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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).

Presented by Douglas Reeves

In order for learning, teaching, and leadership to succeed, relationships through effective engagement must come first. As the world continues to recover from the global pandemic, teachers and school leaders face the daunting challenge of re-engaging students, academically and behaviorally. This webinar will provide the practical tools needed to improve collaboration between students, teachers, and leaders for better engagement. When students are engaged with peers and adults they develop the skills necessary to organize and focus – essential for success in secondary school, post-secondary education, and the world
beyond school.

Presented by John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, and Nancy Frey

How would your students respond to the question, “how will I know if I have learned something?” When both we and our students have clarity about learning through high-quality success criteria, there is a greater likelihood that learning will happen and that all students will experience success in their learning. Whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, this webinar will introduce how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria.

Presented by Serena Pariser

We can all have that classroom we dreamed about when we first chose to enter the teaching profession. In this webinar, Serena Pariser will uncover the steps to creating a dynamic classroom and answer questions that linger in the mind of a newer teacher or teachers looking to refresh their teaching practice.

Watch Jim Knight's Archived Webinar

“Our schools are only as good as the conversations within them.” So asserts instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, who in this webinar honors our capacity for improving our schools by improving our communication. Who should attend? Just about all of us. Any educator who has walked away from a conversation sensing it could have been more productive, but at a loss for how to improve it: administrators, teachers, coaches alike. 

Watch Doug and Nancy's Archived Webinar

Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith

Every teacher wants engaged students. No student wants to be bored. So why isn’t every classroom teeming with discussion and purposeful activity centered on the day’s learning expectations? In this webinar, Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith will outline a framework for engagement and concrete strategies that will enable you to create a classroom culture rooted in relationships, clarity, and challenge. 

Presented by Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria G. Dove, Audrey Cohan, and Carrie McDermott Goldman

What does equity for multilingual learners (MLs) mean in post-pandemic schools? This webinar will build on the authors’ recent publication that addresses how educators, on the one hand, can recognize their students’ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, multiliteracies, and complex experiences and, on the other hand, how they can engage in critical collaborative practices that champion equity for MLs.

Presented by Doug Fisher, John Almarode, Kateri Thunder, and Olivia Amador Valerio

To capitalize on the potential impact of teacher clarity on student learning, we must develop and share high-quality success criteria that define what success looks like for each and every learner in our schools and classrooms. In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. We’ll also explore how teacher clarity ensures teaching that is organized and intentional with transparent expectations.

Presented by Doug Fisher, John Almarode, Kateri Thunder, and Olivia Amador Valerio

To capitalize on the potential impact of teacher clarity on student learning, we must develop and share high-quality success criteria that define what success looks like for each and every learner in our schools and classrooms. In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. We’ll also explore how teacher clarity ensures teaching that is organized and intentional with transparent expectations.