Webinars

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 2 to 3 pm ET

Content provided by: STEAM Is the New STEM: How You Can Bring It to Your School How do educators prepare students for jobs that don't even exist yet? Now more than ever, it is important that students engage in STEAM learning in order to be ready for what is around the corner. STEAM—adding Arts to STEM—provides a full, 360-degree approach to 21st-century learning. This webinar will give you the inspiration to start your own STEAM learning initiative in your school or district as well as the necessary tips, tricks, and tools for implementing a successful program. You'll hear from educators including Helen Mowers and Anna Adam from Killeen Independent School District in Texas. Find out how STEAM permeates the curriculum and how tools such as littleBits get students inventing and reimagining the world around them. Guests: Erin Mulcahy, education product strategy lead, littleBits Anna Adam, administrator, Killeen Independent School District, Texas Helen Mowers, administrator, Killeen Independent School District, Texas This webinar will be moderated by Sean Herdman, associate publisher, sales & marketing, Editorial Projects in Education REGISTER HERE Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 2 to 3 pm ET Content provided by: Educator Viewpoints: Personalized Professional Learning Today Personalized professional learning is the holy grail for educators. Over 200 principals and 300 teachers responded to the Personalized Professional Learning Survey, sharing their viewpoints on best practices and challenges for creating a personalized professional learning climate. What do the results of the survey tell us about how districts can: Shift from a culture of compliance to connection in the professional learning? Strengthen the links between a teacher's professional growth needs and professional learning experiences? Create a backdrop for principals to transform teacher professional learning? This webinar features two experienced district leaders who invite you to join in the conversation on the best approaches to "AMPing" up actionable, meaningful, and personalized professional learning. Jump into the survey results and get to the heart of personalized professional learning today—you may be surprised at the pitfalls and practices that make a difference. Guests: Jan John, director, professional development, Austin Independent School District, Austin, Texas Jane Respess, director of professional learning and development, Brevard Public Schools, Brevard, Fla. This webinar will be moderated by Callie Turk, founding principal, Intersections in Education Consulting REGISTER HERE Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 2 to 3 pm ET Sponsored by: Maximizing Ed Tech's Reach in Rural School Districts Join us for this webinar from our Education Week Leaders To Learn From virtual events series. This 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. Throughout 2016, we'll host webinars, live chats, and more virtual events related to this year's Leaders. Find out more at leaders.edweek.org. And be sure to watch all our past virtual events here. Technology is a crucial tool to create new opportunities and a wider perspective for students in rural districts. Online courses bring teachers, subjects, and experts to students who wouldn't otherwise have access to them. Teaching technology skills allows students to compete with their peers from more urban areas. But rural education leaders must be creative in their efforts to pay for and build reliable infrastructure, provide home Internet access for students, and implement ed-tech programs. In this webinar, Matt Akin, superintendent of the Piedmont City school district in Alabama, and a 2016 Education Week Leaders to Learn From honoree, shares the strategies he has used to digitize his school system. Guests: Matt Akin, superintendent, Piedmont City School District, Piedmont, Ala. Adam B. Clemons, principal, Piedmont High School, Ala. This webinar will be moderated by Michelle R. Davis, senior writer, Education Week Digital Directions REGISTER HERE

Webinars

Title: "From STEM to STEAM & how to bring it to your school," presented by littleBits

Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016

Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Duration: 1 hour

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Summary

How do educators prepare students for jobs that don’t even exist yet? Now more than ever, it is important that students engage in STEAM learning in order to be ready for what is around the corner. STEAM – adding Arts to STEM – provides a full 360-degree approach to 21st-century learning.

This webinar will give you the inspiration to start your own STEAM learning initiative in your school or district as well as the necessary tips, tricks, and tools for implementing a successful program.

You’ll hear from educators such as Helen Mowers and Anna Adam from Killeen ISD in Texas. Find out how STEAM permeates the entire curriculum and how tools such as littleBits get students inventing and reimagining the world around them.

Speakers

Ayah Bdeir, Founder & CEO, littleBits

Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an award-winning platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that is empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small. Bdeir is an engineer, interactive artist and one of the leaders of the open source hardware movement. Bdeir’s career and education have centered on advancing open source hardware to make education and innovation more accessible to people around the world. She is a co-founder of the Open Hardware Summit, a TED Senior Fellow and an alumna of the MIT Media Lab.

Anna Adam and Helen Mowers, Administrators, Killeen Independent School District, Texas

 

Anna Adam and Helen Mowers are the creators of Tech Chick Tips, a podcast with tips for educators about using technology in instruction to engage students. Both work in Central Texas at Killeen Independent School District. Anna has served for the last 18 years as a campus instructional technologist and district-level Digital Learning Specialist. Helen’s 22 years of experience include being a science teacher, instructional technologist, professional developer, and most recently as the Executive Director for Technology Services. Anna is the proud wife of one and mom to three digital kids, ages 16, 14 and 12, and Helen is proud auntie to two digi-nieces, ages 9 and 6 years! Helen and Anna are Apple Distinguished Educators, Google gurus, and addicted to cool gadgets, blogs, podcasts, and social media. The Chicks have presented at numerous state, national, and international events and conferences, including TCEA, TxLA, ISTE, and Bermuda Union of Teachers. You can find them online at Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter as @techchick94 and @betterannamac. They can often be found surfing the web at all hours of the day and night looking for new tips and tools that can engage students and teachers! 

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Free Webinar: Digital Content Goes to School With more than 80 percent of schools and districts using digital content in the classroom, have you consider making the shift to digital? ASCD and OverDrive teamed up to address the most frequently asked questions, including: How do I get started? Which subject areas are available? Is 1:1 required? And many more. Please join us for our live webinar Digital Content Goes to School: Trends in K-12 Classroom e-Learning as we review research detailing K-12 digital content usage. Survey data from nearly 3,000 administrators will be shared, as well as mini-case studies on successful implementations. Learn about the most common subjects, devices and funding sources and how schools are increasing usage by students and educators. An executive summary and access to the full report will be available. Digital Content Goes to School: Trends in K-12 Classroom e-Learning Thursday, May 5, 2016, 2:00 p.m. EDT (US) Presented by Herb Miller, OverDrive Register Now This webinar is hosted by OverDrive. By registering, you will be sharing your information with OverDrive and may receive follow-up communication from them about relevant products and services.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2 to 3 pm ET

Content provided by: Prevention to Intervention: Formative Assessment Reimagined A new breed of technology is driving a shift in how we view and use formative assessment. When fully realized, educators will be engaged, empowered, and equipped to interrupt, disrupt, and prevent the failure to learn versus treating failed learning. Beyond information, formative assessment reimagined provides in-time insight and intelligence of, for, and by the learner to adapt and adjust learning, as the learner is learning—not after instruction. To that end, this webinar will focus on three essential learnings: The what, why, and how of reimagined formative assessment; The transformational impact of instructional and assessment integration; and The results of assessing leading rather than trailing indicators of learning. Guest: Gregory Firn, superintendent in residence, DreamBox Learning This webinar will be moderated by Stefani Kauppila, curriculum designer, DreamBox Learning Register Here Thursday, April 28, 2016 3 to 4 pm ET Sponsored by: English-Learners and the Common Core: New Instructional Strategies As many educators are discovering, Common Core State Standards pose particular challenges for English-language learners in both language arts and mathematics, and yet the standards documents themselves provide little guidance for how teachers can help their ELLs meet the new objectives. In this webinar, veteran teachers Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski, authors of the forthcoming Navigating the Common Core With English Language Learners, will offer practical guidance on integrating the standards into instruction for ELLs. The authors will discuss research and developments in ELL education, examine the standards in depth with eye towards challenges and opportunities for ELL students, and provide targeted scaffolding techniques and instructional activities. The goal will be to give attendees a better understanding of how and when to adapt instruction under the common core to the particular needs of English-learners. Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Guests: Larry Ferlazzo is an award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., and the author of Education Week Teacher's blog Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. Katie Hull Sypnieski teaches English and English-language development at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., and is the co-author of Navigating the Common Core With English Language Learners. This webinar will be moderated by Anthony Rebora, managing editor, Education Week Teacher; assistant managing editor, Education Week Register Here