Webinars
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Technology(Fee)
Teaching Internet Skills to Students 5-12 **ONLINE** presented by Dr. Christine Pacinello
Dr. Christine Pacinello was recently certified as an Internet Research Specialist. In this workshop, participants will develop a deeper understanding of how internet searches work. The workshop will cover ideas for using this knowledge to help students using the internet as a primary research tool. Topics covered: How internet searches work How to formulate research queries How to improve and refine internet searches by adding power words, symbols and operators Accessing specialized search engines and databases How to improve research skills by interpreting relevance and authority of results Eligible for 2 hours CTLE credit. Can use 1/2 Consortium seat. If district pays, district approval must be confirmed prior to start of session.
Apple Teacher **ON SITE** presented by Christine Joneleit
In this session for novice or expert Ipad users, you will learn how to become a certified Apple Teacher and learn the requirements to become an Apple Learning Coach. To become an Apple teacher requires you to learn foundational skills on your iPad and with Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iMovie & Garage Band. We will briefly review each of these applications throughout our class and I will show you where you will take a brief quiz to earn your badge. Depending how familiar you are with the iPad, you may complete your apple teacher requirements within our class or have all the tools you need to finish it on your own. Please bring your own iPad and apple ID Username AND Password. Eligible for 6 hours CTLE credit. If district pays, district approval must be confirmed prior to start of session.
Ed Web. Net Webinars
As you shift to online learning as a result of the coronavirus, we’ve documented some great ways you can use edWeb for collaboration and virtual professional learning. Learn more about our free platform and resources.
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Quality Control: Why EdTech Product Certifications Should Matter to District Leaders
Wednesday, Jun. 29 @ 1 pm ET
Presented by Maya Gat, Former Educator, Current Co-Founder and CEO, Branching Minds; Vic Vuchic, Chief Strategy Officer, Digital Promise; and Dr. Eva Dundas, Chief Product Officer, Branching Minds
Human Skills Are Not Just “One More Thing”: Reviving Your School Culture
Thursday, Jul. 7 @ 4 pm ET
Presented by Chris Mackey, Co-Founder, Skillsline; Kathy Pease, Implementation and Partnerships, Skillsline; and Courtney Reilly, Co-Founder, Skillsline
Join our Coffee Chat on Innovative Professional Learning
Thursday, July 7th at 10am Eastern Time
Our guest will be Robin Knutelsky, District Director of Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Human Resources from Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey. Robin will share ideas for planning professional learning for the 2022-23 school year and how she's using edWeb resources that align with her district's professional learning plan.
Making SEL Accessible for Students with Learning Disabilities
Don't miss our free edWebinar titled "Making SEL Accessible for Students with Learning Differences" view recording.
Join us as we examine how peer-to-peer video-based lessons featuring other kids with learning differences help address the "whole child" and buoy self-esteem, resilience, and empathy while cultivating useful self-advocacy tools, particularly in overlooked communities -- like Black, Latinx, and EL students -- for whom the equity gap is most wide, and the need for SEL programming is the greatest.
This edWebinar will:
Explore why relatability is essential for building self-esteem and belonging
Emphasize the need for a community-driven solution to address the needs of kinship and collaboration
Delve into topics of equity and inclusion that bolster student empowerment
NEWSELA
Recorded Webinar
The Science of Resilience:
How to Surmount Uncertainty, Reduce Stress and Ignite Learning featuring Dr. Pamela Cantor
Watch Recording here
Social Emotional Learning
Inventing Self Incorporated Upcoming Web Workshops
Check Out More From Inventing Self
Guided Meditation:
Inner Child (approx 17 minutes)
Guided meditation (approx 7 min.)
Wish for Happiness (approx. 2 min)
As part of our CASEL CARES initiative, we are offering free webinars every Friday to address how SEL can be most helpful in response to today’s circumstances. This series is made possible with support from The Allstate Foundation.
View recordings of past SEL workshops at this site as well.
See What's Coming Up this Fall
Visit our Back-to-School Series Hub to view the full August and September programming calendar. We think you'll love our upcoming learning opportunities including Adult SEL Implementation, MTSS in a Remote Learning Environment, and Pairing SEL Curriculum & Screening.
Illuminate Education
Tier 1 Social, Emotional and Behavioral Supports to Restart Learning During a Crisis (edWeb’s Top 25 List for 2020)
In June, Dr. Gregory Fabiano, Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, discussed the effectiveness of tier 1 SEB supports in getting students back on track. His webinar made edWebinar’s Top 25 list for 2020, and his message remains relevant for winter instruction.
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Webinar: Elevating Student, Staff, and Community Voices During and Beyond COVID-19
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Ed Web. Net Webinars (Missed it watch it now using the links below FREE!!!!)
Now Available On-Demand
Learning in the Pandemic: What Research Tells Us We Can Do
In this edWebinar, researchers with Illuminate Education review their analysis of fall math and reading screening data as published recently in the whitepaper Findings from Fall Screenings: Data on COVID Learning Loss and Updated Recommendations for Instruction.
The recorded conversation will shed light on:
Which grades experienced the most significant learning loss and in which subjects
How many months of learning have been lost by grade level
Instructional recommendations for closing the gaps
Teaching Math Remotely at Any Grade Level
Watch Louis Shanafelt, EquatIO Product Manager at Texthelp and former math teacher, and Megan Mongelli, Technology Integration Specialist at Fort Mill School District, SC, as they present strategies to help move math instruction to the digital learning environment. The presenters uncover best practices for engaging with math students remotely, as well as how they are facilitating and assessing math outside of the classroom environment. Louis and Megan share their personal experiences and expertise as well as explore technologies that have been helpful at all grade levels.
Getting Started with Google Data Studio
Data is everywhere. Data is powerful—but only if it can be analyzed and then presented in such a way that it tells a story. While Google Forms and Sheets have some quite powerful data analysis features, Google Data Studio takes it to the next level.
This free tool allows users to visualize, connect, share, and collaborate and present their data and tell their story. Therefore, teams can make accurate, data-driven decisions. Using the drag-and-drop report editor, users can create customized and interactive reports with ease. Create beautiful, easy-to-read data visualizations that tell a story and inspire action. All of this and more is possible in Google Data Studio. Learn how Google Data Studio works with CatchOn, a powerful and expansive data analytics tool, to give you visibility into your EdTech efficacy and remote learning.
National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel
In this virtual presentation, NCTET will present eight Community Builder Awards and its Equity Advocate Award. Throughout its history, NCTET has bestowed the NCTET Community Builder Award on a diverse and bipartisan cross section of leaders who have made a difference in education. This year, there are nine distinguished leaders in five different categories to receive the 2020 NCTET Community Builder Award.
After the presentation of the awards, Dr. John King, Jr. moderates a panel discussion that will focus on how the incoming Biden-Harris Administration will address digital equity as a policy priority.
View the Recording | Listen to the Podcast | Read the Article
How to Encourage a Sensory-Friendly Classroom
During a Pandemic
Sponsored by Gryphon House
This edWebinar describes fun experiences to include in the sensory-friendly classroom, some information on sensory processing issues, and what a sensory diet looks like in the classroom, so teachers can incorporate these activities seamlessly into their daily routines.
SEL and Mindfulness:
Cultivating Resilience Inside and Outside the Classroom
This recorded edWebinar will provide teachers with best practices for mindfully cultivating resilience for their own well-being and to support their students’ social and emotional learning and development. Viewers will learn about evidence-based approaches for reducing stress and promoting flourishing in the midst of these challenging times. Viewers will also learn simple techniques for teaching these skills to their students.
Teaching with Empathy — The Missing Instructional Link
Sponsored by Intellispark
Educators strive to take on the perspectives of their students in order to create connections and develop lessons that are engaging; however, as the world of young people becomes increasingly complex due to current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, enacting empathy may present a difficulty.
English Learners: Strategies for Digital Learning and the Language of Academic Content
Digital teaching and learning present unique challenges for all educators and students, but especially for English learners. How will they acquire the content-based academic language they need to succeed? What supports are available for digital learning? How can we transfer in-school strategies to digital environments? Our speakers share research-based learning strategies and supports that address learner variability, the shift to digital, and the specific challenges and opportunities for English learners.
Character Education: Interview with Medal of Honor Recipient David G. Bellavia (Iraq)
The Medal of Honor is awarded for “gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of one’s life, above and beyond the call of duty.” Those awarded it drew upon their deepest convictions and values in the most challenging of circumstances. Their examples of courage and sacrifice can inspire us as we face our own challenges.
Monitoring Student Engagement in the “New Normal”
The panelists discuss how they are leveraging usage data to support students virtually and make data-informed decisions regarding their online tools and resources. The team also shares best practices other school districts can integrate into their blended and remote learning strategies as they begin this unprecedented 2020-2021 school year. View the Recording
Back to School 2020: Maximizing District Budgets to Support Student Safety and Distance Learning
Back to school is upon us. In this informative edLeader Panel, industry experts Dr. Kecia Ray and Susan Gentz bring together a panel of education leaders to discuss maximizing district budgets. The panel also dives into strategies for leveraging federal funds to integrate technology including digital collaboration tools like Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams to support distance learning, hybrid models, and in-school learning. View the Recording
Accelerating Student Learning to Close the Gaps: Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of COVID Slide and Summer Learning Loss
Whether you return to a physical or remote classroom next school year, you’re going to see larger and more diverse gaps in student learning compared to previous years. In this edWebinar, Dr. Liz Brooke presents actionable and realistic strategies for accelerating skill development to help all students—not just those at-risk—make the critical gains they need to combat the effects of COVID and Summer Slide and close the gap. View the Recording
Restoring Learning at Scale in a Remote Environment
In this edLeader Panel, watch Michael as he shares vital learning and insights from his work to support students and families in the age of COVID-19, and Todd as he shares his team’s groundbreaking research on preventing absences in a remote learning environment. View the Recording
Leading for Equity: Pursuing an Equity Agenda
In this edWebinar, Dr. Barnes discusses these essential questions:
What types of data can inform and catalyze an equity agenda in a school district?
What are the different “key levers” for fostering equity in a school district?
What are historical and contemporary contexts regarding equity in our schools?
What are the ongoing efforts and connected work with equity in order to foster racial justice?
Three Ways That Data Can Transform Your Writing Instruction
Join Joni Degner and Mark Schwartz to learn more about how you can use data to inform and transform your writing instruction. Take a look at how learning analytics and data can provide meaningful feedback for educators too, helping you to see where you can improve upon your own instruction.
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Sponsored by Texthelp
Teaching Science and STEM in a COVID World Fully and Safely—Whatever the Learning Approach
In this edLeader Panel, we share insights to help you minimize any safety risks for your students, staff and community to return to school. We also discuss ways to enhance remote and hands-on STEM learning and instruction in a safe way, regardless of the learning modality.
Sponsored by Flinn Scientific
Increasing Engagement in Remote Environments with Music-Based Learning
In this time of uncertainty, student engagement is as important as ever. Learning gaps due to school closures have been compounded by the summer slide. We hope that this edWebinar equips you with innovative ways of supercharging the learning process and starting this school year with fun, new and exciting options for your students.
Sponsored by Muzology
“Take Heart” With Your Return to Learn:
Fostering a Safe and Responsive Learning Environment
In this edWebinar, Lynn Walters, Vice President of Professional Learning at HMH, explores social and emotional competencies and collectively attend to the social-emotional well-being of teachers, students, and their families.
Sponsored by HMH Online Professional Learning
Developing Strong Readers at Any Distance
This research-based recorded edWebinar will help you gain expertise and confidence in improving reading skills online or in the classroom, by building social-emotional connections and using them as the lever for effective instruction and meaningful practice.
Sponsored by Benchmark Education
High-Impact Virtual Literacy Instruction for ELL Students
Viewers will learn creative ways to build relationships and community, specific literacy instructional practices and strategies to implement in the classroom, and advice on how to measure achievement growth in EL learners.
School Librarians Can Save Democracy
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala presents a case for the critical need for school librarians in every school, and the importance of equity in access to quality inquiry instructional experiences for all learners – not just for the future of education but for the future of democracy.
Using Digital Portfolios to Support the Documentation of Knowledge Within a Model of Anytime, Anywhere Learning
You and your students are now preparing for a hybrid model of learning, where that learning is happening anytime, anywhere. In this edWebinar, learn how to empower students to drive their own learning and showcase their growth with a digital portfolio in remote, blended, and classroom environments.
Recreating the Conditions for Learning This Fall
This fall it will be more critical than ever that students feel safe, connected, and engaged, presenting an opportunity for educators to try new approaches to optimizing the conditions for learning. Watch Angela Duckworth and Todd Rogers for a candid discussion on recreating learning this fall.
Data Isn’t a Four-Letter Word:
Thriving in an Information-Rich Age
In this edWebinar, the third in a four-part infographic series, we take a step back to look at information and data to determine how we can best understand where it comes from, what strategies we can teach and utilize to help students (and adults too!) to be more data literate, what sources we can trust, and how to employ healthy skepticism to make the best choices about data and information.
Talking to Elementary and Middle School Students
About COVID-19
In this informative and instructive edWebinar, Michael DiSpezio returns to share his decades of educator experience as he offers a primer on the best strategies to teach upper elementary and middle school students about COVID-19.
Digital Equity Strategies for Learning Beyond the Classroom
Given the current challenges involved with the efforts to continue teaching and learning in the midst of multiple school closures, the issues involved in leading digital transformation are now more urgent and relevant than ever. Our three superintendents share strategies they have implemented to lead learning for all students in their school districts during these most unprecedented times.
A District Spotlight:
Shifting to eLearning and How to Measure Effectiveness
In this edLeader Panel, examine the shift to eLearning with Santa Fe Public Schools in New Mexico. Neal Weaver, Ph.D., Executive Director of Digital Learning at Santa Fe Public Schools, shares the district’s digital journey from classrooms to eLearning. View the Recording
Ethical Challenges in Remote Learning:
Student Data Privacy, Digital Equity, Leadership
When teachers and students meet together in a virtual classroom environment they may find themselves at risk since they are now connecting within a new level of exposure and access to their personal lives. School leaders can provide guidance on best practices for remote learning to safeguard their schools, their educators, and their students. View the Recording
Leading Through Uncertainty:
An Emphasis on Social Emotional Wellness
Join this edLeader Panel to hear from leaders from both the sport and education worlds to explore practical strategies and foundational research to move forward through reopening school communities. View the Recording
Accelerating Student Learning to Close the Gaps: Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of COVID Slide and Summer Learning Loss
In this webinar, Dr. Liz Brooke presents actionable and realistic strategies for accelerating skill development to help all students—not just those at-risk—make the critical gains they need to combat the effects of COVID and Summer Slide and close the gap.
Self-Care for Educators in the Time of COVID-19 (and Beyond)
By utilizing a research-based framework for self-care, Dr. Tina H. Boogren helps educators of all levels and backgrounds develop personalized self-care plans, tailored to this unique moment in history. Viewers will walk away feeling inspired, rejuvenated, and empowered.
Hands-on and Virtual: STEM Learning from a Distance
Right now, educators across the globe are working to reach their students and engage them in meaningful STEM learning. In this edWebinar, viewers will first gain an understanding of why hands-on activities bring meaning to STEM.
Combining Powers: How Educators and Families Can Prepare Students for Kindergarten
We invite you to discover engaging, virtual, and hands-on strategies for preparing preK students for kindergarten in a time of distance learning. Watch the edWebinar to discuss early learning guidelines for preK children and develop a solid understanding of effective ways to teach letter and number formation using digital teaching technology.
Tier 1 Social, Emotional and Behavioral Supports to Restart Learning During a Crisis
When school resumes in the fall, young people will be struggling with fear, anxiety, and many other emotions that will affect their academic performance and behavior. This will make the need for social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) supports more critical than ever to ensure students are psychologically and emotionally able to learn.
Packaging Your Digital Assignments: Creating Efficient and Easy-to-Navigate Lessons for Learning at Home
In this edWebinar, examine good practices for at-home learning, discover why packaging digital assignments is important and a few tips for how to do it, and explore two tools for efficiently packaging digital assignments.
Using Social-Emotional and
Behavioral Assessments to Support MTSS
Enhance your understanding of the role social-emotional behavior screening and intervention has in building a robust MTSS that addresses the learning needs of the whole child. Assessments to measure students’ social-emotional competencies help explain students’ academic and behavior struggles.
Happy and Healthy at Home:
Student Mental Health and Distance Learning
Distance learning can be challenging and isolating for students. Watch this edWebinar for a discussion about this “new normal” of distance learning. We dive into the trends of how and what students are doing as seen through Gaggle’s data, as well as how educators can keep students safe and connected while they learn at home.
Ethical Challenges in Remote Learning:
Student Data Privacy, Digital Equity, Leadership
When teachers and students meet together in a virtual classroom environment they may find themselves at risk since they are now connecting within a new level of exposure and access to their personal lives. School leaders can provide guidance on best practices for remote learning to safeguard their schools, their educators, and their students.
Combining Powers: How Educators and Families Can Prepare Students for Kindergarten
We invite you to discover engaging, virtual, and hands-on strategies for preparing preK students for kindergarten in a time of distance learning. Watch the edWebinar to discuss early learning guidelines for preK children and develop a solid understanding of effective ways to teach letter and number formation using digital teaching technology.
Academic Language:
Unlocking the Language Advantage for All Students
This edWebinar will shine a spotlight on research around the important role language plays in all learning. You'll learn concrete ideas and classroom-tested strategies for accelerating the development of discipline-specific and high-leverage academic language for all students.
Inspiring Student Empowerment:
Moving Beyond Engagement, Refining Differentiation
This edWebinar will share practical, evidence-based practices that focus instruction on empowerment and provide stories of real ways students have made a difference within their school and beyond, and delivers powerful messages about student voice, choice, and independence.
edWeb has an archive of all edWebinar recordings. Search for topics of interest and earn CE certificates for viewing recordings.
Common Lit PD on the Go (FEE for this Service)
I hope this email finds you well.
I’m excited to tell you about CommonLit’s new on-demand Professional Development Portal.
The portal includes 10+ training modules for educators. Each training takes less than 30 minutes to complete and includes instructional strategies for effectively using CommonLit’s resources and technology.
Topics include:
How to Utilize CommonLit’s Pre-Assessment to Plan Instructional Next Steps
How to Effectively Teach A CommonLit Distance Learning Unit
How to Turn Any CommonLit Lesson Into a Video Lesson
How to Use CommonLit Data to Track Student Progress
CommonLit is offering this Professional Development Portal as part of our new Distance Learning Support Package. This package is $500 per school and also includes priority customer service and rostering support through Clever or Google Classroom.
If you’re interested, email partnerships@commonlit.org with the name of your school(s) and we’ll send you a quote.
If you have any questions, feel free to schedule a time with me here.
All the best,
Amanda
FREE PD Webinar Series
Fridays at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET
K-12 editor Stephen Noonoo hosts a weekly webinar series to help K-12 school leaders cope with the move to online classes, create digital learning plans and communicate them effectively to students and parents. We invite you to bring your questions and suggestions as well. Register here.
Dear SS/ELA Community:
I hope that this message finds you and yours safe. There is much turmoil occurring across both our state and nation in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, the subsequent protests and the violence that has erupted in cities and towns. As we unpack with our students the questions and reactions that current events will prompt, we must remember to teach through a lens that connects to the historic and contemporary conditions which have brought us to this place. We should also seek to further our own understanding of the actions and societal structures which limit or prevent equity and social justice. The following resources from our Guidance and Child Study Center may be helpful in engaging in developmentally appropriate learning for students, in conjunction with your own district’s guidance and in partnership with parents. PNW BOCES GCSC: Anti-Racist Articles and Resources
Additionally, the brand new Grades 6-8 SS/ELA Mini Unit: "How Does Technology Impact Our Relationship with the Environment?" is now available. It is accessible under the “Online Learning” tab at https://www.pnwboces.org/SSELANEW/Home.
Free PD PNW BOCES
Professional Learning on the GO
We wanted to share out some additional resources and website updates to support online/virtual teaching and learning.
Recorded webinars are now available for Mini Units K-2 and 3-5. The sessions for grade levels K-5 are accessible under the “Online Learning” tab on the Integrated SS/ELA Curriculum Homepage. The webinar scheduled for grade 4 and 5 teachers at 2pm on Friday is cancelled. A recorded session for those teachers can be found at the link above.
The SS/ELA Team has put together a recorded webinar and presentation on using technology to create engaging games and activities to augment the SS/ELA Curriculum. They are available under the "Online Learning" tab on the Integrated SS/ELA CurriculumHomepage.
Additionally, each Unit K-8 now has an introduction video which discusses the Key Idea(s) and Essential Question(s) that the Unit and its Lessons are built around.
From our PNW BOCES community we have the following resources to share:
Jill Rogovic, PNW BOCES Elementary Collegial Circle Leader, has curated a great list of online elementary-friendly resources here.
PNW BOCES continues to offer free virtual PLontheGO on a daily basis: information here.
I wish you all continued health and wellness. Please reach out if we can support you at all during these challenging times.
Come join Discovery Education – Equity Talks, a live webinar series featuring the nation’s top educational leaders as they engage with one another in a virtual environment.
Moderated by Dr. Luvelle Brown, superintendent of Ithaca City School District, these 45-minute segments will focus on how school leaders are cultivating equity and excellence in the wake of nationwide school closures.
Equity Talks take place on Thursdays with new featured guests each session. See the schedule of events below and register for our next talk.
Watch it now: Using the QFT with primary sources from the Library of Congress
If you missed this webinar, watch it now at InquirED. This site has links to other great resources for teaching virtually — from the Library of Congress, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Right Question Institute.
Miss a webinar? Watch it now
If you were unable to join or register for one of our recent webinars, you can watch the recordings:
The Power of Inquiry in Times of Uncertainty: Warren Berger, author of Beautiful Questions in the Classroom, join's RQI's Sarah Westbrook and TeachThought's Drew Perkins for this discussion.
Building People’s Self-Advocacy Skills in Times of Crisis: If you can't join us for the May 6 webinar, you can watch this one from April 22.
Using The QFT with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress: Practical strategies for learning online using primary sources from the Library of Congress.
New Visions
New Visions Resources
Dear Friends,
As schools open for the 2021-22 school year, we are providing spaces, as always, for teachers and school leaders to re-engage with the full course curriculum materials New Visions has designed and developed through content-area professional learning.
We are also adding a number of cross-content professional learning opportunities designed specifically to meet teachers’ and students’ needs around routines, literacy, community, and technology.
Please follow the topic links below for detailed content and dates.
Content-Area Professional Learning
Teachers will use close reading and discourse strategies as a vehicle to unpack literature and argument. They will engage in writing and reflect on the scaffolded process in order to adapt resources for their own classrooms.
Teacher workshops focus on NGSS/NYSSLS units in Biology and in the transition to Earth & Space Science. Workshops for school leaders provide opportunities to support NYSSLS roadmap planning.
Teachers can explore instructional routines that support social studies learning, strong responses to USHG and GHG Regents exam prompts, or key themes in both Global History and US History.
School librarians and teachers-assigned to the library who support secondary schools on multi-school campuses will work collaboratively to understand and deploy the NYCSLS "Reopening School Libraries Plan."
Cross-Content Professional Learning
Teachers will experience routines that create opportunities for student-to-student listening, for relating content to student experiences, or for developing long-term word retention.
Metacognition & Explicit Instruction
Workshops will introduce teachers to varied strategies for explicit instruction and metacognition in the content areas, including cognitive strategies for reading, building awareness of language, or skills-based writing. Participants will be invited to join ongoing professional learning communities
Google Classroom for In-person and Blended Instruction
Teachers will learn how to set-up and implement best Google Classroom practices, how to create assignments that support student learning and self-management, and how to take advantage of Classroom's assessment features. Teachers will learn how Classroom supports both in-person and blended learning.
Danielson Group
Office Hours
We know there will be a need to rethink many aspects of how teaching and learning happen over the coming months and potentially into the start of the new school year. Please sign up to talk if you would like a thought partner as you prepare for the work ahead. All office hours are free of charge. See times for this week and next.
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Using the Danielson Framework for Teaching for Video Coaching and Remote Teaching
The recently released Framework for Remote Teaching can support teachers and instructional coaches with teaching and learning.
The Framework for <Remote> Teaching
A New Guide & Recorded Webinar to Support Remote Instruction
The Framework for Teaching was first published in 1996 - eleven years before the first iPhone came out, eight years before Facebook launched, and seven years before the class of 2021 was born. In other words, long before online teaching was much of a thing at all in K-12 education. A lot has changed in the last 24 years, and even more has changed in the last six months. The idea of teaching that takes place completely (or even primarily) with 20-30 students, one teacher, and a bunch of desks all in a room together for eight hours may go the way of the Commodore 64. But the most important and fundamental principles about teaching and learning will not.
That's why a framework that was written when laptops still had floppy disk drives can continue to fulfill its original purpose. It was designed to be applied in many different contexts and situations. Its components are based on a set of assumptions that have not changed even as much has changed around them. This is perhaps the greatest asset of the Framework for Teaching: it establishes a set of fundamental beliefs and principles that transcend time and location to name the elements of high-quality teaching.
While many have asked about a new rubric to evaluate online teaching, our focus is on giving teachers support, not scores, and on being responsive in the current moment, which requires an approach that prioritizes student and teacher wellbeing and racial justice in the context of remote instruction for the 2020-21 school year - a year that will be like no other before it.
With all of this in mind, we share here a guide to support remote teaching and learning that we hope will help educators prioritize their efforts in the coming months and continue to use the common language of the Framework to advance student success. We invite all educators to join us in the work of applying the enduring principles of the FFT to this present moment. We will continue to work throughout the year to provide responsive, just-in-time suggestions for serving all students with hope and dignity. Stay tuned for invitations to offer your suggestions, give feedback, and build community around a shared vision for great teaching and learning for each student, every day - whether online or in the classroom.
Courses- Extended engagements for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders.(Fee for Some)
Course descriptions and registration details coming soon.
