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The New Teacher's Guide to Cultural Competence

April 16, 2020, 3:00 p.m. eastern daylight time

Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege - ASCDCulture, bias, and racial identity influence the way one teaches, learns and, is perceived by self and others. This one-hour webinar explores the knowledge, behaviors, and dispositions of successful teachers of diverse student populations and how they leverage their knowledge of culture, bias, and racial identity to create more equitable, inclusive, and high-achieving classrooms. You will also be introduced to a framework that can guide your professional development learning so you can more than merely survive your first years, but continually grow and thrive throughout your career!

Participants will

  • Explore the knowledge, behaviors, and dispositions of successful teachers of diverse student populations.
  • Learn strategies to support positive identity development in students.
  • Explore how to promote a greater sense of belonging.
  • Introduce the cultural competence framework for building personal and professional capacity as an emerging career educator.

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Archived Member-Only Webinars 

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2020 

Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff - ASCD

Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff

Thomas R. Hoerr | Recorded January 9, 2020

In this webinar, author Thomas R. Hoerr shows how school culture can be a tool to teach the Formative Five success skills: empathy, self-control, integrity, embracing diversity, and grit. He explains how these success skills are identified and cultivated and gives examples of how teachers and principals can use the elements of school culture, from vision and mission to people and place, to weave SEL into the fabric of the school.

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2019 

Coherent School Leadership: Forging Clarity from Complexity - ASCD

Coherent School Leadership: Forging Clarity from Complexity

Michael Fullan and Lyle Kirtman | Recorded October 3, 2019

In this webinar based on their book, Fullan and Kirtman use real-world experience in education, both national and international, to illustrate how to lead coherence-making in your school or district. They explain the realities of nuanced leadership in creating coherence in schools and dealing with the barriers that can derail progress.

Mindfulness in the Classroom: Strategies for Promoting Concentration, Compassion, and Calm - ASCD

Mindfulness in the Classroom: Strategies for Promoting Concentration, Compassion, and Calm

Thomas Armstrong | Recorded August 15, 2019

This webinar will explore several ways in which educators can apply the mindfulness practice to themselves, their classrooms, and their schools in order to enhance concentration, compassion, and calm. It will cover a few basics about mindfulness, explore the research evidence for the practice, and note how it positively affects the brain in combating stress.

Adventures in Teacher Leadership: Pathways, Strategies, and Inspiration for Every Teacher - ASCD

Adventures in Teacher Leadership: Where Teacher Leadership Comes From and Where It Can Take You

Katherine Bassett and Rebecca Mieliwocki | Recorded May 21, 2019

In this jam-packed webinar, you'll hear about the powerful, evidence-based research that underpins the teacher leader movement. You'll learn about the Teacher Leader Model Standards, leadership domains, and where your teacher leadership lives.

Dream Team: A Practical Playbook to Help Innovative Educators Change Schools

Dream Team: A Practical Session to Help Leaders Change Their Schools

Dave Faulkner and Aaron Tait | Recorded January 22, 2019

In this webinar, Dave Faulkner and Aaron Tait share findings from their global research project, insights from their own experiences, and stories of optimism from schools around the world. High on inspiration and practical take-home strategies, this is a webinar that should not be missed!

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2018 

Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, Second Edition - A joint publicatio of ASCD and Solution Tree.

Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can (and Should) Inform Responsive Teaching, Part One and Part Two

Carol Ann Tomlinson | Recorded August 28 and November 8, 2018

In this two-part series of webinars, Carol Ann Tomlinson looks at key findings from neuroscience that should inform teachers' instructional planning so that the five elements that typify virtually all classrooms in order to teach responsively are most likely to work for each learner.

Unstuck: How Curiosity, Peer Coaching, and Teaming Can Change Your School - ASCD

Engaging Every Learner with Curiosity

Bryan Goodwin | Recorded May 22, 2018

In this webinar with Bryan Goodwin, you'll learn about the power of curiosity and how to unleash it in students and teachers. You'll receive practical strategies and tools you can use right away to encourage curiosity (in ways big and small) in your own school—and in so doing, get unstuck from old ways of thinking or acting so that we can raise the achievement of all students.

Facilitating Teacher Teams and Authentic PLCs: The Human Side of Leading People, Protocols, and Practices - ASCD

Facilitating Authentic PLCs

Daniel R. Venables | Recorded February 8, 2018

Join Daniel R. Venables for a discussion about the need for and the role of the facilitator, facilitating the three essential tasks of authentic PLCs: building a team, empowering the team, and addressing issues and overcoming obstacles in building trust and buy-in from PLC members.

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2017 

Beyond Co-Teaching Basics: A Data-Driven, No-Fail Model for Continuous Improvement - ASCD

Six Steps to Phenomenal Co-Teaching

Wendy Lochner and Wendy Murawski | Recorded November 28, 2017

Join Wendy Lochner and Wendy Murawski to gain a deep understanding of true co-teaching while learning what data are critical to collect and analyze based on 22 core competencies. The authors introduce an easy-to-use method for analyzing both schoolwide and co-teaching team data.

Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance - ASCD

Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance

Harvey Alvy | Recorded August 29, 2017

In this webinar, author Harvey Alvy highlights six red flags that signal education fads and six countervailing action guidelines for educators to disrupt those fads and focus on practices of substance.

Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today

Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today

Eric Sheninger and Thomas Murray | Recorded June 1, 2017

Join authors Eric C. Sheninger and Thomas C. Murray as they discuss ways to transform tomorrow's schools so that today's modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems.

School Culture Recharged - ASCD

School Culture Recharged: Strategies to Energize Your Staff and Culture

Steve Gruenert | Recorded February 22, 2017

Dig deeper in to the psyche of your school and learn new ways to think about the concept of organizational culture with author Steve Gruenert. Through interactive prompts and audience participation, you'll learn about the culture of your school and how it can become an ally in your efforts to improve student achievement.

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2016 

The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs - ASCD

The Formative Five

Thomas Hoerr | Recorded November 17, 2016

Join Thomas Hoerr as he discusses the five success skills that are important to every student, including why he chose them and what he didn't select, and explore specific attitudes and strategies that are needed in order to develop these success skills in students.

The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students - ASCD

The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Middle and High School Educators

Thomas Armstrong | Recorded August 30, 2016

Join Thomas Armstrong in a discussion on educators working to empower adolescents to use their inherent insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and creative impulses to further their growth and propel their movement into early adulthood and beyond.

Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn: The Key to Student Motivation and Achievement - ASCD

The Power and Potential of Choice

Mike Anderson | Recorded May 24, 2016

Designed with busy educators in mind, this webinar will offer a mix of big ideas and practical ones. Join Mike Anderson in exploring the benefits of offering students a bit more choice within the context of their daily work, including how to create good choices and help students choose well.

Leading with Focus - ASCD

Leading with Focus

Mike Schmoker | Recorded February 4, 2016

Join best-selling author Mike Schmoker as he discusses how educational leaders can accomplish more by doing less by focusing on the most critical, high-leverage, fast-acting elements of effective schooling, which are often absent in the majority of schools and districts.

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2015 

Better Than Carrots or Sticks - ASCD

Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

Dominique Smith and Nancy Frey | Recorded October 20, 2015

Studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. Educators Dominique Smith and Nancy Frey discuss how they have teamed with their school to create a schoolwide culture that supports restorative practices.

Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning - ASCD

Rethinking Grading for Standards-Based Learning

Cathy Vatterott | Recorded August 6, 2015

Standards-based grading is a shift in how we define, structure, and have students experience learning, as well as in how we use grades. Cathy Vatterott shares how you can implement standards-based grading, whether you are working as a single teacher, team, grade level, or an entire school.

17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement

From Teaching to Learning: Insights from 17,000 Classroom Visits

John Antonetti | Recorded April 9, 2015

To truly engage students in worthwhile, rigorous cognition, a profound shift is necessary: a shift in emphasis from teaching to learning. John Antonetti shares practical, firsthand examples of how to transform learning activities into engaging opportunities of thinking and reasoning.

School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It

Rewiring School Culture: How to Jump-Start Your School's Culture Transformation

Todd Whitaker | Recorded January 22, 2015

Todd Whitaker discusses the differences between climate and culture, and explores ways to jump-start and accelerate your school's culture transformation that you can implement now to help adopt positive attitudes, outlooks, and behaviors.

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2014 

Authentic Learning in the Digital Age: Engaging Students Through Inquiry - ASCD

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: A Framework for Inquiry

Larissa Pahomov | Recorded November 20, 2014

Technology is becoming ever more present in our schools. But to maximize its value for students, educators need a clear framework for how to make its use meaningful. Larissa Pahomov shares a roadmap for teachers who want to facilitate authentic, student-driven learning in the technology-rich classroom. This webinar was brought to you by Adobe Presenter.

The Tech-Savvy Administrator: How do I use technology to be a better school leader? (ASCD Arias)

The Digital Leader's Tool Kit

Steven Anderson | Recorded November 13, 2014

From effectively using technology to keep in touch with your school community to creating innovative ways to engage with staff, the role of the digital leader is a crucial one. Steven W. Anderson examines some easy ways to move from a luddite to a digital expert. This webinar was brought to you by Adobe Presenter.

Curriculum 21 - ASCD

Against Technology (the Word), For Contemporary Curriculum and Assessment

Heidi Hayes Jacobs | Recorded October 8, 2014

How can we shape meaningful, contemporary curriculum and assessment? In this webinar, Heidi Hayes Jacobs lays out concerns about the overuse of considering hardware purchases and Internet access as evidence of modern learning. This webinar was brought to you by Adobe Presenter.

Sparking Student Creativity - ASCD

Sparking Student Creativity

Patti Drapeau | Recorded October 7, 2014

Patti Drapeau shows how to shift your existing instructional practice to one that encourages imagination, creativity, innovation, and problem solving across content. This type of active instruction is designed to promote deep learning.

How Teacher Can Turn Data into Action - ASCD

The Data Action Model: A Teacher-Friendly, Systematic Model for Reviewing and Responding to Student Data

Daniel R. Venables | Recorded September 23, 2014

The author addresses how to systematically review and respond to data. This session walks participants through a process for identifying specific gaps in student learning and then connecting these to instructional gaps. This webinar was brought to you by Adobe Presenter.

Grading Smarter, Not Harder - ASCD

Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Practical Solutions to Common Concerns

Myron Dueck | Recorded July 22, 2014

Join Myron Dueck for an engaging and personal look at how we can change traditional assessments to improve accuracy, engagement, and student empowerment. 

Learning in the Fast Lane - ASCD

Learning in the Fast Lane

Suzy Pepper Rollins | Recorded April 15, 2014

Rev up your instructional engines in this fast-paced webinar. Suzy Pepper Rollins will outline eight high-impact strategies that can help students learn concepts the first time, not months or years later.

Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of Joy - ASCD

Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of Joy

Michael Opitz and Michael Ford | Recorded March 4, 2014

In the webinar, authors Michael Opitz and Michael Ford will discuss practical ideas for creating a sense of urgency, agency and responsibility in learners, which often lead to greater success.

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2013 

Succeeding with Inquiry in Science and Math Classrooms - ASCD

Succeeding with Inquiry in Science and Math Classrooms

Jeff Marshall | Recorded October 29, 2013

This webinar for mathematics and science educators and leaders provides the pedagogical understanding necessary to improve student achievement. Participants will be taught how to fish (learn effective inquiry-based pedagogy) and will be given a few fish (learn specific examples).

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