Webinars

Quizbot for Google (A Quizbot Demonstration)

In this webinar you will see our most innovative teacher tool yet, Quizbot™—the Google extension that builds quizzes with one click from any existing digital text.

Learn how to build a quiz, differentiate for students, customize questions in Google Forms, and more!

Student-Centered Planning

Person-centered planning tools can build consensus, improve AT considerations, and result in stronger programming for our students. These tools will not by themselves provide answers, but they will ensure that the whole team is asking the same questions and considering the same priorities in our planning and decision making.

Making Google Extensions Work

Google extensions offer the opportunity to enhance learning, but implementation is key to getting outcomes. Caity Stockstell and Barb Michalos share their experiences implementing Snap&Read and Co:Writer Extensions, and how they sparked change within their district—providing students with technologies that would impact their lives and open up potential.

Google Forms For You!

Google Forms gives a powerful way to simplify the tasks you complete every day—from quizzes to data collection. In this webinar you will learn some ways you can implement Google Forms in the classroom.

You will also see how Don Johnston’s newest teacher tool, Quizbot™, automates the process of using Google Forms.

Implementing Google Extensions for Reading and Writing: A Model School Approach

Watch and see what happened when a curriculum integration specialist and her director took a Model School approach in order to give all students access to Snap&Read and Co:Writer Universal at the School City of Mishawaka.

The DeCoste Writing Protocol

Author Dr. Denise DeCoste walks us through her Writing Protocol. The formative assessment tool helps educators identify factors affecting an individual student’s ability to produce writing. Learn how you can use the DeCoste Writing Protocol to make sure your students have access to the tools they need to support their writing!

4 Steps to Implement Tech Through Student-Led Learning

Brewster Central School District in New York bypassed the traditional “train the trainer” model in favor of a student-led approach to implement Co:Writer and Snap&Read Universal.

Donna Schneider shares the steps her district took to implement a student-led model and the outcomes they are seeing through this approach.

Essential uPAR—What You Need to Know to Choose the Right Reading Accommodations

Think you know what reading accommodations your students need? You may be missing the most important part!

Dr. Denise DeCoste shares her experience as an OT, special educator, and developer behind uPAR—a protocol that helps educators make data-driven decisions on reading accommodations.

3 Steps to Teach Writing in SpED Classrooms (and make it joyful!)

Dr. Janet Sturm discusses instructional practices that help students discover communication through writing—starting with scribbling. First Author Writing Curriculum guides writing instruction step-by-step and gives measurement tools so sensitive that you can track writing progress in even the most emergent writers.