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June 2021
Closing Your Teacher Performance Gap: Building a learning culture using collaborative structures (At ASCD Conference)
Description “Originally selected for Empower20”. Looking for a way to transform learning in your school? Want teachers to work collaboratively? Wish you had a way to enhance the performance of your most effective teachers & strengthen others who are less effective? You are not alone. Many leaders find a variance in teacher performance from classroom to classroom. See how our school and district transformed its culture using collaborative structures in creative ways to maximize professional learning, close the teacher performance…
Find out more »Moving from Homework to Home Learning: Practical Tools for Engaging Students in Active Learning and Deep Thinking (At ASCD Conference)
Description With so much learning done online and away from the classroom, it is more important than ever for teachers to motivate and engage students while promoting active learning and deep thinking. In this interactive session, we will explore some of the most common challenges associated with at-home learning—and the practical ways all teachers can address them. More specifically, participants will experience and acquire instructional tools that they can use right away to help students become more self-directed learners, engage…
Find out more »Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making (At ASCD Conference)
Description Join the best selling ASCD authors, Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver, as they discuss ideas from their book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making. Deep learning occurs when learners are actively engaged in making meaning of content. When students have learned something deeply, they retain information, achieve conceptual understanding, and can transfer their learning to new situations. However, deep learning doesn’t occur on its own as a result of didactic teaching; rather, it requires…
Find out more »Curiosity-Driven Learning in Any Classroom: Three Easy Moves for Increasing Student Engagement in School and Online (At ASCD Conference)
Description With so much learning done online and away from the classroom, it is more important than ever for teachers to motivate and engage students while promoting active learning and deep thinking. In this interactive session, we will explore some of the most common challenges associated with at-home learning—and the practical ways all teachers can address them. More specifically, participants will experience and acquire instructional tools that they can use right away to help students become more self-directed learners, engage…
Find out more »April 2022
2022 OABSE Midwest Conference – Executive Function: The Key to Reading Proficiency
Proficient reading is perhaps the most critical of all academic skills. But what does it mean to be a proficient reader? Proficient readers engage deeply with texts, collect and evaluate textual evidence, and attend to important text features. Such readers are also self-aware: they understand that they need to make these processes conscious and that they have active control over them. This session brings together the work of two of today’s top education experts—Margaret Searle (executive function) and Harvey Silver…
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