Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI)

Learn to understand your body’s reaction to racial discomfort, identify where racial stress is stored, and metabolize that discomfort to avoid getting stuck in your anti-racism efforts. Class discussion will focus on healing and ways to root our anti-racism in healing justice. Indigenous, Black and Brown bodies will be offered an affinity space for deeper healing.

This interactive, in-person summer institute, designed for K-12 teachers, will provide you with tools to make learning relevant for students, while increasing their critical thinking, reading, writing and speaking skills. The institute will meet on the Augsburg University campus in Minneapolis.

Join us for this 3 hour preview of the Paideia (pie DAY a) approach. It is a pedagogy that encourages student-centered, democratic discussions around a common text to Improve K-12 students’ critical thinking, reading, writing, and speaking skills. Apply your registration fee to our Paideia Summer Institute!

Led by College Board endorsed consultants, the Advanced Placement Summer Institutes (APSI) are designed for AP teachers to learn content for specific AP courses. In addition to the instruction, the APSI is a valuable opportunity to join with other educators to share best practices, strategies and tips. Register for your APSI at Augsburg, where the APSI has been a tradition since 1999. We have both online and in-person options for this year's APSI!

Get a head start on coaching NSDA policy debate for the ‘23-24 season! We will cover topic content, pedagogical strategies, and team management techniques for new and returning coaches. Emphasis is placed on active participation strategies that teachers can leverage during the regular season.

This course is one step toward equipping educators to understand, recognize, and respond to the myriad of ways that trauma is present in our students and our schools. By understanding trauma and its impacts on learning, educators at all levels can be informed about and invested in responding effectively to students' diverse experiences.

This reflective course aims to guide you through social and emotional learning when it is rooted in equity, identity, belonging, and community justice. By understanding the elements of transformative social and emotional learning (TSEL), teachers can identify spaces throughout the day and within their curriculum and classroom practices, where students can feel validated and celebrated for who they are as they become co-collaborators of the learning space.

This certificate consists of three self-paced, online courses titled, Understanding Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Classrooms, and Transformative Social and Emotional Learning. Together these courses will provide you with a solid foundation and tools to increase your ability to support the mental health of your students.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. The course will include practice of self care activities, self reflection, and developing a personal self care plan.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. This experiential training will empower educators (you!) to bring out the unlimited potential (UP) in others to increase learning outcomes for all students.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. Teachers will examine their current feedback processes, and explore innovative practices to foster student agency and ownership in their classroom. Teachers will gain practical tools to apply to their classroom, and have workshop time to prepare these materials throughout the course.