WEBINARS

Featured Webinar

Leading a Literacy Culture

September 27, 2016, 3:00 p.m. eastern time

Register now

Educators can develop a culture of literacy in schools and classrooms that engage students in authentic learning that will make them better readers, writers, thinkers, and problem solvers. When students are engaged in authentic learning activities, explicitly taught and modeled by the teacher, they are carefully reading and rereading with clear purposes, thinking analytically, and evaluating their understanding of texts and ideas orally or in writing.

Teachers leading authentic learning opportunities in the classroom shift student engagement from passive compliance to deep engagement, where students take full ownership of their learning and display high levels of interest and willingness to pursue answers taking risks in their learning.

Join Bonnie Houck and Sandi Novak, authors of the ASCD book Literacy Unleashed: Fostering Excellent Reading Instruction Through Classroom Visits, in an engaging webinar where they will introduce the Literacy Classroom Visit instrument and unpack important "look for" elements that teachers need to establish in their classroom to cultivate student independence. Together you will explore the importance of creating an engaging learning environment, how to organize classroom libraries to motivate readers, and why "walls that teach" can support a rich culture of literacy.

Archived ASCD Webinars

• Megan Wolfe: ESSA: Professional Development for Educators (September 22, 2016)
• Paul Mielke: Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter: Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection (September 15, 2016)
• David Griffith and Megan Wolfe: ESSA: Meeting Students' Needs Under Title IV (August 25, 2016)
• David Bateman and Jenifer Cline: Students with Disabilities: What Do I Do? (August 16, 2016)
• Wendy Ostroff: Cultivating Curiosity in Your Classroom (July 28, 2016)

Browse webinar archives