tl;dr: Looking for a way to engage secondary school teachers with Wikipedia? Become a certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program! Apply from Jan. 31 - Feb. 20. Information session coming up on February 11, 2022 at 13:00 UTC Hola everybody! The Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce that applications are open for the second cohort of the Training of Trainers (ToT) program for “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom”! This call is open for Wikimedians, educators, and members of mission-aligned organizations who believe in the value of Wikipedia to advance key 21st century skills [1] and who are interested in implementing the “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” program in their countries. Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom[2] is a professional development program for secondary school teachers that aligns a critical approach to Wikipedia with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework. You can read more details about the impact of the pilot experience in our report [3]. The educational resources created for the program are available on Wikimedia Commons [4] in four languages. The Training of Trainers program is a 9-week online learning experience that prepares participants to implement the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program locally - by the end of the ToT, successful participants will be certified to lead the program in their countries. Participants who complete the ToT will also have access to a pool of funding that can support their local implementation of the program. Applications are open from *January 31st to February 20th*, 2022. You can find the application form, important dates, and general guidance on Meta-Wiki [5] and check out this newsletter article [6] to learn about the experience and learnings of the first ToT cohort in 2021. You’re also invited to join our information session on February 11, 2022 at 13:00 UTC where we’ll share more details and answer any pending questions (find the link to join on Meta-Wiki [5]). If you have any questions ahead of this event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the team: education(a)wikimedia.org We look forward to seeing you at the information session! - Melissa (on behalf of the Education team) [1] http://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21 [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the… [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf The program report shows us how teachers’ attitudes towards Wikipedia changed as they moved through the program. For example, one teacher from Bolivia said that at first he “thought that Wikipedia was a platform like Google, but now I value all the volunteer work done by the community behind it”. The program model also supported members of the local Wikimedia affiliates to improve their capacity to organize and lead education initiatives. Currently, the Wikimedia affiliates in Bolivia and Morocco are working on second editions of the program. [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_classr… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroo… [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2022/Welcoming_new_t… -- Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her) Senior Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>