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6/30/2024
6/30/2025
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edWeb is a free, award-winning professional learning ecosystem that provides a social network for collaboration, an extensive library of live and recorded edWebinars and podcasts, and CE certificates for PD hours that are widely accepted nationwide. The edWeb community consists of over one million PreK-12 educators in all roles: classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, student support personnel, media specialists, librarians, academic coaches, administrators, and pre-service teachers. We have programming that supports all roles.
Professional learning with edWeb comes in the form of edWebinars, hour-long presentations on the most timely, relevant topics most needed by today's educators. We host dozens of new, live edWebinars each month and have an archive of over 2,000 on-demand recordings. Our edWebinars are presented by experts in specific fields in education and are free thanks to our industry sponsors. Educators can further their learning by creating or joining virtual professional learning communities and connecting with over one million educators worldwide.
Visit www.edweb.net to join for free to access on-demand edWebinars, check out our calendar of upcoming events, and learn how to access free CE certificates for edWebinars.
All edWebinars are approximately 60 minutes in length. Upon completion, educators will receive a certificate of completion. 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 can be taken by the participant to demonstrate their learning. Quiz results are printed on the personalized CE certificates. 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 PreK-12 educators, including classroom teachers, school and district leaders, instructional coaches, technology specialists, media specialists, paraprofessionals, student support personnel, and early childhood specialists.
Membership is free. Educators can join at www.edWeb.net. Members may choose to participate in a live edWebinar, or watch a pre-recorded, 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:
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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:
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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:
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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, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
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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:
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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:
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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, wellbeing, and college/career-readiness. edWeb’s goals include:
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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:
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edWeb.net partners with dozens of educational organizations, including Digital Promise, HMH, and Scholastic, to bring the most relevant topics to our members via edWebinars and facilitate an increase in student achievement through high-quality professional learning for educators. 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. edWeb.net has an extensive collection of programs that supports all levels of education including early childhood and K-12.
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 diverse needs of all learners, including special needs, ELL, gifted and talented.
Provide programs on school safety, student wellness, cognitive development, and social-emotional learning.
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 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 coordinating 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.
The Rock Valley Case Study included the following references:
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Booth, S. E. (2012). Cultivating knowledge sharing and trust in online communities for educators.
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The full report can be downloaded here:
http://home.edweb.net/wp-content/uploads/RockValleyCaseStudy_17-0622.pdf
Additional case studies of edWeb for professional learning can be found here:
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:
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 3,000 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.
