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The Distance and Blended Learning By Design Certification will equip you with knowledge, skills, and techniques to deliver impactful distance and blended professional learning in your schools. Certified trainers will be able to collaborate with teachers in order to create new tools and formats that teachers can use to improve the schooling experience, whether distance, blended, or physically together.

The Assessment of Learning from a Distance Institute provides ample strategies that address the questions: “how can I engage in quality assessment of student learning from a distance?” and “how can we leverage our experiences in distance learning to enhance assessment in any setting?” Unfortunately, not all assessments that were used in a traditional learning environment can work in a distance and blended learning environment, so this workshop outlines what assessments CAN work in any setting.

The Assessment of Learning from a Distance Institute explores the role of assessment as it pertains to the landscape of distance learning. Led by authors of The Assessment Playbook in Distance & Blended Learning, this institute will explore new tools and formats that teachers can use to assess students’ understanding. These new ways of assessing learning will impact schooling for years to come as they are better and more authentic than many of the tools we had been using before the pandemic.

All NEW content of the BEST distance & blended learning strategies in education! Distance learning and its variants—blended, hybrid, and simultaneous—have been disruptive to schooling as we have known it. But amazing educators are turning disruption into innovation. The rate of innovation in schooling is unprecedented and this series focuses on highlighting new practices of creative teachers, coaches, and leaders.

Based on Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie's title, The Distance Learning Playbook, this Institute, led by Vince Bustamante and Yana Ioffe, provides a clear plan for educators to be intentional and purposeful as we begin to re-open schools—whether that be physically or remotely. Building on key insights of the Visible Learning® research, attendees will explore the implementation of distance learning teaching practices that focus on credibility, creating learning experiences that are meaningful, and feedback that increases impact.

All new content of the BEST distance & blended learning strategies in education! Distance learning and its variants—blended, hybrid, and simultaneous—have been disruptive to schooling as we have known it. But amazing educators are turning disruption into innovation. The rate of innovation in schooling is unprecedented and this series focuses on highlighting new practices of creative teachers, coaches, and leaders.

The Assessment of Learning from a Distance Institute provides ample strategies that address the questions: “how can I engage in quality assessment of student learning from a distance?” and “how can we leverage our experiences in distance learning to enhance assessment in any setting?” Unfortunately, not all assessments that were used in a traditional learning environment can work in a distance and blended learning environment, so this workshop outlines what assessments CAN work in any setting.

Based on Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie's title, The Distance Learning Playbook, this Institute, led by Vince Bustamante and Yana Ioffe, provides a clear plan for educators to be intentional and purposeful as we begin to re-open schools—whether that be physically or remotely. Building on key insights of the Visible Learning® research, attendees will explore the implementation of distance learning teaching practices that focus on credibility, creating learning experiences that are meaningful, and feedback that increases impact.

The Assessment of Learning from a Distance Institute explores the role of assessment as it pertains to the landscape of distance learning. Led by authors of The Assessment Playbook in Distance & Blended Learning, this institute will explore new tools and formats that teachers can use to assess students’ understanding. These new ways of assessing learning will impact schooling for years to come as they are better and more authentic than many of the tools we had been using before the pandemic.

The Simultaneous Learning Institute focuses on providing educators with the terminology of the various hybrid learning models and provides guidance on how to successfully engage both the students in front of them and the students at home at the same time. Whether a school has already been working in a simultaneous learning setting or is preparing to start, this institute provides clarity around how to design learning experiences that leverage technology and develop routines and procedures that ensure engagement.