Webinars
What's a Webinar?
A webinar is an online event that brings experts to the Web to share lessons learned, new ideas, and related resources. Events combine a web telecast with a phone conference. Each is presented with accompanying resource materials. Participants can watch and listen to the presentation, ask questions, and engage in discussion.
Want to see what a webinar is like? See an example past webinar
Upcoming and Recent Webinars
Closing the Achievement Gap: Recommendations from the P-16 Council
10:30am - 12:00pm
Friday, March 7, 2008
Presenter: Rick Miller, Deputy Superintendent, Policy Development and External Affairs, CDE
In his fifth annual State of Education Address, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell unveiled an ambitious, comprehensive plan aimed at closing California's pernicious achievement gap that exists between students who are white and students of color, as well as with English learners, students in poverty, and students with disabilities. The State Superintendent’s California P–16 (Prekindergarten through Higher Education) Council spent a year developing recommendations that holds the State of California accountable for creating the conditions necessary to close the gap. The P-16 Council’s work was grouped into four main themes: Access, Culture and Climate, Expectations and Strategies and within each theme the Council made a set of recommendations.
This presentation will elaborate on the P-16 Council’s initial recommendations for closing the achievement gap and the State Superintendent’s corresponding recommendation for implementation.
Ideas in Action: Baldwin Academy
Archived Event - December 5, 2007
Baldwin Academy is an elementary school in La Puente, California with a high poverty, high minority student population that performs well above its peers and has maintained a “similar schools ranking” of 10 (on a 10-point scale) on the California Academic Performance Index (API) for over four years. Baldwin is beating the odds and demonstrating success with its students. How have they accomplished this? In this interactive presentation, California school and district leaders interested in honing their instructional programs learned from principal Bonnie Wilson about successful strategies at Baldwin. Topics included Baldwin’s staff focus on participating in shared decision-making and collaboration, providing professional learning opportunities, conducting ongoing analysis of data, and creating a culture of high expectations and extensive family involvement. This webinar was presented by the American Institutes for Research and WestEd as partners in the California Comprehensive Center to highlight high performing schools making a difference in student achievement.
Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (SchoolsMovingUp)
Archived Event - November 8, 2007
This presentation was co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners) and focused on the challenges English learners encounter in learning grade-level content (e.g., math, science, social studies) through a second language. In this interactive online presentation Jana Echevarria, Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach, provided an overview of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model of instruction, which provides educators with a research-based approach for making standards-based lessons understandable for English learners.
Professional Collaboration and Data Analysis: One High School's Journey (SchoolsMovingUp)
Archived Event - November 13, 2007
This interactive webinar explored how teachers collaboratively analyzed data in order to design consistent, effective instructional practices, which supported improved student academic performance. The presenters shared practices that contributed to closing achievement gaps between significant populations including low socioeconomic, English learner, and special needs students.