Recorded Webinars

Districts should contact ASDN at (907) 364-3809 to purchase rights to these recordings for your staff. All districts and organizations that have paid their 2011 ASDN Sponsorship will have access to these recordings at no charge.

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Using Formative Assessment to Support Teaching and Learning

with Deb Farrington

Participants will learn how formative assessment is a process for gathering information about student learning while learning is still taking place and timely interventions and instructional modifications can be made.  In each of the sessions, participants will be guided through the key strategies of formative assessment and learn how to recognize and support the integration of assessment into instruction.  Topics:  The Role of Effective Classroom Assessment, Moving Learning Forward with Criteria for Success and Effective Feedback, Engaging Students in the Assessment Process – The Key to Formative Assessment, and Tools for Recognizing and Supporting the Implementation of Formative Assessment.

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Upgrading to the Digital Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity

Jason Ohlerwith Jason Ohler

Right now our students live two lives – a traditional, non-digital life at school, and a digitally active lifestyle outside school. If we are to prepare our students for a future of unparalleled change, opportunity, challenge and responsibility, then we must invite them to integrate their two lives, and to do so at school, where we can help them use their tools effectively, creatively and wisely. Join Jason Ohler for this 4-part webinar series where he will explain practical tools and processes for helping students collaborate and share their talents, and easy strategies for integrating media development, digital storytelling and new media narrative projects in the classroom in exciting, creative ways.
These webinars will explore how to:

  • help students become active media creators and critical media consumers,
  • help students create media stories and projects that are articulate and academically sound,
  • evaluate student-created media, and
  • cultivate a sense of digital citizenship, preparing students to be good neighbors, informed voters and participatory citizens that can effectively balance technology’s opportunities and limitations

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Using Performance Data to Increase Student Learning

Lexie Domarodskiwith Lexie Domaradzki
To provide instruction that is targeted to students needs, teachers must be clear about thresholds of risk and benchmarks that indicate a further need for intervention. This data analysis webinar series will focus on the aspects of a comprehensive assessment system that includes screening, diagnosis, progress monitoring and program assessments. Learn how to: establish a comprehensive assessment system, analyze student performance data from the AIMSweb system and other tools (and identify the most important and efficient reports); monitor progress for students at risk and decide if interventions are working; and understand mid-year data trends.
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Nuts and Bolts of Building Professional Learning Communities

Al Bertaniwith Al Bertani
How is the level of collaboration in your school this year? How effective is your professional learning community? In order to build professional learning communities, school leaders must establish and nurture the conditions necessary to support their development. Nuts and Bolts of Building Professional Learning Communities will help participants understand and utilize the structural as well as social and human resource conditions needed to build strong and powerful professional learning communities.

Learn more about:

  • Finding time for collaboration
  • Building the social conditions to support a community of practice
  • Facilitating meetings to build an effective PLC

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Assessment Literacy: From Theory to Practice

Educators are confronted with an enormous variety of assessment data. When used appropriately, they can adjust their instructional practices to more closely meet their students’ learning needs. This job-embedded, professional development experience is designed for educators looking to strengthen their knowledge and application of effective assessment practices within a standards-based assessment system. Educators will be introduced to the elements of quality local assessment systems and learn how to differentiate and integrate informative assessment practices into their schools and classrooms.
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Engaging Marginal Students: Building a Framework for Success K-12

2010 Southeast Alaska Place-Based Education Institute – Connection: Rooted in Place – School and CommunityEffective dropout prevention must begin early, and involve all students, educators and administrators K-12. This webinar series will emphasize best K-12 practices for engaging marginal learners, with a focus on effective strategies for teaching Alaska Native students.
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Strengthening Collaboration to Improve Learning for All

Al Bertaniwith Al Bertani
Improving learning for students means improving learning for teachers. There is a growing body of research that links the development of teacher capacity to improving learning for all students (Consortium on Chicago School Research 2205). Building teacher capacity requires schools to address a core cultural issue of schools – collaboration. This Webinar Series will address the critical components of Strengthening Collaboration to Improve Learning for All.
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Helping Students Graduate: a Strategic Approach for Dropout Prevention K-12

Effective dropout prevention must begin early, and involve all students, educators and administrators K-12. The course will emphasize best practices for increasing the graduation rate of all students, with a focus on effective strategies for Native students. It is designed for elementary and secondary teacher/administrator school and district teams as well as individual educators. The course will feature eight, two-hour webcasts with nationally recognized presenters, authors, and practitioners.
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School Business 101 for Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents & Business Officials

Join veteran school business manager Melody Douglas, RSBO for an interactive Webinar on school business functions. This session will present an overview of the school business functions a school district operates under including compliance, budgeting, reporting and internal controls. The information provided will aid superintendents in understanding their role in the financial matters of their district and in interacting with district office staff. Tips on how to stay out of trouble relative to board policy and district policies and procedures will also be provided.
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School Business 101 for New School Level Administrators

Join veteran school business manager Melody Douglas, RSBO for a webinar series on school business functions. This session will present an overview of the school business functions a school district operates under including compliance, budgeting, reporting and internal controls. The information provided will aid administrators in understanding their role in the financial matters of their district and in interacting with district office staff. Tips on how to stay out of trouble relative to board policy and district policies and procedures will also be provided. There will be an opportunity for administrators to ask questions, including those one might be reticent to ask of district office personnel.
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