Archive Webinars

Presented by Gary Howard

The past two decades of school reform efforts have not gone far enough in eliminating educational inequities based on race, poverty, and other dimensions of difference. Gary Howard’s Deep Equity process provides school districts and educators with proven strategies for creating real change; one teacher, one classroom, one school at a time. In this webinar Gary will share core elements of this work and highlight key features of his award-winning new book from Corwin: We Can’t Lead Where We Won’t Go: An Educator’s Guide to Equity.

Presented by Michael Fullan

Learn to enhance student learning and bring people and ideas together as Michael Fullan presents his Coherence Framework and discusses how you can make effective school and district change by fostering deep coherence.  In this webinar, Fullan takes you by the hand and shows you how, in just a short time, you can focus direction, cultivate a collaborative culture, deepen learning, and secure accountability in your district and start your school down the path to maximizing success. 

Watch Linda Gojak & Ruth Harbin-Miles Archived Webinar

Elementary and middle school mathematics teachers agree that division is one of the toughest topics to teach. The Common Core Standards explicitly address division as described in The Common Core Mathematics Companion series. This webinar will present the progression of division across the grades with the use of meaningful models and applications that lead students to a deeper understanding of division

Watch Lyn and Beate's Archived Webinar

Purposeful collaboration makes a difference. A BIG difference. Not just because it’s a way to better understand specific causal pathways that lead to success. But because when teachers employ an inquiry mindset, they actually advance their instructional expertise as professionals. In this webinar, Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche introduce to school leaders at large five high-impact, collaborative strategies for “sharing the learning while doing the work” of system and school improvement.

Watch Doug and Nancy's Archived Webinar

This webinar introduces key concepts from the book on what works, and more importantly, when it works. Fisher and Frey explain the importance of effect size in determining one’s impact on student learning, and explore the learning conditions needed as students go from surface learning, to deeper learning and transfer. Graphic organizers are effective, but when? When is reciprocal teaching best deployed? In collaboration with John Hattie, the authors have aligned literacy practices to phases of learning. 

Watch Randall and Delores's Archived Webinar

Cultural proficiency is a mindset, a worldview, a way a person or an organization interacts effectively with other cultures in diverse environments. In this webinar, equity experts and best-selling authors Randall B. Lindsey and Delores Lindsey give an overview of the Tools of Cultural Proficiency and describe how this model is one successful approach for implementing change in the context of today’s schools. 

Watch Jen Abram's Archived Webinar

Tough talks are never easy. If you’re a coach, administrator, or teacher looking for tools and resources to help you become a more confident and compassionate communicator in challenging interactions, then you won’t want to miss this webinar. One by one, Jennifer Abrams unpacks all sorts of strategies to drive positive outcomes from hard conversations, whether they be with colleagues, supervisors, supervisees, or parents.  

Watch Yong Zhao's Archived Webinar

Incremental fixes aren’t enough if we’re to prepare our students for a future that will require them to be creative and entrepreneurial thinkers. What’s required is wholesale, whole-system transformation. Join Dr. Yong Zhao, author of World Class Learners, as he walks us through the three critical elements behind his all-new paradigm: personalization, product-oriented learning, and global campus. 

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 Gravity Goldberg's Archived Webinar