In this edWebinar, we’ll explore how student goal setting can increase outcomes for individual and community-wide reading goals using digital books. When a shared reading goal is put into place, the message of encouraging each other can motivate young readers to meet their collective and individual targets. See examples of how pairing e-books with activities […]

In this edWebinar, Sean Nank and Kathleen Sheehy will explore how math educators using the 5 Practices can make this school year resonate for students in positive ways for years to come through positive interactions between students, teachers, and math. This edWebinar will be of interest to elementary through high school teachers, as well as […]

Discover effective ways to help today’s new arrivals learn the vocabulary and literacy skills needed for a successful transition to American schools and society. Renowned author and researcher Dr. Margarita Calderón explains how to combine targeted instruction with a supportive classroom culture, enabling Newcomers to use current technological and social-emotional terms along with traditional forms […]

How can schools bring an equity lens to their trauma-informed education initiatives? Schools can do more than respond to the trauma that some students have already experienced; they can play a key role in preventing trauma and disrupting the larger social forces that create trauma in our world. This edWebinar will present a fresh take […]

To help all students thrive, we need to move from simply recognizing the benefits of diversity to creating a mutually responsive and asset-oriented learning environment. With approximately five million emergent bilingual students in public schools across the United States, it is more important than ever to refocus curricula, pedagogies, and classroom environments to value and […]

Skilled readers weave together vocabulary, background knowledge and an understanding of language structures to make sense of what they read. With such limited time in our elementary classrooms, how can we attend to these essential aspects of reading instruction, alongside building foundational skills? Join Rebecca Abbott, Professional Learning Lead from UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of […]

As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before. The challenge for teachers is to help each student […]

These one-hour virtual sessions take a deep dive into a specific topic. Each session will include an introduction to the topic, some connected readings, time for conversation and questions. Participants will leave with some new thinking and some resources to expand their thinking following the session. Note: Sessions are provided at no cost for member […]

Read Aloud is no longer a time for children to settle down after recess and listen in a passive manner. Instead, it is a time for the reading community to come together and think together around a common book. During the course of the school year, a class can experience 6-10 chapter books together while […]

Spatial visualization (SV) is the ability to think in 3D. Did you know that up to 60% of students in STEM programs have weak SV skills? This skills gap can lead to difficulty in engineering, technology, and science classes which require proficiency with 3D thinking. Thankfully, studies have shown that SV skills are teachable and […]

It is important that we expand our definition of text when we create text sets for students in grades 2-6. Text sets should not only include books, but also podcasts, articles, blog posts, videos, and more. In this session, we’ll look at ways to build a text set that includes a variety of media. We’ll […]