Videos

This two-part series for administrators will present a deep dive into Family Engagement from multiple perspectives. We will examine family engagement research, strategies, and best practices that can be implemented in a variety of different settings. Practical experiences from family members will be shared. Action steps for developing the capacity of schools and families to form meaningful and productive partnerships for improving student outcomes will be discussed. Day 1 Description Part one of this training series will explore the definition of family engagement, the impact of communication with families and establishing effective strategies for enhancing family engagement practices.

This two-part series for administrators will present a deep dive into Family Engagement from multiple perspectives. We will examine family engagement research, strategies, and best practices that can be implemented in a variety of different settings. Practical experiences from family members will be shared. Action steps for developing the capacity of schools and families to form meaningful and productive partnerships for improving student outcomes will be discussed. Day 2 Description Part two of this training series will examine approaches to identify family engagement stakeholders, emphasize the centrality of family and youth voices in the family engagement process and review virtual tools to maximize family engagement practices.

Guest Shauna King, a school culture and climate coach, helps us to better understand how the language we use in our schools has significant impact on our students and the adults in our building.

Emily Hanford shares insights from the field around her work of literacy and literacy instruction.

CVI affects children in different ways depending on the age of onset of the condition, the parts of the brain compromised, and the extent of the damage. In this webinar the unique ways that CVI manifests in children will be examined and clarified. We’ll discuss what is CVI; who are children who have CVI; how are these children identified in the schools; and reasons underlying misidentification. This is webinar one of an 8-part series.

This webinar provides an overview of built-in accessibility tools, Windows operating system features, and common productivity tools that can be useful to students with high-incidence disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, learning disabilities). It includes discussion and demonstration of third-party tools that are available at low or no-cost to serve the same purposes. Participants will also find the information useful for incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approaches to their instruction and supports.

This session will focus on how literature can help enrich children's lives as they see their own lives reflected in the pages, experience lives and stories that are different from their own, and learn to feel empathy for the characters in the stories.

The Literacy Tookit is a training series consisting of a progressive sequence of interactive webinars focused on expanding the instructional interventions used to promote the literacy achievement of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Presentations in the training series will focus on how to use assessment information primarily from the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (QRI-5), as well as other evidenced based assessments (norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and progress monitoring) to plan and implement instructional interventions. Instructional delivery “techniques” and implementation “tips and tricks” will be discussed, and a set of intervention resources, materials, weblinks, and e-learning applications will be assembled for each topic to assist with implementation.

The East Juniata Elementary School team who participated in the session, Effective Implementation of Academic Vocabulary Instruction and Student Discourse, and began implementation of Word Generation from fall to winter, will prepare and share a brief presentation describing and explaining their Word Generation implementation experience and outcomes. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfDWEcQ8YdgTuckVOJVqjSlM1rmxH4se/view?usp=share_link