PK-12 Teacher Professional Development
Current Professional Development
The K-12 STEM Teacher Conference
June 13, 2025
Fee $50 - Special Early Bird Pricing of $35 until Friday, May 16 ; 6 hours of PD Credit (includes continental breakfast, coffee lunch and a conference t-shirt)
Location: Nancy Randolph Davis Building, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Audience: K-12th Grade Teachers
The K12 STEM Teacher Conference provides teachers with opportunities to engage with other educators, serving to provide ideas and examples of STEM learning in action. Attendees can select from a variety of sessions pertaining to mathematics, science, STEM, or integrated STEM content. NEW this year - a STEM PLAYGROUND!
Fractions Across Grades 3-5: A Learning Trajectory
June 12, 2025; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Fee $55 ; 6 hours of PD Credit (includes lunch)
Location: Willard Hall, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Audience: 3rd - 5th Grade Teachers
Facilitator: Bridget Broome
Fractions are prevalent throughout the third, fourth, and fifth grade curriculum and having a deep understanding of fractions is critical to student success. Participants will examine how children learn and develop fraction concepts and how to help students build their fractional understanding through the use of inquiry and hands-on approaches. Participants can expect to leave with materials for games and activities to help them as they teach their students fraction concepts. (Connections to 3.N.3; 4.N.3; 5.N.1; and 5.N.3)
Teaching Statistics in High School Mathematics
June 12, 2025; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Fee $55 ; 6 hours of PD Credit (includes lunch)
Location: Willard Hall, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Audience: High School Mathematics Teachers
Facilitator: Kansas Cole
Let’s build a community of Oklahoma teachers that love teaching statistics and probability. We will spend the day together with high quality activities for teaching statistics in high school and make connections within the statistics course and across the greater secondary mathematics program. We will discuss course design, resources for teaching statistics, and share ideas for growing the statistics program in your school. Last, we will share activities to help students apply their knowledge while doing the authentic work of a person that uses statistics. Leave with so much more than just activities, leave with colleagues to reach out to as you work through the year.
Teaching the Nature of Science
June 16, 2025; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Fee $55 ; 6 hours of PD Credit (includes lunch)
Location: Willard Hall, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Audience: Science Teachers (all grade levels)
Facilitator: Staci Thomas
The proposed 2026 Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science includes “Connections to Scientific Literacy”. Nature of science (characteristics of scientific knowledge and how scientific knowledge is developed) is a critical component of scientific literacy. Participants will learn about the eight scientific literacy connections, how those connections are related to the three-dimensional standards, and some practical ways to integrate these connections in science lessons.
A more detailed catalog of summer learning can be found here.
Archived Professional Development
- Proportional Reasoning with Ratio Tables (Grades 4-8)
This online learning experience will allow teachers to move at their own pace in order to accommodate their students’ needs. Teachers will learn how to incorporate ratio tables that have students focusing on reasoning, receive on-going implementation support and have the opportunity to collaborate with other teachers. Space is limited, so apply soon!
- K-12 STEM Teacher Conference
June 14, 2024
OSU Stillwater, Willard Hall
The K-12 STEM Teacher Conference provides teachers with opportunities to engage with other educators, serving to provide ideas and examples of STEM learning in action. Attendees can select from a variety of sessions pertaining to mathematics, science, STEM, or integrated STEM content (e.g., agriculture and science)
- Building Students’ Multiplicative Thinking
June 11, 2024
OSU Stillwater, Willard Hall
Participants will learn how to help students build their multiplicative understanding through games and activities that can be done in the classroom. Strategies to help students build fluency with multiplication will also be taught. Participants can expect to leave with materials for games and activities to help them as they teach their students.
- Supporting Productive Problem Solving
June 13, 2024
OSU Stillwater, Willard Hall
Problem solving is a critical mathematical behavior, but many students remain stuck on procedures and repetition rather than creative and critical thinking. In this session, teachers will learn strategies to support their students’ engagement in productive mathematical problem solving within the standards that we teach every day. Professional learning will include how noticing and wondering can open up mathematical problems, using mathematical representations to problem solve, and more strategies that can be used in PK-8 mathematics lessons to spark student thinking!
- From Cookbook to Inquiry: Practical Steps on How to Turn any Lab into an Inquiry Investigation
June 20, 2024
OSU Stillwater, Willard Hall
Not all labs or science lessons are true inquiry or promote 3-dimensional learning. However, there’s no need to throw away all of your teaching materials and start from scratch. This training will cover simple steps to how to improve any science activity and make it more student-focused.
- Focus on Fluency
July 31st, 2023 and Sept. 23rd, 2023
Lawton, Muskogee, or Oklahoma City
A series of workshops focused on building mathematical fluency in students
- K-12 STEM Teacher Conference
June 16, 2023
Location: OSU Stillwater, Willard Hall
The K-12 STEM Teacher Conference provides teachers with opportunities to engage with other educators, serving to provide ideas and examples of STEM learning in action. In addition to attending a keynote presented by Annie Fetter, attendees can select from a variety of sessions pertaining to mathematics, science, STEM, or integrated STEM content (e.g., agriculture and science).
- Strategies to Assess and Address Unfinished Learning in Middle Grades Mathematics
These PD experiences will focus on assessing and addressing missed or unfinished student learning. Specific components of the PD will include a focus on using Open Up curriculum to address gaps in learning, using the 5 practices for orchestrating productive discussions, and implementing effective strategies and resources for mathematics instruction.
Cost: Free
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Teach from Anywhere Workshops
For PK-12 Teachers - Using Digital Tools to Support Seamless Learning
Three three-week long courses are completed online, allowing you to work at your own pace. Up to 25 Professional Development hours and a custom badge are provided upon completion of each course.
Cost: $100 per course
Materials Needed: Internet-capable device, internet connection, a personal Gmail account. - Creating and Delivering Engaging Content
Learn how to create interactive presentations, foster collaboration and explain concepts with digital white boards, record your screen/lessons, gamify your practice, and assess student understanding with digital tools!
- Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking in Digital Environments
Learn how to build classroom community, support rich discussion, and engage in critical thinking and collaboration in digital spaces.