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

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Content provided by: Demystifying the Role of Reading Comprehension in the Common Core The role of reading comprehension in the common core may seem like a mystery. In this webinar, we will share clues and unlock the mystery of reading comprehension. We will begin by explaining what reading comprehension is and how it works. Next, we will describe connections between reading comprehension and the common core. Then we will provide practical, classroom-ready ideas for teaching students to comprehend at deeper levels. In this webinar, we will discuss: Current beliefs about the nature of reading comprehension The role of reading comprehension in the common core Classroom-ready teaching ideas to promote reading comprehension at deeper levels, with particular focus on the use of graphic organizers Join us for a discussion with renowned reading expert Maureen McLaughlin on how reading comprehension correlates with the common core and how we can teach students to comprehend to their greatest potential. Speaker: Maureen McLaughlin, professor, reading department, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania; and 2013-2014 president of the International Literacy Association This webinar will be moderated by Adam Berkin, vice president of product development, Curriculum Associates

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Sponsored by: Leveraging Analytics and Assessment to Close Achievement Gaps Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps often come to educators' attention in test scores, but they don't start there. A closer look at both assessment and other student data can help administrators recognize red flags in class access, school climate, parent involvement, and other areas that could be undermining their efforts to close achievement gaps. Join John B. Diamond, author of the 2015 book Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, and Ari Gerzon-Kessler, principal of Monaco Elementary in Colorado, who is using data to identify and correct longterm inequities in his school. Guests: John B. Diamond, associate professor of education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), University of Wisconsin-Madison Ari Gerzon-Kessler, principal, Monaco Elementary School, Commerce City, Colo. This webinar will be moderated by Sarah D. Sparks, assistant editor, Education Week

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FREE WEBINAR: Inquiry-Based Learning  For The Gen-Z Student!

Join Rosen Digital and Paige Jaeger, national library leader and curriculum consultant, Monday April 4 for a FREE edWeb Webinar and professional development opportunity. Paige will spotlight why inquiry works, why "the question is the answer," and how to build learning adventures that spark imagination and enable students to uncover and discover essential understandings of any discipline.   Inquiry-Based Learning for the Gen-Z Student! Monday, April 4 at 3pm EDT   Learn more about edWeb's learning communities here. Learn more about Rosen Digital here. Sign up and share with your colleagues for access to this great Professional Development opportunity! You'll have access to the recording, even if you can't listen live.

Four new Instructional Material Programs!

Wilson Just Words curriculum is a highly explicit, multisensory decoding and spelling program for students in grades 4-12 who have mild to moderate gaps in their decoding and spelling proficiency but do not require intensive intervention. IM 372.4144 WIL

Wilson Fundation Kits Levels K-3 are multi-level kits that make learning to read fun while laying down the groundwork for life-long literacy.  It is a research-based program that thoroughly teaches the foundational skills of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and significantly supports other CCSS standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language.  Level K focuses on letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training (IM 372.4144 WIL);  Level 1builds on Level K and progresses further into the study of word structures and reinforces letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training (IM 372.4144 WIL);  Level 2 builds on Level 1 and increases learning more complex word structure for decoding and encoding and also works on fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills (IM372..4144 WIL); and Level 3 builds on Level 2 reinforcing the word analysis and vocabulary development with new skills which include:  writing in cursive, and further development of fluency, comprehension, decoding and spelling skills (IM 372.4144 WIL).

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Teaching Social Issues in the Common-Core Era
The Common Core State Standards in English/Language Arts, as well as other college-and-career-ready standards, place strong emphases on critical literacy, cross-curricular learning, and cultural understanding. This webinar will explore how some educators are using those levers to create interdisciplinary units that integrate a variety of texts and learning methods to help students delve into social issues, including identity, cultural history, diversity, and civic engagement. The presentations will address issues such as instructional relevancy and student engagement, as well as boosting students' proficiency in close reading, critical thinking, and social-emotional understanding. The guests will also reflect on the challenges involved in developing interdisciplinary literacy units, teaching social topics, and transitioning to new standards.

Guests:

Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, adjunct professor, elementary education, San Francisco State University; author, Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom: A Guide for Teachers
Erin Angell, high school English teacher, Palo Alto High School, Calif., and co-creator of the Social Justice Pathway curriculum
Eric Bloom, high school history and economics teacher, Palo Alto High School, Calif., and co-creator of the Social Justice Pathway curriculum
This webinar will be moderated by Anthony Rebora, managing editor, Education Week Teacher
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Building Better Ed-Tech Strategies for the Pre-K-5 Crowd
Using technology to improve literacy and math skills for younger students takes very different strategies and tools than are typically used for middle and high school students. Our guests will discuss the best approaches for using digital devices, apps, and software for students in preschool through 5th grade, examining issues around how to balance the use of text versus multimedia, what types of online interactivity are most effective, and when technology should be turned off.

Guests:

Suzy Brooks, fourth grade teacher, Mullen-Hall School, Falmouth, Mass.
Todd Nesloney, principal, Navasota Intermediate School, Navasota, Texas
This webinar will be moderated by Michelle R. Davis, senior writer, Education Week/Digital Directions
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What's Next in K-12 Assessment?
The assessment field in K-12 education is in a period of transition—sparked by widespread dissatisfaction with conventional testing formats, changes in technology, and developments in the learning sciences. In this webinar, two highly regarded experts in assessment innovation will discuss promising new and developing approaches to testing (both formative and summative) and how schools can begin integrating them into instructional programs. In particular, the presenters will address ways that assessment in schools can become more personalized and better integrated with learning, and used to provide deeper and timely information to educators. They will also make predictions about the future of assessment in schools.
Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The Joyce Foundation.

Guests:

Randy Bennett, Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation, ETS; director, Cognitively-Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning initiative (CBAL)
Daniel T. Hickey, associate professor and program director of learning sciences, Indiana University; co-editor, New Frontiers in Formative Assessment
This webinar will be moderated by Anthony Rebora, managing editor, Education Week Teacher
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