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Breaking the Cycle of Underachievement
Presenter: Beth Connelly, M.S., CCC/SLP
Date/Time: May 29, 2013, 1pm PT/4pm ET
Length: 45 minutes
Poverty, physical neglect, attachment disorders and lack of stimulation in the home environment can contribute to a lag in development and school readiness. Attend this seminar to learn how students can ready their brains for learning and break the cycle of underachievement that poverty often creates.
Using Cognitive Science to Enhance Student Learning
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Date/Time: June 04, 2013, 1pm PT/4pm ET
Length: 45 minutes
Dr. Burns discusses the ability of neuroscience to profoundly impact education. Hear how the science of learning has guided the development of breakthrough technologies to enhance underlying memory, attention, processing and sequencing abilities in struggling students.
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Watch a webcast of a pre-recorded, on-demand webinar. Choose from the many sessions below. All are free. Or you may subscribe to the audio portion of on-demand webinars.
Dr. Tallal's New Research with College Students
Presenter: Paula Tallal, Ph.D.
Length: 75 minutes
Dr. Paula Tallal will review her latest research: a study on reading and writing improvements in college students after Fast ForWord training and a longitudinal, randomized control study in college students showing attention improvements.
What's New in Neuroscience?
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 90 minutes
As in previous years, Dr. Burns will share the latest research in neuroscience as it applies to understanding learning in children and adults. This year she will cover new connectome research as well as research on the neuroscience of attention and memory disorders and interventions. This session replaces the pre-Visionary Conference session of years past.
Reading Help This Summer
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Is your child behind in reading? Join us to learn some easy ways to help your child catch up this summer! Dr. Martha Burns will discuss the latest research on why some kids struggle with reading and will offer interventions that can improve your child’s ability not just to read, but to learn.
Improving Academic Skills in Teens with Learning Disabilities
Presenter: Jacqueline Egli, M.S.
Length: 45 minutes
What kind of progress should you expect from teens with significant learning disabilities? Join Jacqueline Egli as she reviews trends with this population and provides research on how, with intensive intervention, these students can demonstrate academic gains. Jacqueline will debunk the myth that adolescent learners are beyond the “window of opportunity” for remedial intervention, and provide concrete examples of intervention plans and success stories of students she’s worked with.
Make Every Minute Count
Presenter: Tom Chapin
Length: 45 minutes
Every teacher knows the difference that an additional 10 minutes a day of reading practice can make to a student’s vocabulary, language, and knowledge development. The patented technology behind our Reading Assistant program employs speech recognition technology to help teachers provide this daily reading practice to every student while meeting increasing demands in the classroom. Find out how the Reading Assistant program can act as a personal reading coach for every one of your students, providing corrective feedback right away—when it’s most helpful.
RTI & Special Ed: How Are We Doing?
Presenter: Chris Weber, Ed.D.
Length: 45 minutes
What are the stats on special ed in the US today? Join Dr. Weber, expert on RTI, as he shares the current state of RTI and special education. He’ll also share, in practical quantifiable terms, how others have reduced special ed referrals and maximized instructional resources for all students.
Why Good Schools Have Poor Test Scores
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Test-taking season is upon us, making us wonder: why do some schools with great teachers and capable, knowledgeable students test poorly? Join Dr. Burns as she discusses the common reasons students are not able to reflect their knowledge when it comes to testing time, and how to make sure your testing reflects your teachers’ and students’ hard work this year!
Provider Summer Planning
Presenter: Erin Hyer
Length: 45 minutes
Join Erin Hyer, Speech-Language Pathologist and Fast ForWord provider of over 15 years, as she discusses best practices on summer programs in a private clinic setting. From “summer camps” to individual summer packages, she’ll provide examples of what has worked for her and how it can work for you. This summer, do something different!
Keys to Increasing Comprehension in the Age of Common Core
Presenter: Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Comprehension is the goal of reading. To get there readers must master the foundational skills (Common Core), but research shows that a substantial number of poor comprehenders have not yet mastered these. In this webinar, Dr. Timothy Rasinski will share proven, effective, and engaging strategies for helping students lay a solid foundation for reading success and comprehension.
Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: Executive Function Skills
Presenter: William M. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Young children depend on their emerging “executive function skills” to navigate the classroom and the playground, but what are these skills and why do they matter? Join Dr. Jenkins as he reviews the three dimensions of executive function (inhibitory control, working memory, cognitive flexibility) and examines the development of these skills across childhood.
The Parent Trap: When and How Parents Can Help a Struggling Learner
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
From reading to social studies, most of our children need outside support with school. As a parent, how much help is too much? Learn from Dr. Burns how to support your child to become a motivated, independent learner with the confidence and cognitive control to take on academic tasks of all kinds, even science projects.
Brain Myths in Education: Making Sense of Fact vs. Fiction
Presenter: William M. Jenkins, Ph.D. and Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
The brain and learning are hot topics in education, but it's difficult to know whom or what to believe. Join Drs. Burns and Jenkins as they discuss what's true and false about the brain and education and why it all matters. Test how much you know and walk away with practical information to apply at your school with your students the next day!
Guided Reading for Every Student Every Day
Presenter: Cory Armes, M.Ed., Bobbi Burdett, Principal, and Teresa Lusk, Reading Interventionist
Length: 45 minutes
In today’s classroom, it’s virtually impossible for teachers to reach every student with guided reading every day- there are too many groups and not enough time! That’s why North Pike Elementary in MS decided to use a unique technology that provides 1:1 reading coaching to their students every day. Hear from North Pike’s principal and reading interventionist about how they’re raising state test scores and increasing fluency and comprehension in their largely low-income population.
Reading and the Adolescent Brain: What Works?
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
In middle and high schools across the country, educators are baffled by their students’ lack of improvement in reading despite repeated intervention. In this webinar, you will learn why so many adolescents plateau, what is happening in their brains at this time of great change, and what you can do to move students forward once and for all.
An RTI Solution for Your School: An Arizona District's Success Story
Presenter: Cory Armes and Sandy Brimhall, Special Services Director at Show Low Unified School District, AZ
Length: 45 minutes
Are you getting results with your struggling students? Learn from an AZ School District how to implement an RTI plan that raises test scores and reduces special education referrals.
The Hidden Reason Your Child Struggles to Read
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Join Dr. Martha Burns as she discusses a very common, but somewhat elusive problem that impacts many children’s ability to read: poor auditory processing. She will discuss the latest research on the brain and reading and explain why so many bright students still struggle to unlock the reading code. Joining her will be a parent to discuss her child’s progress and results with the BrainPro program.
What’s in the Common Core, but Missing in Your Curriculum
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Hear from Dr. Burns about the fundamental, and sometimes “hidden” skills students need to meet English language arts and math standards. These skills, mentioned in the Common Core, are considered by some to be more important than content knowledge, but are not always given the attention they deserve. Join us to learn how to build these skills in your students.
How a Low Performing School Achieved Double-Digit Gains on the California Standards Tests (CSTs)
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D. and Charles Wilson
Length: 60 minutes
Once a low performing school, Korematsu Discovery Academy in East Oakland has achieved double-digit gains on the California Standards Tests (CSTs) in English-language arts and mathematics. In this session,Principal Charles Wilson discusses how his school’s use of Fast ForWord has contributed to this dramatic improvement. In addition, Dr. Martha Burns shares the science behind Fast ForWord and explains what makes it so powerful as a reading intervention.
What Do Neuroscientists Know About Learning that Educators Don't?
Presenter: Paula Tallal, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Dr. Paula Tallal discusses the latest neuroscience research on learning, her original research on auditory processing and language, and the classroom application of these scientific findings to help struggling learners succeed.
Teaching with the Brain in Mind
Presenter: Eric Jensen
Length: 60 minutes
Learn specific, practical brain–compatible strategies you can use in the classroom right away in this pre-recorded session with Eric Jensen. Discover how the brain works, how teaching changes the brain, and what it takes for students to acquire complex learning and achieve their best.
Reaching All Learners – Using Technology to Personalize Instruction & Assessment in Today’s Classroom
Presenter: Alan November
Length: 60 minutes
Listen to Alan November address the challenges beginning teachers and teacher educators often face. November explores critical skills teachers should know (such as information literacy), presents useful ideas for moving curriculum and assessment online, and recommends ways to create authentic assessments and strengthen community support.
View more pre-recorded webinars >>Teaching with Poverty in Mind
Presenter: Eric Jensen
Length: 60 minutes
Eric 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).
The Science of Learning (for Parents)
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Dr. Martha S. Burns presented on the science of learning during this webinar. Recent research done on the brain shows that developing the critical cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing and sequencing can make a significant difference for your child, resulting in improved reading and general academics. Joining us will be a parent to discuss her child’s progress and results with the BrainPro program.
The Development of Executive Function: Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System
Presenter: William M. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Acquiring the early building blocks of executive function 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 function often highlighted by scientists, specifically working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility. We will examine the development of these skills across childhood and look at some popular misconceptions of science as it applies to executive function in children.
Six Months of Increase in Reading After a One Month Summer Program with Reading Assistant
Presenter: Maura Deptula
After one month of Reading Assistant use, the students in this study made significant gains on the SRI. On average, their Lexile scores improved by 68 points. Average students at the 4th to 5th grade level typically gain between 50 and 60 Lexile points in six months. In this one month summer program, participants gained more than half a year in reading comprehension, on average. This webinar included a discussion of these results as well as a live demonstration of Reading Assistant, a personal reading coach available anytime, anywhere.
Test Scores Rise from 55% to 81% Proficiency in ELA: Learn From District Administrators in St. Mary Parish Public School District How They Achieved These Results
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D., Lenny Armato, Gwendolyn P. Thomas, and Bridget Guillot
Length: 60 minutes
In the four years since they started using the Fast ForWord program, fourth graders at eight struggling elementary schools in the St. Mary Parish Public School System showed dramatic improvements in their reading achievement as measured by the state LEAP English Language Arts (ELA) test, rising from 55% to 81% proficiency in ELA, as well as increases in test scores in other subject areas. Dr. Burns will present about the science behind the Fast ForWord program, while Mr. Armato will discuss district implementation and results.
Read By Third Grade
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
In this webinar, neuroscientist Dr. Martha Burns discusses the newest science behind learning to read. As an expert in her field, she will discuss innovative approaches to reading intervention that can reach even the most struggling of readers. Get ready to think differently about how teacher and technology-based reading solutions can get students back on track.
The Science of Learning
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
In this webinar, Dr. Burns discusses the potential of neuroscience to profoundly impact education. 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.
Brain Health Across the Life Span
Presenter: Paul Nussbaum, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Join us as Dr. Nussbaum explained 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.
Reading English as a Second Language: Some Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Virginia Mann, Ph.D.
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.
BrainPro Webinar: Preventing Summer Brain Drain
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
Length: 60 minutes
Parents! View this pre-recorded BrainPro webinar where we discuss how to prevent summer brain drain in children. Dr. Martha Burns explained how new discoveries in education and teaching can improve a child’s ability to read and learn. Then Jenny from Florida described her daughter’s experience with BrainPro and how it helped her pass the FCAT.
Disrupting Class
Presenter: Michael Horn
Length: 45 minutes
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.
Our Changing Education Landscape
Presenter: Bill Daggett
Length: 60 minutes
Unprecedented 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: 75 minutes
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.
Brain Plasticity, Child Development and Learning
Presenter: Michael Merzenich, Ph.D.
Length: 70 minutes
This 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.
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To learn how these free webinars for educators work, see the FAQs.
Scientific Learning now offers Certificates of Attendance for webinar attendees. Based on guidelines or permissions from their districts, some educators are able to receive professional development credit for attending our webinars.
If you have any questions about our webinars or would like to request a Certificate of Attendance, please email us at webinars@scilearn.com.
OUR PRESENTERS
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Martha S. Burns, Ph.D.
As the author of over 100 journal articles and multiple books, neuroscientist Martha S. Burns, Ph.D., is a leading expert on how children learn. For over 15 years, she has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
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Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. He has written over 200 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 20 books or curriculum programs on reading education. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research.
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Chris Weber, Ed.D.
A former high school, middle school, and elementary school teacher, Dr. Weber has had a great deal of success helping at-risk students learn at extraordinarily high levels. The best-selling author of 1) Pyramid Response to Intervention, 2) Pyramid of Behavior Interventions, 3) Simplifying Response to Intervention, and 4) RTI and the Early Grades, Dr. Weber is recognized as an expert in behavior, mathematics, and Response to Intervention.
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William Jenkins, Ph.D.
One of our founders, Dr. Bill Jenkins is an expert in learning-based brain plasticity, behavioral algorithms, and psychophysical methods, as well as multimedia and Internet technology. Dr. Jenkins is an author or co-author on more than 100 publications including 13 commercial software products, 40 US patents, and 12 foreign patents that underlie our products.
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Paula Tallal, Ph.D.
One of our founders, Paula A. Tallal, Ph.D., is a Board of Governors' professor of neuroscience at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she helped found and currently co-directs the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Cory Armes
Mrs. Armes holds a Bachelor’s degree in both general and special education and a Master’s degree in Special Education with certification in the areas of Educational Diagnostician and Mid-Management.
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Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen co-founded the first international brain-based learning program in 1982 and has authored 24 books on the brain and learning including Teaching with Poverty in Mind, Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Enriching the Brain and Deeper Learning.
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Alan November
Alan November is an internationally recognized leader in education technology and author of the bestselling book, Empowering Students with Technology. He co-founded the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and was named one of the nation's 15 most influential thinkers of the decade by Technology and Learning Magazine.
