Webinars

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.

Standards-based education is becoming more and more common across the country. The approach is typically implemented at the school level. When it is, the school leaders support the change and are deeply involved in adjusting practices, processes, and policies to support the work. But what about the individual teacher or small group of like-minded teachers who wish to implement a standards-based grading approach in their classrooms but still adhere to the school or district’s traditional requirements?