Instruction

Discover how to use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to enhance teacher clarity around standards and ensure student understanding of learning objectives and outcomes. Examine what distinguishes DOK as a concept, framework, and language for teaching and learning. Explore how to use the DOK levels to develop and deliver teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven and student supportive. Leave with actionable and applicable strategies that will engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss their learning at different and deeper levels.

When should students and teachers use AI? When should they avoid it? How can you continue advancing your mastery with AI? Drawing on their book Irreplaceable: How AI Changes Everything (and Nothing) in Teaching and Learning, Maya Bialik and Peter Nilsson will share insights from working with dozens of schools and more than a thousand teachers on how to effectively integrate AI into instruction and learning experiences.

What happens when an entire district commits to improving mathematics teaching and learning? In this webinar, national mathematics thought leader and author Sarah Schuhl shares how the Mathematics at Work™ framework sparked meaningful shifts in mathematics instruction, collaboration, and student achievement across a California school district.

Reduce behavior challenges without adding more to your plate. This session shows teachers and leaders how small, research-backed shifts in practice can reduce behavior challenges and increase student engagement. Drawing from the Honoring Each Learner framework, participants will explore how individualization benefits every student—not just those with the most visible needs. Attendees will leave with practical, quick-win strategies they can implement immediately to build positive momentum in classrooms and schools.

Struggling to make small-group reading instruction work for every student? In this session, participants will explore a skills-based approach grounded in Linnea Ehri’s five developmental reading phases. Rooted in the science of reading, this method offers a fresh alternative to traditional guided reading and balanced literacy practices.

Jeanne A. Schopf, MEd, has worked across K–12 settings to improve reading outcomes for all students grounded in the science of reading, structured literacy, and multitiered systems of support, with an emphasis on evidence-based instruction and sustainable schoolwide change.

In this high-impact webinar, K–12 educators will learn why working memory is critical for reading comprehension and discover practical strategies (AKA: Working Memory Workarounds) to make reading more accessible for all learners. You’ll leave with three classroom-ready tools that reduce cognitive load, support deeper thinking, and foster independent comprehension habits.

As highlighted by researchers at the Brookings Institution, "AI holds significant promise for enhancing writing instruction and student outcomes across multiple dimensions of the writing process when used to amplify student learning rather than shortcut it." This webinar will explore strategies for helping students maintain agency as writers in an AI-driven world.

Miriam Plotinsky is an instructional specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, where she has taught and led for 25 years. She is widely recognized for providing practical, immediately applicable professional learning for teachers and school administrators.