NAF's Education Today
To celebrate the end of year and how we have journeyed alongside you, here is our gift to you, our Best of NAF's Education Today edition! We're taking a look back at the resources, activities, and events that you loved most. Take some time to revisit these resources and get a head start for the next semester! Check out our top resources below.
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Curriculum You Can Use
Whether you loved them the first time around or you didn't get a chance to check them out yet, we hope you enjoy these fan-favorites from each theme, as much as we enjoyed curating them for you!

Engineering: In NAF's Engineering Curriculum, look into a multitude of resources, programs, and projects to put together a lesson in hours instead of days.

Finance & Business: Time for Payback helps students learn how to pay for college, manage their college finances, and earn scholarship money - all while playing a game!

Health Sciences: In Developing a New Drug PBL Project, students learn the process of creating a new drug to fight COVID-19 through a simulation.

Hospitality & Tourism: In the Sports and Entertainment Promotional Plan PBL Project, build students' marketing skills by developing a promotional plan.

Information Technology: The Google Logo Design project is a huge hit and now you can finalize the Google Logos that your students started. The Doodle for Google challenge window opens on January 11, 2021 and the winner gets a $30,000 scholarship!
HOW WE'RE TEACHING ONLINE
  1. This list of fun digital icebreakers helps get students energized and engaged at the start of class.
  2. Naomi Harm teaches us blended learning strategies for becoming creative facilitators both online and in-person.
  3. This roundup of tech tools gives us lots of great ideas of new apps to explore.
WHAT WE'RE LEARNING - RACIAL EQUITY IN PRACTICE
  1. This piece teaches us how white educators can become anti-racist in their classrooms. 
  2. In parts one, two, and three of Sharmayne Jenkins’s webinar, we learn how to build culturally competent classrooms. 
  3. In this video from EdWeek, we hear from ten Black students on what they would like educators to know from their perspective.
WHEN WORK-BASED LEARNING GOES VIRTUAL
  1. One of our most popular trainings, Advisory Board Performance and Quality, shares best practices & perspectives focused on supporting academies in a more virtual environment. 
  2. Bring NAF's Virtual Guest Speakers into your homes and classrooms so students can learn from professionals about different career paths and the skills to succeed.

And here's something brand new! NAF’s Internship Guide provides resources and valuable information for building a quality and skills-focused internship program.
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