Throughout the school year, teachers are invited to participate in three professional development workshops that focus on sharing debate resources, honing debate skills, building unity/relationships within DEBATE-Kansas City, and inviting coaches to make decisions and take ownership of the organization.  Many decisions leading DEBATE-Kansas City have been teacher driven-this is why many teachers have had such a commitment to the league.

Agenda items have included:

• How to host a tournament
• Tournament logistics
• Generating and accessing your debate budget
• How to use Tab Room on the PC (Software Review)
• International Student/Teacher Exchange Opportunities
• Suburban tournament attendance
• How to attend out-of-town tournaments
• Teaching judge adaptation
• Midwest Regaional Urban Debate League Event Planning
• Attending national tournaments - CFL, NFL, TOC
• Novice coach training
• Accessing and using online debate resources
• Being the diversity at a non-diverse tournament
• Benefits of professional debate organizations
• Grant writing seminar
• Debate Across the Curriculum seminar
• Individual School Reports - what's working and what's not
• Curriculum development and classroom exercises
• Policy debate topic review
• How to coach Individual Forensics Events