Summer Graduate Study: EDPD 525
EDPD 525 (Summer I): Theory and Practice for High Poverty Schools: 2023 Summer Institute Series Please note: A letter of successful completion can be provided for students who hold certifications that expire on June 30, 2023.
Summer Graduate Study: EDPD 526
EDPD 526 (Summer I or Summer II): Strategies for Teaching Children of Poverty 1 Please note: For those beginning the course in Summer I, a letter of successful completion can be provided for students who hold certifications that expire on June 30, 2023.
2023 Online Summer Institute
Returning for Summer 2023: 14 Live and Free Webinars (June 12-15 and 19-21, 2023) featuring nationally recognized speakers PLUS recorded Webinar Library with Free and For-Purchase on-demand access.
Free Webinar with Hayward R. Jean
Our students have been overwhelmingly challenged academically, mentally, socially, and emotionally as a result of the pandemic and societal unrest, compounded with their preexisting challenges. In this session, educators will be empowered with strategies and practical tools necessary to help students turn their obstacles into opportunities to succeed.
Free Webinar with Bryan Goodwin
Decades of cognitive science and recent scientific research in classroom make one thing clear: all students are capable of classroom success, especially when their learning experiences reflect how their brains acquire, process, and retain information. During this webinar you’ll learn (and experience) a six-phase model of learning based on decades of cognitive science. You’ll also ... Read more
Free Webinar with Jackie Walsh
Feedback isn’t formative until students use it to take the next step in reaching their learning goals. In this session, you’ll delve into the features of feedback that make it productive and examine the components of quality questioning that contribute to this result. You’ll also explore three student roles that build their capacity to seek, ... Read more
Free Webinar with Dr. Lateshia Woodley
Come be informed about the next and the best Trauma Informed Social and Emotional Learning practices and how to create a system of supports to meet the needs for all students utilizing the whole child whole community framework. Learn how to implement a trauma informed logic model that will enable you to: Increase Social & ... Read more
Free Webinar with Dr. Sandy Addis
Research by the National Dropout Prevention Center has established a direct link between three factors: a) high incidence of trauma among children of poverty, b) frequent behavior and learning problems among trauma-impacted youth, and c) resiliency skills as the key to school success and graduation. The presentation will explain the findings that establish these relationships ... Read more
Free Webinar with Jay McTighe
Join well-known author and consultant, Jay McTighe, as he explores ideas from his bestselling and award-winning book, Teaching for Deeper Learning, Jay will explore the following questions: What is deeper learning and why is it important? How does deep learning occur? What's worth learning deeply? How should curriculum content be framed to promote deeper learning? ... Read more
Free Webinar with Glenn Whitman
What if 100% of your school’s teachers and administrators understood the science of how the student brain learns, works, changes and thrives? This workshop, facilitated by the internationally recognized Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, answers this question by sharing the most promising research and strategies that can help schools shift to becoming more brain-friendly ... Read more
Free Webinar with LaQuanta Nelson
Did you know there is a formula for helping students of poverty excel in your school? In this highly engaging session, will explore how cultivating a culture of equity can help propel students of poverty beyond their past. Through experiences, exposure, and expectations we can radically transform the quality of educational experiences and began to ... Read more
Free Webinar with Connie Hamilton
If students are to truly become lifelong learners, they must learn how to learn. This session focuses on ways that metacognition, thinking about thinking, can be embedded before, during, and after instruction to trigger students to reflect on their learning process - regardless of the content area. You will explore the benefits and limitations of ... Read more
Free Webinar with Dominique Smith
In this session we will be having an open discussion of the philosophy and understanding of what restorative practices are. We will discuss how the power of relationships allows us to hold ourselves, students, colleagues and community accountable for their actions. We will continue to examine how the power of relationships help drive engagement and ... Read more
Free Webinar with Dr. Avis Williams
America's public schools have taken a beating for years due to escalating racial achievement gaps and biased practices that unfairly impact our most vulnerable children. Fighting through a pandemic and unprecedented calls for social justice, educators are left to grapple for solutions to ensure that “all means all” on our school campuses and in every ... Read more
Free Webinar with Carl Hooker
Our schools have traditionally existed to teach students conformity and compliance. How do we create a space where students create innovative ideas to solve the problems of tomorrow? Risk-taking and embracing failure can be great ways to stimulate creativity in the classroom. During this very interactive session based on the best selling book Ready, Set, ... Read more
Free Webinar with Dr. Jill Harrison Berg
Equity might be a professed priority of your school district and a term tossed around in your team meetings, but what can be done to make a discernible difference in equitable outcomes for students? Recognizing racialized patterns in school data and drawing attention to them is one thing; organizing ourselves to eliminate these patters is ... Read more
Scholars Meeting
1st Scholars Meeting for Fall 2023. Click here to register.
Fall Partner District Advisory Meeting
Join Us For Our Fall Partner Meeting! Click Here to Join!
Family & Communication Engagement Brown Bag Series
Each session in this Family and Community Engagement (FACE) series will focus on one of the six types of involvement defined by Johns Hopkins University’s National Network of Partnership Schools. Learn strategies, win prizes, and share resources! View the on-demand introductory video for definitions of each of the six types and how to plan for ... Read more
Free Webinar with Angela Maiers
MATTERING IS THE AGENDA When we think of people who made the biggest impact in our lives, it was the ones who most sincerely believed in us and who let us know through their words and actions that we mattered. Everyone in our lives needs that same validation. Mattering is a universal human need. We ... Read more