Webinars

The High Reliability Schools (HRS) framework and the big ideas of an HRS provide schools with the tools to craft an environment in which each student finds success. The HRS framework empowers schools to address the unique challenges they face with successful systems and interventions, engage in the concept of data-driven leadership, and ensure equity in learning.

Do you want all of your learners to be inspired? Do you want them to believe they have the skills and knowledge to control their lives—whatever they choose? Competency-based education (CBE), focusing on clarity of outcomes, evidence of student learning, and feedback for improvement can help teachers, schools, and districts do just that.

The Critical Concepts provide a ready-made, state-standard-aligned set of measurement topics and associated proficiency scales that help educators identify learning topics and provide students with feedback on those goals. This webinar will explain the eight-phase process used to identify and articulate the Critical Concepts in English language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as how the Critical Concepts are used in the classroom with students.

Author Jeff Flygare hosts this webinar, based on the book he coauthored, to share practical advice for adjusting to teaching, assessing, and grading in a standards-based classroom. Following a brief overview of why the change to standards-based helps both student and teacher, the presenter will identify the key adjustments teachers face as they work with standards.

In this webinar, we’ll explain the eight-phase process used to identify and articulate the Critical Concepts in English language arts, mathematics, and science.

The New Art and Science of Teaching is an instructional framework that comprehensively addresses the well-researched components teachers use to make the most alterable effect on student achievement. In this webinar, Dr. Heflebower will overview the new framework, and she will highlight some of the design questions and corresponding elements.

Feel like there’s not enough time to teach all of the content in your standards documents? Our analysts have identified a focused set of Critical Concepts for each K–12 grade level.

Learn 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.