Professional Learning

NAF's How AI Transforms Teaching & Learning

We highlight stories and strategies from nine NAF educators. They tried it; now it's your turn!

Featuring: KPMG LLC & Lenovo

The Future Workforce: AI and Your Career

With the introduction of AI, the world of work is changing fast. To prepare, you'll need to learn new skills and find creative ways to use the ones you already have. Join our exciting webinar to hear from knowledgeable panelists who will share their AI workplace experience and valuable insights on future-proof skills you'll need to thrive in a world where AI is part of everyday work.

FREE TO NAF ALUMNI & EDUCATORS

Free Google Professional Certificates

NAF is excited to offer our Alumni, Educators, and Students exclusive access to Google Career Certificates—a game-changing opportunity to gain in-demand job skills for FREE (including Coursera fees) through December 18, 2025! Through NAF’s partnership with Grow with Google, you can build the skills needed to launch or advance your career in high-growth fields like IT Support, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, and more—all at no cost to you.

AI 101 for Teachers

Partners Code.org, ETS, ISTE and Khan Academy are offering this free, foundational online learning series that will demystify AI, explore responsible implementation, address bias, and showcase how AI-powered learning can revolutionize student outcomes. Sessions feature renowned experts.

Earn a Digital Marketing Skills Certification

Earn a digital marketing skills certificate from Meta for Facebook. Learn about advertising, the value of Facebook and much more.

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CTE Learn Career Lounge

Join over 210,000 CTE educators in this shared community. The Career Lounge enables you to share best practices across many career pathways.

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Wednesday Webinars: Health Science Education

Provided by NCHSE, connect with fellow educators and industry members. Learn about important topics and resources in the health science education

Featuring: KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group

The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success

Explore The Art of Personal Branding for Future Success with experts from KPMG LLC & UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Learn how to market yourself, build a compelling online presence, and how to set yourself up for success in internships, college, and future careers. Quick tip: You can hover over chapter segments to see timestamps and chapter titles. You can also share links to specific chapter segments by clicking on the Chapters icon located at the bottom right-hand corner of the video player.

Teach with LabXChange

This pathway is designed to support educators in using the LabXchange platform with learners. The pathway provides an overview of LabXchange and tutorials for the features educators will need, such as how to create a class and enroll learners, how to find and assign relevant content for learners, and how to add their own content to their private library.

Curriculum & WBL Webinar

Turning NAF Expeditions into WBL Activities

In this webinar, learn how NAF’s 25+ Expeditions can be turned into WBL activities, enabling your students to earn credit towards NAFTrack certification and you to earn credit towards your Academy Assessment.

Featuring: RTX and Verizon

NAF Celebrates Black Engineers with RTX and Verizon

NAF, RTX, and Verizon are working to inspire and enable the next generation of young people seeking exciting engineering careers by celebrating Black engineers during this panel discussion. Each year, the US needs about 400,000 new engineers. While Black or African-Americans represent 14% of the US population, they represent only 9% of new engineering degrees every year. Join us to learn about their stories, hear their tips, and celebrate their success.

WBL Webinar - Preparing Students & Supervisors for Internship Success

Learn about strategies and NAF resources for preparing students and internship supervisors. Parimala Rao from Infosys provides a demo of the Infosys Springboard Digital Academy, with free courses for NAF Network members (students, educators, and supervisors).

WBL Webinar - LinkedIn Skills Workshop for Educators

Cris Charbonneau, Director of Social Impact, Fidelity Investments, shares how to build and leverage your personal brand on LinkedIn and Kirsten Kirby, Director of WBL, demos new features you can be tapping into.

WBL Webinar - Completing the Future Ready Skills Assessment

This webinar covers how the Internship Assessment has been updated to align with the 6 Future Ready Skills, with an increased emphasis on students receiving feedback on their skill development.

Webinar - Artificial Intelligence Curricula, Projects, and Tools for Educators

Check our webinar and slide deck with links to further EMPOWER educators by sharing insights into the latest industry developments in AI; access to valuable AI resources, curricula, and projects to enhance student learning; and ideas to incorporate AI to support instructional planning or educator tasks. Thank you to Verizon for serving as panelists and collaborating on our NAF Expeditions.

Ace Your Interview - Resume & Interview Tips for Success from KPMG and World Wide Technology

Career and internship opportunities often begin with a well-crafted resume to help you get noticed followed by a successful interview. This virtual skills workshop, led by experts from leading professional services firm, KPMG LLP and global technology solutions provider, World Wide Technology, will help you confidently “ace the interview” for an upcoming internship or job search.

Educator Competencies Toolkit

Students at the Center Hub

Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments, created by KnowldegWorks in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), is designed to serve as a customizable tool to guide educator development.The intent is to enable a growing number of teachers to implement and scale up a transformation of their classrooms into places of personalized, student-centered learning.

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Certifying Adobe Skills in Your Classroom

This course is for educators looking to set up Adobe certification at their school or institution.

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Basic Principles of Design

Understanding the fundamentals of good design is essential for communicating with impact. This course helps teachers enrich their creative skillset and deepen their design knowledge

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AI Foundations

A Collaboration of ISTE and IBM - complete all five modules and earn a badge! Free after registration with SkillsBuild

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NextGen Personal Finance

These free NGPF virtual professional development courses are designed for educators wanting to brush up on their content knowledge, find support for personal finance activities, and hear from other teachers about how they use NGPF resources.

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Economics Fundamentals

In this collection, educators will obtain an overview of economics’ introductory level content. Our Master Teachers have developed this content to support all economics level courses.

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technology

In this course from Princeton, you will gain an understanding of Bitcoin and how it works at a technical level.

Fundamentals of A.P. Economics Webinar Series

Are you teaching A.P. I.B. or College level economics classes? This webinar series reviews the Advanced Placement Economics macro and micro curriculum from College Board to prepare your students for A.P. level content.

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Start Here: Go Places

Professional articles curated by AICPA for the accounting educator

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Warehousing and Distribution

The Prologis Learning Academy is a fast, free online training program designed to prepare you for today’s jobs in the warehousing and distribution industry. Providing crucial insights into supply-chain logistics, it will enhance your skills and prepare you for an exciting career in one of the fastest-growing industries in today’s global economy.

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Introduction to the Travel and Tourism Industry: Passport to the World

The muli-module course developed by The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership provides a comprehensive introduction for students enrolled in hospitality and tourism academies. Registration is required in order to access the content.

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Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health

Offered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Introductory Human Physiology

In this course from Duke University, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.

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Domain: John Hopkins University and Medical Center

Curated by HOSA, these courses may be used as the basis of classroom and/or chapter projects and studies. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a nonprofit academic medical center, is the teaching and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The hospital has ranked in the Top 3 Hospitals in the U.S.by U.S. News and World Report for several years.

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Stories of Infection

This course from Stanford University introduces learners to a variety of infectious diseases using a patient-centered, story-based approach.

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Teaching with MIT App Inventor

Everything an educator needs to know about teaching with MIT App Inventor.

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World Chefs Academy

Free online Pre-Commis Chef training program

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CTE for Students with Disabilities: A Framework for Understanding

Learn about the numerous pieces of legislation that impact students with disabilities, including Perkins V. You will also learn strategies to support students with disabilities in secondary CTE through appropriate CTE program placement.

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CTE Research Network Practitioner Training Modules

Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules strengthen capacity to access, understand, and use CTE data and research as well as conduct research, particularly causal research.

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EdTech Webinar Series

This webinar collection focuses on best practices and strategies for using edtech tools and incorporating them into personal finance and economics lessons.

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Enhance Learning with Augmented Reality

Provided by our partner Verizon, explore the benefits of designing learning experiences with augmented reality and earn a micro-credential from Digitial Promise

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Effectively Leveraging Virtual Reality in the Classroom

Educators will learn how to adapt their lessons to incorporate simulated experiences that are similar to or completely different from the real world. A micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion.

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Developing and Facilitating Virtual Projects

Educators will acquire the knowledge and skills to demonstrate a basic understanding of Project-based Learning. Earn a micro-credential from Digital Promise upon completion

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Artificial Intelligence Explorations - Preview Course

This is a demo version of the course. You will be able to see one content module and you will have access for 2 weeks. This course will introduce educators to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in classroom environments through presentations, examples of practical uses, tools and resources for implementation. The focus will be on aspects of AI technologies that have the potential to facilitate and leverage learning, and solve real problems in schools and communities. You'll also acquire techniques to help you unveil to your students how AI technologies are embedded in many different aspects of our lives. You'll actively engage in course content as you experience and reflect on activities and complete hands-on assignments. Throughout the course, you'll learn strategies to draw upon as you develop a project-based unit where students apply artificial intelligence to solve a problem.

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Digital Literacy in the Classroom

This course from ISTE is built to support K-12 educators in developing digitally literate students and empowered digital citizens. You will explore various digital literacy skills including the knowledge of and ability to use digital technologies to locate information; evaluate information; synthesize, create, and communicate information; and understand the human and technological complexities of a digital media landscape. After engaging with these five interactive modules, you will be equipped to foster digital literacy skills in your students – and yourself.

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Computational Thinking

The computational thinking (CT) course developed with support from Google will provide you with a clear definition of CT, explain how it differs from computer science and unpack how it can be integrated into a variety of subject areas. As a course participant, you'll increase your awareness of CT, experiment with examples of CT-integrated activities for the subject areas you teach and create a plan to integrate CT into your own curricula.

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Foundations Course Design for Delight

Intuit's Design for Delight Foundations Course is an online learning path that you can take at your own pace. Learn design thinking basics to help build creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration skills.