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Join us for live webinars with HMH® authors who will share tips and strategies to accelerate student achievement in summer school.
Simple Solutions for Summer Success: 3x3!
Patsy Kanter
April 5, 3:00 PM (ET)
Strengthening essential math skills and preventing further learning loss in mathematics are critical objectives of many summer school programs. In this webinar, we’ll look at three reasons children are enrolled for summer school math instruction, three impactful methods of instruction, and three activities that are effective in supporting discussion, contextualization, and problem solving.
About Patsy Kanter:
Patsy F. Kanter is an author, teacher, and international math consultant. She worked as the Lower School Math Coordinator and Assistant Principal at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana, for 13 years. She is the author of a number of mathematics programs, including Afterschool Achievers: Math Club and Summer Success®: Math, and co-author of Every Day Counts®: Calendar Math, Partner Games, and Practice Counts. She is a consulting author for Math in Focus®: Singapore Math® by Marshall Cavendish®, which is the U.S. version of Singapore's most widely used program, My Pals Are Here! Maths. Mrs. Kanter is a frequent speaker at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, CMC and others. In addition, Patsy meets and plans with principals, curriculum supervisors, Title 1 facilitators, teachers and parents throughout the country to plan mathematics instruction. At present, Patsy is an Elementary Math Specialist at Bricolage in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Sustaining a Growth Mindset for Summer Learning
David Dockterman
April 12, 2:00 PM (ET)
Can we make summer school feel like an opportunity rather than a punishment? Instilling a growth mindset in a community of learners can help. This webinar will provide tips for fueling mindset beliefs that summer school is worth doing, I can see myself growing (and my brain changing), and I belong to a group that cares about and supports me. We leverage the research on growth mindset and tapping what kids value.
About David Dockterman:
David Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Over the last 30 plus years, he has continued to balance lives in the academic and publishing worlds, designing dozens of award-winning educational software programs. Dr. Dockterman now serves as Chief Architect, Learning Sciences for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In both roles he supports the development of research-driven innovative practices to tackle challenging educational problems. His long-time Harvard course, Innovation by Design, fosters an iterative, agile approach to innovation across a range of educational issues and attracts students from around the world. Most recently, Dr. Dockterman served as a key advisor for the development of MATH 180® and READ 180® Universal. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education, an Editorial Board Member for the journal Science of Learning, and a Senior Fellow for the International Center for Leadership in Education.
Past Webinars Making Nonfiction Fun to Read
Dr. Bill McBride
March 23, 2:00 PM (ET)
All states now test their students in the reading of nonfiction, or as the new Common Core and State Standards call this genre, informational text. This highly engaging and interactive workshop will show teachers how to incorporate research-based Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary strategies into their content-area classrooms. Teachers will learn appropriate pre-reading activities to ensure their students succeed in their first reading of the text. New standards call for students to “read deeply;” hence teachers will learn activities that require students to reread a text multiple times while learning different literacy strategies. During- and post-reading strategies include identifying context clues, inference, text structure, and summarization.
About Dr. McBride:
Dr. Bill McBride is a well-known international speaker and teacher educator who is presently Author-in-Residence for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt®. He is most well known for his heartwarming novel about teaching entitled Entertaining an Elephant, which is in its 20th printing. He has also published Carrying a Load of Feathers, Building Literacy in Social Studies, the Reading Toolkits for Social Studies and If They Can Argue Well, They Can Write Well, which shows teachers how to use classroom debate to teach internet research, critical thinking, and argumentative writing. Dr. McBride is program consultant of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections, a Common Core 6–12 ELA program, and co-author of Inside the Text, a Tier II Intervention resource for struggling secondary students.
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