Educating the nation’s rapidly rising child population of dual language learners (DLLs) is as much a challenge as it is an opportunity for improving our practice with them.
Medal of Honor Recipient Leroy Petry will tell his personal story of service in Afghanistan during this special webinar presented by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (CMOHF).
This webinar will help educators find ways to create additional access points into learning through the inclusion of songs and chants throughout the school day.
In this webinar, Susan Hayes, principal of Barkley Bridge Elementary in Hartselle, Alabama, and her three colleagues – Angie Harris, 4th grade math teacher; Kim Jared, gifted specialist; and Jamie Dutton, library media specialist – will outline their school’s STEM journey and share why they chose to ride the wave of change and how they held on successfully
Developed in partnership with Schell Games, DigitalMill, and the play2PREVENT Lab at Yale School of Medicine (play2prevent.org), PlayForward: Elm City Stories is an interactive, role-playing videogame designed to provide at-risk young teens the opportunity to acquire and practice skills to reduce sexual risk behaviors, with the ultimate goal of preventing HIV.
In this webinar, K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach Rachel Langenhorst will guide you through her top selections of websites and apps that can be used at any grade level.
Students retain less than 10% of what they read alone, but 75% of what they practice by doing. The idea of a “makerspace” has captured imaginations as we consider how we enable student learning through creative projects. In this research-driven session, Kevin Baird (Chairman, non-profit Center for College & Career Readiness) leads us to understand the core elements of creativity and how we can provide students with rigorous, powerful learning experiences through lens of a literacy makerspace.
Vaasvi and Kasturi will be drawing on their leadership experiences with organizations including Engineering without Borders, Business Today, and the co-founding of Hello, Seekho.
In part two of our three part series, Dr. Sara Delano Moore will share manipulatives to use to develop fraction sense – understanding what fractions are, making sense of how they behave, and modeling operations with fractions.
This webinar will familiarize educators with a variety of options at various price points and platforms, with demonstration of apps and features that put eTexts at your and students' fingertips in no time.
A leadership panel hosted by Dr. Gabe Soumakian, Retired Superintendent, Ventura County (CA) with Ryan Imbriale, Executive Director, Department of Innovative Learning, Baltimore County Public Schools (MD); Dr. Devin Vodicka, Superintendent of Schools, Vista Unified (CA); and Tom Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools (DC) Sponsored by Learning Bird WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING If… read more →
In this webinar, Rachel will demonstrate how she uses edWeb’s social and learning network and the PD webinars that edWeb provides to make professional learning more relevant, more continuous, more collaborative, and more fun!
In April 2016, the Modern Language Association released the 8th edition of its Handbook for researchers. In this informative session, participants will learn about the changes, and how MLA streamlined citation guidelines. There is good news! Join us to learn more.
In this webinar, Lori Fields, Associate Director of Engagement for Project Lead The Way (PLTW), and Rebecca Reed, PLTW Regional K-5 PLTW Launch Trainer, will share successful strategies and real-world classroom examples for introducing computer science at the elementary level.
Students with autism present many unique challenges within a classroom environment. At the core of the diagnosis are deficits/delays in the areas of socialization, communication, and sensory functioning that can result in inappropriate and maladaptive behavior.
One in five students has dyslexia - that translates to 20% of the student population. What might be seen as laziness or acting out in reality is a student inwardly struggling with reading, writing, and spelling. Learn more about why students struggle, what to look for, and how to support dyslexic students in your district with appropriate accommodations and interventions.
An effectively designed classroom environment positively influences what children learn, how they feel about their involvement, and how they use the materials that are included in their classroom.
In this webinar, Ginger Teague, Director of Professional Development at Project Lead The Way (PLTW), and Emily Schaefer, K-5 STEM educator in Crystal Lake, IL will discuss how an Activity-, Project-, Problem-Based—or APB —instructional approach can empower teachers to create an exciting STEM learning experience as early as kindergarten
In this presentation, we will take an easy-to-digest look into how the brain processes mathematical information to gain a better understanding of how we can optimize learning fractions and other mathematical topics more generally.