Institutes

Register for all six of the Distance Learning Leadership sessions that will cover the following topics: Maintaining Your Leadership Credibility (Jan 14),  Virtual Visibility and Social Presence (Jan 21), Microteaching (Jan 28), Coaching Instructional Improvement (Feb 4), Supporting Parents to Support Learners (Feb 11),  and Developing Leadership Mindframes (Feb 18). 

Registrants who choose to attend all six sessions will also receive the digital copy of The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders as well as access to recordings of all six sessions.

Join Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Olivia Amador-Valerio for a two-day certification designed to equip you with the knowledge and techniques that will enable you to deliver effective Teacher Clarity Playbook trainings in your schools. Must be employed by a School System, County Office of Education or Education Service Agency to participate.

Part of a six-session series, this institute will explore Microteaching. Improving instruction and maximizing impact are primary responsibilities for school leaders. The question is, how can we spread highly effective approaches to teaching and learning around a school? One solution has been micro-teaching. In this session, we explore micro-teaching, allow for practice of this approach, and develop plans for using this tool to improve learning outcomes.

Corwin’s Leadership by Design Institute: A Powerful Network Series for School Leaders is a new networking opportunity for school leaders of all levels.  This 12-month series is delivered in monthly 90 minute bite-sized sessions designed for the busy school leader’s schedule in mind.  Top industry experts will cover critical topics around mindframes, efficacy, equity, leading collaborative teams, and more! 

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.

Corwin’s  PLC+ Institute provides attendees with a practical and evidence-based framework to support collaborative structures to support planning and implementation of student learning, as well as professional learning (e.g. microteaching, classroom observations) of the teachers and teacher leaders.

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.

Part of a six-session series, this institute will explore Coaching Instructional Improvement.

What types of feedback help teachers change and implement increasingly effective approaches to instruction and assessment? What times of coaching are ineffective? We’ll review several coaching frameworks and practice analyzing instruction and developing coaching plans.

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 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.

This institute moves beyond learning intentions and dives deep into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. Engage in an active and empowering learning experience that will enhance understanding of how to create and implement high-quality success criteria.

This institute moves beyond learning intentions and dives deep into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria. Engage in an active and empowering learning experience that will enhance understanding of how to create and implement high-quality success criteria.

Part of a six-session series, this institute will explore Supporting Parents to Support Learners. 

We are not asking parents to become teachers. But we do need to forge a new partnership with family members such that their children are learning. We’ll focus on effective parent education that builds the knowledge and skill of family members to support the efforts of the teachers who provide instruction for their children.

Building on the foundational work established in The Distance Learning Playbook, this institute brings forward the latest in effective practices in virtual spaces. Sessions will focus on partnering with parents and explore how we can utilize the best practices from Visible Learning and Distance Learning to improve Teacher Clarity, instruction, and support virtual PLCs.

Join Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Olivia Amador-Valerio for a two-day certification designed to equip you with the knowledge and techniques that will enable you to deliver effective Teacher Clarity Playbook trainings in your schools. Must be employed by a School System, County Office of Education or Education Service Agency to participate.

Part of a six-session series, this institute will explore Developing Leadership Mindframes . 

The Mindframes for Leaders guide decisions that we make. They are habits that will serve us well, long after the pandemic. In this session we explore each of the 10 mindframes and learn from leaders who have challenged themselves to strengthen a specific mindframe. These mindframes, or ways of being, are based on the Visible Learning research.

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.

Join author Nancy Frey for a deep dive into evidence-based reading instruction that provides a structured framework developed to teach the foundational skills of reading while developing the motivation and critical reasoning they need to become lifelong readers. 

Based on Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie's title, The Distance Learning Playbook, this Institute, led by Nancy Frey, 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.

 Succinct, smart, and swift, this institute's nine learning modules takes you systematically through a process that begins and ends with standards. With abundant cross-curricular examples that span grade levels, planning templates for every step, key professional learning questions, and a PLC guide, you have the most practical planner for designing and delivering highly effective instruction.

The Visible Learning+: Making Learning Visible Pathways Series consists of four interconnected pathways of teaching, leading, equity, and learning that explore the 'why' behind the Visible Learning research, how educators can go about implementing it, leadership support, and creating an equitable culture.

The Visible Learning+ Making Learning Visible: Teaching Pathway places emphasis on great teaching which begins with deliberate decisions made with the intention to design learning that will positively impact students. This pathway presents a system of implementation for teachers to reflect on the impact they make on their students through a process of implementation and evaluation.

Based on Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie's title, The Distance Learning Playbook, this Institute, led by Nancy Frey, 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 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.