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Engaging Every Learner with Curiosity
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Facilitating Authentic PLCs
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Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can (and Should) Inform Responsive Teaching

August 28, 2018, 3:00 p.m. eastern daylight time

As brain science continues to evolve, so does our knowledge about what contributes to user-friendly classrooms—and what does not. Differentiation is rooted in the assertions that students differ as learners, that the differences matter in student success, and that students benefit from having teachers who study their similarities and differences, and then plan instruction that is most likely to support the learning of a broad range of students.

Differentiation calls on teachers to consider how they can craft five classroom elements that typify virtually all classrooms in order to teach responsively. Those elements are learning environment, curriculum, formative assessment, instruction, and classroom organization/operation. In this webinar with Carol Ann Tomlinson, coauthor of the book Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, Second Edition (a joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree, 2018), we'll look at key findings from neuroscience that should inform teachers' instructional planning so that the five elements are most likely to work for each learner.

We'll examine how teachers can incorporate the insights from neuroscience into teaching and learning as we look at examples that translate neuroscientific findings into classroom practice that supports student learning differences while establishing robust expectations for each student. Examples will come from many subject areas and grade levels, with the goal of helping participants extend their images of how brain-friendly classrooms and differentiation converge to enhance learning for a broad range of students.

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Archived Member-Only Webinars

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.

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

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

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: 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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: 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

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

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.

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).