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This is your chance to reclaim your time and energize your teaching. In this hands-on webinar, you’ll discover how Modes of Concentration affect learning and discover strategies to make the most of each classroom minute. Engage students and maintain your energy while establishing habits that improve focus. Explore practical, time-saving approaches to help every day run smoother, more efficiently, and more effectively.

Learn how to provide the clarity, feedback, and support necessary for teams to grow in the right work and leave with a plan for implementing best coaching practices in your school or district.

Join an all-star lineup of assessment and grading experts and master practitioners, and get ready to turbocharge learning. Teachers will learn how to spark a growth mindset in students, avoid the most common mistakes in assessment design and analysis, and collaborate in teams to identify specific learning issues for targeted instructional solutions. Leaders will learn how to design structures, protocols, and schedules that empower collaborative teacher teams to develop, score, analyze, and respond to assessment.

Learn how U.S. Grant High School changed from the “dropout factory” to an engine of hope for the students it serves, and how its success can be replicated anywhere.

A learning community leader is a voice for equity, efficacy, and access for all. This webinar demonstrates techniques leaders can use to create equity and access throughout the learning community.

In this webinar, authors Kathleen Kryza and MaryAnn Brittingham present the most effective strategies for leading diverse students in developing the skills they’ll need culturally, academically, and emotionally, both inside and outside the classroom.

This event is designed for instructional coaches and building leaders eager to enhance their effectiveness and impact in their roles. Attendees will delve into developing essential coaching skills, fostering meaningful relationships with teachers, and mastering the art of coaching conversations. The institute offers a comprehensive approach to coaching the entire building, providing tailored support for teachers in a multitiered model. It's an invaluable opportunity for instructional coaches to refine their techniques and for building leaders to align more closely with their instructional coaches, ensuring a unified approach to educational excellence.

Presented by Paula Maeker, Educator, Author, and Advocate for Learner-Centered Education; and Jacqueline Heller, Educator, Coach, Author, and Advocate for High-Level Learning for All Students

This workshop is focused on the practices and processes that will modernize grading and reporting systems to be more aligned to our standards-based instructional paradigm.

In this webinar, Tom will highlight seven critical competencies (critical thinking, collaborative thinking, creative thinking, communication, social competence, digital citizenship, and self-regulation) and the assessment practices and processes that make their authentic development possible. Nothing can be developed without assessment.