Literacy GPS: Assessments and Progress Monitoring for Literacy Instruction
Join this webinar to learn about a variety of methods for assessing the five components of reading; phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, to analyze and inform instruction and then to monitor progress. This workshop is for K-8 classroom teachers, reading …
The Write Stuff-Strategies for Teaching the Science of Writing
Writing is an extremely complex process that requires a strong foundation in spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and executive function. Without explicit and systematic instruction, many students struggle to express their thoughts and, subsequently, the quality of their written output suffers. In this webinar, …
Cooperative Learning: Best Practices for Group Work
This webinar will address best practices for cooperative learning, including: considerations of various grouping arrangements, proactive management techniques, and creative variations of cooperative activities. Please download the Chat to follow along.
Bring Calm to Your Classroom
You set the emotional tone for your classroom, and creating calm in the classroom is about equipping you with your own inner toolbox of self-regulatory and self-management tools so you can model and teach them to their students. In this experiential webinar …
Develop Ivrit Speaking Skills in Your Classroom
Meirav Kravetz is back to HSWOW for a third webinar, this time to share tools that can be used to encourage and develop authentic Hebrew speaking in your classroom, even among students that are anxious about speaking aloud. Learn how to plan …
Harness the Power of Data for Classroom Excellence
Explore the transformative potential of data-driven instruction in the classroom. Participants will discover practical strategies for collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to personalize learning, monitor student progress, and make informed instructional decisions. Join us as we unlock the power of data to …
What?? Understanding and Remediating for Auditory Processing Challenges
Join this webinar to learn about auditory processing and the difference between auditory and language processing. Perri Hecht will shares classroom strategies as well as guidance for teaching children self-management and self-advocacy tools.
Involving Students in the Conversation about Learning Goals
Learn practical strategies for sharing learning goals with students and incorporating goal setting into the classroom. Gain tools to involve students in reflecting on their progress as a means to facilitate individual growth and increase student agency.
Developing a Student Centered Approach
At Kohelet Yeshiva Lab and Middle School’s inception, the administrative team articulated student-centered Learning Principals, derived from what is known about how children learn. Join this webinar to learn about these principles, how they are implemented, and can drive your pedagogical decisions …
The Fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework that teachers use to design lessons that reduce barriers and increase access to learning for all students. This webinar will introduce the main ideas and key concepts of UDL, which can be used …
Reading and the Brain – Comprehension
To be a successful reader, your students’ brains are required to orchestrate a variety of cognitive domains for each part of the reading process. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to look into what cognitive domains are required for reading …
Learning Gemara- A Task Analysis
Learning Gemara is a complex task involving many cognitive functions and academic skills. Lack of experience or a deficiency in any one of these functions or skills can make the experience of learning Gemara an overwhelming task for a student. In this …
Reading and the Brain – Decoding and Fluency
To be a successful reader, your students’ brains are required to orchestrate a variety of cognitive domains for each part of the reading process. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to look into what cognitive domains are required for reading …
An Orton Gillingham Approach for Teaching Hebrew Decoding
According to research, more than 50% of all struggling readers are not diagnosed with any specific disabilities. Begin to learn how to help them decode Hebrew using a multi-sensory, phonetic approach based on the Orton Gillingham method of instruction. This is an …
Taking Assessments to the Next Level
Assessments can and ought to be an essential component of the student learning process. This webinar utilizes psychological research to shed light on how educators may maximize the opportunities that assessments offer to foster student growth, in addition to evaluating their progress. …
Project Based Learning in the Judaic Studies Classroom
What is project-based learning? How is it planned and implemented? What place does it have in Jewish Day schools, especially in the Limudei Kodesh classroom? This webinar will present the pros and cons of using PBL, and share real-life examples from Jewish …
Saying No to Ourselves and Our Children: Building Delayed Gratification
“You have to wait!” is a phrase that has become harder and harder to implement in a world replete with immediate gratification. In this workshop we’ll explore the underlying mechanisms of delayed gratification and discuss concrete ways in which we can build …
Best Practices for Mentoring and Supervision
This session will explore best practices for mentoring and supervising colleagues and teachers, supported by the research-based understanding of how people learn and grow. It will include suggestions for setting goals, providing effective feedback and motivating change. Sample evaluation protocol and feedback …
Strategies for Effectively Teaching Students with Language Based Learning Disabilities
Every year teachers have the incredible privilege and challenge of teaching students with a range of learning profiles. This session will focus on strategies to teach students with language based learning disabilities. Participants will gain an understanding of what they are and …
Strategies for Hebrew Reading Comprehension
In this session we will look into the objectives of Hebrew reading comprehension and the different genres of texts we should expose our students to. We use the UBD method (Understanding By Design) in order to examine different strategies that promote comprehension …
Best Practices for Co-Teaching and Teaching with an Assistant
One of the best ways to raise student achievement is through high quality co-teaching with a co-teacher or assistant. Gain practical guidance on applying effective models to your classroom so that you can incorporate station-based learning, observation time and small group instruction. …
Weaving Social Emotional Learning into ELA Curricula (CTLE eligible)
Emotional literacy—the ability to name, manage, and productively express our feelings and to empathize with the feelings of others—is a skill too often neglected in the traditional teaching model. This webinar will outline how elementary school teachers can weave emotional literacy instruction …
Beyond the Workbook: Vocab Building Strategies
This workshop will focus on specific strategies to support students who need a variety of strategies to build vocabulary. We will explore various types of graphic organizers, instructional models, targeted strategies and materials to support and enhance vocabulary instruction.
Millim, Millim: Supporting students as they acquire and strengthen their Hebrew Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary is the basis for language acquisition. In this webinar, participants will learn a variety of ways to enhance Hebrew vocabulary instruction. They will be exposed to methods that help learners remember words and authentic formats for implementing usage of the new …
Designing The Space To Cultivate Creative Capacity
In today’s world, we have an incredible opportunity to provide students with resources and experiences that will help students develop strong creative and critical thinking skills to solve interesting problems in the world. In this session, Michael will share what that innovative …
Developing the Art of Asking Powerful Questions in the Classroom
This session will explore the power of questions in the classroom by examining: Questioning as an effective instructional technique; Questioning strategies that ensure active engagement and whole-class involvement; The Do’s and Don’ts in questioning – how to and how not to ask …
Supporting Students in Their Transition to Middle and High School
Helping pre-teens, and teens adjust to a new department of schooling and the different expectations that accompany it, is an oft neglected but crucial part of education. This webinar will empower teachers of middle school, junior high, and high school to understand …
Multisensory Math Instruction for All Learners
Do you have a few students that you just can’t seem to reach with your instruction? In this webinar, you’ll be learning about why multisensory math is appropriate for ALL learners (K – 12) and why it is essential for students …
Teaching with Tech
This workshop will guide novice and more seasoned classroom-based technology users into integrating technology in a strategic and impactful way. In this workshop participants will review the SAMR Model and Bloom’s Taxonomy, two frameworks used by educators to help design tasks …
Bringing Mindfulness into the Classroom
Mindfulness has shown to effect emotion regulation, focus and awareness, and positive emotions. In this workshop participants will be introduced to mindfulness and how it can improve one’s effectiveness as a teacher both inside and outside the classroom. Mindfulness will be …
Kriah Strategies for All
Angie will be presenting research-based lesson ideas and tools and share web-based learning programs that support the development of Hebrew decoding for students. These ideas are based on her own practice working with students with language-based learning disabilities, where she has …
De-Escalating Conflicts in the Classroom
This webinar will discuss predicting and noticing signs of escalating behavioral difficulties in students. It will provide participants with strategies to engage students in these most challenging moments, and strategies to help de-escalate and calm difficult situations. Participants will learn about identifying …
Supporting Emerging Readers
Reading is a critical skill and one of the most important goals of early schooling. This webinar will explore how to support young students as they learn to read. Participants will gain an understanding of how the brain reads, and some of …
Optimizing Your Learning Space with Low Budget Tips and Tricks
Modern learning needs modern learning spaces. As we look to craft curriculum and instruction to prepare our students for further education and careers, it is essential that they have an opportunity to learn in spaces that support this mission. Designing excellent learning …
Tune Up Your Classroom Management: Hard Lessons Learned, Research and Neuroscience
The ability to run an ordered classroom is commonly ranked as one of the most important teacher dispositions, whether at the elementary, middle, or secondary grade level. We now know what tactics help students regulate emotions, engage them, and promote a pro-academic …
Building Reading Comprehension Skills- Tuning our Technique to the Type of Text
Reading comprehension involves a complex process of your student’s interaction with the texts that they read. This webinar will help you explore the differences between narrative (involving story grammar and causal events) and expository (focused on text organization and structure) text and …
Differentiation for the Busy Teacher (Grades 6-12)
Are you looking to differentiate instruction to meet the diverse needs of your students Do you have concerns about it being too time consuming and complicated, or about it not being “fair”? In this webinar these concerns and obstacles to differentiation will …
Infusing Your Classroom with Montessori Elements (Pre-school – 2nd)
Many of us have heard about the Montessori approach but don’t know much about it, or don’t think that it’s applicable to a typical yeshiva classroom. This session will provide teachers with an understanding of the methodology and approaches presented by Montessori …
Differentiation for the Busy Teacher (Grades K-5)
Are you looking to differentiate instruction to meet the diverse needs of your students Do you have concerns about it being too time consuming and complicated, or about it not being “fair”? In this webinar these concerns and obstacles to differentiation will …
Giving Effective Feedback
Too many of us dread giving feedback whether it be to our students or faculty. That changes with “feedforward,” a partnership approach to managing people and performance. Based on proven communication and coaching techniques, feedforward shifts the message and methods of traditional …
Executive Assistant: Building Executive Function Strategies for Reading and Writing
Have you ever had a student who demonstrated strong verbal and thinking skills but when put to the task of independently reading and/or writing they can’t seem to succeed at the task? This could be the result of weak executive functions, a …
Focusing In: Strategies for supporting students’ focus
We all know that being able to concentrate and focus for sustained periods is a skill that students need to develop in order to be successful in school. Fortunately, teachers and parents can teach and implement strategies that will help encourage and …
Calm: The teacher’s guide to supporting anxious students
Like most educators, you probably have children in your class who struggle with anxiety. When children and teens are anxious in school they may have a hard time absorbing new information or retrieving previously learned information. This webinar will offer you a …
Making Chumash Come Alive in a Classroom of Diverse Learners
Teachers have to teach Chumash skills to diverse learners, so one-size-fits-all strategies do not always work. In this practical and creative workshop, learn about ways of teaching all of your students the skills they need to master the Chumash lesson, ways to …
Language and Learning: A Foundation for Success
Language influences every aspect of the curriculum, affecting the way children learn and teachers teach. This webinar will focus on the role language plays in learning, including decoding and comprehension, vocabulary and concept knowledge, thinking and reasoning, narrative development, writing and social …
Fostering Essential Traits for Learning – growth mindset, grit and motivation
Current cognitive research has shown that there are three specific nonacademic skills that are essential for student success. In this workshop participants will learn about the research on Grit, Growth Mindset, and Motivation and how this information can be translated into classroom …
A+ for Teachers: Understanding and Creating Effective Assessments
Tests and quizzes are part and parcel of almost every learning environment, and information gleaned from assessment goes far beyond the letter or number grade. Teachers will learn how to use assessment information to effectively direct instruction both for the class and …
Classroom Management and Proactive Practices
Get off to a strong start this year when it comes to classroom management. This workshop will cover specific strategies, procedures, and teaching techniques to effectively prevent classroom disruptions and allow for effective teaching.
The Math/Brain Connection: Using Current Cognitive Research to Inform Instruction for Struggling Math Learners
The results of ground-breaking brain research now play a role in early detection of future math learning disabilities allowing for targeted early intervention. This workshop will look at the spatial ordering system which governs qualitative number sense, how challenges manifest in the …
A Balancing Act: The Intersection Between Student Temperament and Your Classroom’s Ecology
Do some of your students jump from one activity to another while others are so persistent that they have a hard time transitioning? Do you like to introduce new activities into your lessons but find that some of your students are hesitant …
Being a Sensory Smart Teacher: Helping Students with Sensory Challenges
Do you suspect that your student’s reaction to sights, sounds, or touch is over the top? Does your student have trouble tuning in at circle time, maintaining personal space, or transitioning smoothly? This webinar will focus on the unique sensory challenges that …
Planning Judaic Studies Lessons for all Learners: How Understanding Neurodevelopment Helps you Reach all Students
What neurodevelopmental demands are made on a child when we ask them to find and put their finger on the place in a Chumash , read and translate a Pasuk? What strategies can be employed for students who have challenges in attention, …
Take Note: Note Taking Skills and Strategies
Do your students have trouble taking notes effectively? Are their notes acting as study tools? Become a game-changer in the life of your students! This webinar will help you simplify and effectively give instruction for the use of guided notes, Cornell notes, …
Teaching Teens: What Every Educator Should Know About the Adolescent Mind, Body and Soul
Teaching adolescents presents challenges and opportunities. When educators understand adolescent development, and appreciate teens’ approach to learning, their belief systems, their notions about rules and authority, and their passion for meaning and belonging, they can increase the effectiveness of their teaching. Learn …
Getting Leor on the Guest List: Boosting Social Success for Your Students
Teachers play an integral role in facilitating social and emotional competence in their students. Within their academic curriculum, regular routines, and free play, teachers can instruct, model, and direct fundamental social skills that can generalize to all areas of life. Social expectations …
The Art of Teaching Rashi to the Struggling Student: Demands and Strategies
What do we expect from our students when teaching Rashi in the elementary school classroom? What demands and expectations are built into a child’s decoding and comprehension of Rashi and where are the breakdowns for children who struggle? This webinar examines the …
She Said What?
This webinar is geared to help teachers use effective communication to solve common classroom challenges. Strategies to increase student participation and clarity of expressive language will be modeled. This webinar will also offer numerous techniques to empower teachers to reflect, validate, and …
Guided Reading in the Early Grades
Guided Reading, a teaching approach used with a small group of students, is designed to help individual students read increasingly challenging texts over time. This webinar will focus on the specific elements of a guided reading lesson. Participants will learn how to …
Screen Time and Bullying
Part 3 of 3 – for middle and high school age As children age, they begin to use technology to connect with peers. With the right guidance, peer-to-peer learning online can have very positive effects. However, recent trends of online bullying and …
It’s Never Too Late To Clean Up Your Act!
It’s never too late to become more organized! By this point in the school year teachers have covered large amounts of curriculum and students have progressed in many academic areas. However, many of these same children have difficulty maturing in regards to organizing themselves, their …
Creating Socially Healthy and Welcoming Classrooms – The Best Bully-Buster!
In this webinar, teachers will consider pro-active approaches that build a sense of community and caring in the classroom. Particular attention will be paid to the unique contribution the teacher can and should make in setting the emotional tone in the classroom. …
Focus on the Shy and Anxious Child
For the shy and anxious child- a child whose fearful or nervous thoughts and feelings impede their academic functioning- school can often be overwhelming and frightening. This webinar will help teachers better understand children who struggle with anxiety and present strategies to …
Internet Treasures and Tools for Literacy and Writing
A variety of free, online technologies exist to help scaffold the writing process for students of all ages. This HSWOW webinar will show teachers a toolkit of websites to help them differentiate their instruction for learners who are struggling with organization, grammar, …
Higher Order Thinking
Frequently misunderstood and always a concern of school administrators, Higher Order Cognition (HOC) is a very important pathway of learning. Teachers want to emphasize the importance of higher order thinking in their lesson planning but often they don’t understand the different aspects …
Temperament- Understanding Children’s Pre-set Tendencies
Why do some children whimper quietly while others howl? Why are some children timid, and others gutsy? And why does a child who is so comfortable in one situation become distressed in another? This workshop will explore the factors of temperament that …
Ecology of the Classroom
Interactions between people and their environment, also known as ecology, must also be considered when thinking about student success in the classroom. Classroom ecology has a major impact on student achievement. Now that school has been underway for a few months, we …
Late, Lost, but not Lazy
In every classroom there will be students struggling with some of the crucial executive functions – the tasks that help us execute our daily activities. These processes such as organization, time management, planning, transitioning and attention are key components to a successful …
Transition to High School
Spring is an excellent time to begin to prepare 7th grade students for their transition to high school. This HSWOW webinar will cover how to teach students about their personal learning styles, and how to become effective communicators and self-advocates for success …
Study Skills
This HSWOW course offers an in-depth look at the skills students need to function in school and the real world. Study skills include organization, time management, planning, listening and summarizing for notes, communication, stress reduction, test taking and goal setting. This workshop …
What’s the Big Idea: Developing Reading Comprehension Skills
Reading comprehension, the process of constructing meaning through active interaction with a text, is the ultimate goal of reading instruction. This HSWOW webinar will focus on various areas of reading comprehension, such as predictions and prior knowledge, questioning, summarization, think-aloud and visualization, …
Assistive Technology
Technology can assist students to overcome difficulties with academic tasks, from accessing information to processing information and creating output. Computer based technology can help students read, write and organize. In this HSWOW course we will focus on several ways to use a …
Understanding Children’s Mood and Affect
Every teacher and educator knows the behavior and learning of children and teens are impacted by their moods. From irritability to anxiety to sadness, moods can alter the interactions among students, peers and teachers. This HSWOW webinar offers an understanding of common …
Internet Treasures and Tools
Technology plays a major social and educational role in schools today. This HSWOW webinar will show teachers how to capitalize on their students’ love of technology to improve their educational outcomes. An abundance of FREE educational resources and web 2.0 tools will be introduced …
Meta Cognition and Self-Advocacy
Students who struggle in school are often very receptive to understanding their individual learning styles: where they have strengths, what are their weaknesses, and which strategies help them become successful in school. This HSWOW webinar will focus on different ways to teach …
Assessment and Differentiated Instruction
For differentiation to happen, teachers need to gather and utilize information about their students. Information should relate to students’ readiness, interests, and learning profiles. Pre-, formative and summative assessments provide teachers with the data to plan meaningful learning experiences for all students. …
Non Frontal Review Techniques for the Classroom
Do you want to add more games and other fun activities to your classroom repertoire? Research shows that kids learn better when they enjoy what they learn. When students play games with material that they are learning, they take ownership and generalize …
Teaching Reading to Students with Diverse Reading Levels
This course will focus on the complex skill of reading. The stages of reading development will be explored as well as the various methods to teach reading to children at different levels. A focus of the session will be on the creation …
Mid-Year Modifications to Your Classroom to Enhance Student Success
It’s December. Now that you’re familiar with your students, this is the perfect time to step back and ask “How can I modify my classroom to further enhance my student’s success?” Using a neurodevelopmental lens, we will consider the demands involved with …
Core Classroom Practices in Judaic and General Studies that Reflect an Appreciation for All Kinds of Learners in the Classroom
Good teaching utilizes a number of core instructional techniques to manage individual student difference in the classroom. By identifying and utilizing these core strategies, and understanding their neurodevelopment underpinnings, both targeted individual students and whole classes will benefit.
How to Ask Questions that Stimulate Students to Think and Learn
When you hear an expert teacher question students it may sound deceptively easy. It is not. Learning how to ask powerful questions of students is a very valuable skill and like any other skill, takes time and deliberate practice to develop. In …
Cooperative Learning: A Way to Differentiate Your Instruction and Enhance Your Students’ Engagement (part 1)
Cooperative learning is an approach to learning that has attracted national attention. It is designed to support high levels of engagement within carefully designed small groups of learners. Many teachers need support in order to develop and implement effective cooperative learning strategies. …
Cooperative Learning: A Way to Differentiate Your Instruction and Enhance Your Students’ Engagement (part 2)
Cooperative learning is an approach to learning that has attracted national attention. It is designed to support high levels of engagement within carefully designed small groups of learners. Many teachers need support in order to develop and implement effective cooperative learning strategies. …
Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction: Enhancing Understanding of Text
Reading is about understanding and processing; therefore, without comprehension, real reading does not occur. Learn effective comprehension strategies to help your students access prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading, organize information and make meaningful connections to narrative and expository text. This …
Helping Students Discover How They Learn
Helping children to understand how they learn is as important, if not more important, than the content they are learning. In this webinar, we will explore ways to incorporate “learning about learning” into lessons we are already teaching and also discuss developing …
Is it Typical? Understanding Variations in Child Development – secondary school
How often we wonder why some students can achieve milestones while others struggle to keep up, and if these differences are part of typical development or indicators of more significant challenges? Understanding child development can be an extremely powerful and helpful lens …
Is it Typical? Understanding Variations in Child Development – primary school
How often we wonder why some students can achieve milestones while others struggle to keep up, and if these differences are part of typical development or indicators of more significant challenges? Understanding child development can be an extremely powerful and helpful lens …
Transitions
Transitions happen all the time. Most adults have learned to cope and strategize, either from past experiences or by seeking support from people and resources. Children, on the other hand, require the teacher’s leadership, support and explanation to cope with the variety …
Kriyah: Developing an Effective Management Plan for Building Kriyah Skills
By understanding the neurodevelopmental demands of Kriyah, participants will be able to pinpoint specific weaknesses and develop a comprehensive management plan for building skills. Considerations for second language learning (decoding only) will also be discussed.
How To Talk To Children About Their Learning Strengths and Struggles
Helping children understand their unique strengths and struggles is an essential part of teaching and learning. Utilizing short case scenarios, we will discuss such topics as how to help a child understand complex ideas regarding their learning; How to personalize learning as …
Analyzing Your Teaching Style
Participants will briefly analyze their own neuro-developmental profiles. They will identify strengths weaknesses and strategies that they use in their teaching and consider the primary neuro-developmental demands of their teaching style for either the subject that they teach or an upcoming lesson. The material …
Analyzing A Lesson
Participants will use the neuro-developmental constructs to examine which constructs are primarily demanded in one of their lessons. They will also prepare strategies for their students who struggle with the primary neuro-developmental demands of the lesson. The class will analyze a lesson …
An Overview of How We Learn (Repeat)
This course will discuss the various pathways of learning and how they interact with each other to form a learning profile of strengths and weaknesses. The pathways include attention, memory, language, organization, social cognition, neuro-motor functioning and higher-order thinking. Utilizing hands-on activities, …
Course on Attention (part 1)
“Pay Attention!”; “You’re not trying”; “You re just lazy”; “You re so hyper!” Frequently, teachers and parents make these comments to students who have attention problems. In this two-session, Participants will begin by looking at their own attention strengths and struggles as …
Language, Learning and Literacy: Foundations of Academic Success
Language influences every aspect of the curriculum, affecting the way children learn and teachers teach. This two-session course will focus on the role language plays in learning, including decoding and comprehension, vocabulary and concept knowledge, thinking and reasoning, narrative development, writing and …
Role of Memory in School Success (part 2)
Memory plays a key role in students’ success in school. In this two-session we examine memory from two points of view: the typical memory demands made on students in school and what it is like for a student who struggles with some …
Role of Memory in School Success (part 1)
Memory plays a key role in students’ success in school. In this two-session we examine memory from two points of view: the typical memory demands made on students in school and what it is like for a student who struggles with some …
De-Escalating Intense Behavior (part 2)
This two-session course will discuss predicting and noticing signs of escalating behavioral difficulties in students. It will provide participants with strategies to engage students in these most challenging moments, and strategies to help de-escalate and calm difficult situations. This course will introduce …
Social Cognition: The Science of Relating (part 2)
This two-session course will present different aspects of social cognition. Participants will gain an understanding of what children with strengths in social cognition look like, how difficulties in social cognition are manifested and what children with difficulties in this area experience. Additionally, …
Communicating with Parents
Parent/Teacher communications can take many forms. Whether they are informal chats or written report cards, these parent/teacher communications can be complex. In this session, Participants will discuss effective communications with parents using a rubric to guide the conversation and non-judgmental language to …
Social Cognition: The Science of Relating (part 1)
This two-session course will present different aspects of social cognition. Participants will gain an understanding of what children with strengths in social cognition look like, how difficulties in social cognition are manifested and what children with difficulties in this area experience. Additionally, …
De-Escalating Intense Behavior (part 1)
This two-session course will discuss predicting and noticing signs of escalating behavioral difficulties in students. It will provide participants with strategies to engage students in these most challenging moments, and strategies to help de-escalate and calm difficult situations. This course will introduce …
