Upcoming Webinars
Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of the Texas School Dropout Prevention and Reentry Program Grants
February 17 
10:30am (PT)
As part of a series of WestEd-sponsored webinars related to education goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Jaclyn Tejwani, Research Associate in the Evaluation Research Program at WestEd, and Chris Caesar, Program Manager of the Texas High School Project with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), will present findings from the evaluation of the Texas School Dropout Prevention and Reentry Program (TSDPRP) Grants in reducing the dropout rate in Texas and improving student outcomes.
Presenters:
Program Manager, Texas High School Project
Texas Education Agency
Project Director and Research Associate
WestEd
Santa Fe Middle School: Strategies for Success
February 24 10:30am (PT)
Ron Letourneau, Rick Crosby, and Yvonne Koskela, administrators at Santa Fe Middle School, a Los Angeles County middle school, will share the actual steps they and their staff have taken to help their high poverty, high minority student population perform well above the statewide average and maintain a decile 10 state ranking for the last three years.
Presenters:
Assistant Principal
Santa Fe Middle School
Program Advisor
Santa Fe Middle School
Principal
Santa Fe Middle School
Differentiated Tools and Strategies to Support RTI in Language Arts/Social Studies
March 24 01:00pm (PT)
Kathy Glass—President of Glass Educational Consulting and author of Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction—will explain how Response to Intervention (RTI) provides a roadmap for implementing differentiated instruction (DI) in the language arts or social studies classroom. She will define differentiation and share several practical DI tools, strategies, and assessments.
Presenters:
Glass Educational Consulting
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