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A Practical Guide to Developing Reading and Writing Skills While Teaching Content
It’s possible to support students’ reading and writing growth through simple, evidence-based strategies that integrate seamlessly into your curriculum. This webinar offers practical approaches to help middle and high school educators nurture these skills, ensuring that all learners can competently engage with and understand challenging academic materials.
Match Highlighting Strategy: Self-Reflection Tool
Match Highlighting is a self-reflection strategy that helps students visually connect their work to success criteria using color-coded highlighting. This simple yet powerful tool promotes self-assessment, strengthens understanding, and provides teachers with quick insights into student learning.
Standards-Based Grading Unpacked: Answers to Your Top Questions
This webinar addressed key grading reform challenges by answering pressing questions about transitioning to or optimizing standards-based grading. Participants will gain practical strategies for effective implementation, including insights on accurate assessments, engaging parents, and first steps toward proficiency-based grading.
Math Workshop Guide
With its emphasis on flexibility and purposeful planning, Math Workshop is designed to support diverse educational settings, empowering teachers to create meaningful learning experiences while fostering independent and collaborative mathematical thinking. Check out our Math Workshop Guide.
Repair Kit for Grading Webinar
Based on Ken O’Connor revised edition of “A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades,” attendees will be examine all 15 Fixes and walk away with a deeper understanding of Fix # 14 in which attendees will receive tools and resources that focus on emphasizing more recent achievement (Reassessment)
Student Self Reflection: The Missing Link in the Shift to Standards Based Grading
Discover how incorporating student self-reflection into your standards-based grading practices can empower students to take ownership of their learning, identify areas for growth, and foster meaningful dialogue about their progress.
AESEL Core Concepts
The AESEL Center Core Concepts resource offers educators a foundational understanding of the core beliefs that guide the AESEL Center's professional development initiatives. This free resource emphasizes the importance of empowering student voice, fostering a sense of safety and belonging, and enhancing social-emotional learning (SEL) skills.
AESEL Process Roadmap
The AESEL roadmap outlines a proven process used by the AESEL Center to help schools enhance student behavior, academic performance, and social-emotional learning. This free resource guides educators in building stronger relationships and incorporating executive functioning skills.
Math Instructional Strategies
Using instructional strategies in teaching mathematics enhances student engagement, understanding, and retention of concepts. Additionally, they encourage critical thinking, foster a positive learning environment, and can improve student confidence and performance in mathematics
Instructional Coaching Reboot: Reflecting on the Now to Improve the Next
This free resource provides an opportunity for coaches to reflect on their current coaching strategies, successes, and challenges. Building on those experiences, coaches will consider how they can best plan for success in the coming weeks and months.
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Literacy Instruction in Your School or District
With only so many hours in a day, the question that we must ask ourselves is: “How do we know that we are putting our efforts into those things that will make the biggest impact on student learning?” During this session, we will discuss how schools can evaluate their current literacy instructional practices and plan for higher impact instruction moving forward.
Understanding the Importance of Phonics and Phonemic Awareness as Foundational Literacy Skills
This webinar will provide an in-depth look at the importance of two foundational skills, Phonics and Phonemic Awareness, and participants will learn valuable information about how to explicitly teach these skills in the classroom.
Disciplinary Literacy: Reading Comprehension Strategies (Grades 6-12)
Disciplinary literacy is a necessary set of skills that students must learn to experience success in content-based courses. Teachers will learn several new strategies that they can implement right away to improve student understanding of content-related texts.
Rethinking Co-Teaching: Unlocking its Full Potential
Co-teaching is often reduced to "one teach, one assist," where the special education teacher plays a passive role. This common approach limits access to rigorous instruction and prevents students from reaching their full potential. It’s time to rethink co-teaching.
What Would You Do? Interactive Co-Teaching Activity Guide
Turn co-teaching challenges into powerful learning opportunities! The What Would You Do? Activity Guide engages co-teachers in real-world scenarios with interactive strategies that spark reflection, problem-solving, and collaboration. Perfect for team meetings, professional development sessions, or workshops.