The EdHub for Community and Professional Learning is the Marsal Family School of Education’s center of online learning for families, community advocates, educational professionals, and policy makers. The mission of the EdHub is to catalyze a global community committed to ensuring that all students experience the joy, power, and love of learning.
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EdHub Offerings
Transforming Education in an Interconnected World
Coming in September 2023, this series of four MOOCs is aimed at cultivating a community of impassioned educators, parents, and community stakeholders with capabilities to think globally and to lead locally.
Advanced Education Technology Program
The UM Marsal School Advanced Education Technology Certificate is a competency-based teacher certification aligned with the ISTE Standards for Educators—the national standard in K–16 teaching with technology.
Digital Wellness Symposium
We want tweens to thrive online, and we want parents/caregivers to have tools for supporting that journey. This symposium offers learning, conversation, and activities about healthy online behaviors.
Teacher Shortage Town Hall
The EdHub is hosting a town hall to discuss the ongoing teacher shortage in Michigan: the challenges of recruitment and retention, complications from the pandemic, and possibilities for the future.
Fire Circles Towards Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Indigenous Mathematics Education
We, the M4RS group, will curate readings on culturally sustaining teaching for Indigenous students based on participants' interests.
Accelerating Early Literacy Development
The need to accelerate young children’s literacy development has never been greater. Fortunately, decades of research studies reveal some practices that help children develop key literacy knowledge and skills more quickly than other practices.
Disciplinary Literacy
Disciplinary literacy instruction—teaching your students to become proficient readers of various disciplines—has quickly become a hot topic among high school educators.
Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement
This program allows learners to take 5 courses focused on educational innovation. Those who complete this course and are admitted to the Marsal School are granted advanced standing for a master’s degree.
Inquiry-Based Learning in Secondary Science Education
Explore inquiry-based and local space/place based teaching and learning, data, and data literacy within secondary science education.
Inquiry-Based Learning in Secondary Mathematics Education
Explore IBL and PBL in secondary mathematics. Algebra and geometry examples and pedagogical lesson planning considerations will be provided.
Equity in Online Learning for Multilingual Students
Explore how to create equitable and supportive learning experiences for K-12 multilingual students in virtual and hybrid environments.
Anti-Racist Trauma Informed Practice in Pre-12 Education
Explore educational responses to trauma and harm that center anti-racism, healing justice, restorative practices, and collective care.
Creating Fluid Continuity of Learning using a Blended Approach in K-12 School Districts
This self-paced workshop is targeted at school district leaders who are interested in developing a fluid continuity of learning between school learning and home learning using a blended approach.
Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
Resilient teaching means facilitating learning experiences that are responsive to disruption, focusing on dynamic learning contexts that may require new ways for students, content & tools to interact.
Problem Solving Using Computational Thinking
The course introduces computational thinking ideas, including real-world cases to illustrate how computational thinking can solve complex problems, and a student project to apply these concepts.
Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning
Learn why ambitious teaching and learning may be the key to global educational improvement and how to put it into practice.
EdHub Media
EdHub Design Lab offers new resources to SOE community
The EdHub for Community & Professional Learning is excited to announce the opening of the EdHub Design Lab. This lab space includes the EdHub’s design spaces, recording studio, AV equipped conference room, and shared working spaces.
Coming to a Screen Near You: The EdHub for Community and Professional Learning
The Marsal School launches a new center of online learning.
Digital Wellness for Students and Parents
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the ways in which children and parents/caregivers interact with technology.
SOE professor Liz Kolb and School of Information professor Kristin Fontichiaro speak about about the Digital Wellness Symposium on the Michigan Minds podcast
The Digital Wellness Symposium is a virtual gathering for children and their parents or caregivers to learn and talk about healthy online behaviors.
Design Lab
The EdHub Design Lab includes the EdHub’s design spaces, recording studio, AV equipped conference room, and shared working spaces. The Design Lab’s custom-built recording studio is open to only Marsal Family School of Education (SOE) faculty, staff, and graduate students.
The recording studio has three primary components: a built in studio space in suite 3210 for recording lecture videos and other digital content, a portable recording studio that can be transported within the SOE, and a set of loaner items intended to enhance audio recording capabilities for users. We envision folks using this space to record video/audio components of professional development offerings, courses, community projects, or other continuing education opportunities.
If you are interested in learning more about this space and available opportunities, please log into mySOE.