Highly skilled teachers are essential if Arizona is to have high performing schools that produce high achieving students
The Arizona Foundation for Resource Education is a leader in creating highly skilled K-12 educators who positively impact student achievement in Arizona classrooms, schools and districts.
AFRE provides top-quality, intellectually stimulating and enjoyable professional development opportunities including:
- Classroom-based natural resource workshops
- Natural resource expeditionary learning experiences
- Cutting-edge, best practices workshops
- Ongoing, on-site teacher support, training and resources
You won’t want to miss the summer 2008 academies!
- 5 FREE, one-day AZventure workshops that combine natural resource content knowledge and best practices (7 professional development hours each)
- 3 four-day Best Practices Academies (27 professional development hours each) where you will learn what it takes to create and sustain a higher-performing classroom and campus
- Apply your new knowledge and skills during the 2008-2009 academic year and earn up to 15 additional professional development hours at no additional cost
Additional opportunities
- Make It Happen! Teams of summer academy participants will compete to receive support totaling as much as $5,000 per team member during the 2008-2009 academic year
- June 30 AZventure workshop participants can apply for up to $5,000 in Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! environmental service-learning grants
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