NextLesson Webinar Series

Professional Development On Your Own Time

NextLesson's 30 minute webinars are a quick way to learn how to incorporate pedagogical approaches into our variety of resources and tools. Learn from our team of veteran teachers and administrators and walk away with tips and tricks you can implement immediately in your own classroom or at your own site.

Expert Webinar Series - Building A Feedback Culture - John Hattie & Cameron Brooks

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

We teach, we give thoughtful feedback to students, but do they use it? What is the best way to manage feedback that will impact learning, but not leave the teacher exhausted? Join John Hattie and Cameron Brooks as they share findings that can impact your classroom and school quickly. During this webinar, we will also highlight our newest product, GrokSpot, a tool to gather feedback and promote meaningful discussion in the classroom.

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Expert Webinar Series - The Power of Feedback - John Hattie

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Meet John Hattie, the international author of the Visible Learning Series and The Distance Learning Playbook in a one hour chat about the power of feedback and its impact on achievement. Not all feedback is alike - according to John's research. We'll be chatting with John about building a feedback culture in classrooms - whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person - and how the variations of feedback we use impact student achievement. During this webinar we will also discuss how feedback can be gathered with our newest product, GrokSpot.

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Engaging Students with Real-World Interests

Thursday, April 30th, 2020

Our final webinar of this Distance Learning series is all about the first step in teaching any lesson type - student engagement. There are new challenges with engagement and distance learning so we'll be investigating how to engage students in learning remotely. How is it different? We have a cool tool just for this and we'll show how it engages students - both remotely and back in the classroom. Using brain-based learning research, we've structured the tool to include categories that pique the interests of students as well as connecting them to real-world and relevant topics.

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Meaningful Remote Class Discussions

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

Using research by our friend, John Hattie, author of the Visible Learning series, we'll demonstrate how to move students beyond the completion of work as a goal and into showing and discussing their learning with Rank & Reason and GrokSpot. We'll demonstrate how to predict their achievement and when to intervene - even remotely.

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Build & Assess Student Skills

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

Join us as we discuss how to continue to build and measure skill acquisition from a distance, but in an engaging way. Remember Clue? Carmen Sandiego? Choose Your Own Adventure? We have Skill Builders that are sure to engage while providing opportunities for single skill practice at any level.

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Evaluating Student Responses

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

As teachers, we ask a lot of questions. We ask students questions and use student responses as feedback while we teach. We ask questions to move the thinking of students and we ask them to frame new perspectives. We ask to find the process students are using and we ask them to reflect on their learning. Whew! We ask a lot of questions! Join us as we discuss how we can continue to question thoughtfully, yet remotely, and view student work in real time and after work is submitted.

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Differentiating and Assigning Lessons

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Join us as we explore NextLesson's interactive platform through the lens of differentiation. Learn how to set up groups, make copies, share to individual students, edit text, add/remove (content, text, links, attachments, steps, questions), change reading level, lock and unlock sections, view as teacher or students, print, share, select editions and so much more!

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Distance Learning & NextLesson - Getting Started

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

Educators all over the world are setting up distance learning for their students and are switching for the first time from paper to online teaching. We're here to help with all the Getting Started basics. Tune in to set yourself (and your students) up for a great start!

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Meet InterestID! - Target Review and Learning with Students' Own Interests

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

InterestID helps students indicate topics they love so that teachers can find relevant content for each student. Come learn 3 quick ways to use InterestID to engage your students in the classroom!

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PBL Meets the Standards, Engages... (But Doesn't Fold the Laundry)

Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

Ready to get started with Project Based Learning in your classroom, but not sure if it will be effective? Looking for ways to engage and challenge students? Join us! We'll show you why PBL is effective and demonstrate entry level PBL for classrooms just getting started.

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5 Ways to Build Rigor Quickly with NextLesson's Rank & Reason Tool

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

Learn some quick tips and tricks for building rigor with just one of NextLesson's tools. The Rank & Reason tool is a perfect choice for challenging thinking and focusing academic discussions - all grade levels - and the end result is rigorous learning.

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5 Easy Ways to Differentiate A Performance Tasks + A Bonus

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Learn how to make the NextLesson Performance Tasks you know they'll love into a Performance Task that is accessible to all students (including struggling readers, English learners, gifted and high achievers) with some easy differentiation tips and tricks.

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