This page will be regularly updated as events pass and are added. You can register while classes are still live if it is a series. Feel free to bookmark the full calendar found here. 

How to Establish a Student-Centered Learning Environment with Math Workshop

Math workshop helps students by decreasing anxiety, increasing engagement, and providing differentiated instruction. Through whole group lessons, small group instruction, and learning stations, students explore mathematics and develop a conceptual understanding of the content. With math workshop, teachers have a process to address student needs using inquiry and cooperative activities. The math workshop pedagogy supports student achievement by providing teachers with a framework for how to best use every instructional minute. This session will reveal how the philosophy of the math workshop model is connected to research and how it can be applied to create a student-centered learning environment, regardless of existing textbooks or curriculum.

Listen to Jennifer Lempp in conversation with Kristen Stump on the Heinemann Podcast.

Presenter: Jennifer Lempp

Grade Level: K-5

Dates and Time: Two 60-minute sessions from 4:30-6:00pm EST.

• Tuesday, April 9, 2024
• Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Free Event—Awakening the Heart, 2.e: A Celebratory Book Launch and Live Interview with Georgia Heard and Naomi Shihab Nye

Join bestselling author-poets Georgia Heard and Naomi Shihab Nye in a special live virtual interview hosted by poet and editor Zoë Ryder White, in celebration of the new edition of Georgia’s Awakening the Heart. In this free event, you’ll get inspired to teach poetry beyond National Poetry Month by adopting small ways to infuse poetry into your daily classroom routine. Discover teaching strategies from Awakening the Heart 2/e to help your students connect with their emotions, identities, and the wider world. A guest appearance by Disney screenwriters Aaron and Jordan Kandell, whose careers were inspired by Georgia Heard and other poets, will round out this event.

Listen to Georgia Heard on the Heinemann Podcast.

Presenters: Georgia Heard, Naomi Shihab Nye, Aaron & Jordan Kandell, Zoë Ryder White

Grade Level: K-8

Date and Time: April 11, 2024. 6:30-7:45pm EST

How to Integrate Reading and Writing: Strategies to Restructure Your Workshop to Maximize Efficiency and Engagement

Learn time-saving strategies while elevating student engagement and optimizing academic outcomes with The Literacy Studio, a redesigned literacy workshop structure in which students learn about reading and writing in an integrated manner, have a hand in setting their own goals, and exercise choice about when and how to read and write. Explore how this integrated method maximizes active learning time, encourages student inquiry, and enhances engagement all while saving YOU time! Join author Ellin Keene to learn how to establish a Literacy Studio in your classroom. Elevate your educational practices with the actionable takeaways from this practical workshop.

Listen to Ellin Keene on the Commuter Podcast Series.

Presenter: Ellin Keene

Grade Level: K-6

Dates and Time: Three 75-minute session from 4:30-5:45pm EST

• Tuesday, April 16, 2024
• Tuesday, April 23, 2024
• Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Free Event—The Teacher as Writer: Using Freewriting for Ourselves and Our Students

In this session we will explore ways to use prompted freewriting to open up possibilities for engaged and fluent writing. We will briefly look at the rationale for freewriting—then we will look at ways of using it. Tom Newkirk will share some of the prompts he has used, and briefly try one of them out (think food!). You will also explore some low-risk ways of sharing this writing. 

Listen to Tom and Ralph Fletcher in conversation on the Heinemann Podcast.

Presenter: Tom Newkirk

Grade Level: 6-12

Date and Time: April 24, 2024. 7:00-7:45pm EST.

Reading Strategies: Essential Research-Based Instruction for Every Classroom

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-packed (700+ citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to The New York Times’ bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

Listen to Jennifer and Jaclyn Karabinas on the Heinemann podcast.

Presenter: Jennifer Serravallo and Colleagues

Grade Level: K-8

Date and Time: May 1, 2024. 10:00am-4:00pm EST.

Free Event—Humans Who Teach, a Virtual Book Launch and Exploration with Shamari Reid

Join author and scholar Shamari Reid in a live virtual exploration of his new book, Humans who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools. All who attend this free event will be invited to participate in a series of engaging activities focused on self-care for teachers and developing classroom materials grounded in love. To conclude the event Shamari will answer audience questions about the book’s themes and big ideas. 

Listen to Shamari Reid on the Heinemann podcast.

Presenter: Shamari Reid

Grade Level: K-12

Date and Time: May 2, 2024. 7:00-8:00pm EST

Free Event—Teaching Secondary Multilingual Learners: Growing Language and Literacy, Grades 6-12

In this free webinar, Andrea Honigsfeld will offer a guided tour of her new book, Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for Secondary Multilingual Learners, and draw connections between it nd the previous bestselling K-8 edition. She’ll share impactful strategies that enrich language, literacy, and academic content learning across proficiency levels. There will be several guest appearances of educators who generously shared their own and their students’ work as featured illustrations in the book.

Listen to Andrea in conversation with Pam Schwallier on the Heinemann Podcast.

Presenter: Andrea Honigsfeld

Grade Level: 6-12

Date and Time: May 6, 2024. 7:00-7:45pm EST.

An Artful Approach to Teaching Honest History

As poet and scholar Clint Smith poses in How the Word is Passed, "How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?" This series will provide artful and practical tools for educators and school leaders who are grappling with how to tell the story of America, and teach history to the next generation of young minds in a way that is both honest, humanizing, and developmentally appropriate. Together we will explore how to reimagine social studies units that are student-centered and engaging by using a wide range of literacy and arts-based modalities, poetry, and contemporary children’s literature.

Listen to Rebecca Bellingham on the Commuter Podcast series.

Presenters: Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott

Grade Level: 3-6

Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 6:00-7:15pm EST.

• Tuesday, May 14, 2024
• Wednesday, May 15, 2024
• Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Free Event—Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging Students in Thematic History

In this free mini-workshop, China Harvey and Lisa Herzig will share their experiences transitioning from a traditional, chronological history course to a thematic one, highlighting the benefits of engaging students through current events, centering identity and inclusion, and using an inquiry-based approach. They will share some of the initial challenges they faced and address ways to overcome them. After they demonstrate their process, including sample unit maps and lesson plans, participants will walk away with some concrete ideas on crafting their own thematic history course. 

Their book, Teaching Beyond the Timeline, releases on April 16.

Presenters: China Harvey and Lisa Herzig

Grade Level: 6-12

Date and Time: May 22, 2024. 7:00-7:45pm EST.

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher: A Summer Institute for Educators

How do we help students become good writers with repertoires of writing strategies and craft techniques, who also know how to use writing conventions?

Please join Carl Anderson and Matt Glover for a multi-day professional learning virtual event, designed for the K-8 teacher who wants to improve or strengthen their writing instruction skills, as well as for the literacy coaches, administrators, and curriculum specialists who support them. The theme of this event is on the teaching of writing, which is an important focus of Carl and Matt’s new book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher.

Listen to Carl and Matt in conversation on the Heinemann podcast.

Presenters: Carl Anderson and Matt Glover

Grade Level: K-8

Date and Time: Two half-day workshops from 10:30am-2:30pm EST

• Tuesday, July 16, 2024
• Wednesday, July 16, 2024.

The Reluctant Writer: Effective Strategies to Engage All Students

Many of us find ourselves surrounded by a few (or more than a few) students who shrug when asked about their writing. They slump in their chairs, groan or ask “How long does this have to be?”  

What can we do to address the reluctant writers in our classrooms? 

In this three-part series, we’ll learn a number of practical, ready-to-use strategies to get all kids writing with enthusiasm and energy.  

Listen to Kelly Boswell in conversation with Blake Williams on the Heinemann Podcast.

Presenter: Kelly Boswell

Grade Level: K-5

Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 9:30-10:45am EST

• Tuesday, August 13, 2024
• Wednesday, August 14, 2024
• Thursday, August 15, 2024