Mark your calendar for The National Institutes 2025! Our annual professional learning events are unlike any other, so don’t miss out. Math, ELA, and world language teachers, coaches, and administrators—save your seat today.
From Hype to Help: The State of AI in Education
Whether you’re an early adopter or an AI novice, artificial intelligence has created a need for educators to adapt. In our second annual virtual session on AI in education, we’ll share how usage, attitudes, and outcomes have evolved since last year’s national survey. Learn about the state of AI in education today and how to separate the AI hype from helpful ways to use it. Save your spot today!
The Power of Yet: Helping Students Persevere in Math
Looking for strategies to empower your students in math? This webinar explores the power of productive struggle and how it fosters perseverance and deeper mathematical understanding. Through real classroom examples, research-based strategies, and practical tips, you’ll gain insights into creating a growth-oriented learning environment that encourages your students to persist through math challenges.
Creating a Culture of Success: Routines that Foster Proficiency in the World Language Classroom
What does an effective world language classroom look, sound, and feel like? In this on-demand webinar, we explore the core characteristics of effective world language instruction, focusing on strategies to facilitate target language use and reduce the affective filter to boost student confidence and engagement. Together, we examine teacher and student routines that foster language proficiency development. After watching this webinar, you’ll have a clear understanding of these key strategies and actionable next steps to enhance your classroom practices and empower your students to thrive in language learning.
Responsive Teaching Moves That Work
Dive into the art of responsive teaching moves! As important as it may be, it’s not always easy to keep individual and group learning needs in mind during lesson planning, implementation, and reflection. This session will empower ELA educators with fresh, effective strategies for identifying and addressing diverse students’ learning needs so that you can make the greatest impact on all learners. Register today!
Engineering HQIM Success: Aligning People and Structures to Turn Beliefs into Reality
Join us for a conversation focused on systems-level change and alignment. We explore how to align with stakeholders on the why, what, and how of implementing district initiatives. Then, the conversation transitions to the application of this alignment to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) implementation and high-quality professional learning.
Reaching All Readers: Strategies for Recognizing and Eliminating Barriers to Complex Texts
Teachers face the overwhelming challenge of helping all students meet grade-level standards, but where do they begin when their students are starting in wildly different places? This webinar will provide teachers with the tools to evaluate the specific reading needs of their students before exploring research-based strategies for fostering critical thinking across reading levels.
The Arc of Mathematics: Making Connections from Elementary to High School
What you’ve heard is true: math is a subject that builds. And the skills our students learn in elementary school are essential for high school success and beyond. In this webinar, you'll explore a thread of concepts from kindergarten through Algebra 2 through the lens of games and engaging collaborative activities.
AI in education: What you need to know
This on-demand webinar will provide an overview of applications for AI tools in education. Our presenters will give practical tips for integrating AI into your teaching, using AI to help students master content, and crafting policies to guide student use of AI-powered tools.
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2023 Dyslexia Research: Implications and Applications
Students with dyslexia bring unique strengths and differences to your classroom, and you can help them thrive when you have a deeper understanding of what's going on in their brains. Join neuroscientist Dr. Martha Burns to learn about current research and solutions to support your learners with dyslexia.
Closing the Knowledge Gap: Engaging Every Student with Complex Texts
Watch this on-demand webinar to explore how to balance complex, grade-level text with students’ individual reading needs in order to build the background knowledge and vocabulary essential to lifelong language comprehension.
Courageous Classrooms: Embracing Vulnerability in Math Education
Vulnerability isn’t a weakness—in fact, it's our most accurate measure of courage! Join us as we explore how vulnerability in the math classroom improves learning outcomes and relationships. You’ll also hear how other school leaders create these safe spaces for students to stay curious and develop positive attitudes about learning.
Oral Reading Fluency for All: Using Digital Tools to Build Accuracy and Prosody
Watch this on-demand webinar to explore why oral reading fluency matters, where it fits into foundational reading instruction, and how you can use digital tools to conduct the repeated reads and modeling that help students develop into fluent readers.
Paving the Path to World Language Proficiency: Adopting a Can-Do Attitude
Learn how to implement a proficiency-based approach to language instruction—even if you’re using traditional world language materials. This edWebinar addresses how adopting a growth mindset and setting realistic goals with Can-Do statements can increase student motivation and foster growth in proficiency.
Game-Based Learning: Leveling Up Student Math Engagement and Growth
Support your elementary students’ natural curiosity with game-based learning strategies that foster creative problem-solving and build conceptual understanding. During this webinar, Dr. Steve Ritter and Kyla Gibbons show you how to create a classroom environment where students are excited to play while remaining engaged with math content.
Bring Back the Love of Teaching and Combat Burnout by Investing in Professional Learning
Do you know how to make professional learning more joyful, productive, and applicable to classroom practice? We’ve got some ideas! In this edWebinar, you’ll learn what research says about effective professional learning and explore how—when properly structured and administered—professional learning can cultivate joy in schools, teachers, and students.
Research-Backed PD: Creating Professional Learning That Sticks
Do you know the secret to effective professional learning? In this Science of Learning webinar, Regional Vice President of Professional Learning and passionate educator Cassie Martin Reynolds shares what the research tells us about professional learning that actually makes an impact. And more importantly, she shares how administrators can apply that knowledge when creating professional learning opportunities for their staff and how teachers can make professional learning stick in their own classrooms.
Take Summer School From Ordinary to Extraordinary by Using a High-Dosage Tutoring Partner
In this edWebinar, learn how you can use a high-dosage tutoring partner to launch a new innovative summer school initiative in a way that accelerates learning with minimal demand on staff. We will explore ways school districts are able to address learning gaps in instruction with high-dosage tutoring and how to build a scalable program using a partner to alleviate staffing shortages by providing highly trained tutors to extend the classroom experience.
Lighting the Spark for Students: Creating Immersive Experiences in Digital Environments
How can you integrate interculturality into world language classrooms and make your communicative goals more engaging for your students? Discover how creating digital environments can be the spark that ignites students' deep exploration of culture and love of languages. Using a variety of cultural media, you'll learn how to create meaningful experiences through high-impact, easy-to-replicate lessons.
Creating Culturally Responsive Literacy Spaces
Culturally responsive instruction is a necessary practice to engage and promote the advancement of every student. We recognize the importance of using students’ cultural understandings to make connections and build knowledge. Join our webinar to learn more about cultivating a culturally relevant and responsive literacy environment.
Behind the Scenes: Where the Science of Reading Meets the Brain
You’re changing brains every day. But could you be helping even more students meet their full literacy potential by leveraging the science of reading—beyond phonics? Watch our webinar about the latest scientific research on how reading impacts the brain and how to apply that science with research-driven technology.
2022 Dyslexia Research and Evidence-Based Best Practices
What dyslexia research should educators know? Students with dyslexia bring unique strengths and differences to your classroom, and you can help them thrive when you have a deeper understanding of what's going on in their brains. Join neuroscientist Dr. Martha Burns to learn about current evidence-based best practices to support your learners with dyslexia.
How To Make Tutoring Sustainable: Strategies for Effective District-Wide Programs
High-dosage tutoring is effective, but how do you make it sustainable? This webinar shares on-the-ground insight and actionable strategies to build and maintain a tutoring program at your school or district.
The Science of Assessment: Research-Backed Approaches to Formative Assessment
There’s no single right or wrong way to deliver assessments. But research directs us towards best practices, specifically with formative assessment. In this webinar from our Science of Learning series, you'll join cognitive learning scientist Dr. Steve Ritter and K-6 professional learning expert Kyla Stratton as they discuss best practices based on research about how students and teachers are best served–or harmed–by different approaches to assessment.
The Power of Play: Building Student Engagement, Achievement, and Critical Thinking
Play is more than fun and games!
Learning science principles show that play-based learning can develop higher-order thinking and communication skills, increase engagement, and boost creativity. In this webinar from our Science of Learning series, you’ll learn research-backed strategies to bring the pedagogy of play to your classroom.
Moves to Motivate Students: Research-Backed Strategies from the Science of Learning
Have you cracked the code to student motivation? In this webinar from our Science of Learning series, you'll learn what the research on motivation tells us about what students really need to stay engaged and thrive in the classroom and beyond. School leaders and teachers will walk away with strategies to inspire students to take charge of their educational journeys and work hard to achieve their goals.
Connecting the Sciences of Reading and Learning: Building Language, Literacy, and Cognition for All
How can you use the science of reading to make literacy equitable and accessible to all students?
In this webinar from our Science of Learning series, you’ll learn what all literacy educators should know about supporting every student in developing and applying reading skills across the school day. Megan Jensen will present both research and actionable strategies you can apply to your classroom.
Future Perfect: Teaching 21st Century Skills in Your Spanish Classroom
As world language educators, we prepare our students to thrive in the world with 21st-century skills. In this interactive webinar, you will gain an understanding of how collaboration, as well as global and cultural awareness, can be fostered in a Spanish-speaking classroom.
The Science of Learning: How the Brain Knows Best
Are your instructional best practices driven by the science of learning? When you start with how the brain learns, your students will achieve more in your classroom and beyond. Join our webinar with Dr. Martha Burns for what every educator should know about the science of learning and how it can help accelerate student growth.
Brain-Based Learning: Webinar Series
Get up-to-date insight into the science of reading with the Brain-Based Learning Webinar Series. Learn from top experts about:
- Dyslexia
- How Poverty and Toxic Stress Affects the Brain
- How to Foster Executive Function
- Effective Strategies for Social-Emotional Learning
- And More!
Reshaping Education: The Webinar Series
Watch the recordings of previous Reshaping Education Thought Leadership Webinars, and explore captivating conversations about:
- Addressing Unfinished Learning
- Breaking Through Implicit Bias
- Impactful Social Emotional Learning
- Reengaging Students in the Virtual Classroom
- And More!
