Name: Newsela Certified Educator Workshop Kickoff
Start: 2025-06-18T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-18T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

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June

18th

,

2025

4:00pm

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5:00pm

ET

1:00pm

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2:00pm

PT

Newsela Certified Educator Workshop Kickoff

Join us for a live, one-hour kick-off of the Newsela Certified Educator Course, a unique opportunity to enhance your teaching skills and provide the best possible learning experiences for your students.

You’ll learn best practices for using Newsela to engage, support, and grow every learner.

Everyone is welcome whether you are an experienced user or just learning about Newsela for the first time. This short, interactive workshop will give you the tools you need to get started with our NCE course so that you can expertly complete the performance task and claim your badge, certificate, and free trial of our premium products.

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You’ll learn how to:

1

Access Newsela, troubleshoot any integration challenges, and sign up for our certification course.

2

Strategically navigate Newsela and embed content into regular teacher to see better outcomes.

3

Create a high-quality, authentic, purposeful assignment to use with your students right away to see immediate results.

Agenda

Introductions and orientation

Get to know your fellow educators and get acquainted with the Newsela Certified Educator Program.

Navigating Newsela Tools and Features

Explore article features and assignment overview.

Taking Newsela to the Next Level

We'll look at building learning experiences, the assignment binder, analyzing student activity and more!

Brain break

Take a short break to recharge before diving into performance task building.

Designing Your Assignment

Engage in a hands-on session and create an assignment tailored to your specific instructional needs.

Wrap up

Finish up your performance tasks and get answers to any additional questions you have about the Newsela Certified Educator Program.

Meet your host

Tori Lee, Enterprise School Engagement Manager

Tori joined Newsela’s Content team in June 2022 before transitioning to the role of School Engagement Manager in December 2023. A former high school social studies teacher in Maryland, she now lives in Philadelphia. Tori earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. As a School Engagement Manager, she partners with educators to seamlessly integrate Newsela’s products into their instruction, ensuring students have access to engaging, differentiated content that builds literacy skills and fosters a love of learning.

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