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Webinar: Visible Learning for Social Studies
Webinar: Visible Learning for Social Studies

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.

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What Is Balanced Literacy?
What Is Balanced Literacy?

Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. But how do you strike the right balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential? Watch this video with Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan, authors of This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, as they answer the question: What is balanced literacy? 

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Operation Word Study Roll Out
Operation Word Study Roll Out

In this blog post from Pamela Koutrakos, author of Word Study That Sticks and The Word Study That Sticks Companion, she explains that, for word study to be an integral part of your classroom routine, you can't wait until the “perfect time” to get started. Read her tips to going right away. 

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The Remarkable Powers of Engagement
The Remarkable Powers of Engagement

Engagement has become a buzz word in education. Teachers face pressure to keep their students active, but bustle and busyness are not the same as engagement. Worksheets and on-line tutorials may keep learners occupied, but not necessarily engaged. Read this blog from Laura Greenstein, author of Restorative Assessment, for a better understanding of what engagement truly is and how you can boost engagement in your classroom. 

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6 Tips to Prepare You for Teaching Mathematics in Middle School
6 Tips to Prepare You for Teaching Mathematics in Middle School

You want to teach mathematics to students in the middle grades—but are you ready? Early adolescents have very unique characteristics that you need to be aware of and can capitalize on to facilitate productive lessons. Here are 6 tips from Lois Williams, author of The Mathematics Lesson-Planning Handbook, Grades 6-8, for teaching mathematics in the middle grades that capitalize on middle school students’ characteristics.

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Webinar: CLARITY: What Matters Most in Learning, Teaching, and Leading
Webinar: CLARITY: What Matters Most in Learning, Teaching, and Leading

Join Lyn Sharratt, author of CLARITY,  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.

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Webinar: Supporting Your Staff During Distance Teaching
Webinar: Supporting Your Staff During Distance Teaching

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 and district leaders provide teachers with ongoing opportunities to rapidly re-establish connections with their peers so that they can collectively approach these challenges. Join Sonja Hollins-Alexander, Director of Professional Learning at Corwin and author of "Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities", as she shares practical strategies of how to combine well-designed online professional learning with the energy of peer-to-peer collaboration. Discover how to create a community of professional learning through virtual options in this exclusive webinar.

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Webinar: Why the ELA Standards ARE Important
Webinar: Why the ELA Standards ARE Important

Find out from Jim Burke, author of The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded (Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12), how you can use the standards, whether Common Core or state-specific, promote best ELA practices.

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Webinar: Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom
Webinar: Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom

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, authors of Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning ClassroomGrades K-2 and Grades 3-5, help participants learn how. By using the right approach at the right time you can design classroom experiences that maximize mathematics learning.

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Webinar: Writers Read Better: Writers Read Better: The Writing-Reading Connection
Webinar: Writers Read Better: Writers Read Better: The Writing-Reading Connection

We know that writing skills reinforce reading skills, but what’s the best way to capitalize on this beneficial relationship? By flipping the traditional “reading lesson first, writing lesson second” sequence, Colleen Cruz, author of Writers Read Better: Narrative and Nonfiction, ingeniously helps you make the most of the writing-to-reading connection with carefully matched, conceptually connected lesson pairs. Attend this webinar to discover how you can do the same and establish a healthy reciprocity that effectively and efficiently develops students’ literacy skills.

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