Introducing
the Whole Child Symposium
"Choosing Your
Tomorrow Today"
Join ASCD for two free events
in May: the WholeChild Symposium Live and the WholeChild Symposium Virtual, a series of discussions about effective education
and education systems around the world. Much like the Whole Child Virtual
Conference of years past, both events are great opportunities for you to
interact with leading education thinkers.
Mark your
calendar for 12:00–3:00 p.m., eastern time, on May 8 to watch the Whole Child Symposium Live stream online. This
discussion, which delves into the symposium theme "Choosing Your
Tomorrow Today," will feature ASCD CEO and Executive Director Dr.
Gene R. Carter and a panel of education experts. Participants are
encouraged to join in the online dialogue via Twitter with
#WCSymposium2014
during the event.
Register now
for the Whole Child Symposium Virtual sessions on May 14 and 15.
As an attendee, you will hear from four live panels of school leaders,
policy experts, teachers, and students. These panelists will explore how
decisions concerning education policy, schools, classroom instruction, and
students today affect what children, societies, and economies will need
and become tomorrow.
About ASCD's Whole Child
Initiative
Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child initiative is an effort to change the
conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic
achievement to one that promotes the long-term development and success of
children. Through the initiative, ASCD helps educators, families, community
members, and policymakers move from a vision about educating the whole child to
sustainable, collaborative action. Learn more at www.ascd.org/wholechild.
From Education Week:
Connecting
Communities: The Importance of Culture in Digital World Language & ELL
Instruction
"Solutions
to many of our ecological problems lie in an approach that celebrates,
empowers, and nurtures the cultural, artistic, historical and spiritual
resources of each local community and region. [...] Schools and other
educational institutions can and should play a central role in this
process."-Laurie Lane-Zucker, 2004
Join the
discussion with educators and curriculum designers from Middlebury Interactive
Languages, who will share their experiences utilizing place-based and
community-based pedagogies to help world language students and English Language
Learners connect with neighborhood communities. The panel of speakers will
discuss best practices, as well as challenges, in connecting culture with world
language and ELL instruction.
By
attending this free one-hour dialogue, you'll learn about:
- Place-based
and community-based pedagogy
- Design
principles to support a community-based approach in language education,
and
- The
impact of place-based pedagogy on student learning experiences.
Guests:
Matthew
Baughman,principal,
Coventry Village School, The International School of Stuttgart, Germany
Aline
Germain-Rutherford, Ph.D.,chief learning officer, Middlebury
Interactive Languages, and director, Middlebury College French School
Kim
Griffinprogram
director, Summer Language Academy, Comillas, Spain
Dana
Laursensenior
director, curriculum development & effectiveness, Middlebury Interactive
Languages
Becky
Rheadirector
academic programs design and development, Middlebury Interactive Languages
This
webinar will be moderated by Lee McIsaac, director of professional development,
Middlebury Interactive Languages
Registernow for this free live webinar.
From Closing the Gap:
Can Low
Incidence Students Become First-Time Writers? Learn How!
60
MINUTES
Thursday, May 8, 2014
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Central Daylight Time
Dr. Janet Sturm, Professor at
Central Michigan University, will share stories about students who were never
expected to write, like Antonio and Sean. Now, as teenagers, they are
expressing themselves through writing, despite their various disabilities. Dr.
Sturm will explain how she and the teachers at four Michigan schools helped
their students learn to write. They introduced an innovative, student-friendly
software tool, First Author Writing Software, that gets students excited about
writing and also has a built-in new methodology, First Author Writing Measures,
that helps teachers measure emergent writing progress. The students now proudly
say, "I'm an author!"
PRESENTER: DR.
JANET STURM,
Ph.D, CCC-SLP, Central Michigan University Professor.
Additionally, Janet collaborated with Don Johnston in the development of First
Author Software.
Participants
must register to receive confirmation and login instructions.
Participation in this free, sponsored webinar is
limited to the first 100 log-ins.
From edweb.net :
Join us on Thursday, May 8, at 5 p.m. Eastern for Open Educational
Resources (OER) 101 with Hetav Sanghavi, senior director of marketing and
strategic partnerships at CK-12. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Open Educational Resources (OER) in the
K-12 Classroom community at www.edweb.net/OER.
From School Improvement Network:
Free Webinar: Learn
to Develop Rich Assessment Tasks with Jay McTighe
 In this
webinar, we’ll explore a set of practical and proven design tools for
developing quality performance tasks based on Jay McTighe’s new
LumiBook, Core
Learning: Assessing What Matters Most. Such tasks provide more
than simply another method for measuring learning—they embody the most
important goals of the Standards, while engaging students in meaningful
learning.
The Common Core and
Next Generation Standards call for students to apply their
learning in authentic ways—e.g., to “closely” read complex texts, develop and
critique arguments, solve “messy” problems requiring sound reasoning and
perseverance, and engage in scientific inquiry.
These goals demand concomitant assessments that call for more than making a
selection from given answers in a selected-response format. Richer, more
authentic tasks are needed.
NOTE: This live
webinar will cover the same information as the one presented on March 20,
2014.
Click here to register to attend the “Developing Rich
Assessment Tasks” webinar.
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Developing Rich
Assessment Tasks
Presented by Jay McTighe
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
12 PM (PDT) | 1 PM (MDT) | 2 PM (CDT) | 3 PM (EDT)
*Please note your specific timezone.
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This webinar is free and will also be available to watch on our webinars page two business
days after the live presentation.
From Compass Learning:
Assessment results can be used to improve
teaching and learning, as well as for
accountability and grading. Join us for a free
webinar in which Educational Author
and Consultant Jay McTighe will explore:
·
The need for multiple
assessment measures
·
Ways of analyzing
accountability test results to inform instruction
·
Measuring what matters
most: using performance assessment data to guide teaching
·
Ways of using diagnostic
(pre-) and on-going (formative) assessments to provide feedback to teachers and
students
Event Details
Date: May 15, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM CST
Duration: 60 minutes
Guest Speaker
Jay McTighe
Educational Author and Consultant
Making the VR Connection!
Thursday,
May 15, 2014, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
The Youth Transitions
Collaborative, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), will host an educational
seminar, Making the VR
Connection. This seminar is designed to inform youth with
disabilities, their family members, practitioners, Vocational Rehabilitation
(VR) counselors, educators, public and private sector agencies, and other
stakeholders about the importance of collaboration to ensure a smooth
transition process for students with disabilities as they exit school and
prepare for post-school activities. Please join us to learn more about
interagency collaborative models, the VR process, transition practices, requirements,
and more.
Featured Speakers
include:
- Jessie
MacKinnon, Chief Operating Officer, National Youth Transitions Center
- Sue
Swenson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, OSERS
- Janet
LaBreck, Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration
- Melody
Musgrove, Director, Office of Special Education Programs
- Carol
Dobak, VR Unit Chief, Rehabilitation Services Administration
- Rogerio
M. Pinto, Associate Professor, Columbia University
- Andrea
Guest, Director, Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Alyssa
Cowin, Delaware Division of Health and Social Services, Former Student
- Ed Tos,
Deputy Director, Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Dale
Matuesevich, Education Associate Transition, Delaware State Educational
Agency.
The webinar will be captioned, recorded and
archived.
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Teachers are seeing more and more students with disabilities in their classes all the time. The laws and expectations of how school districts are to educate these students is complex and complicated. General education teachers need to understand the basics of special education and their critical role in the process. The problem is general classroom teachers often do not have the training to understand all that is required when educating students who have disabilities.
