How to effectively manage Staff, Student and Parent access to district resources with minimal IT impact

Until recently, a K12 environment was primarily concerned with providing services to administrative staff. Now districts are providing services to teachers, students and in many cases parents but don’t really have the tools to scale their operations while maintaining adequate security. In this webinar, we will look at some of the practical issues K12 districts face today that center around account management and resource access and will talk to Spring ISD to learn more about their approach to these issues. Spring ISD is located in the Houston Metropolitan Area and has approximately 40,000 students and 5,300 staff.

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Chromebook Classrooms

Chromebooks for Education gives students, teachers, and administrators a solution for fast, intuitive, and easy-to-manage computing. With a central web-based management console for all devices, automatic maintenance and upgrades, and an 8 second boot-up time, Chromebooks are at home in the classroom (and beyond). This webinar will discuss the benefits, technical requirements, and pricing for setting up a Chromebook classroom at your school. You’ll hear from the Chromebooks team at Google and educators currently using Chromebooks with students.

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Make Clickers Work for You: Pedagogy for Student Engagement

Clickers can increase student engagement by going beyond simple quizzes. Learn to write good questions, promote student discussion, and see research results on best practices. In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore tips and ideas for incorporating clickers into your particular class. Clickers offer a powerful way to increasing student engagement and improve learning. At my high school, I have transformed my classrooms by using clickers to promote peer instruction and personally written many of the questions I use. I’ll show research results on the most effective use of clickers, and discuss common challenges. In particular, I’ll focus on the attributes of “great” clicker questions, discuss example questions, and share ideas on facilitating effective wrap-up discussions once all the votes are in.

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How to Harness the Power of Adaptive Quizzing to improve your AP courses

There is a lot of talk about adaptive in today’s assessment products, but it’s hard to know what the term “adaptive assessment” really means and how it impacts student learning outcomes. Julia Phelan, Senior Research Associate, will explain the real definition of adaptive, and how this principle is applied in a new adaptive tool for AP teachers, PrepU. PrepU is an adaptive assessment environment­ already used by nearly a million college students­ and is now available for AP Chemistry, AP Psychology, and AP US History classes. AP Psychology instructor, Janis Sposato, will describe in case study format how she and her students have benefitted from using PrepU in her course this spring.

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Support Your Students Instead of Your Devices. How One School Automated Management for Hundreds of iOS Devices

Spending too much time supporting technology instead of your students? Holland Christian Schools was. They spent too much time manually processing iOS devices instead of focusing on essential services and supporting their students.  With over 2,000 devices, a 1:1 Mac program, and hundreds of iOS devices entering their deployment – Holland Christian needed a cost-effective solution that could easily integrate with their existing infrastructure..

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The Art of a Flipped Classroom – Turning Learning on its Head

Sign up for this free webinar to learn more about Flipped Learning and how to reach all of your students in every class every day. This overview will introduce participants to the concept of Flipped Learning: Where educators are actively transferring the responsibility and ownership of learning to the students.

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Make Thinking Visible with the Flipped Classroom Model

From Harvard University to inner city Detroit to rural Colorado; from basic introductory classes to AP courses, teachers are experiencing significant improvement in student achievement transitioning to the ‘Flipped Classroom’ model. A side benefit is that teachers save time.

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Powering the Digital Classroom: More than just Computers

If I put a laptop on your desk, do you become smarter? Just introducing computers to the classroom will not, on its own, improve instruction. By now, using the experience of many districts around the country, we know a lot about how to use technology effectively to support improved instructional practices. Come learn from the experience of educators about key success factors in implementing a digital initiative.

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