Special Guests: Ainsley Rose, David Nagel

Join Dr. Douglas B. Reeves for this important new webinar.

Participants will learn how to:

• Move from “rear-view mirror” research to “windshield” research – YOUR impact on YOUR students in YOUR school
• Observe teacher activities in a systematic way
• Create an environment for analyzing and valuing variation in teaching practices
• Provide an emotionally and intellectually safe way to improve teaching, leadership, and learning

Leadership and Learning Center is the exclusive professional development partner of Cognition, Dr. John Hattie’s international research group. The Center will be providing webinars, seminars, and on-site professional development opportunities at schools throughout North and South America based on the Dr. Hattie’s research.

Special Guest: Cathy Lassiter

Compelling topics include:

• Five things principals need to do now to prepare for the Common Core
• Most important changes in literacy
• Most important changes in math
• Bringing Common Core to subjects beyond math and English language arts
• Challenges to anticipate
• How The Center can help

Special Guests: Cathy Lassiter

Compelling topics include:

• Five things principals need to do now to prepare for the Common Core
• Most important changes in literacy
• Most important changes in math
• Bringing Common Core to subjects beyond math and English language arts
• Challenges to anticipate
• How The Center can help

 This webinar with Dr. Douglas B. Reeves is an overview of The Leadership Performance Matrix.

Special Guests: Angela Peery & Cathy Lassiter

Compelling topics include:

• Five things principals need to do now to prepare for the Common Core
• Most important changes in literacy
• Most important changes in math
• Bringing Common Core to subjects beyond math and English language arts
• Challenges to anticipate
• How The Center can help

Special Guest: Steve Ventura

Changing classroom and leadership practices requires a notable degree of school-wide dedication and consistency. When we can greatly reduce the variation in teacher grading practices, we will improve student achievement.

Grades need to be accurate while supporting learning. This webinar will focus on the elements of effective grading and how these elements can help provide feedback that is accurate, specific, and timely. Participants will have an opportunity to identify their most urgent needs in terms of grading, feedback, and accuracy, while looking at ways to implement some of the best teaching and leadership behaviors to improve grading.

Special Guest: Connie Kamm

Join Douglas B. Reeves and Connie Kamm for a webinar focused on a comprehensive accountability planning process that provides clarity and cohesiveness to the overall vision and mission of any school or district. As one of the authors of the book Activate, Connie discusses how this system acts as a “North Star” guiding the work of leaders in a deliberate and planned manner. Connie provides readers with real-life scenarios and research-based practices to support readers in beginning their own accountability system.

New York Principal Practice Rubric

The web address referred to by Connie Kamm during this webinar is http://www.ohioleadership.org/pd/user_mod.php. You will need to create an account on the site to gain access to all of the content. After registering, click on OLAC Learning Modules.

Special Guests: Connie Kamm and Cathy Lassiter

In this interactive Webinar, Dr. Douglas B. Reeves and his colleagues at The Leadership and Learning Center will present new ideas in linking the assessment of students, teachers, and leaders to create a new generation of accountability systems. “Three forces are driving a new look at accountablity systems,” Dr. Reeves contends. “First, states and districts have significant financial incentives to create new evaluation systems. Second, poorly planned and executed evaluation systems will have unintended and potentially disastrous consequences. Third, test-based accountablity is insufficient to meet the needs of students, educational leaders, and policymakers.” This webinar will address the challenges and opportunities of new generation accountability systems and provide practical alternatives for school, district, and state leaders.

Learn how to maximize productivity of your resources (time, money, and leadership) in focusing them toward the most effective instructional initiatives and strategic use of your operations. Take-away a solid understanding of ways to maximize the impact of your investment through the use of key tools like the Implementation Audit and the Resource Optimization service.

Power strategies for effective teaching are the instructional strategies that educators employ to significantly and quickly raise academic achievement in all subject areas. In addition to teacher collaboration and the examination of student work, widespread implementation of these strategies can produce dramatic results. Please join Dr. Angela Peery for a webinar highlighting several power strategies that are supported by decades of research by John Hattie, Robert Marzano, Douglas Reeves, and other renowned educators.

In this presentation, Douglas B. Reeves shares important research and practical strategies that link student achievement to effective teaching and leadership. The content will include the highlights from The Center’s Leadership Institutes.

• Leadership essentials of focus, monitoring, and efficacy
• Maximizing leadership time
• Feedback for leaders, teachers, and students
• Building collaborative culture
• Defining decision-making processes

One of the greatest challenges of educational leadership is motivation, particularly when schools are facing financial crises. In the words of one superintendent, “It’s pretty hard to motivate people who might lose their jobs.”  While there is no denying the economic realities of today, there are clear, positive, and free strategies that leaders can use that can have a positive impact on staff at every level.  In this interactive webinar, we will consider the preponderance of the evidence on staff motivation, including:

• The power of non-financial incentives
• Key mistakes to avoid in financial incentives
• How leaders reward the wrong behavior
• Purpose and passion—the best motivators of all
• Maintaining the leader’s personal motivation
• Motivating community stakeholders in challenging times

The “Implementation Gap” is the difference between the planning and announcement of new initiatives and the actual implementation of them.  In this important Webinar for district and school-level educational leaders, Dr. Reeves will help participants consider the following questions:

• How do I measure the implementation of initiatives?
• How do I gain focus at the organizational level?
• How do I gain focus at the school level?
• How do I gain focus at the individual level?
• What is a process for “weeding the garden” without uprooting our most important ideas?
• What are the risks and rewards of closing the implementation gap?

During this Webinar participants will learn:

• What Resources are Available to Identify the Common Core State Standards
• What Resources are Available to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
• Learning from the Past: Mistakes to Avoid when Implementing Standards
• Addressing Practical Classroom Issues: Second Language and Learning Disabled Students
• Dealing With Time Pressures for Teachers
• Classroom Assessment—Fewer Assessments, More Feedback
• Going Beyond the Standards—Floor, Not a Ceiling

Tired of grading systems that are not working?  Based on his newest book, The Elements of Grading (Solution Tree, October 2010), Dr. Douglas B. Reeves presents the four fundamental requirements of grading systems: accuracy, fairness, timeliness, and specificity.  He offers practical ways to improve your grading systems now and suggest ways to conduct constructive inquiries into the grading systems of your schools.

One of the greatest challenges of educational leadership is motivation, particularly when schools are facing financial crises. In the words of one superintendent, “It’s pretty hard to motivate people who might lose their jobs.” While there is no denying the economic realities of today, there are clear, positive, and free strategies that leaders can use that can have a positive impact on staff at every level. In this interactive webinar, we will consider the preponderance of the evidence on staff motivation, including:

• The power of non-financial incentives
• Key mistakes to avoid in financial incentives
• How leaders reward the wrong behavior
• Purpose and passion – the best motivators of all
• Maintaining the leader’s personal motivation
• Motivating community stakeholders in challenging times

The 90/90/90 School™ studies by Dr. Douglas B. Reeves are some of the most quoted pieces of educational research since published ten years ago and have been used in thousands of schools in the United States and around the world.  The original studies by Dr. Reeves have been widely replicated by other scholars, the majority of whom have found nearly identical results.  This webinar will explore new research in high poverty, high success schools with new 2009 evidence from Dr. Reeves and other scholars in the field.  The webinar will be interactive, featuring opportunities for live questions from participants.

During this Webinar participants will learn:

• What Resources are Available to Identify the Common Core State Standards
• What Resources are Available to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
• Learning from the Past: Mistakes to Avoid when Implementing Standards
• Addressing Practical Classroom Issues: Second Language and Learning Disabled Students
• Dealing With Time Pressures for Teachers
• Classroom Assessment—Fewer Assessments, More Feedback
• Going Beyond the Standards—Floor, Not a Ceiling

In addition, we will provide opportunities for questions and discussion both on-line during the Webinar and off-line directly with Dr. Reeves and Leadership and Learning Center professional developers.

Using nonfiction writing across the curriculum is a proven strategy to increase the academic achievement of ALL students. Discover several immediate, almost effortless ways to increase the amount of nonfiction writing that your students do.   Also, hear the success stories of schools that have dramatically raised their standardized test scores by using nonfiction writing combined with data analysis to get impressive results.

Straining under the Law of Initiative Fatigue, schools fail to implement effective professional development and clutch at a variety of programs distinguished more by marketing than research.  Dr. Reeves candidly assesses what works, what doesn’t, and how teachers and school leaders can improve student achievement and focus on fewer tasks.  Dr. Reeves shares compelling new 2010 research from more than 2,000 schools and provides some surprising findings that include:

• Professional development focus is a key variable associated with both achievement and equity. The fewer the number of programs, the better the achievement.
• Professional development associated with research-based strategies is positively associated with achievement and equity, though not as powerful a factor as focus.
• School improvement plans that are done “perfectly” with regard to format, and revised infrequently in order to retain their stylistic perfection, are inversely related to student achievement.  That’s right – building three-ring binders to the sky is worse than a waste of time – it actually harms student achievement.  

Educational leaders are expert in announcing change, scattering the seeds of promising ideas. But they are considerably less adept at moving aside the initiatives of the previous year so that the seeds of the new announcement have the slightest opportunity for taking root. Join Dr. Douglas B. Reeves for this interactive webinar as he looks at essential considerations for what it takes to change school culture and addresses the following questions:

• What do you already know about change?
• How do you decide if the benefits of change exceed the costs?
• How do you move from planning to implementation?
• How do you sustain change?

Tired of grading systems that are not working?  Based on his newest book, The Elements of Grading (Solution Tree, October 2010), Dr. Douglas B. Reeves will present the four fundamental requirements of grading systems: accuracy, fairness, timeliness, and specificity.  He will offer practical ways to improve your grading systems now and suggest ways to conduct constructive inquiries into the grading systems of your schools.

Educational practitioners are awash in data.  That’s the bad news.  The really bad news is that the data that overwhelm most practitioners represents only half the data they need to make informed decisions and improve student achievement.

Conspicuously absent from most improvement planning documents are clearly described adult cause data (e.g., the actions or inactions of educational practitioners that cause students to perform the way they do) or theories-of-action, to use Donald Schon’s language from his book Educating the Reflective Practitioner, that are subjected to rigorous and frequent public vetting of those “theories” and the degree to which they relate to improved student achievement results.

This webinar is designed to wet the appetite for monitoring, analyzing, and using adult cause data to build and sustain a culture of collaborative inquiry to improve student performance.

Dr. Douglas B. Reeves provides his latest research on student success in high-poverty, high-minority schools.  This seminar particularly focuses on the role of leadership in improving professional practices and student results.

100-day plans help leaders and other stakeholders identify those initiatives that will have the greatest impact on student achievement.  In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Create a set of focused initiatives and goals that will provide short term winds and long term impact.
• Provide opportunities for stakeholders to reduce the number of current initiatives while going deeper with initiatives that matter most.
• Recognize the advantages and/or disadvantages of parallel processing and task switching.
• Understand the difference between technical and cultural changes.
• Effectively create a 100-day plan using five simple steps.

Finally, participants will learn that quality programs with the greatest impact on student achievement and teach professional practice aren't comprised of mountains of written plans and complex expectations.

100-day plans are about implementation, not about program purchases.  Implementation is free.  When educational organizations determin the most important practices and are committed to sustaining those practices, costs will actually decrease due to better informed resource allocation and drastic reduction in student failure.  Students will no longer have to repeat courses or re-take exams, and extra programs for students who drop out will no longer be necessary.

Everyone wants to make “data-driven decisions” – after all, we’ve never heard a school claim to make “ignorance-based decisions.”  But the problem is not a lack of data – it is that we have too much data that is unhelpful, unspecific, and old, and not enough data that can be used to make effective decisions.  In this interactive Webinar, Dr. Douglas Reeves will discuss practical ideas for improved use of data from the classroom to the board room.  Participants will learn:

• From Opinion to Mathematical Certainty:
  Five Standards of Evidence
• Essential Characteristics of Data
• How to Filter Data and Focus on Essentials
• Case Studies of Effective Use of Data
• Being a Critical Consumer of Data Claims
• Ambiguous and Inconsistent Data
• Comparative Risk in Data Analysis
• Questions and Discussion

When all teachers use writing as a thinking-learning tool, achievement in all subject areas rises. This webinar will highlight the following: the benefits of using writing across the curriculum at all grade levels; the power of abbreviated, common rubrics; and several case studies of schools that have experienced success.

Principals are faced with a variety of demands on their time, energy, and resources.  With all of the demands on them, and knowing that if you have 10 goals, you have none, what are three things that Principals can focus on to maximize their efforts?

Coping with economic times requires products and services that meet the needs of your ongoing professional development efforts in an impactful and meaningful way that doesn’t always require travel, long periods of development, or large investments.

In this complimentary webinar, Dr. Douglas Reeves addresses:

• The timely establishment of a systemic, job-embedded resource that emphasizes classroom implementation through actual practices.
• How 24/7 on-demand professional learning can be a resource for you and your staff.
• How you can receive access to PD experts and a community of peers from around the world.
• Where you can find extensive and salient content on a wide variety of educational topics and research-based best practices for use by teachers and administrators – including over 200 questions and answers that originated from your peers.
• Ways you can customize content and exercises that will supplement, strengthen, and reinforce the initiatives currently in place.

Join educational expert, Donna Anderson-Davis, for a webinar that focuses on methods for expanding your own internal capacity!

Professional learning that has the greatest leverage and impact is:

• Flexible
• Sustainable
• Immediately Accessible

Learn how to maximize the talent that already exists in your school and district.

In this interactive Webinar, participants will have the opportunity to identify their greatest sources of anxiety and stress as Dr. Reeves presents the latest research on how to address these profoundly important challenges.

Among the issues to be addressed in this Webinar are:

"We don't have the TIME to be effective."
"We don't have the RESOURCES to meet demands."
"We don't have the PEOPLE necessary to serve our students."
"We don't have the LEADERSHIP essential to motivate our staff."
"We don't have the COMMUNITY SUPPORT essential to our mission."

In response to each of these challenges, Dr. Reeves offers practical and timely strategies that have application for teachers, school administrators, system-level leaders, and policymakers.

A growing number of educational leaders around the world are participating in the free Webinar series from The Leadership and Learning Center. The Center is committed to extraordinary performance through extraordinary learning throughout the world. Help us realize this vision by sharing your Webinar invitation with friends and colleagues in your community and around the globe.

The 90 90 90 studies by Dr. Douglas B. Reeves are one of the most quoted pieces of educational research in the last ten years and have been used in thousands of schools in the United States and around the world.  The original studies, more than ten years old, have been widely replicated by other scholars, many of whose findings are nearly identical to the original studies.  This Webinar explores new research in high poverty, high success schools with new 2009 evidence from Dr. Reeves and other scholars in the field.

This webinar will focus on five fundamental strategies that provide a solid foundation for an effective 100 Day Plan.  You will also learn how to create, sustain and implement your plan while avoiding burnout and “Initiative Fatigue.”  In addition, participants will learn how to select high leverage strategies that will have the greatest impact on student achievement.

100 day plans are not strategic plans for the school or district, but rather a tool to help us focus and accelerate the work that we are doing to serve our students.  It is an important step in a cycle of continuous improvement.

Join us for a webinar, hosted by Dr. Angela Peery, creator of The Leadership and Learning Center’s Writing to Learn seminars.  She will explain simple strategies and share implementation ideas about how writing can be used in every classroom to increase school-wide student success.  Dr. Peery will provide an overview of strategies and tools you can use to transform writing in your school.

In this new interactive webinar, Dr. Douglas B.Reeves provides insights into the five critical areas of focus for leaders, teachers, and educational systems.

Based on research to be published in 2010, Dr. Reeves will address three critical questions:

• First, what can leaders do to save time and focus on the most important influences on student achievement?
• Second, what can teachers do to save time and gain greater focus in the classroom?
• Third, what must educational systems do (and stop doing) in order to gain higher levels of focus?