Plan Your PD: Virtual Workshops and Webinar Series

This fall, we will continue to provide high-quality professional development to you on a wide range of topics — virtually!

What does this mean? It means that no matter where you live, you have many more choices than before. It means more options for finding something that fits your goals and schedule. It means that professional development is STILL important to teacher growth and student learning, and will not stop as we enter this strange and difficult year.

Heinemann PD offers webinar series, one-day workshops, multi-day institutes, speakers, seminars, and consulting authors — now all virtual. In this post, we will focus on two options for you this fall: three-part live webinar series and virtual workshops.

Webinar Series

Our 3-part live webinar series have always been virtual and recorded so that you can access them on your schedule if you aren’t able to join live. Accessed through Zoom with recordings available to you for 90 days after the final session, each series by our author-presenters offer expertise on topics and practices important to our work with students now, including remote instruction moves.

Each session is 75 minutes long and the three sessions are spaced apart so you have time to synthesize your learning, try something with students, and come back to the next session ready to learn more!

This fall we are thrilled to present:

• Elevating Equity and Justice Webinar, presented by Bob Kim, (join us in progress, Session 2 starts August 17th!)
• Planning a Digital Writing Unit for Online Instruction using Mentor Texts, presented by Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell, starts Sept. 15.
• Temas, Textos, and Translanguaging: Storytelling and Social Justice, presented by Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera, starts Sept. 29.
• Two consecutive PD webinars series for both Writing Strategies and Comprehension Strategies, both presented by Jennifer Serravallo, start Sept 30.
• Strategies and Skills for Digital Learning: Meaningful Instruction to Promote Engagement and Independence, presented by Katie Muhtaris and Kristin Ziemke, begins on Oct. 1.
• Individualize Writing Instruction by Conferring with Students...Whatever the Setting!, presented by Carl Anderson, starts on Oct. 13.
• Journey to a Student-Centered Learning Environment, presented by Towanda Harris, begins on Oct. 20.
• Phonics Foundations That Work: Letter Lessons and First Words, presented by Heidi Ann Mesmer, starts on Oct. 22.
• Between the Commas-and Beyond!, presented by Martin Brandt, begins on Nov. 10.

Virtual One-Day Workshops

We all love the experience of a one-day workshop with colleagues, away from the routine of a regular day, that provides space to truly focus on content, practices, and our craft. While being in-person is not our current reality, our virtual one-day workshops still allow you to immerse yourself in learning for a full day. With many scheduled breaks throughout the day, you can be sure you still get a rich experience with the presenting author.

This fall, we have scheduled workshops in time zones instead of single cities. What this means is, that you can choose the start-end time frame that works for you. If you live on the west coast and are willing to wake up early to catch a workshop by your favorite author scheduled for the east coast, go for it!