Jeff Zwiers, author of The Communication Effect, describes how to improve all dimensions of learning (content, cognition, language, social, agency, etc.) by enhancing instruction with three main features of authentic communication.
Paul France, author of Reclaiming Personalized Learning, spends time unpacking the many myths surrounding personalized learning and codifying a new vision that puts equity and our own humanity at the center.
Debbie Diller will show teachers how to create and sustain meaningful, engaging literacy stations that grow and change as their students develop new skills, and as instructional time shifts.
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.
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.
Here’s your opportunity to hear more from founders Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio Colwell about Youth Equity Stewardship (YES!), a sustainable, inter-generational, creative facilitation process for youth and adults that enables learning communities to enthusiastically engage and advocate for culturally responsive teaching and leading practices. YES! is rooted in arts-based methods that aim to elevate youth vision and passion to the forefront of policy and progress for an evolving twenty-first century school system. They will demonstrate how the process amplifies student partnership and supports young people in understanding their personal journey and social accountability through a "stewardship" lens that creates a living example of commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Presented by Voyager Sopris. Horacio Sanchez discusses how poverty is the single most significant event impacting education today. The brain transformations resulting from poverty speak to the heart of the academic and behavioral issues schools seek to overcome. The neuroscience of poverty provides a clear picture of why academic and behavioral problems occur in relation to poverty and how to design a more precise response to best address the issues.