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 Removing Labels: Disrupting the Negative Effects of Labels and Assumptions

Monday, April 19, 2021 - 3:30pm

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.

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What’s Ahead in U.S. Education

Monday, January 11, 2021 - 3:30pm

Presented by Peter DeWitt, Michael Fullan, Andrew Hargreaves, Pedro Noguera, and Patricia Gandara

Please join us for a discussion on the future of U.S. Education under the Biden administration. Peter DeWitt, author, blogger, and host of the EdWeek Show “A Seat at the Table,” will facilitate the discussion with international and U.S. policy experts, Drs. Michael Fullan (OISE, U of Toronto), Andrew Hargreaves (Boston College), Pedro Noguera (USC), and Patricia Gandara (UCLA).


Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls: How to Curate Classrooms for Radical Transformation

Monday, October 19, 2020 - 3:30pm

Presented by Dr. Bola Delano-Oriaran, Dr. Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Dr. Shemariah Arki, Dr. Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell & Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.

Black Girls are beautiful and brilliant, but far too often their beauty and brilliance are shattered by the racial aggressions, trauma, and violence they face in school. In this webinar, the presenters will share their instructional best practices centered on the identities and lived experiences of Black Girls and challenge attendees to answer the call for radical transformation.


Reentry Planning for the First 100 Days of School: A Leader-to-Leader Panel Session

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 12:45pm

presented by Marcus Newsome, Alan Blankstein, and Monica George-Fields

Corwin, the American Association of School Administrators, and REACH Education Solutions invite you to Reentry Planning for the First 100 Days of School--a free “Leader-to-Leader” panel discussion in which top practitioners and thought leaders across the US explore how to leverage the recent crisis to assure a new level of equity for our students.


Strengths-Based Mathematics Instruction: Five Teaching Turnarounds for K-6

Monday, May 4, 2020 - 3:30pm

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.


Thomas Whitby and Steven Anderson

Monday, October 24, 2016 - 3:30pm

Presented by Thomas Whitby & Steven W. Anderson

For educators today, being connected isn’t an option, it’s a requirement. Educators Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson discuss their own paths to connectedness and how other educators can follow in their footsteps. Participants will examine what qualities a Connected Educator exhibits and how every educator, in their own way, can use those qualities to extend learning for themselves and their students.


Developing Expert Learners

Monday, February 4, 2019 - 3:30pm

Presented by Michael McDowell

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 will discuss practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics.


Lyn and Beate

Monday, May 9, 2016 - 3:30pm

Watch Lyn and Beate's Archived Webinar

Purposeful collaboration makes a difference. A BIG difference. Not just because it’s a way to better understand specific causal pathways that lead to success. But because when teachers employ an inquiry mindset, they actually advance their instructional expertise as professionals. In this webinar, Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche introduce to school leaders at large five high-impact, collaborative strategies for “sharing the learning while doing the work” of system and school improvement.


10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success

Monday, April 23, 2018 - 3:30pm

Presented by 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.


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Monday, May 11, 2020 - 3:30pm

Presented by Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio Colwell

Here’s your opportunity to hear more from founders Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio Colwell about YES!, a sustainable, creative facilitation process for youth that enables them to enthusiastically engage in their own learning and advocate for culturally responsive learning environments. YES! is rooted in arts-based methods that aim to bring the youth perspective, vision, creativity, and passion to the forefront of policy and progress for a twenty-first century school system. Benjie and Wade will demonstrate how YES! amplifies student voice and supports young people in understanding their personal journey and social accountability through a critical social justice lens that creates a living example of commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.



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