We are living in an unprecedented time with dual pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. It is paramount that we attend to issues of equity and work to support children of color in learning literacy, even as we try to learn our way around virtual classroom spaces. Culturally-responsive literacy instruction is an evidence-based approach that teachers can use to promote literacy learning for all students.

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In today’s education environment teachers are being asked to engage students in synchronous learning. Ensuring that students are making grade-level gains through distance learning can be a daunting task. Having reading activities connected to science and social studies allows teachers to save screen time by covering multiple standards in one lesson. Join Vanessa Perrotta, Director of Marketing, Literacy; and Sara Heindorf, Manager, Customer Success at National Geographic Learning for practical ideas and realistic lessons and activities that will help students make gains via distance learning, in-school, and hybrid situations.

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Getting to knowledge-building instruction means turning to units of study that revolve around big ideas and build students’ academic content and vocabulary knowledge. While it’s crucial to teach students through units of study in any given year, with today’s circumstances and likely periods of online learning, units of study take on an even more important role in the curriculum landscape.

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How can you keep your students engaged as they sit in front of a computer or tablet screen or even a small mobile device? How can you encourage them to learn and thrive their knowledge through this virtual space? Think about what your students can see, hear, and feel through the screen. It might be a flat surface, but you can make your screen come alive with the ways you talk and move, the ways you encourage students to participate, and the materials and objects you use–even simple objects from your own home!

You will leave this session with lots of practical ideas for making your screen come alive for your learners in their virtual classrooms. We’ll also cover what we’ve learned about remote teaching this Spring.

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Students need to read, discuss, and compose complex texts in order to meet content standards. But grade level texts may not be accessible, at least independently, for every child. Join author and researcher Nancy Frey for a discussion of the nature of challenging grade level texts, and methods for making ensuring that all students benefit.

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In this webinar replay, Dr. Shin will share ideas for teachers to engage young learners of English in grammar activities that are embedded in meaningful and real-world contexts. Join Dr. Shin and find out how fun learning grammar can be through songs, stories, and games that are just right for your young learners!

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We know that our students need to be able to write well to be successful in their academic classes. To this end, we spend a lot of time teaching how to write paragraphs and essays. However, if we focus on just paragraphs or essays, we miss the most important component of both: sentences with good structure and good vocabulary.  

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Dr. Shankar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Biology in the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a Featured Explorer in the new reading program Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Science. She has studied animals around the world in locations such as Arizona and the Ecuadorian Andes. In this webinar replay, you will learn about the lives of Explorers as you join Dr. Shankar in exploring how animals from hummingbirds to arctic ground squirrels manage their energetic needs in some of the planet’s most difficult conditions.  

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