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FREE WEBINAR: MODIFY YOUR CURRICULUM FOR STUDENTS WORKING BELOW GRADE LEVEL WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 3:00–4:00 PM In this webinar, Nicole Eredics, author of Inclusion in Action and moderator of The Inclusive Class blog, will give you step-by-step instruction on how and when to modify your curriculum for students who work below grade level. You'll learn: the fundamentals of creating and maintaining truly inclusive classrooms an overview of ways to support diverse learners through universal design for learning, social and emotional supports, and accommodations useful educational resources for modifying curriculum, and more

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Bring Coding into your Classroom

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7:00:00 PM EST - 8:00:00 PM EST

Join us for a practical guide to implementing computer science into your educational environment, starting in kindergarten through 12th grade. Sharing our journey of successes, failures, and advice for the future. Learn about resources for students and teachers to use as guides. Anybody can learn to code and it is a valuable skill for every student. As long as you are a teacher with a growth mindset, willing to learn and encourage students, you are able to bring CS to life in your classroom! Join Josh, Angie, and Velvet as we kick off Computer Science education week. Leave the webinar feeling inspired to kick off the hour of code with your students.

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Josh Caldwell, Angie Kalthoff, and Velvet Holmes



Josh, Angie and Velvet all have experience integrating innovative uses of technology, especially in computer science topics, into teaching and learning. All three have experience with Code.org across the educational spectrum from district-wide initiatives to the K-12 classroom. 

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Alan November on Leveraging Opportunities in First Weeks of School

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Please join us for a free webinar as education thought leader Alan November discusses the valuable opportunities that exist in the first days and weeks of the school year. What: Alan November on “The First Five Days” When: Tues. 09/19 @ 12:00 Noon ET / 9:00 AM PT Listen in as November builds upon ideas that include: Empowering students and preparing them for a global economy by helping them develop tools and networks for support How a focus on information literacy, student roles and global collaboration can set the stage for a year of engaging and self-directed learning Can't make the live webinar? Don't worry. You can still register for the event and a recording will be emailed to you when available.

Free webinar on Tuesday, June 27th 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm ET

REGISTER HERE to join this FREE, online, community conversation on TUESDAY, June 27th at 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET. And please share this invitation with folks in your network you think would be interested. If you're interested but can't make that time, register and we'll send you the link to the recording after the event.

Why We Gather. EmbraceRace is about building a strong and nourishing community of practice for parents, guardians, teachers and other caregivers who want to help raise a generation of children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race. In this session we — Andrew (Grant-Thomas) and Melissa (Giraud) — will talk about the Big Picture of race in the United States that led us to launch the community. We’ll highlight the goals we derived from that Big Picture and describe some of the work, both current and upcoming, we hope will help us all move toward those goals. We see EmbraceRace both as a provider of information and support in the race-and-raising-kids space and as part of the larger movement for racial and social justice. We think there’s a lot at stake in whether, how, and how well we collectively do this work. Let’s talk about it!

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Andrew Grant-Thomas, Co-founder
EmbraceRace: Raising a brave generation

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Helping Nonreaders and Struggling Readers Make 
Significant and Sustainable Gains
Presented by Julie Ross, S.P.I.R.E.® National Trainer, certified Special 
Education teacher in Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders, and 
Educable Mental Handicaps.

Tuesday, March 8 @ 3:30pm EST Friday, March 11 @ 12:00pm EST 

REGISTER for which date works best for you!
Join us for a live webinar to learn how S.P.I.R.E., a multisensory 
reading intervention program, can help your lowest performing 
students become proficient readers. Julie Ross will provide an 
overview of the program as a direct instructional model and 
introduce the new online version: iSPIRE.

Attend this webinar to learn about:

• S.P.I.R.E. and why it is so effective
• Similarities and unique features of the print and online versions
• Our unique 10-step lesson plan
  
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Free Webinar - Thursday, March 3rd 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET

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Fueling the Next Generation of Opportunity for Young Children’s Love and Engagement in Reading

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Please join us for a free, live webinar
Thursday, March 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET

Hosted by Dr. Anne E. Cunningham

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Fueling the Next Generation of Opportunity for Young Children’s Love and Engagement in Reading

Dr. Anne E. Cunningham, Professor, Cognition and Development, University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of Big Day for PreK™, sees opportunities for the next generation of readers everywhere she looks: at the grocery store, driving around town, hiking a coastal trail, waiting for the bus, and of course, on a cozy couch.

In this webinar, Dr. Cunningham will share the rationale for and the cognitive consequences of fostering rich language experiences and reading every day with and to children.

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Implementing an effective intervention model is complicated. Whether it’s due to lack of resources, unclear objectives, inconsistent professional development, or having to navigate changes in funding regulations, ongoing challenges make it difficult to implement an intervention framework with fidelity and realize it’s true purpose: to improve student outcomes.

A popular model for delivering intervention and support for students with diverse learning needs is Response to Intervention, or RTI. But what makes an intervention model, like RTI, successful? 

Join us to hear Dale Webster, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer at the Consortium on Reaching Excellence in Education (CORE), discuss strategies for creating an effective intervention program for grades K-8, including:

Essential components of a RTI framework as applied in grades K–8
Important considerations for implementing a multi-tiered system of support
Evidence-based instructional strategies for effective interventions in math and literacy
How to effectively use data from progress monitoring to inform instruction
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Date: Thursday, February 18
Time: 1:00 PM CST
Duration: 60 minutes

GUEST SPEAKER
Dale Webster, Ph.D.
Chief Academic Officer at the Consortium on
 Reaching Excellence in Education (CORE)

For 24 years, Dale has had extensive experience at all levels
 of education: school site, district, county office, state 
board/state dept. of education, and university. 

Dale is currently the Chief Academic Officer for CORE, 
a professional development/technical assistance firm supporting

 the implementation of scientifically-based reading and math instruction, K-12.

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Free webinar: Portfolios as performance assessments

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Portfolios as Performance Assessments

At the Native American Community Academy (NACA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teachers are implementing an electronic portfolio system to evaluate students' knowledge, skills, and understanding with the goal to create a standards-based grading system using portfolios. Join the NACA 6th–8th grade Native Literature team in an informative webinar to learn how they used an ASCD PD Online^® course to backward-design a portfolio system for both formative and summative assessment purposes.

The team will share their PD Online learning experience and discuss the benefits of portfolios, the design of a multi-grade electronic portfolio system, and the instructional practices to structure reflective portfolio creation.


Portfolios as Performance Assessments in Native American Literature Coursework

August 20, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET (US)

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The Importance Of Customizing Your AAC  App – What Is Possible And What You  Should Consider Wednesday, August 5

There are many hundreds of communication apps  on the market and identifying the best fit to meet the  needs of an individual user can be, well – complicated!  Perhaps what we should consider is how well an app  can be customized to meet those needs and create that  perfect fit. This webinar will focus on what considerations   to take into account when it comes to customization –  what age is the user? What is the ability of the user?  Does the user have a visual impairment? Does the user  require a switch? We will then demonstrate a range of  settings within Therapy Box’s own apps that demonstrate  how AAC apps can be adjusted for a range of requirements. • Time: 10:00AM to 10:45AM CDT • Presenter: Rebecca Bright, BSpPath MRCSLT regHPC MASLTIP • Level: Beginner

Webinar - July 29th

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Developing Lifelong Leisure Skills for Individuals with Multiple Disabilities: An Overview of Fun Activities for the Classroom
Wednesday, July 29
This session will be an overview of leisure skills students may need once they reach adulthood, with ties to activities and lesson goals that can begin as early as preschool to ensure these skills are developed. Simple and fun activity ideas for the classroom and home will be provided, with information about additional resources for materials and ideas.

• Time: 6:00PM to 7:00PM CDT
• Presenter: Jody Click
• Level: Beginner  

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Free Webinar on Memory and Learning

Wouldn't it be great to walk into a classroom full of students, and feel like you really knew how they learned? By understanding current research about the brain and its core memory systems, you can do exactly that!

In this upcoming webinar, join Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky, authors of Memory at Work in the Classroom: Strategies to Help Underachieving Students, in practical examination of research on memory and learning that will help you design high-quality instruction and troubleshoot learners' difficulties. Real classroom examples will be included.

Implications and Applications of the Latest Brain Research for Learners and Teachers
July 16, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET (US)
Presented by Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky

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Free webinar - Equipping English Learners to Access Common Core Mathematics

ASCD is offering a free webinar:  Equipping English Learners to Access Common Core
Mathematics, on Wednesday, August 14the at 3 p.m. EDT. 

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Presenters are Maria Montalvo-Balbed and Denise Huddlestun.

The Common Core State Standards present both challenges and opportunities for English language learners (ELLs) to become active participants in the mathematics classroom.

The Standards for Mathematical Practice focus on active engagement that allows students to become mathematically proficient through a variety of language-rich experiences. For ELLs, those demands require teachers to understand the linguisticdemands of academic language and Common Core mathematics.

Through this webinar, participants will be able to understand the language demands of Common Core mathematics by engaging in a mathematical task, identifying the language demands of the task, and determining literacy practices to equip ELLS to successfully complete the task.

Free Webinar: Digital Schools: How technology can transform education

Education Week is offering this FREE webinar on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 ---- you do have to REGISTER for the FREE live webinar.

Digital Schools: How Technology Can Transform Education

This event takes place on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 2 to 3 p.m. ET.

Nearly a century ago, famed educator John Dewey said, "If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow." This wisdom resonates more strongly than ever today, and that maxim underlies this insightful look at the present and future of education in the digital age. In this webinar, Darrell West will discuss key findings from his book, Digital Schools: How Technology Can Transform Education, which examines new models of education made possible by enhanced information technology, and how new approaches will make public education in the post-industrial age more relevant, efficient, and ultimately more productive. West will explain how today’s educational institutions must reinvent themselves to engage students successfully and provide them with the skills needed to compete in an increasingly global, technological, and online world. West will share the potential contributions of blogs, wikis, social media, and video games and augmented reality in K–12 and higher education.

Presenter: Darrell West, director of governance studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

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Education Week is serving only as the host for this presentation. The content was created by the sponsor. The opinions expressed in this webinar are those of the sponsor and do not reflect the opinion of or constitute an endorsement by Editorial Projects in Education or any of its publications.

Free Webinar from ASCD on the Common Core State Standards - Monday, July 22, 2013

Shifting from the Elephant in the Room to Ownership of the Common Core State Standards: A Capacity-Building Implementation Plan

Nicole Clifton  

Participants will gain an understanding of building internal capacity for implementing the Common Core State Standards as well as understanding their role in facilitating implementation.

Participants will discover best practices for successful implementation through planning job-embedded professional learning, determining a timeline for implementation, and determining a plan for getting assistance.

This webinar will also focus on exploring powerful strategies that will demonstrate how to monitor and adjust implementation plans during the implementation period.

Monday, July 22, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Free Webinar from CHADD - DSM-5 & ADHD : New Diagnostic Guidelines - July 10th 3 - 4 PM

	Who:		Mary Solanto, PhD
	When:		Wednesday, July 10, 2013,  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Eastern time)
	What:		DSM-5 & ADHD: New Diagnostic Guidelines

 

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is here! ‘So what?’- you say.  Well, as the saying goes, “the devil is in the details."

The DSM-5 is the latest edition of the manual doctors and mental health professionals use to diagnose mental health conditions like ADHD, depression, anxiety, autism and others. That means the guidelines for determining if you or someone you love has ADHD have changed!  That’s big news!

These are just a few examples of questions that the new DSM-5 changes may prompt:

• “I’m an adult with ADHD and have been struggling with it for years.  What do the new guidelines mean for an adult like me?
• “My child has Autism, and for years I was told he can’t be diagnosed with ADHD, too.  Now his therapist says he can have both. I’m confused.  Which one is it?
• “My child is 12 years old.  If she had ADHD, she would have been diagnosed by now, right?”

Psychologist, Mary Solanto will join us on July 10, 2013 to explain what the new ADHD guidelines mean for you and your family.   

Pre-registration is required for this free chat.

Please click above to pre-register for the chat. Follow the instructions on that page to participate. This is an online webinar with audio and video streaming. Dr. Solanto will give a brief presentation on the DSM and the new diagnostic criteria for ADHD and will then answer questions submitted by chat participants. 

 
About the Expert
Mary Solanto, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and director of the ADHD Center in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.  Dr. Solanto’s research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and characteristics of the subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Free Webinar - Adopting a Blended Learning Strategy - Tuesday, February 26

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Adopting a Blended Learning Strategy

Panelists:  Klista Rader, Joplin Schools; Alex Mwangi, Baltimore City Schools; John Canuel, Blackboard

Date and Time:  Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:00 pm - Eastern Standard Time or  11:00 am Pacific Standard Time - l hour

Description: 

Blended learning, the teaching practice that combines both face-to-face and online learning, offers a model of instruction to engage students in and out of the classroom. It has proven highly effective in helping schools and districts address the challenges of student achievement, limited resources, and the expectations of 21st century learners. Register for this free webinar to hear from two schools that have effectively implemented blended learning strategies, find out how they have addressed the challenges that come with it, and how it has impacted student and teacher success.

Get Practical Ways to Successfully Implement Differentiation Webinar

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On Thursday, September 20th from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm ET - Eye on Education is offering Get practical ways to successfully implement differentiation!  This is a free, interactive webinar with Dr. Kim Kappler-Hewitt.  To register http://eyeoneducation.com/Online-Resources/Webinars

 

 

 



FREE WEBINAR!

ASCD is offering a free webinar with ASCD author and expert Howard Pitler on August 7th at 3 pm ET.  Based on ASCD's Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, you will get ideas on how technology can invigorate your lessons and increase student motivation and interaction.  To register for the webinar follow this link:  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/490596952.  We have the first edition of the the book Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, 2007 - 371.33 PIT.  The 2nd edition of the book is coming out on August 6th and while we do not have it --- we will be ordering it!  Sooooo, in the meantime, register for the webinar!

ASCD's 2012 Whole Child Virtual Conference - May 3-11

FREE - yes FREE - just register!  The 2012 ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference - Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture will explore what outstanding schools, communities, and individuals have done as they move along the whole child approach continuum from implementation to sustainability to becoming the culture of a school. 

Some of the topics and presenters are:

• What is a Whole Child education - Sean Slade, director of Whole Child Programs, ASCD
• Whole Child around the world - panelists from Singapore, Australia, Finland, France & Canada
• A Whole Child approach to education and the Common Core State Standards - Griffin & Mercado, ASCD
• Engaging the Whole Child:  The missing piece in the PD puzzle - Bob Sullo, William Glasser Institute
• Healthy school communities mentor site:  Iroquois Ridge High School - faculty
• Dignity for all:  Safeguarding LBGT students - Peter DeWitt, principal Poestenkill Elementary in New York
• FitLit:  Connecticut fitness and literacy - Michael Opitz, University of Northern Colorado
• MANY MORE SESSIONS!

To register and select the sessions that interest  you go to: 

http://www.ascd.org/programs/The-Whole-Child/whole-child-virtual-conference.aspx#wcvcpresenters

This conference will be archived on the ASCD website for viewing by registered participants.