Webinars
Watch webinars which have already been broadcast using this on-demand opportunity. This allows you to access information at your desktop from home or school at a time that is convenient for your schedule.
Learn from the authors of three new books co-published by NAESP and Solution Tree. Each webinar will last about 45 minutes, with 15 minutes at the end for Q&A.
Register for all three webinars or the webinar of your choice, completely free.
What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Presented by author Timothy D. Kanold
Date: Tuesday, May 8
Time: 4 – 5 p.m. EDT
Description: How do we ensure a challenging mathematics experience for every learner, every day? Join this lively webinar with Timothy D. Kanold, author of What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics. He’ll share how to achieve the vision of the Common Core State Standards and the important aspects of a high-quality mathematics program: focused content, instruction, assessment, and response to intervention.
Essentials for Principals: Effective Program Evaluation
Presented by coauthors Dawn Billings and Mardale Dunsworth
Date: Tuesday, May 22
Time: 4 - 5 p.m. EDT
Description: This thought-provoking webinar offers an easily-implemented blueprint for evaluating academic programs and practices. Authors Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings draw from their latest work, Essentials for Principals: Effective Program Evaluation, to give you strategies to understand a program or instructional strategy’s strengths and identify and address its weaknesses. You’ll also learn how to include a variety of stakeholders in the evaluation to ensure transparency and collaboration throughout.
Essentials for Principals: Data-Based Decision Making
Presented by author Edie Holcomb
Date: Tuesday, June 5
Time: 4 - 5 p.m. EDT
You have data. But how do you know if you’re looking at the right stuff? And how do you make the best use of it? Edie Holcomb, author of Essentials for Principals: Data-Based Decision Making, third edition, guides you through an in-depth look at best data practices. She’ll discuss the principal’s role in data use and how it can reach struggling learners, strengthen instruction and assessment, and achieve school-wide improvement.
Register for all three webinars or the webinar of your choice, completely free.
PD360/NAESP Webinar: Leadership for the Common Core: Synthesize, Strategize, Maximize!
Presented by the School Improvement Network’s PD 360 and NAESP
Description:
What do teacher effectiveness, RTI, literacy, achievement scores, PLCs, and closing the gap all have in common? The Common Core Standards!
This webinar will focus on how principals can prepare teachers and their schools to integrate the Common Core. You will gain strategies to help you support teachers as they make instructional shifts and design performance tasks that imbed 21st Century Skills. What will be the new expectations regarding text complexity and curriculum entry points for diverse learners? What can principals incorporate in their “look-fors” as they conduct walkthroughs and teacher evaluations? Learn about these and other leadership issues through the Common Core lens. Learn more...
Presenter:
Lisa M. Leith, Ph.D., director of content, School Improvement Network
NAESP Webinar: Dialogues on the Common Core
Description: This webinar will provide information and insight into Common Core implementation and how it affects you in your school. Davy will provide a national and state-level perspective, and Jones will offer practical insight on how he is preparing his school for implementation. Don’t miss this unique chance to learn from this dynamic team—a foremost national expert and a building-level principal. The webinar will be repeated on May 14 for those who miss the April 23 date.
Presenters:
Lucille Davy, senior advisor, James B. Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
Kenny Jones, NAESP Board of Directors, Zone 7, and principal, Parkside Elementary School (Powell, Wyoming)
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation from the May 14 webinar.
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation and below is the video from the April 23 webinar.
NAESP Webinar: PARCC 101, Part 2
Description: Participants will gain an update on the current status of The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and information on tools and resources available to assist principals. NAESP is partnering with PARCC to prepare principals for the Common Core State Standards assessments. This webinar is a follow-up to Doug Sovde's session at the 2012 NAESP Annual Conference.
Presenter: Doug Sovde, director, PARCC Instructional Supports and Educator Engagement, Achieve
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation and below is the video from the May 4 webinar.
NAESP Webinar: PARCC 101, Part 1
Description: Participants will gain an update on the current status of The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and information on tools and resources available to assist principals. NAESP is partnering with PARCC to prepare principals for the Common Core State Standards assessments. This webinar is a follow-up to Doug Sovde's session at the 2012 NAESP Annual Conference.
Presenter: Doug Sovde, director, PARCC Instructional Supports and Educator Engagement, Achieve
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation and below is the video from the April 19 webinar. Click here for questions asked during the webinar.
Inspired to Lead: Tips to encourage the next generation of great principals
Description: Who do you already know that should consider becoming a school principal? Think of someone who is honest, ambitious, caring, competent, inspiring, intelligent and respected by others. What will it take to get this potential leader to capitalize on his or her strengths? How can you move the next generation of school principals toward the role? Your tool box might include a confident conversation of encouragement, or it might take more of a push. It has been proven time and time again; quality leadership models breeds leadership skills in others. Walk the talk. Be the model! Join us as we explore how to inspire, encourage, and motivate “the cream of the crop” to become the future principals in our schools.
Presenter: Melissa Patschke, Principal, Upper Providence Elementary School, Pennsylvania; NAESP Trainer and Coach
View this webinar: Inspired to Lead: Tips to encourage the next generation of great principals