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Professional Development

We collaboratively research, develop and implement evidence-based, customized professional development programs for pre-service and in-service K-12 educators and educational leaders.

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The AI-Empowered Teacher

This course centers on AI literacy to help educators understand, evaluate, and use AI in their professional practice. AI-literate educators are equipped to protect student data, uphold ethical standards, and ensure that any use of technology supports equity, learning, and professional integrity.

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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators

The Social and Emotional Learning modules are a set of on-demand, self-paced online learning opportunities that can be taken in any order. They are grounded in the CASEL Framework for Social and Emotional Learning and provide information, resources, strategies and engagement opportunities related to SEL competencies.

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Learning Differences

The Learning Differences course focuses on executive functions such as attention, memory, task prioritization, organization and planning, helping teachers and students understand how strengths and struggles in any of these areas manifest in classroom learning and what strategies support all functions of the brain.

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InSTEP: Invigorating Statistics Teacher Education Through Professional Online Learning

InSTEP is an innovative personalized online learning platform that allows teachers to develop their expertise in teaching statistics and data science.

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AI with the FI: From Awareness to Advocacy

To address AI integration in classes, schools and districts and support the development of educators’ AI fluency to effectively equip students for an AI-driven future, we developed our AI with the FI: From Awareness to Advocacy webinar series. We adapted the series into a course format which can be completed for professional development hours.

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Computer Science Training

The Friday Institute partners with educational leaders and policy makers from the school to national level. We build educator capacity to create opportunities for ALL in North Carolina to explore computer science.

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Real Issues, Real Data

This series is designed for K-12 educators, researchers and policymakers to explore pivotal topics in education.

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AI with the FI

At the Friday Institute (FI), we are working with educators and educational leaders to leverage AI for deeper learning, support teachers and students in effective uses of AI, ensure access for all in how AI is incorporated into education, and conduct research on AI integration in instruction.

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