IntelliPath Webinars
-Getting Started with IntelliPath-
This 45-minute interactive Webinar, designed for persons new to IntelliPath, will provide participants an overview of the following:
- Setting up a class
- Inventorying resources
- Creating formative assessments
- Assigning assessments
- Administering student assessments
- Creating Learning Paths
- The session will conclude with a question-and-answer period about any and all aspects of IntelliPath.
May 14, 2008 - 11:00 A.M. EDT
-Implementing IntelliPath-
This 45-minute, interactive Webinar, designed for persons who have been through IntelliPath training, will provide participants with in-depth steps and practice in implementing IntelliPath to positively impact student achievement, including:
- Managing your class, groups, and subgroups
- Creating your own resources
- Managing assessment data
- Using Learning Paths
- Producing and analyzing class reports
- The session will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
May 15, 2008 - 3:00 P.M. EDT
May 16, 2008 - 12:00 P.M. EDT
May 21, 2008 - 10:00 A.M. EDT
-Creating Customized Assessments in IntelliPath-
This 45-minute, interactive Webinar will provide HOSTS IntelliPath Users with the knowledge and skills to create effective diagnostic assessments within IntelliPath.
Participants will:
- Review the process for creating customized assessments from scratch.
- Determine an appropriate number of assessment items and items per objective.
- Construct and assign an assessment.
May 26, 2008 - 12:00 P.M. EDT
-Creating a Learning Path from Assessment Results in IntelliPath-
This 45-minute interactive Webinar will provide HOSTS IntelliPath users with the knowledge and skills to create an individualized student Learning Path from assessment results within IntelliPath.
Participants will:
- Review the process for creating individualized student Learning Paths from assessment results.
- Review assessment results.
- Apply assessment results to a Learning Path.
- Add resources and strategies to a Learning Path.
- View and/or print a Learning Path for use during a mentoring session.
May 26, 2008 - 1:00 P.M. EDT
To reserve a seat for one of the IntelliPath webinars above please CLICK HERE.

M & I Best Practices Webinars
-Best Practices Application-
This 45 min interactive webinar will guide participants through the application process for applying for HOSTS Best Practices Award. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions specific to the application and to brainstorm with colleagues from around the country.
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Professional Development Webinars
-Developing a Home-run Vocabulary Instruction Program-
This 45-minute interactive webinar will provide HOSTS teachers with a framework for developing and implementing a powerful vocabulary instruction program to boost student achievement.
Participants will:
- Review the research supporting direct vocabulary instruction.
- Examine the key components of an effective vocabulary instruction program.
- Explore key strategies for developing meaningful connections with new vocabulary.
- Identify materials necessary to deliver an effective vocabulary instruction program.
- Develop a plan for implementing a more effective vocabulary instruction program.
May 5, 2008 - 1:00 P.M. EDT
-A HOSTS Summer School Solution-
This 45-minute interactive Webinar will provide HOSTS IntelliPath users with a framework for using the HOSTS Solution to implement an individualized summer school solution for at-risk students.
Participants will:
- Review the components of a successful HOSTS program implementation.
- Identify alternatives for applying the key components of a successful HOSTS program to a reduced timeline.
- Discuss implementation strategies as related to:
- Longer than 30-minute sessions
- Identify materials necessary to implement a HOSTS summer school program, including space and personnel.
- Develop a plan for implementing an effective HOSTS summer school program.
May 26, 2008 - 2:00 P.M. EDT
-A HOSTS Program Without Walls: Planning for Collaboration and Communication-
This 45-minute interactive Webinar will provide HOSTS teachers with ideas and resources for fulfilling and documenting ongoing collaboration with stakeholders in their respective school communities.
Participants will:
- Explore ideas for scheduling and documenting participation in grade level/team meetings.
- Discover ways to create student performance reports for classroom teachers and administrators (campus and central office).
- Examine effective means of establishing ongoing communication with parents (i.e., progress reports and newsletters).
- Identify easy methods for acquiring classroom teacher input when identifying learning objectives for HOSTS students.
- Develop a personal plan for improving and documenting collaboration and communication in their respective school communities.
May 7, 2008 - 10:00 A.M. EDT
May 8, 2008 - 3:00 P.M. EDT
-HOSTS Instructional Leadership: Building Leadership Capacity through Collaboration-
This 45-minute interactive Webinar will help schools to improve their respective HOSTS programs by creating an environment in which leadership is embedded in the school community as a whole.
Participants will:
- Review the various dynamics of group relationships.
- Explore researched-based explanations and value of collaborative leadership.
- Plot the current leadership capacity of their respective campuses.
- Identify HOSTS Learning support of leadership capacity/collaboration.
- Develop a personal plan for enhancing leadership capacity in their respective school communities.
May 13, 2008 - 10:00 A.M. EDT
May 14, 2008 - 3:00 P.M. EDT
-Language and Reading: The Critical Connection-
This interactive and informative Webinar will present both the research history and the neuroscientific data showing how the process of reading is critically dependent on that part of the brain that is associated with oral language. This Webinar will also cover ways that teachers can determine if a student is having language-related reading issues and ways to intervene. The Webinar will end with a Question-and-Answer session.
May 14, 2008 - 4:00 P.M. EDT
May 16, 2008 - 10:00 A.M. EDT
To reserve a seat for one of the Professional Development webinars above please CLICK HERE.
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