Differentiated Instruction. Accelerated Learning.
Webinars
Enhance your professional development by attending an upcoming webinar event or viewing an on-demand webinar covering best practice for improving reading, writing and literacy skills.
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Improving Literacy Growth for ELLs and Dual Language Learners Using Shared Reading
During this edWebinar, you’ll explore the ways you can support phonics, vocabulary, and language while at the same time supporting your students’ literacy growth.
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Integrating SEL into Everyday Instruction
All learning is social and emotional! This edWebinar makes the case for taking a deliberate approach to the “hidden curriculum” already being taught, presenting a five-part model of SEL.
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Fostering Social-Emotional Learning Through Text-Based Discussions
Research proves that engaging in collaborative conversations before, during, and after reading can significantly increase students’ comprehension, but why not also support students SEL though text?
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Maximizing Literacy Acceleration in K-12 Schools
How can you prioritize acceleration in your school or classroom? What are key approaches for getting students’ actual literacy growth to exceed their expected growth?
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Deep Learning for All Students
How can technology help increase rigor, relevance, and joy in students?
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Building Equity: Practices That Empower All Learners
How do we define equity in the classroom and what does that look like in a very diverse student body? What are we doing to make a difference with our students?
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Leveraging Response to Intervention Schoolwide
How can education leaders implement an effective, school-wide RTI system?
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Accelerate Learning for the Unique Needs of Your ELLs!
What strengths and challenges do English language learners bring to the classroom? How can educators ensure all students achieve college and career readiness, regardless of their unique needs?
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Turning Test-Prep Angst Into Confidence Through Deep Learning and Student Agency
How will I help all of my students to do better this year than they did last year on the end-of-year state assessment?
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Accelerating Literacy with Precision Differentiation
Join us to learn how you can differentiate content, process, product and learning environment, maximizing impact and accelerating literacy goals!
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Developing Assessment- Capable Learners
What does it mean to be assessment-capable and how can educators foster and encourage assessment-capable dispositions and actions in the students they work with ?
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Designing Learning They’ll Love—Making Learning Personal
Can we design learning experiences our students will love?
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Using Digital Literacy to Build Unstoppable Reading Grit
Can you create unstoppable standards mastery and content fluency when it comes to informational text for all students?
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Improving Literacy Through Summer Learning
Learn five best practices and review real-world case studies for successful summer literacy programs!
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Cultural Relevance and Academic Equity in the Age of ESSA
In this engaging edWebinar, Dr. Berry-Jones will explore what culture means for students, including their relationships to home, peers, and school.
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Building a Foundation for Literacy and Intervention Scaffolds for Lifelong Learning
How do we accommodate diverse learners and adjust teaching strategies to meet individual needs?
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Teacher Wellness: How Curriculum Can Support Teacher Confidence
Kevin Baird looks at pragmatic and practical steps to increase support to teachers that translates directly into student learning.
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Helping Students Get Ahead with the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Discover proven methods for helping your students build independence!
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What Do We Mean By Rigor ?
Are you selecting appropriate reading materials for all of your students? What is the key to choosing texts that aren’t too easy or too hard?
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Literacy Intervention for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
What does College and Career Readiness look like for students who have been traditionally disenfranchised?
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Literacy: More than Lexiles – Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Students
How can we inspire students toward greater learning ?
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Leave No Child Offline and Leave No Teacher Behind
Why Equity and Access to Digital Tools, Tech-Savvy Teachers and the Internet are Important to the Future of Our Nation
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Close Reading with Doug Fisher
How do we differentiate between questions that do and do not require evidence from the text ?
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Embedding Purposeful Literacy Scaffolds and Strategies to Support English Language Learners
In this research-fueled session, learn how leveraging targeted and embedded scaffolds as part of a differentiated instruction approach can dramatically accelerate language and literacy gains for ELL's
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Effective Collaborative Conversations with Doug Fisher
How is collaboration with peers a necessary part of the learning process of a child?
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Text Complexity: Best Practices for Matching Students and Texts
What makes a text “hard?” What’s the best way to measure students’ reading abilities? How do we ensure our students are gaining the skills needed to read increasingly complex texts?
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Unstoppable Learning
Sharing insights and findings from his book, Unstoppable Learning, Dr. Douglas Fisher will help you discover how systems thinking can enhance teaching and learning school-wide.
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Literacy = Language Production: Going Beyond the Text & Embracing the Talk
Kevin E Baird presents this live session and examines the capacities of literacy and language and how they are one of the greatest challenge facing schools today.
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Go Blended: 5 Tips for Getting Blended Learning Right
Julia Freeland Fisher shares key findings from her organization’s years of blended learning research, as well as lessons learned from the hundreds of school systems that the Institute has studied.
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How to Reach the Hard to Teach: Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
Join Dr. Doug Fisher, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of the book, 'How to Reach the Hard to Teach: Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most'!
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Visible Learning in Literacy
Join Dr. Nancy Frey, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of the new book Visible Learning for Literacy, as she delves into Visible Learning in Literacy!
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Rigorous Reading: Building Strength and Stamina
Dr. Douglas Fisher will lead an exploration of the types of learning that ensure students become better readers who persevere through complex (strength) or long (stamina) texts.
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Blended Learning: Models and Lessons
Which blended learning model is best for you?
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Difficulty and Complexity
How can we combine projects, practice, and prompts to achieve difficulty and complexity requirements simultaneously?