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Making Time for Learning: How School Administration Managers Enable Principals to Focus on Instruction

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This webinar takes place on Feb. 21, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Today, being a principal involves far more than managing teachers and students. Principals are also expected to improve teaching and boost student achievement in their buildings. But to do this work, leaders must spend more focused time in the classroom, and less time on managerial tasks that aren’t directly linked to teaching and learning. That’s where school administration managers come in. Now in place in hundreds of schools nationwide, these managers take over day-to-day management tasks while allowing principals to focus on becoming better instructional leaders. The process is more complex than simply delegating tasks to another professional. With the help of their SAMs, principals track their time to ensure they’re focused on the school’s most important instructional needs. This webinar will feature advice and insights on how it all works from a principal/SAM team from Minneapolis. The two school administrators discuss their respective jobs, and how their partnership has improved performance in their school.

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When Cyberbullying Spills Into School

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This webinar takes place on Feb. 23, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Much of students’ social lives outside of school these days takes place online, through social networking sites. And even though this form of bullying may happen most often after school hours, the impact from online conflicts and negative comments in cyberspace can directly affect a student’s in-school life, including the ability to learn. While cyberbullying is receiving more attention and media coverage these days, school leaders and educators still have few clear-cut guidelines on how to handle it. Should they be monitoring sites like Facebook to police student behavior? Can principals and administrators take disciplinary action against students who misbehave online? When does a cyberbullying situation require school intervention? And how can school leaders create a school culture where bullying is unacceptable among students both in school and online? During this webinar, two nationally-recognized experts on bullying will help educators address these questions and develop strategies for combating bullying and its impact both in schools and online.

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Forging the Technology-Curriculum Link

This webinar has been sponsored by Atomic Learning.

This webinar takes place on March 1, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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School leaders are accustomed to working hard to make curricula challenging and engaging and to make sure it meets state standards. And many educators are now becoming more skilled at using technology in their classrooms, whether it’s laptops, digital whiteboards, or smartphones. But experts say that to get the best results for students, it’s important to be deliberate and thoughtful in the way technology is incorporated into curricula. Just layering technology on top of an already existing curriculum is often not the best way to enhance the learning process and maximize the effectiveness of the technology tools available. School and district technology leaders and curriculum experts must work together to find the best way to integrate technology into teaching and learning in order to develop the most innovative and successful methods for delivering curricula to students.

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Creating Effective Classroom Assessments

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This webinar takes place on March 7, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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K-12 education abounds with discussion of "data-driven decisionmaking." Successfully using data to inform instruction starts with creating effective assessments, especially as states and districts begin to transition to the Common Core State Standards. Discover that—whether teachers are practicing formative assessment, creating quizzes or end-of-unit tests, or selecting vendor-based items and tests—addressing three key areas can make a real difference in producing actionable results.

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E-Learning Goes Global

This webinar took take place on Jan. 24, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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From professional development for teachers in China to the use of open-source resources for students in foreign countries, e-learning is bringing new techniques, expert teachers, and an awareness of life in other countries to students around the globe. Online learning is helping a variety of countries overcome a lack of infrastructure, rural isolation, and a shortage of qualified teachers. This webinar will examine the state of online learning internationally and highlight various countries moving ahead in this arena. It will also take a close look at the use of mobile technologies for education in Africa, where mobile phones, iPads, and laptops are helping to bring new learning opportunities to students living in remote villages or in dangerous areas.

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The New Wave of STEM-Focused Schools

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This webinar took place on Jan. 17, 2012 @ 2 p.m. ET
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At a time of heightened national attention to improving education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the development of STEM-focused schools has rapidly gained momentum across the country as a strategy to boost knowledge and interest in the subjects. While STEM schools historically have tended to target the top math and science students in a state or district, the new wave appears to have a broader reach, with many of the schools aimed especially at serving populations underrepresented in the STEM fields, such as African-American, Hispanic, female, and low-income students. This webinar, featuring a national researcher and the principal of a STEM-focused high school in Texas, will explore the rationale for STEM schools, what they are, and what they look like in practice. It also will examine the promise they hold for improved learning, as well as some of the challenges of finding success.

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Making Principal Evaluations Count

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This webinar took place on Dec. 13, 2011 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Highly effective principals are an essential factor for good schools, but it has been challenging for districts to craft tools that accurately gauge a leader’s skill at promoting academic growth, safe schools, and teacher satisfaction. Several organizations are leading efforts to improve principal evaluations, including a venture led jointly by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The groups are working on a plan to help schools and districts create evaluation instruments that focus on promoting the qualities they believe strong principals should have. This webinar will talk about on the research on the current state of principal evaluations and how experts believe they should be changed for the better.

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Deepening and Strengthening Teacher Education

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This webinar took place on Dec. 8, 2011 @ 12 p.m. ET
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University-based teacher education remains the engine of teacher preparation in the United States. Long criticized, it has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months—from outside reviewers, from the U.S. Department of Education, and even from accreditation bodies—all of whom are pushing for changes. This webinar will introduce participants to the approaches taken by two teacher education schools to make the student-teaching experience more relevant and to emphasize the specific teaching skills the teachers they produce are expected to acquire and demonstrate.

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Hybrid Learning Pushes Personalization Forward

This webinar took place on Dec. 7, 2011 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Schools are moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to education toward greater efforts to differentiate learning for each student. To truly personalize the learning process in more meaningful ways, many educators are turning to technology. They’re blending face-to-face instruction with electronic resources, which can be everything from online courses complete with online teachers to digital curricula that enhances or reinforces classroom learning. However, experts caution that this approach must be planned very carefully in ways that maximize the benefits of digital content and online courses. Our experts will discuss how to use technology, especially blended learning, to personalize education and raise student achievement.

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Common Assessments: What You Need to Know

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This webinar took place on Nov. 29, 2011 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Using $360 million in Race to the Top money, two large groups of states are designing assessment systems for the common standards that have been adopted by 44 states and the District of Columbia. The new tests aim to move past the current one-shot, multiple-choice-only approach by requiring essays, projects, and other tasks designed to gauge deeper, more complex learning. The groups are also working on a variety of resources for teachers, such as model instructional units and formative assessments. This webinar will provide a briefing on the two groups’ distinctively different test designs and the range of instructional tools they’re planning.

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Blended Learning Strategies for K-12 Leaders

This webinar took place on Nov. 17, 2011 @ 2 p.m. ET
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According to a recent study by Ambient Insight, the growth of blended learning will be immense in the next four years. Schools and districts across the country are incorporating blended learning across a continuum of models: from having fully online components of courses such as labs or help sessions to posting online resources that support the instruction that occurs entirely in a face-to-face setting. Hear from three district leaders who have successfully implemented blended-learning programs about how they set up an online-learning program that worked for their administration and teachers and helped their students achieve results.

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Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform

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This webinar took place on Nov. 15, 2011 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In 2007, Say Yes to Education and Syracuse University gathered a group of public and private partners to create a demonstration program in Syracuse, N.Y., aimed at college attendance among students from the Syracuse City School District. The initiative has two core components: a comprehensive support program designed to address the key barriers to college, and the promise of free tuition for graduates from the 19,000-student district. Early steps have included a series of comprehensive reviews of district management and teaching practices. According to Say Yes, the goal is to link public, private, and nonprofit organizations to “rejuvenate an older industrial city by building a sustainable model for developing its most precious asset—its people.” Don’t miss this free webinar.

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Key Methods to Improve Reading Testing Success

This webinar took place on Nov. 3, 2011 @ 2 p.m., EDT
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Too often, students "know" the material, yet seem unable to apply that knowledge when taking tests. This webinar will focus on key strategies that districts and educators can use to help students better apply the knowledge and skills they have in a testing environment. Some of the issues approached include strategies for reading test preparation, as well as strategies derived from the learning sciences.

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Administrators 'Speak Up' About Leveraging Technology to Drive Student Outcomes

This webinar took place on Nov. 1, 2011 @ 2 p.m., EDT
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In this special webinar sponsored by K¹², Inc., Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, will share an exciting new set of Speak Up data that directly answers this critical question: How are today's administrators leveraging technology to close the achievement gap? The webinar will include key national research data on how online learning directly addresses several of the critical challenges that are waking up our nation's administrators in the middle of the night. Additionally, Ms. Evans will facilitate an interactive panel discussion with three of the nation's most innovative administrators, who will share their first-hand experiences tapping into technology solutions to drive enhanced student outcomes.

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Tapping the Power of Online PD

This webinar took place on Oct. 27, 2011 @ 2 p.m., EDT
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Social networking and other online tools now provide a full menu of professional development opportunities that range from discussions on Twitter to personal learning networks on Ning and sharing of useful classroom resources on Google+. The online offerings are also spawning new types of professional development opportunities, dubbed Edcamps, which provide face-to-face interaction. Supporters say social networking provides vast resources of knowledge, is instantaneous, and targeted. But some educators caution that navigating through those networks can be confusing and time-consuming. Our guests will discuss what works best in this fast-evolving area of online PD.

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Unlocking the Secrets of College Retention

Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The Lumina Foundation.

This webinar was streamed live on Oct. 18, 2011 @ 2 p.m., EDT
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Record numbers of students flooded to college campuses this fall with high hopes of obtaining what many say is the new prerequisite for middle-class life: a college degree. But the harsh reality is that little more than half of those bright-eyed college freshmen, on average, will actually finish. This gap between access and completion has put a new focus on ramping up retention, the percentage of freshmen who return to the same institution for a second year of college. When students fail to graduate, they are out tuition money, time spent pursuing a degree, and often are in student-loan debt that can set them back years. And college dropouts cost society in potential tax contributions and unrealized creativity. Learn what nonprofits and colleges are doing to help students get the financial assistance, academic support, and counseling needed to make the transition to college and, ultimately, to getting a degree.

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The Economic Stimulus and American K-12 Education

Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

This webinar was streamed live on September 27, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which pumped an unprecedented $100 billion into K-12 education, had two goals. It was intended to help schools weather the economic downturn and avert layoffs around the country. But policymakers also envisioned that the one-time infusion would help spur lasting reforms at the state and local level. Now, more than two years after passage of the economic stimulus, it’s time to take stock. Did the ARRA work as policymakers hoped? Where did it hit the mark, and where did it fall short? A representative from the U.S. Department of Education and a local schools superintendent will examine the impact of the stimulus on the nation’s economy and school reform. Register now for this free live event!

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Reaching Students With Special Needs Through E-Learning

This webinar was streamed live on September 20, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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Students with special learning needs often benefit from different and more personalized ways of mastering classroom material. More virtual education opportunities are now available to help meet the academic needs of children with cognitive or physical disabilities, those learning English, gifted and talented students, and those at risk of academic failure. Educators are trying to balance the potential of virtual learning with the need for face-to-face instruction for these groups of students. They are finding that assistive technologies, social-networking tools, and multimedia curricula are helping to build e-learning programs for students from special populations that can help improve academic achievement.

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The Power of Mobile Broadband to Enhance Teaching and Learning

This webinar was streamed live on September 15, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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Teaching and learning are no longer confined to the classroom but can take place virtually anywhere. Mobile broadband offers students and teachers a new level of access to information, such as Advanced Placement classes, unique coursework, or professional development classes previously unavailable. Hear from experts and practitioners on how mobile broadband is transforming education and driving learning outcomes, especially for rural and low-income communities. Register now for this free live event!

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Bringing Common Standards Into the Classroom

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This webinar was streamed live on August 30, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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Nearly every state in the country has adopted a new set of common academic standards in mathematics and English/language arts. The new guidelines lay out fundamental changes in the skills students are expected to have. But there is a long road from understanding the standards to putting them into practice in the classroom. This webinar will let participants in on the approaches that two districts—Hillsborough County, Fla. and Cleveland —are taking as they work to educate teachers about the standards and turn them into new types of teaching and learning. Register now for this free live event!

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Closing the Academic Achievement Gap for African-American Boys

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This webinar was streamed live on August 23, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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Join two leading experts, Oscar A. Barbarin III of Tulane University and Aisha Ray of the Erikson Institute, for an in-depth look at preparing teachers to foster social and emotional development in children, with a focus on supporting African-American boys to do well in the early years of school.

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Clearing the Hurdles: Helping Low-Income Students Get Into College

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This webinar was streamed live on August 17, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m., Eastern time
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To help more low-income students get into college, new mentoring programs are being offered and changes are being proposed to financial-aid policies. Hear about the latest innovations to improve access to higher education for the country’s increasingly diverse population of students.

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Narrowing the Achievement Gap by Expanding Time in School: What Educators Need to Consider

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This webinar was streamed live on August 10, 2011 @ 1:30 p.m., Eastern time
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While there has been an increasing push at the state and federal levels in getting schools to adopt expanded learning time models, inconsistencies abound in the practices used. What are the ingredients of effective models to lengthen the school day or year?

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Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum

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This webinar was streamed live on July 19, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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Many arts advocates suggest integrating dance, music, theater, and visual arts across the curriculum holds great promise to enhance student learning—and revitalize the arts in public schools. This webinar will explore the potential of bringing together the arts with other subjects in a mutual learning experience, point to promising examples across the country, as well as the challenges to ensure that such efforts achieve their academic goals.

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The Economic Stimulus: Investing in Innovation

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This webinar was streamed live on June 28, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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In August of 2010, the U.S. Department of Education distributed i3 grants to 49 organizations around the county that had submitted proposals for a variety of innovative plans to improve schools. In total nearly 1,700 proposals were submitted for the $650 million that the Department of Education awarded to the winning organizations. Winners were split into three categories based on the size of the award and how much evidence the proposal had of past success. Join guests from each of the three categories as they discuss what their organizations have accomplished, how effective their plans have been, and the challenges that are ahead.

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Boosting Literacy with Effective Reading Comprehension

This webinar was streamed live on June 15, 2011 @ 3 p.m., Eastern time
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Teaching students how to comprehend text remains a challenge in our nation’s school system. Many of the efforts directed toward teaching reading comprehension focus on providing practice at answering questions, while neglecting to teach learners how to reliably answer those questions. In this presentation, we will describe a program that systematically teaches the fundamental strategies for reading success: inferential comprehension, literal comprehension, main idea comprehension, and derived meaning comprehension. These fundamental strategies comprise the core of reading comprehension as it is assessed in standardized tests. More importantly, they provide learners with flexible tools that can be used to comprehend any text regardless of subject matter or reading level.

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Models of Blended Learning: What Works for Your District

This webinar was streamed live on on June 9, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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Blended learning, the teaching practice that combines both face-to-face and online learning, offers several models of instruction to engage students in and out of the classroom. Join us for an in-depth discussion on blended learning led by three experienced practitioners from Volusia County Schools and Kamehameha Schools.

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The Economic Stimulus: School Improvement Grants

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This webinar was streamed live on on June 7, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supercharged the tiny School Improvement Grant program, which is meant to help struggling schools. The program received an unprecedented boost in resources—$3 billion to be spent over three years—but added a menu of new, highly prescriptive turnaround models, some of which require dramatic actions, such as closing a school. This webinar will explore lessons learned for states, districts, and schools one year into the program’s implementation.

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The Economic Stimulus: Race to the Top

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This webinar was streamed live on May 26, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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Nearly a year ago, the U.S. Department of Education started awarding $4 billion in Race to the Top grants to help states and the District of Columbia implement bold education-reform plans. Financed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the competition became the high-profile centerpiece of the Obama administration's education agenda.

Now, the 12 winners are starting to spend their prize money, focusing on four areas: teacher effectiveness, data systems, low-performing schools, and standards and assessments. Join guests from two winning states as they discuss the program's accomplishments so far, and the challenges that are ahead.

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Improving Literacy for English-Language Learners

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This webinar was streamed live on May 4, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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Many school districts are focusing on creating more consistency in how they teach literacy to English-language learners across schools. Their efforts include:

•Reviewing research on best practices for ELLs,
•Beefing up professional development on strategies to reach ELLs, and
•Creating districtwide curriculum that addresses the needs of such students.

Such efforts are particularly important as school districts consider how to implement the common core state standards for English-language learners. The Council of the Great City Schools has been a leading organization in advising and supporting school districts to form coherent and workable plans to serve this fast-growing population of students.

Our webinar guests will discuss both the research on the most effective approaches to improving literacy for ELLs and how some school districts have tried to carry out those approaches.

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Technology Counts: K-12 Seeks Custom Fit

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This webinar was streamed live on April 28, 2011 @ 2 p.m., Eastern time
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A growing number of educators around the country are turning to technology and different teaching and learning approaches to give students personalized learning experiences that mirror the customized experiences they take for granted outside of school. To meet students' individual needs, they are putting in place 1-to-1 computing programs and using online courses and curricula, digital assessments, data tools, and Web-based games for education. Our guests will talk about how to use these tools and approaches to customize education based on students' strengths and weaknesses.

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Michael Horn: How Digital Curriculum is Transforming Learning

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Join Innosight Institute Executive Director Michael Horn as he discusses how digital curriculum is transforming learning as a disruptive innovation in education, and the impact it will have on the future. A short Q&A will follow.

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Learning Science Outside the Classroom

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As concern mounts about the lackluster level of student achievement in science, it has become clear that schools can't tackle the challenge alone. Nor should they. Opportunities abound outside the classroom to learn about science—and inspire a passion for it. Zoos and science museums, science competitions, robotics clubs, and online games are just a few of the options out there to engage young people. Experts say that so-called informal science learning is gaining wider recognition and becoming part of the national dialogue on how to advance public understanding of science. Two experts join Education Week to discuss the evolving work in informal science learning—what we know about its impact, what it looks like in practice, the potential, and the challenges.

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Recalibrating Professional Development for Teacher Success

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With school systems under pressure to boost achievement and improve human capital management, today's education leaders recognize that effective teacher staff development is more important than ever. Yet teacher learning programs in many schools and districts remain disjointed and unfocused. In this webinar, we will explore how schools can create greater coherence in professional development programs—and in turn make teachers more successful—by aligning learning activities with clear objectives for teacher growth and by leveraging available research on instructional effectiveness. The presentation will also highlight ways in which interactive technology can be used to deliver and manage professional development.

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Addressing Diverse Student Learning Needs

On account of both demographic changes and evolving school instructional policies, many teachers today face an increasingly wide range of student learning differences―be they academic, behavioral, physical, or cultural―in their classrooms. Even experienced teachers often do not feel fully prepared to meet the challenge of addressing such varied needs. The 2010 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, released this month, finds that 60 percent of K-12 educators say strengthening resources and programs to help students with diverse learning needs become college- and career-ready should be a top priority in education. The survey finds that math teachers, in particular, struggle with differentiating instruction to reach all learners. In this webinar, our guests will discuss the MetLife survey findings on student learning differences and explore how schools and individual teachers can better accommodate diverse learning needs.

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Harnessing the 10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning for Your School District

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What are the 10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning that should be top of mind for everyone involved in education, from lawmakers to administrators to teachers and parents? How can your district or school harness these elements to develop an affordable, high-quality digital learning environment that engages students, parents and teachers? What have your peers learned from their own experiences with digital learning – and how can you use their insights to drive your success? Join Tom Vander Ark, architect of Digital Learning Now’s 10 Elements of Digital Learning, Mickey Revenaugh, Executive Vice-President of Connections Learning, and Dr. William R. Hite, Jr., Superintendent of Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, as they share their vision for the future of education and provide you with a practical guide for developing the best digital learning experience for your district and school.

New Directions in Classroom Assessment

It's a common adage that assessment drives learning. But for educators striving to integrate skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, and digital communication into their instruction, how should assessment change? In this webinar, two recognized authorities on 21st-century teaching will discuss best practices on how teachers can create assessments that both reinforce and evaluate students' learning in abstract and transformative academic skills. Presentations will explore advancements in assessment tools as well as offer practical examples of evaluations of student projects.

Money Where it Matters: Tapping New Funds for Title I Schools

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This webinar will introduce proven programs for elementary and secondary Title I schools. These programs were recently funded by the federal Investing in Innovation (i3) program to expand their services to Title I schools. The i3 funds enable programs to provide qualifying schools with grant-funded services. The webinar will describe i3 and evidence-based reform, and will present some of the funded projects.

Pumping Up District Social-Media Strategies

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There are many opportunities for districts to use social-networking tools like Facebook and Twitter to connect with their communities, enhance professional development, and promote school and district successes. But many school leaders are reluctant to deploy these tools because they don’t know how to use them effectively or feel their district technology policies stand in the way. Our guests will help provide guidance on how to harness the power of social-media tools to improve district communication.

Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World

In this webinar, math teacher and ed-tech expert Dan Meyer will demonstrate how educators can do away with "pseudocontext" and "pseudo-problem solving" by implementing a multimedia-based math curriculum. He'll show how to use pictures, videos, and websites to bring classroom math problems to life.

Starting and Growing A Successful Online Learning Program

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Learn about the most recent trends in online learning in K-12 school districts from Blackboard’s Practice Leader, John Canuel, and then hear from Stacey Campo, Poway Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Specialist, about the nuts and bolts of a successful district implementation.

Using New Media to Enhance Student Writing

Advancements in digital technology have created immense opportunities--and some challenges--for language arts and writing instructors. Used well, interactive writing platforms can spur students' creativity and help them develop skills needed for effective communication in the 21st century. In this webinar, two rising experts on language arts and new media will give educators practical tips on integrating digital tools into writing instruction, addressing the classroom uses of available technology options and providing examples of effective classroom projects. Emphasis will be on using multiple modes of writing to help students build storytelling and compositional skills.

Virtual Challenge: Creating Quality E-Courses

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There's a lot more to building online courses than digitizing text and adding a few videos. Online course designers are learning more about how to incorporate quick assessments that personalize the learning experience for students, how to keep students’ interest with video and simulations, and how to integrate gaming into their courses. The lessons being learned by course designers are significantly changing the way a successful online course is created for today’s students. Join us for this discussion on creating quality e-courses.

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