Upcoming Workshops
All workshops are FREE via Zoom unless otherwise noted. See also: Personal Demos and Professional Development.
Guiding Students to Success with Data in IB Science IAs
September 23, 2025 from 4:15pm - 5:00pm ET
Learn how to help your students confidently work with data in their International Baccalaureate Internal Assessments (IAs). This session will demonstrate how DataClassroom makes it simple for students to collect, analyze, and visualize data—building the statistical skills IB expects while reducing confusion and saving classroom time. Perfect for IB Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Environmental Systems & Societies teachers, this webinar will give you practical tools to support inquiry, strengthen student analysis, and elevate IA results.
Getting Started: Graphing and Statistics with DataClassroom
Back by popular demand! Another installation of our Getting Started Series.
October 23, 2025 from 7:00pm - 7:45pm ET
Do you want to use DataClassroom but don’t have class time to learn a new tool? Join our webinar for a beginner's guide to mastering DataClassroom! Dr. Nigel Standish will demonstrate how to get students exploring data in a step-by-step, easy to understand format using the Ready To Teach Lesson Cicada Sex Education. This webinar includes multiple variables, dot plots, regression lines, t-test, and a bonus ANOVA.
DCU Special: Making Real Data Work Accessible in Intro Biology (and other courses!)
November 18, 2025 from 4:15pm - 5:00pm ET
Bring authentic data into your course without overwhelming your students—or yourself. In this session, you’ll see how DataClassroom U lowers the barrier to working with real datasets in intro courses or labs. Learn strategies to help students move from spreadsheets to statistical thinking, practice essential analysis skills, and build a bridge toward tools like R and Python—all within a guided, user-friendly platform designed for teaching.
Getting Started: DataClassroom for Science Fair
Back by popular demand! Another installation of our Getting Started Series.
December 11, 2025 from 7:00pm - 7:45pm ET
This webinar is for all the science fair teachers, research teachers, and to those who give their students the freedom to plan and design their original experiments. In this session, Dr. Nigel Standish will cover some guidelines for refining student project ideas, thinking about analysis before data collection, setting an appropriate scale for an experiment, and of course analyzing data.
Past Workshops
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Getting Started: Working with Your Own Data in DataClassroom
Back by popular demand! Another installation of our Getting Started series.
August 21, 2025 from 7:00pm - 7:45pm ET
Do you want to use your own data in DataClassroom? Join our webinar for a beginner's guide to mastering DataClassroom! Dr. Nigel Standish will demonstrate how to get students exploring their own data in a step-by-step, easy to understand format. This webinar includes cleaning and formatting data, importing data, and sharing your dataset and analysis with others.
Getting Started: Planning for DataClassroom Next Year
Back by popular demand! Another installation of our Getting Started series.
July 24, 2025 from 7:00pm - 7:45pm ET
Do you plan to use DataClassroom next year but aren’t sure how to prepare? Join our webinar for a beginner's guide to mastering DataClassroom! Dr. Nigel Standish will demonstrate how to get students exploring data in a step-by-step, easy to understand format. This webinar includes logging in for the first time, creating classes, setting up student accounts, assigning datasets, and customizing activities.
Practices for Data Literacy: Concrete Action Ideas Across Grades 6-12 to Build Data Literacy in Your Schools
This workshop is being held in partnership with the National Science Education Leadership Association and will be aimed at Science Leaders in Schools.
June 11, 2025 from 5:30pm - 6:30pm ET
Data literacy is fast becoming a foundational skill to become an educated citizen of the world. In this session Dr. Aaron Reedy, former high school science teacher and cofounder of DataClassroom, will share specific ideas that to build data literacy across middle and high school curriculum. From techniques to help students approach graph interpretation to, teacher PD and up skilling, to practices to improve student data collection and labs, Reedy will cover a wholistic strategy to improve data literacy from students across a school district in grades 6-12. This session will be aimed at Science Leaders, but the strategies presented will be broadly applicable to a range of classrooms and all are welcome to attend.
Explore Past Workshops by Theme
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Graphing as the gateway to data literacy in the modern world
Fun activities with data to close out the academic year
Building pre-statistical skills through graphing
Data presentation skills - telling a story with data
Prep for big problems of tomorrow: global health
Prep for big problems of tomorrow: climate change
Grow confidence with graphing and statistics at any level
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