Making Whole Class Instruction as Powerful as One-on-One Instruction

Presented by Jason Willoughby, Director of Action Learning Systems, and Robert Crowe, Vice President of Action Learning Systems
Sponsored by Action Learning Systems

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In the emerging era of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), experts agree that the most significant change required in our schools will be at the instructional level.  Simply changing the criteria and the curriculum will not propel American education into elite status. At the heart of the matter is instruction and how teachers maximize their use of Academic Learning Time. In this webinar, Jason Willoughby and Robert Crowe, instructional experts from Action Learning Systems, discuss how teachers can take the available hours they have for instruction and allocate their time in a way that maximizes student engagement on all levels and creates the greatest opportunity for student success.  You will gain a better understanding of how to incorporate CCSS and measureable objectives into daily instruction, experience a concise model for lesson structure and sequence, identify explicit opportunities for student interaction, and discuss the non-negotiables for proactive classroom management.

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About Implementing the Common Core State Standards

As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month.  You'll have access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, and resources, providing you with an online learning center you can return to at any time.  CE certificates are provided for attending and viewing the webinars.
This community is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards.  Stay connected, share ideas, and get support from colleagues all across the country on this vital topic.


About the PresentersJason Willoughby is the Director of Action Learning Systems.  He is an award-winning elementary and secondary school teacher, and secondary school administrator.  At Action Learning Systems, Jason coaches teachers, principals, and district administration in all aspects of school reform, including system-wide development, implementation, and analysis of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessments.

Robert Crowe is a Vice President of Action Learning Systems, where he develops and provides training and coaching to clients who work with English learners across all grade levels. In addition, Bob provides administrative leadership training and district-level reform consulting, and he also works with chronically underperforming readers and writers in intensive intervention settings.  

Re-engaging Boys in Education through Gaming

Presented by Ali Carr-Chellman, Ph.D., Head, Learning and Performance Systems, Pennsylvania State University
Sponsored by BrainPOP
Co-hosted by edWeb.net and SIIA

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Dr. Ali Carr-Chellman, a professor of Instructional Systems at Penn State University, describes the difficulties that boys are having with elementary level education experiences and how gaming might be a way to re-engage them. Carr-Chellman, author of Instructional Design for Teachers: Improving Classroom Practice, begins with an overview of the problems boys face in today’s classroom, outlining three primary causes for this struggle. She focuses on ways that games may be utilized to engage boys and send a different cultural message than we currently center on. Ways of approaching this shift in school culture are addressed.


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About Game-Based Learning

The Game-Based Learning PLC is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, connect with experts in the field, and share ideas and experiences with peers all across the country, and the world.
This unique combination of webinars presented by leading experts, combined with a social networking community, creates a new way for the education community to connect and work together to help move forward faster with innovative new ideas about gaming and learning.

About the Presenter
Dr. Ali Carr-Chellman, professor of Instructional Systems and Department Head of Learning and Performance Systems at Penn State University, has authored more than 100 articles and proceedings, several books, and hundreds of conference presentations. She has appeared on radio and television and also has headed two TEDxPSU talks, one of which went global last year. Her current research interests are primarily around the use of technology for broad systemic and cultural change of public schools.

Utilizing the Principles of Reinforcement in a Classroom Environment

Presented by Michelle Brooks, Outreach Specialists, Eden Autism Services, Princeton, NJ

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February's Teaching Students with Autism webinar presents practical strategies to use reinforcement effectively to increase student performance and behavior in a classroom environment. Core to learning for all of us is our motivation to learn. Without this, learning typically does not take place. This is even more true for students with autism as they often do not see the purpose of what they are being taught. Eden Autism Services Michelle Brooks shows educators of students with autism ways to figure out what is reinforcing for each of their students along with recommended techniques to use that reinforcement to enhance their learning. She also highlights the basic principles of reinforcement as well as how to implement these principles utilizing token systems and schedules of reinforcement. 

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Effective Strategies for Grades PreK-5

Effective Strategies for Grades 6-12

About Teaching Students with Autism

The Teaching Students with Autism PLC is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on the issues and challlenge you face every day.  Stay connected, share ideas, and get support from colleagues all over the country.
As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month on a new topic. You'll have access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, lesson plans, and resources, providing you with an online learning center you can return to at any time.  CE certificates are provided for attending and vewing the webinars.

About the Presenter

Michelle Brooks is a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Human Services Board Certified Practitioner. She began her career at Eden Autism Services in 1988 and is currently serving as an Outreach Specialist. Ms. Brooks conducts individual and program evaluations, provides consultative services to school districts, and conducts training and seminars for Eden staff as well as outside agencies and school personnel on topics such as Behavioral Teaching Strategies for Students with Autism, and Effective Inclusion for Students with Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism. Ms. Brooks received a Master’s degree in school counseling from Rider University.

Utilizing Free Internet Resources to Engage Students

Presented by Shannon Holden, Assistant Principal, Republic Middle School, MO

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In this webinar, Shannon introduces some FREE internet resources that he uses as well as where and what to look for on your own.  You'll discover how to find free downloadable lesson plans and fee educational software.  He also teaches you how to download educational videos from YouTube and TeacherTube and how to utilize free tutoring websites for every subject area and grade level.

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About TechTools
The TechTools PLC is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on great technology tools to use in the classroom.  Stay connected, share ideas, and get support from colleagues all across the country, and the world.
As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month on a different topic.  You'l have access to all of the webinar recordings, presentations, and resources, providing you with an online learning center you can return to at any time.  CE certificates are provided for attending and viewing the webinars.
Visit the community at www.edweb.net/techtools.

About the Presenter
Shannon Holden has been a high school and middle school teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years.  Holden built a website, wwww.newteacherhelp.com in 2009 to help reduce the 50% five-year attrition rate for new teachers in the educational profession.

Global Collaboration: It's a Flat World! How Can We Capitalize on Technology to Connect?

Presented by Michelle Luhtala and Shannon Miller
Sponsored by Follett Software Company

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Skype, meeting software, social media platforms should make connecting easy, right? Think again! Obstacles include buggy software, bandwidth, filters, social reticence (shyness), and time zones. In spite of all that, some educators are getting their students connected. In this session we look at successful instructional cross regional collaborations, how they were organized and how they can be replicated. 

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About the Presenters
Michelle Luhtala is the Head Librarian at New Canaan High School, and the winner of the National School Library of the Year Award.
Shannon McClintock Miller is the District Teacher Librarian and Technology Specialist in Van Meter, Iowa and the 2011 Connecting People Shorty Award winner.

About Emerging Tech
The Emerging Tech PLC is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on the issues and challenges of building and advocating for a school library program that is a critical support for teaching and learning in your school and district.

As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month on a different topic.  You'll have access to all of the webinar recordings and resource materials, providing you with an online resource library you can return to at any time. CE certificates are provided for attending and viewing the webinars.  Emerging Tech began in July 2010 and now has an archive of more than 15 free webinars.

Visit Emerging Tech at www.edweb.net/emergingtech.

BYOT aka BYOD: What You Need to Know Part III

Presented by Gail Palumbo, former Director of Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools, NJ

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In the third part of this series on Bring Your Own Technology, we look at some schools that were successful in a BYOD initiative and how these schools achieved this success.  We also look at the technology that is used in many schools, actual lesson ideas and “apps” available for curriculum integration.  What classroom changes need to happen?  What do teachers need to do to alter their lessons? 

Catch up on Previous Sessions
View BYOT Part I
View BYOT Part II

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About the Presenter
The program is presented and hosted by Gail Palumbo, former Director of Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools (NJ), and national consultant for schools, districts, and corporations.

About Technology in Schools
The Technology in Schools PLC is a forum for technology coordinators, directors of technology, technical staff, principals, superintendents, curriculum coordinators, librarians, teachers, and any educator with an interest in technology in schools.

As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month on a different topic.  You have access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, and resources, providing you with an online resource center you can return to at any time.

Visit the community at www.edweb.net/technology.

Make Yourself Indispensable

Presented by Shannon Holden, founder of newteacherhelp.com

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Shannon discusses tips and tricks on how to your yourself indispensable as a new teacher.  He discusses finding something you're good at, and doing something important that no one else wants to do.  He shares the importance of identifying your weak areas and how and where to get trained to improve in these areas.

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About the Presenter
Shannon Holden has been a high school and middle school teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years.  Holden built a website, www.newteacherhelp.com in 2009 to help reduce the 50% five-year attrition rate for new teachers in the educational profession.

About New Teacher Help
The New Teacher Help PLC is a place where you can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on the issues and challenges you facing starting out on a career in teaching.  Stay connected, share ideas, and get support from other new teachers all across the country.

As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a free webinar and live chat each month on a different topic.  You'll have access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, and resources, providing you with an online learning center you can return to at any time. CE certificates are provided for attending and viewing the webinars.

Visit the community at www.edweb.net/newteacherhelp.