Professional Development
and Consulting
Facing the Future offers the following professional development opportunities for educators, schools, districts, and state departments of education.
All our professional development services:
- Include standards-based global issues and sustainability curriculum resources
- Promote critical thinking and problem solving by using global issues and sustainability as a contextual framework for teaching all subjects
- Provide educators with proven techniques to engage students
- Explore strategies and tools to help educators integrate global issues and sustainability education across their school curricula
- Can be customized for specific topics and needs
Read what educators say about Facing the Future professional development and consulting.
Education Conferences
Facing the Future staff and Peer Educators provide teacher workshops at education conferences throughout the United States.
Email or call us at 206-264-1503 if you are interested in having Facing the Future present a workshop or keynote address at your local, state, regional, or national conference.
Keynote and Plenary Speeches
Experienced Facing the Future staff are available to present keynote and plenary speeches at your next conference or event.
Inservices and Consulting
Facing the Future staff work on a fee-for-service basis providing customized workshops, inservices, and other consulting services for educators, schools, districts, and state departments of education interested in integrating global issues and sustainability across the curriculum. Experienced Facing the Future staff will work with you to collaboratively assess your needs and design an appropriate program. Past examples of our services include:
- Multi-day workshops or institutes on global sustainability and service learning
- All-faculty keynote presentations on global sustainability education
- Collaboration on statewide global sustainability education plans and resource guides
- Curriculum and scope and sequence development and advising
Online Professional Development
For educators who are unable to attend a workshop or who would like to learn at their own pace, Facing the Future offers online professional development on teaching about global issues and sustainability.
Facing the Future: Educating & Inspiring a Global Generation is an online, independent continuing education course available through The Heritage Institute. The course encourages educators to build upon their teaching expertise and think creatively about how to integrate global issues, sustainability, and local solutions into their curricula.
Appropriate for teachers of grades 5-12, participants may elect to receive 1 Quarter Credit from Antioch University Seattle, 10 Washington Clock Hours, 10 Oregon PDUs, or 1 CEU. The credit option requires completion of additional reading and written assignments. Learn more about this course and how to register.
Facing the Future staff are available to customize online courses for schools or districts. Email us for more information.
Webinars
Facing the Future speakers will work with you to develop a webinar which will best meet the needs of your audience.
For further information...
View a partial list of past and current clients. References are available upon request.
Email or call us at 206-264-1503 to learn more about any of Facing the Future's offerings.