Playscape designer Rusty Keeler will lead us in an exploration of how to reconnect children to nature through play. Rusty also will discuss how to design spaces that stimulate the senses and tickle the imagination. He will share examples from around the world will help spark ideas to transform your yards and bring in all the good stuff — trees, gardens, hills, sand, water, mud, loose parts, challenge, risk, and adventure.
Denver Public Schools and Learning Ally joined forces to find solutions to bridge this content and education gap. In this webinar, Rob Frantum-Allen (Director of Integrated Services) and Jackie Bott (Assistive Technology Coordinator) will explain how the organizations created a strategically designed model program where assistive technology (AT) is being integrated into educational efforts.
Presented by Ellen Acuna and Alex Farkas, Music Together In-School Services Mentors Sponsored by Music Together WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING If you attended the live session, you'll be emailed a CE certificate within 24 hours of the webinar. If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate, join the Arts & Music in Early… read more →
Presented by Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Board at the nonprofit EdCenter: The Center for College & Career Readiness Sponsored by EdCenter WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING If you attended the live session, you'll be emailed a CE certificate within 24 hours of the webinar. If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate,… read more →
The Student & Youth Travel Association (SYTA) has released the findings of a landmark, global study that gauges the impact of travel on students. During this webinar, SYTA’s Executive Director Carylann Assante will share facts from the study that will shed light on the tremendous opportunity that exists to enhance learning through travel
In this webinar, Dr. Eva Horn will present the Children’s School Success Plus (CSS+) Curriculum Framework for early childhood educators as a guide to plan and deliver instruction for all young children they serve.
Education leaders know the impact art has on student achievement and engagement. Our challenge is to convince others. Presenters Cheri Sterman and Shauna Kauffman will share insights on how art impacts learning and how to articulate key messages for effective art advocacy.
In this webinar, Dr. Julie Evans will share the results from Project Tomorrow’s first ever Speak Up survey of K-12 communications officers. Findings reveal emerging digital tools, those tools’ perceived value, and their tangible results on engagement.
Mary Jo will engage us with her high-energy, interactive visit. She will share delightful stories, books, props and musical fun. Mary Jo also will show simple ways to play with language, use imagination and create wonderful places for children to share and learn through the power of educational play. Her enthusiasm will motivate you and give you ideas for being creative and using your imagination.
The maker movement continues to gain popularity as schools integrate these spaces and lessons into their schools and curriculum. Michelle will discuss the maker trend and offer tips on how you can start or grow a maker movement in your school.
Students and parents are on social media all the time. It is time to join them, model for them, and reach them where they are spending their time. This webinar will define social media and explore a variety of tools that will allow you to communicate with others in your learning community and reach out to other learners or experts from around the world.
In this webinar Holbrook Mahn, a professor at the University of New Mexico, will demonstrate how he uses edWeb to create highly engaging learning communities for his higher ed courses, making learning much more collaborative for his students.
Join Bruce Hayes, Former Superintendent, Author, and Researcher. to learn how to improve your school’s performance levels with medical diagnostic protocols.
Interested in using games as a learning tool in your classroom? Looking for new ways to engage your students in language? In this webinar, educator Jeff Brain and Words With Friends EDU’s Abby Speight will show you how Words With Friends EDU – the new, free, educational version of Words With Friends – can help!
Our students are growing up in a world that looks very different to the one we grew up in. It is essential that we foster specific skills in each of these learners to better prepare them for the world they will enter upon leaving school. During this engaging discussion, our speakers will take us on an adventure to explore the skills of understanding, empathy and effective dialogue.
In this webinar, Teri Wilson, Chief of Staff, Grand Prairie OSD, will help you learn everything you never knew you would need to know about building brand loyalty for the public schools in your community.
Rise up to meet the coteaching challenge! Instructional partnerships are pathways to improving students’ learning and educators’ professional practice.
In this webinar, Nigel Green will examine the definitions for adaptive learning that are being proposed for use across the online learning community, and will review many of the technologies and approaches often used.
In this webinar from the Writing Readiness Project and IXL Learning, participants walk away with immediately actionable strategies for coaching teachers, aligning curricula, and tweaking classroom instruction to increase alignment and accelerate student fluency in writing.
This webinar will introduce a new, free character education curriculum for elementary students from the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. This new Medal of Honor Character Development Program contains free lesson plans that are appropriate for students in grades K-6.
If you’re ramping up your transition from print curriculum resources to digital or you’re looking for practical strategies to help teachers and your curriculum development teams make better use of digital resources, this is your webinar. Brandon Wilmarth, Technology Integration Specialist from the Moore Public School District in Oklahoma, will showcase this district’s approaches to “going digital.”
The most nerve-racking phase of a novice educator’s life is the transition from college student to student-teacher, to teacher. Taking lessons learned in the college setting and applying them in their new “real-world” situation can be a source of confusion and frustration. Join New Teacher Coach Shannon Holden as he gives tips, tricks, and practical advice to help new teachers launch their year – and career – the right way.
Explore how teachers can use student-led game-making to enrich learning. Panelists will review the protocols of game-making, types of student-made games that are well suited for schools, what makes games engaging, and how various cross-curricular content areas come alive in games.
Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become "future ready." In this webinar, Michelle Luhtala and Mark Ray discuss what it means to be Future Ready.
In this webinar, Dr. Jean (a.k.a. The Dr. of FUN) will demonstrate brain energizers that you can use to start your day, between lessons, or whenever your students appear restless.
“Why do I have to learn this?" "When am I ever going to use this?" What motivates a millennial to learn? It is no longer sufficient for the responses to be, “because it is in the curriculum document" or "because you need it to get a good job.” Solving real problems for real people gives purpose for learning while in school and beyond.
Out-of-school time is an incredible opportunity to reach students, increase learning from the day, and provide a necessary service to working families. We might have students for one hour, but that hour can be filled with learning, discovery, and fun! In this webinar, Brian Heaton will share a host of strategies that will help take your afterschool classroom to the next level.
In this webinar, learn how simple packs of content focused on a key person, event or period can be used to teach content, literacy, critical thinking and more, all while engaging the range of learners in your classroom and making social studies more relevant, starting tomorrow!
In this second webinar of the series, Dr. Sara Delano Moore will share strategies for helping students see connections between area models built with base ten blocks and partial products/partial quotients algorithms.
In this webinar, Rae Pica will lead an exploration of activities that combine children’s love of movement and play with meaningful and long-lasting educational experiences in literacy, math, and science.
Teachers face many challenges when working with students with autism. In this webinar Nina Finkler, M.Ed., LDT/C, BCBA will give participants a better understanding of reinforcement, strategies for implementing and using reinforcement in the classroom, and specific ideas of what to use for reinforcement.
Presented by Leslie Maniotes, Ph.D. Author/Consultant on Inquiry Learning Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING If you attended the live session, you'll be emailed a CE certificate within 24 hours of the webinar. If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate, join the SLC @ The Forefront community and go to the… read more →
In this webinar from the Algebra Readiness Project and IXL Learning, participants walk away with immediately actionable strategies for coaching teachers, aligning curricula, and tweaking classroom instruction to increase alignment and accelerate student fluency in mathematics.
In just a few short years, edWeb has grown into a global phenomenon where teachers, librarians, curriculum specialists, administrators, and college professors share resources, presentations, surveys, and other media to impact student learning and teacher professional development. Join Shannon Holden, Assistant Principal at Republic Middle School, MO, as he reveals the many ways edWeb assists educators.
In this webinar, Linda McCulloch, Secretary of State of Montana, will discuss the power of self-belief, and how she overcame her fear of becoming an elected official.
Come learn from Texas principal and author, Todd Nesloney, as he shares ideas on ways to build a positive school and classroom culture, challenge conventional thinking, eliminate excuses, and connect with all stakeholders in a school.
This webinar will cover the “look for’s” – the behaviors and attitudes students exhibit when they struggle with focus and perseverance in the learning environment