FOR SESSIONS TAKING PLACE AFTER JUNE 9, 2026 PLEASE ACCESS THE SY27 SCHED EVENT PAGE. In this SY26 SCHED EVENT PAGE you will find registration for professional learning sessions offered from the CPS Office of Teaching and Learning TAKING PLACE BEFORE JUNE 9, 2026. n this SY26 Chicago Public Schools Sched Event Page you will find registration for professional learning offered from the CPS Office of Teaching and Learning and Skyline specific opportunities.
Please note, to access district-wide offerings of professional learning opportunities you may view the Employee Intranet Professional Learning Calendar(filter the calendar by professional learning on the left).
SY26 SKYLINE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Teacher Professional Learning. Teachers are provided with comprehensive support when launching the Skyline curriculum through asynchronous and in-person sessions, as well as ongoing offerings to sustain and deepen successful implementation.
Skyline Essentials Badges: Asynchronous self-paced professional learning essential for those who are implementing and/or supporting the implementation of Skyline. Badges can be found here. Teachers earn 1 ISBE credit hour for each completed badge. As of April 1, 2025, compensation is not available for badge completion.
Skyline 101s: In-person, day-long sessions that prepare teachers and leaders for successful implementation of Skyline. Sessions will run June 16, 2025 through the summer.
Ongoing Support: Throughout the school year, CPS content specialists provide ongoing professional learning opportunities tailored to both newly implementing teachers and more experienced users of the curriculum.
School Leader and Network Leader Professional Learning. School leaders and network leaders have access to professional learning that helps them apply high-leverage leadership practices that are especially impactful for implementation of HQ curriculum.
Leading Implementation of the Skyline Curriculum: This in-person, day-long launch session is for school leaders, school-based coaches, and network/district coaches who support schools with curriculum implementation. Leaders will leave the session prepared to implement high-leverage leadership and coaching practices that matter most for successful curriculum implementation. Sessions will run May 27, 2025 through the summer.
Ongoing Support: Throughout the school year, the CPS professional learning team provides ongoing opportunities for school and network leaders to strengthen their leadership of Skyline curriculum implementation.
Payment / ISBE Credit Hours
Teachers will receive ISBE Hours for each Skyline Essentials badge completed. As of April 1, 2025, no compensation will be provided for completion of Skyline Essentials badges. Teachers will receive ISBE Hours for attending PL sessions. Eligibile staff will also be compensated at the non-instructional rate per hour for their attendance at Skyline PL sessions that occur outside of regularly contracted hours. Teachers must be fully contracted and onboarded at the time of the session, attend the full duration of the session, and complete the attendance/exit slip form to receive payment and ISBE Hours. Please find more payment information in the Skyline Payment One-Pager.
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We look forward to supporting your adoption of Pre-K ALE throughout SY26!
Please note: this session is only applicable to current Pre-K teachers and support staff whose schools have formally adopted PK ALE. If you are not an official PK ALE teacher or support staff, you should not join this session. Due to the limitations of our grant, we are unable to pay teachers who are not current PK ALE teachers or support staff.
We look forward to supporting you during your first year of Skyline PKFS Implementation!
Please note: This session is only applicable to current Pre-K teachers and instructional support leaders whose schools have formally adopted PKFS (English). If you are not an official PKFS teacher or support staff, you should not join this session. Due to the limitations of our grant, we are unable to pay teachers who are not current PKFS teachers or support staff.
Join Facing History & Ourselves as we explore how the history and legacy of both the murder of Emmett Till and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II paved the way for courageous choices and resistance. This engaging workshop will explore two resources from our US History collection—“I Wanted the Whole World to See”: The Murder of Emmett Till and Japanese American Incarceration in WWII: A US History Inquiry—to consider how we can work toward racial justice and a nation that lives up to its own civic ideals.
In this workshop you will:
● Explore two pivotal moments in US history and the continued legacy of racial violence in the United States
● Examine ways that activists have pushed for racial justice
● Reflect upon how this history connects with student and community identities and experiences today
This is a required training for HS Schedulers at district-managed schools. The session will review Semester 2 set up for schools that mirror Semester 1 for Semester 2.
Please note: this session is exclusively for current HS Schedulers, calendar invites will only be sent to those listed on HS Scheduler's Directory. HS Principals can contact the School Scheduling Manager to make updates to that directory.
Join this PL to learn how librarians design engaging, standards-aligned lesson plans in both IB and traditional CPS settings. Participants will explore how to connect AASL and CCSS standards, integrate media literacy using Common Sense Education, and incorporate Makerspace and STEAM activities. Walk away with practical tools, collaborative strategies, and ready-to-use ideas for your own library program.
