Join a Professional Learning Community on edWeb
Connect with peers, share information and resources, spread innovative ideas...communities allow you to collaborate using tools like blogs, discussions, messaging, calendars, polling, wikis, and file sharing. Many also offer ongoing webinar series.
Attend Webinars
We offer webinar series on a variety of education topics, many listed below. The webinars include live chat discussion, and community blogs and discussion forums continue the conversation on an ongoing basis. The webinar recordings are archived in the community for viewing at any time.
These continuous communities of practice make it possible to share and enhance the knowledge of the entire community of participants.
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TechTools for the Classroom: Easy Ideas to Engage Students
This series of monthly webinars takes advantage of the power of soclal networking to help teachers explore critical aspects of educating students. In a series of webinars, live chats, and online discussions, teachers will collaborate with each other to share techniques that engage students by using technology.
Upcoming topics include: Making Videos Using the "Flip" Camera, Making Videos Using "Screen Capture" Programs, Utilizing Free Internet Resources, Assessing Student Projects Made with Technology, Building Teacher Websites, Making Podcasts, and more!
This series is presented by Shannon Holden, current assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri. He has been a high school and middle school teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years.
CE credit is provided for your participation.
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 Game-Based Learning
Co-hosted by edWeb.net and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
Sponsored by BrainPOP
Are you interested in learning more about how you can incorporate gaming into your curriculum? In this community K-12 educators, game designers, college-level educators, and education industry executives are coming together to discuss gaming and education, forming new connections, and encouraging the growth of this emerging field. Members of the Game-Based Learning community are invited to a series of free monthly webinars on topics in gaming and education, and CE credit is provided for your participation.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Getting Administrators & Other Skeptics on Board with Game-Based Learning
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 Using Your Student Data for Student Achievement
Sponsored by Follett Software Company
This community provides administrators and educators at the school, district, and state level with a forum to share information, voice opinions, engage in a dialogue with peers, and gain support for using student data to improve teaching and learning.
Each month, we host a webinar and live chat. The conversation doesn't stop there, but continues in the online discussions, providing a forum for continuous dialogue and support. The webinars and all resources are archived in the community, creating a valuable resource center. This is a unique way for educators to work together and explore this important topic.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Help Students Manage Their Destiny
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 Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism
Presented by Eden Autism Services
Sponsored by Summit Professional Education
Eden Autism Services has launched a new professional learning community for teachers who are working with students with autism. The program provides free monthly webinars and "live chats," free lesson plans, and online discussion forums to help teachers connect and collaborate on the best practices for supporting students with autism. This is a new way for teachers to connect and share perspectives and experiences.
Members of the community can post questions and start discussions on topics to get feedback from the educational experts at Eden, and also from peers who are dealing with similar issues. This new program will take advantage of the power of social networking to bring teachers together to expand access to resources, and to get feedback, mentoring, and support.
CE credit is provided for attending the webinar or watching the recording and taking a short quiz.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on How to Effectively Communicate and Work with Parents
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 Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program
Sponsored by Follett Software Company
Join this innovative program that combines monthly webinars with an edWeb social networking community to explore how emerging technology can be used to engage students and transform your school library program. The program is presented by Michelle Luhtala, Head Librarian at New Canaan High School and winner of the 2010 National School Library Program of the Year.
Here are the topics being explored in year 2 of this active and engaging program: Video Instruction, Enlisting Volunteers, Internet Filtering, Keeping Up With the Standards, Digital Citizenship, Learning Commons, Global Collaboration, PD 2.0, e-Content, Mobile Learning, e-Learning, and more.
CE credit is offered for participation.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Video Instruction: Using video to increase instructional availability
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 New Teacher Help
This innovative online professional development program presents a free monthly webinar for new teachers and provides a great way to connect and share perspectives and experiences.
The series will help new teachers learn how to think analytically about evidence as it reflects what is really happening in their schools—with student performance, with instructional practice, and with school culture. In the year-long series of webinars, live chats, and online discussions, new (and even experienced teachers) will collaborate with each other on the challenges and rewards of teaching. CE credit is provided for your participation.
Presented by Shannon J. Holden
Shannon Holden has been a high school and middle school teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years. Holden built a website, www.newteacherhelp.com in 2009 to help reduce the 50% five-year attrition rate for new teachers in the educational profession.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on Your Teacher Evaluation
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 Learner-Centered School Leadership: Creating a Culture of Evidence
Sponsored by NASSP
Join this innovative program for professional development that combines monthly webinars with an edWeb community to explore how a culture of evidence can help school leaders understand and influence what is really happening in their schools.
The program is presented by Dr. Mari Pearlman who has written and presented extensively on the topic of the role of evidence-centered thinking in improving teaching and learning, and, in particular, the ways in which school leaders can use empirical evidence to change the conversation about a school’s learning results with faculty, staff, and students.
Here are the topics being explored: Empirical Evidence, First Steps, Changing the Conversation, The Vision Thing, The Master Plan, A Taxonomy (Content, Instruction, Students, Culture), The Instructional Core, The School Culture, The Idea of Collective Leadership.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar What is Really Happening in the Classrooms?
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 Technology in Schools —
What, Why, and How?
This professional learning community will help technology directors and other school administrators and educators learn and collaborate with peers about how to evaluate, select, and purchase the best technology for your classroom, school, or district.
As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a series of free monthly webinars that will talk about voice, video, and data hardware, software, and curriculum. The webinars and follow up discussions will cover purchasing considerations, but also, and importantly, how to integrate the latest technology into teaching and learning.
The program is presented and hosted by Gail Palumbo, former Director of Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools (NJ), and national consultant for schools, districts, and corporations.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on Online Math Intervention Services
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 School Gardens
This community shares information about starting outdoor classrooms, and discusses the challenges of initiating garden classrooms where there are no state educational standards driving the process.
Join in on discussion forums about tips and tricks to maintaining a school garden, summer planting, and starting a school garden. You can also begin discussions and collaborate with peers in the educational gardening community
Members of this community also have access to resources such as curriculum to support school gardens, funding opportunities, seeds and plating information, and more.
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 The Big Deal eBook of Resources for 21st Century Teaching and Learning: Information, Media and Digital Literacies
Explore this collection of resources to help students locate, evaluate, use and manage information efficiently; interpret and communicate messages effectively; and master the digital tools to become informed citizens and productive 21st century workers.
The Big Deal Book of Technology has created the Amazing Resources for Educators community on the edWeb, and invites teachers, technology directors, tech coordinators, media specialists and anyone involved in education to join the community and to bring colleagues along.
Amazing Resources for Educators focuses on identifying valuable resources for educators. It provides information on grants and other attainable funding, rich resources for 21st century skills, professional development opportunities, free and inexpensive finds, and help with research and assessment.
Learn about new resources, survey results, and grant deadlines in the weekly blog. Meet new colleagues and share outstanding resources you have discovered.
To get your free copy of the guide, join Amazing Resources for Educators.
 The VIVA Project: Where classrooms and policies connect to make policy work for schools
The VIVA Teachers Community provides classroom teachers across the United States a chance to collaborate with peers who share their passion for teaching and want teachers to have more leadership in how our schools work.
This school year, we plan to launch three new statewide online events and a large district online event. We also offer classroom teachers ongoing opportunities to work in smaller collaborations after the events conclude. The VIVA Teachers Community on edWeb currently is hosting a debate in the discussion forum over how much of a teacher's evaluation should be based on standardized tests.
If you are a classroom teacher interested in adding your voice to the education reform debate, please join The VIVA Teachers Community.
 Escape from the Textbook
The Center for Innovative Teaching at the Urban School of San Francisco has started an Escape from the Textbook! community on edWeb.net to help launch and nurture ongoing collaborations among middle and high school math teachers everywhere.
Secondary school math teachers find that almost every off-book activity planned is well received by students, leads to greater interest and motivation, and promotes deeper learning. Freeing from the constraints of set-in-stone curricula allows for teaches to better respond to the realities of the individual classroom. However, the pressure of coverage, lack of time, external mandates, and isolation from like-minded teachers can undermine these efforts.
Working together, secondary school math teachers can help each other escape from the textbook, whether for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course.
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 Conversations about Helping English Language Learners Succeed
The explosive growth in the English language learner population has increased the stress level of educators across the country. If you are one of the many educators who want to do right by your students but aren’t sure exactly how best to do it, the new edWeb community on ELL Conversations is for you. Not only will you find practical, easy-to-implement ideas, there is no cost to join. Whether you are trying to communicate with Spanish-speaking parents, increase student test scores, or teach science to students who aren’t yet proficient in English, this new edWeb community will give you an immediate launching pad to success. “Conversations about Helping English Language Learners Succeed” is sponsored by Bentiva Education Solutions. Bentiva specializes in bilingual teacher reference materials.
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