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Easy-to-Implement SEL Strategies for Your Classroom

The past year, and the year to come, have brought extraordinary challenges for students and staff in terms of mental health and well-being. With the shift from in-person, online, and/or hybrid learning environments to full-time in-person learning, it is critical now more than ever to develop students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) skills for their well-being and academic success.

Join SEL expert Erick Herrmann to learn low prep, easy-to-implement strategies based on the five core SEL competencies developed by CASEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Erick will share strategies from his new book Effective Strategies for Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom. The strategies can be incorporated at any grade level, in any content area. Strategies for linguistically and culturally diverse students will be particularly emphasized.

In this webinar, you will:

• Identify key reasons to integrate SEL into every classroom, every day.
• Integrate easy-to-implement strategies for use in any content area.
• Explore strategies for building SEL skills in classrooms with linguistically and culturally diverse students.

5 Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning through Literacy

Throughout the pandemic, students were exposed to in-person, online, and/or hybrid learning environments. As such, they have not experienced optimal learning environments for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. With the return to in-person learning in the new school year, it is critical that students get the support they need to build their SEL skills. Promoting social and emotional development for all students in our classrooms involves teaching and modeling social and emotional skills, allowing students to practice and fine-tune those skills, and providing students a chance to apply these skills in various situations.

One of the most popular SEL approaches embeds SEL instruction into content areas such as English language arts, social studies, or math. In this session, we will look at literacy as one of the avenues to teach the social-emotional skills that students need to thrive in school and beyond.

In this webinar, you will:

• Discover the foundation of social and emotional learning and how to integrate it into the classroom’s daily instruction seamlessly.
• Review text cards that feature untold stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to work on literacy skills while focusing on SEL instruction.
• Investigate the idea that high-quality interactions matter and how to incorporate them in any lesson plan.

Let's Talk Math: Your Guide to Successful Problem Solving Instruction

Let’s Talk Math is a brand-new, standards-aligned, research-based supplemental resource that provides a practical way to implement a 3 step process for successful problem solving. This supplemental resource offers 120 high demand tasks per grade level that can be used in conjunction with any core curriculum, as well as predictable routines and structured protocols to develop students’ problem solving skills. In this on-demand webinar, you will deepen your understanding of problem solving and see how Let’s Talk Math can support your mathematics instruction.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to support learners in becoming more confident mathematical thinkers;
• See structured protocols that engage students in specific mathematical habits of mind that promote problem solving skills;
• Observe how integrating literacy instruction can be used to support problem solving skills;
• How Let’s Talk Math enhances both students’ mathematical content knowledge and problem-solving skills, as well as oral and written communication skills.

Teaching Elementary Math: No More Problems with Problem Solving

Supporting students to think mathematically is challenging. In this webinar, we will examine high-cognitive demand tasks and deepen our understanding of how to choose rigorous tasks that promote problem-solving skills. We will also explore how being linguistically responsive can help students to be more successful problem solvers. You will leave this session with immediate ways to enhance your instruction of problem solving.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• High cognitive-demand tasks and how these tasks provide opportunities for learners to become mathematical thinkers;
• How to identify tiered vocabulary and challenging grammatical structures to make problem contexts more comprehensible for students; and
• How structured discourse supports the problem solving process by enabling students to articulate their own thinking and become active listeners.

3 Steps for Making Early Writers Independent

Join early literacy expert and reading specialist, Cathy Collier as she discusses her first book, The Road to Independent Reading and Writing. Students need clear and explicit directions in writing, but setting up the routines in the classroom and their materials is key. When students aren't afraid to write and have appropriate writing anchors in the room, the students are able to write independently with ease. Cathy will give step-by-step ideas for independent writing lessons.

In this webinar, you will:

• Discover what routines are essential for early learners.
• Explore what materials can easily be accessed by students.
• Identify what supports are provided by the teacher that helps maintain independence.

5 Steps to Reaching Academic Equity in Your Schools and Classrooms

Join Dr. Almitra Berry as she shares insight from her newly released book, Effecting Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, 2nd Edition. She generates the excitement needed for educators to travel down the metaphorical Road to CARTI, where culturally appropriate response to instruction (CARTI) is the way schools operate. Come take a drone flight overview, and be ready to set your GPS for the land of CARTI!

In this webinar, you will:

• Learn Dr. Berry’s motivation for writing Effecting Change.
• Explore an outline to reach academic equity and understand why the CARTI framework must be taken as a sequential whole.
• Examine the need to drive in both the lanes of school structure and culture in order to create a school built on academic equity for learners of cultural and linguistic diversity.

How to Make After School Programs Engaging in Today’s Classroom

Students need opportunities to engage with rich content. Throughout this webinar, reimagine after school programming with new ways to engage and motivate all students.

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Identify barriers to engagement and student achievement.
• Discover high-quality, effective solutions to engagement barriers.
• Interact with strategies to engage all students with rich content to accelerate learning opportunities.

How Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness can support Teachers and Students

When Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindfulness are taught and learned together they have the power to transform individuals, classrooms, and communities. This process starts with adults. When educators understand and demonstrate their own social-emotional skills they are more effective in supporting their students in their SEL skill development. This dynamic session will provide participants with an overview of CASEL’s five core competencies and their connection to Mindfulness. Whether you are an SEL novice or a seasoned pro, this session will have something for everyone.

In this webinar, participants will:

• Explore the benefits of SEL and Mindfulness.
• Examine CASEL’s five SEL core competencies and their relation to Mindfulness.
• Experience SEL and Mindfulness strategies firsthand that can be implemented in physical and virtual settings.

Six Effective Speaking Strategies for English Learners in Virtual Instruction

Educators are working hard to reach and teach English Learners in virtual instruction. It proves to be a difficult task when English Learners are learning content and language simultaneously. How can educators meet their needs virtually? This webinar focuses on providing interactive speaking strategies that will provide an avenue for students to practice language during virtual instruction.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Review the educational needs of English Learners in a virtual environment.
• Discover the foundation of language acquisition and how to integrate speaking into virtual lessons.
• Explore ways to engage English Learners to provide comprehensible output by speaking.

Integrating Writing Instruction Into Virtual Learning to Prevent Learning Loss

Writing is a powerful teaching tool to help students process learning. However, writing can be a time-consuming task for teachers to assign and assess. Join us as we examine how to utilize writing into content-area instruction to help prevent learning loss.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Create short writing activities across content areas.
• Apply writing ideas to tomorrow’s classrooms.
• Leverage best practices in writing instruction to support all learners.

Bringing History to Life: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

In this professional learning opportunity, teachers will experience engaging strategies to discover ways to use primary sources to bring history to life for all students.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Identify ways to engage, explore, and extend learning using primary sources.
• Discover several strategies to bring history to life using primary sources.

How to Reverse Learning Loss in Reading in 2021

Shifts in the education landscape have forced teachers to learn new strategies to target and combat learning loss. Learn how to take advantage of key instructional and intervention time to support student learning and reverse learning loss.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Identify and utilize high-yield instructional strategies perfect for intervention.
• Practice strategies that can be used in classrooms, no matter where those classrooms are.
• Discover ways to engage students in interactive and social learning.

Strategies for Reversing Learning Loss in Mathematics in 2021

Learning disruption has taken place in multiple content areas over the last year and mathematics is at the forefront of that disruption. During this time together, we will explore strategies and processes that are crucial to reversing learning loss in mathematics.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Design grade-level instruction of solving problems using a 4-step model.
• Incorporate daily math activities that promote 21st century mathematical literacy skills.
• Integrate high-yield instructional practices into every mathematics lesson.

The Best Hacks to Preventing Learning Loss in 2021

Formative Assessment is an integral hack that can support instruction and help prevent learning loss in 2021. Join us to evaluate using authentic formative assessment tools in a range of classroom environments.

Join this webinar to learn:

The following engaging formative assessment strategies to mitigate unfinished learning to support all students:

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• 10 Key Words
• Rate Understanding
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The Best Hacks to Identify & Reverse Learning Loss in 2021

Start with Instruction: A Hack to Support all Students. Instruction is the key to supporting all students to combat learning loss.

Join us for a dynamic webinar on how to identify and reverse learning disruption through high-impact strategies. We will discuss new ways to ensure all students have instruction that meets their specific needs and allows them to engage with content in rich and thoughtful ways.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Capture understanding of research related to learning loss.
• Discover actionable strategies to support all students through learning loss or disruption.

How to Identify, Reverse, and Prevent Learning Loss with School-Wide Strategies

Join us to discover new approaches to implementing school-wide instructional strategies across all content areas to prevent learning loss and help close learning gaps

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Create and implement school-wide strategies across all content areas to help close learning gaps.
• Incorporate these school-wide strategies into content areas like art, music, foreign language, media, and physical education.
• Regularly advance these strategies to enhance student growth throughout an academic year.

How to Identify, Reverse, and Prevent Future Learning Loss

Nationwide fall research suggests students sustained significant learning loss due to the pandemic. In this session, discover ways to prevent future learning loss for students now and in their years ahead to ensure academic success.

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Identify gaps in essential math and reading skills that are crucial to student success in their academic careers.
• Reverse learning loss in math and reading so that students are back on track for grade-level learning.
• Prevent future learning loss from taking place by implementing systems and structures within your classrooms.

Top 6 Tips for Teaching Math Online

Join Alex Kajitani, California Teacher of the Year and “The Rappin’ Mathematician,” for a fast-paced on-demand webinar on high-leverage strategies, tips, and resources that your teachers can use immediately to get students engaged in math while they learn online.

Join this webinar to learn:

• Best practices to keep students engaged while teaching math virtually
• How to structure online math lessons to maximize time and learning

3 Strategies for Virtual Classrooms

Educators, are you constantly looking for ways to support your virtual teaching? We've put together the most impactful, teacher-tested strategies for your virtual and hybrid classroom all in one place. In this mini-webinar, author Jennifer Jump will share strategies from the newly released professional resource, 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom.

Join this webinar to learn:

• 3 strategies to engage your students virtually.
• How to build relationships with students and create community.

Intervention Strategies for Reading

Learn new ways to engage and support students with reading intervention that works at-home, online, or in the classroom.

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Establish key components of effective reading intervention.
• Discover ways to engage students in interactive and social learning as part of intervention.
• Practice reading strategies that can be used in classrooms, no matter where those classrooms are.

Leadership: Implementing SEL Across Your School or District

Building Social-Emotional Learning into instruction and into schools and districts can help students be the best that they can be. Integrating SEL across a school or district takes leadership, focus, and planning. In this webinar, learn three key considerations and actions for implementing SEL throughout a district or school.

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Determine your school’s current needs, and based on that data develop an action plan.
• Explore how to create an overall culture of SEL throughout your schools and district.
• Understand the importance of fostering positive relationships between ALL members of the school community.

Leadership: Strategies to Proactively Prevent Learning Loss

It is more important than ever that educators take a quality over quantity approach to teaching to engage, motivate, and empower students in their learning journey. In this webinar, discover meaningful learning experiences that will foster and develop higher-order thinking skills, academic language, and mastery of grade-level standards in virtual, hybrid, and in-person learning environments.

In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Inspire students to create through asynchronous hands-on experiences and digital tools.
• Engage students through collaboration and multi-modal strategies.
• Guide students to mastery of the standards through rich text, inquiry, and problem solving.

Leadership: Strategies for Implementing an Asset-Based Approach to Intervention

How to Promote an Inquiry-Based Learning Environment

For today’s students to learn crucial critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, it is necessary to reach beyond the textbook. Learn strategies on how to transform students into inquiry-based learners in any environment.

Join this webinar to learn:

• Best instructional formats to promote ideal learning opportunities for students
• Strategies for teaching students to deeply analyze instructional sources in any content area
• How to engage students in inquiry-based teaching and learning using document-based assessments