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edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that helps educators connect and collaborate to improve teaching and learning - anytime, anywhere. edWeb.net provides personalized professional learning and hosts hundreds of edWebinars each year that provide educators at all levels with the practical and just-in-time learning and support they need to improve motivation, engagement and learning for all students. edWeb.net members are teachers, faculty, administrators, and librarians at PreK-12 and post-secondary institutions who are collaborating to provide peer leadership, training, and support. Educators are creating their own communities on edWeb.net, and also participating in edWeb's professional learning communities on a range of topics that meet the interests of all educators. edWeb's community of over 550,000 members keeps growing and is having an impact on learning for millions of students.
The organization is a national provider of free, online professional learning for preK-12 educators. In addition to a number of other industry awards and recognitions, edWeb was recently awarded the 2019 SIAA CODiE Award Best Professional Learning Solution for Faculty & Administrative Staff.
edWebinars are organized by the following topics. Each topic contains dozens of edWebinars presented by educators at the top of their fields:
Arts in Education
Assessment
Audio-based Learning
Autism
Blended Learning
Brain & Learning
Bullying Prevention
Character Education
Classroom Management
Classrooms & Learning Spaces
Common Core
Computer Science/Coding
Connected Teaching & Learning
Differentiated Instruction
Digital Citizenship
Digital Content/eBooks
Digital Learning
Digital Learning PreK-3
E-rate Funding
Early Childhood Learning
Education Funding
English, Language Arts, Writing
Family & Community Engagement
Family Engagement
Financial Literacy/Entrepreneurship
Flipped Learning
Gamed-based Learning
Global Education
Health & Wellness
K12 Purchasing
Language Learning
Leadership/Administration
Library/Media
Maker Ed
Mathematics
Mobile Learning
New Teacher Help
Open Educational Resources
P21
Parent & Community Engagement
Personalized Learning
Professional Development
Project-based Learning
Reading Skills
Real World Literacy
School Gardens
School Safety
Science
Social Studies & Civics
Social-Emotional Learning
Special Education/Inclusion
STEM
Technology for Learning
Technology Infrastructure
Travel
The web address and email address is www.edWeb.net and info@edweb.net. Educators may register for the edWebinars by visiting www.edWeb.net.
All edWebinars are 60 minutes in length. Each presenter begins with a basic agenda for the presentations, highlighting the topics to be covered, and concludes the presentation with a live Q&A session. edWebinars include an optional objective quiz that must be passed in order for the participant to print their certificate of completion. edWebinars use a mixture of direct instruction from qualified presenters, participant dialogue with the presenters, and online chats between educators at the conclusion of the edWebinar.
edWeb's target audience includes all P-12 educators, including classroom teachers, school and district leaders, literacy coaches, technology specialists, media specialists, paraprofessionals, early childhood specialists.
Registration is free to all edWeb.net members. Membership is also free. Educators can join at www.edWeb.net. Members may choose to participate in the live edWebinar, or watch a pre-recorded or archived webinar.
| Instructional Strategies | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Sampling of edWebinars under the Instructional Strategies Topic: Yes They Can: The Five Highest Impact Priority Practices for Classrooms Educating the Whole Child in a World of Silos - STEM, STEAM and Beyond |
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| Assessment | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Sampling of edWebinars under the topic of Assessment Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Leaders |
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| Advocacy/Leadership | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Sampling of edWebinars under the topic of Advocacy/Leadership 2017 School Climate Surveys: How to Improve Classroom Wellness |
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| Education Technology | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, well being, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Navigating the Digital Shift: Implementing Digital Instructional Materials for Learning |
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| Principles of learning/developmental stages | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Top Tips and Research from the Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities |
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| Cognitive research | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
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| Parent involvement | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Sampling of edWebinars under the Parent involvement topic: Device Free Dinners to Drive Home Digital Citizenship |
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| Building a collaborative learning community | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, well being, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Enabling Greater Collaboration and Learning for Your Entire School with Teams Collaboration Impacts Students' Learning Project-Based Learning with Agile Project Management Wonderful Ideas To Ignite Collaboration, Creativity and Computational Thinking Developing a LEAN Mindset for Effective Teaching & Learning Maximize Student Learning Through Design Thinking Fostering Student Collaboration Through Coding Girls in STEM: Creating a New Era Digital Collaboration to Support Literacy Classrooms Building Blocks for the Success of English Language Learners Educating the Whole Child in a World of Silos - STEM, STEAM and Beyond reThinking Learning Spaces: 21st Century Design to Support the Four C's Collaboration in the Digital Classroom Empowering Young People to Solve Real World Challenges: Global Projects from Primary to Secondary |
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| Student health and wellness, including: A.E.D. and CPR | The goals of edWeb.net’s edWebinars and edWeb communities align with the overarching goal of increasing student achievement, engagement, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
Sampling of edWebinars under the topic of Student health and wellness, including: A.E.D. and CPR Bullying Prevention: Tips & Tech Tools Using Documentation to Address Bullying Emotional Intelligence in ELA and Social Studies: Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into the Curriculum in Ways that Satisfy State Standards |
edWeb.net partners with dozens of educational organizations, including Crayola, Britannica Digital Learning, and Common Sense Education to bring the most relevant topics to our members via edWebinars. All edWebinars have specific objectives which are communicated to the participants at the beginning of the presentation. The edWeb.net browsing feature allows educators to search for specific topics and read summaries of the edWebinars to help them decide which presentation best meets their needs.
edWebinars:
Are presented by experts at the top of their fields in all areas of education.
Provide an opportunity for professional learning to be aligned to personal professional learning plans, and also provide a wide range of choice to meet educator interests.
Provide a range of rigorous content to meet the needs of preK - 12 educators in all school roles, including teachers, media specialists, and administrators.
Help educators develop the technology skills to effectively incorporate technology into the school environment, instruction and learning, and community outreach.
Address the needs of all learners, including special needs, ELL, gifted and talented.
Provide support for culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and equitable access to learning in school and at home.
Provide programs on school safety, bullying prevention, cognitive development, and social-emotional learning.
Has an extensive collection of programs to support all levels of education, early childhood, intermediate, and secondary education.
Have continuing education quizzes and professional learning plans that provide opportunities for assessment, reflection, and action.
Are aligned with the ISTE Standards for Educators
edWeb.net’s research-based practices for personalized professional learning were the focus of a recent case study conducted by Cambridge Learning Group. A summary of the report and a link to the full report, which contains a bibliography is below.
Rock Valley Community School District in Iowa relies on edWeb.net to support its professional development program for teachers. Their program embodies four of the key features identified by educational researchers as characterizing high quality professional learning experiences, the effective design of online communities for teachers, and best practices for integrating informal online professional learning with formal district professional development. In each case, edWeb.net provides critical support that empowers Rock Valley leaders to implement research-based practices:
Content-based professional development through edWeb.net resources applied to instruction
Active learning through structured online activities and classroom application
Collaboration that builds knowledge and makes collective decisions
Sustained development through personal learning plans linked to activities in edWeb.net
edWeb.net has made it possible for Rock Valley Community School District to put a professional development program into place that embodies many of the features most important for improving instruction. Rachel Langenhorst, a district leader responsible for developing the professional development programs the district uses, acknowledges that some of the activities could have been supported using general-purpose tools, such as Google Docs, and some do incorporate such tools. However, she says that she would gladly pay for edWeb.net because it provides a central hub through which to link together a “hot mess” of free tools. It offers an intuitive interface, keeps everything in one place, and offers extensive community administration options.
edWeb.net enables leaders to design and deliver professional development programming that exemplifies much of what we know from research to be effective in transforming instructional practice to accelerate student growth. Rock Valley teachers benefit from edWebinar content aligned with their goals for instructional improvement they can use right away in their classrooms. The school year is punctuated with intensive active, collaborative learning activities that are structured and documented on edWeb.net. These are tied to continuous improvement through each teachers’ professional learning plans and their collective decisions about instructional strategies, some of which are also made on the platform. Rock Valley’s Individualized PD Day and Rocket University experiences are shared with their AEA as well as their school board to further increase communication and common goals.
Other districts would do well to build on Rock Valley’s example of how best to use edWeb.net to support powerful professional development grounded in research on how teachers learn.
The Rock Valley Case Study included the following references:
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The full report can be downloaded here: http://home.edweb.net/wp-content/uploads/RockValleyCaseStudy_17-0622.pdf
edWeb.net professional learning edWebinars are presented by leading education experts and innovative educators who are at the top of their fields of expertise. All edWebinar presenters:
Are recommended by a wide network of partners, sponsors, community members, and past presenters, to identify educators around the globe who are doing the most innovative, effective work in education.
Include a biography on the edWebinar registration page listing their qualifications, areas of expertise, and accomplishments in their fields.
Qualifications are reviewed by an edWeb.net Review Team, which consists of Education and Technology experts, to ensure they have demonstrated competence to provide exceptional edWebinar programs.
Each presentation provides an opportunity for all attendees to participate in a live chat which provides real-time verification that the information and content is meeting the needs of the audience.
edWeb.net programs have been presented by more than 1,000 educators who are are at the top of their field and provide the community with broad, diverse, and extensive ranges of experience, level, role, and expertise.
Michelle Luhtala, Department Chair, New Canaan High School, 11 Farm Road, New Canaan, CT 06840, luhtala.michelle@gmail.com, 871-458-8692
Shannon Holden, Assistant Principal, Republic Middle School, 688 East Hines Street, Republic, MO 65738, texholden2@yahoo.com, 417-209-9402
