RSVP for Upcoming Alliance Webinars
A short description of upcoming Alliance for Excellent Education webinars is below, followed by additional information and RSVP details for each. Please note that you will need to register for each webinar in which you intend to participate, i.e., you will need to complete four registration forms if you intend to participate in all four webinars listed below.
- Thursday, May 16: A Global Test: The OECD Test for Schools: In 2012, more than 100 U.S. high schools took part in a pilot study to measure their students’ abilities to apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems and compare their performance to countries that took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In this webinar, panelists will explore the test and its findings and consider ways that schools can use the results.
- Thursday, May 23: Build Your People: Professional Learning That Creates a Teacher Workforce for the Digital Age: Every school leader knows about the district that bought the expensive devices, which then sat unwrapped on shelves because of a failure to invest in quality professional development. In this webinar, the Project 24 panel of experts will share their lessons learned on how to integrate and embed powerful professional learning experiences for all teachers and staff.
- Wednesday, May 29: A Dive Into Connected Learning: In an age when students are linked to technology through a variety of ways, educators need to find ways to connect students’ levels of engagement with technology to their academic achievement. This webinar will focus on “connected learning,” which is a framework that draws on the power of technology to link young people’s interests, social networks, and academic achievement.
A list of additional upcoming Alliance webinars is available at http://www.all4ed.org/events/upcoming .
NOTE: If you are unable to watch the webinar live, an archived version will be available at http://www.all4ed.org/webinars approximately one or two business days after the event airs.
Please direct questions concerning any of these webinars to alliance@all4ed.org.
A Global Test:
The OECD Test for Schools
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Panelists
Jack D. Dale, EdD, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools (VA)
Bethany Little, Managing Partner, America Achieves
Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General,
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
How does your high school stack up against the best in the world? In 2012, more than 100 U.S. high schools took part in a pilot study to measure their students’ abilities to apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems and compare their performance to countries that took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a sixty-nation assessment administered by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Findings from the test, known as the OECD Test for Schools, provides participating schools with a wealth of information on teaching and learning and shows that some schools performed quite well. Beginning next school year, all U.S. schools can participate in the test.
In this webinar, panelists will explore the test and its findings and consider ways that schools can use the results. Andreas Schleicher will provide an overview of the test; Jack Dale will discuss what the results mean for one large district; Bethany Little will discuss how schools can participate; and Bob Wise will moderate the discussion. Panelists will also address questions submitted by webinar viewers from across the country.
Support for this webinar is provided in part by
the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The Alliance for Excellent Education Is Proud to Announce the “Alliance Book Club” (#All4edBook) Webinar Series
Hear from and interact with Charles Mojkowski and Elliot Washor, coauthors of Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (ET)
Panelists:
Charles Mojkowski, Educational Consultant (@ChazMojkowski)
Elliot Washor, Cofounder and Codirector, Big Picture Learning (@Elliot_Washor)
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education (@BobWise48)
As the weather heats up and the summer months draw near, people everywhere are on the hunt for summer reading material. To help in this search—while also engaging individuals in a robust discussion on education policy—the Alliance for Excellent Education is proud to announce its summer Alliance Book Club webinar series (#All4edBook).
The debut book club selection is Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates, written by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojokowski. In Leaving to Learn, Washor and Majokowski argue that efforts to stem the dropout crisis and engage all young people in deep and productive learning will continue to fall short unless educators address the problem of student disengagement.
During the webinar, Washor and Mojokowski explore alternative approaches that provide many experiences in which all students do some of their learning outside of school as a formal part of their program of study. Alliance President Bob Wise will moderate the discussion and the authors will also address questions and comments submitted by webinar viewers from around the country.
Build Your People: Professional Learning That Creates a Teacher Workforce for the Digital Age
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Panelists
Jennifer Barnett, Technology Integration Specialist, Childersburg High School (Talladega, AL)
Michael King, Principal, Dodge City Middle School (KS)
Scott Smith, EdD, Chief Technology Officer, Mooresville Graded School District (NC)
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
This webinar, the seventh in a series of webinars for Project 24, will look at the role of ongoing professional learning for staff that can build the capacity to implement powerful personalized learning environments that prepare all students for college and a career.
Every school leader knows about the district that bought the expensive devices, which then sat unwrapped on shelves because of a failure to invest in quality professional development. In this webinar, the Project 24 panel of experts will share their lessons learned on how to integrate and embed powerful professional learning experiences for all teachers and staff. Michael King will explain how quality professional development plays a role in his school. Scott Smith will share lessons learned from a large-scale technology deployment, and Jennifer Barnett will share her perspective on what it takes to create an environment where teachers are empowered, collaborative learners.The experts will also discuss the importance of having a wide range of opportunities for professional learning, as well as how to incorporate research-based strategies; make the most of peer-to-peer learning; and make professional development more goal oriented. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance and former governor of West Virginia, will moderate the discussion and panelists will address questions submitted by viewers from across the country.
A Dive Into Connected Learning
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Panelists
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, PhD, Director of National Programs and Site Development,National Writing Project
Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, PhD, Chair of Digital Media and Learning, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;
Research Director of Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, University of California, Irvine
Martens Roc, Policy and Advocacy Associate, Alliance for Excellent Education
Katie Salen, Executive Director, Institute of Play
Craig Watkins, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Educators and researchers across the country are focusing on the best ways to engage students in learning in order to prepare them for college and a career. In an age where students are linked to technology through a variety of ways, educators need to find ways to connect students’ levels of engagement with technology to their academic achievement.
This webinar will focus on “connected learning,” which is a framework that draws on the power of technology to link young people’s interests, social networks, and academic achievement. Four experts—Mimi Ito, Craig Watkins, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, and Katie Salen—will discuss the research, design, and implementation of connected learning.
Martens Roc will moderate the conversation and panelists will also address questions submitted by viewers from across the country.
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