Developing Cognitively Independent Readers and Thinkers in Grades 3–6

In this webinar, we discuss how you can use and implement Pearson’s Early Alerts to identify struggling students early enough to intervene. We share real-world examples of one professor’s experience with this tool. We explore how it helps identify at-risk students, assess and characterize distinct problem areas for students, and how to implement a plan of action to improve student retention.

John Hattie and his team have spent countless hours analyzing data to determine what has the greatest effect on student learning. He has written multiple books on the topic, with many practical ideas that can be implemented quickly and relatively easily that will help you to help your students even more than you are now. Together, explore the principles of a Visible Learning classroom as laid out in Hattie’s Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning. You’ll leave the edWebinar ready to refocus your instruction to capitalize on the strategies that will have the greatest impact on your students’ learning.

As the next generation of K-12 educators, student teachers are central to shifting education systems towards environmental sustainability and addressing climate change. How can their environmental learning be deepened while still in preservice Teacher Education programs? Join Dr. Hilary Inwood and new teacher Alysse Kennedy for a webinar to explore how teacher educators can better prepare student teachers to become active eco-teachers in their first years of teaching. Share promising practices from your faculty of education, or the challenges you are facing in this work, and connect with others across North America who are working towards embedding Environmental Education into preservice teacher education.

Equity has long been a priority for school systems prior to 2020; however, the pandemic has focused attention on the continuing need to create more equitable education environments. Simply putting more devices in students’ hands is not enough; they deserve access to an equitable education–including best-in-class learning solutions and technologies. These solutions must be inclusively designed, giving students multiple ways to create, engage, and participate in constructing knowledge regardless of ability, income, language, location, or identity.