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Join us on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 5 p.m. Eastern for Using
Smartphones in the Classroom with Shannon Holden, assistant principal at
Republic Middle School in Missouri. Learnmore and pre-register. Join the TechTools for the Classroom community at www.edweb.net/techtools.
Free webinar: Bully backlash
Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 2nd at 5 p.m. Eastern for Bully Backlash with Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri. Learnmore and pre-register. Join the Stop Bullying community at www.edweb.net/stopbullying.
Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 2nd at 5 p.m. Eastern for Bully Backlash with Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri. Learnmore and pre-register. Join the Stop Bullying community at www.edweb.net/stopbullying.
From Closing the Gap and texthelp:
Getting it Right: Using AT
Accommodations to Assist with PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessments
60 MINUTES
Thursday, September 4, 2014
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Central Daylight Time
Central Daylight Time
The ability to use Assistive
Technology accommodations on PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and other assessments
offer many opportunities to students who qualify. In this webinar, we will
discuss which accommodations are appropriate for testing and how to best prepare
for the assessment. We will share some of the most commonly used accommodations
and specific strategies to help ensure students are prepared to use them. In
addition, specific accommodations, including text to speech, word prediction,
highlighter strategies and more, will be demonstrated using Read&Write
Gold. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how students can
use accommodations to help increase achievement.
PRESENTER:
Kimberly Nix and Jason Carroll, Texthelp, Inc.
Participants
must register to receive confirmation and login instructions.
Participation
in this free, sponsored webinar is limited to the first 100 log-ins.
From Education Week:
Facing more rigorous math standards and expectations, schools are exploring new avenues to engage students in numeracy and address diverse learning needs. Silvestre Arcos, an award-winning math instructional leader, has found that resourceful use of technology can help teachers personalize instruction so that "students at every level can make tremendous gains." In this webinar, Arcos will discuss his efforts to align math instruction with students' learning needs and offer ways that schools and districts can support and scale up personalized-learning projects.
Guest:
Silvestre
Arcos,
founding math teacher and instructional coach, KIPP Washington Heights Middle
School, New York CityThis webinar will be moderated by Ross Brenneman, assistant editor, Education Week Teacher
Register now for this free live webinar.
In this webinar, you'll hear directly from Kimberly Payne, educational technology coordinator at Glenwood Community School District. With an emphasis on digital literacy, the district decided to "Go Google" with a "1-to-Web" Initiative for Chromebooks in grades 3-12 and tablets for grades K-2. Payne will share details about her district's experience serving over 2,100 students in five different schools with Google for Education and give insights into how these tools are being used in the classroom.
Participants
will:
- Get an overview of the Google for Education solution,
- Discover how this solution can be used to improve student learning, collaboration, and innovation,
- Hear firsthand experience from a district using Google Apps, Chromebooks, and tablets, and
- Learn how the district provided professional development to help ensure the devices & tools would enhance classroom learning.
Guest:
Kimberly
Payne,
Educational Technology Coordinator, Glenwood Community School District, IowaThis webinar will be moderated by Brent Sarver, Google for Education Team, Google
Register now for this free live webinar.
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