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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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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It Really Works! True Stories and Real Results from the Field
Join us for an insightful conversation about what strategies, resources, and tools had real impact on the dramatic success of two districts.
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New Federal Grant Funds Billions for Blended Learning: Are You Aligned?
Kevin Baird will lead participants through the critical alignment activities that will help schools ensure an effective blended learning approach aligned to the billions in new federal funding.
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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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Strategies for Navigating Back to School Priorities
How do we identify key priorities and initiatives for a clear path to success?
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Personalize Learning: A New Mindset For Success
The world of education is rapidly changing – and one of the biggest changes is the emergence of new techniques and technology that enable truly personalized learning
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Achieving Summer Success
What are the priority steps to ensure summer school success for all students?
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EL Strategies for CPS
How can we support EL's in content area literacy?
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Blended Learning: Models and Lessons
Which blended learning model is best for you?
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The Role of Foundational Skills in College and Career Readiness
This research-driven webinar covers best practices and effective implementation models for successful PreK-2 foundational literacy programs.
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Effective Strategies for Literacy Acceleration: Language, Collaboration, and Choice
Discover the highest-impact strategies for moving students from the deepest levels of intervention, and accelerating them to grade-level proficiency.
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Improving Student Achievement: One District's Successful Journey
What are the three key elements that helped this district achieve amazing results on high-stakes assessments?
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Strategies to Differentiate ELL Instruction
How so we support ELLs in today's diverse models of instruction?
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Difficulty and Complexity
How can we combine projects, practice, and prompts to achieve difficulty and complexity requirements simultaneously?
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Priorities to Bridge the Gap
How do we identify the key priority steps for Fall?
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Precision Reading and Vocabulary Investigation
How can we integrate precision reading and vocabulary investigation into our classroom instruction?
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Unstoppable Learning
Can we unleash student potential through systematic and intentional instruction? But what types of instruction give us the biggest bang for the buck?
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Accessing Complex Texts
What does the text say? How does the text work? What does the text mean?
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Empowering Students to Succeed on High Stakes Assessments
Can you create unstoppable writing assessment success for all students?
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The Power of Argument
What does argument look like in writing and in speaking? What are the key elements for priority instruction?