четвер, 20 червня 2019 р.

ACCSC's webinar: Support the Vision to Avoid the Division: Building Teamwork Among All Faculty and Staff


ACCSC's Webinars provide an opportunity for the membership to hear updates regarding the Commission's recent initiatives and activities, as well as revisions to standards, policies, and procedures.
Support the Vision to Avoid the Division: Building Teamwork Among All Faculty and Staff
In this session, participants will have the opportunity to discover methods to build strong teams where every single staff and faculty member shares the same goals and works collectively to integrate the admissions, academic, and career services departments to better serve the students ⇨http://www.accsc.org/Events/Webinars

середа, 19 червня 2019 р.

Webinar: Adding Neuroscience to Education: Can It Really Help?


Adding Neuroscience to Education: Can It Really Help?

Presenter: Cory Armes, M.Ed.
Length: 45 minutes
Including neuroscience in education has been a popular topic in recent years but some people still have questions and would like to learn more about its usefulness and how it works⇨ https://event.on24.com

Webinar: Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains


Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains
Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas - ASCDThe ability to use metacognition is one of the characteristics of high-achieving students and a key skill that all students can learn. In this webinar, based on Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers’ ASCD book, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas, teachers and leaders will learn how they can teach students to drive their brains.
The authors will discuss a practical framework for helping school-age students across all grade levels and content areas become metacognitive learners. Wilson and Conyers’ research-based methods are tried and true and have been refined through work with tens of thousands of teachers over the past 20 years. You will learn how this approach helps teachers experience more joy as they teach so that students have more “aha” moments. Participate in this webinar and take away some brain-based teaching strategies you will enjoy learning and using!
Donna Wilson
Co-Founder
BrainSMART

Donna Wilson, leader of the academic team at BrainSMART and the Center for Innovative Education and Prevention, is an educational and school psychologist and former teacher. Wilson is codeveloper of graduate studies in mind, brain, and education science at the master’s through doctoral levels and has facilitated professional development with tens of thousands of educators.
Marcus Conyers
Director, Research and Development
Center for Innovative Education and Prevention

Marcus Conyers is a doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster and director of research and development for the Center for Innovative Education and Prevention. As the coauthor of 20 books on applications of mind, brain, and education science, he has led statewide initiatives and worked in 30 countries, reaching more than 100,000 administrators and teachers.

понеділок, 10 червня 2019 р.

ACT WEBINARS: College, Career and Life Readiness


This free webinar demonstrates how you and your students—from elementary to high school—will benefit from assessing their abilities.    

You’ll learn: 

  • How to help your students develop social-emotional skills in younger years to be successful in the classroom, on the job and throughout life.  
  • How to measure your students’ academic readiness for college, plus help them start thinking about majors and careers, as soon as their freshman year.   
  • How to prepare your students for the workplace with soft skills they can use in any situation. 

четвер, 6 червня 2019 р.

Webinar: Harm Reduction - A Framework for Change, Choice, and Control

Trainer: John Koop Harder, MSW, RSW

Harm reduction is an approach to help people explore their relationship with substances and behaviors. It offers strategies to reduce and mitigate damage and pain, and to increase and promote safety, choice, and control. This webinar explores the principles of harm reduction, how it works and for whom it may apply. Strategies are provided for working with individuals, families, and communities within a harm reduction framework.