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TCM and edWeb Presents: A Child-Centered Approach for Inspiring Discovery and Learning in Pre-K Students

In this edWebinar, viewers will:

  • Discover how to create a nurturing learning environment that supports young learners
  • Learn about eight Big Idea themes that form a comprehensive year-long program
  • Understand how to encourage inquiry and real-life wonderings in young learners, fostering self-discovery and cross-curricular exploration

Presented by: 

Kara Ball
Kara Ball
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TCM and edWeb Presents: Embracing AI: Your Sidekick for Classroom Success

In this edWebinar, viewers:

  1. Learn what AI is and what it can do (and what it can’t)

  2. Gain answers to common questions and concerns and learn how to keep ahead of the curve with AI in education

  3. Explore empowering strategies that can be implemented immediately in the classroom

Presented by: 

Donnie Piercey
Donnie Piercey
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TCM and edWeb Presents: Ignite Summer Learning with STEAM

In this edWebinar, viewers will:

  • Discover hands-on and engaging activities that make learning fun
  • Understand how STEAM can enrich learning across subject areas
  • Recognize the role of STEAM in providing students with skills for success in the future

This edWebinar is of interest to K-12 educators, education leaders, curriculum specialists, and summer program coordinators.

Presented by:

Kara Ball
Kara Ball
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TCM and edWeb Presents - Teaching Reading Fluency: The Art and Science Behind It

In this webinar, viewers will:

  • Discover a more complete understanding of reading fluency
  • Gain actionable approaches for making effective fluency instruction an integral part of classroom and intervention instruction in grades 1-8

Presented by:

Dr. Timothy Rasinski and
Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Chase Young
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Planning for Playful Learning

In this webinar, you will:

  • Explore the elements of an Invitation for Learning and why they are significant to play-based learning environments.
  • Consider the steps to planning an Invitation for Learning.
  • Discover strategies that can be used to revitalize your learning opportunities.

Presented by:

Kenisha Bynoe and
Kenisha Bynoe
Angelique Thompson
Angelique Thompson
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How to Ensure Decodable Texts Are an Effective Tool for Phonics Instruction

In this webinar, you will:

  • Discover routines and strategies to support classroom or small group instruction that includes decodable texts.
  • Engage with lesson ideas that build reading, writing, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, and more.

Presented by:

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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5 Steps to Reaching Academic Equity in Your Schools and Classrooms

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.

Presented by:

Dr. Almitra L. Berry
Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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Academic Equity in the Post-COVID-19 Environment

In this webinar, you will learn to:

  • Identify the equity and accountability challenges of your schools.
  • Examine the criteria you’ll need to rely on to address those challenges.
  • Determine instructional programs needed to overcome the provision gaps your learners now face.
  • Use the Equity Maturity Matrix© as an assessment tool to help determine the need for, or focus of, additional professional development.

Presented by:

Dr. Almitra L. Berry
Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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Culturally Responsive Literacy: Identifying Three Types of Text

Join this webinar to learn:

  • Three types of culturally responsive text.
  • A tool you can use to analyze texts for cultural responsiveness.
  • Protocols you can use to validate and affirm students through the use of culturally responsive literacy strategies.

Presented by:

Carrie Eicher
Carrie Eicher
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Leadership: The Key to Fostering a Mindset for Culturally Appropriate Equitable Instruction

Join this webinar to learn:

  • What every district should know about the “J-Curve of Change”
  • 5 actions for creating a change mindset for adult stakeholders
  • 5 objectives for examining and implementing effective practices

Presented by:

Dr. Almitra L. Berry
Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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6 Ways to Know You are Culturally Responsive

Join this webinar to:

  • Define cultural responsiveness
  • Learn 6 key questions to gauge your cultural responsiveness
  • Pinpoint where you are in your journey to responsiveness

Presented by:

Dr. Sharroky Hollie
Dr. Sharroky Hollie
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Building Connections: Linking Literacy and Life Skills Learning

In this session, participants will:

  • Explore three easy-to-implement, teacher-led literacy activities that support essential life skills learning.
  • Investigate the partnership of carefully curated text and literacy activities to teach essential topics and build meaningful connections to the text.
  • Discover opportunities to promote critical and creative thinking through research-based reading and writing activities.

Presented by:

Carrie Eicher
Carrie Eicher
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What the Science Says About Reading and Writing

In this session, participants will:

  • Discover key components of research about reading (from the last several decades!).
  • Identify research-aligned instructional adjustments supporting daily instruction.
  • Experience engaging activities that align to the Science of Reading.

Presented by:

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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Why Teaching Fiction Matters

In this session, participants will:

  • Discover the features that students look for in fiction text for maximum engagement.
  • Learn how fictional story structures are produced and how to use them for comprehension.
  • Acquire engaging strategies to use in the classroom immediately when teaching with fictional text.

Presented by:

Alan Becker
Alan Becker
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Vocabulary Building: Weekly Word Roots

In this webinar, you will:

  • Explore why word roots (morphology) are important for building vocabulary.
  • Learn how to include word roots in vocabulary instruction.

Presented by:

Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Dr. Timothy Rasinski
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How to Integrate the Arts - Reading with Purpose: Creating Monologues in the Classroom

In this webinar, you will:

  • Explore the benefits of using monologues in the classroom.
  • Discover how to create monologues by utilizing primary sources and multiple text sets to draw in diverse perspectives.
  • Learn how to keep students focused and engaged while also fostering a sense of ownership in what they are learning.

Presented by:

Dr. Lisa Donovan and
Dr. Lisa Donovan
Dr. Jennifer Bogard
Dr. Jennifer Bogard
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Short Texts with Big Impact

In this webinar, you will:

  • Discover the value of short texts in building literacy.
  • Explore how to build and scaffold text-dependent questions and tasks.
  • Practice strategies for short texts that support reading and writing objectives.

Presented by:

Kim Carlton
Kim Carlton
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5 Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning through Literacy

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.

Presented by:

Claudia Rodriguez
Claudia Rodriguez
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Science of Literacy: Research into Practice

In this webinar, you will:

  • Discover the key components of the body of research, the Science of Literacy.
  • Consider the implications of high-quality research in daily instruction.
  • Identify and use practical literacy strategies that support the research.

Presented by:

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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3 Steps for Making Early Writers Independent

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.

Presented by:

Cathy Collier
Cathy Collier
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Building Vocabulary with Word Roots

Join this webinar to learn:

  • Understand why roots knowledge can build vocabulary for reading and writing
  • Learn simple yet powerful ways to teach words through word roots

Presented by:

Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Dr. Timothy Rasinski
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Everyday Strategies for Building Vocabulary

Join this webinar to learn:

  • new ways to engage students with rich, powerful vocabulary
  • proven strategies to help students learn words and how they work
  • flexible ways to teach vocabulary whether it is at-home, online, or in the classroom

Presented by: 

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Parent Engagement

In this webinar, you will:

  • Learn four ways parents can help their child at home to continue to learn through the summer.
  • Explore a plan to develop and share for family engagement.
  • Discover suggestions for resources to help learning during the summer.

Presented by: 

Rebecca A. Palacios, Ph.D, NBCT
Rebecca A. Palacios, Ph.D, NBCT
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Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Student Engagement

In this webinar, we will:

  • Examine the ARCS-V Motivation Model.
  • Apply this model to boosting student engagement in summer school.
  • Explore 3 motivational instructional strategies.

Presented by: 

Jordana Benone
Jordana Benone
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Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Teacher Engagement

In this webinar, you will:

  • Consider how summer school can be an opportunity for “teacher self-care.”
  • Identify a driving question for your summer school teaching practice.
  • Create a vision of your teaching style and need.
  • Define your success criteria for summer school.

Presented by:

Jordana Benone
Jordana Benone
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Keys for Accelerating Learning

In this webinar, you will:

  • Discover the four key components for accelerating learning.
  • Design just-in-time intervention that can be applied to any grade level or content area, whether in the classroom or a summer program.

Presented by:

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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Full STEAM Ahead: Using Project-Based Learning to Accelerate Learning

In this webinar, you will:

  • Understand the unique value of STEAM.
  • Learn how to utilize collaborative or project-based learning with STEAM challenges to accelerate learning.
  • Discover rich opportunities to grow and build SEL skills across the content areas.

Presented by: 

Allison Roeser
Allison Roeser
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How to Make an Impact in Your Intervention Programs

In this webinar, you will learn to:

  • Plan all lessons using high-yield instructional strategies that maximize student learning.
  • Incorporate engaging and entertaining instructional activities in all content areas.

Presented by: 

Alan Becker
Alan Becker
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How to Accelerate Learning over the Summer Break

In this webinar, you will learn to:

  • Engage student thinking with structured activities.
  • Assist students in taking control of their own learning while not in the classroom.
  • Facilitate the problem solving and critical thinking skills needed to extend into the next school year.

Presented by: 

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

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.

Presented by: 

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

Join this webinar to learn:

  • Programmatic approaches that work for virtual, hybrid, and in-person models.
  • Strategies to personalize learning and empower students to be agents in their learning journey.

Presented by: 

Karie Gladis
Karie Gladis
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Intervention Strategies for Reading and Mathematics

Join this webinar to learn:

  • How to prevent further learning loss
  • New ways to engage and support students in these unprecedented times
  • Instructional techniques that work for at-home, online, or in-class instruction

Presented by: 

Alan Becker
Alan Becker
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Developing Language Through Content for English Learners

In this webinar, you will:

  • Recognize the role of teaching thinking and content in language development.
  • Engage in strategies that can support academic thinking and language development.
  • Learn five quick oral language activities for daily use.

Presented by:

Dr. Eugenia Mora-Flores
Dr. Eugenia Mora-Flores
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3 Building Blocks of Implementing Guided Math

In this webinar, you will:

  • Learn the Guided Math framework: Menu of Instruction.
  • Discover the effective flows of instruction.
  • Develop a brief understanding of establishing an environment of numeracy.

Presented by: 

Lisa Callahan
Lisa Callahan
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Talk It Out: Boosting Math Achievement

In this webinar, you will:

  • learn three powerful elements of mathematical discourse to accelerate learning in the classroom.
  • explore how to boost student learning and achievement in math using short math tasks and clear discussion protocols.

Presented by: 

Danielle Battle
Danielle Battle
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Connecting Math & Literacy: Get Students Reading, Writing, and Speaking in Math Class

In this webinar, you will:

  • learn three high-leverage strategies to connect math and literacy.

Presented by: 

Alex Kajitani
Alex Kajitani
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Unleash the Power of Mathematical Thinking

In this webinar, you will:

  • Learn how to establish a student-centered approach for meaningful mathematics learning experiences.
  • Acquire engaging strategies for building conceptual understanding and making thinking visible.
  • Develop students' mathematics practices and processes through rich and authentic tasks.

Presented by: 

Karie Gladis
Karie Gladis
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3 Strategies to Engage and Excite Reluctant or Struggling Math Learners

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • Varied opportunities through powerful tools to help students explain their thinking about math.
  • Targeted and effective use of manipulatives to engage students in the learning process.
  • Physical and digital games to provide opportunities for students to engage in real-world applications.

Presented by: 

Eric LeMoine
Eric LeMoine
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Let's Talk Math: Your Guide to Successful Problem Solving 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.

Presented by: 

Kit Norris and
Kit Norris
Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
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Teaching Elementary Math: No More Problems with 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.

Presented by: 

Kit Norris and
Kit Norris
Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
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Authentic Opportunities to Build English Language Proficiency

In this webinar, you will:

  • Explore ways to build context and understanding through rich text, visual, and audio experiences.
  • Experience strategies that allow students ample opportunities to talk about what they are learning, building their English language proficiency.
  • Be equipped with scaffolds that support students right where they are.

Presented by: 

Jen Jump
Jen Jump
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TCM and edWeb Presents - Building Vocabulary Through Morphology

In this webinar, viewers will:

  • Learn engaging methods for helping students learn to understand the meaning of words
  • Learn engaging methods for helping students take delight in words

Presented by:

Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Dr. Timothy Rasinski
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How to Build an Enriching Summer Learning Experience

In this webinar, viewers:

  • Understand the challenges of summer school
  • Learn more about Summer Scholars, the newest offering from Teacher Created Materials

Presented by: 

Alan Becker
Alan Becker
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How to Implement Summer School to Identify and Reverse Learning Loss

In this webinar, viewers will:

  • Learn how to prioritize and plan for summer
  • Learn how to create schedules and instructional frameworks that maximize teaching and learning within your summer school program
  • Utilize resources to help reverse learning loss during summer

Presented by: 

Alan Becker
Alan Becker
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Summer School Strategies for Identifying and Reversing Learning Loss

In this webinar, viewers will:

  • Learn how to structure a day of learning to maximize instructional time during your summer programs
  • Learn how to plan lesson components that demand student attention and retention
  • Learn how to incorporate engaging and entertaining activities in math and reading

Presented by: 

Alan Becker
Alan Becker