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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

Webinar - Competency-based PD

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 2 to 3 pm ET

Content provided by: From Inputs to Outputs: The Great Migration to Competency-Based PD For too long our professional development systems have focused on the quality of the professional development "inputs" provided to teachers to improve their professional practice, with unfortunately little evidence of improvement or linkage to any "outputs" of a change in instructional practice. What would a shift from focusing on PD inputs to PD outputs entail and how will a competency-based approach using micro-credentials help education leaders implement these changes in their local environments? In this webinar, Karen Cator, chief executive officer of Digital Promise and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, will lead a conversation with assistant state superintendents from the Florida, Tennessee, and Delaware Departments of Education to discuss: Each state's work on competency-based professional development using micro-credentials, What changes they believe states and districts will look to make in the future, and What the impact on teacher quality and retention will be. Guests: Kathleen Airhart, chief operating officer and deputy commissioner, Tennessee Department of Education Brian Dassler, deputy chancellor for educator quality, Florida Department of Education Michael S. Watson, chief academic officer and associate secretary of education, Delaware Department of Education This webinar will be moderated by Karen Cator, chief executive officer, Digital Promise Register Here

First Annual Global Collaboration Day

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First annual Global Collaboration Day hopes to connect every school

By Stephen Noonoo, Editor, @stephenoonoo
Read more by Stephen Noonoo
August 25th, 2015

Daylong event focuses on classroom collaboration in a globalized world

Mark your calendars — this September 17 schools around the world are going international for Global Collaboration Day, a first-of-its-kind event designed to raise awareness about the merits of participating in projects that cross borders.

In addition to a handful of PD sessions for educators, there will be opportunities for mystery Skype calls, special Twitter chats, an international discussion conducted via WhatsApp, and a Q&A with a judge centered around the U.S. Constitution. (An updating calendar of events, arranged by time zone, is available online).

The daylong event series is the brainchild of Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray, who run the annual Global Education Conference, a traditional online conference which takes place in November.

Global Collaboration Day, by contrast, has no central online hub where all events are hosted, as a conference might. Instead, individual educators and partner organizations will organize their own sessions using any online medium they choose, leading to a diverse roster of collaborative opportunities.

Right now, Gray is busying herself with outreach to the global network she’s built up around her conference — a network that reaches more than 20,000 educators in 150 countries. And while she’s hoping educators reserve a slot on their calendars and participate in an event, she’s also looking for hosts who will help organize their own events with a partner school, preferably abroad. “It could be a survey, a Hangout on Air — whatever they’re comfortable with,” she said.

This spring Hargadon and Gray will also add a leadership summit, a two-day online event aimed at school administrators and other education thought leaders around the question: How do we globalize schools?

“The difference is that the November event is very inclusive. Anyone can present,” Gray says about the flagship Global Education Conference. “We accept those presentations to give everyone a chance to show their work. In the spring, it’s going to be handpicked speakers that are going to benefit a leadership audience.”

Educators interested in participating or hosting events should visit Global Collaboration Day’s website or get in touch with Lucy Gray directly.