Alaska Staff Development Network

Upcoming Webinar Series

View our upcoming webinar series and webinars. Learn how to earn credit for your professional development.

ASDN now offers a simpler, more affordable pathway to convert ASDN professional development into 500-level university credit.
 

Your PD, Your Way: Choose your topics, pick your timing, select your format—while taking advantage of subscriber discounts on webinar series and video courses. Certificates of attendance from webinars, video courses and workshops can be used toward 1-3 credits through ED 556 Transformative Teaching.

2026 Fall Webinar Series

Digital Well-Being Is A School Culture
with Sue Thotz

Join Sue Thotz from Common Sense Media for a three-part series on building a culture of digital well-being. We'll start with you, then widen the lens to your students, and finally to the families and communities that surround them, giving you tools for lasting, sustainable change. Learn about the "frictionless design" pulling kids away from real relationships and what schools can do about it. Explore practical tools for partnering with families to better align digital habits between home and school.

Supporting Students Who "Don't Know Their Facts"
with Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams

Regardless of grade, students need automaticity with basic facts in order to learn grade-level content. In this 3-part webinar series we will explore effective intervention strategies to ensure that every student has automaticity with all their facts. Spoiler alert: memorizing and skip counting songs are not on the list.

AI for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership K-12
with Rob Dickson and Dyane Smokorowski

Interested in learning more about AI? Go from curious to confident in four sessions. Learn how to use common tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to design standards-aligned materials, personalize learning for every student, and think more strategically about your own growth.
Grounded in Universal Design for Learning and built for classrooms, this series goes beyond introducing AI — it puts it to work.

Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators (K–5)
with Tanya Young

This six-part webinar series offers K–5 educators a research-based framework for teaching writing. Participants will examine the key components of writing instruction, ranging from foundational transcription skills to paragraph and multi-paragraph composition. Each 90-minute session includes evidence-based strategies, practical applications, and opportunities for discussion and reflection. Designed for educators seeking a structured and practical approach to writing instruction, the course features modeling, hands-on practice, and collaborative discussions to enhance classroom application.