Webinars
Topics on this page:
- Assessment For Learning in K-12 Education
- Foster Youth Supports in K-12 Education
- Arts Education Supports in K-12 Education
Assessment For Learning in K-12 Education
Rethinking Possibilities and Practice for EL Students Today
Title: Assessment for Deeper Learning: Rethinking Possibilities and Practice for EL Students Today
Synopsis: This webinar provides new perspectives, practices, and possibilities for energizing assessment for deeper learning (“AfDL”) for communities that serve EL identified students. The panelists explore how AfDL for ELs can be a pathway to equity, inclusion, and excellence in elementary and secondary school settings.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2024, March). Assessment for Deeper Learning: Rethinking Possibilities and Practice for EL Students Today. Moderated panel session with Dr. Munoz Munoz (SJSU), Dr. Sofía González-Otero (SMFCUSD), and Dr. Ma Bernadette Salgarino (SCCOE) in Assessment for Deeper Learning Series. Sponsored by SJSU Center for Innovation in Applied Education Policy (IAEP), San José State University, San Jose, California.
Continuous Improvement in the Classroom
Title: Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: Empowering Students and Teachers to Size Up “What’s Next?”
Synopsis: This webinar provides new perspectives, practices, and possibilities for energizing feedback exchanges in K-12 classrooms to guide and support collaborative learning. Based on extensive up to date research (Duckor & Holmberg, 2023 [pdf]), the focus of the webinar is on hands-on, “try it now” procedures and practices that engage students in peer and self-assessment aimed at growth and improvement, rather than on scores, grades, and points.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2023, May 24). Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: Empowering Students and Teachers to Size Up “What’s Next?” Center to Close the Opportunity Gap Spring Speaker Series.
Watch Feedback for Improvement
Formative Assessment Moves to Uncover Academic Language
Title: Exploring Formative Assessment Moves to Uncover Academic Language Demands and Support English Learners During a Lesson
Synopsis: To ensure equity in our formative assessment practices, we must think carefully about academic language demands for everyone including our English learners. In this session, we explore the power of the seven formative assessment moves to increase students’ academic language use and production in in-person, online, and hybrid settings.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2021, April 21). Exploring Formative Assessment Moves to Uncover Academic Language Demands and Support English Learners During a Lesson. California Collaborative for Educational Excellence State-wide Leading Forward Series.
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The Power of Posing, Pausing, and Probing Moves
Title: The Power of Posing, Pausing, and Probing Moves to Advance Deeper Learning
Synopsis: In this session, we learn about three research-based, high-leverage formative assessment moves that can be employed in online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments. Using concrete examples, we learn how to employ posing (differentiated questioning strategies), pausing (using wait time), and probing (elaboration techniques) to elicit deeper learning in linguistically and culturally diverse California classrooms.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2021, February 25). The Power of Posing, Pausing, and Probing Moves to Advance Deeper Learning. California Collaborative for Educational Excellence State-wide Leading Forward Webinar Series.
Watch The Power of Posing & Other Moves
The Power of Bouncing, Tagging and Binning Moves
Title: The Power of Bouncing, Tagging and Binning Moves to Advance Deeper Learning
Synopsis: This session explores three of seven research-based, high-leverage formative assessment moves. Using concrete examples, we learn how to employ bouncing (sampling), tagging (representing), and binning (identifying patterns) in student thinking whether teaching in online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2021, March 24). The Power of Bouncing, Tagging and Binning Moves to Advance Deeper Learning. California Collaborative for Educational Excellence State-wide Leading Forward Webinar Series.
Watch The Power of Bouncing & Other Moves
Support Student Achievement
Title: Assessment for learning to support student achievement: 7 high-leverage moves to re-engage diverse learners in extraordinary times
Synopsis: This session blends research-based, high-leverage instructional and assessment strategies (the “7 Moves framework”) to energize, re-engage and foreground student voices in synchronous learning environments. Using Zoom, Google Docs, and other distance learning tools to engage students. participants are invited into real conversations about what it takes to explore new directions in dialogic, online assessment for learning.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (2020, July). Assessment for learning to support student achievement: 7 high-leverage moves to re-engage diverse learners in extraordinary times. Connie L. Lurie College of Education K-12 Online Teaching Academy Series.
Watch Assessment for Learning Framework
Foster Youth Supports in K-12 Education
Foster Care and Youth Experiencing Homelessness in California
Title: Policy perspectives on students in foster care and youth experiencing homelessness in California
Synopsis: This session examined cross-sectional perspectives (Education policy, Community Providers, Social Work, Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice) regarding the needs of youth in foster care and youth experiencing homelessness in K-12 systems.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Capizzi, L. M. (2021, June). Policy perspectives on students in foster care and youth experiencing homelessness in California. Moderated panel session with Dr. Michael Kirst of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, Judge Lucero (Ret.), Dr. Emily Bruce of San Jose School School of Social Work and Dr. Shimica Gaskins of GRACE/End Child Poverty CA. Sponsored by SJSU Regional Hub for the CSU Educator Summit: Relief, Recovery & Rebuilding at the Center to Close the Opportunity Gap (CGOG), California State University, Long Beach, California.
Watch the Policy Perspectives Summit
Title: Tackling Poverty and Inequities with Community Schools
Synopsis: This session examined the role of foster youth and other at promise youth in with California's investment of $3Billion to expand community schools across the state. Presented by Shimica Gaskins of GRACE/End Child Poverty CA, Dr. Alicia Montgomery of the Center for Powerful Public Schools and Jenny Vu of Los Angeles Education Partnership, the panelists explore how Community Schools can be a pathway to supporting ending child and family poverty.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Capizzi, L. (2022, November). Tackling poverty and inequities with community schools. Moderated panel session with Dr. Shimica Gaskins of GRACE/End Child Poverty CA, Dr. Alicia Montgomery of the Center for Powerful Public Schools and Jenny Vu of Los Angeles Education Partnership. Sponsored by SJSU Regional Hub for the Center to Close the Opportunity Gap (CGOG), California State University, Long Beach, California. Video available at https://ccog.calstate.edu/node/51
Watch the CCOG: Tackling Poverty
Support Educational Outcomes for Students
Title: How can teachers, school counselors and administrators support educational outcomes for students in foster care during extraordinary times?
Synopsis: In this session participants learn from a panel of CSU Guardian Scholars (former foster youth from SJSU) about beneficial supports they found valuable in transitioning from high school to post-secondary education. The webinar focuses on CSU university student insights about relevant supports that made a difference for both classroom and school based outcomes.
Citation: Duckor, B., & Capizzi, L. M. (2021, June). How can teachers, school counselors and administrators support educational outcomes for students in foster care during extraordinary times? Center to Close the Opportunity Gap, California State University.
Watch Close the Opportunity Gap
Arts Education Supports in K-12 Education
Art and Music to Close the Achievement Gap
Title: Using Art and Music to Close the Achievement Gap: A Panel Discussion
Synopsis: This session focuses on perspectives on how Art and Music can be used to positively impact the lives and academic careers of highly mobile California students including those youth experiencing homelessness and students in foster care. Panelists consist of highly experienced Art and Music teachers provided insights into sustainable supports for those serving at promise/at risk students.
Citation: Capizzi, L., Fojas, S., & Duckor, B. (2022, July). Using Art and Music to Close the Achievement Gap: A Panel Discussion. Moderated panel session with Veronica Talton, Zaida Ramos and Melissa Brown of Alum Rock Unified School District. Sponsored by SJSU Regional Hub for the CSU Educator Summit: Relief, Recovery & Rebuilding at the Center to Close the Opportunity Gap (CGOG), California State University, Long Beach, California.
