Webinars

Starting a teaching career is both exciting and challenging. Montgomery Public Schools in Montgomery, Alabama, designed the Teacher Residency Academy to ensure new, alternatively licensed educators feel supported, find success in their classrooms, and remain in the profession. This one-hour event will provide a comprehensive overview of the Academy, highlighting how it draws on the proven frameworks of The New Art and Science of Teaching and The Beginning Teacher’s Field Guide to blend research-backed instructional practices with practical wellness strategies.

In career and technical education (CTE), success isn’t about time spent in a lab—it’s about what students can do. Join Dr. Mike Ruyle along with Connecticut district leaders Dr. Nicole Walsh and Tonya Stoute as they dive into how proficiency scales and mastery learning principles can create clarity for teachers and students, ensuring alignment with both academic and technical competencies.

To be highly effective in a complex craft such as teaching, the development of expertise through deliberate practice is required. Based on the book Improving Teacher Development and Evaluation, written by Robert Marzano, Philip Warrick, and Cameron Rains, this one-hour webinar will explore the concept of practicing with intention

In this webinar, participants will explore the different types of attention and learn research-based strategies to enhance student engagement and learning. Dive into key frameworks such as cognitive load theory and information-processing principles to gain practical strategies for leveraging student attention and supporting academic goals.

A thriving school culture is the foundation of a high-performing educational environment. Join Dr. Mario Acosta to explore how proactive cultural leadership can transform your school or district. Learn how to align values, vision, and behaviors to build a thriving culture that drives student success and staff performance.

In this webinar, presented by Bill Zima, you'll be introduced to Marzano Mastery Approaches (MMA)—a flexible framework informed by decades of research by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and refined through the experience of practitioners in the field. The MMA framework is designed to help schools build systems that ensure all students learn while also developing agency, equity, and deep understanding. Whether you're just beginning your journey toward competency-based education (CBE) or looking to align your current efforts with research-informed systems thinking, this session will help you explore the seven domains that form the foundation of sustainable, high-impact implementation.

Two things teachers always need more of: time and money. We can’t help with the money, but we can help you save precious planning time by leveraging the power of AI to support specific design areas and elements within the New Art and Science of Teaching (NASOT). In this one-hour webinar, you will get an overview of NASOT, focusing on the importance of each of the three domains—feedback, content, and context—and learn how AI can provide critical assistance to support each domain.

Transitioning to a standards-based classroom is a major change, but one highly beneficial for both teachers and students. In this one-hour webinar, Jan K. Hoegh highlights the paradigm shifts necessary for teachers to transform their curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback practices. This high impact event will provide useful tools and examples of practical applications as you explore the teacher’s critical role in effective standards-based learning.

Effectively supporting beginning teachers is crucial both for their retention and for developing their expertise. In her book Supporting Beginning Teachers (2nd edition), Tina H. Boogren shares the research critical for understanding how best to support those just entering the field. During this interactive webinar, she details specific strategies for designing an effective mentoring program that provides the essential physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional support from mentors and coaches from the very beginning. Dr. Boogren will also give a brief overview of how mentors and coaches can best support beginning teachers in accordance with their unique needs.

Dr. Robert Marzano has spent decades researching effective instructional practices, and his Marzano Mastery Approaches provide a structured way for schools to implement competency-based education successfully. In this webinar, you’ll learn the seven key domains that shape competency-based learning and unpack the critical decisions schools must make to ensure meaningful implementation. Whether you’re just beginning your journey or refining existing practices, this session will give you a clear framework to align grading, assessment, and instruction with mastery-based principles.