How Leadership Works

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Enrich and expand your capacities to strengthen instructional leadership in your district by focusing on what works best—emphasizing the essential mindframes and research to effectively lead teaching, learning, and change.  In this webinar, the presenters will discuss specific practices to strengthen instructional leadership, cultivate a learning-focused culture for staff and students, and leverage implementation-deimplementation science […]

Meeting the Social-Emotional Needs of English Learners

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English learners have unique social and emotional needs that result from the process of immigration and resettlement. This online session will describe the special needs of immigrant populations including mental health needs. Intended audience includes EL teachers and coordinators, social workers, guidance counselors and administrators. A link to the online session will be sent to […]

Interactive 3D in the Classroom: Bringing Out the Creator in All Students

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Interactive 3D is everywhere, from games and entertainment to architecture and beyond. The demand for real-time 3D skills is skyrocketing around the globe, growing over six times faster than the job market overall according to a 2019 report by Burning Glass Technologies. As this technology expands beyond traditional video game design and development into other […]

Middle Grade Teacher Virtual Book Club with Franki Sibberson

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Are you a teacher of grades 3-6 who loves to find new books for your students to enjoy? Join other middle grade teachers virtually to read and discuss children's books. We'll meet on the first Tuesday of the month. Each month, we'll focus on one middle grade novel to read and discuss. Teachers will be […]

Humanizing Personalized Learning

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As we encounter the deficit-framing of learning loss and find ways to personalize learning as students heal from a traumatic time, we must challenge conventional wisdom on personalized learning and redefine personalized learning as a pedagogy for humanizing learning. In this webinar, author Paul Emerich France will discuss four steps for humanizing personalization, including centering […]

Guidance to Make Special Ed Eligibility Decisions

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Too few or too many? Preventing Over-or-Under Identification for Special Education Services   The impact of the pandemic on special education services and decisions is complex. Many districts feel they have not provided adequate online instruction and are therefore not seeing typical growth for all students. Does that mean all students who fall behind should […]

Aspiring Administrator Leaders Program

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This program is designed to introduce prospective leaders to the essential responsibilities, skills, challenges and rewards associated with school administration from a practitioners' perspective. Program attendees will: Explore typical duties and responsibilities of a building administrator to help candidates make an informed decision relative to entering a principal-preparation program. Enhance leadership skills and recognize personal […]

Aspiring Administrator Leaders Program

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This program is designed to introduce prospective leaders to the essential responsibilities, skills, challenges and rewards associated with school administration from a practitioners' perspective. Program attendees will: Explore typical duties and responsibilities of a building administrator to help candidates make an informed decision relative to entering a principal-preparation program. Enhance leadership skills and recognize personal […]

The ABCs of Powerful Professional Development™

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In this webinar with Mastermind author Daniel Bauer, leaders will discover how integrating more authenticity, belonging, and challenge will transform their life and leadership experiences. Participants will learn how to: - Create more authenticity in their school - Foster more belonging within their community - Challenge their community and inspire better results - Transform their […]

The Rebellious Read Aloud

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Children yearn to see themselves in our classrooms.  In this session, we'll discuss how our culture reveals itself in the classroom and make connections between diversity and our students using children's books. Confidently engage in conversations about diversity and inclusion and identify higher-order thinking questions to use with children's books about diversity. Register

Advance Beyond Doing Reading to Teaching Reading

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Our class periods and reading blocks are often filled with students practicing and applying comprehension skills; they are “doing” a lot of reading. However, these experiences cannot replace the explicit teaching of individual comprehension skills. It’s only when students receive explicit instruction on specific strategies that they can think about and beyond any text. This […]

Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency

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In this webinar, the authors of Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency tell the story of a school community that contended with its approach to teaching and valuing students of diverse backgrounds. The authors will discuss roadmaps, barriers along the way, and educator commitment to implementing and sustaining the work of Cultural Proficiency. […]