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Listen in as Serena Pariser, author of Real Talk About Classroom Management, shares her practical classroom management strategies that can be implemented into any classroom. 

Hear from  Nottingham and  Renton why and how classroom discussion can be one of the most important vehicles for student learning. 

Find out from Julie Stern how to move beyond surface learning to achieve deeper comprehension.

Hear from James Nottingham, author of The Learning Challenge, as he explains the Learning Pit and what the best "Pit Tools" are for student learning. 

Learn from Homa Tavangar and Becky Morales, authors of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners, how to build global and cultural awareness inside the classroom with year-round activities. 

Uncover from William Bender how project-based learning can aid in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. 

 In this webinar, Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, discusses practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. 

This cutting-edge webinar with Julie Stern and Nathalie Lauriault, authors of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, will help you to promote depth and breadth of understanding by using learning transfer as both a means and an end goal of learning.

This webinar from Gravity Goldberg, author of Teach Like Yourself, offers special insight on how to use your gifts to be the teacher you’re uniquely intended to be.

Sugata Mitra, author of The School in the Cloud, discusses his 20 years of experiments with children's education observing the world as it comes to terms with an evolving Internet. From his “Hole in the Wall” experiment to “Self-Organized Learning Environments” (SOLEs) and finally the “School in the Cloud,” he shares thought-provoking experiences that show what happens when children meet the Internet.

How do we maximize precious time to ensure that students grasp enough to prepare them for informed civic life? The discipline of social studies is far more than memorizing dates and facts. It involves the skillful ability to conduct investigations, analyze sources, place events in historical and cultural context, and synthesize various points of view, while recognizing our own biases. Join Julie Stern in this webinar to understand how using the right approach at the right time can maximize student learning.

Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Join Warren Berger and Elise Foster as they discuss how educators can transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity.