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Meet the Makers: Makerspace Tips and Trends
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.
What’s The Fuss All About? Bringing Social Media Into The Classroom
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.
Using edWeb for Collaboration in Higher Education Courses
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.
Improve Your School’s Performance Levels with Medical Diagnostic Protocols
Join Bruce Hayes, Former Superintendent, Author, and Researcher. to learn how to improve your school’s performance levels with medical diagnostic protocols.
Teaching Academic Vocabulary with Words With Friends EDU
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!
Fostering Understanding, Empathy and Dialogue in Our Students
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.
Building Brand Loyalty for K-12 Public Schools
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.
From Minigrants to Major Grants: Stan Levenson’s Tips for Success
This webinar will help you understand that learning how to write successful minigrants will help you transition into writing successful major grants.
Classroom-Library Coteaching 4 Student Success
Rise up to meet the coteaching challenge! Instructional partnerships are pathways to improving students’ learning and educators’ professional practice.
The New Identity of Adaptive Math
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.
Leading for Writing Fluency: Language and Basic Skills Fluency for Argumentation and Editing
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.
Free Lesson Plans: K-6 Character Education Curriculum Now Online
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.
Making the Leap from Textbooks to Digital Curriculum
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.”
Getting Your Year off to a Great Start – Tips for New Teachers
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.
Student-Led Game Making and Learning
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.
Future Ready Librarians
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.
Dr. Jean: Brain Breaks to Help Students Move and Learn
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.
Empowering Young People to Solve Real World Challenges: Global Projects from Primary to Secondary
“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.