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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

Monday, June 5, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Tan Huynh, Beth Skelton

In the past decade, a growing subgroup of multilingual learners (MLs) often labeled as “Long-term English Learners” (LTEL) has gained attention in the field. In this webinar, Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton propose the more assets-based term "experienced multilingual" and share an instructional framework that creates the conditions for long-term academic success for this group of multilingual learners.


How White People Can Contribute to a Healthy Multiracial Society

Monday, May 22, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli

How can we be the White people that a healthy multiracial society requires us to be? Too often we are so busy worrying about sounding good or using the latest vocabulary that we forget how to relax into connection, empathy, and community. Award winning author Ali Michael and clinical psychologist Eleonora Bartoli will share their journeys as White people on this path, as well as strategies for rebuilding that empathetic connection that is at the heart of a healthy society and a healthy movement for change.


A Guide to Detracking Math Courses

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Angela Torres and Laura Wentworth

There is a powerful, international momentum towards equity in mathematics. Angela Torres and Laura Wentworth are excited to share their evolving understandings about supporting powerful mathematics in heterogeneous classrooms. They will discuss many interconnected points when taking up bold systems work: vision-setting first and foremost, alongside considerations of research and policy; curricular, coaching, and professional supports for educators, and making adjustments over time as policies and practices shift.


Teaching Methods for Active Learning

Monday, May 8, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Gravity Goldberg

In this webinar, author Gravity Goldberg will share a curated selection of high-impact, instructional strategies that new teachers can become familiar with and master early in their teaching careers.


3 Overlooked Strategies for Successful School Initiatives

Monday, April 24, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by James Marshall

Schools are filled with programs and initiatives—some high performing, some compulsory, and some with materials still shrink-wrapped in their original packaging. Some work, and some don't. In this webinar, we’ll tour the landscape of school-based initiatives with stops to share strategies for needs assessment, initiative design, and program evaluation.


Strategies That Boost Students' Executive Function Skills

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Valerie Saxton Sharpe, Roberta Strosnider

Executive Function (EF) skills allow individuals to self-regulate and successfully interact with others, manage their time, organize and prioritize tasks, focus, and more. In this webinar with authors Valerie Saxton Sharpe and Roberta Strosnider, you’ll learn the metacognitive strategies shown most effective in facilitating students’ readiness and success in learning.


A Framework for Preparing School Leaders

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Dr. Tim Cusack // Vince Bustamante

Fewer teacher-leaders and aspiring leaders are stepping into the role of school principal, and this has created a desperate need. The issue is not only whether individuals desire to lead, but rather how we are preparing aspiring leaders to assume the role of principal. This webinar will explore a framework that is designed to better prepare aspiring school leaders for the role of principalship.


How to Engage Families

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Steven Constantino & Margaret Constantino

Join Dr. Steve Constantino and Dr. Margaret Constantino as they share what they have learned and how they have improved the five simple principles for family engagement. Using case studies from the field, this webinar will outline the pathway and process to engage every family - including those families that have been traditionally disengaged or disenfranchised so that every student's community can have a powerful effect on student achievement.


Routines to Jumpstart Problem Solving

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by John SanGiovanni

Teaching problem solving is hard. It is about helping students learn to make sense, think, and reason. Simply, problem solving is not a procedure. Problem solving is not delivered it is developed. In this webinar, John SanGiovanni will discuss how to do just that through engaging daily problem solving routines.


Critical Comprehension

Monday, March 20, 2023 - 3:30pm

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).


Learn, CA! State Legislators’ Priorities

Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 10:00am

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


Teaching Vocabulary

Monday, March 13, 2023 - 3:30pm

Presented by Doug Fisher / Nancy Frey

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


Universal Design for Learning and Beyond

Monday, March 6, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


The Will to Learn

Monday, February 27, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


What Students Need from Us to Fight Fake News

Monday, February 13, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


Fostering Belonging to Heal, Empower, and Educate Kids

Monday, February 6, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


Addressing Shame in the Reading Classroom

Monday, January 30, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


Preparing Children for Success in School and Life

Monday, January 23, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


Learn, CA! State Budget for Schools

Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 10:00am

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


How Scaffolding Works

Monday, January 9, 2023 - 3:30pm

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.


Opening Windows and Opening Minds

Monday, December 19, 2022 - 3:30pm

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.


Learn, CA! Fiscal Outlook for the Coming Year

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 10:30am

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


Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Teachers and Leaders Do

Monday, December 12, 2022 - 3:30pm

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.



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