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Building a Curious School
Presented by Bryan Goodwin
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 in AUSTRALIA | Duration approximately an hour
Time: 8:30AM (AEST)
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.