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About the Presenter
Robyn R. Jackson, PhD, has been an educator for more than a decade. As a National Board Certified English teacher, she increased the enrollment of minority and nontraditional students in her AP Language and Composition classes and tripled her overall course enrollment within one year without a decrease in her students' test scores.
As a middle school administrator in Montgomery County, Maryland, she has worked to revise the district's Gifted and Talented policy to be more inclusive of all students and helped craft the district's critical Middle School Reform Plan. She also helped lead the largest middle school in the district to state and national Blue Ribbon status. As an educator, she has served as an adjunct professor and presents her own research at several national conferences.
How to Motivate Reluctant Students
Never Underestimate Your Teachers (May 16, 2013)
In this introductory webinar, school leaders will learn how to get started helping every teacher become a master teacher.
Beyond Differentiation (June 19, 2012) Are you bogged down trying to plan differentiated lessons to meet the diverse needs of all of your students? Learn how to create a customizable lesson plan that allows for differentiation without creating a lot of extra work for you. Take away strategies you can use to customize your own lessons so that one meets the diverse learning needs of all the students in your classroom.
How to Support Struggling Students (April 19, 2012) In this webinar, learn how to provide students with proactive interventions that can catch them before they fall and find out what to do once they're already in a failure free fall. Take away specific intervention and remediation strategies you can use immediately to help your students turn failure into a learning and growth opportunity.
How to Motivate Reluctant Learners (September 22, 2011) Traditional advice about motivating reluctant learners rarely works because it relies on complicated programs using rewards and punishments, carrots and sticks. In this webinar, Robyn R. Jackson shared an alternative view of motivation that helps teachers entice students to learn using their own currencies.
How to Plan Rigorous Instruction (May 12, 2011) Rigor is one of those words that is widely used but rarely understood. We all want to increase the rigor or our instruction but many of us don't know where to start. In this webinar, Robyn R. Jackson explained what rigorous instruction is, the four stages of rigorous instruction, how to move students successfully through each of the stages, and how to build struggling students' capacity for rigorous learning over time.
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