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with Deb Farrington
Participants will learn how formative assessment is a process for gathering information about student learning while learning is still taking place and timely interventions and instructional modifications can be made. In each of the sessions, participants will be guided through the key strategies of formative assessment and learn how to recognize and support the integration of assessment into instruction. Topics: The Role of Effective Classroom Assessment, Moving Learning Forward with Criteria for Success and Effective Feedback, Engaging Students in the Assessment Process – The Key to Formative Assessment, and Tools for Recognizing and Supporting the Implementation of Formative Assessment.
with Randy Sprick
Discipline and motivation problems can create significant barriers to achieving academic excellence in any school. By implementing positive behavior support at the school-wide, classroom, and (as needed) individual-student levels, school personnel can reduce the degree to which discipline/motivation serve as barriers to learning. The goal of academic and behavioral RTI is always to insure that every student is successful. A major theme is how staff can learn to shift from reactive punitive procedures to proactive and positive strategies. The first webinar looks at the big picture and each subsequent session will provide more depth on each of the three levels. This webinar series will allow school personnel to identify strengths of implementation of positive behavior support, identify weaknesses, and develop strategies for addressing those weaknesses.
with Al Bertani
As Charles Payne noted in his award winning book, So Much Reform – So Little Change, school reform efforts across the United States have yielded incremental results – his analysis – we consistently fall apart at the implementation of our ambitious plans. Across the four sessions of this webinar, participants will explore strategies for ensuring successful impact during the implementation phase of your improvement and transformation efforts. Webinar themes will include: moving from planning to action, building ownership, monitoring and supporting implementation, and assessing your progress. Participants will be able to use their current improvement efforts as their focus for the webinar.
with McREL
This four-part webinar series is designed to assist educators in using research-based instructional strategies to maximize student achievement. After reviewing more than 5,000 research studies, McREL researchers identified nine instructional strategies that are correlated with increased levels of student
achievement. These instructional strategies are appropriate for grades K-12 and adult learners. Educators who attend the webinar series will gain an increased understanding of five of the nine strategies. These strategies also form the basis of McREL’s Power WalkThrough system.
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with Deb Farrington and Julia Payne-Lewis
Are your common assessments measuring the intended learning and providing useful data to inform decisions about curriculum and instruction?
Learn strategies for developing and implementing common assessments, how to analyze the characteristics of quality assessments, strategies for using multiple choice items and constructed response tasks, and how data can be used to inform instruction and monitor student learning.
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Struggling students need a different kind of instruction, more time, and ample amounts of guided practice to help them become confident readers. The 40 interventions presented are designed for general educators to us with individuals or small groups of students who simply cannot keep up with the pace of instruction. Aligned with current literacy research, the reading intervention strategies provide teachers with a wide range of specific suggestions for grade-appropriate interventions matched to an identified area of need. Busy educators will appreciate the clear and concise explanations and sample lessons for the 40 interventions designed to accelerate student progress.
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with Jason Ohler
Right now our students live two lives – a traditional, non-digital life at school, and a digitally active lifestyle outside school. If we are to prepare our students for a future of unparalleled change, opportunity, challenge and responsibility, then we must invite them to integrate their two lives, and to do so at school, where we can help them use their tools effectively, creatively and wisely. Join Jason Ohler for this 4-part webinar series where he will explain practical tools and processes for helping students collaborate and share their talents, and easy strategies for integrating media development, digital storytelling and new media narrative projects in the classroom in exciting, creative ways.
These webinars will explore how to:
with Lexie Domaradzki
To provide instruction that is targeted to students needs, teachers must be clear about thresholds of risk and benchmarks that indicate a further need for intervention. This data analysis webinar series will focus on the aspects of a comprehensive assessment system that includes screening, diagnosis, progress monitoring and program assessments. Learn how to: establish a comprehensive assessment system, analyze student performance data from the AIMSweb system and other tools (and identify the most important and efficient reports); monitor progress for students at risk and decide if interventions are working; and understand mid-year data trends.
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with Al Bertani
How is the level of collaboration in your school this year? How effective is your professional learning community? In order to build professional learning communities, school leaders must establish and nurture the conditions necessary to support their development. Nuts and Bolts of Building Professional Learning Communities will help participants understand and utilize the structural as well as social and human resource conditions needed to build strong and powerful professional learning communities.
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Educators are confronted with an enormous variety of assessment data. When used appropriately, they can adjust their instructional practices to more closely meet their students’ learning needs. This job-embedded, professional development experience is designed for educators looking to strengthen their knowledge and application of effective assessment practices within a standards-based assessment system. Educators will be introduced to the elements of quality local assessment systems and learn how to differentiate and integrate informative assessment practices into their schools and classrooms.
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