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Presented by Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, Vivian Vasquez

At a time when outside forces are calling for greater restrictions on access to information through book challenges, prohibitive legislation, and threats to educators who encourage students to read widely, there is an even greater need to teach students to read critically, to question the author, the text, the source of the material, and intentions. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez define the word ‘text’ broadly to include printed material as well as spoken text, songs, interactions, and events (both current and historical).

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Stay up-to-date on how state legislation, budget, and K-12 priorities will impact your school or district

Hosted by Aaron Heintzman, Senior Professional Learning Advisor, Corwin

Presented by Doug Fisher / Nancy Frey

This webinar will cover the latest research and best practices for effective vocabulary instruction in K-12 classrooms.

Presented by Lee Ann Jung

In this session, Lee Ann will facilitate thinking around Universal Design for Learning as a means to bring equity in learning experiences and outcomes for a broad range of student variability.

Presented by Dave Stuart Jr.

How do we help all of our students do the work of learning, with care — as best they currently can? For students to flourish long-term and move toward mastery, they need to be motivated from the inside-out. Specifically, they need to believe five key things – Credibility, Value, Belonging, Effort, and Efficacy.

Presented by Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith

In this webinar we will discuss the imperative of teaching today’s students critical thinking and online reading skills to combat fake news/information pollution. We’ll explore why this is an ever-increasing problem, how it is affecting today’s students, and provide strategies that can be used with the content you already teach.

Presented by Dustin Bindreiff

Join author Dustin Bindreiff, who has spent decades working with the most challenging students, for an inspiring webinar and discover his strategies for strengthening relationships, building inclusive classrooms, developing trust, and fostering a sense of psychological safety.

Presented by Justin Stygles

Shame-bound readers want someone to notice them. It’s true. But then what does a teacher do to help students? In this session, participants will learn about Gershen Kaufman’s seminal research on shame and how it can be applied to the reading classroom to build relationships, make vulnerability ok, and bring out every student’s aptitude -and appetite – for books.

Presented by Marcia L. Tate

Children’s brains develop faster in the early years than at any other time in their lives. If you want to make the most of this pivotal period, there is no time to waste. In this webinar with Marcia Tate, you’ll discover techniques that help to ensure children are physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally healthy from the start.

Stay up-to-date on how state legislation, budget, and K-12 priorities will impact your school or district

Hosted by Aaron Heintzman, Senior Professional Learning Advisor, Corwin

Presented by Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode

Scaffolding student learning has the potential to move learning forward in a significant way. For many of us, this is easier said than done. What is scaffolding, when do we scaffold learning, who needs scaffolding, and how long should we scaffold? This webinar breaks-down the latest research on how we support student learning and, most importantly, how scaffolding works.

Presented by Afrika Afeni Mills

Educators who are interested in continuing along an antiracist path must recognize that racialization has harmed White students and Students of Color. Traditional curriculum has provided inaccurate messages about their identities, history, and understanding of the damage the social construct of race inflicts on society. Building on the content of the book Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students, this webinar will offer an approach to teaching and learning that can equip White teachers and students as informed, empathetic, inclusive, racially and historically literate global citizens who genuinely value diversity and will actively engage in dismantling systemic inequities.

Stay up-to-date on how state legislation, budget, and K-12 priorities will impact your school or district

Hosted by Aaron Heintzman, Senior Professional Learning Advisor, Corwin

Presented by Dr Lyn Sharratt; Dr Michael Fullan

Celebrating the newly published 10th Anniversary Edition of 'Putting FACES on the Data,’ Lyn Sharratt and Michael Fullan bring together their exciting work over the last ten years and will cover fresh case studies and research that will help you think about data and competencies and how they come together to improve system, school, and student performance.

Presented by Kateri Thunder, John Almarode, Alisha Demchak, Doug Fisher, & Nancy Frey

Discover how research can guide our decisions as we plan, teach, document, and partner with learners, families and colleagues. In this webinar, join authors Kateri Thunder, John Almarode, Alisha Demchek, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey as they unpack coherent practices that form a strong foundation for learning over time.

Presented by Laurel Peltier, Albert Johnson-Mussad

Ignite a spirit of inquiry and discover how to approach IEP and 504 Team meetings as an opportunity to strengthen relationships and networks of support. Join authors Albert Johnson-Mussad and Laurel Peltier as they present their framework for identifying opportunities to build connections between educators, establish relationships with service providers, strengthen school-family partnerships, address inequities, and develop student self-determination.

Presented by Connie Hamilton

How do we shift our thinking from can we or should we solve a problem to how? In this webinar Connie Hamilton introduces the mindset that effective leaders use during a crisis. This innovative way of thinking creates a necessary mindshift that can and should be applied to our biggest perennial problems in education - numeracy, reading ability, equity, grading, and teacher retention.

Presented by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

We know that reading is an active process that is impacted by the text, task, and sociocultural context in which the reading occurs. These crucial components include systematic development of word recognition and language comprehension skills.

Presented by Carmella S. Franco, Maria G. Ott, Darline P. Robles

Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a guide to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan.

Presented by Justin Cohen, Derek Mitchell, Cynthia Moultrie and William Hill

Change Agents: Transforming Schools from the Ground Up tells stories of real educators in low-income communities of color working to turn their underperforming schools into vibrant places to teach and learn. In this webinar, author Justin Cohen will be joined by two educators featured in the book and Derek Mitchell, the CEO of Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit organization that supported educators in this work.

Presented by Courtney Koestler, Jennifer Ward, Eva Thanheiser, and Tonya Bartell

This webinar will walk through the process of applying critical frameworks to instruction, using standards-based mathematics to explore, understand, and respond to social justice issues. Learn to plan instruction that engages children in mathematics explorations through age-appropriate sample lessons and focus on how to build classrooms in which such lessons can be implemented.

Presented by Peter DeWitt

The workload of principals has increased over the last two decades and teachers are more stressed and anxious now than they were one year ago at the height of the pandemic (Education Week). Teachers and leaders are at risk of being spread too thin.

Presented by Dr. Tommie Mabry

This interactive webinar will provide teachers with real-world insight into how shifting their own perspective on their students can transform the educational process. By taking a deep dive into what shapes students’ perspectives, educators can better understand the beliefs, values, and experiences of students who have been labeled as “troubled” or “at risk.”

Presented by John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey

This webinar will explore best practices around feedback and how it can best be utilized to impact student learning. Participants will learns do's and don'ts of effective feedback; how feedback can develop assessment capable learners; and tools for using feedback as part of teaching and learning.