Web seminars provide real-time opportunities to interrelate with content experts, educational leaders, and practicing principals around current issues. NAESP provides this setting to bring together principals from locations around the country to participate in these online learning programs. No special equipment other than Internet access is needed to participate in any of our webinars. All webinars are free to share best practices in leadership with principals.
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.
Brain-Based Strategies for Today’s Schools
Date: Thursday, January 24 
Time: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. (Eastern)
Description: Learn why incorporating brain-based strategies into elementary classrooms is so urgently important. The speakers will share four principles on how a child’s brain functions and learns, and provide concrete and practical strategies for principals and teachers to use in their classrooms. They will also share their experiences with schools that have incorporated these principles and the difference it has made to teaching and learning for students.
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Roger Stark is the founder and CEO of Learning Enhancement Corporation, the creator of BrainWare Safari cognitive skills development software. Read more...
Betsy Hill is an experienced educator and business leader who serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Learning Enhancement Corporation, the developer of BrainWare Safari cognitive skills development software. Read more...
NAESP Foundation Webinar: The Power of Inclusive Play
Presented by Landscape Structures Incorporated and NAESP
Description: Learn how awareness of different abilities by staff and students can transform your school's playground into an extraordinary outdoor learning environment for children of all abilities.
NAESP Webinar: Rethinking Principal Evaluation
Description: Creating better evaluation systems for principals has emerged as a cornerstone of education reform. As states and districts develop and redesign principal evaluation systems, NAESP and the National Association of Secondary School Principals have recently released a report that provides a collaborative framework and policy recommendations for effective principal evaluation.
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Matthew Clifford, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at the American Institutes for Research. He has over 10 years of experience as a researcher, evaluator, and policy consultant |
Steven M. Ross, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist and professor at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University. He received his doctorate in educational psychology from Pennsylvania State University. |
NAESP Webinar: Adult Bullying: When a Bad Apple Spoils the Workplace
Description: Adults can be bullies and when bullying enters the workplace, the results are demoralizing. Unlike the bullies from childhood, who typically target the vulnerable, adult bullies tend to select the most competent employees as targets. Learn how workplace bullying impacts the health of individuals as well as the climate of the school as a whole. more...
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Kathleen Sciarappa, Ed.D., has 26 years of experience as an elementary and middle school principal and has received numerous awards for her work. She was an urban educator in Ohio and now pursues her interest in working with aspiring, new, and practicing principals. more...
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Description: Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs presents an introduction to the curriculum mapping model discussed in her new two-part book suite, Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum. more...
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Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Ph.D., is an author and internationally recognized education leader known for her work in curriculum mapping, curriculum integration and developing 21st century approaches to teaching and learning. Dr. Jacobs is president of Curriculum Designers, Inc. more...
NAESP Webinar: Harnessing Technology as a Tool for Your School
Description: Learn how to harness technology so that your teachers can do what they do best—plan and teach—and your computers handle what they do best—compile data that helps both teachers and students.
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Cristina L. Heffernan , is a former middle school mathematics teacher with classroom experience working with urban and suburban populations and in public and private schools. She also has extensive experience as a math coach, a workshop leader/trainer, and a professional learning community facilitator in Boston and Worcester.
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NAESP Webinar: Update on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Description: Find out the latest on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s progress in developing next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts/literacy and mathematics.
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Joe Willhoft, Executive Director, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
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NAESP Webinar: Turning Evidence Into Action: Solutions, Actions, and Implementation
Description: Many school personnel will tell you that they are good at writing plans, but even the best plans may not get implemented. This fourth and final webinar in a series on school improvement planning addresses both planning well and implementing improvement efforts embedded in the plan.
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Scott C. Bauer, Associate Professor, Education Leadership Program; Director, Division of Individual & Organizational Transformation, College of Education & Human Development at George Mason University |
David Brazer, Associate Professor and Academic Program Coordinator, Education Leadership Program at George Mason University |
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NAESP Webinar: Principal Performance Appraisal
Description: Principal Performance Appraisal (PPA) in Canada is designed as a growth model for developing leadership capacity. The appraisal process requires professional dialogue and collaboration between a school leader and a supervisor. It focuses on working toward goals by providing formal and informal opportunities for feedback and continuous professional learning.
Presenter: Joanne Robinson, Director of Professional Learning, Education Leadership Canada (ELC) at the Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC)
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NAESP Webinar: Applying Research to School Improvement
Description: School leaders may feel overwhelmed by all of the exhortations directed at them to be sure they are implementing research-based strategies and programs intended to improve student achievement. We all know, however, that just because an idea got published doesn’t mean it will work well in any given school with a particular set of students. This third in a series of webinars on school improvement planning guides participants through the maze of published research by explaining the purposes of various kinds of publications, how to access the research base that is most helpful to school and district leaders, and how to evaluate the usefulness of research for addressing a particular problem. The presenters link research to problem articulation and root cause analysis, the topics of the previous two webinars, and look ahead to using research to identify promising solutions to long-standing teaching and learning problems.
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Scott C. Bauer, Associate Professor, Education Leadership Program; Director, Division of Individual & Organizational Transformation, College of Education & Human Development at George Mason University |
David Brazer, Associate Professor and Academic Program Coordinator, Education Leadership Program at George Mason University |
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NAESP Webinar: What’s the Problem? Communicating Student Achievement Needs With Evidence
Description: Schools and districts are now very familiar with gathering and analyzing student achievement data. This second in a series of webinars on school improvement planning explores critical next steps to make sense of a variety of evidence and communicate what is learned to a larger audience. The webinar demonstrates to participants how to use school-site evidence to compare aspirations to outcomes to reveal significant learning gaps. The session culminates in a discussion of how to organize and present evidence in a fashion that is easily received by teachers, administrators, and other important stakeholders.
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Scott C. Bauer, Associate Professor, Education Leadership Program; Director, Division of Individual & Organizational Transformation, College of Education & Human Development at George Mason University |
David Brazer, Associate Professor and Academic Program Coordinator, Education Leadership Program at George Mason University |
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NAESP Webinar: Technology and the Common Core
Description: Attend this free webinar for a focus on the integration of technology to support and enhance teaching and learning as schools transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It will be explored through the lens of the International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for teachers, students, and administrators. CCSS will be examined in relationship to planning, instructional strategies and assessment to enhance teaching and learning as teachers are faced with transforming the way they teach and students learn.
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Lynn N. Nolan, Senior Strategic Initiatives Officer, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) |
Betsy Goeltz, Principal (Pocatello, Idaho) |
