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Move and Learn
Presented by David Sladkey, Scott Miller
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Time: 8:30AM AEST
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Quick physical and mental activities are perfect for transitions and help learners re-focus and refresh. Join David Sladkey and Scott Miller for this exciting webinar to discover the surprising effects of incorporating movement in the classroom and come away with ready-to-go Brain Breaks that you can use with your students.
Confronting the Crisis of Engagement
Presented by Douglas Reeves
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 8:30AM AEST
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
In order for learning, teaching, and leadership to succeed, relationships through effective engagement must come first. As the world continues to recover from the global pandemic, teachers and school leaders face the daunting challenge of re-engaging students, academically and behaviorally. This webinar will provide the practical tools needed to improve collaboration between students, teachers, and leaders for better engagement. When students are engaged with peers and adults they develop the skills necessary to organize and focus – essential for success in secondary school, post-secondary education, and the world
beyond school.
Leading for ML Excellence in Every Classroom: 5 Reframes for Instructional Leaders
Presented by Tonya Ward Singer
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Time: 8:30AM AEST
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
The challenge: How best do we ensure our multilingual learners have full access to intellectually rich core content and literacy learning in every classroom, every day?
How Feedback Works
Presented by John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Time: 8:30AM AEST
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
This webinar will explore best practices around feedback and how it can best be utilized to impact student learning. Participants will learns do's and don'ts of effective feedback; how feedback can develop assessment capable learners; and tools for using feedback as part of teaching and learning.
Understanding Students Through Their Perspectives
Presented by Dr. Tommie Mabry
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Time: 9:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
This interactive webinar will provide teachers with real-world insight into how shifting their own perspective on their students can transform the educational process. By taking a deep dive into what shapes students’ perspectives, educators can better understand the beliefs, values, and experiences of students who have been labeled as “troubled” or “at risk.”
De-implementation: Making Space to Focus on What Works
Presented by Peter DeWitt
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time: 9:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
The workload of principals has increased over the last two decades and teachers are more stressed and anxious now than they were one year ago at the height of the pandemic (Education Week). Teachers and leaders are at risk of being spread too thin.
Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice
Presented by Courtney Koestler, Jennifer Ward, Eva Thanheiser
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Time: 9:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
This webinar will walk through the process of applying critical frameworks to instruction, using standards-based mathematics to explore, understand, and respond to social justice issues. Learn to plan instruction that engages children in mathematics explorations through age-appropriate sample lessons and focus on how to build classrooms in which such lessons can be implemented.
Supporting Educators to Become Equity-Focused Change Agents
Presented by Justin Cohen, Derek Mitchell, Cynthia Moultrie and William Hill
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Time: 9:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Change Agents: Transforming Schools from the Ground Up tells stories of real educators in low-income communities of color working to turn their underperforming schools into vibrant places to teach and learn. In this webinar, author Justin Cohen will be joined by two educators featured in the book and Derek Mitchell, the CEO of Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit organization that supported educators in this work.
Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools
Presented by Carmella S. Franco, Maria G. Ott, Darline P. Robles
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a guide to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan.
7 Mindshifts for School Leaders
Presented by Connie Hamilton, T.J. Vari, Joseph Jones
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
How do we think about the most vexing problems in education? Authors Connie Hamilton, Joseph Jones, and T.J. Vari believe that our response during times of crisis holds the key. In this webinar, you will hear how applying new mindshifts can re-energize your belief that you can solve long-standing problems in education. New ways of thinking about old problems like equity, teacher retention, grading, and reading ability will unlock the solutions you’ve been looking for.
Truly Impactful Early Childhood Education
Presented by Kateri Thunder, John Almarode, Alisha Demchak, Doug Fisher, & Nancy Frey
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Discover how research can guide our decisions as we plan, teach, document, and partner with learners, families and colleagues. In this webinar, join authors Kateri Thunder, John Almarode, Alisha Demchek, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey as they unpack coherent practices that form a strong foundation for learning over time.
Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Teachers and Leaders Do
Presented by Dr Lyn Sharratt; Dr Michael Fullan
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Celebrating the newly published 10th Anniversary Edition of 'Putting FACES on the Data,’ Lyn Sharratt and Michael Fullan bring together their exciting work over the last ten years and will cover fresh case studies and research that will help you think about data and competencies and how they come together to improve system, school, and student performance.
Opening Windows and Opening Minds
Presented by Afrika Afeni Mills
Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Educators who are interested in continuing along an antiracist path must recognize that racialization has harmed White students and Students of Color. Traditional curriculum has provided inaccurate messages about their identities, history, and understanding of the damage the social construct of race inflicts on society. Building on the content of the book Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students, this webinar will offer an approach to teaching and learning that can equip White teachers and students as informed, empathetic, inclusive, racially and historically literate global citizens who genuinely value diversity and will actively engage in dismantling systemic inequities.
Teaching Reading
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp
Translate the current research on reading into classroom practices that teachers can deploy tomorrow. We know that reading is an active process that is impacted by the text, task, and sociocultural context in which the reading occurs. These crucial components include systematic development of word recognition and language comprehension skills. Importantly, newer work reveals the bridging processes that make these possible.
How Leadership Works
Presented by Cathy Lassiter, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith
Enrich and expand your capacities to strengthen instructional leadership in your district by focusing on what works best—emphasizing the essential mindframes and research to effectively lead teaching, learning, and change. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss specific practices to strengthen instructional leadership, cultivate a learning-focused culture for staff and students, and leverage implementation-deimplementation science to successfully lead change.
The ABCs of Powerful Professional Development™
Presented by Daniel Bauer
How to harness the power of your existing time, staff, and resources to transform your school. Top education leader coach Daniel Bauer has a framework to help you integrate more authenticity, belonging, and challenge into your leadership and school that will transform it’s culture and student growth.
The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith
Social and emotional learning (SEL), like any academic subject students learn in school, must be expanded upon and deepened, year after year. In this webinar, school leaders Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith focus on addressing not only students’ well-being and SEL development, but also that of teachers and school leaders.
The Rebellious Read Aloud
Presented by Vera Ahiyya
Children yearn to see themselves in our classrooms. In this session, we'll discuss how our culture reveals itself in the classroom and make connections between diversity and our students using children's books.
Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency
Presented by Jaime E. Welborn, Tamika Casey, Keith T. Myatt, and Randall B. Lindsey
In this webinar, the authors of the Five to Thrive series will share actionable answers to the most pressing questions about teaching reading, writing, math, and creating a classroom community. New and veteran educators alike will come away with timely, up-to-date guidance that ensures they continue to deliver the best learning experiences for their students. Administrators will also find this session useful as they plan induction programs as well as to learn helpful tools to help support their staff.
Culturally Relevant Math Tasks in the Classroom
Presented by Lou E. Matthews, Shelly M. Jones, and Yolanda A. Parker
In this webinar, the authors of Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks will explore how teachers can find, adapt, and implement math tasks that engage and empower students by helping them learn and understand math more deeply and make connections to themselves, their communities, and the world around them.
Collective Equity
Presented by Sonja Hollins-Alexander and Nicole Law
Collective Equity is the catalyst for transforming learning environments into equitable spaces for increasing engagement, accelerating achievement, and enhancing belongingness and self-efficacy for all students. The Collective leverages relational trust where all members can individually and collectively show up in the fullness of who they are. When the Collective Equity Framework is implemented, the learning community is strengthened through a laser-like focus on increasing the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and stamina of educators in order to implement culturally fortifying practices that are visible.
Answers to the Most Pressing Questions About Teaching
Presented by Melanie Meehan, Christina Nosek, Georgina Rivera
In this webinar, the authors of the Five to Thrive series will share actionable answers to the most pressing questions about teaching reading, writing, math, and creating a classroom community. New and veteran educators alike will come away with timely, up-to-date guidance that ensures they continue to deliver the best learning experiences for their students. Administrators will also find this session useful as they plan induction programs as well as to learn helpful tools to help support their staff.
Leveraging Students' Cultural Capital and Assets Online and In Person
Presented by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Kristine Lewis Grant
Join authors of the new book, Culturally Responsive Teaching Online and In Person: An Action Planner for Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments, Stephanie Smith Budhai and Kristine Lewis Grant as they share ways K-12 teachers can maximise students’ cultural capital and assets to support their learning in online and in-person learning environments. The content in this session can be used by K-12 teachers to build the knowledge, awareness, skills, and dispositions to pivot instruction to facilitate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist learning experiences that transcend cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds.
Teaching, Persevering, & Thriving in 2022
Presented by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
The continued challenges of the pandemic have brought more unexpected changes to a destabilising school year. In this webinar, school leaders Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey focus on addressing current demands around student behavior, teacher morale, and compassionate leadership.
Participants will learn how to:
- Foster student engagement among distracted learners
- Address problematic behaviour in restorative ways
- Focus on what we need to do, not what’s neat to do
- Take a nuanced look at emotional and psychological supports for educators
Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration
Presented by Michael Fullan and Mark EdwardsDate: Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Time: 10:30AM AEDT
Duration: Approximately one hour
Based around the stories of 8 school districts, this webinar with Michael Fullan and Mark Edwards will share their insights about how deep caring for others linked to collaboration can achieve amazing results under complex conditions. Through powerful case studies and vignettes, the authors will discuss how spirit and collaboration represent revolutionary potential for education and pave the way to a brighter future.
Participants will come away with:
- A lifeline amid overwhelming conditions
- Hope for themselves and the future of education
- Practical ideas for building cohesion throughout school communities
Shake Up Literacy Learning with Multitasking Mentor Texts
Presented by Pam Koutrakos and Maria Walther
Join authors Pam Koutrakos and Maria Walther as they share their passion for using children’s literature to create joyful, student-centered literacy experiences. Learn how to use books as your teaching partners to mentor inquisitive learners and lead them on the path toward independence.
Participants will leave energized and prepared to:
- Seek out titles that honor and celebrate classroom learners
- Curate multimodal text sets that promote inquiry and enhance existing curriculum
- Create a variety of engaging learning experiences using multitasking mentor texts
- Integrate/connect different elements of literacy
Visible Learning in Early Childhood
Presented by Kateri Thunder, John Almarode, and John Hattie
Early childhood education is a place where we have the opportunity to start teaching and learning on the right path from the very beginning. How should we spend our precious time with these young learners? Our decisions as educators matter in early childhood
Effective Feedback that Fuels Self-Motivation in Learners
Presented by Dr. Debbie Silver
“How do I motivate these learners?” is a perpetual enquiry among parents and educators striving to improve student performance. The better question, of course, is how do we get them to motivate themselves?
A Look at How Learning Works
Presented by Nancy Frey and John Almarode
Understanding how learning works helps us make decisions that move learning forward in our schools and classrooms. Over the past 150 years, cognitive scientists have generated amazing research on how our students acquire, consolidate, and store information. This webinar provides an overview of the science of learning and how to translate that science into classroom practices that increase student learning.
Collective Student Efficacy
Presented by John Hattie and Douglas Fisher
Harness the power of collective efficacy to accelerate students’ learning. Do your students understand the potential of collaborating with others? Do they believe that they will learn more if they develop both “I” skills and “We” skills? Collective student efficacy requires more than pushing tables together and inviting students to talk or 'work in groups'. Learn the essentials of task design, skill development, assessment, and shared definitions of success.
Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams
Presented by Peter DeWitt
Collective leader efficacy (CLE) is a shared conviction among a school leadership team that they can improve the learning environment for all students. Unfortunately, many school leadership teams lack this conviction. In this presentation, Peter DeWitt, E.D. provides the research, explains the drivers, and engages participants in the cycle of inquiry that will help leadership teams develop collective leader efficacy as a leadership team.
Success Criteria and Teacher Clarity (Part 1): Ensuring Equity of Access and Success for ALL Students
Presented by Doug Fisher, John Almarode, Kateri Thunder, and Olivia Amador Valerio
To capitalise on the potential impact of teacher clarity on student learning, we must develop and share high-quality success criteria that define what success looks like for each and every learner in our schools and classrooms. In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. We’ll also explore how teacher clarity ensures teaching that is organized and intentional with transparent expectations.
Success Criteria and Teacher Clarity (Part 2): Ensuring Equity of Access and Success for ALL Students
Presented by Doug Fisher, John Almarode, Kateri Thunder, and Olivia Amador Valerio
To capitalise on the potential impact of teacher clarity on student learning, we must develop and share high-quality success criteria that define what success looks like for each and every learner in our schools and classrooms. In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. We’ll also explore how teacher clarity ensures teaching that is organized and intentional with transparent expectations.
Simply Small Groups: Differentiating Literacy Learning in Any Setting
Presented by Debbie Diller
Too many decisions, limited time for planning, students reading at many different levels? Examine the why, what, and how of small group literacy instruction with Debbie Diller, a trusted educator with more than four decades of experience. Learn simple ways to meet kids’ needs face-to-face (or virtually) starting with data. Find out how to set up a small group instruction area, form groups, and choose a focus with related texts to plan small group reading instruction that moves students forward.
How Tutoring Works
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and John Almarode
Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning.
Leading the Rebound: Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith and John Hattie
Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning.
Teaching Sprints: How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better
Presented by Simon Breakspear
In this research-informed and highly practical webinar, Simon and Bron will provide fresh insights and a new approach to support teacher professional learning. The Teaching Sprints approach is used by hundreds of schools and thousands of educators to engage with robust evidence and enhance expertise. Come and explore how this simple and effective approach might help you to enhance the impact of your teacher collaborative time/PLCs.
Learning Happens When Students Question
Presented by Jackie Walsh
Student questions support visible learning by engaging students in authentic discussion and providing teachers feedback about where students are in their learning. Yet student questions are largely absent from most classrooms today. Join author Jackie Walsh to learn how to create an environment, cultivate mindframes, and intentionally design experiences to develop student capacity as skillful, purposeful questioners. This interactive session includes video clips spotlighting students using four question types—self-questions, academic, exploratory, and dialogic—to advance different learning outcomes and increase students’ ownership of their learning.
Removing Labels: Disrupting the Negative Effects of Labels and Assumptions
Presented by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey
We humans make assumptions about individuals based on what we see. And those assumptions become labels. And those labels become expectations. And those expectations can become students’ realities. But, this cycle can be interrupted. Disrupting one’s thinking about another person takes a concerted effort to understand who that person really is and the strengths that person has. Let’s explore the ways that labels can be removed so that expectations for success become reality.
Learning that Transfers: Designing Curriculum for a Changing World
Presented by Julie Stern
Synthesizing the best available research on how we learn, educators can design units and lesson plans that prepare our students to meet the challenges of an uncertain future. Join Julie Stern and co-authors for this cutting-edge webinar that will demonstrate a systematic way to empower students to apply their learning to new situations.
Simultaneous and Hybrid Teaching: Roomies and Zoomies Learning Together
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John and Aleigha Henderson-Rosser
As the context of our teaching and learning keeps changing, our commitment as educators to move learning forward has remained constant. In this webinar, attendees will learn the definitions of simultaneous, hybrid, and blended learning and why simultaneous learning must not be additive to our workload. The presenters will guide us to extract, integrate, and implement what works best from both distance learning and face-to-face learning environments.
Figuring Out Math Fluency: Going Beyond Basic Facts
Presented by Jennifer Bay-Williams and John SanGiovanni
In this session, John SanGiovanni and Jennifer Bay-Williams will explore beliefs and practices that stand in the way of fluency, as well as others that provide strong access to fluency. Along the way, they will share significant reasoning strategies, “automaticities”, and many activities for quality fluency practice that will help you develop versatile and confident mathematical thinkers.
Developing & Using Success Criteria to Maximize Teaching and Learning
Presented by John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, and Nancy Frey
How would your students respond to the question, “how will I know if I have learned something?” When both we and our students have clarity about learning through high-quality success criteria, there is a greater likelihood that learning will happen and that all students will experience success in their learning. Whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, this webinar will introduce how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria.
Great Teaching by Design: From Intention to Implementation
Presented by John Hattie, Vince Bustamante, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey
Why leave student success to chance? By combining your intuition and experience with the latest research on high-impact learning practices, you can evolve your teaching from good to great and make a lasting difference for your students. Join the authors of Great Teaching by Design as they lead you through how to turn good intentions into great practice through a model of implementation.
10 Mindframes for Leaders
Presented by: John Hattie and Raymond Smith
Your mindframes—your internal beliefs about your role as a leader— determine the high-impact leadership practices you choose to implement. In this webinar, Professor John Hattie and Raymond Smith will introduce mindframes that ensure that leaders at every level can select, implement, and evaluate high-impact interventions that result in systemwide success.
Attend this webinar to learn:
- How to maximize your approach to success using the Visible Learning mindframes
- The importance of shaping your beliefs and perspectives in order to get to the heart of successful school leadership
- Practical ideas for leaders to implement high-impact strategies in classrooms and schools.
The Thrill of Accelerating Comprehension in Any Setting
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey & Nicole Law
Truly understanding what you're reading is arguably the most important skill we can provide learners, but students must also experience the will, skill, and thrill of reading to inspire passionate, lifelong reading habits. In this webinar, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law discuss how to motivate and engage your readers with a new, unifying framework for reading comprehension
Building a Curious School
Presented by Bryan Goodwin
Curiosity and motivation to learn are powerful predictors of student success―more powerful even than IQ, persistence, or teacher quality. Yet the longer students stay in school, the less curiosity and motivation they demonstrate. So, what if we were to focus on building schools that ignite student curiosity? Might everything else get easier . . . and more joyful? Learn from research and real-life success stories about how schools have “flipped the script” on improvement efforts—not by forcing rigid compliance with mandates or implementation of external programs, but by unleashing what’s already inside everyone—students and teachers alike—and waiting to come out: curiosity.
Simply Stations, Grades K-4: What Does the Rest of the Class Do During Small Groups?
Presented by Debbie Diller
Literacy work stations, when done well, can solve both of these problems—and more. Literacy stations provide partner practice using what teachers already have in their classrooms. During her presentation, Debbie will show teachers how to create and sustain meaningful, engaging literacy stations that grow and change as their students develop new skills, and as instructional time shifts. Plus, teachers will be reminded how to make confident decisions based on what they know about their kids and about good literacy instruction—so they can move away from quick-fix ideas like worksheets or pre-made centers found online.
Collective Teacher Efficacy in the Time of COVID-19
Presented by Jenni Donohoo
To improve student learning, collective teacher efficacy is the most powerful influence a school leader can foster. At a time when efficacy beliefs may be waning based on challenges posed from COVID-19, it’s important to consider the role of collective efficacy in relation to educator’s capacity to confront and adapt to the consequences of the pandemic. It’s ever so important to capitalize on the sources of efficacy so that we can harness its power and remind educators that together we have what it takes to overcome challenges.
Participants will learn about:
• the relationship between collective efficacy and a community’s adaptive capacity to deal with challenges
• how efficacy beliefs are formed
• how to develop individual and collective efficacy during and after COVID-19.
Strengths-Based Mathematics Instruction: Five Teaching Turnarounds for K-6
Presented by Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp
What if we were regularly told only what we don’t do well? How can we expect our students, many who face the same messages, to continue to persevere? What if we transformed our classrooms to strengths-based environments that cultivate the assets that our students bring each and every day? These are the very issues Kobett and Karp will address in this webinar and how by shifting your attention from students’ weaknesses to their strengths you can maximize understanding and turnaround instruction.
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Trauma-Informed Strategies for Teacher and Student Well-Being
Presented by Ricky Robertson
Every member of a school staff has a role to play in creating an environment conducive to optimal teaching, learning and well-being. Ricky Robertson focuses on a whole-staff approach to foster resilience in both students living with ACEs and the professionals who work with them in Canada’s rural and urban schools.
Supporting Your Staff During Distance Teaching: Building a Virtual Community of Practice
Presented by Sonja Hollins-Alexander
Teachers are facing unprecedented challenges as schools close and learning shifts to online environments. During this time of intense upheaval and isolation, it is critical that school leaders provide teachers with ongoing opportunities to rapidly re-establish connections with their peers so that they can collectively approach these challenges.
Visible Learning for Social Studies: Designing Student Learning for Conceptual Understanding
Presented by Julie Stern
How do we maximize precious time to ensure that students grasp enough to prepare them for informed civic life? The discipline of social studies is far more than memorizing dates and facts. It involves the skillful ability to conduct investigations, analyze sources, place events in historical and cultural context, and synthesize various points of view, while recognizing our own biases. Join Julie Stern in this webinar to understand how using the right approach at the right time can maximize student learning.
Supporting Educator Resilience During Shelter in Place
Presented by Ricky Robertson
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted schools across the nation and contributed to a general sense of uncertainty and anxiety. As we shelter in place, school is no longer the source of stability and connection that many of our students rely upon. During this time, educators play a critical role in supporting the social-emotional well-being of their students. However, that responsibility carries with it considerable stress and emotional labor for our teachers. In this webinar, we will explore ways to care for our well-being as we support others through this challenging time. Participants will learn strategies for self-care, bite size resilience, and building supportive virtual communities for educators.
Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry
Presented by Warren Berger and Elise Foster | Duration approximately an hour
Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Join Warren Berger and Elise Foster as they discuss how educators can transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity.
Where Equity Fits In to PLC+
Presented by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey | Duration approximately an hour
Equity lies at the heart of what we strive to achieve in schools. But equity cannot be accomplished without action. Professional learning communities can be engines for action, but only if they are intentionally attuned to issues of equity. Join Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey in this webinar focused on the PLC+ structure’s cross-cutting value of equity, which marries concept with action to change the trajectory of student learning.
Reclaiming Personalized Learning
Presented by Paul Emerich France
For teacher and consultant Paul France, at first technology-powered personalized learning seemed like a panacea. But after three years spent at a personalized learning start-up and network of microschools, he soon realized that such corporate-driven individualized learning initiatives do more harm than good, especially among our most vulnerable students. In this webinar, France spends time unpacking the many myths surrounding personalized learning and codifying a new vision that puts equity and our own humanity at the center.
The Communication Effect: How to Enhance Learning by Building Ideas and Bridging Information Gaps
Presented by Jeff Zwiers
In too many classrooms, instruction suffers from large amounts pseudo-communication, which is the use of language to obtain external rewards (e.g., points, praise, stars, grades). This type of communication tends to focus on short-term memorization and accumulation of short answers. Authentic communication, on the other hand, is the use of language to build up key ideas and engage in productive collaborative arguments. This type of communication focuses on long-term depth and construction of core concepts in a discipline. In this webinar, Jeff Zwiers describes how to improve all dimensions of learning (content, cognition, language, social, agency, etc.) by enhancing instruction with three main features of authentic communication.
Maximising Impact: The Power of Implementation
Presented by John Hattie
Once you know your impact, how do you maximize it? As the Visible Learning research states, there are a multitude of influences that make an impact on student achievement. But what accelerates learning most is focusing on the influences that maximize impact. In this webinar, Professor John Hattie will share how to use the DIIE (diagnosis, intervention, implementation, and evaluation) model to ensure teachers are building a variety of instructional approaches to maximize the skill, will, and thrill of learning.
CLARITY: What Matters Most in Learning, Teaching, and Leading
Presented by Lyn Sharratt
Bringing Clarity to the elements that sharpen precision-in-practice ensures knowing “where to next.” Gaining Clarity is dependent on a set of interrelated concepts deployed within an evidence-proven framework and implemented consistently and reflectively across all systems, schools, and classrooms. Join Lyn Sharratt in this three-part webinar, in which she describes how Clarity can be realized in 1. Learning, 2. Teaching, and 3. Leading. Lyn promises no silver bullets; after all, there are none. The real power of data, she insists, resides in the “aha” outcomes of collaborative conversations with, and ‘roll-up-your sleeves’ work by ALL stakeholders, focused on students’ faces, as data today is instruction tomorrow.
Adaptive Expertise and Professional Learning
Presented by Deidre Le Fevre and Kaye Twyford
How can professional learning in education respond to growing inequality, and the rapid social and technological change that surrounds us? It is more important than ever that educators continually learn, improve their practice, and respond to the diverse learners and communities they work with. This webinar presents “developing adaptive expertise” as a way that educators can help realize transformative improvement in their own practice and for their learners. Deidre Le Fevre and Kaye Twyford will explain what adaptive expertise is, how it works, why it helps create change and improvement in complex learning environments, and how it can be applied in your own context.
What's Deep About Deep Learning
Joanne Quinn and Michael Fullan
The time for debate has passed. We need to transform learning now. In New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Joanne Quinn and Michael Fullan have discovered that when we transform learning, we also transform lives because deep learning is meaningful, gives purpose, and unleashes potential. The challenge is how to make this shift for all students...in all classrooms...in all schools. In this webinar, Quinn and Fullan explore this shift and introduce to participants the tools, tips, and strategies for realizing deep learning.
Building Behavior: How to Select and Implement Behavior Initiatives
Jessica Hannigan & John E. Hannigan | October 2019
Join Jessica and John Hannigan as they make the connections between Visible Learning and the most popular behavior initiatives implemented across the globe: Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Character Education, Restorative Justice (RJ), Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Trauma Informed Practices (TIPs), and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). This webinar will describe for school and district personnel how to “build” behavior initiative(s) best suited for their institution using evidence-based best practices aligned to Hattie’s identified influences on student achievement.
The End of Knowing
Sugata Mitra | Sept 2019
Join Sugata Mitra as he discusses his twenty years of experiments with children's education observing the world as it comes to terms with an evolving Internet. From his “Hole in the Wall” experiment to “Self-Organized Learning Environments” and finally the “School in the Cloud,” he will share thought-provoking experiences that show what happens when children meet the Internet.
Know Thy Impact
John Hattie | Sept 2019
Evidence lies at the heart of Visible Learning. In fact, one of the key starting points of Visible Learning involves school leaders having robust discussions about what impact means in their schools, which includes an understanding of where students are in their learning, what progress looks like, and how to determine next steps. Essentially, “knowing thy impact” means connecting what educators do with what learners learn. In this webinar, Professor John Hattie will discuss why it's important to “know thy impact” and how to implement a cycle of inquiry, evaluation, and implementation into your school.
This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6
Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey and Nancy Akhavan
Join Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode for a preview of their newest work, PLC+, as they place student learning, effective teaching, and a focus on equity at the heart of what we all strive to accomplish. Learn how PLC+ provides a framework for the planning and implementation of student learning, teacher professional learning, and cycles of assessment and reflection that direct next steps.
Leadership Coaching
Peter DeWitt | May 2019
Why do leaders need coaches? It’s an all-too-common occurrence: leaders are being asked to do more with fewer resources, putting them at risk of losing sight of their moral purpose. Because of this, coaches have become a must-have resource. Helping leaders focus on impactful goals, coaches also demonstrate how leaders can become better coaches for their assistant principals, building an overall stronger school community. Join leadership author, consultant, and coach Peter DeWitt as he uses a unique case study approach to guide participants through the coaching process.
Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times
Eric Sheninger | May 2019
The educational landscape is evolving, thanks to continuous advances in technology and a changing learner. As a result, educators must recognize this shift, anticipate needed changes, and lead by example if we’re to meet the diverse needs of key stakeholders in the 21st Century. Join Eric Sheninger to learn how to harness the power of today’s digital tools and social media to improve communications, enhance public relations, establish a brand presence, increase student engagement, transform learning spaces, discover opportunity, and grow professionally like never before.
PLC+: The Plus Is YOU
Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey and John Almarode | May 2019
Join Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode for a preview of their newest work, PLC+, as they place student learning, effective teaching, and a focus on equity at the heart of what we all strive to accomplish. Learn how PLC+ provides a framework for the planning and implementation of student learning, teacher professional learning, and cycles of assessment and reflection that direct next steps.
Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom
John Almarode and Kateri Thunder | April 2019
Learn the strategies that build conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas and problem solving to help students demonstrate more than a year's worth of growth for every year spent in school. John Almarode and Kateri Thunder’s webinar will help participants learn how. By using the right approach at the right time you can design classroom experiences that maximize mathematics learning.
Building and Developing Assessment-Capable Learners
with John Hattie | April 2019
John Hattie discusses the importance of fostering an environment where students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning. Hattie will share insights into what it means to learn and what fuels learning, the importance of self-assessment, the characteristics of assessment-capable learners, and the influences educators can employ to help their students build capacity and become assessment-capable Visible Learners.
Making Sense of Learning Transfer
with Julie Stern and Nathalie Lauriault | Feb 2019
View the recording of Julie Stern in her cutting-edge webinar that will help you to promote depth and breadth of understanding by using learning transfer as both a means and an end goal of learning.
Leading Learning Through Observation and Feedback
with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn | Feb 2019
Patrick Flynn and Amy Tepper dive into strategies to help maximize your time during classroom visits to determine how teachers create outcomes and influence student engagement and learning.
Developing Expert Learners
with Michael McDowell | Feb 2019
We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving real-life challenges. Often, though, we make the mistake of designing learning experiences that burden students with the unrealistic expectation of expertise that hasn’t yet been developed. The solution: proper scaffolding for surface, deep, and transfer learning. In this webinar, Michael McDowell discusses practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics.
Teacher Clarity: Making Learning Visible for Students
with Doug Fisher and John Almarode | Nov 2018
Teacher clarity just requires that you know what students need to learn, communicate learning intentions and success criteria to students, and deliver lessons in a coherent way so students will learn more. View this webinar for expert insight on how to get started.
Fostering Collective Teacher Efficacy
with Jenni Donohoo
This webinar helps you learn how to:
- understand how efficacy beliefs come to fruition in practice;
- define and provide examples of the four sources that shape collective efficacy beliefs;
- describe contextual factors that influence the formation of efficacy beliefs;
- consider six enabling conditions for fostering collective efficacy;
Visible Learning Feedback
with John Hattie
Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement – if you get it right. Professor John Hattie’s landmark Visible Learning research concluded that effective feedback, combined with effective instruction, improves the rate of learning by a factor of 2! But first, educators must know the difference between effective and ineffective feedback. In this webinar, Professor John Hattie will explain how to distinguish between the two and provide answers to some of the most crucial questions.
10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success
with John Hattie
John Hattie’s landmark Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role. The 10 Mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge. Join John Hattie to learn more about the 10 Mindframes and understand their importance.
Visible Learning 101: Part 1 & 2
with Kristin Anderson
Listen as Kristin Anderson takes the theory of John Hattie’s extensive research and puts it into a practical inquiry model for schools to ask questions of themselves about the impact they are having on student achievement.
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Visible Learning Mindframes: A Deeper Dive
with Kristin Anderson
Join Kristin Anderson for an understanding of Professor Hattie's 10 key mindframes that educators can examine and adopt, and determine how these beliefs can shape our combined thinking about teaching and learning in order to have a major impact on student achievement.
Developing a Feedback Culture in Your Classroom
with Kristin Anderson
Hattie's Visible Learning research identifies effective feedback as potentially doubling the speed of learning for students. In this webinar, Kristin Anderson defines effective feedback and identifies ways you can develop a strong foundation for feedback in your classroom.
Hattie’s New #1 Effect Size: Collective Teacher Efficacy
with Kristin Anderson
What if you could triple the speed of student learning? According to new findings by Professor John Hattie, a strong sense of Collective Teacher Efficacy (d=1.57) can yield over three years of student growth over one school year. Join Visible Learningplus expert Kristin Anderson for an insider’s understanding.
The Learning Challenge: How to Make the Most of the Learning Pit
with James Nottingham
Internationally acclaimed educator James Nottingham walks you through the do’s and don’ts of the Learning Challenge, a model that puts the Learning Pit at the heart of classroom activity. He shares how, by encouraging students to step out of their comfort zone and explore new ways of thinking, it helps students develop language, learning and metacognition.