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Instructional Strategies

Get Your Classroom Thinking! Deeper Learning Strategies for Any Classroom, Grades 6–12

6 years ago

Instructional Strategies

Translating Student Voice into Student Action: How to Foster Civics in Your Classroom with the Students Taking Action Together Strategies

2 years ago

Feedback That Matters: Tools and Strategies for Making It Happen

3 years ago

Teaching with Empathy: Transform Your Practice by Understanding and Validating Your Students' Needs and Your Own

3 years ago

Help BIPOC Students End the Year with Positive Literacy Experiences

3 years ago

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Today's students must not only know facts but also be skilled at identifying salient information and then structuring it for meaning, long-term retention, and application. Summarization is a proven mechanism to boost student achievement, but how do you make it engaging for students? It's time to revitalize learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarization. Join Dedra Stafford, coauthor with Rick Wormeli of the book Summarization in Any Subject: 60 Innovative, Tech-Infused Strategies for Deeper Student Learning, 2nd Edition, for a look at fresh and creative variations to the basics, including brand new summarizing techniques that you can differentiate for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness. During the webinar, Stafford will walk you through several of her favorite interactive "use it now" summarization strategies that you can implement immediately in your own classroom.

About the presenter

Dedra Stafford is an educational consultant, speaker, trainer, and author. Her work has led her to speak in three international schools and more than 40 states. Much of Stafford's time is spent supporting high-risk schools in an embedded capacity. A passionate educator with a belief in the power of positive purposeful teaching, her goal is to play a small part in helping educators find and maintain their joy for education while gaining new strategies and skills to reach today's learners.

With more than 20 years in education as a former middle school teacher and district professional development specialist working with preschool through 12th grade teachers and administrators, Stafford understands the need for practical research-based strategies that can be implemented immediately in the classroom. Dedra is the author of Podcasting: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Podcasts and Using Them in the Classroom and coauthor of the best-selling book Teaching Kids to Thrive: The Other Essential Skills for Success.

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