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How to Reach the Hard to Teach: Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
In this webinar, Doug Fisher will present a thoughtful and practical approach to achieving breakthrough success with linguistically and culturally diverse students who struggle in school.
Is it Misbehavior or Just Developmentally-Delayed Behavior? Assessing Young Children’s Behavior Through a Developmental Window
Early Childhood Consultant Dr. Pamela Phelps will discuss child development and demonstrate how to view children’s behaviors from a different developmental window.
What Is Tech-Savvy Leadership? A Panel Discussion
Join this panel of digital savvy experts to learn how to transition to tech-savvy leadership. Steven W. Anderson, Amber Teamann, and Tony Sinasis will explore challenges, strategies, and ideas for leaders looking to change.
Weaving Dialect Diversity into Writing Instruction
How can educators draw on research into dialect variation and weave it into a reader’s or writer’s workshop? In this webinar, hear about sound strategies and creative lessons designed by a linguist with classroom experience that proved to be highly effective.
Teaching Students How to Study Effectively for Tests: A Simple Method that Really Works
In this webinar, Academic Life Coach Gretchen Wegner will share the #1 study strategy that every educator should know (but most don’t) to transform his or her students’ ability to take charge of their own learning and prepare for tests self-sufficiently and with less stress.
reThinking Learning Spaces: 21st Century Design to Support the Four C’s
Andrew Taylor, the Director of Technology and CIO with Byram Hills Central School District in Armonk, New York, joins two of his technology coordinators in this webinar. Together, they share their research, iterations, and essential questions that have helped to guide the design of the new spaces in their schools, and purchase technology equipment.
Teaching Students with Autism about Digital Citizenship
Most educators realize the importance of teaching digital citizenship to all students, but students with autism face unique challenges. Join Instructional Technology Specialist Jennifer Liang to learn how to differentiate digital citizenship for students with autism.
Cultivating Empathy: The Best Antidote to Bullying
Research is clear: Bullying is learned and can be unlearned. What’s more, cultivating empathy is the forgotten antidote to bullying. In this webinar, Dr. Michele Borba, Ed.D., shares evidence that the best way to reduce bullying is not with a packaged program but with homegrown, data-driven efforts by a staff that applies only proven practices.
Six Key Ideas for More Meaningful Social Studies Research: Understanding and Embracing the New C3 Standards
If you haven’t heard about the C3, or don’t understand how these new Social Studies Standards impact your library program, then this webinar is made just for you. In this webinar, Instructional Focus Editor for School Library Connection magazine Paige Jaeger will explain the new National Social Studies Standards in an easy-to-understand way and model how your library research projects should change to align with the new standards.
Creating the Perfect BLT: Balanced Literacy and Technology
Dr. Brandee Ramirez, Educational Coach for Tustin Unified School District, will explore the ways that technology can support, enhance, extend, and even transform traditional balanced literacy teaching practices in the pre-kindergarten through third grade classroom.
Promoting Children’s Mathematical Inquiry through Play
Studies suggest that young children engage in substantial yet informal mathematical thinking during play. Mr. Mowry will discuss how exploratory and dramatic play contributes to young children’s cognitive development and how to bridge this learning to support mathematical competencies related to numeracy, shape and spatial awareness, measurement, classification, and patterning.
Personalizing Instruction Through the Library
Join Michelle Luhtala (a 2015 Library journal Mover & Shaker) as she explores how school librarians can enhance their learning communities’ capacity for personalized learning experiences through collaboration, instructional partnership, direct instruction, professional development, and leadership.
Building a School Library in Kabul, Afghanistan
Sajia will tell the incredible story of how she returned to her country, and in one summer, built a library at her former school, Mohammad Asif Mayel School – a school of 3,500 students that had no library.
Navigating the Transition into Adult Services
In this webinar Julie Collison, M.Ed., will take an in-depth look at adult transition services, especially for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
STEM PLAY: Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers
In this webinar, Dr. Kelly L. Jennings-Towle, author of STEM PLAY: Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers, will present on how to think more broadly about younger children’s learning options in the area of STEM.
Broadband Imperative II: Increase Infrastructure to Support Student-Centered Learning
This session will provide an overview of SETDA’s report, The Broadband Imperative II: Equitable Access for Learning, which advocates for increasing robust broadband access both in and out of school to best prepare all students for college and careers.
Leading, Implementing, and Sustaining Innovations in Personalized Learning
In this webinar, Dr. Tim Hudson, Vice President of Learning at DreamBox Learning, will share ideas to help leaders create and sustain innovations that benefit students, teachers, parents, and school culture.
Music Play: Before You Play Music, You Must Play WITH Music!
In this webinar, early childhood music specialist Devi Borton will explore how to create a child-centered, playful music environment that encourages and values children’s own ways of making music, allows each child to take ownership of his or her music learning, and affords each teacher an opportunity to maximize the learning benefits of music play.