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Learn How to Integrate Technology in Your Classroom with Extraordinary Learners - AAC and PLAY

60 MINUTES

Thursday,
March 2, 2017

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Central Standard Time

As educators, it is imperative that we are fluent in the use of digital devices. It is our job to teach our students how to be independent AND to help them develop functional skills with technology.

This webinar is designed to improve your digital fluency and show you how the iPad can be a helpful tool for your students with special needs. 

PRESENTERS: Katrine Gulstad Pedersen and Kirsten McLoud

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Creating the Right Environment for Successful AAC Use in the Classroom with Location Awareness

60 MINUTES

Thursday, 

May 4, 2017

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Central Daylight Time

Studies in the visual cognitive sciences have argued that we need to bring the environment into the AAC. Participants in this webinar will learn about the newest technology for AAC users - Location Awareness with Beacons, which is built in to SuperSpeak AAC and is an easy way to bring the environment into the AAC. 

We will teach you how to best apply these findings in a classroom setting with your special needs learners, how to teach appropriate iPad behaviors to students with special needs and how to get started with using the iPad in the classroom environment. 

PRESENTERS: Katrine Gulstad Pedersen and Kirsten McLoud

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Content provided by: 5 Steps to Building an At-Risk Student Model It is important for school districts to create and implement "On-Track Early Warning Systems" in order to identify students that are at risk for academic failure, disengagement, and mental health concerns. Through the systematic use of data, educators can promote more effective prevention and intervention services, while better understanding the root causes of these student issues. In this webinar, we will address the importance of implementing an "On-Track Early Warning System." We will also take a deep look into what a comprehensive "Early Warning System" looks like, including how data is most effectively used to build one. Also included will be an exploration of the following: Research-based methodologies and measures for identifying at-risk students A step-by-step process to create and implement an Early Warning System Existing models in use today, reviewing the most predictive indicators and cut points. Guest: Chris Balow, Ph.D., director of professional development, Illuminate Education Dr. Balow has been involved in education for over 30 years with former roles including district administrator of research & assessment, district RTI coordinator, district lead school psychologist, and university adjunct lecturer. His areas of expertise include assessment design, MTSS/RTI, student academic, and behavioral and social/emotional interventions. This webinar will be moderated by Jim Yang, senior director of marketing, Illuminate Education REGISTER HERE Content provided by: The Power of Data and Digital Resources: Boosting Science Achievement Through Informed Instruction What role can digital resources play in driving engagement, authentic understanding, and incremental gains in K-12 science? Join this conversation between education leaders as they reveal how digital resources have been a key driver in their summative and formative assessment efforts. Barb Reinert from Scottsdale Unified School District, Ariz., will share how her team has garnered widespread science gains by helping educators prepare students for state assessments using a targeted collected of digital resources. Luis Solano from Collier County Public Schools, Fla., will explain how his educators are using technology enhanced tools in classrooms to maximize formative assessment efforts and provide students with a relevant and engaging learning experience. Guests: Barbara Reinert, curriculum science specialist, PreK-12, Scottsdale Unified School District, Ariz. Luis Solano, associate superintendent, curriculum & instruction, Collier County Public Schools, Fla. This webinar will be moderated by Amy Gensemer, director of science curriculum, Discovery Education REGISTER HERE

Content provided by: From Probation to Graduation: Online Learning Increases Student Success In 2009, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) put Marshall Metropolitan High School on academic probation. In 2011, the Marshall staff implemented Pathway to Accelerated Student Success (PASS), which consists of three credit recovery programs: Daytime, Extended Day, and the PASS Institute. Now, 90 percent of PASS Institute students finish high school in a year or less, and Marshall Metropolitan High School is off academic probation. From 2011 to 2015, PASS provided thousands of CPS students the opportunity to recover credits, meet graduation requirements, and continue to postsecondary education. In this webinar, we will review Marshall's proven practices of relationship building, peer-to-peer mentoring, and FuelEd online courses and wraparound services. Together these elements have evolved into a powerful, integrated system that gives students opportunities they never thought they would have. CPS cited Marshall "A turnaround school that has revitalized its curriculum, culture, and climate, and is showing clear gains as a result. Students receive the supports necessary to be academically successful." Guests: Carol Brown-Robinson, administrator, John Marshall Metropolitan High School, Chicago, Ill. John Watson, founder, Evergreen Education Group This webinar will be moderated by Nicole Bono, director of marketing, Fuel Ed

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Content provided by: From the Mirage to Reality: The Future of Professional Learning Over the past decade, numerous research reports have concluded that current teacher professional development and certification processes are outdated and ineffective. The latest report, The Mirage, from TNTP, suggests that despite spending nearly $18,000 per teacher per year (or $67 billion nationwide) on teacher development efforts, teacher improvement is relatively infrequent and not tied to district interventions. In this webinar, Daniel Weisberg, CEO, The New Teacher Project, will be interviewed by Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, about the key insights of The Mirage report, where the field of educator professional learning is headed, and what it means for districts to ask fundamentally different questions about what great teaching means and how to achieve it. Upon registering, attendees may submit questions to be addressed in the conversation, and live Q&A will be held at the end. Guest: Daniel Weisberg, chief executive officer, The New Teacher Project This webinar will be moderated by Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan

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Dynamic vs. Static Assessment: A Growth Mindset Perspective Assessment should inform teaching. It should be continuous, pick up data on mathematical growth and development, and provide information about the "zone of proximal development" (Vygotsky 1978). To do so, it needs "to foresee where and how one can anticipate that which is just coming into view in the distance" (Streefland 1985, 285). It needs to capture genuine mathematizing—children's strategies, their ways of modeling realistic problems, and their understanding of key mathematical ideas. Bottom line, it needs to capture where the child is on the landscape of learning—where she has been, what her struggles are, and where she is going: it must be dynamic. This session will examine ways to assess development dynamically to inform teaching and to document the learning journey. Guest: Cathy Fosnot, president, New Perspectives Online, New Perspectives on Assessment, and New Perspectives on Learning This webinar will be moderated by Joe Trahan, curriculum designer, DreamBox Learning Register Here From NAEYC: Building healthy, safe environments - Featuring, Christopher Gavigan, Co-Founder of the Honest Company  When - February 4th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET - Register Here Hear from the Honest Company's co-founder and best selling author of, Healthy Child Healthy World, Christopher Gavign, as well as Honest's Head of Social Goodness, Laura Probst.   Research continues to demonstrate that the most important years of development happen during the first five years of life.  According to the American Medical Association, tens of millions of American children now face chronic diseases and illnesses - including cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD/ADHD, allergies, and learning/developmental disabilities.  preliminary research from the Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggests the environment of what goes in, on, and around children is fundamentally linked to their neurological, physical, and behavioral development.  During this webinar, you will learn new approaches and information to managing environmental impacts on health.

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Free Webinar on Balanced Leadership

What is it that makes some school leaders great and others not so great? Why are some principals able to turn around their schools, when others turn around themselves and walk away from their schools, as evidenced by the exceptionally high turnover rate among school leaders? Based on a scientific analysis of decades of research and years of experience working with principals solving real problems, we've arrived at a simple answer: Balance.

Join Bryan Goodwin, lead author of the new ASCD book, Balanced Leadership forPowerful Learning , for this in-depth webinar where he will share practical strategies that self-professed ordinary people have used to become extraordinary leaders. You will learn about the three key roles that leaders must balance to be effective: visionary strategists, optimistic change agents, and purpose driven team builders. 

Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET (US)
Presented by Bryan Goodwin, McREL International

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From Chalkbeat:       

Student Achievement Series:

The Impact of Positive Behavior Reinforcement on the K-12 Classroom

Wednesday, December 8, 2015

1 PM Central

Hosted by:  Jimmy Myrick, Student Achievement Expert

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From Brookes Publishing - TILLS  

You've heard about the new Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills. Now learn Howto Get the Most Out of TILLS in a free webinar by the lead tool developer.

On Thursday, December 10th, at 3:00 p.m. EST, Dr. Nicki Nelson will talk about how to use design features unique to TILLS to assess a student's oral and written language.

In the webinar, you'll learn

• how TILLS subtests assess language levels using parallel tasks across communication modalities
• how to interpret patterns of students' strengths and needs, and
• how to use information from the Student Language Scale to know what to prioritize when planning intervention

Learn more, or registertoday!

WEBINAR: Foundational Reading Skills

1. Wed, Dec 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

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FOUNDATIONAL READING SKILLS: Standards Tell Us What--Research Tells Us How 

We know that all students need the foundational skills to become proficient readers. 

"The Common Core State Standards define what foundational skills students should have by the end of each grade (K-5), but the standards do not tell teachers how they should teach. Teachers are thus free to provide students with whatever tools and knowledge their professional judgment and experience identify as most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the standards." (From Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, 2010) 

You can meet the goals by emphasizing skills that impact reading development and predict reading success. You can accelerate student progress by using highly-effective strategies to teach the foundational skills to developing and struggling readers. 

Attend this public webinar to: 

• Learn which foundational skills serve as predictors for reading success. 
• Understand the research about critical content and effective strategies for teaching the foundational skills. 
• Understand the implications of the research for instructional planning and priorities. 
• Recognize the role progress monitoring and ongoing assessment play in differentiating instruction. 
• Understand how to apply best practices to your current curriculum and lesson design to maximize student progress. 
• Receive FREE “Takeaways”—resources that will help you implement your current curriculum more effectively! 

This FREE 60-minute webinar is appropriate for: 
• Classroom teachers 
• Reading specialists 
• Title I teachers 
• Special Ed and RTI teachers 
• Curriculum specialists 
• Educational consultants 
• Tutors 
• Homeschool parents 

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- We will be using GoToWebinar. 
- You can join our session by using a Mac, PC or a mobile device. 

A whole list of FREE webinars!

FREE WEBINARS:

Del Mar SchoolsImproves Students' Writing Skills With Google for Education
Content provided by Google for Education.
May 27, 2015 at 2 p.m. ET

AmplifyingStudent Voice
Underwritten by The Atlantic Philanthropies, NoVo Foundation, The Raikes Foundation, and The California Endowment.
May 28, 2015 at 2 p.m. ET

Secrets for1-to-1 Success: Planning, Pedagogy, and Patience
Content provided by Microsoft.
June 3, 2015 at 2 p.m. ET

No More WordLists: Teaching Vocabulary in Context
Sponsored by Amplify.
June 4, 2015 at 3 p.m. ET

New Strategiesfor Reading Aloud to K-2 Students
Underwritten by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
June 18, 2015 at 2 p.m. ET


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From edWeb.net:

Free webinar: Making connections that matter

Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. Eastern for Making Connections That Matter with Steven Anderson, content and relationship evangelist for Promethean. Learn more and pre-register. Visit the ReEnergize Today's Connected Classroom community at www.edweb.net/classflow.

Free webinar: Engage, empower, energize: Leading tomorrow's schools today

Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. Eastern for Engage, Empower, Energize: Leading Tomorrow's Schools Today with Dr. Robert Dillon, director of technology and innovation, Affton School District. Learn more and pre-register. Visit the Leadership 3.0 community at www.edweb.net/leadership.

  

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Digital Leader Corps-Fueling An Innovative Change Movement Around Instruction
Designed to scale digital transformation and re-image the culture of teaching and learning, Discovery Education's Digital Leader Corps is a three-year + professional learning partnership for educators and school leaders. This system is employed to fuel an innovative change movement around instruction, which is intentionally designed to drive system transformation, build a culture of continuous improvement, support a shared leadership model, and maximize teachers' impact on student learning.
Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

Guest:

Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics, Wake County public school system, N.C.
This webinar will be moderated by Carol Wetzel, senior director, Discovery Education
Register now for this free live webinar.