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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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