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Preschool Health and Safety Matters: Best Practices for Protecting and Supporting Young Learners
Basic practices for children and adults are a critical component of quality child care and involve three essential components: education, supervision, and environment. In this webinar, Jody Martin will share ideas for you to educate not only children but their families on many health and safety related topics.
Standing Desks: How and Why Educators Are Using Them
Using standing desks in the classroom has metabolic health benefits that translate into more engaged and on-task students, greater classroom efficiency and dynamics, and better academic performance.
Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Leaders
In this webinar, Francis (Skip) Fennell, L. Stanley Bowlsbey Professor of Education and Graduate and Professional Studies Emeritus, McDaniel College, will share a framework for school and district-based leaders to develop elements of leadership while establishing a grade-level or school-based learning community focusing on everyday use of formative assessment.
Leading Instructional Change: One District’s Journey to Implementing Personalized Learning
In this webinar, Jill Thompson, Director of Personalized Learning, will discuss Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s implementation plan, best practices, and how they coach their teachers on the instructional shift needed to best meet the needs of their students.
Why Audiobooks Don’t Work and ALL of the Reasons They Do
Audiobooks cannot replace explicit reading instruction, because a balance of support and accommodations is needed for struggling readers. In this webinar, Learning Ally's Terrie Noland, National Director of Educator Engagement, will discuss the when, where, how, and why of effectively incorporating audiobooks as an assistive technology tool for students with dyslexia.
Teachers’ Skills in the Digital Age and Personalized PD for Teachers
This webinar is about re-imagining professional development for teachers. In most districts, PD is based on a one-size-fits-all model of teaching without differentiation, little teacher input, and little choice.
Navigating the Shift: Accessible Education Materials for All Students
SETDA and CAST are collaborating to increase the awareness of the availability and use of accessible digital educational materials that benefit all learners. Join us for this webinar where presenters Christine Fox and Joy Zabala will identify best practices to leverage expertise to acquire accessible materials for teaching and learning.
Literacy = Language Production: Going Beyond the Text & Embracing the Talk
Join Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Board at the nonprofit Center for College and Career Readiness, for an interactive webinar about the critical role of discussion and debate in building strong literacy skills.
Integrating Robotics in Content Areas
Join Lisa Rode, a sixth grade classroom teacher at Kings Glen Elementary in Fairfax County, VA, to find out how to include robotics and programming in your school. Lisa will explore ways to integrate robotics and programming into a variety of content areas such as language arts, social studies, math, and science
Motivating the Gifted but Reluctant Learner
In this webinar Dr. Diane Heacox, Ed.D. will explore well-documented research on underlying causes of low performance and create distinctions between non-producers, selective producers, and underachievers among the gifted populations.
Renegade Leadership: A Simple Framework for Meaningful Change
In this webinar, Dr. Brad Gustafson will host a virtual book talk on his book, Renegade Leadership. The first years in the principalship can be some of the most exciting and difficult years in education. It’s imperative that new school leaders focus on what really matters during these foundational leadership years.
STEM Learning Careers and Leadership
In this webinar, Dr. Smalley will discuss careers and women in leadership, especially in STEM fields, with some discussion of ESSA funding driving STEM.
Let’s Work It Out: Stopping Bullying Before It Starts
Dr. Blythe Hinitz, Distinguished Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at The College of New Jersey, will share ways we can work towards the creation of the peaceful classroom, fostering a classroom climate of respect and collaboration between adults and children.
You Gave a Formative Assessment, Now What? (Rebroadcast)
In this webinar, you’ll learn how Cathie Gillner, an educator from Fox Chapel Area School District in Pittsburgh, PA and Common Sense Ambassador, uses concept mapping and games as formative assessments.
Innovative Technology for Individuals with Autism
In this webinar, Educational Technology Specialist Christian Karter will discuss current technologies (e.g., hardware, software, apps) that have proven effective for individuals on the autism spectrum.
Art as a Persuasive Language
In this webinar, Crayola Education Director Cheri Sterman and Art Education Specialist Melissa Hayes will explain how to use art-integration as a teaching strategy that aligns with subjects across the curriculum.
You Know Better: Bridging the Gap between “Knowing” and “Doing”
This session will help you understand the difference between knowing and doing, and will give you the skills to unify knowing and doing within yourself, with coworkers and with children.
Strategies to Improve Behavior and Instruction in the Classroom
In this webinar, Lee Kern, Ph.D., and Michael George, Ed.D., will provide basic classroom management and instructional strategies that have a large impact on problem behavior and learning.