learning and Drive Change Webinar Series
Developing Skills to Lead Learning and Drive Change
In this three-part series, a group of MEPLI Fellows covered topics surrounding education leadership at school in both Arabic and English. The series focused on sharing tools and strategies from HGSE’s Certificate in Advanced Education Leadership.
Session 1: Tools and Applications for Designing Sustainable Solutions for Problems in the Classroom
Session 2: Lessons and tools from the “Developing Myself” Module
Session 3: Peer Observation as A Professional Development Practice
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Literacy Webinar Series
Literacy Webinar Series
In this three-part series, a group of MEPLI Fellows covered topics surrounding developing literacy skills in both Arabic and English.
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Teacher Well-Being: The Importance of Taking Care of Ourselves
Teacher Well-Being: The Importance of Taking Care of Ourselves
This webinar, led by two Fellows who are experts in mental health and social-emotional well-being, addressed some of the many stressors facing educators today as well as some tools to take care of ourselves and others.
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Transformative Education and its Five Tracks in the Arab Region
Transformative Education and its Five Tracks in the Arab Region
Webinar Topic: The topic of education system transformation is paramount for many leaders and education practitioners. The COVID 19 Pandemic spurred ministers of education around the world to seek to build back better. The U.N. Secretary General convened the Transforming Education Summit (TES) at the 2023 General Assembly meeting.
The summit’s five action tracks to transform education:
- Inclusive, equitable, safe and healthy schools
- Learning and skills for life, work and sustainable development
- Teachers, teaching and the teaching profession
- Digital learning and transformation
- Financing of education
STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Across the Curriculum
Slow Looking Webinar Series
Slow Looking
This two-part workshop was an exploration of slow looking as a mode of learning, a highly needed technique as we reimagine education, especially since our students are now immersed in a digital medium where they need to learn how to observe more than meets the eye at first glance.
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School Leadership: Directions and Applications Webinar Series
This webinar series targeted school leaders to provide them with practices that will enable them to better support their students and staff.
Session 1: The Role of the Principal in Improving Student Learning
The Education of Now: Skills and Practices Series
This webinar series focused on presenting proven strategies to confront the challenges of the school year following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Session 1: Reframing Learning Loss
Session 2: Mental Health and Psychological Support
Session 3: Assessing Learning Lost and Gained
Session 4: Supporting Students’ Psychosocial Needs
Session 5: Reimagining Student Motivation in our Current Reality
