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What Do Districts Need From Social-Emotional Learning Products and Programs During COVID-19?
This webinar took place on September 28, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, EdWeek Market Brief will go through the results of a new, nationally representative survey of district and school administrators about what they want from products and programs designed to address social-emotional learning.
Strategies and Solutions for Mitigating COVID-19 Learning Loss
This webinar is sponsored by ACT Learning.
This webinar took place on August 27, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Tutoring, extended learning time, remediation—what’s the best way to help students who lost ground due to the COVID-19 pandemic catch up? In this webinar, our experts will help you sort through the research to find out which approaches can be modified for remote learning, and which ones are less likely to work.
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What Are Districts’ Most Urgent Professional Development Needs During COVID-19?
This webinar took place on August 26, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What kinds of professional development do districts urgently need from companies during COVID-19? In this webinar, we'll break down new surveys of K-12 officials for insights.
How to Make Remote Learning Work for All Students
This webinar is sponsored by ACT Learning.
This webinar took place on August 13, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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During the 2020-21 school year, remote learning will likely be used in some form in most school districts. To make it work, schools need to have smart strategies for hybrid instruction (a combination of in-person and virtual learning), better approaches for increasing student engagement with online learning tools, effective plans for pivoting back to full-time remote learning if necessary, and ongoing training to help teachers improve their remote teaching skills throughout the school year. In addition, schools will need to address the big equity issues that emerged around remote learning during the spring of 2020, putting measures in place to ensure all students have access to digital learning devices, WiFi, and academic support. Join our guests for presentations about what schools need to do now and during the school year to ensure remote learning is effective and equitable.
Beating the "COVID Reading Slide”: Reverse Reading Loss and Accelerate Growth During COVID-19
Content provided by Reading Plus.
This webinar took place on August 12, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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How can districts and schools effectively and rapidly reverse significant expected reading loss due to the COVID-19 shutdown of 30% or more? We face an extremely challenging new school year, with many districts planning hybrid part-time schedules, others remote learning only, and many parents choosing to keep their children at home. How will educators sustain student growth if renewed outbreaks cause even more reliance on remote instruction? How will assessments and instructional tools quickly diagnose student needs and differentiate instruction to keep students engaged and progressing?
Join our webinar to learn how district and school leaders can improve reading achievement while planning for unprecedented logistical challenges.
Weathering the Storm: A Trauma-Informed Approach to the Return to School
Content provided by 321 Insight.
This webinar took place on August 6, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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We live in unprecedented times and are bound to see a massive wave of stress and trauma this fall. This webinar will outline the increased levels of dysregulation that students, parents, and staff are likely to experience as schools reopen this fall – whether brick and mortar, distance learning, or a hybrid of both. You will also learn trauma-informed strategies and best practices that can help educators and staff prepare.
Leading Social-Emotional Learning as a Lever for Equity in Discipline & Instructional Practices
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on August 4, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To strive toward racial equity in schools, district leaders and educators are doing the important and challenging work of examining both structural racism and unconscious bias. In this conversation with district leaders from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.) and Metropolitan School District Lawrence Township (Ind.), we’ll discuss how district leaders are centering equity in their social-emotional learning initiatives for students and adults in order to improve student outcomes.
Join this webinar to hear district leaders share their districts’ equity journey and approach to incorporating culturally responsive social-emotional learning for students and adults.
This webinar will cover how to:
• Lead adult social-emotional learning to examine and uproot unconscious bias in schools
• Leverage equity-centered and culturally responsive SEL practices to reduce discipline disproportionality affecting students of color
• Analyze student voice data to understand student experiences in schools through a racial equity lens
• Incorporate SEL into strategic planning for the 2020-2021 school year
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Exclusive Survey Briefing: The State of K-12 Education Business During COVID-19
This webinar took place on July 31, 2020 @ 1 p.m. ET
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The past few months have been a period of upheaval, but also one of opportunity, for companies across the education market. In this quarterly briefing, EdWeek Market Brief Publisher Maurice Bakley and Managing Editor Sean Cavanagh will break down the results of two exclusive surveys of education businesses conducted by EdWeek Market Brief in April and July.
For business leaders, investors and others who are interested in the “state of the industry”, please join us as we discuss a variety of insights around the health and prognosis for K-12 Ed Businesses.
Among the survey topics we will address:
• How the coronavirus has affected companies’ current sales, near-term revenue expectations, spending plans and staffing across a variety of departments
• What pricing strategies companies have chosen, how long they will be running those strategies
• Companies’ timelines and success for converting district buyers from free materials during COVID to paid offerings
• The biggest barriers vendors have faced in connecting with districts — and how they’re breaking through
• What role federal programs like PPP have played for Education Businesses
• And more…
We look forward to sharing these survey responses from company representatives – many of them CEOs, VPs, and directors – whose businesses specifically serve the K-12 market and placing them in context with the reporting we have done on these issues on EdWeek Market Brief. Additionally there will be time for Q&A from our live audience.
Note: Market Brief members will also receive access to an expanded data deck of the results for further exploration after the event.
Response Toolkit: Shifting to a Hybrid Learning System
Content provided by StrongMind.
This webinar took place on July 30, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Hybrid school is in the news every day, as one strategy to respond to the possibility of school closures during the coming school year. But for some schools and providers, hybrid instruction has been a strategy in development and operation for many years. Join StrongMind for a discussion with two veteran hybrid school leaders, a provider supporting hybrid schools, and a research/membership organization, as they discuss:
• How to be proactive in planning a meaningful response to possible disruptions to instruction in the fall and beyond
• Ways in which hybrid instruction supports teachers
• The importance of equity and access and how to address them
• Methods to address issues from logistical (e.g., master schedules) to instructional (e.g., how students can take charge of their learning to continue their education outside of school).
Distance Learning Up Close: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting
Presented by John Hattie, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey
Content provided by Corwin.
This webinar took place on July 23, 2020 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Let’s admit it, the pandemic teaching of Spring 2020 was less about distance learning and more about crisis teaching. But if we start now, we have the opportunity to prepare for distance learning in the fall with purpose and intent—all the while maintaining an indelible focus on equity. After all, effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs.
In this webinar, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie draw on their newly published Distance Learning Playbook to reveal what works best in teaching, assessing, and planning in your online classroom—per 25+ years of Visible Learning® research and evidence. Learn how to:
• Get started during the first days of school
• Manage teacher-student relationships from a distance
• Plan instructional units, engaging task design
• Obtain equitable feedback for assessment and grading considerations
The Connected Educator: Why Collaboration Is Key in Distance, Blended, and Classroom Learning
Content provided by Edmodo.
This webinar took place on July 22, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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From building confidence to critical thinking, it’s a proven fact that collaboration in learning environments helps students learn valuable skills that are essential to them becoming valued employees of the future.
Yet, what do we know about collaboration and its benefits beyond the typical student-to-student model? What happens to school environments, student outcomes, and mental health when students are active partners in their education?
Join this engaging presentation during which education experts will explore the challenges, best practices, and benefits of collaboration between teachers and students, as well as consider how this might inform collaboration between educators.
You’ll learn:
• How to create more opportunities for collaborative learning, onsite or remotely
• Strategic ways you can empower students
• How an effective collaborative approach reveals how unique each student is, and allows for better individualized approaches
A Time to Amplify the Student Voice: Strategies for Teaching and Empowering Young Minds to Create Sustainable Change
Content provided by ThinkCERCA.
This webinar took place on July 21, 2020 @ 1 p.m. ET
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It is a responsibility of our education system to prepare students for the real world. The murder of George Floyd and the many Black lives lost before him have unequivocally demonstrated that today’s real world is plagued by systemic racism, oppression, and violence. The momentum fueling the Black Lives Matter movement has made it clear that the tools that students engage with should not simply prepare them for the real world. They need to engage with tools that teach and empower them to challenge, to think critically about, and to create sustainable change in their communities.
In this webinar, you will hear from Mona Kiani and others on how to initiate this shift in your classroom, school, or district. It is time to re-imagine what it means to amplify the student voice.
The Future of Schools: Elevating Student, Staff, and Community Voices During and Beyond COVID-19
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on July 13, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The COVID-19 pandemic has required educational leaders to listen and respond to the needs of the communities they serve more than ever before. Districts have gone above and beyond to support students, families, and staff with internet access, social-emotional well-being, and assistance to families. But what comes next?
Join this webinar to learn how district leaders are engaging their district communities to develop strategic plans for the 2020-21 school year and beyond. This webinar will cover how to:
• Invite and act on stakeholder feedback to shape immediate response and school reopening plans with a commitment to equity
• Establish student, staff, and family voices as a permanent cornerstone of strategic planning, family engagement, and accountability systems in schools
• Create a safe and nurturing learning environment that supports student and adult social-emotional learning and well-being
Equity and Excellence Now: How Schools Can Achieve Both
Content provided by Solution Tree.
This webinar took place on June 24, 2020 @ 3 p.m. ET
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In surveys during the spring of 2020 of more than 15,000 teachers and administrators, equity was their top concern. In this interactive webinar, Anthony Muhammad and Douglas Reeves share the latest evidence on how schools are achieving the twin goals of equity and excellence. Although students have experienced dramatic differences in access to technology and effective instruction, there is hope for the future.
Reeves and Muhammad will consider how schools are providing multiple channels of communication, differentiated instruction, professional learning support, focused curriculum, and effective feedback in order to deliver the greatest impact on student learning.
Reimagining How to Sustain Student Engagement & Learning—Virtually
Content provided by ExQ.
This webinar took place on June 23, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, ExQ’s distinguished panelists will explore how the backdrop of COVID-19 and virtual learning have changed the educational landscape. This paradigm shift requires us to reassess how to sustain student engagement, how to rethink the burgeoning knowledge gap, and how to implement mindful teaching practices that support not just the most independent, but also the struggling student.
The guests will share diverse perspectives and effective decision-making principles that create a culture of pragmatic problem solving. Participants will leave with useful tools that are likely to facilitate favorable impact on students as well as teachers.
Substitute Teachers, Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention During Covid-19
Content for this webinar provided by the EdWeek Research Center.
Content for this webinar sponsored by Kelly Education.
This webinar took place on June 18, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic descended upon schools, teacher absences were on the rise, leading to an increased demand for substitute teachers who were often in short supply, according to a new survey from the EdWeek Research Center. The pandemic could create more challenges, as 1 in 5 teachers say they are unlikely to return to the classroom in the fall and others may face absences if infected by the disease. Social distancing measures may create additional needs by reducing the number of students per classroom, which in turn increases the demand for teachers.
In this environment, how can schools keep their classrooms staffed while continuing to strive to increase the level of educator diversity? This webinar combines data with real world experiences and practical advice and recruitment, retention, and diversity initiatives.
Coming Out Stronger and Successful: From Remote Learning to New Hybrid Models
Content provided by Microsoft.
This webinar took place on June 16, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Schools and systems have been forced to rapidly respond to the closures of physical spaces and the introduction of remote-learning at scale. This webinar will explore the transition at scale of the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD), the fourth largest in California, and the conditions FUSD had in place beforehand which reduced disruption and positioned them to successfully navigate forwards with a clear focus on well-being, quality teaching, and health and safety.
Join Microsoft for this practical case-study of success at scale ideal for leadership teams and aspiring leaders. Blueprints and other resources will be provided.
Special Education, Compensatory Services, COVID & Beyond
Content provided by ChanceLight Education.
This webinar took place on June 9, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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How will you meet the needs of your Special Education students during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic? Adapting to provide the necessary support and services for students in Special Education during a pandemic is an especially complex challenge. ChanceLight Education can help. Attend EdWeek’s June 9 Webinar to learn from ChanceLight Education’s panel of experts about special education in the COVID era, mental health, risk management, and more.
Learn strategies and tactics you can use today. Get to know a partner who can help you meet your commitment to students and manage risk in this uncertain time. Sign up today.
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COVID-19 Briefing Series: How Companies Can Engage Parents, and Prepare for What’s Ahead
This webinar took place on June 5, 2020 @ 1 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, EdWeek Market Brief’s editorial team will present new data and analysis from school districts on what parents – in their new roles as at-home instructors – need from companies in the COVID-19 era. We’ll draw from original surveys of district officials in which they were asked about their interactions with families, and the kinds of support and academic resources parents desperately need now. We’ll also break down EdWeek Market Brief’s recent reporting and research on where schools are on the path to reopening, and what kinds of help districts say they need in specific area, as they cautiously set plans to bring teachers and students back. EdWeek Market Brief’s editorial team will specifically present survey data on the following topics:
1. What product features and support do parents – who teachers need to engage in students’ learning – need from companies?
2. Updated survey results on districts’ biggest purchasing priorities for the remainder of this school year – and next.
3. Districts’ biggest purchasing needs in curriculum, as they plan for school reopenings; and
4. A look at district officials’ early thinking about how they might attempt to create learning environments for reopened schools.
This webinar is the fifth in EdWeek Market Brief’s COVID-19 briefing series. Our editorial team will take your questions about our research and our reporting on where things stand and states and districts, and where things are headed for K-12 systems and the companies tasked with meeting their most pressing needs.
Slow the Summer Reading Slide With School & Library Partnerships
Content provided by OverDrive.
This webinar took place on June 4, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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When schools and libraries work together, it opens a whole new world of 24/7 reading opportunities for students, whether they’re at home or in the classroom. In this eye-opening webinar featuring Lisa Kulka, coordinator of libraries and instructional materials at Harlandale ISD, Texas, you’ll discover how these no-cost collaborations can help your at-home students bridge the summer reading gap. You’ll also learn:
• How to introduce this groundbreaking partnership to your own school communities
• Effective strategies to promote your school and library partnership, so that students fully benefit from the reading resources at their fingertips
• How to leverage the combined power of your school and library’s digital collection to reach your reluctant readers and minimize loss of reading progress
Quickly Move Student Registration to the Cloud and Eliminate Paper Forever
Content provided by LINQ.
This webinar took place on June 3, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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It’s time for district leadership to prepare for back-to-school and student registration. However, social distancing and other public health concerns are changing the way schools are doing everything—registration is no exception.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
• Complete student registration from the safety of your own home
• Handle documents and forms submitted by parents from any device
• Improve productivity and save your district money
• Select the right vendor for a speedy implementation time
Join us to find out how school districts are taking registration to the cloud and learn best practices for going 100% paperless quickly and safely.
The Future of Learning Starts Now: LAUSD Makes Distance Learning a Reality
Content provided by K20Connect.
This webinar took place on May 28, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a stark reality that access to the tools and services that make remote learning possible isn’t a “nice-to-have,” but a necessity. Faced with the challenge of bringing virtual learning to more than half a million students, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) relies on proactive planning, strategic execution, and partnerships. Join LAUSD for a webinar to learn how one of the largest school districts in the nation helps students stay connected and learning. The guests will explore the challenges facing educators and how they are addressing issues beyond technology to help bring effective solutions for all students.
Catalyzing Change in Mathematics Education: Transforming Challenges Into Opportunities
Content provided by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
This webinar took place on May 26, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Our current situation sharpens our view of inconsistencies and inequities that exist within the teaching and learning of mathematics across all grade levels. NCTM’s series of Catalyzing Change publications highlight critical issues and provide guidance for positioning the development of students’ positive mathematical identity and strong sense of agency at the forefront.
As we consider and make decisions on how to best serve each and every student and teacher through professionalism, collaboration, and compassion, we must consider if short-term coverage of mathematics topics are in turn sacrificing the longer-term outcomes of achieving deep, lasting, and valuable mathematical knowledge. Furthermore, we must attend to how students see mathematics, see themselves as doers of mathematics, and develop their mathematical literacy to make sense of our rapidly changing world.
Join us as we consider how the four Catalyzing Change recommendations can inform leadership and actions as we move forward together.
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COVID-19 Briefing Series: Building Long-Term Relationships From Urgent District Needs
This webinar took place on May 14, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, EdWeek Market Brief brings you the new results from national survey questions we’ve put to district officials looking at how their expectations of companies – and for their own classroom instruction – have changed during COVID-19. We’ll also hear directly from a pair of district administrators on the front lines about the support they need from vendors during this crisis.
EdWeek Market Brief’s editorial team will present original survey data on
1) How often district officials say they’re reaching out to new companies amid the coronavirus
2) What those district officials need to hear from vendors to form a long-term relationship;
3) Districts’ anticipated assessment needs, as they tentatively plan to return teachers and students to schools; and
4) How district expectations for grading, instruction, and student engagement have changed in the new environment.
We’ll also break down how education companies need to think about shifting from free products they’ve offered during COVID-19 to paid models. In addition, our editorial team will be joined by a pair of district officials who will talk about what they want from companies: Scott Muri, the superintendent of the 33,000-student Ector County Independent School District, in Texas, and Steven Langford, the chief information officer at the 41,000-student Beaverton, Ore., schools.
Muri and Langford will take questions about what they’re experiencing, and our editorial team will take questions about our new data, and what schools are going through during COVID-19.
Incorporating SEL Into Your District’s Plans for Back-to-School
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on May 4, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For many district and school leaders preparing for back-to-school in today’s context, social-emotional learning (SEL) will be integral to student success. Join this webinar to hear superintendents share their experiences and concrete strategies to strengthen and support students’ social-emotional well-being in schools.
This webinar will cover how to:
• Understand each student’s social-emotional skills and well-being through valid, reliable data.
• Enable school teams and educators to engage in data-based decision-making around SEL supports.
• Welcome students back into our buildings with positive, safe, and supportive school environments.
Looking Ahead: Planning for Education in a Post-COVID-19 World
Content provided by Reading Plus.
This webinar took place on April 29, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What challenges will school district administrators face as they plan ahead for the next school year? How will you re-establish strong learning environments and address the emotional and instructional needs of students and staff? How can you model supportive leadership? What assessment and learning gaps can you expect? Will the short-term push for remote learning have a long-term impact on instructional tools and decisions? Join our webinar for a forward-looking conversation that will be particularly valuable for district instructional leaders at every level.
Leading and Inspiring Through Uncertain Times
Content provided by Waterford.org.
This webinar took place on April 28, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Find your voice to lead through periods of uncertainty, whether that's now or in the future. As educators, you are communicating with parents, colleagues, students, and sometimes the media. This webinar will help you to communicate effectively using your unique style.
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COVID-19 Briefing Series: How Can Education Businesses Pivot to Meet Districts’ Urgent Demands?
This webinar took place on April 24, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this briefing – the third in our COVID-19 intel webinar series – our editorial team and invited guests will look at how companies across the K-12 market are rethinking their sales and marketing, customer success, and in some cases, existing products to meet school districts’ changing demands. We’ll unveil new findings from an EdWeek Market Brief survey of district administrators across the country, which provides data about the specific changes in spending K-12 officials expect to make in the CURRENT year’s budget and the COMING year’s budget as a result of COVID-19. We’ll also release new survey results how district officials are learning about new products and services in today’s chaotic environment – and what kind of product and implementation support they expect from vendors. Finally, EdWeek Market Brief’s editorial staff will be joined by two guests: BrainPOP CEO Scott Kirkpatrick, and Rob Bixler, the associate superintendent for curriculum and digital learning for the 212,000-student Orange County (Fla.) Public Schools.
Social Emotional Learning and Equity: Follow the Data
Content provided by ACT | Mawi Learning.
This webinar took place on April 22, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Providing equitable opportunities for young people’s social, emotional, and academic growth is paramount. Equity in education goes deeper than providing equal education to all students. Equity in education is providing each student with the education they need to live and thrive.
Hear the most recent findings of ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning and how SEL can be leveraged to promote equity. Get a first-hand look at some of the most recent data compiled, using measures of SEL achievement across diverse populations, and an understanding of which approaches yield the most substantive results. And briefly preview ACT’s SEL Solutions—evidence-based K-12 student curriculum, a suite of ELL options, educator professional development, and assessment—that align with CASEL's 5 core competencies.
Serving America’s Most Vulnerable Students During Coronavirus Closures
This webinar is sponsored by Communities In Schools.
This webinar took place on April 21, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join us for this webinar from our Education Week Leaders To Learn From virtual event series. The annual Leaders To Learn From special report shines a light on forward-thinking district leaders who seize on good ideas and execute them well in their school systems. Find out more at leaders.edweek.org.
Schools are a lifeline for children, especially those who depend on them for food, services related to disabilities and even basic human safety. When schools close for coronavirus, these needs do not disappear. In fact, some amplify. This webinar focuses on ways educators can continue to meet these needs during these precarious times. Guests Johnnye Waller and Steve Sandoval share how their districts have worked to meet these needs during coronavirus closures. As the Assistant Superintendent of Auxiliary Services/Student Services Director for the Lee County Schools in Sanford, N.C., Waller oversees guidance counselors, nurses, and social workers and also nutrition, transportation, and discipline in a county that has been battered by a series of hurricanes along with an opioid crisis. Executive Director of Special Services Steve Sandoval supports students with disabilities and children from low-income families in a Denver-area school district that uses competency-based learning.
Making the Most of Misconceptions in Math Class
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on April 16, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What if instead of focusing on whether an answer is right or wrong, we asked our students to focus on how or why they reached that answer?
To develop deep conceptual understanding, students need to be able to justify and explain their strategies and, most importantly, revise their thinking when faced with information that challenges prior beliefs. This is why it’s so important to make the most of misconceptions in math class. But without the right tools and techniques, teachers can inadvertently overlook or even cement student misconceptions.
Join Dr. Mark Ellis for an interactive webinar in which he’ll explore ways to anticipate, elicit, and make use of student misconceptions to deepen your student’s understanding of mathematics. Attendees will learn:
• Common student mathematics misconceptions and how to spot them
• How misconceptions are created
• Productive strategies for eliciting and addressing misconceptions
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COVID-19 Briefing Series: How Is the Crisis Reshaping School District Purchasing Priorities?
This webinar took place on April 9, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this briefing—the second in a new series by EdWeek Market Brief during the coronavirus outbreak—our editorial team breaks down what they’re learning from school district officials and companies scrambling to respond to schools’ biggest needs, intel gathered through exclusive research and original reporting. We will look at the results of an EdWeek Market Brief survey of district officials’ purchasing priorities during the crisis. We will also explore best practices and strategies that companies can take from fellow vendors who have been working in the homeschool and online markets, and how they can be applied to the new, remote-learning reality. Finally we’ll offer insights on districts’ new experimentation with online learning, and where they need the most help. And we’ll be taking questions, so have yours ready.
Transforming Learning Through Easy Technology Solutions
Content provided by Optoma.
This webinar took place on March 19, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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With over 20 years of experience providing innovative display solutions to some of the largest K-12 districts, colleges, and universities, Optoma visual solutions are a smart choice for any learning environment. From districtwide projects to single classrooms and large auditoriums, Optoma offers a variety of display solutions that are easy-to-install, provide interactivity for hands-on and collaborative learning, and a variety of connectivity options.
As the world’s leading brand in 4K UHD projection technology and the #1 DLP Projector Brand in the North America, Optoma combines cutting-edge technology and innovation to deliver remarkable visual display products designed to connect audiences with engaging video experiences.
Join us to learn more about how Optoma solutions can increase classroom engagement.
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What Do School Districts Want—and Not Want—From Vendors During the Coronavirus Crisis?
This webinar took place on March 18, 2020 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Districts across the country are trying to serve students as they grapple with the coronavirus, a public health crisis of enormous scale. What kind of support do they need from vendors at this moment? What kinds of outreach and product pitches do they definitely NOT want to hear? And how can education companies manage the crisis, so that they're anticipating schools' needs and ready to respond? EdWeek Market Brief's reporting staff has been talking with both district leaders and company officials. We break down what we're hearing from K-12 leaders about what the need from vendors, and what companies have been telling us about how they're withstanding school closures and upheaval.
Food for Thought: How School Meals Can Support Learning
This webinar is sponsored by LINQ Nutrition
This webinar took place on March 4, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join us for this webinar from our Education Week Leaders To Learn From virtual event series. The annual Leaders To Learn From special report shines a light on forward-thinking district leaders who seize on good ideas and execute them well in their school systems. Find out more at leaders.edweek.org.
It can be easy for education leaders to overlook school breakfast and lunch when thinking about school improvement, but studies suggest children’s nutrition and experience of school meals can be a powerful tools to boost climate and student achievement. Betti Wiggins of Houston Independent school district in Texas has overhauled her district’s outdated food services to provide healthier, tastier offerings, with more connection and involvement from their students. In the process, she has boosted meal participation, improved their financial bottom lines, and gotten their students excited about eating at school. Now she is testing piloting ways to use food services to support students’ academics, too. Come learn how your district can do the same.
Defining and Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness in Schools
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Feb. 25, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To help students graduate prepared for what comes next, many of today’s district and school leaders are defining their vision for a holistic graduate profile with the traits students need to succeed and offering multiple ways for students to demonstrate their readiness for the future. Join this webinar to learn how school and district leaders are envisioning, measuring, and ultimately improving college, career, and life readiness in schools.
The webinar will cover how to:
• Gather valid, reliable data measuring students’ development of 21st century/life/social-emotional skills.
• Enable school teams and educators to view on-track readiness indicators so they can proactively identify students in need of additional supports.
• Hear how school and district leaders are leveraging technology to act on their vision for the skills, mindsets, and qualifications of a graduate.
Educating for Authentic Performance: The Essence of Future-Readiness
Content provided by Defined Learning.
This webinar took place on Feb. 19, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Today’s educators are tasked with improving college, career, and life readiness in schools. Authentic performance tasks are well-suited to helping students build the “real-world” skills and transfer abilities that are needed for success in college and the workplace. Authentic tasks engage students in relevant learning and enable educators to assess outcomes that matter.
In this webinar, you will hear ideas for:
• Mapping the K-12 curriculum around authentic performance tasks and
• Supporting teachers in implementing performance tasks.
Presenters include Jay McTighe, the award-winning and best-selling co-author of The Understanding by Design Framework® (UbD), who will explain why rich authentic performance tasks help students to apply and transfer knowledge—keys to building valuable lifelong skills. Michael Pflug, an administrator at a large school district in Texas, will join him to describe how the district incorporates authentic performance tasks into their K-12 curriculum.
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What You Need to Know About Curriculum Providers Winning States’ Approval
This webinar took place on Feb. 13, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Get a window into state markets—and gain key insights about what states want from vendors—in the latest EdWeek Market Brief webinar. Our guests will be Christine Fox, the deputy director of the State Educational Technology Directors’ Association, and André DeLeón, an education programs professional for the Nevada Department of Education. Fox will explain the impact of SETDA’s launch of an “instructional materials” tool that compiles—for the first time ever—12 states’ choices of curriculum providers that meet their standards. DeLeón will focus on how his state approaches instructional materials review.
Making a Difference With Effective Dyslexia Screening
Content provided by Voyager Sopris Learning.
This webinar took place on Feb. 11, 2020 @ 4 p.m. ET
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This webinar, Making a Difference with Effective Dyslexia Screening, presented by researcher and author Dr. Roland Good, III, of Acadience® Learning, discusses the importance of using effective and efficient assessment to support students with reading difficulties, including dyslexia, for improving academic outcomes. Learning to read and write is essential for student success in school and life. Students with reading difficulties, such as dyslexia, can experience significant challenges in school and beyond if not provided with early identification and intervention. Dr. Good examines how data from dyslexia screening can be used to support students with reading difficulties through literacy professional development, explicit instruction, and targeted intensive intervention. By understanding where struggling readers are, knowing where they need to go, and planning the path they need to follow, educators can help at-risk students succeed.
How to Promote Effective Feedback in Your School and Spur Student Growth
Content provided by The Graide Network.
This webinar took place on Feb. 10, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Feedback fuels learning. Decades of research have shown that fast, effective feedback leads to outsized gains in student growth, engagement, and achievement. Yet structural barriers prevent this from happening in schools today, undermining every effort in curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
In this webinar, we’ll look at the main obstacles preventing effective feedback practices in the classroom and uncover why teachers cannot (and should not) shoulder this responsibility alone. We’ll also explore ways in which K-12 leaders can assist educators in providing effective feedback, spotlighting The Graide Network as a leading resource for online grading and feedback support.
This webinar is intended for school and district leaders looking to improve academic outcomes by addressing student writing, feedback, and teacher supports. Learn, share, and leave with resources that you and your team can use immediately.
How to Embed Social-Emotional Learning Into MTSS and RTI
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Feb. 4, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To improve academic outcomes while also supporting the needs of the whole child, districts and schools are increasingly leveraging both social-emotional learning (SEL) and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). However, effectively embedding SEL into a tiered support framework like MTSS or RTI can be challenging without the right data, processes, and tools in place.
Join this webinar to learn how school and district leaders are leveraging social-emotional learning to deliver the right intervention at the right time.
This webinar will cover how to:
• Collect data on students’ social-emotional skills and mindsets
• Layer in SEL data alongside academic and behavior data to see a fuller view of each student, visualize trends across schools, and better target your district’s interventions
• Hear how school and district leaders are building SEL supports into their tiered intervention strategies
Making the Case for Video in Education
Content provided by NewTek.
This webinar took place on Jan. 30, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Look around any group of students and you’ll see them glued to screens. And today, often, it’ll be video and imagery that’s taking up their time. The question for modern educators is: how can you harness this focus to make the student experience more engaging? Our three panelists have done just that. They’ve created successful and award-winning video programs at their schools that prepare their students for the next level.
In this webinar we’ll discuss why it’s important to create a video program at your school, how to build a case for a video program, and what are the benefits. We’ll also discuss understanding your tech options and choosing the right solutions to produce network-quality video and prepare students for the future.
Not Just Phonics; Essential Knowledge Building in K-2
Content provided by Great Minds.
This webinar took place on Jan. 27, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Why is knowledge important to reading?
While early literacy instruction must prioritize phonemic awareness and phonics instruction, research suggests that access to knowledge-rich content is equally important for emerging readers. It is essential that the books students read in the early elementary years provide practice in decoding skills while also building knowledge necessary for comprehension.
This presentation invites educators to consider preconceived notions about what emerging readers are capable of doing, as they grow into reading with confidence and competence.
Supporting Teachers in Their Shift to Project-Based Learning
Content provided by Defined Learning.
This webinar took place on Jan. 23, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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STEM Education and project-based learning (PBL) represent an exciting shift in education. Research shows that PBL can bring about rigorous and engaging teaching needed to prepare learners for future success. While the benefits are clear, how to achieve this has presented educators with a new set of challenges.
Join administrators from Norwalk, Conn., to learn how they determined the best way to scale professional development and prepare teachers to implement high-quality STEM-based PBL. The Norwalk school district will share its vision, plan, and lessons learned.
This webinar will cover:
● How district leaders designed a sustainable plan for successful PBL professional development
● Their unique implementation planner that serves as an anchor for new PBL teachers
● Curriculum tools and resources Norwalk provides to help teachers effectively implement performance tasks
This session will address these issues and provide practical tools to assist teachers in making the shift to STEM-based PBL.
How to Foster Learning and Effective Teaching in 2020 Through Online Resources
Content provided by Project Tomorrow; Sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise.
This webinar took place on Jan. 22, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The classroom learning environment has evolved to meet the needs of tomorrow by providing students with access to technology and online resources that support instruction today. For example, two-thirds of teachers now report regularly using digital games to support classroom instruction and in 80 percent of classrooms, students regularly use mobile devices to access online tools and resources for schoolwork. Our students and teachers are on the frontlines of new modalities for teaching and learning. So, what do they say are the benefits of using online resources in the classroom? And how is this increased access to a world of educational content impacting student learning and teacher effectiveness? In this webinar, we will review new research on the views of students and teachers about using digital resources in the classroom and examine what is needed to support new models of learning in 2020 and beyond with an expert panel of education leaders.
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Rewards and Risks for K-12 Companies in Product “Ambassador” Programs
This webinar took place on Jan. 14, 2020 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Many education providers in the market today run “ambassador programs,” in which teachers advocate for their products, help improve product features, and lend the companies credibility among schools in the K-12 market. But ambassador programs also create risks if they’re not managed properly. The Federal Trade Commission, for instance, recently warned social media influencers—including educators—that they need to disclose that they’ve received freebies to promote products, making their connections to companies clear in their posts. In this webinar, we break down the rationale for why education companies arrange ambassador programs, how they structure the programs, and how they run them in both ethical and effective ways.
Building Schoolwide Excellence in Reading and Writing
Content provided by Heinemann.
This webinar took place on Dec. 10, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join Lucy Calkins to learn about the beautiful, difficult, exhilarating work of building communities of practice that support schoolwide achievement in reading and writing.
Dr. Calkins reminds us that high expectations for students mean high expectations for teachers—and yes, for school leaders as well. She’ll provide practical, field-tested advice to help school leaders bring state-of-the-art reading and writing instruction to scale, including topics such as:
• Methods and traditions that can help leaders create a community of practice in their schools, one that is characterized by shared values and close collegiality,
• Ways to democratize the knowledge of the most skilled teachers and coaches across a school,
• Ways to use learning progressions to undergird cross-grade coherence, and
• Practical help for conducting learning walks and providing feedback in ways that rally teachers to aspire towards new horizons.
How to Build Writing Proficiency and Foster Differentiation in the 21st Century Classroom
Content provided by Texthelp.
This webinar took place on Dec. 9, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Research from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that only about a quarter of high school seniors are proficient in writing—meaning that an unacceptable number of high school graduates leave school with poor writing skills. In this webinar, our presenters will examine the day-to-day challenges of writing instruction in today’s modern K-12 classrooms. They’ll delve into ways in which educators can maximize the use of technology to help guide differentiated instruction.
The presenters will provide real-life examples for how a tech-driven approach to differentiation can empower students to become better writers and take charge of their learning.
Boost Access and Transform Classroom Learning for All Students
Content provided by Project Tomorrow; Sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise.
This webinar took place on Dec. 4, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Technology access in the classroom has increased significantly over the past few years. Digital learning is now the norm, rather than the exception. Not surprisingly, school districts anticipate a significant expansion in online and digital resources to support learning over the near term. From the use of adaptive game technologies to develop greater proficiency to the use of cloud-based tools to support collaborative learning, the horizon looks promising for the continued transformation of the classroom learning experience. However, with the increased usage of online and digital resources, most school districts are already facing a new stark reality—concerns about Internet bandwidth capacity. In this webinar, we will examine Speak Up Research findings from students, teachers, and administrators about the state of school connectivity and our panel of education leaders will provide fresh insights about these challenges and their solutions for balancing digital learning visions with the realities of bandwidth concerns.
Measuring and Improving Equity and Inclusion in Schools
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Dec. 3, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To create school communities that value and serve all students, districts are increasingly setting measurable goals around equity and inclusion. Educators track metrics including academic achievement gaps, discipline disproportionality, and gaps in student experience or social-emotional learning to identify priorities and take action.
Join this webinar to learn how school and district leaders are using student voice data to understand and take action on students’ perspectives regarding race, ethnicity, and culture in our schools. The webinar will cover how to:
• Use a centralized data platform to track progress toward equity goals.
• Support campus teams to examine data and create action plans.
• Organize staff around specific topics, such as implicit bias and culturally-responsive pedagogy.
Attendees will also get a sneak peek of the new Panorama Equity and Inclusion Survey.
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What Every K-12 Company Needs to Know About Usage Reports—and How to Improve Upon Them
This webinar took place on Nov. 20, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Many school districts closely evaluate “usage” reports on ed-tech products, to judge whether those tools are having an impact, and to make sure the district is getting what it’s paying for. How can ed-tech companies work with districts up front, to make sure that usage of a product is strong? And how can companies work with districts to improve upon their performance, if a report says take-up of a product is weak? In this webinar, we’ll dive into strategies companies can use to help themselves and the district clients they serve.
Building Digital Learning Capacity With Effective Use of E-Rate Funds
Content provided by Project Tomorrow; Sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise.
This webinar took place on Nov. 19, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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District administrators nationwide have identified funding concerns as their #1 “wake up in the middle of the night issue” for the past 12 years. Despite these concerns, the transformation of the American classroom has persevered, accelerated in many ways by the implementation of online tools and resources that empower more personalized learning. The re-tooling of the traditional classroom however requires new investments in technology infrastructure, teacher training, and digital solutions. The latest Speak Up Research findings show 50 percent of school districts say they are now using competitive funds from the FCC’s E-rate program to support their school technology infrastructure. In this webinar, we will review new research about the various ways that school districts fund digital learning initiatives and how school districts are using E-rate funds specifically for that purpose. Our panel discussion with district technology leaders will include insights into their expectations for future infrastructure needs.
The Investment Case for PD, Education, and Equity
Content provided by New Teacher Center.
This webinar took place on Nov. 14, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The PreK-12 field spends upwards of $18 billion in investments on professional development. But, is it yielding the results and returns our educators and students need? Is it driving measurable change in helping to close the opportunity gap?
There is a moral imperative to develop, sustain, and retain talent at all levels of the system to truly disrupt educational inequity and create high-quality learning experiences for all students. In NTC’s most recent report, Counting the Cost: A Commitment to Educational Equity that Yields Returns, we found:
• Teacher retention rates from year one to year two were higher.
• Students in grades 4-8 demonstrated up to 5 months of additional learning and had the potential to earn an additional $38k in their career lifetime earnings.
• Districts yielded a 22 percent return to the district—equivalent to a district savings of nearly $1m over 5 years.
• Successful students lead to greater long-term economic impact in their communities. The study demonstrated a $2.43 return to communities for every $1 invested.
Join us in conversation as we explore the findings of the report; hear directly from a district on how much it costs to recruit and retain educators and the impact of this kind of savings; and hear about how to contextualize the impact of this work from an economic and community lens.
EdWeek Top School Jobs EdRecruiter 2019: Recruitment & Retention in K-12
This webinar is sponsored by EdWeek Top School Jobs.
This webinar took place on Nov. 13, 2019 @ 1 p.m. ET
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During this webinar, Holly Kurtz, Director of Research for the Education Week Research Center, will reveal survey data from over 5,000 K-12 job seekers and more than 500 HR staff at districts like yours. We’ll dive into data that will help answer your “up-all-night” questions around recruiting and retaining millennials, diversity shortages, and hard-to-fill positions.
Topics will include:
• Recruiting the millennial job seeker:
• How can you improve your outreach strategy and market to them in a meaningful way?
• What are some of the deciding factors when it comes to accepting a job?
• What unique struggles do they comes across and how can you improve your recruitment strategy?
Designing Formative Assessment and Collaborative Data Cycles That Work
Content provided by The Graide Network.
This webinar took place on Nov. 6, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Formative assessment can be a powerful tool, helping teachers (and students!) better understand, track, and fuel preparedness, performance, and student growth. To be most effective, formative assessment should be ongoing, consistent, and designed in conjunction with thoughtful and complete feedback and data cycles. Join this webinar to learn how Clayton County Public Schools, the fifth largest district in Georgia, partnered with the National Math and Science Initiative and The Graide Network to design and implement a highly successful formative assessment framework and achieve record-breaking test scores in 2019. Learn how these organizations worked together to leverage the power of feedback and data to achieve greater success for students and teachers and how you can, too.
This webinar conversation is intended for school and district leaders who are looking to improve academic outcomes by addressing formative assessment, data-driven instruction, and teacher supports. Participate, share, and leave with resources that you and your team can use immediately.
Setting, Measuring, and Achieving Strategic Goals to Support the Whole Child
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Nov. 5, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Districts across the country will renew their strategic plans in 2020 with a focus on supporting growth of the whole child. Join this superintendent and district leader roundtable to learn how districts are setting and tracking goals that represent district and community priorities in the 21st century.
Innovative district leaders will provide recommendations for developing strategic plans, gaining community support, and tracking progress toward goals. They will discuss creating strategic plans to:
• Drive academic achievement and school improvement
• Set data-informed targets for students’ social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Prepare all students for college, career, and life readiness
• Support the physical and emotional safety of all students and community members
Roadmaps to Achievement Through ESSA's K-12 Spending Reviews
This webinar is sponsored by Scribbles Software.
This webinar took place on Oct. 30, 2019 @ 4 p.m. ET
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Everybody agrees that to craft an effective budget—whether it’s for your household or your school district—you have to know where you’ve spent your money and what you got for it. School finance experts hope a new mandate in the Every Student Succeeds Act will sharpen up a tool states can use to boost achievement in their lowest-performing schools. These detailed reviews of K-12 spending, staffing, and priorities, known as “resource allocation reviews,” could help school leaders make the right tradeoffs as they manage their money. This Education Week webinar will offer practical advice on what goes into a useful review, what states can do to support their districts as they go through what may be a new process for many of them, and how they can set the stage for long-term improvement.
A Vision for Computer Science Education
Content provided by Learning.com.
This webinar took place on Oct. 29, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Computer science education is vital for developing future readiness, but how? By teaching students about this domain, schools work to fill an inadequate pipeline of computer science graduates and workers, enhance this profession with a focus on equity, and build digital skills that are expected of workers in nearly any profession.
To support educators in integrating this subject, this webinar will:
• Define computer science.
• Investigate why it’s important.
• Share essential characteristics for school programs.
• Offer getting-started strategies.
As we will share in the webinar, the vision for computer science in schools is one that’s comprehensive. It’s redefining how learning takes place; it's aspirational; and it's an integrated and long-term process. Attendees can expect a geeky enthusiasm for the subject, insightful research and data, classroom-ready tips and ideas, and the occasional meme.
Leveling UP Help Desk Services in K-12
Content provided by TeamDynamix.
This webinar took place on Oct. 28, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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If you are running IT in a K-12 district then you know how challenging help desk services for your K-12 constituents can be—between resource constraints, increased demand for technology, and higher expectations for service—the struggle is real. Attend this webinar to hear how two K-12 districts have taken their IT operations to a new level. They have improved service to students, parents, and teachers by providing the following:
• Better response time to IT tickets with automated routing
• Rolling out a knowledge base with self-service question / answer pairs
• Delivering a WCAG 2.0 AA-compliant portal for accessibility
• Providing project management for better control of resources
• Extending the platform to their facilities and human resources teams for one view
• Ability to track and report on SLAs
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How Are ESSA’s Evidence Standards Affecting K-12 Companies?
This webinar took place on Oct. 22, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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A key requirement in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act says that vendors must show that their products and strategies focused on school interventions are backed by evidence—and it’s already having an impact. Some districts are questioning or scrapping longtime contracts with K-12 companies. And education vendors are scrambling to make it on the lists of evidence-backed companies created by states, which wield great power in the process. In this webinar, we’ll break down what companies need to know about the evidence standards set by states, how school districts are using them, and how vendors must adjust or risk getting rejected by K-12 district clients.
Activate Student Success With Database Access
Content provided by Gale, a Cengage company.
This webinar took place on Oct. 16, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Three out of four teachers said their students are now “future ready” as a result of using online databases.1
Do online databases raise student achievement? Administrators think so. But it can still be challenging to effectively integrate them into instruction.2 Gale, a Cengage company, is on a mission to change that.
Gale partnered with Project Tomorrow to conduct a nationwide study examining how schools use cross-curricular databases to support K-12 students and close the achievement gap. Register for this webinar to hear Project Tomorrow and panelists discuss key findings and examples for implementing databases into the classroom.
You’ll learn how educational databases have been used to develop future-ready skills, enhance projects, and improve the quality of student learning. Plus, you’ll receive access to download our research paper and best practice guide.
1 Based on a report from a 2018–2019 nationwide study conducted by Project Tomorrow® in partnership with Gale, a Cengage company, to determine the efficacy of students and teachers using Gale databases to support learning outcomes.
2 Based on national data findings from Project Tomorrow’s 2019 K-12 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning.
Building Trust: Study Reveals Trends in School Customer Service
Content provided by K12 Insight.
This webinar took place on Oct. 15, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Every school leader works to build trust with their school community. But with each passing crisis, that trust wanes. Join us as we reveal findings from the first-ever national study on school customer service and discover “the invisible thread” that powers the relationship between your community and your schools. Hear from leaders at the Tuscaloosa City Schools in Alabama, as they describe a new approach to customer service in the context of K-12 education, and get practical ideas and strategies for building a foundation of trust with your school community.
The Discomfort Zone: Creating Space for Teaching Complex Topics
Content provided by Newsela.
This webinar took place on Oct. 10, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Complex topics belong in classrooms and schools—but educators often feel unprepared to address them there.
That’s what we learned from a summer 2019 survey by EWRC of over 1,000 teachers, principals, and district leaders. They overwhelmingly believe that learning about complex topics such as race, politics, and LGBT issues is important for a variety of reasons, including preparing students to participate in a democratic society, and improving critical thinking. Yet most say teachers are simply not well-prepared to address complex topics, and that their instructional content options are not up to the task. In fact, only 10 percent of educators give their instructional content an A when it comes to complex topics. Hear from district leader Danielle Mastrogiovanni (New Brunswick, N.J.) and ELA teacher Patrick Harris (Detroit, Mich.), along with Jamie Richard of Newsela on how the right instructional content helps create the spaces they (and their students) seek to tackle complex topics in the classroom.
Activate Student Thinking: Engage Students With the 9 Traits of Critical Thinking™
Content provided by Mentoring Minds.
This webinar took place on Oct. 9, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Do you know how to strengthen student thought? Since thinking is an essential component of teaching and learning, you must promote deeper thinking to develop students as skillful thinkers. Join the webinar to learn how the 9 Traits of Critical Thinking™ contribute to a thinking culture in the classroom and help students activate their thinking processes. These 9 traits support students as they learn to make decisions, problem solve, and achieve success in academics and in social interactions. The traits can be used at any grade level or in any content area and they apply beyond the school day. Participate, share, and leave with resources that you can use immediately.
3 Steps to Effective Interventions and Progress Monitoring for MTSS or RTI
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Oct. 7, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In a recent poll, 8 in 10 educators say that tracking interventions is important. Yet, only 3 in 10 educators believe they are tracking interventions effectively today.
Join this webinar to learn the steps to create a unified, data-driven approach to interventions within a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) and response to intervention (RTI) framework.
You’ll gain concrete best practices to:
• Develop an intervention menu of evidence-based strategies across literacy, math, behavior, and social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Create intervention plans tailored to students’ individual needs
• Progress monitor interventions at the student and system levels
The Role of Technology in Schools: How to Learn From EdTech’s Past to Fuel Student Achievement
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on Sept. 24, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Each year, districts spend millions on educational technology. How can we ensure these investments are dollars well spent? Is there merit to the scrutiny about the value and presence of EdTech in the classroom?
In this webinar, school leaders address these questions head on with industry leaders in a panel moderated by Tom Vander Ark.
What you will hear:
• Reflections on the real and challenging issues our leaders and educators face in education today
• Educators talk resistance to technology in the classroom, the role of technology in their districts, and strategies to integrate technology tools with more tenured educators
• Educators share how they select these partnerships and the tangible benefits that they’ve seen from implementation
• Educators dive into how blended learning is fueling student achievement and how they measure the efficacy of classroom technology
• Equity and equitable opportunity for all learners
• How technology empowers teachers to enrich instruction
The Power and Purpose of Text Levels
Content provided by Heinemann.
This webinar took place on Sept. 23, 2019 @ 4 p.m. ET
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Text levels are far more than a “number,” “score,” or “label.” Join literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, creators of the F&P Text Level Gradient™, for an important conversation on the power and purpose of TEXT LEVELS. Together we will untangle common misconceptions and right the reality on leveling, classroom libraries, and what Fountas and Pinnell say to districts mandating levels in ways they were not intended. Put into practice practical tips on effectively utilizing levels in literacy instruction and communicating progress to parents/guardians.
Three Actionable Strategies to Overcome Common Dyslexia Screening Challenges
Content provided by HMH/Amira Learning.
This webinar took place on Sept. 17, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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"Those [students] who do not read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma."
—Double Jeopardy: How Third Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation, 2012, Annie E. Casey Foundation
How do we help? Join this webinar to discover how to improve student reading outcomes by implementing effective dyslexia screening in your school and district.
Building Teacher Confidence and Camaraderie Through Math Coaching
This webinar took place on Aug. 29, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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How can instructional coaching create real, lasting change in teacher practice? In this webinar, math coach Joanna Burt-Kinderman and high school math teacher Laurel Dilley will describe how their small rural district made a cultural shift in teaching and learning over the past eight years, promoting student inquiry and teacher agency. Burt-Kinderman and Dilley will give an inside look at the underlying principles of their district's approach to instructional improvement, the effect on one teacher’s practice and perspective, and the newly minted efforts to expand this approach across the region and state.
How to Scale Ed-Tech Innovations in Your Schools
This webinar took place on Aug. 28, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To implement ed-tech initiatives, like personalized learning or 1-to-1 device initiatives, across a school or a district, education leaders need to communicate a clear vision, reach across silos and foster a culture of innovation. Our guests will lay out steps to help create transformative ed-tech initiatives at scale.
Building—and Keeping—a District Equity Culture
This webinar took place on Aug. 27, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Many school leaders say they strive for an equity culture in their districts, but such work can face serious challenges, both internally and externally. John D. Marshall, a graduate of Jefferson County, Ky., public schools, was a teacher and an assistant principal in the 101,000-student district before being appointed chief equity officer in 2012. He helped develop Jefferson County’s first equity report card, which evaluates schools on discipline, college-and-career readiness, school climate and culture, and literacy. He also spearheaded the creation of an all-boys public middle school, and is working to create a similar program for girls. He will share his insights on how to develop policies and supports that work for all students, the stumbling blocks and concerns that district and school leaders need to be aware of, and methods to overcome those problems.
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What Ed-Tech Companies Need to Get Right With Artificial Intelligence
This webinar took place on Aug. 21, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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AI in education is on the rise. It’s being marketed with big promises, even larger expectations and that’s being met with some skepticism by K-12 leaders. As AI’s role in education grows, ed-tech companies will have to be clear about what these products can—and can’t—do as they respond to the most pressing district needs. Whether they’re using AI to enhance their own products, or marketing the technology to district clients, companies will have to know how to answer the questions educational leaders will have for them. Our guest speakers will be Andreas Oranje, general manager in the ETS Research Division; Thierry Karsenti, a University of Montreal professor who is researching AI’s role in education, and Michelle Zimmerman, an educational leader who wrote a book on teaching AI in schools.
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Inside EdReports: How Companies Hit or Miss the Mark
This webinar took place on July 24, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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EdReports.org has gained widespread attention in districts across the country for its work reviewing K-12 instructional materials. The nonprofit’s findings have become a go-to resource for some school systems in choosing curriculum, and education companies are paying close attention. In this webinar, we’ll talk with EdReport’s executive director about what vendors need to know about the organization’s review process, and what factors lead to a favorable review or a negative one. We’ll also look at how districts are actually using EdReports, how it responds to criticism, and what’s ahead for its curriculum reviews.
Addressing Teacher Turnover With Professional Supports
Content provided by New Teacher Center.
This webinar took place on June 27, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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This summer, district leaders have largely finished their recruitment efforts to fill hundreds of thousands of teacher positions. What if these leaders didn’t have to spend so much of their time and resources to fill these spots? What if teacher turnover was not such a burden?
In this webinar, New Teacher Center’s Chief Operations Officer, Arthur Mills, will have a one-on-one conversation with Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Chief Human Capital Officer, Jose L. Dotres, to discuss:
• What makes a comprehensive induction program, and how does it increase retention?
• How can a district build a culture of educator supports?
• How can we integrate a continuous system of support for these new hires throughout their careers—from pre-service through teacher leadership?
Hear how Miami-Dade structured their induction program to accelerate educator effectiveness, and increase retention and student learning.
Quality Counts: the State of K-12 Finance 2019
This webinar is sponsored by SAP Concur.
This webinar took place on June 11, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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K-12 spending is among the biggest items on any state and local budget. It determines what school and district leaders have to work with in their quest to boost the achievement of students, support the educators who teach them, and assure a safe, up-to-date learning environment. But what are parents—and taxpayers—getting for the nearly $600 billion in state and local money poured into their schools each year? And how do states stack up when it comes to satisfying the demand for K-12 funding, and making sure it gets spent fairly across a diverse range of school districts?
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How Education Companies Can Win in the K-12 Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Game
This webinar took place on May 21, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Breakthroughs in technology, and falling prices, are expected to fuel a booming market for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality tools in K-12 districts over the next few years. But are education companies ready to respond? In this webinar, our guests will lay out the hard questions education companies need to consider—in product design, lesson-planning, implementation, pricing, and marketing— when they’re designing VR/AR/mixed reality tools for the burgeoning market, and trying to make them work in classrooms. What separates a smart, innovative investment from a project that drains time and money, without a payoff?
Making It Work: Instructional Coaching & Successful Curriculum Adoption
Content provided by New Teacher Center.
This webinar took place on May 16, 2019 @ 1 p.m. ET
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When students learn from quality curriculum materials, they are better positioned to reach these standards and succeed in college, career, and beyond. Yet, we know that many curricula are not aligned to the Common Core or state standards, resulting in districts’ adopting a new curriculum.
But how can districts ensure that teachers are prepared to teach a new curriculum and effectively reflect the new, unknown content in the classroom so that it reaches each student?
Hear how instructional coaches are being trained in Baltimore City Public Schools as a key part of the district’s adoption of the “Wit & Wisdom” curriculum. New Teacher Center representatives will provide insights on the new, high-quality, curriculum-aligned supports for instructional coaches that ensure teachers effectively develop their understanding of the curriculum and how to relay the concepts to students.
PBIS and SEL in Action: How Districts Are Promoting Positive Behavior
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on May 15, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Students with positive behavior spend more time learning in class and help to create safe school environments.
Districts and schools are seeking to understand the factors that influence positive behavior, such as school climate, students’ mindsets, and teacher training. That’s why schools and districts are strengthening Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) processes by measuring and understanding their students’ social-emotional learning (SEL).
Join the webinar to learn how district and school leaders:
• Use SEL data to prevent behavior issues by addressing root causes
• Introduce trauma-sensitive and restorative practices
• Use universal PBIS strategies
• Connect behavior information with academic, attendance, and SEL data to plan schoolwide and student-level interventions
• Provide direct instruction to help students build social-emotional skills
How to Cultivate Social and Emotional Learning With Computational Thinking
Content provided by Learning.com.
This webinar took place on May 9, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Computational thinking moves students from users of technology to creators with technology. At its core, computational thinking encompasses complex problem-solving by which students analyze and visualize data and experiment with and amplify solutions.
Beyond the functional application of technology to solve and create, computational thinking also cultivates a mindset that imbues experimentation—perseverance, growth, and collaboration. And these competencies feed social and emotional learning (SEL). Indeed, as schools and districts continue to prioritize SEL, computational thinking is a meaningful program to support students’ social and emotional growth.
In this webinar, Jeff Meyer, Director of Education for Learning.com, will:
• Demystify computational thinking and the mindset it encourages;
• Illustrate the connections between computational thinking and social and emotional learning;
• Share ideas to foster the connection between developing social and emotional learners and computational thinking;
• Provide resources to start teaching computational thinking in ways that support social and emotional learning.
The Good, the Bad, and the Future of Personalized Learning
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on May 7, 2019 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Technology—in close partnership with educators—should be leveraged to make possible new opportunities for learning that also improve achievement. By analyzing specific student data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Advice (IA) have the potential to help more quickly surface specific areas in which students need personalized, “just in time” learning support. To meet the needs of every student, learning needs to be personal and personalized. Unfortunately, many educators struggle to define what “Personalized Learning” means.
In this webinar, participants will be introduced to a simple definition and framework, enabling them to evaluate personalized learning models while also providing a guide for developing future models. Participants will also explore the potential of AI and IA to improve student achievement and teacher support.
How to Make Customer Experience Part of Your K-12 Schools’ Strategic Plan
Content provided by K12 Insight.
This webinar took place on May 1, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Quality teaching and learning is critical, but emerging research suggests it's not everything. In efforts to create a truly exceptional school experience, K-12 school leaders are updating their strategic plans to include a focus on other critical factors, including community engagement and the customer experience.
Join Superintendent Debra Pace and Public Information Officer Dana Schafer as they sit down with K12 Insight to share how the School District of Osceola County, Fla., is using a focus on listening to build trust with its school community, while taking its strategic plan from Good to Great. Discover how new standards, simple technology, and lessons learned from some of the world’s most respected brands combined to help the district earn a feedback score of 9 out of 10 from parents and other community members.
Helping Children Succeed Through Family Engagement
Content provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
This webinar took place on April 25, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Research shows that when parents are engaged in their children’s learning, students succeed. Educators often need support in helping families integrate into local school communities, where they can learn about the education practices and policies that impact their children. The challenge is figuring out the best methods for building these relationships.
The philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York commissioned the Global Family Research Project to create a white paper on the history, current practices, and future potential of family engagement. In this free webinar learn about the five high-leverage areas identified in the report: attendance, data sharing, academic and social development, digital media, and transition points.
The Corporation invited three nonprofit organizations to explain what success might look like based on their experiences in creating successful models, showing how others might do the same.
Education Analytics: A Maturity Model and Success Story
Content provided by Microsoft.
This webinar took place on April 24, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The first part of this webinar considers countries at four different levels of “maturity” in their use of education analytics. Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh will highlight key aspects of data collection, reporting, and analysis, and examine ways in which school systems can learn from each other’s experience.
The second part will focus on an exciting new study into the St. Lucie school district in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on “improvement momentum” and the role data and analytics has played in accelerating growth.
Participants will have access to a new whitepaper, new video, and case study.
Teacher Moves That Engage Students in Mathematical Practices
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on April 23, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“. . . As teachers work to implement NCTM’s Effective Teaching Practices, (Principles to Actions, 2014), instructional routines that embed explicit high-leverage teaching moves at their heart provide regular opportunities for teachers to mindfully develop them.”
—Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta
Cofounders, Fostering Math Practices
Ready Classroom Mathematics’ coauthors Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta will discuss manageable ways to integrate effective teaching practices, including using routines and basic teacher moves that can be implemented immediately.
In this actionable webinar, you will:
• Learn how to use a routine that ensures all students are reasoning and communicating mathematically
• Discuss three talk moves that teachers use to ensure all students are talking productively about one another’s mathematical ideas
• Develop techniques that help you refine your current teacher moves to better engage students in the mathematical practices
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Selling to Principals Without Alienating District Leaders
This webinar took place on April 18, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For many education companies, winning over a school principal is a critically important strategy for securing business in school districts. If a principal tests a product and becomes its champion, it can pave a vendor’s path to a district-wide contract. But there are challenges with that strategy. Many central-office administrators are wary of companies working with individual principals, fearing it will sow confusion and lead to a disjointed educational or tech-based strategy. In this webinar, we'll look at how K-12 companies can work with principals and build support for their products in districts without angering top administrators.
Attacking the K-12 Cybersecurity Challenge
This webinar is sponsored by Microsoft.
This webinar took place on April 11, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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From phishing scams to ransomware, K-12 districts around the country are facing a rising tide of cybersecurity threats. Unaddressed, these attacks and breaches could cost millions of taxpayer dollars, put the personal data of students and teachers at risk, and waste time otherwise spent on classroom instruction. In this Education Week webinar, staff writer Benjamin Herold talks with a pair of guests with a wide range of expertise on how district leaders can protect their schools from an array of potential problems. The guests will describe the threat landscape, discuss prominent incidents where things went wrong, and offer practical advice for districts on clear steps and strategies for securing data and networks, training staff, managing vendors, and insulating schools from bad actors.
Empowering Educators and Students to Meet the New Science Standards
Content provided by Defined Learning.
This webinar took place on April 10, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The new science standards require educators to shift their classroom focus from transmission of information to application of knowledge through real-world experiences. While the benefits may be clear, how to achieve this has presented educators with a new set of challenges. In this webinar, leaders from one school district will explain how they shifted to an interdisciplinary approach to bring about deeper student understanding and achievement.
During this webinar, two school district leaders will discuss:
• How they created modular units that present real world problems and provide opportunities to apply solutions
• How district leaders empowered their teachers to implement authentic performance tasks that help students meet the new standards
• The impact this shift in teaching and learning has had on student engagement and achievement
New Research on the Links Between SEL and Academic Growth
And What It Means for Your District
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on April 9, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Students who can effectively manage their emotions and behavior tend to do better in their coursework and on assessments. In fact, students who report high self-management are 75 percent less likely to face failing grades than students who report low self-management.
Join this webinar to learn more about the connections between social-emotional learning and academic growth. Panorama’s research team will present new findings on the important role of emotion regulation, growth mindset, grit, and self-management and recommend schoolwide and individual student support practices to build these critical social-emotional learning skills.
This webinar conversation is intended for school and district leaders who are looking to improve academic outcomes by addressing the social-emotional needs of your students and will include a Q&A session.
Professional Ethics: It’s Rarely About Right or Wrong
Content provided by ETS.
This webinar took place on April 2, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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When facing ethical issues, we, as educators, try to act … well, ethically. But, there is a difference between being an “ethical” person and following a code of professional ethics.
When we face ethical issues, we are expected to know innately and individually how to address them effectively. Acting simply on good intentions can put us at significant risk. A code of professional ethics provides a common framework helping us to recognize the inherent risks of our profession, guiding conversation and decision-making to uncover the best course of action with the least risk for all.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
• The meaning of professional ethics
• Why the time is right for a code of ethics
• How ethics standards can be applied to the practice of professional educators
Literacy as a Tool for Student Engagement
Content provided by ThinkCERCA.
This webinar took place on March 27, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Student achievement doesn’t happen without student engagement. Research shows that when students are actively engaged in the learning process, they retain information better, are more likely to be hopeful for the future, and have a greater chance of attending higher education.
While district administrators know that student engagement is critical, they also know it can be difficult to find ways to support classroom engagement from the central office.
Join this webinar with the Executive Director of Research at ThinkCERCA Chris Balow, who will explain how district leaders can use a literacy initiative to cultivate student engagement. By emphasizing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills across the curriculum, educators can provide students abundant opportunities to collaborate with peers, develop deeper connections to learning, and see the real-world applications of their classroom instruction.
Bringing STEAM Learning to Life in Your Schools
Content provided by Ozobot.
This webinar took place on March 21, 2019 @ 4 p.m. ET
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Incorporating coding and STEAM into any classroom is rarely simple, but in this webinar, our guests will show you how to make it possible both with and without screens. They’ll discuss ed-tech tools that can be easily accessed, including a robotic programming editor with five skill levels from pre-reader to master. They'll also explore screen-free coding with markers and paper, which educators can use to teach basic coding concepts like cause/effect and debugging.
In this webinar, you’ll discover new ways of incorporating STEAM in your classrooms, learn about the robot recommended by 95 percent of teachers surveyed, explore a demo of Ozobot’s 2 Ways to Code, and enjoy a sneak preview of what’s next for the students in your schools.
Middle School Students’ Academic and Social-Emotional Learning: New Research and Practices
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on March 19, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Schools today are responsible for promoting growth of the whole student, across academics and social-emotional learning (SEL), and ensuring students are on track for college, career, and life readiness.
Join this webinar to learn how districts are developing effective practices for meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of their middle school students.
You’ll walk away with strategies on how to:
• Bolster academic progress by developing middle school students’ SEL competencies, including self-management and self-efficacy
• Use design thinking to understand and improve students’ sense of belonging and engagement with the curriculum
• Harness academic, behavior, and attendance data alongside SEL data to provide tiered student supports in a middle school environment
• Ensure every student enters 9th grade on track for college, career, and life readiness
Equitable Access to High-Quality Instruction for All
Content provided by Instructure.
This webinar took place on March 7, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Compared to other sectors and industries, K-12 education has a profoundly unique goal—providing equitable access to high-quality instruction, for every student in every classroom. We can never be satisfied with status quo, and there’s always more we can do to level the playing field.
In this webinar, you will hear how a high-achieving district like Blue Valley Unified School District in Overland Park, Kan., relentlessly strikes for equity by empowering teachers, engaging students, and involving parents in this critical journey inclusively. Hear from Their Director of Blended Learning Brad Moser and Hilary Scharton from Canvas when they home in on how to provide equity for all students.
Why Aren’t Our Behavior Interventions Working?
Using Trauma-Informed Approaches to Enhance Your Behavior Interventions
Content provided by 321insight.
This webinar took place on March 5, 2019 @ 2:30 p.m. ET
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Behavior-focused initiatives like Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) are common practices in schools today. Educators are being taught new skills to empathize with students and rationally talk through problems. With so many new tools, why are we still seeing crisis levels of disruptive behavior in schools?
It’s not that what we're doing is necessarily wrong. Many intervention systems used today have a strong research basis. The problem with implementation of these interventions is that they are missing a critical focus on establishing and maintaining regulation, a key part of trauma-informed practices, and a pre-requisite to more cognitively-based strategies. This webinar is about using a trauma-informed lens to super-charge what you are already doing so that it’s more effective.
Six Keys to Building a Data Culture
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on Feb. 28, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Actionable data has the potential to play a role—in partnership with teachers—in transforming classrooms. But in order to harness the power of data at the classroom level, school and district leaders first need to foster a culture around data, with a common vocabulary, purpose, and process.
Join the i-Ready team and district leaders from Sarasota County Schools as they discuss a practical approach to understanding and using data across your schools and district. The key? Implementing six specific actions that demystify data and empower educators. With these actions in place, your team can use insights from data to better differentiate instruction and help students grow.
During this interactive webinar, you’ll learn:
• The six key actions to building a successful data culture
• Lessons learned from educators who have been successful
• How to incorporate these actions into your school’s or district’s approach to using data
Level Up Your MTSS: Best Practices for Tiered Interventions and Supports
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Feb. 27, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Providing individualized support to every student is an important pathway to reaching equity and excellence in schools. Yet providing robust interventions that meet each student’s needs and understanding what’s working are real challenges.
That’s why many schools and districts are looking to improve their Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Response to Intervention (RTI), PBIS, and student support frameworks to proactively identify student needs, deliver targeted interventions, and track progress.
Join this webinar to hear how school and district leaders are establishing responsive student support practices to:
• Bring together key data to identify students’ academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs
• Create a menu of trusted, evidence-based interventions that align staff around shared norms and expectations
• Ensure all staff can access the student information they need to best plan supports in one central system
• Monitor the progress of interventions in real time to proactively adjust supports
• Evaluate the efficacy of interventions on an individual student and group basis to make continuous improvements to interventions and supports
Building Community Around Essential Literacy Experiences
Content provided by Heinemann.
This webinar took place on Feb. 26, 2019 @ 4 p.m. ET
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From assessment to classroom instruction to intervention, essential literacy experiences are grounded in the common language and instructional approaches that unite teaching and learning. Implementing a literacy system rooted in coherence builds a community of learners that empowers every teacher, every student, every day with high-impact teaching, high-quality texts, and highly engaging talk—together towards a literate life. Join literacy leaders Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as together they explore the essential literacy experiences that are critical for nurturing lifelong readers and writers.
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K-12 Investment Hot Spots: Where Venture Capitalists Are Putting Their Money
This webinar took place on Feb. 22, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Venture capital (VC) can be the infusion that allows many companies to grow and turn untested concepts into fully realized products and services that K-12 school districts will buy. In this webinar, our expert panel of venture capitalists will reveal the products and sectors where they’re most interested in putting their money. Some of those categories include fast-emerging technologies or disruptive ideas likely to gain traction in schools. Others are concepts that may have been overlooked in the past, but are starting to gain traction among VCs this year. Tune in to this webinar to get specific ideas about the best ways to appeal to VC investors looking at the K-12 market.
Early STEM Exposure Through Career-Focused PBL
Content provided by Defined Learning.
This webinar took place on Feb. 5, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Exposing students to STEM and connecting STEM concepts to careers in the early grades can reap huge benefits, positioning students well for future success. In this webinar, leaders from one school district will explain how they shifted to a career-focused project-based learning model to expose their students to STEM content and careers as early as kindergarten.
During this webinar, two school district leaders will discuss:
• Their district’s goals around college, career, and life readiness
• How district leaders pushed their teachers to think past the traditional style of teaching and make the shift to project-based learning
• The impact this shift has had on the district and students
Momentum in Micro-Credentialing: The New Era of Educator Growth and Advancement
Content provided by BloomBoard.
This webinar took place on Jan. 29, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Micro-credentials have been rising in popularity over the past few years. Fourteen states have launched micro-credential initiatives as well as hundreds of districts across the country. While many think of micro-credentials as an alternative form of professional development, they are being leveraged for so much more.
In this webinar, you’ll hear how three organizations are incorporating micro-credentials into their educator talent management strategies to help recruit, retain, and develop effective educators. Each will discuss how they are implementing micro-credentials, not just as a mode of professional learning, but as the building blocks for career advancement, certification, and licensure. By the end, you'll walk away with a better understanding of how micro-credentialing works, why states are building incentives for them, and the implementation and structural changes required to make a shift towards micro-credentialing.
Building Public Awareness: Framing That Works
Explaining Complex K-12 Initiatives to the Community
Content provided by FrameWorks Institute.
This webinar took place on Jan. 24, 2019 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Whatever the educational challenge—improving assessments, personalizing learning environments, or advancing equity—public thinking plays a role in the solution. And the way the issue is framed for the public has a big effect on levels of support and engagement in the issue.
How can educators and advocates decide where to start, what to emphasize, and what to leave unsaid when explaining new initiatives to the community? Drawing from a set of original studies that queried more than 40,000 Americans nationwide, FrameWorks Institute will offer framing recommendations based in evidence, not intuition.
The 5 Biggest Challenges of MTSS: How Districts Are Responding
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Jan. 23, 2019 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As more schools and districts seek to support every student through a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), common challenges are emerging.
Educators are looking at academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning (SEL) data to identify which students need additional supports and to provide appropriate interventions at each tier. However, districts struggle to set up data systems and “human systems” that will enable them to fulfill the promises of equity and positive student outcomes.
In this webinar, educators will discuss how districts are responding to five challenges of MTSS:
• Providing all students with an effective, preventative Tier 1 base of support
• Responding to students’ needs for additional supports by understanding root causes
• Offering targeted interventions across academics, behavior, and social-emotional learning
• Bringing data together through data system interoperability
• Coordinating school-wide practices and expectations
Speakers will provide concrete recommendations and insights on what’s working in their districts to make MTSS a success.
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Master the Growing International Private School Market
This webinar took place on Jan. 15, 2019 @ 12 p.m. ET
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English-language private schools represent an attractive market for K-12 companies. There are 10,000 of those schools worldwide, and their numbers surged 6 percent last year, fueled by rising enrollments in China, India, and other nations. Many of these private schools are attempting to attract families, impress regulators, and set themselves apart by purchasing high-quality curriculum, assessments, educational technology, STEM materials, and other products. How can education businesses from the United States and other markets get to know these schools’ needs, and set themselves apart from their rivals? In this webinar, you’ll learn more about how to serve the needs of this booming market.
Ways to Combat Bias in Schools: A New Resource
Content provided by Public Agenda.
This webinar took place on Dec. 5, 2018 @ 3 p.m. ET
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There's a growing concern about hate crimes taking place across the country. While incidents of bias can occur anywhere, it's especially troubling when it happens in schools. Discussing discrimination can be difficult for the most seasoned of professionals. However, that discomfort shouldn’t prevent important conversations from taking place.
Join Matt Leighninger and Nicole Cabral of Public Agenda for a one-hour webinar where attendees will be armed with tips and strategies to facilitate safe, illuminating, and productive conversations on incidents of bias. They will pull from the newly-released discussion guide, “Addressing Incidents of Bias in Schools: A guide for preventing and reacting to discrimination affecting students," to provide a framework for this virtual conversation that will include advice on how to use the guide in classrooms, staff meetings, and schoolwide events.
Life Between the Numbers: Data & Analytics to Advance Achievement & Equity
Content provided by Microsoft.
This webinar took place on Nov. 29, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For education leaders, creating actionable intelligence from data is a new skill. In this 4th industrial revolution, the ability to make better decisions, faster decisions against a backdrop of complexity and ambiguity is now essential for leading transformation across schools and districts.
In this webinar, Phil Neufeld and Ryan Coe from Fresno Unified School District will detail their 2-year personalized learning initiative, a project which is now delivering statistically significant results as measured by California State Assessments. Participants will learn the following:
• The pedagogical model used to foster a collaborative learning culture anchored in student agency.
• The impacts of this approach on thousands of students over two years.
• The elements which work that anyone can leverage in their work.
Moving From Improvement to Transformation in Underperforming Schools
This webinar is sponsored by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.
This webinar took place on Nov. 27, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For struggling schools, there’s no quick fix. And while a lot of underperforming schools hunger for transformation, the sad reality is that—even with state school improvement policies rooted in ESSA guidelines—it’s not likely to happen in schools that need it most. That’s because one basic element of transformation is often overlooked: school and classroom leadership. Inspiring leaders and teachers, achieving student success, and reaching the next level of improvement require a comprehensive approach that focuses on building a collaborative culture of professional learning, creating a support system to accelerate teacher development AND teacher leadership. In this webinar, join our guests as they examine how to move from improvement to transformation in underperforming schools.
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How ESSA Drives District Purchasing Decisions
This webinar took place on Nov. 14, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The Every Student Succeeds Act was designed to give states and districts new flexibility to craft policies and spend money to address their most pressing needs. Learn how the law is shaping district buying decisions in curriculum, assessment, interventions in struggling schools, and other areas. Gain valuable insight into the innovative opportunities for partnerships with districts under ESSA that education companies often overlook, leaving good ideas and available funding on the table.
What Is Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching?
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on Nov. 13, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“. . . Allow students to take ownership of mathematical knowledge in ways that empower them to see themselves in mathematics and to use mathematics to examine real-world problems, especially those that are relevant in their communities.”
—Mark Ellis, Ph.D.
Join mathematics expert Dr. Mark Ellis for a discussion around Knowing and Valuing Every Learner: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching (CRMT). Dr. Ellis will be joined by educators in several diverse urban schools as they speak to their efforts around increasing student interest and success through a culturally responsive approach that engages cultural, linguistic, and communal knowledge.
In this actionable webinar, you’ll learn:
• About the four-dimensional approach behind CRMT
• How to foster a learning environment focused on mathematical sensemaking in which each student feels valued for who they are, their ways of engaging in mathematical reasoning, and their contributions to the collective success of the classroom
• Techniques that help you position your students as having authority over mathematics knowledge being developed
Improving Student Outcomes With Social-Emotional Learning Measurement
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Nov. 12, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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By measuring and growing students’ social-emotional learning, districts like Olathe Public Schools, Olathe, Kan., are improving key student outcomes—improving academics, decreasing chronic absenteeism, and graduating students who are prepared to thrive in college, career, and life.
In this webinar, Panorama will present new research on the connections between students’ social-emotional learning and critical student outcomes. Panorama’s research team will provide recommendations for districts to approach and monitor social-emotional learning in ways that are responsive to key district priorities.
Dr. Jessica Dain and school leaders from Olathe Public Schools will share the district’s approach to building students’ social-emotional skills to support student growth. In addition to universal SEL screening and programming, Dain focuses on social-emotional growth for students receiving additional supports, such as English-language-learners and students in special education programs.
Chicago’s Elementary Math Specialist Program: A District/University Partnership
Content provided by CME Group Foundation.
This webinar took place on Nov. 8, 2018 @ 4 p.m. ET
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In recent years, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has shown impressive growth in the teaching and learning of math. Elementary Math Specialist (EMS) pilot program data from August 2018 reported that 100 percent of participating teachers demonstrated improved confidence in teaching early math and improved pedagogical knowledge, and 98 percent reported or demonstrated changes in their instructional practice. The percentage of CPS students at or above the national average performance in 3rd grade math also steadily improved, from 46 percent in 2013 to 59 percent in 2018.
The EMS program, developed in partnership with University of Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and DePaul University, responds to the need for mathematics teacher leaders in elementary grades and for increased levels of content knowledge and teacher confidence in mathematics.
In this webinar, district leaders and university-based professionals will learn how schools can develop a shared vision and common goals with multiple university partners and philanthropy to meet local needs.
Why Technology Elevates Dual-Language Education
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on Nov. 6, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Despite the digital divide and language barriers, administrators and faculty at one elementary campus opened their school to parents and families. Working and learning together, they embraced technology as they supported their children. Hear from the principal who leads her school by focusing on bi-literacy, cultural awareness, and innovation. Learn how technology can transform education while enhancing dual-language programs and strengthening community connections.
Trauma-Informed Schools: From Awareness to Action
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This webinar took place on Nov. 1, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Over 45 percent of K-12 students have had 3 or more adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. Research shows that ACEs impact students’ learning and behavior. But ACEs are not destiny! Attend this webinar to learn how to create trauma-informed and resilience-oriented schools to help students overcome the impact of ACEs. We will cover some background on trauma and ACEs, long-term and short-term strategies for creating trauma-informed school environments, involving all staff, and tools you can use for training. Learn best practices and available resources to move from awareness to an action-focused implementation of trauma-informed practices at your school or district.
The Role of Ed Tech and Professional Development in Driving Personalized Learning
Content provided by DreamBox Learning, PBS, and the Education Week Research Center.
This webinar took place on Oct. 25, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Teachers and administrators say educational technology can be an effective tool for differentiation—which they largely agree helps to improve student outcomes. But they want more professional development in pedagogy and instructional methods, as well as more training in using tech tools. And they could use more and better devices, according to a new survey from DreamBox Learning, PBS, and the Education Week Research Center. Join this webinar to learn more about the survey results and to hear educators’ reactions to the findings.
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Maximizing Conference ROI
This webinar took place on Oct. 16, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As conference season planning gets underway, learn how to maximize your ROI and improve your impact. Our speakers from ISTE and SXSW EDU give tips about how you can impress potential customers roaming the floor—and how you can work to reach out to them before and after the conference. Just as importantly, they will stress what turns educators off. Join Ron Reed, founder and executive producer of SXSW EDU, and Jessica Medaille, ISTE’s chief membership officer, for this insightful look at how you can make the most out of conferences and avoid wasting both time and money.
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism With School Climate and SEL
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This webinar took place on Oct. 12, 2018 @ 12 p.m. ET
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8 million students are chronically absent from school each year. In the years ahead, schools and districts require new strategies to combat chronic absence and ensure equity and success for every student.
Join Panorama Education and Attendance Works to hear from experts and practitioners about how schools and districts are rethinking their approaches to chronic absenteeism. We will explore the ways districts can leverage school climate and social-emotional learning (SEL) to create positive school environments and foster the development of social-emotional skills that support increased attendance.
In this webinar, we will share how two school districts—Ogden School District (Utah) and Grand Rapids Public Schools (Mich.)—are using new, evidence-based models for preventing and intervening on chronic absence. We will discuss best practices for using attendance data to determine the causes of chronic absence and to implement approaches that address barriers to getting to class within a multi-tiered system of supports.
How ESSA Affects YOU: Shifting Focus to Support Today's Educators
Content provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
This webinar took place on Oct. 10, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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ESSA is making waves by shifting focus from teacher evaluations to teacher development—an important change that is sure to leave many wondering about what’s in store for teachers and administrators alike. In this webinar, two experts will dive into what this change means for you.
Administrators: You will learn how a greater focus on leadership is essential to maximizing the Every Student Succeeds Act’s goals—improving student achievement and supporting and sustaining teachers.
Teachers: You will explore how ESSA’s transition to a greater focus on professional development affects YOU and can offer chances to boost your career.
Live Webinar With Fountas & Pinnell: Levels Are a Teacher’s Tool, NOT a Child’s Label
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This webinar took place on Sept. 6, 2018 @ 4 p.m. ET
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All children deserve access to an authentic, rich, and diverse text base—including a robust classroom library where levels have no place. The books in a classroom library are not there for the purpose of “practicing reading,” but rather to create lifelong readers who have the power of choice, the ability to make decisions about books, the freedom to have opinions, the opportunity to think critically, and the pleasure of reading for a sustained time every day. Levels have a critical place in the hands of teachers who understand their complexity and use them to make good decisions in instruction. Advocating for the appropriate use of levels in our schools and within our classrooms is both a challenge and an opportunity.
Join literacy leaders Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as together we untangle common misconceptions around text levels and explore practical tips for nurturing student agency and communicating progress.
Sparking Student Questions: Engaging All Students in Critical Thinking
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This webinar took place on Sept. 5, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“Does anyone have any questions?” Silence fills the room. In traditional classrooms, teachers pose most of the questions. How can we flip the script? Join this webinar to learn four questioning protocols guaranteed to boost student questioning. These protocols support students as they learn to develop high-quality questions that promote critical thinking and connect to students’ interests. They can be used at any grade level or in any content area. Participate, share, and leave with resources that you and your fellow teachers will love!
ESSA and State Report Cards
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Nov. 29, 2017.Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar took place on Aug. 28, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to give parents and the public a wealth of information on school quality and performance. But with a federal deadline, making these school report cards both complete and easy to use is no easy task. In this webinar, learn how states are grappling with the technical and communication challenges in crafting ESSA report cards that are useful and transparent to parents, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers alike. Our guests will include an expert from a state that has gone through the process and a consultant who can guide states and agencies on how to do this to greatest effect. Among the topics:
• What the U.S. Department of Education is going to be looking for in state report cards.
• How to best display school accountability measures to showcase your schools and lead to the most accurate representation of how your K-12 system is progressing.
• Lessons learned from states such as California that already have robust—and sometimes controversial—report cards, and what it takes to put them in place.
• Questions you should be asking your technical teams and accountability officers alike so you’re ready.
Join our guests for a deeper look at the solutions you may need to weather the ESSA implementation storm.
How Big Data Can Help You Personalize Learning
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This webinar took place on Aug. 22, 2018 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Personalized learning is based around students’ personal interests and their natural ability to learn in order to develop their skills further and increase engagement in class. But the question remains, how can we create an environment that enables this framework in a practical way to support the needs of every student in the classroom?
That’s where big data and learning analytics comes in. Data empowers educators and administrators to better understand their students, helping them make instructional decisions that will enable all students to reach their full potential. Data empowers students to become partners in their own learning, enabling them to track their progress towards their learning goals. Finally, data empowers ed-tech developers so that they can continue to improve the user experience for teachers and students alike.
We will address all of these applications of big data and what it means for personalized learning—today and in the future.
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Preparing the Sales Pitch: What Districts Expect K-12 Companies to Know
This webinar took place on Aug. 21, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Many education vendors wreck their chances of selling to districts by not understanding critical background on those school systems. We look at the information—budgetary, strategic, academic, data-focused, and demographic—that district officials say they expect companies to understand, before they make a sales pitch. What kind of knowledge do vendors need to put on display, and how do they convey their expertise to districts, if they hope to win their trust and make a deal?
Nurturing Academic Talent Among Foster Students
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
This webinar took place on Aug. 8, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Trauma, schooling instability, poverty: Any one of those challenges can make it harder for gifted children to be found and to show their strengths, and students in the foster-care system often have all of those disadvantages and then some. Learn how one successful program in Washington is helping districts identify some of their most vulnerable but academically talented students, and work with other agencies to support their educational progress.
Cross-Curricular Instructional Principles to Prepare More ELA Students for AP and College
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This webinar took place on July 26, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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This webinar will introduce the College Board’s Shared Instructional Principles that have been identified across curriculums to prepare more students for AP and college success. By building in a common set of routines and approaches, beginning in middle school, more ELA students can be prepared to complete college-level work in high school.
Participants will learn tips and tricks to apply the four principles to their own classroom instruction. Join SpringBoard Teacher of Distinction Amanda Shackelford to review strategies for incorporating Close Observation & Analysis, Higher-Order Questioning, Academic Conversations, and Evidence-Based Writing into your classroom.
How to Leverage Data to Inform Instruction and Improve Student Achievement
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This webinar took place on July 25, 2018 @ 2:30 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, join our guests who will discuss statewide public portals that enable their educators to better leverage data-driven decision-making in K-12 schools. Leaders from Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction (DPI) will explain how their initiative guides the use of data to inform instruction and support school improvement. Their collaboration has enabled their state to take great strides to empower educators and improve student achievement, and it can help your state too.
During this webinar the presenters from Wisconsin DPI and CESA 7 will discuss:
• Why Wisconsin started these initiatives and its goals around WISEdash and WISExplore.
• The steps taken to build the data warehouse and launch both the district and public portals.
• Where they are headed next on this journey.
• Success stories and the impact on districts and students.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insight into the power of a state-level data warehouse, dashboard, and data inquiry initiatives.
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Europe’s Tough New Data-Privacy Law: Breaking Down GDPR for Companies
This webinar took place on July 17, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The sweeping new European data privacy regulation, GDPR, has set stricter ground rules for education companies’ collection and use of data. Join EdWeek Market Brief for an in-depth look at the law’s implications for K-12 providers in the United States and beyond. We’ll offer tips for companies—from established businesses to startups—on the changes they may need to make to their product development, consent policies, and data inventory to get in line with the policy, and the mistakes ed-tech providers need to avoid.
'When Am I Going to Use This?' Helping Students Find Purpose to Build Motivation
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the NoVo Foundation.
This webinar took place on June 28, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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If students see school work as a series of isolated problems, disconnected from real-world challenges and their personal interests, they can grow disengaged and disinterested in classroom work.
But when students understand the purpose and practical application for what they’re learning at school, they are more motivated, researchers have found.
Researchers have developed simple strategies for helping students find a personal sense of purpose in their school work. In this webinar, hear from a researcher about the science behind student motivation and a simple intervention teachers can use to tap into it.
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Quality Counts: Follow the Money—School Finance and Funding
This webinar is sponsored by SAP Concur.
This webinar took place on June 27, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Funding is the lifeblood of public education, underpinning everything from staffing to curriculum to administration. This webinar examines state-by-state school spending patterns, how fairly that money is distributed, and the factors underlying those decisions. Sterling Lloyd, assistant director of the Education Week Research Center, will unpack details on the state grades and key takeaways from the numbers—who’s up, who’s down on state funding and fiscal equity, along with interesting standouts. And Education Week staff writer Daarel Burnette II will address the policy and political pressures that underlie these difficult and often controversial school spending decisions.
Making Project-Based Learning More Than a Project
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This webinar took place on June 14, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a hot topic in education, but how can it work effectively in your schools? You may already be implementing PBL in your schools, or maybe your teachers are doing something they call Project-Based Learning, but you are uncertain if they are actually doing it right. If you want PBL to be more than creating a project, this webinar is for you.
What are the first steps in creating space for Project-Based Learning in your schools?
Join our special guest Mike Miele from the Highlander Institute as we share the eight components of strong PBL. Whether you’re a school leader or a classroom teacher, this webinar will help you get started.
Strategies for Improvement at Every Level of Your District
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
This webinar took place on June 13, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The urge to find one silver bullet in education often leaves districts with a churn of new initiatives and short-lived gains. That's why, for the 4,000-student Menomonee Falls, Wis., district, real improvement means slowing down and making sure everyone carries a piece of the load. District and school leaders will describe how they infused strategies for continuous improvement into every school and district office, with impressive results.
How Can Districts Make the Most of Title IV Funding Under ESSA?
This webinar is sponsored by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on June 12, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In this Education Week webinar, our guests will focus on the many different funding possibilities within the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, better known as Title IV of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Districts could choose to spend a hefty portion of this flexible block grant on STEM and technology. But there are also other Title IV options, such as school safety and health, arts education, and college and career readiness. The program recently got a big funding boost, from just $400 million during the 2017-18 school year, to $1.1 billion for the 2018-19 school year. Since the program is so open-ended, we’ll review the many opportunities, challenges, ad possibilities.
STEAM & Project-Based Learning: Educators and Students Get Future-Ready
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This webinar took place on May 30, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Do you know any 21st century jobs that require us to simply listen and memorize? Future opportunities for students will demand new skills. If you think about how engineers, designers, scientists, technology developers, and artists work together to solve real-world problems and create opportunities, you’re thinking “future-ready.”
This webinar will look at the intersection of STEAM and project-based learning. We’ll explore how the standards of multiple disciplines connect to strengthen cross-curricular learning. We’ll investigate the processes of inquiry and problem-solving. You’ll learn about successes in fostering “the four C’s” and opening the door for student voice and agency. Our educator panel will showcase their classroom-tested approaches to creativity, design thinking, and the four integrated steps of IDEA: identify, define, explore, and assess. The creative economy is the future. Prepare your students to thrive.
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Who’s on Top of the K-12 Curriculum and Assessment Markets
This webinar took place on May 23, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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EdWeek Market Brief dives deep into the K-12 curriculum and assessment markets, releasing the results of an exclusive survey that asked K-12 administrators which classroom products they’re using, and what they think of those resources. In this webinar, Education Week Research Center Director Holly Yettick breaks down the results of the nationally representative survey about their use of math and English/language arts products. She’s joined by EdWeek Market Brief Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh, who discusses the results and what they mean for providers competing in the classroom space.
Digital Learning Evolves to Meet the Future of Work
This webinar is sponsored by Texthelp.
Underwriting for this webinar is provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
This webinar took place on May 17, 2018 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Many district and school leaders are struggling to put in place personalized learning programs that help students become better problem solvers, more creative thinkers, and highly skilled users of technology. The goal is to prepare them for the future of work. But achieving a high-quality, effective plan for this goal is not easy. What technology is needed to make it work? What are school or district professional development needs, and how can education leaders get buy-in from their teaching, student, and parent communities? Other challenges include tackling data privacy concerns, and ensuring research-backed strategies are implemented. In this webinar, our experts will guide you through the details of how districts are trying to achieve this goal and the challenges they are facing.
Principals Tackle Classroom Tech Challenges
This webinar is sponsored by littleBits.
This webinar took place on April 30, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Technology Counts 2018 offers a definitive look at what principals and other school leaders think of the power of digital technology as it sweeps through the classroom. An Education Week national survey of 500 school leaders shows they believe it has the ability to improve student learning, personalize education, and engage students. But they worry that too much screen time may be stunting students’ social-emotional growth. The influence of technology companies around the push for personalized learning and increased access to student data is also raising red flags for some principals. During this webinar, Education Week will review the results of the survey and discuss the promise and perils of the continued expansion of technology in K-12 education.
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School Data Privacy: How to Meet State and District Requirements
This webinar took place on April 27, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Companies working in the K-12 market face an increasingly complex web of data-privacy requirements from school districts. District requirements—and dozens of different state laws—can create legal risks for education companies, and carry huge implications for future sales. In this webinar, you will discover specific, proactive strategies you can take to protect student data and meet the concerns of administrators and parents. Education companies that choose to ignore these steps do so at their peril.
Live Webinar With Fountas & Pinnell: Getting Practical About a Multi-Text Approach to Literacy Instruction
Content provided by Heinemann.
This webinar took place on April 25, 2018 @ 4 p.m. ET
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All children deserve access to an authentic, rich text base in their classroom. The texts they encounter in their literacy education must be varied, well-written, engaging, accessible, and plentiful. Creating a rich text base of high-quality books in the school and within each classroom takes time, planning, and collaboration among the school team; however, it is also a critical, “must have” element in supporting children’s literacy learning.
Join literacy leaders Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as they will explore practical tips for how to build variety in the classroom text base, and how to lift learning with different texts for different purposes.
The Role of Assessment in Personalized Learning
Content provided by Instructure.
This webinar took place on April 24, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Assessment is critical to understanding the strengths and needs of individual students. But considerations have to be made on the frequency of assessments, methods of evaluation, and interpretation of the results. When delivered effectively, assessment outcomes can inform curriculum design and make learning more targeted and meaningful for each student.
Deep-dive into the role of assessment when designing personalized learning environments. In this webinar, participants will learn:
• Best practices around when and how to assess effectively—from formative to summative and course-specific to districtwide
• Ways to interpret results and apply them strategically to curriculum design and learning paths
• Approaches for repeating and scaling personalized learning efforts through technology
Bring Hands-On Coding and STEAM Into Your District or Classroom
Content provided by littleBits.
This webinar took place on April 19, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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According to U.S. Department of Labor, more than 65 percent of today’s students will grow up having careers that do not exist yet. To prepare our students lead innovation and solve the problems of tomorrow, many schools and districts are now integrating STEM and coding into their programs. But two key questions remain for many educators: where to start, and how to bring STEM and coding into curriculum without taking away time from other core subjects.
In this webinar, Dr. Azadeh Jamalian, head of education strategy at littleBits, discusses best practices on bringing hands-on coding and STEAM into your school. Pilot and case studies examining STEM implementation in elementary and middle schools will be reviewed, and important take-aways applicable for different educational settings will be highlighted.
Tech and curriculum directors, principals, librarians, and teachers for grades three to eight will benefit from attending this session. Bring your questions! Dr. Jamalian will answer your questions throughout the webinar and at the end. Participants will take away actionable strategies for making their STEM and coding programs meaningful and effective.
What Happens When Teachers Talk Less and Students Talk More in the Mathematics Classroom?
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on April 18, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“When students are given an opportunity to think about and attempt a problem, they have greater ability to make connections and develop greater conceptual understanding. Through student-led discourse, students become active thinkers and learners.”
—Mark Ellis, Ph.D.
Join mathematics expert Dr. Mark Ellis for a discussion around how routines promote classroom discussion and can help increase student understanding and retention of mathematics concepts.
In this actionable webinar, you’ll learn:
• Why current mathematics standards require a shift in expectations for teaching and learning.
• How behaviorism-based routines stifle student creativity and what we can do to fix it.
• How to create a classroom environment where all types of learners have access to the mathematics.
• Techniques that get you talking less and your students talking more.
A Baseline for Student Success: Designing and Implementing an Evidence-Based and Standards-Based Teacher Induction Program
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This webinar took place on March 29, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence-based high-quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.
The TIPS were formed to provide a baseline framework for program design, implementation, and evaluation, that can be adapted to work within a range of school districts and programs. Developed using extensive research and practices that have proven to be successful across multiple schools and districts, the TIPS are built on many years of study, consultation, collaboration, and program implementation across many contexts.
In this webinar, NTC will outline:
● An overview of the ten components of the TIPS.
● The challenges school districts face sifting through what works and investing in induction programs that increase student learning and achievement.
● How TIPS can be leveraged to inform the design and development of high-quality programs to increase student learning.
Using Early Warning Indicators to Support Every Student
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on March 27, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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After decades of evidence that focusing on the “ABCs”—attendance, behavior, and coursework—can help schools increase graduation rates, districts are expanding their use of early warning systems (EWS) to support every student.
Join Panorama Education to hear from experts and practitioners about how schools are using early warning indicators that are updated daily to address core challenges like reducing chronic absenteeism and assigning tiered interventions, as well as promoting students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) and college/career readiness.
Dr. Robert Balfanz, a pioneer for using early warning indicators, will share his evidence-based models for identifying and monitoring at-risk students through early warning systems.
Superintendent Dr. Drew Echelson and administrators from Waltham Public Schools (Mass.), along with an administrator from Metro Nashville Public Schools (Tenn.), will discuss how their districts are using data indicators to prepare their students for success in the 21st century.
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Social-Emotional Learning: What Are Schools’ Most Pressing Needs?
This webinar took place on March 22, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“Social-emotional learning” has emerged as a critical issue in many K-12 systems today, as administrators and teachers search for ways to support students’ self-management, sound decisionmaking, and problem-solving. Many companies and organizations are already churning out curriculum, professional development, and assessment products focused on SEL for schools. But what are districts’ most pressing needs, and where are current products hitting or missing the mark? Join us in this webinar as we hear from a pair of experts who work directly with states and districts about the products that schools need the most, and where schools’ demands are headed.
Revolutionize the Way Your School District and Schools Are Managing Student Records
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This webinar took place on March 16, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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School districts have a paper accumulation problem costing them time, money, and space. Yet, many districts don’t have an electronic records management system in place. That leaves staff having to manually create, file, search for, and manage physical records in a wasteful, time-consuming, and non-compliant manner.
Electronic records management has proven to save hundreds of hours, cut costs as much as 90 percent, liberate entire rooms that were once dedicated for physical record storage, and ensure 100 percent compliance with FERPA and HIPAA.
In this webinar, our guest, a highly-experienced school administrator, will examine the real costs associated with her physical records management, effective ways she eliminates needless and wasteful paper accumulation, the differences between managing physical and electronic records, and how physical records can put eligibility to receive federal education funds at risk. Find out what you can do to help your schools thrive with more impactful records management.
Develop Your Teachers Into Literacy Experts
Content provided by Voyager Sopris Learning.
This webinar took place on March 14, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Young learners who struggle to read need more than books to achieve literacy. They need teachers who know how to teach the foundational skills of reading and comprehension of academic language. When teachers understand the WHY behind the HOW of teaching reading, students make greater gains—and are on track for lifelong success.
Join this webinar to learn how a Louisiana district achieved incredible K–3 literacy results and continues to make great strides in improving reading and literacy, intervening before students fall too far behind. You will gain strategies to help:
• Address the professional development piece of your reading initiative.
• Equip your teachers with the skills to teach early foundational reading.
• Empower your teachers to set all students on a trajectory toward grade-level reading proficiency.
Alan November on “Empowering Teachers, Engaging Students”
Content provided by itslearning.
This webinar took place on March 13, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join international education leader Alan November for an enlightening, live discussion on empowering teachers and engaging students. November will discuss how current shifts in education provide teachers with the opportunity to rethink their role and grow as professionals.
Various aspects of an “empowered teacher's” role will be discussed, along with strategies for developing skills and competencies in those areas. In this webinar, he will:
• Cover technology’s role in empowering teachers, and ways teacher communities and PLNs can support professional development.
• Make the connection between empowered teachers and engaged students.
Learn how students benefit from a focus on learner agency, peer learning/peer assessment, global perspectives, and more engaging, real-world, and personalized lessons and activities.
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Personalized Learning: Getting Your Product to Succeed in K-12 Classrooms
This webinar took place on Feb. 21, 2018 @ 1 p.m. ET
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If you want your “personalized learning” product to succeed in schools, you need to understand that term’s different meanings for superintendents and CTOs, curriculum directors and principals, teachers and students. Does your product have the features they want? Is it customized for students’ academic and personal interests? Find out what data teachers and school leaders expect to see in dashboards. And be ready to respond to questions raised by academic research on the effectiveness of personalized learning strategies. Join us to discover district officials’ most pressing concerns about personalized learning, and how you can work to become a school’s trusted personalized learning partner.
College and Career Readiness: Why Current Standards Require Better Assessment
Content provided by Measured Progress.
This webinar took place on Feb. 15, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Few district interim assessments assess current college and career readiness (CCR) standards, elicit evidence of students’ understanding, use authentic texts, and require students to solve real-world problems at a high level of rigor. Finding an interim assessment that addresses the multi-dimensional intentions of the CCR standards is a challenge.
Join experts from Measured Progress as they discuss this challenge and show how better content in an interim assessment provides actionable data to support college and career readiness. In this webinar, learn about eMPower Assessments™, a cohesive solution that enables districts to:
• implement a consistent program for grades 3–8, with a direct connection to the College Board’s SAT® Suite of Assessments.
• gain early insight into students’ performance on their statewide accountability measure.
• receive reliable data they can use to make meaningful inferences about student achievement and to track academic progress toward college and career.
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Barbara Bray: Meeting ESSA Guidelines With UDL/Personalized Learning
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This webinar took place on Feb. 14, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join Creative Learning Strategist Barbara Bray for an enlightening live discussion on meeting ESSA requirements with UDL/personalized learning approaches. Barbara will discuss how teachers can meet their state's new ESSA requirements with a learner-centered approach that is built on solid UDL and personalized learning principles.
Educators will hear how competency-based education, a focus on college- and career-readiness, creating caring environments, and social-emotional learning can play important roles in closing achievement gaps and reaching all learners.
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Close the Gap Through Implementation Fidelity
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on Feb. 8, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As principal at a Title I school, DeAn Jeffrey led her faculty to develop campus-wide initiatives that raised expectations for all students. “Best practices” became the norm in every classroom with five improvement strategies to strengthen fidelity of implementation.
Jeffrey’s team identified struggling students and put intervention plans into action. Within one school year, the rate of student achievement skyrocketed! The secrets to their success: using student data to inform instruction and tasking students with tracking their own growth.
This webinar is a must-see for any school or district that is considering creating a culture of high expectations to close the achievement gap. Learn the steps to take and the questions to ask in order to build improvement plans with achievable quantitative goals and realistic concrete strategies.
Reaching English-Language Learners to Ensure Equity for All
Content provided by Illuminate Education.
This webinar took place on Jan. 25, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join Illuminate Education for an educational webinar where they will explore the crucial issue of reaching English-language learner students (ELLs), one of the fastest growing segments of school-age population.
The inability to meet the needs of our ELL populations has created disproportionate outcomes. Many ELL students have been unintentionally denied educational opportunities due to the system’s failure to meet each student's specific needs. Let's work to better understand the problems so we can ensure future ELLs have the guidance and instruction they need to succeed.
In this webinar, you'll be able to:
• Gain a better understanding of ELLs’ challenges.
• Analyze data related to ELL students and characteristics.
• Learn innovative district practices that can help bridge the achievement/equity gap.
• Feel empowered and informed about serving the ELLs in their districts.
School-by-School Spending: How ESSA’s Reporting Mandate May Shape the Policy Debate
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar is sponsored by Hoonuit.
This webinar took place on Jan. 23, 2018 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Funding is the lifeblood of local schools, and ESSA for the first time requires states to give the public a school-by-school accounting of how much they spend on each student. It’s a complicated process—that’s why the U.S. Department of Education has given states some extra time to tackle it. In this webinar, learn how advocates, parents, and policymakers can get the most out of this information, and how districts can navigate the hurdles of making detailed and technical financial data both accurate and user-friendly. Guests will include a state leader with experience in the funding debate, and an expert in how to put fiscal data to good use in the policy arena. Topics will include:
• How to prepare for an unprecedented level of transparency about how schools spend their K-12 dollars.
• Tips for school leaders in navigating the questions—and potential blow-back—from the public about their spending priorities.
• Ways in which parents, advocates, and educators can use this trove of financial information to make their case for school improvement and reform.
• What state education officials can do now to work with school districts to assure a smooth and open process in this touchy area.
Join our guests for a deeper look at the solutions you may need to weather the ESSA implementation storm.
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Predictions for the K-12 Market in 2018—and Beyond
This webinar took place on Jan. 11, 2018 @ 11 a.m. ET
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What are the biggest purchasing priorities for public and private school buyers in the United States? For starters, the push to use data for instructional and institutional purposes will likely give education companies opportunities to provide effective analytics tools and training. And as more schools move deeper into personalized learning, they will be looking for software and other services to target teaching to students’ individual academic strengths and weaknesses, and even their personal interests. Plus, the convergence of curriculum and assessment models is raising questions about how companies can meet the needs of schools and how this trend will influence mergers and acquisitions. Our guests are analysts from Futuresource Consulting, LLC, a London-based market research firm, and Tyton Partners, a Boston and Stamford, Ct.-based advisory firm that provides business consulting services to K-12 companies.
Building Capacity in Districts to Improve School Climate and Social-Emotional Learning
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on Dec. 12, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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To improve school climate and social-emotional learning (SEL), districts like San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) are organizing their school teams to use data effectively to drive action. District leaders from Student Wellness & Support Services will present how SBCUSD is approaching professional development to build the capacity of district and school leaders, including principals, heads of counseling, and student services administrators, around proactive approaches to school climate and SEL.
During the webinar, we will share the processes and resources districts can use to:
• Develop literacy around school climate/culture and social-emotional learning
• Understand survey data in order to surface key insights
• Create school site and district action plans for promoting positive school climate and SEL
SBCUSD and 400 other districts partner with Panorama Education to collect and use school climate and SEL data and to deliver professional development trainings and workshops. Webinar registrants will receive free professional development materials for data inquiry and action planning.
Supporting Students Through Effective Educators: Evidence-Based Strategies to Increase Student Learning
Content provided by New Teacher Center.
This webinar took place on Dec. 11, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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District and school leaders continuously face the difficult decision of where to spend their limited resources. When working to increase student learning and achievement, it is critical that leaders adopt and implement programs that have proven results.
Supporting educators supports students and increases student learning. New Teacher Center’s (NTC) Investing in Innovation grant results, alone, show that a high-quality teacher induction program yields a gain of up to five months of student learning.
In this webinar, NTC and district partners will outline:
• The challenges districts face sifting through what works and investing in programs that increase student learning and achievement
• The evidence-based programs and research that have proven to increase student learning
• How such programs have been successfully implemented in districts and schools across the country.
District Approaches to Raising Math Achievement Through Data-Informed Learning
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on Dec. 6, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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When districts use data to drive bolder personalized learning approaches, students achieve more and educators feel empowered. From implementing high quality instructional tools to leveraging real-time insights to adapt instruction, discover how one school district is realizing its mission to prepare today's learners for tomorrow's opportunities. In this webinar, Lynn Simmers, assistant superintendent, Southwest Allen County School District, and Dr. Tim Hudson, senior vice president of learning, DreamBox Learning, will share strategies to help your district create a path to success for all learners, including:
• Using data to build capacity, drive alignment, and lead change
• Building a culture of continuous improvement and growth mindset
• Making the most of real-time data insights to inform instruction
• Personalizing instruction and professional development to support deeper learning
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How to Succeed in International Markets—and Mistakes to Avoid
This webinar took place on Nov. 17, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Education markets beyond our borders can be as confusing as they are attractive. Sure, you want to expand sales of your products and services. But how do you locate partners who will represent your brand as well as you do? Our presenters help companies answer that question in countries around the world. William Toerpe focuses on ed-tech development for the U.S. Foreign & Commercial Service, and Kevin Mather, formerly vice president of international business at PASCO Scientific, now assists companies in Northern California interested in locating trade partners around the world. Join us to learn how to vet potential resellers, how to pave the way for success in these partnerships, and what to do when things don’t go according to plan. You’ll come away with new ideas about how to enter and succeed in the exciting world of international markets.
Guided or Misguided? A Deep Dive Into the Workshop Model for Math
Content provided by Great Minds.
This webinar took place on Nov. 16, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What distinguishes the Guided Math Framework/Math Workshop Model from other instructional models? This webinar will look at research about the Guided Math Framework and whether the Eureka Math™/EngageNY Math curriculum fits into it.
School Accountability, School Quality & Absenteeism Under ESSA
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar is sponsored by Hoonuit.
This webinar took place on Nov. 14, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Holding schools accountable for student attendance is ramping up under the Every Student Succeeds Act, as most states so far intend to use some measure of attendance (or absence) as an indicator of school quality. In this webinar, we’ll take a deeper dive into the following:
• For states that are committing to tackling chronic absenteeism, what are the upsides and what are the pitfalls?
• Does counting attendance as a prominent part of school accountability create perverse incentives for schools to cheat or lie about the data? Or will measuring and reporting the numbers of students who frequently miss school count as the first major step toward addressing the problem of absenteeism?
• Beyond measurement, what are the kinds of strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to help ensure that students are in school and engaged in their learning?
Related Special Report: Nurturing Students’ Climb to Success: Why Engagement and Motivation Matter
Related Story: "Schools Mount Fight Against Chronic Absenteeism"
Equity of Opportunity: Closing the Achievement Gap
Content provided by Apex Learning.
This webinar took place on Nov. 9, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“An equitable system does not treat all students in a standardized way, but differentiates instruction, services and resources to respond effectively to the diverse needs of students.”
—Learning Policy Institute
Districts are increasingly tasked with providing options for at-risk and underserved student populations to address persistent achievement gaps. While nationwide gains in closing achievement gaps have been made, research shows that underserved student populations still achieve at lower rates than their peers in many areas.
Attend our webinar to hear how Baltimore County Public School district is raising the bar in education with a commitment to support equal opportunities for all students. From training and professional development to establishing consistent policies and using high quality digital curriculum to transform the classroom, this district is realizing its vision to create instructional environments that support academic rigor, cultural relevance and ignites the potential of each and every student.
Student Engagement: Are Your Test Scores Valid?
Content provided by NWEA.
This webinar took place on Nov. 7, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What if a well-designed test isn’t enough to guarantee a valid score? Research indicates that the level of student engagement with a test impacts the score, but how would educators recognize or measure that engagement–especially at a high level? Exciting new research from NWEA provides the answers. Now, NWEA researchers can quantify student engagement with their signature assessment, MAP Growth. In this webinar, experts from NWEA explain rapid guessing behavior, the research behind it, and why it’s important to detect. You will also learn how the MAP Growth assessment alerts educators in real time when students are guessing on a test–and reports on it in test results. Explore with the participants why student engagement impacts test results, which groups of students tend to be rapid guessing, and how your assumptions about student growth could be impacted.
Learning How to Learn: Techniques for School—and the Future
This webinar is sponsored by littleBits.
This webinar took place on Nov. 2, 2017 @ 12 p.m. ET
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Jobs are changing at a rapid pace. In response to the changes, employers say they prize flexible, adaptable workers who can quickly teach themselves new things.
• What role should K-12 play in producing graduates with these skills? and
• Besides the “three R’s,” what can schools do to help students study, crack complex problems, and become familiar with how to be a continuous learner?
In this webinar, a researcher will discuss some techniques from cognitive science that students can use to be more aware of their own learning. And a professor who has developed a two-course sequence to help college freshmen use these and similar techniques for success in the classroom and beyond will offer her insights and prescriptions for K-12.
Related Special Report: Schools and the Future of Work
Related Story: "Learning How to Learn Could Be a Student's Most Valuable Skill"
Crisis Management: Lessons Learned From District Leaders Who Know
This webinar is sponsored by Microsoft.
This webinar took place on Nov. 1, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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How can district technology leaders prepare for natural disasters? What should be the focus of their crisis-response efforts?
Join two of the country’s leading CTOs, Lenny Schad of the Houston Independent School District and Deborah Karcher of the Miami-Dade Public Schools, as they discuss lessons learned from their experiences dealing with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The focus of their webinar will be on practical tips and advice, on everything from communicating with vendors to making sure educators have access to the equipment, software, and networks they need to usher in a return to normalcy.
Related article: "How Houston Got Its Schools Back Online After the Hurricane" (Interview with Lenny Schad)
Better Math Teaching Through a Networked Improvement Community
Content provided by Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
This webinar took place on Oct. 26, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The Better Math Teaching Network (BMTN) is a networked improvement community of researchers, teachers, and instructional leaders from New England who are working toward the common goal of increasing the number of students who are deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra. We use student-centered instructional techniques focused on three specific forms of engagement: making deep mathematical connections, justifying and critiquing mathematical thinking, and solving challenging problems.
As a networked improvement community, we use principles of improvement science to develop, test, refine, and share promising instructional routines throughout the network. Presenters will describe BMTN, its grounding in improvement science, and discuss learnings and opportunities for collaboration as the network continues to expand.
Planting the Seeds of Reading Comprehension Using the Foundational Skills
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on Oct. 25, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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“We wish every dedicated primary grade teacher to find the enjoyment of teaching reading foundations tied to real applications in reading texts with children and in writing words, phrases, sentences, captions, stories, poems, and other writing products. When students use these foundations in reading and writing, they are empowered and enjoy the real reasons humans read and write.”
—Dr. D. Ray Reutzel
Join early literacy expert Dr. D. Ray Reutzel for a discussion about the latest research on foundational reading skills instruction for young children, with strategies to support teaching the following skills in the classroom:
• Concepts About Print
• Letter Recognition
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics
• Word Recognition
• Oral Reading Fluency
How to Encourage Student Achievement Through Social-Emotional Learning and Motivation
Content provided by Reading Plus.
This webinar took place on Oct. 20, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Student success is the goal of every educator. But how should student success be defined? And if social and emotional learning (SEL) is key to success, how can we motivate students to achieve more?
In this webinar, you’ll gain valuable insights into these questions from educators who’ve led successful, nationally-recognized efforts to introduce bold, new visions of student success in classrooms and across districts. They’ll share practical lessons from real-world experience on how to inspire student success, increase student motivation, and more. Attendees will learn the following:
• How to engage the community, parents, and schools in developing an actionable, inspiring definition of student success
• How to increase student motivation
• How to effectively integrate SEL
• How teachers make their most important contribution to student success
• Latest research on the link between student motivation and student success
Creating a Collaborative Classroom to Actively Engage Students in ELA and Math Learning for Grades 6-12
Content provided by SpringBoard.
This webinar took place on Oct. 19, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Studies show that “students who work in collaborative groups tend to be more satisfied with their classes, complete more assignments, and generally like school better” (Summers, 2006). Group work also leads to an increase in student responsibility and ownership of their success in the classroom and beyond.
Join SpringBoard product managers and former SpringBoard teachers to learn how the English Language Arts (ELA) and Math instructional programs for grades 6–12 foster collaboration in the classroom while encouraging students to work toward established goals.
The Future of Work and What It Means for K-12 Schools
This webinar is sponsored by Earth Networks.
This webinar took place on Oct. 18, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Today’s 6th graders will hit their prime working years in 2030. What kind of job market will they face?
It’s clear that analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the nature of work. But economists are sharply divided over how disruptive the long-term impact of technology will be.
• What do schools need to know?
• Is their challenge to better prepare more students for the high-skilled STEM, computer science, and data science jobs that are currently available?
• Or, in a world of constant technological change, will adaptability be key?
• How can schools prepare students to take part in the political, social, and ethical debates already being stirred by technology-driven changes in the economy?
Join us for this webinar, part of Education Week’s yearlong initiative to provide special coverage of workforce-preparation trends and their implications for K-12 schools.
Related Special Report: Schools and the Future of Work
Related Story: "The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now"
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What K-12 Companies Need to Know About the Adult Education Market
This webinar took place on Oct. 16, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For companies working in the crowded and competitive K-12 space, the adult education market offers an array of enticing possibilities. Four million students are currently enrolled in adult education programs. Another 32 million need help developing basic skills. An estimated $10 billion is spent each year in the market. And there’s a growing appetite for flexible, tech-based products. But there are also many pitfalls if K-12 providers don’t take the right approach.
In this webinar, we look at the key strategies companies need to think about before they consider jumping into adult education market─and what mistakes they need to avoid. We’ll look in-depth at burgeoning areas of demand, where the needs of adult-focused programs are headed, and how companies can make their mark.
How to Support and Implement New Initiatives in Schools
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on Oct. 12, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For educational leaders who face the task of soliciting buy-in for new initiatives, this webinar will cover the steps to take and the questions to ask to get schools involved. Superintendents will share processes, feedback strategies, and more, including:
• Teacher participation and shared decision making
• Ensuring adequate training and resources
• Support from program developers
• Support from staff members
• Administrator buy-in
• Teacher influence
• Creating a culture of high expectations
This webinar is a must-see for any school or district that is considering creating a culture of high expectations to provide job satisfaction amongst faculty. Our guests will cover the steps to take and the questions to ask to get schools involved.
Access, Engage & Express: How to Personalize Learning Using the UDL Lens
Content provided by Texthelp.
This webinar took place on Oct. 11, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Personalized learning is based around students’ own personal interests and their natural ability to learn in order to develop their skills further and increase engagement in class. But the question remains, how can educators create an environment that enables this framework in a practical way for every student in the classroom?
Join Kathleen McClaskey as she presents a way to approach personalized learning to help you determine how your students learn best and to help you to create an environment through the UDL lens of “access, engage, and express.” In addition, Martin McKay will outline how to identify the right tools that minimize barriers and maximize learning for all your students. He’ll also cover what ed-tech trends and tools are paving the way for the future of personalized learning.
Creating an SEL Roadmap: A District’s Journey to Support the Whole Child
Content provided by Panorama Education and Second Step.
This webinar took place on Sept. 26, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Everett Public Schools, Wash., is undertaking a coordinated, districtwide approach to social-emotional learning (SEL). Becky Ballbach, director of student support services, and Catherine Matthews, director of assessment and research, will share how educators in Everett are coming together on their journey to support the whole child. The district is creating a consolidated approach to behavior programs, tiered student support, and trauma-informed practices through the district’s use of social-emotional learning curriculum and data.
To support the social-emotional development of their elementary and middle school students, Everett Public Schools is using the Second Step Program, developed by Committee for Children (CFC). Tia Kim, director of programs, partnerships, and research at CFC, will present recent, research-driven innovations in SEL. As a data-driven district, Everett Public Schools is using SEL data from Panorama’s Social-Emotional Learning Measures to plan instruction and interventions and to better understand and support all students.
How to Effectively Use Technology for Classroom Instruction
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on Sept. 19, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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‘‘Technology’’ is a broad and often vague term in education. Research on the subject is wide-ranging and focuses on many applications, populations, and purposes. Because of this extensive and very diverse research, it can be difficult to draw conclusions about the role and effectiveness of technology in educational settings.
In this webinar, instructional leaders and district administrators will learn how to bridge the gap between wide-ranging research and classroom applications. Plus, they will discuss ways to guide teachers in making informed instructional decisions about technology. Participants will learn about:
• The levels of technology integration.
• Common mistakes of technology integration.
• The reasons teachers often don’t use research on technology to inform their practices.
• How to facilitate teachers’ use of educational research and make it more accessible.
• The latest research on the Istation integrated learning system.
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Smart Social Media Strategies for K-12 Companies
This webinar took place on Sept. 11, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Connecting with educators on social media takes a plan, good execution, and finesse. You want teachers to see your company as helpful, not self-serving or—at worst—predatory. You need to find the right platforms, the right frequency of contact, and the right messaging. Our panel of marketers and educators will help you evaluate the social media universe, and see how and where your company fits in.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt was #2 on our list of top 100 social media influencers in K-12, and Amy Dunkin, the senior vice president of marketing, will explain the approaches that helped get them there. Brad Currie, co-founder of #SatChat, will talk about what emerging education leaders are looking for in e-social interactions. And Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld will give you the view from Deerfield, Ill., public schools. Join us!
A Blueprint for Language and Literacy Learning
Content provided by Heinemann.
This webinar took place on Sept. 6, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Envision the ideal design for literacy and language instruction in your school.
• What does it look like?
• What student resources and professional learning opportunities propel learning?
• What are your beliefs and vision for the literacy lives of students in your school?
Turning a vision into action requires the process of design—a plan for a system that works in a coherent way. The pursuit of coherence starts with a common vision, a culture of collaboration, and a commitment to authentic literacy learning.
Join literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as together we will explore how to lift students’ learning beyond the walls of the classroom with texts and a blueprint for teaching that create authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting to realize what it truly means to live a literate life.
How Can Your District Spot—and Support—Diverse Gifted Students?
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
This webinar took place on August 30, 2017 @ 1 p.m. ET
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It can be hard for academically advanced English-language learners to show what they can do before they have mastered the language, and new evidence suggests they are underrepresented in gifted programs in nearly every state. But identifying and serving advanced ELLs can not only help districts respond to new federal reporting requirements, but build a stronger gifted program too. That's why the 36,000-student Tulsa, Okla., district is experimenting with more-diverse testing, greater parent outreach, and closer observation to fill equity gaps in the district's advanced programs.
Career and Technical Education at a Crossroads
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
This webinar took place on August 23, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Career and technical education is attracting a new wave of attention and support in schools across the country. As policymakers look to these programs to prepare students for good jobs, schools and states grapple with new challenges: How can they make sure that programs provide promising pathways for students to good jobs and college? How can they ensure students from all walks of life have equitable access to the top CTE programs? And how can schools make sure that all students have good guidance counseling so they make informed decisions about their college and career options? In this webinar, hear how several states are tackling these issues.
The Creative Journey: Blazing an Arts-Integrated Pathway to Educator Capacity & Instructional Innovation
Content provided by Crayola.
This webinar took place on August 16, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Arts integration is creating real change for the better in Maryland’s Prince George's County Public Schools. This webinar will explore the district’s creative journey and its approaches to hands-on creative teaching and learning activities, along with its long-standing commitment to the professional development and creative leadership needed for sustained program success. Additionally, participants will learn about strategies and tactics for starting their own arts integration journey and program development.
Presenter John Ceschini, arts integration officer for Prince George's County Public Schools, will unpack the district’s challenges and successes, focusing on the continuum in implementing effective art integration. Cheri Sterman, Crayola’s director of education, will explore a range of professional learning options and launching pads to leverage art-integration and creative leadership on the journey to student agency and achievement.
Building a Community of Readers–Driving Student Engagement Through Collective Impact
Content provided by myON.
This webinar took place on August 10, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Achieving grade-level reading proficiency by third grade, when the focus shifts “from learning to read to reading to learn,” is a reliable indicator of success in school and in life. Because learning happens 24/7 year around, families and communities play an important role in extending the school day, reinforcing what’s learned in the classroom and opening up additional opportunities, through formal and informal activities.
Building communities of readers is everyone’s responsibility–and ensuring that our collective efforts deliver intended results for students, schools, and communities is equally important.
Learn how our personalized approach to literacy, based upon cutting-edge technology and results-oriented research, ensures that every learner is engaged and supported in ways that foster and measure their growth.
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The State of K-12 Budgets: Positioning Your Company for the Coming School Year
This webinar took place on August 7, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Even as the “Great Recession” fades from memory and national economic signs remain mostly positive, states and school districts aren’t pouring a lot of new money into K-12 education over the coming year. Many states have approved budgets for 2017-2018 that offer schools only modest spending increases, at best, meaning that districts in many states are preparing for a lean period. This webinar will look at the current fiscal climate affecting states and school districts, and explain what education companies should expect from district spending. What kinds of programs are districts likely to prioritize, and which ones are they likely to be flat-funded or cut? And how will other factors, such as the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act, and lingering uncertainty about the federal budget, shape district policymaking and spending?
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What Kind of 'Research' Do K-12 Companies Need for Their Products?
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Jan. 18, 2017.This webinar took place on July 20, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Education providers often hear that school officials want research or “evidence” that their products and services are effective. But what kind of research or evidence do schools really want? And just as important, what are simple and low-cost strategies K-12 companies can use to build a research base for their products? This webinar offers practical tips for companies, and also explores how changes in the new federal law, ESSA, will change the research standards for school providers.
Draw on the Power of Creativity
Content provided by Crayola.
This webinar took place on July 18, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Creativity is a valued 21st century skill. It’s a catalyst for problem-solving and cultivating a growth mindset. How can instructional innovators use creativity to transform school culture and improve learning? This session will examine recent case studies and evaluations of arts-integration programs to showcase practical ways to infuse creativity into instruction. From approaching math as a visible language to using art in nonfiction text reflection, participants will learn new approaches, with an emphasis on professional learning as the launching pad for change.
Presenter Ivonne Chand O’Neal, co-editor of Arts Evaluation and Assessment: Measuring Impact in Schools and Communities, will introduce innovative programs and their impacts. Cheri Sterman, Crayola’s director of education, will share innovative approaches to building educators’ creative capacity and leadership, and will showcase project-based learning activities from the creatED professional learning program.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft: How 4 Tech Titans Are Reshaping the Ed-Tech Landscape
This webinar took place on June 21, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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EdWeek Market Brief recently produced a special report that examines how four of the largest technology companies in the world are influencing the use of ed tech in K-12 schools. As part of that special report, Market Brief conducted an exclusive survey of 1,000 teachers and school district leaders to take stock of their perceptions of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
The survey results show how the four companies stack up against each other and in relation to four major education-focused companies: Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Scholastic. Across nearly every category in the survey, Google emerged as the clear winner. Join us for a presentation of the survey data and a discussion of how these four tech titans are reshaping K-12 educational technology.
Building Bridges to Success for English-Language Learners
This webinar is sponsored by Middlebury Interactive Languages.
This webinar took place on June 20, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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New research from the Center for Promise, the research arm of America’s Promise Alliance, finds that schools and educators who want to boost the prospects for English-language learners should take stock of what is happening in their lives both inside and outside the classroom. Drawing on student data and interviews with English-learners, the researchers explored why the students may struggle to achieve English proficiency and identified steps that educators can take to knock down barriers ELLs encounter on the road to earning a diploma. Join us for a conversation with researchers and educators to explore how to build bridges, not barriers, to success for English-learners.
Mindfulness: Taking the Stress From Students' Tests
This webinar is sponsored by Second Step, creators of Mind Yeti.
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by The Raikes Foundation.
This webinar took place on June 13, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Tests may change in many ways, but for students, the stress of taking one doesn’t go away. Join us for a discussion of what the research shows about how anxiety hurts performance, what simple interventions may have the potential to short-circuit test stress, and how the Austin, Texas, district is using mindfulness and other techniques to help students maintain a healthy approach to assessment.
Weaving Project-Based Learning Into Rigorous High School Courses
This webinar is sponsored by itslearning.
This webinar took place on June 7, 2017 @ 1 p.m. ET
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Many schools are keen on incorporating project-based learning into their curriculum, reasoning that the exploratory, hands-on lessons engage students and promote collaboration and independent thinking. This webinar will explore an attempt to integrate project-based learning into the high school curriculum, through an approach called Knowledge in Action. The program, designed by a researchers at the University of Washington in collaboration with high school teachers, incorporates project-based learning within Advanced Placement courses. We look at the program’s approach, and its implications for the teaching of project-based learning in rigorous courses at the high school level, and how one district AP coordinator uses Knowledge in Action in her district.
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Mastering the Charter School Market
This webinar took place on May 19, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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What does it take to master the charter school market? That is an important question for education companies because that market is projected to educate between 20 percent and 40 percent of U.S. students by 2035. Our guests—who work on procurement decisions with charters in Colorado and Texas—explain how charters operate differently from other public schools, the mistakes companies make in approaching charters, and what steps vendors can take to gain ground in this growing marketplace. Learn how charters, at different ages and stages of their development, are likely to adopt and use educational technology, where they turn for guidance in selecting educational products, how differences in school culture affect sales approaches, and how to understand the funding profile of a typical charter school.
Powering Student Engagement With a Successful OER Strategy
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This webinar took place on May 18, 2017 @ 1 p.m. ET
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In this webinar, hear from Andrew Marcinek, former open education advisor for the U.S. Department of Education, on powering student engagement with a successful open educational resources (OER) strategy. Marcinek will provide an overview of open educational resources, dispel some common myths around OER, and share lessons and practical tips learned from his own OER journey. He will wrap up by highlighting key OER resources and discussing the current direction of the #GoOpen movement before handing the reins over to co-presenter Michele Eaton, CETL, director of virtual & blended learning, the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, Ind. Eaton will discuss how her district's integration of Gooru and other OER content fits into its digital curriculum strategy, and how the use of high-quality, curated OER is impacting student engagement.
Coaching the Coaches: How Districts Can Support Teacher Leaders
This webinar is sponsored by Walden University.
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by The Joyce Foundation.
This webinar took place on May 16, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Research shows that instructional coaching can have a positive impact on all teachers’ practice and can improve student outcomes. But who’s coaching the coaches?
To maximize the success of coaching, the coaches themselves need professional development and support. Coaches, who are typically former classroom teachers, must learn how to work with adult learners, which requires a whole new skill set.
This webinar will feature Lynn Kepp from the New Teacher Center, which works with school districts across the country to provide professional development for coaches, and Kendra Hanzlik, an instructional coach in Iowa. They will share the best practices for a successful coaching program, where both teachers and coaches are supported.
How Your School Can Protect Students From Cyberattacks With Content Filtering
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This webinar took place on May 10, 2017 @ 12 p.m. ET
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Today’s schools and students need tomorrow’s cybersecurity.
These days, K-12 schools are focused on bringing in digital resources for education, and keeping out cyberattacks. Boston Public Schools (BPS) is no different. The challenge? Changing technology and complex regulatory requirements, tight budgets and lean staffing.
In this webinar, hear from Geri Conley, BPS network security coordinator, as we talk about solutions. You’ll learn:
• BPS's approach for staying current with filtering technology and best practices
• How BPS structured and conducted its Request for Proposal (RFP) process
• Gaining constituent buy-in and arriving at the final selection
• Lessons learned from deployment and usage
Providing access to digital educational tools and protecting students from cyberthreats is a delicate balance. Don’t miss your chance to learn strong solutions. Register now.
Engaging the Eye: Building Literacy Via Visual Art
Content provided by Great Minds.
This webinar took place on May 9, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Just as great literature provides rich content for inquiry and analysis, fine art offers powerful opportunities to cultivate literacy skills and build content knowledge. Through the study of painting, sculpture, and architecture, all students—particularly struggling readers and English-language learners—can become more insightful readers, effective communicators, and analytical thinkers.
In this interactive webinar, Lynne Munson and Rachel Stack of Great Minds discuss and model art instruction with an 8th grade teacher, highlighting how the study of visual art builds cultural knowledge and fosters academic achievement for the widest range of learners. Learn from these leaders as they demonstrate how to leverage visual art to build skills, increase cultural literacy, and strengthen standards-based instruction.
The written word isn’t the only text for the classroom! Let art expand your students’ skills and world of knowledge.
How to Bring Coding & Creativity to the Classroom
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This webinar took place on May 4, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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When it comes to getting students ready for 21st-century careers, coding often tops the list of skills needed. But getting started can seem overwhelming. What’s more, coding languages and platforms are constantly changing. How can educators introduce and support programming around coding even without a ton of experience?
In this timely webinar, you’ll hear directly from expert educators about how they brought coding and creativity to their classrooms. You’ll also learn how tools like littleBits can give students the foundations in engineering and coding that will be useful no matter what changes lie around the corner.
How Schools Improve by Engaging Families
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on May 2, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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At Denver Public Schools (DPS) and in every district in Rhode Island, family and community engagement empowers parents to be partners in creating great schools. In this webinar, leaders from DPS and from the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) will share strategies for engaging all families in the service of student success.
Dr. Karen Mapp of the Harvard Graduate School of Education will discuss the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for family engagement. Landon Mascareñaz, executive director for strategy development and family empowerment at DPS, will present how this urban district has put the Framework into practice to build strong family-school partnerships. Commissioner Ken Wagner and Peg Votta, research specialist, from RIDE will share how the state department of education supports districts’ coordinated efforts to promote family-school partnerships that improve schools.
DPS and RIDE administer family surveys with Panorama Education to hear parents’ feedback and to show families that their partnership is vital for improving schools.
Read, Write, Succeed: Models for Advancing Student Writing
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This webinar took place on April 25, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Each year droves of high school graduates enter college or the workforce unable to write as well as professors or employers expect. Writing can be one of the most difficult skills to teach, often because it is siloed and taught as a stand-alone skill, apart from quality content.
In this interactive webinar, the co-founders of the Vermont Writing Collaborative and a 4th grade teacher share classroom-tested methods that advance student achievement by intimately connecting deep content knowledge with explicit writing frameworks. Learn what experts and the best writing teachers in America know: that content and structured instruction work hand-in-hand. Empower students to successfully leverage the power of great content and structure to improve their writing—paving the way for college and career success.
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What Makes a K-12 Ed-Tech Company’s Salesforce Succeed?
This webinar took place on April 24, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The results of a McKinsey & Company survey defy conventional wisdom about what leads to success for a sales team in the K-12 market. EdWeek Market Brief features the study’s leaders and their findings in this look at what drives the most successful ed-tech sales people, how best to compensate them, and what company leaders do that undermines their best efforts to create and keep the best salesforce.
Over half the companies surveyed indicated that sales people typically fail in their first two or three years on the job. McKinsey crunched the data provided by both the salesforce and their team leaders to find out why. In this webinar, you’ll learn what the company discovered, and what you can do about it.
Addressing the STEM Teacher Shortage
This webinar is sponsored by Education Week TopSchoolJobs.
This webinar took place on April 20, 2017 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Among the hardest K-12 teaching positions to fill are those for science, technology, engineering, and math classes. The problem is particularly acute at the high school level, in part because people with strong STEM backgrounds have more incentives to join the fields they’re trained in than to become educators. As a result, many districts end up filling high school chemistry, biology, physics, and math slots with teachers who’ve taken few courses in those areas themselves.
In this webinar, our guests will discuss the barriers to finding and hiring qualified STEM teachers, and explore national and district-level efforts to reduce STEM teacher shortages. They’ll talk about improving professional learning and the ways universities and districts can work together to staff these high-needs areas.
The Student Body of One-by-One: Leveraging Personalized Learning Curricula in K-12 Schools
Content provided by McGraw-Hill Education.
This webinar took place on April 19, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Schools are facing a pivotal opportunity to rethink approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment—due to school improvement initiatives, robust technical infrastructures, and the proliferation of digital devices. What’s more, students and educators are increasingly technology-savvy and amenable to digital learning and discovery.
In response, school and district leaders are pursuing bold personalized learning approaches that more powerfully address how students learn best. Learn how top leaders are implementing innovative curricula and instructional technology that empower teachers to create highly effective, student-centered learning environments.
Discover current best practices for curriculum planning and development, using innovative and adaptive digital technologies that complement core ELA and math programs. Find out how school leaders are complementing and enhancing existing curricula and instructional practices with personalized learning solutions that provide remediation for struggling students, supportive practice for on-level students, and enrichment for advanced students.
Beyond State Assessments: Start Building Lifelong Math Learners
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on April 18, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Maury County School District is changing the way teachers teach and learners learn with a new systematic approach to affect student success. In this webinar, Chris Marczak, superintendent of schools, shares how his district developed and implemented seven community-developed district-wide keys to effectively prepare students for college and career readiness. These improvements are building teacher capacity, increasing student achievement, and fostering a culture of adult and student collaboration. Topics of discussion include:
• Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness
• Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and close math learning gaps
• Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems
• Leading a district-wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students
All school and district-based leaders, and K-12 educators are invited to attend. Marczak will field questions from participants throughout this live, interactive webinar.
Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions for Productive Math Discourse
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on April 17, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Research shows there are best practices that can be used to create a classroom environment that fosters rich classroom discussions. Join us for our webinar with mathematics expert Gladis Kersaint, as she shares strategies that all educators can use to promote mathematical discourse in their classrooms, including:
• Planning for productive mathematics discussions
• Selecting student work for classroom discussion
• Sequencing student work to support meaningful classroom discussion
• Questions to consider when selecting and sequencing student strategies
Equity, Access, and Achievement in the Math Classroom
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on April 13, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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It’s a rapidly changing world, and one that will impact our children’s future. What career prospects will there be for them? Will they be prepared for success? Most lucrative careers require a background in mathematics and if students leave elementary school without a positive growth-mindset and a firm foundation built for algebra, the doors for access into STEM careers may be in jeopardy. How do we keep the doors open for them?
In this webinar, we’ll explore how to create a positive growth-mindset and showcase the evidence-based results that can be achieved. We’ll examine how learning trajectories can be used to monitor and support mathematical growth during engagement in rich, vibrant math workshops in contrast to the use of textbooks, and how technology can be a powerful tool in providing differentiation and professional support.
Going to Scale: Implementing Evidence-Based Personalized Learning for Math Intervention
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on April 11, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Successful districts are closing learning gaps by identifying and scaling personalized math intervention programs. But what are the conditions and processes that districts should put in place to effectively develop and implement personalized intervention plans?
In this webinar, Debbie Thompson, math curriculum and instructional design, Wichita Public Schools, shares a step-by-step framework for designing and implementing district-wide personalized intervention programs. Topics of discussion will include:
• Setting goals and identifying criteria to evaluate programs for efficacy, standards-alignment, and student growth
• How to build teacher capacity using data-informed instruction and intentional organizational support structures
• Scaling beyond intervention; increasing district-wide adoption and usage of personalized learning programs
All K-12 administrators and educators are encouraged to attend. Thompson will field questions from participants throughout this webinar.
A Hands-on Look at Creating in the Classroom 101 (CTC 101) Kit
Content provided by Intel/Arduino.
This webinar took place on April 4, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Do you want to bring STEAM project-based learning into your classroom? Don't miss out on Arduino's co-founder, David Cuartielles’ webinar, “A Hands-on Look at CTC 101.” CTC 101 is a modular program consisting of more than 25 playful, well-documented projects based on the Arduino 101 board powered by Intel.
CTC 101 features easy-to-assemble experiments designed to introduce 13- to 17- year-old students to the foundations of programming, electronics, mechanics, and robotics.
CTC 101 helps build the school of the 21st century, and it's one of the best examples of educational curriculum for student motivation and—most importantly—teacher professional development.
Social-Emotional Learning: A Systematic Approach That Leads to Student Success
Content provided by BloomBoard.
This webinar took place on March 22, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Social and emotional learning (SEL) makes a difference for students. Mounting research tells us that a systemic approach to SEL in districts and schools yields positive outcomes for students during school and into young adulthood. Since 2011, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and large, urban districts have been taking on SEL as a districtwide priority and integrating SEL across all aspects of their districts.
Join CASEL and educators from the field to learn what it means to approach the work systemically, what is working, what is challenging, what results they are experiencing, and how this important work is paving the way for other districts.
In this webinar you’ll learn:
• What SEL is, why it’s important, and how it impacts practice
• Key areas of engagement that schools and districts should focus on
• Tools and resources you can access to support SEL work in your districts
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China's Education Market: What K-12 Companies Should Know
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Dec. 1, 2016.
This webinar took place on March 22, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Demand for educational products and services in China has taken off, as the country's economy has continued to strengthen and evolve and its schools and families have demanded new academic products and services. Private education in China, and private academic services outside of China's government-run school system, have fueled new opportunities for companies from the United States and other countries. Where do the greatest opportunities exist for companies, and how can vendors establish a foothold there?
In this webinar, we look at which areas of the Chinese education system are poised for the biggest growth, and how companies can crack the market to find their niche.
Alan November on Strategies to Enhance Student Self-Assessment
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This webinar took place on March 16, 2017 @ 1 p.m. ET
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Join education thought leader Alan November for “Strategies to Enhance Student Self-Assessment,” a live, research-backed webinar that will highlight the importance of this core competency for 21st-century learners. Alan will offer strategies for helping students develop a strong skill set around self-assessment, and present examples of integrating student self-assessment into various classroom teaching and learning scenarios.
You will gain a deeper understanding of student self-assessment, as well as methods and strategies for developing strong self-assessment skills in today’s learners.
Using Data to Support Students’ Social-Emotional Learning: From the District to the Classroom
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on March 8, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For leaders in Washoe County School District, Nev., and Long Beach Unified School District, Calif., supporting students’ growth in social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical to their vision of student success. In this webinar, Assistant Superintendent Chris Lund (Long Beach Unified School District) and Director of Research and Evaluation Laura Davidson (Washoe County School District) share their experiences using data at the school- and classroom-level to support students in developing SEL skills.
This webinar will highlight how school and district leaders can collect and use data to support the development and growth of students’ SEL skills. Using real-world examples, these leaders will share strategies for engaging students, families, and teachers in the work of SEL.
Washoe County School District, Long Beach Unified School District, and other districts and schools across the country partner with Panorama Education to administer research-backed SEL and school climate surveys and to access interactive reports and dashboards.
From Teacher to Superintendent: Data-Driven Decisions Simplified
Content provided by NWEA.
This webinar took place on March 7, 2017 @ 1 p.m. ET
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Fast, efficient, and useful—NWEATM reports give you valuable information, no matter what your role as an educator. This 50-minute webinar from NWEA shows teachers, staff, and leaders how to leverage assessment data to meet their goals.
• Learn how to improve instruction and personalize learning with the MAP® Student Profile report.
• Understand how to identify skill gaps to focus instruction and then monitor progress and skills mastery with Skills Navigator®.
• See how the MAP Insights and Instructional Insights reports provide you with instant analysis of your schools and district; the narrative reporting tells a larger story and makes it easy to understand the results.
• You’ll also see how the OECD Test for Schools report provides crucial insights to help drive your school improvement efforts and ensure students are prepared for the global economy.
Acing the Test: Strategies for Supporting Student Achievement
Content provided by Great Minds.
This webinar took place on March 6, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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What will the next generation of high-stakes assessments require? The answer might surprise you.
Learn how teaching strategies that provide access to complex, content-rich, grade-level texts effectively position students to be successful readers, communicators—and even test takers.
In this interactive webinar, David Liben of Student Achievement Partners and Rachel Stack of Great Minds highlight how book-based lessons engage all learners, build knowledge, and set students up for academic achievement. Using real-world examples, these leaders will demonstrate how you can leverage the power of close reading, curated texts, and vocabulary practice as paths toward student mastery.
Leave the test prep packets and disconnected basals behind and focus on how meaningful instruction, based in knowledge-building text, are the key to making the grade.
How to Find the Right Teaching Job
This webinar is sponsored by Education Week TopSchoolJobs.
This webinar took place on February 28, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Across the country, there’s a high demand for qualified teachers. But the job search can be overwhelming. How can prospective teachers make sure that they will thrive in their new school environment before classes even begin?
Educational consultant Lisa Dabbs, who supports pre-service and new teachers, and Rachel Gleischman from TNTP, which helps districts and states recruit and train new teachers, will discuss what prospective teachers need to look for during the job search to land in a supportive school environment. The experts will also give advice to school leaders on how they can better support and recruit a high-quality teaching staff.
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Connecting the Dots on ESSA and PD: What Education Companies Should Know
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Nov. 16, 2016.
This webinar took place on February 23, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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The federal Every Student Succeeds Act revamps requirements around professional development in a big way. It emphasizes innovative approaches to professional development, including job-embedded and collaborative options, while adding new, tiered evidence requirements. In addition, ESSA creates new funding opportunities for companies that educate themselves about the law.
In this webinar, we'll explore ways the nation's new K-12 law may apply to your business and what you can do to maximize the opportunities it provides.
Intervention for Young English-Language Learners
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on February 15, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Learn how blended learning supports reading intervention and instruction for English-language learners (ELLs). Covering computer-adaptive assessments and instruction, dual-language instructional specialist Lisa Capra introduces ways educational technology supports data-driven instruction and traditional face-to-face approaches.
This webinar provides a case study and shows educators how the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida launched a reading intervention program in more than a dozen elementary schools. Take a look at the program and see how students embark on a path toward biliteracy through educational technology and blended learning. Also, examine the rewards of data-driven instruction and learn what it takes to launch an effective intervention program that works for young English-language learners.
Webinar presenters will share:
• Ways RtII/MTSS supports students in English-language learners.
• How blended learning supports intervention and instruction for bilingual children.
• Results schools can expect.
• Best practices and lessons learned.
• Steps to take to launch similar initiatives.
Driving Educator Growth With Google for Education
Content provided by BloomBoard.
This webinar took place on February 9, 2017 @ 12 p.m. ET
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Educators around the country are using Google for Education tools to change their teaching practices and improve student outcomes.
Join Liz Anderson, head of Global Adoption Programs at Google for Education, and Jason Klein, assistant superintendent of technology and learning at Maine Township High School District 207, for a conversation about how Maine 207 successfully implemented Google for Education tools as part of their districtwide transformation. They’ll also discuss how your district can leverage the power of micro-credentials to help teachers become proficient—technically and pedagogically—in integrating Google into their classrooms to improve their instruction.
In this webinar you’ll learn about:
• The impact of and lessons learned from Maine 207’s journey
• Best practices for implementing Google for Education tools districtwide
• Key competencies teachers need to engage students using Google for Education tools
• How districts can support teachers in developing these competencies using micro-credentials, and earn re-certification and graduate credit
ESSA’s Impact: Views From Districts and Schools
This webinar is sponsored by Measured Progress.
This webinar took place on February 1, 2017 @ 2:45 p.m. ET
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As part of a nationwide survey conducted in late 2016, the Education Week Research Center asked teachers and district leaders to share their views on the ESSA transition. This webinar highlights findings from the survey, which examined ESSA’s impact on accountability, funding, and other key dimensions of education policy. Survey respondents identified the types of support their districts need to put ESSA’s requirements into practice and offered advice to state policymakers regarding implementation plans. The results shed light on the opportunities and challenges ahead as educators move toward full implementation in the 2017-18 school year.
Michael Horn on Increasing Student Achievement Through Engaging Digital Curriculum
Content provided by Apex Learning.
This webinar took place on January 31, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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"Increased student achievement is correlated to motivating coursework: An engaged and motivated student is more likely to be a high-achieving student."
—John Hattie, professor of education and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia (2009)
But what does engagement-for-achievement look like in a digital environment? In order to keep all students motivated, especially those who struggle or have been disengaged from school, educators need to ensure that engagement is built into the very DNA of the course design. In the digital environment, engaged students experience personalized learning and actively participate in their learning.
Attend this webinar to hear Michael Horn and district leaders discuss how well-designed digital curriculum ensures that real learning takes place, engages students, and leads to higher achievement. They will provide examples of districts and schools that use personalized learning to increase student motivation and graduation rates, and share best practices that can help your district provide a path to success for all students.
Ten Tips for Co-Teaching Success
This webinar is sponsored by Education Week TopSchoolJobs.
This webinar took place on January 26, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Co-teaching—a partnership between a general education teacher and a special education teacher working together in the same classroom—has the potential to support students with a variety of learning styles. But strong co-teaching relationships can't be left to chance. Rather, they require mutual respect, professional connection, and a recognition of each teacher's unique skills. In this webinar, teaching veteran Elizabeth Stein, who has more than 20 years of experience spanning grades K-8, will share her tips for starting and maintaining a co-teaching partnership that works for all learners. Stein, who has a National Board Certification in Literacy, is currently a special education/universal design for learning instructional coach and a new-teacher mentor at the Smithtown Central School District in New York. She is also a contributor to Education Week and other publications.
Prioritizing Language Learning in the Standards Era
Content provided by Middlebury Interactive Languages.
This webinar took place on January 19, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As our students prepare for a future where the world is more connected than ever before, second language acquisition is top of mind for many educators. Numerous studies have shown significant benefits from language learning, including better career prospects, improved academic performance, and enhanced empathy and creativity. Unfortunately, the realities of the modern school day, with numerous state and federal standards and mandates, often squeeze out language instruction from the schedule–despite significant interest from educators and parents in making language learning more accessible. Still, some schools, districts, and even states have committed to making language learning a top priority. Join us for this webinar discussion led by statewide policymakers and school administrators on how schools can balance these challenges and make language learning available for all students.
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What Kind of 'Research' Do K-12 Companies Need for Their Products?
This webinar took place on January 18, 2017 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Education providers often hear that school officials want research or “evidence” that their products and services are effective. But what kind of research or evidence do schools really want? And just as important, what are simple and low-cost strategies K-12 companies can use to build a research base for their products? This webinar offers practical tips for companies, and also explores how changes in the new federal law, ESSA, will change the research standards for school providers.
High-Impact Instructional Strategies: Two Perspectives on Aligning Literacy Initiatives With Higher-Order Expectations
Content provided by McGraw-Hill Education.
This webinar took place on January 12, 2017 @ 2 p.m. ET
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PreK-12 literacy leaders are rethinking their initiatives to drive student gains in language arts, and to deliver the ELA instruction required for each student to be masterful and future-ready.
Rising educational expectations, increasing accountability, equitability for diverse populations, and new technologies are creating opportunities for gaining growth and higher outcomes for every student. Leaders are advancing their ELA curricula to ensure instruction and assessment are consistent, coherent, rigorous, and relevant.
Gain actionable frameworks and strategies for developing holistic literacy instruction so all students can excel as literate, responsible global citizens.
Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw-Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high-impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.
Protecting and Securing Your School’s Data
Content provided by Microsoft Education.
This webinar took place on December 7, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Protecting student and teacher data is paramount for schools. With Office 365, it’s your data. You own it. You control it. And it is yours to take with you if you decide to leave the service. Microsoft uses the customer data in the Office 365 services only for the benefit of the customer—we don’t use or share customer data for commercial purposes other than to provide the best Office 365 service.
In this webinar, you will learn more from Microsoft Education specialists on how using Office 365 allows for the best collaboration experience while maintaining the highest security standards. We will cover:
• How we safeguard and use your data.
• Microsoft’s commitment to providing schools with free built-in security and privacy controls so you can adhere to and stay up to date with the ever-evolving industry compliance standards including FERPA, HIPAA, COPPA, and CIPA.
• How you can use Office 365 within your school to transform learning in the classroom.
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China's Education Market: What K-12 Companies Should Know
This webinar took place on December 1, 2016 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Demand for educational products and services in China has taken off, as the country's economy has continued to strengthen and evolve and its schools and families have demanded new academic products and services. Private education in China, and private academic services outside of China's government-run school system, have fueled new opportunities for companies from the United States and other countries. Where do the greatest opportunities exist for companies, and how can vendors establish a foothold there?
In this webinar, we look at which areas of the Chinese education system are poised for the biggest growth, and how companies can crack the market to find their niche.
Presenters:
• Laurie Chiu-Mar, Asia Pacific sales director, PASCO Scientific• Diane Glass, director of business and higher education, International School Consultancy
Moderator:
• Sean Cavanagh, senior editor, Education Week Market Brief
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How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage—and What’s the Solution?
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Joyce Foundation.
This webinar took place on November 30, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Teacher shortages have been in the news recently, as many school districts started the school year with vacancies, particularly in the science, mathematics, and special education fields.
But the true scope of the problem is still up for debate. The Learning Policy Institute says the national shortage of teachers is severe and could double in size by 2018. Other education experts, such as those from the National Council on Teacher Quality, dismiss the narrative of a national shortage, saying instead that the school staffing gaps are localized by subject area and geography.
This webinar will feature the leaders of both the Learning Policy Institute and the National Council on Teacher Quality, who will both present their research and conclusions of the scope of the teacher shortage—and their solutions to curb the hiring gaps.
Presenters:
• Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO, Learning Policy Institute• Kate Walsh, president, National Council on Teacher Quality
Moderator:
• Madeline Will, assistant editor, Education Week Teacher
College and Career Readiness: Preparing Students for 21st Century Work and Life
Content provided by Apex Learning.
This webinar took place on November 29, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The world of work is quickly redefining what it means to be ready—a broader set of aims that reflect fast paced, complex, and diverse workplaces. Students need to be great communicators, collaborators, and critical-thinkers that can tackle novel problems; problems that many adults have never even thought about before. In order to prepare students to be really ready for their futures, we must define what that means for them now—not just once they graduate high school.
In this webinar, Tom Vander Ark and Janet A. Leistner will share why being ready for college and the freelance—or “gig” economy—is more important than ever. They will highlight key characteristics and skills students must have; provide actionable case studies of districts or schools that have been successful in preparing students; and share resources that can provide solutions for educators looking to do this work.
Presenters:
• Janet A. Leistner, director, EVSC Virtual Academy• Tom Vander Ark, author and CEO, Getting Smart
Moderator:
• Jason Mitchell, Strategic Initiatives, Apex Learning
STEM Reimagined—Agency, Relevancy, and Digital Natives
Content provided by EverFi.
This webinar took place on November 17, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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While the emphasis on STEM education has grown over the years, equity and access to quality and engaging curriculum have not always advanced in lockstep. Too often, STEM skills and concepts are taught in isolation from the world they inhabit, leading to the dismal STEM drain and leaving students uninterested and unmotivated to pursue further study in this critical field.
Plugging the STEM drain requires rethinking curriculum, and using new technology and blended learning to meet students where they are while inspiring them to find new places they can go with STEM. As Snehal Bhakta, from Clark County Schools, Zach Wagner, from Everfi, and Yvonne Kao, from WestEd, will show, it is only when STEM becomes grounded in real-world applications that transformational learning can take place and STEM become an equitable terrain for all.
In this webinar, our guests will cover:
• The challenge of making STEM concepts more relevant to students, particularly students who have been historically underrepresented in STEM fields.
• How a blended learning approach can extend the instructional reach of STEM teachers.
• Results that educators can expect from students through this increased engagement.
Presenters:
• Snehal Bhakta, career and technical education innovator, Clark County school district, Nev.• Yvonne Kao, senior research associate, WestEd
• Zach Wagner, vice president, K-12 content and product development, EverFi
Moderator:
• Steve Sandak, vice president, EverFi
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Connecting the Dots on ESSA and PD: What Education Companies Should Know
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar took place on November 16, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The federal Every Student Succeeds Act revamps requirements around professional development in a big way. It emphasizes innovative approaches to professional development, including job-embedded and collaborative options, while adding new, tiered evidence requirements. In addition, ESSA creates new funding opportunities for companies that educate themselves about the law.
In this webinar, we'll explore ways the nation's new K-12 law may apply to your business and what you can do to maximize the opportunities it provides.
Presenters:
• Stephanie Hirsh, executive director, Learning Forward• Stephanie Wood-Garnett, vice president of policy and advocacy, Alliance for Excellent Education
Moderator:
• Michelle R. Davis, senior writer, Education Week Digital Directions
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Developing Students’ Numerical Understanding and Skills With Marilyn Burns
Content provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
This webinar took place on November 15, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As the cornerstone of elementary mathematics instruction, arithmetic has always been part of the 3Rs. However, today we think of arithmetic more broadly than developing proficiency with paper-and-pencil computation. To make this shift, it helps to think of the third “R” as reasoning which calls for a balance of computation, problem solving, and number sense.
Hear Marilyn talk about lessons she's learned from her classroom teaching experiences. Marilyn will address building a teaching bridge between math and reading, learning from one-on-one math interviews, and implementing effective instructional strategies.
Marilyn Burns, founder of Math Solutions Professional Development, is a nationally-recognized author and thought leader on teaching mathematics.
Presenter:
• Marilyn Burns, founder, Math Solutions, and author, Do The MathModerator:
• Francie Alexander, chief academic officer, HMH
Leveraging Digital Content to Differentiate Learning: Results of a New Research Study
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on November 10, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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There is a growing expectation among students, parents, and teachers that learning experiences for students should be more personalized to meet individual student needs. However, many schools are still struggling with how to actualize differentiated instruction and personalized learning within every classroom. Despite changes in administrators’ attitudes about digital learning, the efficacy of personalized learning depends primarily upon on how the classroom teacher adopts and adapts digital tools, resources, and content to differentiate instruction.
To provide district administrators with new insights into how teachers are approaching this process, Project Tomorrow—in collaboration with DreamBox Learning—conducted a study in the spring of 2016 examining the views and values of classroom teachers using digital content within instruction. The findings from this new study, which will be shared in this webinar, provide education leaders with research-based information and classroom-based exemplars for how digital content enables personalized and differentiated learning environments.
Presenter:
• Julie A. Evans, chief executive officer, Project TomorrowModerator:
• Kate Hodgins, senior product marketing manager, DreamBox Learning
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What Schools Want From Digital Content: CAO Insights, Exclusive Data
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Aug. 30, 2016.
This webinar took place on November 4, 2016 @ 11 a.m. ET
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Join us for a conversation with the chief academic officers of the Broward County, Fla., and Cleveland, Ohio, school districts to better understand what schools really need and want from digital content providers. Drawing upon exclusive data collected by the Education Week Research Center, this webinar will provide key insights and actionable information about the adoption and purchasing of digital content in the K-12 system. It will address the frustrations schools face in working with companies during digital content adoption, how an increasing number of schools are turning to open educational resources, the uneven growth of the English language learner market, and more.
Presenters:
• Daniel Gohl, M.Ed., chief academic officer, Broward County school district, Fla.• Michelle Pierre-Farid, Ph.D., chief academic officer, Cleveland Metropolitan school district, Ohio
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
Moderator:
• Michele Molnar, associate editor, EdWeek Market Brief
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The Every Student Succeeds Act: The Implications for Education Companies
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Aug. 24, 2016.
This webinar took place on November 2, 2016 @ 11 a.m. ET
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The Every Student Succeeds Act, approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama late last year, marks an historic shift in federal education policy—one that will shape the work of states, districts, and individual educators for years to come. But what does it mean for companies operating in the K-12 market? In this webinar, two guests with deep experience consulting K-12 providers on federal policy break down the implications of ESSA for education technology, district budgets, professional development, assessment, school interventions, and other areas. Our guests also explain how the statute is likely to be implemented, based on regulations issued by the Obama administration and the interpretations of state and local education officials.
Presenters:
• Reg Leichty, partner and founder, Foresight Law + Policy• Julia Martin, legislative director, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
Moderator:
• Sean Cavanagh, senior editor, EdWeek Market Brief
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Improving SEL With Measurement: Perspectives From District Leaders
Content provided by Panorama Education.
This webinar took place on October 31, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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For Superintendent Michael Hanson of Fresno Unified School District (Calif.), Assistant Superintendent Greg Wolcott of Woodridge School District 68 (Ill.), and Director Tricia Baumer of Dallas Independent School District (Texas), social-emotional learning (SEL) is integral to student success. In this webinar, education leaders will share their experiences and lessons learned from leading their districts to measure, understand, and act on data about students’ SEL.
This webinar will help school and district leaders understand how they can use measurement to strengthen their SEL efforts, and help state leaders interested in developing new elements for school accountability under ESSA requirements.
Fresno Unified, Dallas ISD, Woodridge 68, and other districts and schools across the country partner with Panorama Education to administer research-backed SEL questionnaires and to access interactive reports and data inquiry tools.
Presenters:
• Michael Hanson, superintendent, Fresno Unified School District, Calif.• Greg Wolcott, assistant superintendent, Woodridge School District 68, Ill.
• Tricia Baumer, director, Office of Transformation and Innovation, Dallas Independent School District, Texas
Moderator:
• Brian Rainville, director of educator engagement, Panorama Education
Personalizing PD: The Choice and Relevance Imperative
Content provided by Performance Matters.
This webinar took place on October 27, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Relevance and choice are “personalization imperatives” for teachers—non-negotiables that every personalized professional learning strategy must address. Join this webinar to discover:
• What the results of the recent Personalized Professional Learning Survey reveal about teacher and leader views on the importance of choice and relevance.
• How Fresno Unified School District is working to boost relevance while keeping PD aligned to strategic goals.
• Tools to ensure relevance are at the core of your professional learning initiatives.
This webinar features two experienced district leaders from Fresno Unified School District in California, who invite you to create more actionable, meaningful, and personalized professional learning.
Presenters:
• Ryan Coe, curriculum, instruction, professional learning and school leadership, vice principal on special assignment, Fresno Unified School District, Calif.• Kathryn Mytton, secondary math manager, curriculum, instruction, and professional learning, Fresno Unified School District, Calif.
Moderator:
• Callie Turk, founding principal, Intersections in Education Consulting
Corporal Punishment: A Persistent Practice
Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the NoVo Foundation.
This webinar took place on October 24, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Corporal punishment has declined so rapidly in the United States in the last 15 years that many people think it's practically nonexistent in modern American public schools. But 109,000 students were paddled, swatted, or otherwise physically punished in U.S. classrooms in 2013–14, and the practice is only banned by 29 of 50 states, according to an exclusive Education Week Research Center analysis.
Join us to learn the details behind this analysis. Our guests will also discuss research on the impact of corporal punishment, longer-term trends, and legal implications of the practice.
Presenters:
• Elizabeth Gershoff, associate professor of human development, and family sciences and faculty research associate, Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin• Donald E. Greydanus, professor and founding chair, pediatric and adolescent medicine, Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Mich.
• Amir Whitaker, staff attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Ala.
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
Moderator:
• Sarah D. Sparks, assistant editor, Education Week
EdWeek School-Wide: 7 Things K-12 Educators Should Know About Edweek.org
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Aug. 31, 2016.
This webinar took place on October 21, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Ever consider how edweek.org might empower educators at your school or district? K-12 leaders in growing numbers are using Education Week as a PD tool to keep their teachers and administrators informed and engaged. Join Education Week Librarian Holly Peele as she offers 7 key insights on what edweek.org has to offer for K-12 educators in this easy-to-follow discussion.
You will learn about:
• Searches
• Topical Pages
• Trending Issues
• Teacher Channel—News and insight for teachers
• Digital Directions—A hidden gem on IT and ed tech news
• Blogs – what do educators read?
• Annual Reports & Archives—what can you find?
And more!
Presenter:
• Holly Peele, librarian, Education WeekModerator:
• Ryan Lanier, digital content marketing manager, Education Week
Digging Into Mathematical Discourse: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solution Samples
Content provided by Curriculum Associates.
This webinar took place on October 20, 2016 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Developing rich mathematical discourse in the classroom is important for building mathematical reasoning and conceptual understanding; yet it is a challenge for many educators. Join us for a discussion with renowned mathematics expert and author, Gladis Kersaint, on how teachers and administrators can support the development of productive math discourse in the classroom through well-planned and well-sequenced discussions of student work.
Topics will include:
• Selecting student work for group or class discussion
• Sequencing discussions of student solution strategies and which questions to ask
• Engaging students, calling attention to their reasoning, and encouraging participation
Presenter:
• Gladis Kersaint, dean, Neag School of Education, University of ConnecticutModerator:
• Danielle Curran, product director, Ready Mathematics
Boost Student Engagement With STEAM & littleBits
Content provided by littleBits.
This webinar took place on October 19, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Increasing student engagement is key for student success. Having students who are curious, passionate, and interested in the material leads to better outcomes across the board. But how can educators prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s careers and increase engagement?
STEAM learning is about using Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics to develop student inquiry and, yes, to boost student engagement.
In this can’t-miss webinar, you’ll hear from experts like Sergio Anaya, supervisor of instructional innovation at Colonial School District, Pa., and Lesa Wang, visual arts and STEAM teacher at the Marymount School of New York, on how they brought powerful STEAM learning to their schools & the benefits to their students.
Presenters:
• Sergio Anaya, supervisor of instructional innovation, Colonial School District, Pa.• Lesa Wang, visual arts and STEAM teacher, Marymount School of New York
Moderator:
• Christine Leonard, senior education manager, littleBits
EdWeek Campus-Wide: 7 Things Colleges & Universities Should Know About Edweek.org
This webinar is a rebroadcast of an event that originally aired on Aug. 23, 2016.
This webinar took place on October 18, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Ever consider how edweek.org might empower your entire campus? Education Week is K-12 education’s most cited publication students and faculty turn to for the most current news, research and insight, informing the next generation of leaders. Join Education Week Librarian Holly Peele as she offers 7 key insights on what edweek.org has to offer in this easy-to-follow discussion.
You will learn about:
• Searches on vital K-12 topics
• Topical Pages
• Teacher Channel—News and insight for teachers
• Digital Directions—News on IT and ed tech news
• Blogs—what do educators read?
• Annual Reports & Archives—35+ years—what can you find?
And More!
Presenter:
• Holly Peele, librarian, Education WeekModerator:
• Ryan Lanier, digital content marketing manager, Education Week
Personalized Learning in Project-Based Math Classrooms
Content provided by DreamBox Learning.
This webinar took place on October 11, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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There is an emerging opportunity to boost student achievement and improve working for teachers here in the U.S.—and a huge opportunity to expand access to quality learning to every young person on earth. The opportunity is to make learning more compelling, customized, connected, and competency-based. Combining personalized and project-based learning creates an environment that supports both individual growth and passion in meaningful ways. For mathematics this means simultaneously creating an environment where students build conceptual understanding and also develop the skills they need to be successful problem solvers. Join Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, and moderator David Woods, director of curriculum development at DreamBox Learning, as they dive into the implications for mathematics in project-based learning.
Presenter:
• Tom Vander Ark, author and CEO, Getting SmartModerator:
• David Woods, director of curriculum development, DreamBox Learning
English-Language-Learner Literacy Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar is sponsored by Middlebury Interactive Languages.
This webinar took place on October 6, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As many states experience growth in their English-language-learner populations, changes required by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act will give this group of students a higher profile and reflect their growing importance in measuring overall student achievement. That’s in part because schools’ accountability for the progress that English-learners make in learning the language is now integrated into Title I, the federal program under which the performance of all other students is scrutinized. But the change doesn’t come without complications. Some state education agencies are still unsure how they will interpret and implement the law’s mandates. Join us for a conversation with English-language-learner administrators from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., and Roseville, Minn., school districts to examine their plans for adjusting to the new federal law.
Presenters:
• Kristina Robertson, English-learners program administrator, Roseville Area school district, Minn.• Charlotte “Nadja” Trez, executive director, English-learner services, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school district
Moderator:
• Corey Mitchell, staff writer, Education Week
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Using Basic Classroom Materials to Inspire the Next Century of Innovators
Content provided by Boeing.
This webinar took place on September 28, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Whilst there are lots of emerging technologies available for the classroom, many of them are out of reach due to budget and implementation cycle restrictions. Join us for an exploration of how ordinary classroom materials—the paper, straws, glue, and tin foil we all love—can become the basis for inspiring STEM-oriented lessons focusing on core scientific principles.
In this webinar we will hear from Teaching Channel about ways to ensure hands-on, DIY learning can be curriculum-linked and classroom-ready, as well as an engineering practitioner who will talk to the credibility of approaches such as Iridescent/Curiosity Machine’s Design Challenges for application of real world skills for the workplace.
Our guests will explore:
• Ways to ensure lesson structure, using these real world, engineering-based challenges, align with state, national, and industry standards
• Insight into the classroom experience they have had using these approaches
• The value of real world applications in terms of students’ career pathways
Presenters:
• Tony Castilleja Jr., systems engineer, Boeing Space Exploration• Sandra Geisbush, educator, NEISD STEM Academy, San Antonio, Texas
• Jennifer Stotts, STEM education consultant, Teaching Channel
Moderator:
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
Early Literacy Instruction: 10 Research-Informed Practices That Can Change Every Classroom
Content provided by BloomBoard.
This webinar took place on September 26, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As in many states, far too many of Michigan’s children are not reading proficiently by the end of grade three—and the situation continues to worsen. Addressing this problem can require broad and significant improvement in instructional practices. Toward that end, an Early Literacy Task Force (ELTF) in Michigan identified 10 research-informed classroom literacy instructional practices for Pre-K and 10 such practices for K-3 that can have a meaningful impact on student literacy. In this presentation, Nell Duke, Susan Townsend, and Naomi Norman will share these instructional practices, and discuss how the ELTF is working to make them a focus of professional development throughout the state of Michigan. These practices can be used by educators nationwide to make similar changes in their states.
Presenters:
• Nell K. Duke, professor, literacy, language, and culture, University of Michigan• Naomi Norman, assistant superintendent, achievement & student services, Washtenaw Intermediate School District, Mich.
• Susan Townsend, director of instruction and learning services, Jackson County Intermediate School District, Mich.
Moderator:
• Kelly Montes De Oca, chief learning officer, BloomBoard
Integrating Educational Technology for Early Childhood
Content provided by Istation.
This webinar took place on September 22, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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From tablets and smartphones to laptops, desktops, and smart-boards, computer-based learning can be a valuable part of any early childhood classroom.
Learn how to balance educational technology with other interactive, hands-on experiences in early childhood education. Nationally-recognized educators Tracey Roden and Clarissa Plair share a three-point checklist schools can use to assess how beneficial a blended initiative supported with technology works best.
Find out how playful and purposeful programs can deliver powerful results. Plus, get great insight into meaningful ways technology can be integrated into classrooms as early as pre-K through 3rd grade and beyond.
Presenters:
• Clarissa Plair, national educational consultant, Istation• Tracey Roden, vice president, curriculum & research, Istation
Moderator:
• Ossa Fisher, chief marketing officer, Istation
College and Career Readiness Through Project-Based Learning
Content provided by itslearning.
This webinar took place on September 21, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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With “only 8 percent of students completing college and career-ready curriculum,” educators are clamoring to find pedagogical methods that get students active and engaged in pursuit of mastering 21st century skills. Barbara Bray, creative learning strategist, will share how project-based learning (PBL) helps students develop skills that prepare them to be ready for college, career, and life. Using PBL, educators can encourage students to have a voice and choice in what and how they learn so they can take ownership of their learning.
The goal for PBL is for students to not only master the standards-based content, but also to demonstrate mastery of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and self-efficacy so they become self-directed, independent learners. Joining Bray will be Josh Giebel, a mathematics facilitator from Bartholomew School District who will share examples how they are employing PBL right now in their classrooms.
Presenters:
• Barbara Bray, creative learning officer and co-founder, Personalize Learning, LLC; co-author of Make Learning Personal and a new book, How to Personalize Learning, coming out this October• Josh Giebel, mathematics facilitator, Columbus Signature Academy, Columbus, Ind.
Moderator:
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
Making SEL Meaningful, Measurable, and Achievable Under ESSA
Content provided by Committee for Children.
This webinar took place on September 20, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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As a leader in education, what non-academic factor will you be using under the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? This webinar, featuring content provided by Committee for Children, explores how social-emotional learning (SEL) can be that factor. SEL has been shown to increase academic performance, decrease behavioral issues and suspensions, and improve graduation rates. Committee for Children (CFC) developed an evidence-based SEL curriculum used in 22 percent of all U.S. elementary and middle schools, and advocates for inclusion of SEL in primary, secondary, and career/technical education.
This live session will cover policy research about how SEL can be implemented and assessed. The chief academic officer of CORE Districts will present learnings from nine districts that have already implemented a school quality improvement index that measures growth mindset, self-efficacy, self-management, and social awareness.
Presenters:
• Chad d’Entremont, executive director, Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, Mass.• Tia Kim, director of programs, partnerships, and research, Committee for Children
• Michelle Steagall, chief academic officer, CORE Districts, Calif.
Moderator:
• Carol Wood, advocacy specialist, Committee for Children
Improving Graduation Rates: Predictive Analytics in Action
Content provided by BrightBytes.
This webinar took place on September 9, 2016 @ 3 p.m. ET
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Dropping out is a process—not a single event. Disengaged students at risk for dropping out of school typically show warning signs years before the actual event occurs. However, many early warning systems only begin to identify at-risk students in late middle school or early high school and cannot detect discrete signs of risk in early grades.
West Virginia has been able to increase graduation rates by 5 percent over the last two years using information from a next generation predictive analytics early warning system. In this webinar you’ll learn:
• What predictive analytics is and how it works
• The differences between threshold and predictive analytics systems
• How to identify at-risk students as early as first grade with 90 percent accuracy
• Why states should move to a predictive analytics system
• How our guest successfully deployed a statewide early warning system
• The cost savings that can be realized with early identification and intervention
Presenters:
• Kristal Ayres, director of professional services, BrightBytes• Michele Blatt, chief accountability officer, division of school effectiveness, West Virginia Department of Education
Moderator:
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
The Missing Link: School Climate and Culture and Solutions for Student Success
Content provided by Kickboard.
This webinar took place on September 7, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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In a new study, more than 90 percent of educators agree that behavioral issues impede student learning and that academic interventions can’t be successful if behavioral issues aren’t addressed. Yet, few actually record behaviors for all students or analyze these data. What’s the reason for this disconnect and what can be done about it? Join our conversation with Jonathan Cohen, president and co-founder of the National School Climate Center, and David Hardy, deputy superintendent of academics at St. Louis Public Schools, about the interplay between student behavior, social/emotional learning, school culture, and academic success. We’ll examine how small data can play a big role in student learning and school improvement, and explore how technology can be used to gain insight into what’s happening behind classrooms doors. Let’s crack the code of student success!
Presenters:
• Jonathan Cohen, president and co-founder, National School Climate Center, New York, N.Y.• David Hardy, deputy superintendent of academics, St. Louis Public Schools, St. Louis, Mo.
• Kristen Harmeling, partner, YouGov
Moderator:
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
EdWeek School-Wide: 7 Things K-12 Educators Should Know About Edweek.org
This webinar took place on August 31, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Ever consider how edweek.org might empower educators at your school or district? K-12 leaders in growing numbers are using Education Week as a PD tool to keep their teachers and administrators informed and engaged. Join Education Week Librarian Holly Peele as she offers 7 key insights on what edweek.org has to offer for K-12 educators in this easy-to-follow discussion.
You will learn about:
• Searches
• Topical Pages
• Trending Issues
• Teacher Channel—News and insight for teachers
• Digital Directions—A hidden gem on IT and ed tech news
• Blogs – what do educators read?
• Annual Reports & Archives—what can you find?
And more!
Presenter:
• Holly Peele, librarian, Education WeekModerator:
• Ryan Lanier, digital content marketing manager, Education Week
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What Schools Want From Digital Content: CAO Insights, Exclusive Data
This webinar took place on August 30, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Join us for a conversation with the chief academic officers of the Broward County, Fla., and Cleveland, Ohio, school districts to better understand what schools really need and want from digital content providers. Drawing upon exclusive data collected by the Education Week Research Center, this webinar will provide key insights and actionable information about the adoption and purchasing of digital content in the K-12 system. It will address the frustrations schools face in working with companies during digital content adoption, how an increasing number of schools are turning to open educational resources, the uneven growth of the English language learner market, and more.
Presenters:
• Daniel Gohl, M.Ed., chief academic officer, Broward County school district, Fla.• Michelle Pierre-Farid, Ph.D., chief academic officer, Cleveland Metropolitan school district, Ohio
• Holly Yettick, director, Education Week Research Center
Moderator:
• Michele Molnar, associate editor, EdWeek Market Brief
View this on-demand webinar now.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act: The Implications for Education Companies
Part of the Inside ESSA Webinar Series
This webinar took place on August 24, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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The Every Student Succeeds Act, approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama late last year, marks an historic shift in federal education policy—one that will shape the work of states, districts, and individual educators for years to come. But what does it mean for companies operating in the K-12 market? In this webinar, two guests with deep experience consulting K-12 providers on federal policy break down the implications of ESSA for education technology, district budgets, professional development, assessment, school interventions, and other areas. Our guests also explain how the statute is likely to be implemented, based on regulations issued by the Obama administration and the interpretations of state and local education officials.
Presenters:
• Reg Leichty, partner and founder, Foresight Law + Policy• Julia Martin, legislative director, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
Moderator:
• Sean Cavanagh, senior editor, EdWeek Market Brief
View this on-demand webinar now.
EdWeek Campus-Wide: 7 Things Colleges & Universities Should Know About Edweek.org
This webinar took place on August 23, 2016 @ 2 p.m. ET
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Ever consider how edweek.org might empower your entire campus? Education Week is K-12 education’s most cited publication students and faculty turn to for the most current news, research and insight, informing the next generation of leaders. Join Education Week Librarian Holly Peele as she offers 7 key insights on what edweek.org has to offer in this easy-to-follow discussion.
You will learn about:
• Searches on vital K-12 topics
• Topical Pages
• Teacher Channel—News and insight for teachers
• Digital Directions—News on IT and ed tech news
• Blogs—what do educators read?
• Annual Reports & Archives—35+ years—what can you find?
And More!
Presenter:
• Holly Peele, librarian, Education WeekModerator:
• Ryan Lanier, digital content marketing manager, Education Week
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