June 2025
Democracy Project Summer Institute for Teachers
June 16-18 and 20
University of Delaware Newark Campus
The Democracy Project Institute for Teachers brings together educators, candidates, and policymakers to discuss the importance of civic participation for sustaining the health of the American political system and to collaborate on developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students need to engage constructively in civic life.
It is open to educators at any grade level, including social studies specialists.
Integrating Meaningful Watershed Education Experiences into Your School or Education Center
June 16-18
Killens Pond State Park | 5025 Killens Pond Road, Felton DE
Registration Deadline: June 9, 2025
Who: This workshop is open classroom teachers, school administrators, non-formal educators, and other education partners serving K-12 students in Delaware. Priority will be given to teachers and administrators from Caesar Rodney School District and Appoquinimink School District.
Cost: FREE! Lunch and refreshments are included for all participants on all days. Classroom teachers and school staff that attend will receive a $350 stipend for attending the workshop.
Contact: David Christopher at dmchrist@udel.edu or David Pragoff at davidp@delawarenaturesociety.org with any questions.
Join Delaware Sea Grant, Delaware Nature Society, Delaware Association for Environmental Education, and Stroud Water Research Center for a three day professional development on Environmental Literacy and Meaningful Watershed Education Experiences (MWEE)—learner-centered experiences that focus on investigations into the local environment.
In this workshop, participants will be given a background on the components of a MWEE and how MWEEs can be used to meet education standards and school goals while engaging students in authentic field studies. Participants will also learn how to plan a MWEE, engage with community partners, and facilitate meaningful outdoor field investigations.
All participants are required to complete the FREE MWEE 101 online course prior to their attendance at this workshop.
Policy & Practice Institute: Delaware’s Conference on Public Education
Tuesday, June 24 | 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
Dover High School | 1 Dover High Dr, Dover, DE
$125
The annual Policy & Practice Institute: Delaware’s Conference on Public Education is the premier professional learning event for educators in Delaware and regionally. Each June, educators come together to learn, share, network and celebrate at this one-day statewide conference. Local educators serve as presenters and facilitators of learning on topics related to leading and learning.
REGISTRATION CLOSES ON JUNE 10!
Bringing the beach to you
Tuesday, June 24 | 2–4 p.m.
Route 9 Library & Innovation Center
Join Delaware Sea Grant at the Route 9 Library & Innovation Center to:
- See, touch, and learn about Delaware’s official marine animal, the horseshoe crab!
- Marvel at the many life stages of the horseshoe crab.
- Count the horseshoe crabs on our beaches like a scientist.
- Celebrate horseshoe crabs through art!
The Trail to Desegregation Bus Tours
Saturday, June 28 | 8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Saturday, July 12 | 8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Saturday, August 23 | 8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Howard High School, 401 E 12th St, Wilmington DE
This year’s Brown v. Board of Education Bus Tour will be a ticketed public history event that continues the storytelling of Delaware’s part in the national conversations about the landmark US Supreme Court Case that desegregated public schools.
This program ferries attendees via bus to tour four New Castle County spaces where they are immersed in the stories of attorney Louis Redding and his African American clients whose successful legal challenges to segregation at the state level in 1951 were considered by the Supreme Court alongside other challenges to segregation in Topeka, Kansas, Clarendon, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Prince Edward County, Virginia in the Brown vs. Board decision.
This multi-site tour begins at Howard High School.