These free seminars are delivered via the Web and cover a range of topics of interest to educators. Register online today for a live webinar, or watch a webcast of a pre-recorded, on-demand webinar.
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Live Webinars
BrainPro Webinar: Preventing Summer Brain Drain
Presenter: Dr Martha Burns
Date: May 21, 2012
Time: 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern
Length: 45 minutes
Parents! Join us for this BrainPro webinar where we will discuss how to prevent summer brain drain in children. Dr. Martha Burns will explain how new discoveries in education and teaching can improve a child’s ability to read and learn. Joining us will be Jenny from Florida who will describe her daughter’s experience with BrainPro and how it helped her pass the FCAT.
Reading English as a Second Language: Some Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Virginia Mann, Ph.D
Date: May 23, 2012
Time: 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern
Length: 60 minutes
This webinar will present information on English Language Learners and learning English as a second language. Dr. Mann will discuss the differences between English and other writing systems, the need for early immersion in English if English Language Learning is going to be optimal, the need for phoneme awareness (which transfers across languages) and phonological processing and the challenge of morphology -- homophones, irregular verbs and nouns and vocabulary. Dr. Mann will also look at English Language Learners who have problems with reading and they suffer from the same phonological problems that English speakers do and that English Language Learners who have some degree of literacy in their mother tongue will have an easier time with English. She will also discuss how the Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant products can help accelerate English language acquisition for your English Language Learners.
Brain Health Across the Lifespan
Presenter: Paul Nussbaum, Ph.D.
Date: June 6, 2012
Time: 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern
Join us for this engaging and informative webinar when Dr. Paul Nussbaum returns to discuss brain health across the lifespan as an important and unique model. While years of science have argued neurogenesis does not occur in humans, recent research indicates otherwise. If the human brain can generate new brain cells, an entire new frontier of discovery and opportunity emerges.
The Science of Learning
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Date: June 18, 2012
Time: 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern
In this webinar, Dr. Burns will discuss the potential of neuroscience to profoundly impact education. Educators are just beginning to discover how differences in brain organization underlie different learning capacities, and how altering the organization of the brain can dramatically increase the ability to learn. The science of learning has guided the development of targeted neuroscience-based learning technologies to enhance underlying memory, attention, processing and sequencing abilities and proven to quickly and efficiently accelerate learning in many student populations at all grade levels.
If you have any questions, please email us at webinars@scilearn.com.
Pre-Recorded, On-Demand Webinars (Free)
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Watch a webcast of a pre-recorded, on-demand webinar. Choose from the many sessions below. All are free.
Disrupting Class
Presenter: Michael Horn
Length: 45 minutes
Pre-recorded webinar"As our understanding of how people's brains work and how people learn has improved through neuroscience and cognitive science research over the years, we now see that the way we typically teach and test often doesn't match up well with how individual students learn." Using the theory of disruptive innovation, which describes how products or services that offer simplicity, affordability, and convenience transform a market that was previously dominated by complicated, expensive, and inaccessible ones, Michael Horn will describe how online learning is disrupting our notion of a classroom and how it offers the possibility of moving toward a student-centric learning system that is much more focused on different people's distinct learning needs.
Accelerate Learning
Presenter: Marty Burns, Ph.D., Joseph Noble, Ph.D., and Sheila Hill
Length: 45 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarLearn how our unique approach, based on over 30 years of scientific research and using innovative, adaptive, scalable technology, can rapidly develop your students’ cognitive skills and quickly accelerate their academic performance. Hear how our products have played a role in turning around low-performing districts and schools. Understand the types of grant support that we offer. And see our products in action with a live demo of Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant.
Language and the Reading Puzzle - Part 2
Presenter: Virginia Mann, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis webinar will focus on skills that are important to fluent reading, and on the Scientific Learning suite of exercises designed to build these skills to an optimal level. Part 2 will focus on morphemes and working memory as they pertain to readers in the third grade and beyond; it will cover how these skills contribute to reading, and how they are developed by Scientific Learning exercises.
Language and the Reading Puzzle - Part 1
Presenter: Virginia Mann, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarPart 1, recorded on March 13, presented an overview of what it takes to be a fluent reader and focused on the importance of vocabulary and phoneme awareness to beginning readers and on some ways that these skills can be developed by Scientific Learning products. Part 2 will be presented on March 20 and will focus on morphemes and working memory as they pertain to readers in the third grade and beyond; it will cover how these skills contribute to reading, and how they are developed by Scientific Learning exercises.
The Development of Executive Functions: Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System
Presenter: William M. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarAs adults we are able to use our abilities to multitask, display self-control, follow multi-step directions and to stay focused on what we are doing despite distraction. This ability to stay focused on goal-directed behavior is required for daily life and success at work. Without these skills we would not be able to persist in difficult tasks, make plans, control impulsive behavior, set goals and monitory our progress toward meeting them. Children need to develop these skills too in order to become successful productive individuals. Acquiring the early building blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years. Young children depend on their emerging executive function skills to help them as they learn to read and write, remember the steps in performing an arithmetic problem, take part in class discussions or group projects, and play with other children. We will review the three dimensions of executive functions often highlighted by scientists, specifically working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility. We will examine the development of these skills across childhood. We will also look at some popular misconceptions of science as it applies to executive functions in children.
Make Every Minute Count
Presenter: Cory Armes, M.Ed.
Length: 30 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarEducators know that guided oral reading practice is essential for emerging and even proficient readers to develop fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. However, with the increasing demands in the classroom, many teachers feel like they cannot give their students enough time to practice. Learn how Reading Assistant from Scientific Learning can supplement classroom instruction by providing a personal tutor for each student through our patented speech-recognition technology.
Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge and Scientific Learning: Preparing Children’s Brains to Learn
Presenter: Joseph Noble, Ph.D.
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThe importance of early learning has increasingly gained prominence in the public sphere. The federal Department of Education’s Race to the Top: Early Learning Challenge grant is just one of the recent funding streams focusing on this area of education. Find out how you can prepare your Pre-K students to succeed in school with Scientific Learning’s early learning software products which develop the cognitive skills and executive function children need for school readiness.
21st Century Community Learning Centers & Reading Assistant: A Non-School Hours Reading Solution
Presenter: Joseph Noble, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarWith budget shortfalls, it’s difficult for most schools to supply their students with the one-to-one reading tutoring they need. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant is a long-standing and important competitive funding source for academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours. Find out how you can provide your students during non-school hours with the one-to-one guided oral reading instruction recommended by the National Reading Panel. Scientific Learning’s Reading Assistant™ web-based software acts as a personal, interactive reading tutor, providing real time one-to-one guidance as students practice reading out loud. You’ll save money on non-school hour tutor salaries and your students will still receive the tutoring support they need in reading through Reading Assistant’s patented speech recognition technology.
New Brain Science of Early Childhood Development
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThe first four to five years of life are a critical period for development of language, numeracy and social skills. These emerge naturally for most children as they interact in the world around them. These early skills are essential precursors to success in school. This webinar will summarize new research on how these skills develop, what parents and educators can do to augment the development and identify children who need a little extra help.
Title 1 Funding
Presenter: Dr. Joseph Noble
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarTitle I is one of the largest and most important sources of funding in the United States. In this webinar, we will discuss the basic aim of Title I to provide high poverty students with a high-quality education, the difficulties these students face, and how Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant can help. Join us to see how neuroscience and the development of cognitive and reading skills can help your Title I students increase their achievement and reach proficiency levels.
Virtual Brain Seminar - District Integration
Presenter: Sherrelle Walker
Length: 30 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarDuring this information-packed half-hour, Ms. Walker will discuss concrete, useful strategies for integrating Brain Fitness into district instructional plans, with the goal of accelerating learning and delivering results. Walker brings more than 30 years experience in public education to her work as Chief Education Officer of Scientific Learning.
Virtual Brain Seminar - How the Brain Learns
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 30 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarWhat does the latest research tell us about how the brain learns? This session summarizes the latest neuroscience and developments from the field. Dr. Burns is Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication and brings over 40 years of experience as a practicing speech and language pathologist.
Teaching with Poverty in Mind
Presenter: Eric Jensen
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarEric Jensen is a former teacher, active member of the Society for Neuroscience, and author of 24 books on the brain and learning. In this webinar, Jensen presents actionable ideas for maximizing learning time with students, building learning capacity, accelerating the learning process, and getting better buy in from educators and students. (This webinar is from our 2011 Virtual Circle of Learning customer conference.)
ARRA Funding for Fast ForWord & Reading Assistant
Presenter: Dr. Joseph Noble
Length: 30 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis webinar will provide an overview of the stimulus funding sources that are still available to you and your district. The webinar will also cover how Scientific Learning products fit into various stimulus funding streams.
Brain Health Across the Lifespan
Presenter: Dr. Paul Nussbaum
Length: 70 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis lecture champions brain health across the lifespan as an important and unique model. While years of science have argued neurogenesis does not occur in humans, recent research indicates otherwise. If the human brain can generate new brain cells, an entire new frontier of discovery and opportunity emerges.
Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Alan November
Length: 75 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarA powerful new culture of empowered teaching and fearless learning is emerging. Access to more timely information and communication tools can empower educators to focus on the individual learning needs of their students. These same tools can lead to more collegiality, build stronger community relationships and empower students to be more self-directed.
Our Changing Education Landscape
Presenter: Bill Daggett
Length: 1 hour
Pre-recorded webinarUnprecedented and highly interrelated challenges are facing our schools. Bill Daggett will describe these challenges and their impact on schools. He will also provide suggestions on how to be proactive in dealing successfully with them.
7 Discoveries From Brain Research That Could Revolutionize Education
Presenter: Eric Jensen
Length: 90 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarWhat’s all the excitement about? It’s simple. In the last ten years, we have learned more about the brain than we have in the previous 50 years. But what applies to education? This forward-thinking session explores the cutting edge discoveries that do have “real world implication” for all educators. Learn the latest from the cutting edge of brain research. Discover why the brain is the next significant area for educators. Find out what’s new in the future for educators. Learn specific strategies you can use to improve student achievement immediately on reinventing the learning process and the connection between games and tools.
New Science of Learning Virtual Brain Summit
Presenter: Dr. Martha Burns and Sherrelle Walker
Length: 85 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis webinar reviewed the new brain science of learning and how neuroscience research can help schools close the achievement gap. Within the past seven years, researchers have discovered why some children struggle to learn math and reading skills. In general, studies show that the brain architecture—the pre-wired pathways for processing information—that children need to succeed in school is weak or underdeveloped in struggling learners. Studies have also proven that this architecture can quickly and efficiently be built through brain fitness exercises that supplement curriculum.
Autism: What is the Latest Research?
Presenter: Ann Osterling
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarWhat is autism and what is the latest information on Autism? Learn about the latest evidence-based research on Autism. What range of behaviors would an autistic student exhibit?
Autism: Support and Interventions
Presenter: Ann Osterling
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis webinar will cover autism and the behaviors exhibited by autistic children. We will look at the characteristics that are displayed by autistic students and how you can support these students in your district. What interventions could be available to these students in your district? How can early intervention with these students impact the quality of their lives?
Moving Students to Proficiency
Dr. Mark Keen & Cindy Keever at Westfield Washington School District
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarFind out how brain research was put into practice at the Westfield-Washington School District in Westfield, Indiana where students are demonstrating great gains in individual performance. Students showed advancement of 1 year, 1 month using the Fast ForWord programs with an average use of 70 days for 30 minutes a day. 1552 students moved from the 37th percentile to the 61st percentile within an average of 74 days. More than half of the struggling learners moved up at least one level toward proficiency. Through the use of individualized, adaptive computer exercises, actual physical changes occur in the brain – enhancing skills necessary for reading and learning.
Disrupting Class
Presenter: Michael Horn
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinar"As our understanding of how people's brains work and how people learn has improved through neuroscience and cognitive science research over the years, we now see that the way we typically teach and test often doesn't match up well with how individual students learn. Using the theory of disruptive innovation, which describes how products or services that offer simplicity, affordability, and convenience transform a market that was previously dominated by complicated, expensive, and inaccessible ones, Michael Horn will describe how online learning is disrupting our notion of a classroom and how it offers the possibility of moving toward a student-centric learning system that is much more focused on different people's distinct learning needs.
Teaching Fluency: The Neglected Goal of the Reading Program
Presenter: Dr. Timothy Rasinski
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis complimentary webinar will focus on the key elements of successful reading programs, and share effective and engaging strategies that will move students toward greater reading comprehension and proficiency.
Building Brain Fitness for Struggling Students to Succeed
Presenter: Dr. Deborah Kolonay
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarA life-long educator and administrator,Dr. Deborah Kolonay will relay how her district uses technology to help at-risk struggling students build stronger, more efficient connections in their brains — and a deeper connection to learning and school!
Addressing Literacy Through Neuroscience
Presenter: Dr. William Jenkins
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThe New Science of Learning is being created by the rapid growth in our scientific understanding of brain development and plasticity. Some recent research findings will be reviewed. The presentation will also review how neuroscience can be applied to the development of training tools that can help enhance literacy and learning in students.
Stewarding the Health of Our Children's Learning
Presenter: David Boulton
Length: 60 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarChildren can innocently, intelligently, and unconsciously learn in ways that retard, diminish, or disable their capacities for ongoing learning. Learning can be unhealthy to learning. Our populations’ most widespread learning disability, “mind-shame”, is but one example of this dark side of learning. Drawing on “The New Science of Learning” and the work of the "Children of the Code Project", this webinar explores the critical differences between "stewarding healthy learning" and "unwittingly facilitating unhealthy learning".
The Impact of the New Science of Learning on English Language Learners
Presenter: Kathleen Leos
Length: 35 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarEnglish Language Learners are challenged to learn both the English language and academic content at grade level simultaneously. Join us in learning how the simultaneous development of language and content knowledge based on neuroscience and standards expands cognitive capacity and accelerates academic achievement for ELLs.
Struggling Readers and the Brain
Presenter: Martha Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarIn the last few years, neuroscientists have begun to unravel the enigma surrounding struggling readers: why they continue to struggle despite appropriate curriculum and excellent interventions. The answers are in the way the brain organizes. For some students, attention, processing speed and working memory skills lag other skills and interfere with academic achievement in many areas.
How the Brain Learns: From the Laboratory to the Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Paula Tallal
Length: 110 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis pre-recorded webinar introduces The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids. During this webinar, Dr. Paula Tallal will discuss her over 40 years of research in neuroscience and how this research can be applied to the classroom to help your struggling students.
Brain Plasticity, Child Development and Learning
Presenter: Dr. Michael Merzenich
Length: 70 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis pre-recorded webinar introduces The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids. During this webinar, Dr. Michael Merzenich will discuss how his research in brain plasticity can ultimately affect student performance.
Secondary Literacy Today: Issues, Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Carmyn Neely and Dr. Rosemarie Allen
Length: 50 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarIn this unique roundtable discussion, we look at what changes our secondary schools have seen in recent years, what challenges secondary schools face and what interventions can be helpful in addressing these challenges.
How can you generate fast reading gains, help prevent drop-outs and reduce Special Education referrals?
Presenter: Dr. Paula Tallal
Length: 85 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarThis pre-recorded webinar looks at how the innovative Scientific Learning family of products can help build the critical cognitive skills needed for your students to succeed in the classroom. Dr. Paula Tallal will discuss her original research and then discuss the latest in neuroscience research and how you can apply this knowledge to help struggling readers succeed, prevent drop-outs and reduce Special Education referrals.
How Can You Respond to RtI Requirements? Opportunity and Innovation with Scientific Learning Reading Assistant Software
Presenter: Maura Deptula
Length: 35 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarJoin us for this pre-recorded webinar as we discuss Scientific Learning Reading Assistant software, a research-based investment for Stimulus Funding dollars that provides guided oral reading using advanced speech recognition to improve vocabulary, comprehension and fluency. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how Reading Assistant can fit into your Response to Intervention model and help you create real, proven results.
PreK Solutions: Build a Successful Learning Foundation with Fast ForWord Early Learning
Presenters: Cory Armes and Dr. Joseph Noble
Length: 45 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarJoin us for this pre-recorded webinar! The Fast ForWord Early Learning series is proven to build early reading and language skills while improving memory, attention and processing rates. The result? Students are better prepared for school and able to take advantage of the more challenging curriculum. Find out how one Iowa district moved young learners' language skills from the 36th to the 59th percentile. In the second part of our talk, we will discuss various funding sources-even Stimulus Package opportunities-your district can access to take advantage of these innovative, achievement-boosting solutions in the classroom.
How can you accelerate learning for struggling students while reducing costs?
Presenter: Dr. Steve Miller
Length: 45 minutes
Pre-recorded webinarEvery problem has a solution. Join us for this pre-recorded, complimentary webinar that will show you what you can do to improve literacy skills in your district for your struggling students. Dr. Steve Miller will explain how the latest in neuroscience can help you close your district's achievement gap-and how that will save your district money. Results from district implementations will be presented, as well as information on how your district can raise state assessment scores in as little as 8 weeks. Don't miss this great learning opportunity!
