Webinars - Knowledge Matters

Webinars

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Cognitive Science in the Classroom: Faster Fluency
This action-oriented session explores classroom practices that develop and foster fluency and its connection to higher-order thinking, with concrete examples from a Baltimore middle school.
- @ 4:30pm ET - Kyair Butts, Maryanne Wolf, and Melissa Orkin

11/03/2026

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RECORDING: Literacy and the Science of Learning
This engaging panel explored what happens in the brain when students read and write.
- Dylan Wiliam, Doug Lemov, and Natalie Wexler

02/05/2026

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RECORDING: Curriculum: An Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension
Curriculum brings together all of the other unsung heroes: knowledge, vocabulary, discourse, and writing.
- Pamela Snow, Staria Alexander, and Scott Langford

06/02/2025

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RECORDING: Knowledge: An Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension
In this session, we’ll dive deeply into how knowledge, as the unsung hero that drives all others, is the quarterback of literacy.
- Susan Neuman, Margaret McKeown, and Kyair Butts

01/17/2025

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RECORDING: Vocabulary: An Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary is arguably the most powerful component of reading comprehension.
- Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Sonia Cabell, and Sean Morrisey

12/09/2024

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RECORDING: Discourse: An Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a team sport.
- Nell Duke, Mitchell Brookins, and Grace Delgado

09/30/2024

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RECORDING: Writing: An Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension
Cognitive processes fueling comprehension rarely get their due.
- Natalie Wexler, Doug Lemov, and Julia Cooper

07/19/2024