Apple Launches New Professional Learning Resources For Teachers

During the 2024 World Teachers’ Day Celebration, Apple celebrated the day with a launch of a new free classroom resources to help educators and students embrace creativity in any lesson. The digital device company, also curated special collections across Apple services.

The company announced a major expansion of its groundbreaking education grant program into 100 new schools and communities, reaching students and teachers across six continents with free grant-funded STEAM programming.

Over the past four decades, Apple has been a committed educational leader.

Through its work in education, the company has shared its cutting-edge technology and professional learning resources with millions of students and educators, equipping them with the tools to create new worlds, connect in engaging ways, and pursue the jobs of tomorrow.

To illustrate the reach of its efforts, Apple is also releasing its first-ever Education Impact Report, which provides a snapshot of the work the company is doing to support teachers and learners worldwide.

Apple is committed to see how tomorrow’s coders, creators, innovators, and leaders are using Apple technology and resources to make their impact known today — reason why the company is expanding their education work into even more communities across the globe.

People use Apple products like Mac and iPad empower learners to create and build on their passions, and that is paramount to the company.

Apple’s new Creative Activities for early learners and students make learning easy and fun, and most importantly, give educators quick tools to engage learners of all ages.

The Apple Education Community is expanding its Forum collaboration features to 16 additional countries and regions, enabling participation from even more educators around the world.

In addition, Apple continues to expand Apple Learning Coach, a free professional learning program that helps educators coach teachers on how to get the most out of Apple products.

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With new lessons and the ability to register and participate at any time, Apple Learning Coach is now available in eight languages across 15 countries and regions.

To date, more than 4,000 certified Apple Learning Coaches have guided nearly 100,000 teachers, impacting 2.4 million students.

Last year alone, Apple expanded its support to nearly 40 new education partners across Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This work is largely connected to Apple’s Community Education Initiative, through which the company provides hardware, scholarships, financial support, educator resources, and access to Apple experts to schools and organizations in under-resourced communities.

Apple collaborates with each partner organization to customize and enhance programming to support the community’s specific goals and transform students’ in-school and extracurricular experiences.

Apple has supported Tennessee State University’s HBCU C² program since 2019, bringing coding and creativity to HBCU campuses around the country. That initiative has recently expanded to schools in Monrovia, South Africa, and Ghana.