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Stay Updated: List of August 2026 - Technical highlights & Resources from Esri
Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find. This blog provides a comprehensive…
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Map Your Summer: A Simple Back-to-School StoryMap Activity
When students return to school, one of the easiest ways to get them talking, writing, and thinking geographically is to ask a familiar question: What did you do this summer? Instead of assigning a traditional “What I Did This Summer” essay, consider having students create an ArcGIS StoryMap. Their summer does not need to…
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Contribute to the Education Blog
Do you have a story to tell? If you're an educator, student, or GIS professional, you can share yours on the Education Blog hosted on Esri Community! The Education Blog is a collaborative space where members of the education community share: * Classroom successes * Career insights * Research projects * Teaching and…
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Incorporating Accessibility Concepts as a First-Time Adjunct Professor
With GIS workflows and mapping products increasingly moving online, as GIS practitioners, our work has the potential to reach more people than ever before. With this, comes an increased need to thoughtfully design our maps and applications with this wider audience in mind. Incorporating accessibility best practices makes…
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Webinar: Introducing the GIS I Module for High School Classrooms
Bring GIS Into Your Classroom with the Free GIS I Module GIS is a valuable skill across a wide range of industries, and educators can play an important role in helping students discover its possibilities. But introducing GIS into the classroom can feel challenging, especially for teachers who don't have prior experience…
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Labor Day Classroom Ideas for Teachers: Exploring Labor, CTE, and the Future of Work
In the U.S., Labor Day offers teachers a useful opportunity to move beyond the holiday itself and explore a much bigger question: How has work changed—and where is it going next? GIS provides an especially effective way to investigate that question because work has always had a geography. Industries develop in particular…
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University of South Carolina Career Center Leads the Way in Using ArcGIS Dashboards & ArcGIS StoryMaps
The Challenge: We Had the Data, But Not the Story When I first started in my role as the Associate Director for Employer Relations, I knew one thing: we were doing great work. Every day, we were helping students reach important milestones, build career readiness, secure internships, and launch meaningful careers. We had…
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How Can and Should AI be Taught within GIS Courses?
Joseph Kerski | Geographer | Joseph Kerski LLC and Tony Spicci | Executive Director | GIS Certification Institute Since it was first taught in high schools and in higher education in the late 1980s and early 1990s, GIS instruction has always been in a state of change. We would argue that given the evolution of expectations…
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ArcGIS Governance workshops – Messages, Recourses and Next Offerings
During the Esri Education Summit in San Diego, we held a series of ArcGIS Governance workshops: * ArcGIS Governance I: Establishing Governance Practices for ArcGIS* Forming a governance team * Establishing governance policies * ArcGIS Governance II: Managing Your System - Content, Users, and Credits* Understanding usage…
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Back to School with National Geographic MapMaker: 16 Map-Based Resources for Earth Science
The new school year is here — and if earth science is on your timetable, National Geographic MapMaker has a collection built for exactly that course: sixteen map-based resources developed by the National Geographic Society, Esri, and National Geographic Learning. Each resource pairs an interactive MapMaker map with student…
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Getting Started with ArcGIS AI Assistants
Artificial Intelligence is becoming an important part of the ArcGIS ecosystem, helping users learn new skills, streamline workflows, and work more efficiently and creatively. As AI assistants continue to expand across ArcGIS products, educators and students may be wondering where to begin. The four guides below provide…
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Back to School with MapMaker: 21 Map-Based Resources for World Cultures and Geography
The new school year is here — and if world cultures and geography is on your timetable, National Geographic MapMaker has a collection built for exactly that course: twenty-one map-based resources developed by the National Geographic Society, Esri, and National Geographic Learning. Each resource pairs an interactive…
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Teach the First Semester of US History with the Latest National Geographic MapMaker Resources.
The new school year is here, and this one is different: the 250th anniversary of American independence! To mark it, we've built something new in National Geographic MapMaker to help you teach early US History. The six new map-based resources are built around an essential question, with a MapMaker map, student activities,…
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Join Esri Schools at NCGE
The Esri Schools team is headed to Richmond, Virginia, October 16–18, for the annual meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). The conference will bring geography educators, researchers, and education leaders together for three days of learning, sharing, and exploring new approaches to geography…
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Interactive “geo” tools for APHG teachers (first quarter)
We’ve been exploring some interactive tools and models for use in human geography and APHG classrooms. Take a look at this handful of apps and models to source for the first quarter of classroom instruction. * “Reprojector” (APHG Unit 1): lets students reshape the world with a click — choose from thirteen map projections,…
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Enterprise GIS Has Arrived, but Presents a Recruitment Challenge
A thought piece by: Joseph Kerski | Geographer | Joseph Kerski LLC and Tony Spicci | Executive Director | GIS Certification Institute For many years, GIS was a rather niche technology used by a few people in an organization such as a county government. When a person arrived at the county courthouse and made inquiries, the…
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Take Your Students on a Virtual Field Trip Through StoryMaps
Making virtual field trips (VFTs) with ArcGIS StoryMaps is a way teachers can share their expertise, research, and experience with students and their communities. Making VFTs can also be an assignment for students to develop and demonstrate their knowledge and science communication skills to potential employers. That is…
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Antipodes for Learners
Antipodes ar two places not he opposite side of Earth - directly across from each other. When teaching with antipodes, consider these quick possibilities for fun, engaging learning. Go to app. » * Test the "dig to China" myth often uttered in the United States. Have students predict where a tunnel from their hometown would…
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Reset all user credits, transfer Experience Builder app to a new organization, delete all users... - Building Administrative Scripts in ArcGIS Online
There are a lot of tasks that administrators need to deal with in ArcGIS Online related to users. Adding licenses, updating credits, deleting users, etc. Many of these actions can be completed through the UI, but when you are trying to manage hundreds or thousands of users, a lot of those actions can be really tedious. The…
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Esri Tutorials Spotlight: Spatial Analysis
Spatial analysis is used for more than just combining and summarizing data. Using ArcGIS, you have the tools to map, analyze, and interpret geographic data, so that you can develop solutions to complex spatial questions. If you're a student and curious to build your knowledge and skills on spatial analysis, Esri Tutorials…
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Virtual Workshop - ArcGIS Governance in Higher Education
Colleagues, For those of you interested - we would like to invite you to a virtual event, focused on ArcGIS Governance in Higher Education. ArcGIS is an enterprise technology and as such, it requires a governance approach that includes policies and guidelines related to access, availability, lifecycle management of users…
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Vibecoding a Real-Time Air Quality Observatory for Schools
I am Alexandros Pantazis, a project manager who often works with GIS and remote sensing on climate and environmental projects in Greece. A few months ago, while still working in the Research and Development department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi (a private school in Athens, Greece), I built a Web GIS app that lets schools in…
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Stay Updated: List of July 2026 - Technical highlights & Resources from Esri
Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find. This blog provides a comprehensive…
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Introducing a new classroom module to teach GIS
Often when introducing GIS to teachers, sharing the value of maps and the potential career impacts for their students, their response is "OK how do I bring this to my students?" The free, online, asynchronous GIS I Module is the answer to that question - and this hands-on GIS curriculum is now available!…
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Building a STEM and GIS Learning Ecosystem Under Constraint: A Field Experience from Ukraine
When GIS Enters the Classroom I teach in a public school in the Odesa region of Ukraine. In recent years, education here has been shaped by constant tension between stability and disruption. Under these conditions, schools tend to rely on familiar approaches—not because they are necessarily optimal, but because they…
