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High-Quality Instructional Materials Implementation: Cultivating Buy-In, Confidence, and Collaboration
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by Steve Sebelski, Former Educator, Current Vice President of Program Design, UnboundEd; and Edwina Woods, Former Educator, Current Curriculum Services Director, UnboundEd
Moderated by Clay Willis, Vice President of Marketing and Communications, UnboundEd
Sponsored by UnboundEd
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Implementing high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) isn’t simply a policy shift or a checklist; it’s a systemwide shift in behavior, expectations, and daily practice grounded in a clear and explicit vision. As an instructional leader, you play a pivotal role in translating that vision into meaningful change. HQIM success requires navigating both the human and the practical side of change management.
How can leaders shift mindsets, create buy-in, and lead HQIM implementation as a sustained change management process rather than a one-time rollout? In this edWebinar, we equip you to:
- Build a deeper understanding of HQIM implementation as a long-term change-management process that goes beyond adoption and rollout to drive sustainable instructional improvement
- Respond effectively to common challenges, investing in your team and building their confidence in a new initiative
- Leverage concrete strategies for developing productive mindsets, confidence, and collaboration through leadership routines, PLCs, and high-quality professional learning
Join us for an engaging, interactive edWebinar designed to support a transformational approach to HQIM implementation that is meaningful and impactful. Don’t miss this chance to walk away with tools you can use immediately to strengthen your instructional leadership toolbox and improve outcomes for both teachers and students.
What do you get out of this edWebinar?
- District Leaders: As a district leader, you play a pivotal role in driving real and lasting change for student achievement. This edWebinar is designed for you because implementing curricula isn’t just about adopting new materials: it’s about shifting mindsets, expectations, and habits. Discover what strategies you need to build trust, overcome challenges, and lead change.
- Curriculum and Instruction Specialists: Whether you are a curriculum specialist or instructional specialist, this edWebinar helps you shift from managing materials to leading meaningful change. You explore mindset barriers, build stronger team investment, and walk away with concrete strategies to align planning, professional development, and coaching for lasting impact on student academic achievement.
- Building Leaders (Principals, Assistant Principals): You drive effective instruction daily. This edWebinar equips you to shift mindsets, build buy-in, and lead your campus team through meaningful, lasting instructional change beyond surface-level compliance.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 district leaders, curriculum and instruction specialists, and building leaders.
About the Presenters
Steve Sebelski heads UnboundEd’s Curriculum Services team. He has 20 years of experience in education, with particular expertise in organizational change, mathematics instruction, and teacher coaching. At UnboundEd, he has created innovative programs for teachers and leaders and contributed to the development of technology solutions for educators. Prior to his time at UnboundEd, Steve was an instructional leader and teacher at middle schools in New York, NY, and Camden, NJ.
Edwina Woods is a visionary leader and strong motivator who inspires educators, school districts, and students to thrive. As Curriculum Services Director, Edwina brings more than 25 years of education service and leadership. Before joining UnboundEd, Edwina was a secondary English language arts teacher, lead teacher, mentor teacher, district instructional coach for ELAR, assistant principal, and campus principal. After leaving the principalship, she joined the Region 10 Education Service Center in Richardson, Texas, where she served as a Program Coordinator in Administrative Services. Edwina graduated from Northwestern State University of Louisiana in Natchitoches with two bachelor’s degrees—one in social work and the other in psychology. She earned her master’s in education administration from Dallas Baptist University and is currently in her third year of doctoral school at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
About the Moderator
Clay Willis is a mission- and results-driven marketing and communications leader committed to making education work for every single learner. As UnboundEd’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Clay advances the organization’s reach and impact by forging meaningful connections with visionary educators.
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UnboundEd empowers educators to meet the needs of every single student through grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful—GLEAM®—instruction. We work side-by-side with teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders to ensure the success of your instructional vision for exceptional education and improved outcomes. By cultivating the mindsets, knowledge, and skills at the heart of truly transformative teaching and learning, we can break the predictability of historic achievement patterns so all kids thrive.
