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The AWSA webinars page is where you can find recordings of past webinars available to the public. To find information or register for an upcoming webinar please see our Upcoming Events page.

To find webinars that are part of an AWSA professional learning academy please select that academy on the Upcoming Events page.

If you have a question about an AWSA webinar please contact AWSA at 608-241-0300 or at [email protected] 

 

Seclusion and Restraint: An Introduction to 2019 WI Act 118

Date: August 28, 2020

On March 4, 2020, the new pupil restraint and seclusion law went into immediate effect upon the signature of Governor Evers and is now in Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 118 General School Operations at §118.305. Act 118 includes new provisions school principals are responsible for implementing.

Presenters: Alana M. Leffler and Gary M. Ruesch from Buelow and Vetter

Sponsored by: AWSA, WCASS and WASDA

 

Helping Students and Staff Cope with Crisis and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date: 1 pm July 30, 2020


This session is offered to members of AWSA and WCASS and will provide practical advice on how to help students and staff understand and cope with the pandemic, review the unique challenges schools face in supporting grieving students during the pandemic, and highlight free resources to address these challenges.  The session will underscore the need to provide support to school professionals and to promote self-care.  Ample time will be devoted to questions and discussion. Together, we will consider how best to support students, staff, and ourselves during this evolving pandemic. 

Presenter: David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP, established and directs the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (www.schoolcrisiscenter.org), located at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; the Center coordinates the Coalition to Support Grieving Students (www.grievingstudents.org), comprised of 100 organizations.

 

AWSA Webinar: The Best of the Marshall Memo

Date: 1 pm December 17, 2019

 

Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang, recently published the book The Best of the Marshall Memo: Ideas and Action Steps to energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning. The Best of the Marshall Memo is a distillation of high-impact ideas from the first 16 years of the Memo, available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Each chapter has 8-10 article summaries on a major topic, followed by solution-oriented professional learning suggestions. This highly practical set of insights, research findings, and strategies will energize leadership, teaching, and learning.

 

Future Ready Framework for Principals: Examining and Allocating Resources

Date: 1 pm Monday, May 15, 2019


This is part of our webinar series on Future Ready Framework for Principals. As schools seek to become future ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership at all levels and across multiple roles. FRS principals invest in distributed leadership instead of autocratic structures, providing hybrid roles and developing teacher and student leaders. They coach, model, and lead processes that directly address how to personalize instruction for digital-age students and teachers to own collaboratively. This series of offerings provide examples of how Wisconsin principals are finding ways to lead Future Ready Schools that reflect the elements of the Future Ready Framework for Principals.

The webinar presenters will share how their school and district have embraced the FRAMEWORK to leverage improvement and innovation.

 

Future Ready Framework for Principals: Personalizing Professional Learning

Date: 1 pm Monday, May 6, 2019


This is part of our webinar series on Future Ready Framework for Principals. As schools seek to become future ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership at all levels and across multiple roles. FRS principals invest in distributed leadership instead of autocratic structures, providing hybrid roles and developing teacher and student leaders. They coach, model, and lead processes that directly address how to personalize instruction for digital-age students and teachers to own collaboratively. This series of offerings provide examples of how Wisconsin principals are finding ways to lead Future Ready Schools that reflect the elements of the Future Ready Framework for Principals.

The webinar presenters will share how their school and district have embraced the FRAMEWORK to leverage improvement and innovation.

Future Ready Framework for Principals: Innovative Schedules

Date: 1 pm Thursday, May 2, 2019


This is part of our webinar series on Future Ready Framework for Principals. As schools seek to become future ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership at all levels and across multiple roles. FRS principals invest in distributed leadership instead of autocratic structures, providing hybrid roles and developing teacher and student leaders. They coach, model, and lead processes that directly address how to personalize instruction for digital-age students and teachers to own collaboratively. This series of offerings provide examples of how Wisconsin principals are finding ways to lead Future Ready Schools that reflect the elements of the Future Ready Framework for Principals.

The webinar presenters will share how their school and district have embraced the FRAMEWORK to leverage improvement and innovation. For slides and other materials provided by Amy Fassbender please click here. For questions on materials or this webinar contact Amy at [email protected]

 

Leveraging Legitimate EE Flexibilities to Grow More Impact on Teaching and Learning Confirmation

Date: 1 pm Tuesday, April 23, 2019 

In this webinar, we will discuss current themes of EE implementation that we are learning from the field, discuss legitimate flexibilities at your disposal to increase local EE impact, and highlight fruitful practices by a number of our school- and district-level colleagues in EE that can be examples for you to consider as well.  We are also pleased to share that both Katie Rainey of DPI and Cathy Clarksen of CESA 6 will be our webinar guests, so you can trust that you are hearing answers to your questions from the people in charge of leading these efforts for our state. 

You can find the EE article mentioned in the webinar online. We also ask that you complete a short survey so that we can continue to improve our program to match your needs. 

You may also watch this video on our Vimeo channel here.

Future Ready Framework for Principals: Engaging Stakeholders

Date: 1 pm Thursday, March 21, 2019


This is part of our webinar series on Future Ready Framework for Principals. As schools seek to become future ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership at all levels and across multiple roles. FRS principals invest in distributed leadership instead of autocratic structures, providing hybrid roles and developing teacher and student leaders. They coach, model, and lead processes that directly address how to personalize instruction for digital-age students and teachers to own collaboratively. This series of offerings provide examples of how Wisconsin principals are finding ways to lead Future Ready Schools that reflect the elements of the Future Ready Framework for Principals.

The webinar presenters will share how their school and district have embraced the FRAMEWORK to leverage improvement and innovation.

Crisis Communications and Communications Support Webinar

Date: 1 pm Tuesday, November 20, 2018


If you have a crisis or a communications-related question, Joe Donovan, the Donovan Group’s president can be reached at 414-409-7225 ext. 2, or via email at [email protected].

 

AWSA Webinar on Licensing Updates 

Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018

Above you will find our webinar on the significant changes to educator licensure included in the State Budget. Presentation slides can be found here.  In addition, here is a link to the DPI's blog that includes frequently asked questions on these changes.

If you have a question that is not addressed in this information you can submit a question to the Department using this link.

 

AWSA Webinar on the Early College Credit Program

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018


Above you will find our webinar on the changes to the Early College Credit Program. If you have any questions about this webinar or about this topic please contact Tahira Chaudary at [email protected] or (608) 267-3161.

Also available is this link to the PI 8700 form school districts can use as a template and the comparison chart. 

AWSA Webinar on Licensing Updates 

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017

 

Above you will find our webinar on the significant changes to educator licensure included in the State Budget. Presentation slides can be found here. In addition, here is a link to the DPI's blog that includes frequently asked questions on these changes.

If you have a question that is not addressed in this information you can submit a question to the Department using this link.