Webinars

Standards-based learning is a transformational change. During this brief webinar, Dr. Tammy Heflebower will overview two sessions: Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning and a School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading. These two award-nominated and -winning resources are the foundation to transitioning to standards-based learning in a school or district. Dr. Heflebower will highlight some of the key content to be addressed in the upcoming mini-session series.

Effective teaching, whether the environment is in-person, virtual, or hybrid, has a direct and significant impact on student achievement. In this webinar, Tina H. Boogren will provide a sneak-peak at content from her upcoming Effective Teaching workshops.

This webinar will focus on the best ways to reset our evaluation systems on a path that makes sense, leads to greater validity and reliability of scoring, and treats teachers with the professionalism that they deserve.

In this recorded edWebinar, Dr. Tina Boogren and Dr. Timothy Kanold provide practical strategies to avoid exhaustion and burnout and give you the courage and permission to attend to a more balanced and joyful professional life.

This webinar will focus on the best way to elevate teacher development and growth and is geared toward teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators. Learn how to create a system of teacher development that ensures all teachers get better each year.

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.

Building and district leaders must be well versed in standards-referenced grading and all that it entails. This is no small change. It is a lot like parenting—exciting, challenging, trying, rewarding, frustrating, and extremely gratifying. It is the most transformational change upon which leaders may ever embark. This webinar discusses what leaders need to consider to lead the myriad of calculated processes and products that serve as the foundation for solid execution.

Developing teaching expertise is a common goal, yet achieving it remains challenging. To support you, we created the High Reliability Teacher (HRT) program. This free webinar will provide an overview of the HRT program components that serve as the vehicle for teacher growth and development.

This webinar will focus on scheduling within personalized competency-based education (PCBE) systems. Focus areas will include how to identify, obtain, and use student data to more accurately group students within PCBE. Participants will also learn strategies to effectively organize students and differentiate instruction within a classroom, based on student needs. The webinar will also include an overview of variables involved with creating a schoolwide schedule based on students’ academic and behavioral data.

The key to successful school improvement is to establish and sustain systems focused on “the right work.” The High Reliability Schools (HRS) model provides a systemic approach for strategic planning and sustained school improvement within five different levels of operation.