Teachers and school staff are held accountable to strict legal guidelines when it comes to student data. Do you know what data you can release to a parent? What happens if a non-custodial parent or family member asks for a child’s test scores? Can you keep student grades on your computer? Find out how to ensure you are following the FERPA guidelines around how to use and store student data.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 1.0

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Are you overwhelmed by all the instructional possibilities in your new or future blended learning classroom—or not sure where to begin? In this webinar, you will gain strategies to tackle the lesson planning process in a blended learning setting. Participants will learn ways to structure lesson planning, how to integrate your own current best practices, and consider methods for managing the increasing number of instructional experiences you will offer your students.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.11, 2.15, 3.8, 4.3

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If you have English Learners in your school or classroom, this session is for you! We will explore how Blended Learning can support the complex differentiation needed to accelerate the achievement of English Learners. Rebecca Tomasini, Founder and CEO of The Alvo Institute, and former ELD teacher, will share how to infuse Blended Learning methods to provide EL students with dynamic, personalized instructional activities and teachers with detailed, real-time insight into student progress.

After a overview of the diverse BL options for an EL classroom, participants will choose from a variety of hands-on activities like creating personalized play-lists, using online programs to help students develop their speaking and listening skills, how to create a dynamic array of instructional classroom stations, and how to use dynamic e-reader platforms that can help English Learners acquire English while at the same time learning the academic content that my be beyond their EL skill level. Rebecca was awarded a CABE* teacher of the Year Award for advancing the achievement levels of her EL students. You will be inspired by Rebecca’s passion for working with ELs and their families and how much Blended can add to EL classrooms.

*California Association of Bilingual Educators

Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies:2.4, 2.8, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.15, 3.3

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Our most requested webinar Do you have concerns about how to stay organized while managing the increased level of activity in your blended learning classroom? In this webinar, you will examine the unique student engagement challenges (and opportunities) blended learning presents in comparison to a traditional classroom setup. Participants will learn about helpful procedures, specific engagement considerations, and will have the opportunity to develop a plan for their own classrooms.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 3.9, 3.10

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Are you concerned about managing an in-class computer station or a fleet of brand-new laptops? Do you wonder how to cultivate safe and practical technology habits in your students? If you are about to launch the computer-based learning component of blended learning in your classroom, regardless of your comfort level with technology, this webinar will help you plan for a smooth integration. You will learn about effective classroom procedures for safe and efficient computer use and explore lesson plans that start the discussion about the classroom computer culture and good digital citizenship. We will explore organizational and time management strategies you can use in your classroom, as well as discuss relevant safety issues and how to navigate them. Ease the transition to using computers for learning and begin mapping out particulars for your own classroom.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4

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Learn about blended learning from the first technology-agnostic firm in the country to support some of the earliest and most successful blended learning models. The Alvo Team will guide participants through case studies, videos, and discussion. You will end the session with a deep understanding of the many forms blended learning can take.
The Alvo Institute Team will draw on their extensive implementation experience to facilitate a series of interactive activities that will help participants explore the brief, but fast paced, evolution of blended learning. Participants will learn about the critical design and implementation steps, often overlooked, to launch blended programs with a focus on how to create a blended program that centers on the instructional needs of the students as well as how to identify program needs and select technology that supports your unique needs.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.1

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NextGen teachers need NextGen leaders able to support a very different school culture. Teachers who successfully incorporate Blended and other innovative NextGen instructional designs into their classrooms, use a highly iterative process of small, frequent modifications, reflection, refinement and collaboration, but many educational systems are not set up to incentivize or support teachers as innovators. How can school and district leaders develop school cultures in which collaboration and innovation explicit, supported and encouraged? Learn about how educational leaders create innovative cultures where “failures” are celebrated, collaboration and play leads to the most unlikely solutions and reflection and regular collegial feedback loops fuel refinement. In this workshop, through video exemplars, case studies and lessons learned from educational leaders, participants will explore how to enable the innovator’s mindset as their faculties and teams explore and implement NextGen instructional models.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6

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Individual teachers can begin to pilot Blended instruction in their classrooms even if their school is not ready to take on a school- wide implementation. In fact, it is often through the innovations in a single classroom that inspire more wide scale change.

In this workshop we will share some practical, manageable, ways teachers can try aspects of a Blended model in their classrooms. After taking a short survey, participants will receive a customized report that compares their current practices and beliefs to the skills needed to facilitate a great blended classroom. From there, we will share video examples and other forms of classroom implementation inspiration to help participants use their customized reports to identify what parts of their current practice support Blended Learning and where they might want to deepen their skills. Teachers will leave the workshop having identified practical skills, concepts and strategies they can try in their classroom.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

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Introducing any new instructional program to a school or class is no simple matter. Support and cooperation from a range of stakeholders is necessary to make the implementation of blended learning a success for all. In this webinar, we will examine the interconnected roles of these stakeholders (from teachers to administrators to board members, students, and the broader community) and will design a plan to encourage their backing of blended learning. Each has unique needs, which we will consider. Participants in the webinar will learn concrete strategies to keep all stakeholders informed and inspire participation.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4

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Whether you have already announced that you will be launching a blended learning program in your school or class, or you’re still in the planning stages, this webinar will guide you through ways to help parents understand the changes that will occur with blended learning. Parents are important stakeholders whose support affects the success of any new program in the classroom. Participants will discuss common concerns of reluctant parents and how to address them, outlining a communication plan and specific information to share with parents.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.2, 4.4

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Are you prepared to launch a blended learning program in your class but concerned about how your students will adjust to the changes? We will explore common challenges students might face and discuss specific strategies to address these concerns. Participants in this webinar will learn how to ease the transition for students and to generate enthusiasm for the new ways they’ll be learning.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.2, 4.4

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Through case studies, videos discussions and activities, The Alvo Team will guide participants through an overview of the different approaches to Blended Learning helping participants explore which aspects of BL they should explore further.
Learn how to dream about, design and launch a Blended Learning program that meets your school’s unique needs. Will you push the envelope or replicate an existing model? Will you use a learning lab or one-to-one computing? What will the role of the teacher become in your model? Will you use Blended to support competency-based learning, project based learning or another method?
As the first technology agnostic firm in the US to support Blended Learning designs and implementations, The Alvo Institute Team will draw on their extensive implementation experience to facilitate a series of interactive activities that will help participants explore the brief, but fast paced, evolution of Blended Learning.
Participants will learn about the critical design and implementation steps, often overlooked, to launch blended programs with a focus on how to create a Blended program that centers on the instructional needs of the students as well as how to identify program needs and select technology that supports your unique needs.
With guidance from the facilitators participants will learn how to conduct a variety of readiness assessments, ask the critical “getting started” questions, use and develop a project plan, risk/mitigation plan with a collection of Alvo created templates designed to support the design and launch of a blended program. Participants will also be able to work in small groups, interacting with facilitators and their peers, while engaged in real scaffolding and action planning for their school.
Aligns to Alvo Blended Learning Competencies: 4.1, 4.2

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