Educator Webinar Series: For Teachers and Administrators
Registration Open: Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners with Dr. Margarita
Calderón on March 26 and April 18, 2013 Register here
Close the learning gap for English learners. This 2-part webinar series addresses the language,
literacy, and content instructional needs of English Learners. It will also demonstrate quality instruction
and effective schooling structures for the implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI). New
instructional strategies and assessment processes will be modeled. This session demonstrates
instructional strategies for developing academic vocabulary. Lesson organization and schedules will be
discussed. For each new strategy, there will be presentation of research, modeling of the strategy,
discussions of application, a lesson template, and student performance assessment strategies.
Learning Outcomes:
 Gain literacy strategies that are beneficial for not only English learners but all struggling or
reluctant readers
 Learn how to explicitly teach academic vocabulary to English learners
 Explore the use of cooperative learning to motivate and engage all students as well as to
accelerate ELs’ language, literacy, and knowledge base while learning social skills
 Examine how we can improve our programs to meet the needs of all students who are learning
in English while they are learning English.
Implementing the Common Core State Standards with Student With Disabilities: Intervention
Planning and Progress Monitoring with Dr. Lee Ann Jung on April 10 and April 24, 2013
Registration coming soon!
Teachers are facing unprecedented challenges in providing students with disabilities access to
the general curriculum. With the advent of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, educators are
under increasing pressure to mesh individualized student goals with the new standards. Unfortunately,
most teachers are lacking the step-by-step guidance needed to accomplish this task. In this two-part
series, participants will learn about an intervention planning and progress-monitoring tool that teams of
educators can use as a structure for standards-based intervention. Participants will learn to take
Common Core standards and define measurable objectives, individualize evidence-based intervention
strategies, and set up easy-to-use, quantitative progress records. The resulting intervention plan is one
that streamlines intervention and data collection so that they are a natural part of everyday classroom
routines.
Learning Outcomes:
 Develop meaningful, measurable goals that are based on individual needs and Common Core
Standards,
 Select the appropriate data collection type for measuring progress on individualized goals,
 Design a 1-page intervention plan and progress record to be used in daily routines
Implementing the Common Core for Secondary Mathematics with Tim Kanold on May 7, 2013
Registration coming soon!
How do you help your students demonstrate mathematical proficiency toward the learning
expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? Discover what students should learn and
how they should learn it, including deep support for the Mathematical Modeling conceptual category of
the CCSS. Comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your
collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and
procedural fluency. You’ll also learn how fundamental shifts in collaboration, instruction, curriculum,
assessment, and intervention can increase college and career readiness in every one of your students.
Learning Outcomes:
 Discover the five essential paradigm shifts necessary to implement the CCSS for mathematics.
 Develop a “less is more” content mind-set: fewer standards will result in the opportunity of time
needed for deeper rigor and conceptual understanding work with students.
 Gain helpful formative assessment strategies for development of student proficiency in the
Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Implementing the Common Core: Differentiating for Gifted and Talented with Martha
Kaufeldt on May 8, 2013 Registration coming soon!
Far too many of our brightest students are experiencing a glass ceiling as more and more of our
resources of time and staff have been directed at getting all students to acceptable levels of
achievement. Those students who already are achieving above those levels are often forgotten or asked
to just support their peers. Across the nation we are seeing the achievement scores of these capable
students flatten measuring little or no continuous improvement. Join Martha Kaufeldt, a national expert
in the areas of gifted and differentiation, as she shares strategies to ensure our students at the far right
of the continuum experience increased achievement and the joy of learning.
Learning Outcomes:
 Discover innovative ways to use time and resources to ensure the continuous learning of our
gifted students.
 Learn differentiation strategies to engage students at all points on the continuum without
designing totally different lessons.
 Get your unique questions answered.
Integrating Rigor and Relevance into Instruction for the Common Core with Dr. Robin Fogarty
and Brian Pete on May 22, 2013 Registration coming soon!
Rigor and relevance can be measured by determining the complexity of thinking and knowledge
acquisition partnered with the application of said knowledge and skills. At the high end of rigor,
knowledge is fully integrated into one’s mind, and individuals can do much more than locate
information. They can take several pieces of knowledge and combine them in both logical and creative
ways. The student can solve multistep problems and create unique work and solutions. The application
of knowledge and skills brings relevance when students can use knowledge in one discipline, apply
across disciplines, apply to real-world predictable situations, and ultimately apply to complex real-world
unpredictable situations.
Learning Outcomes:
 Acquire a thorough understanding of what rigor and relevance means for student achievement
 Develop a vision for what rigor “looks like” in the classroom
 Gain a basic toolkit of strategies to increase rigor and relevance without stress.
How to Teaching Thinking Skills in the Common Core with Dr. Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete
on June 10, 2013 Registration coming soon!
Prepare your students to master the high-level thinking skills demanded by the CCSS. You'll learn
how to address content with an interdisciplinary focus, making it relevant both in and out of the
classroom. Using a simple template from How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core, learn
how to encourage students to take ownership for their learning, application, and transfer of thinking.
Learning Outcomes:
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Discover the desired student proficiencies of the CCSS: critical thinking, creative thinking,
complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and
cognitive transfer.
Explore phase I, Talk-Through, during which teachers explicitly teach students a critical thinking
skill.
Learn how to make a direct connection between the selected thinking skill and the new
standards with the CCSS performance tasks modeled in phase III.