Missed a recent webinar? It may not be too late.
Gain access to our most recently recorded presentations, which are still available to hear and share. Begin the online registration process, select the desired webinar (recorded versions will be listed if available), and ISACS will forward details containing a password to access the recording. This recorded version can be accessed by your entire school community for up to four weeks from the date of the live presentation (not the date of registration) or otherwise indicated.
Past Learning Bridge Webinars
Webinars listed below in August and September will be available for registration and viewing until 10/30/20.
August 2020
August 2020
Engaging Reluctant Faculty in a COVID-Era Return to Campus
Presenter: Greg Bamford, Leadership+Design
Thursday, August 27, 2020
3:00 – 4:00 pm (central)/4:00 – 5:00 pm (eastern)
Audience: Heads, Associate Heads, Division Heads & School Leaders
It’s not an easy time to lead a school. You’ve spent the summer planning complex logistics to re-open campus, even as medical guidance and government mandates continued to be in flux. For many schools, students and teachers may already be back on campus or will be returning to school in the next two weeks. The challenge of re-opening campus isn’t only logistical or epidemiological – it’s emotional and affective. Leaders need to share inherently imperfect plans while making the emotional case for the path forward. They need to reassure anxious constituents, even while they can’t offer certainty or a risk-free path forward. Finally, they need to be aware of their leadership presence and the ways it shifts under emotional pressure. In this session, we will explore some of the dynamics at work in the reactions of families and faculty as you manage all of the plans you have made for next year and how they play out at an organizational level. We’ll unpack how leaders often get stuck in unhelpful reactive patterns when they encounter reluctance or resistance. Finally, we’ll offer some tactics to engage constructively with faculty reluctant to return to campus in an uncertain time. This webinar is an opportunity for heads of school, division directors, and other school leaders to get out of the weeds and think big picture about supporting their communities through change and supporting the well-being of all.
Greg Bamford is a co-founder and senior partner at Leadership and Design, a non-profit organization that supports schools in making the shift to their futures. Bamford also has served associate head of school for strategy and innovation at Charles Wright Academy (WA) and as head of school at the innovative Watershed School (CO). He is a co-founder of the Traverse Conference, a national conference on experiential and place-based learning, and is a board member at his alma mater, The Overlake School (WA). Bamford brings a strategic lens to leadership development, innovation, and change management and is passionate about building leadership capacity and the cultural muscle to enact change. He has been a featured conference speaker, consulted with a wide range of schools, and written for publications such as Independent School, Net Assets, and The Yield. You can find him on Twitter at @gregbamford.
Price:
ISACS members: $25.00
Nonmembers: $50.00
Registered schools will receive a link to the recording,
which will be available until October 30, 2020.
September 2020
September 2020
- G Suites in the Classroom
- Executive Skills: The Hidden Curriculum
- Using Video With Students: The Future of Learning
G Suites in the Classroom
Presenter: Jeff Utecht, Educational Consultant
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
3:00 – 4:00 pm central/4:00 – 5:00 pm eastern
Audience: Faculty and Administrators, Grades 4-12
This webinar will focus on using Google Apps in the classroom with students, grades 4-12. This free educational service encompasses a powerful set of tools that are revolutionizing education. Combining these tools with other free Google products like Google Maps and Google Earth only enhances the learning for students. Join Jeff Utecht, a Google Certified Trainer in a hands-on session providing real lessons you can use in classroom now as we discuss how Google Apps changes the learning environment. From science notebooks to collaborative notes and classroom newspapers we’ll get our hands dirty with what these powerful tools have to offer. Participants will need a Google Account.
Jeff Utecht is an educational consultant who has supported schools in implementing both emergency distance learning as well as sustainable blended-learning environments for over 15 years. In 2011 Jeff was invited to Washington D.C. to work with the State Department in developing distance-learning systems for international schools globally. During the COVID-19 crisis, Jeff supported the State of Washington and over 130 school districts in successfully managing emergency distance learning strategies that lead to a long-term blended-learning environment.
Price:
ISACS members: $50.00
Nonmembers: $75.00
Registered schools will receive a link to the recording,
which will be available until October 30, 2020.
Executive Skills: The Hidden Curriculum
Presenter: Peg Dawson
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
3:00 – 4:00 pm central/4:00 – 5:00 pm eastern
Audience: Faculty, Administrators & Parents (including general education and special education teachers, administrators, and support staff such as school psychologists, OTs, and speech pathologists)
When thinking about what schools and teachers do, we tend to focus on the content they teach: reading, math, English, history, science, foreign languages, etc. But without executive skills, students’ ability to master that content and to demonstrate mastery is limited. If the pandemic has exposed anything, it has shown both educators and parents that the skills required to execute tasks are integral to learning and can no longer be overlooked. This presentation will briefly review those skills and then focus on how they can be explicitly taught by embedding them in lessons and routines, whether students are being taught in person or remotely.
Dr. Peg Dawson has over 40 years of clinical practice, and has worked with thousands of children and teens who struggle at home and in school. At the center of their struggles are often weak executive skills. Along with her colleague, Dr. Richard Guare, she has written numerous books on this topic for educators, mental health professionals, and parents, among them Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, and Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits. Dawson is also a past president of the National Association of School Psychologists, and the International School Psychology Association, and is a recipient of NASP’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Price:
ISACS members: $25.00
Nonmembers: $50.00
Registered schools will receive a link to the recording,
which will be available until October 30, 2020.
Using Video With Students: The Future of Learning
Presenter: Jeff Utecht, Educational Consultant
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
3:00 – 4:00 pm central/4:00 – 5:00 pm eastern
Audience: Faculty and Administrators, K-12
Video is an essential part of a distance learning plan. Not only is video essential to distance learning it is research-based instructional best practice in the age of the Internet. We are teaching a media first generation. A generation who has grown up using video to learn. It's time we take control of this new way of learning and apply it to our current situation and into our future classrooms. This webinar will focus on the research behind creating instructional videos as an educator and why they are an essential piece of any distance learning puzzle. In addition, we will discuss how having students create video is more powerful than any other medium to document learning and growth. Video Killed the Radio Star and now it's going to kill direct instruction.
Jeff Utecht is an educational consultant who has supported schools in implementing both emergency distance learning as well as sustainable blended-learning environments for over 15 years. In 2011 Jeff was invited to Washington D.C. to work with the State Department in developing distance-learning systems for international schools globally. During the COVID-19 crisis, Jeff supported the State of Washington and over 170 school districts and 10,000 educators in successfully managing emergency distance learning strategies that lead to a long-term blended-learning environment.
Price:
ISACS members: $50.00
Nonmembers: $75.00
Registered schools will receive a link to the recording,
which will be available until October 30, 2020.