2023 Professional Development Workshop

August 1-3, 2023

Registration fee: $25

Twenty-four teachers will be selected to attend an exclusive From Lab to Classroom Professional Development Workshop, presented by Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (KFAC). This experiential-based professional development workshop, organized by KFAC in partnership with the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center and Kansas State University, will be held onsite in Manhattan, Kansas August 1-3, 2023 with additional virtual learning to follow. Educators will gain the knowledge and tools they will need to implement science research and practices regarding crop improvement and biotechnology into their classrooms.

Participants will leave the workshop with reinforced knowledge of research methods, instructional strategies, lessons, and activities that can be immediately implemented into their classrooms with little or no additional effort. During one day of the workshop, participants will discuss basic methods of crop improvement including breeding, doubled haploid production, and DNA extraction at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center with dedicated time in the research laboratory. On day two, participants will learn about GMOs and gene-editing with time to explore societal viewpoints and the challenge they present to the agriculture industry. Ending the workshop, participants will discuss how this research can be used in the classroom for deeper learning on the covered topics.

This workshop will be limited to 24 participants. Participants will pay $25 when registering for the workshop. Participants can get a reduced rate hotel room at the Bluemont Hotel by calling to book.