Check back here regularly to see the additional speaker bios and read about their engaging, inspiring sessions! Juli’s session Teachers are more aware than ever that the social emotional health of our students impacts their learning, but with a full curriculum it is hard to find time to fit it in! Iditarod is …
Learn more and register here: 2023 Winter Educators Conference Learn about the specific speakers and sessions here: 2023 Winter Conference Speaker Highlights Monday, February 27 Arrive in Alaska, get checked into your hotel, and rest up for some very busy days ahead. Tuesday, February 28 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Breakfast starts at 8. Workshop sessions …
Thank you to everyone that purchased a place in an Iditarod 2023 sled from Anchorage to Nome! With a smaller field of mushers this year, there were fewer spots and all sleds filled quickly! If mushers are added, we may have the ability to open some more Trail Mail slots. If you want to be …
Iditarod Education Department Winter Educators Conference “Engage, Inspire, Succeed!” at the Lakefront Hotel February 28 – March 3, 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska Registration will soon be open for the Iditarod Winter Educators Conference and we can’t wait to see you! Join us the week prior to race start to rejuvenate, or begin building your Iditarod …
We are so excited to announce that sales for the Educational Trail Mail Project are open! This is an amazing chance for your class to send a piece of mail down the trail in one of the 2023 student-designed cachets and help us raise funds for our education programs at the same time! It’s very …
Engage, Motivate, Succeed! Iditarod 2023 Winter Educators Conference February 28 – March 3, 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska Join us for 3 1/2 days of professional development like no other. Fill your sled with the gear you need to engage and motivate your students to success – Iditarod style! You will get ideas, lessons, and materials …
Tomorrow, October 18, is Alaska Day. It is a celebration of the date, when in 1867, Alaska became a U.S. territory. What does this have to do with the Iditarod? In 1967, Joe Redington, Sr. and Dorothy Page organized a sled dog race to commemorate the centennial of this event to honor the sled dog …
Are you or do you know a teacher? The Iditarod Education Department has numerous free programs and an almost endless library of lessons that align to standards for educators to use: public, private, charter, and homeschools included. Please help us spread the Iditarod love and the word to teachers in your life. Did you know …
The Iditarod Education Department is so very thankful for the continued support of Jon Van Zyle, official Iditarod artist. Each month, he sketches an original artwork to accompany an article in the EDU’s “Mush On!” newsletter. Jon has donated these sketches to the education department to be offered for sale to raise funds to support …
Teaching Volunteerism The Iditarod takes place because thousands of volunteers play major roles in every aspect of the race and the events that surround it. Your students can join the team as official “Classroom Volunteers”! Join the annual musher banquet table centerpiece project! Classrooms will create and send the decorations that will be featured …
