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Alaska Staff Development Network
Professional learning for Alaska educators and school leaders
The Alaska Staff Development Network (ASDN) delivers webinar series, video courses, and workshops for K-12 educators, administrators, and paraprofessionals. Certificates of attendance can be applied toward 500-level university credit through ED 556 Transformative Teaching.
asdn.org ↗Upcoming webinars
- Wed, September 9
AI for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership K-12 (Part 1)
Session 1 of a four-part series with Rob Dickson and Dyane Smokorowski taking educators from curious to confident with tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
- Fri, September 11
Digital Well-Being Is A School Culture (Part 1)
Part 1 of a three-part series with Sue Thotz of Common Sense Media on building a culture of digital well-being, starting with educators themselves before widening the lens to students, families, and communities.
- Wed, September 16
AI for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership K-12 (Part 2)
Session 2 of the ASDN AI series: designing standards-aligned materials with generative AI, grounded in Universal Design for Learning.
- Fri, September 18
Digital Well-Being Is A School Culture (Part 2)
Part 2 of Sue Thotz's series on digital well-being, exploring the "frictionless design" pulling students away from real relationships and what schools can do about it.
- Wed, September 23
AI for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership K-12 (Part 3)
Session 3 of the ASDN AI series: personalizing learning for every student with practical, classroom-ready AI workflows.
- Thu, September 24
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 1)
Session 1 of Tanya Young's six-part series giving K-5 educators a research-based framework for teaching writing, beginning with the key components of writing instruction.
- Fri, September 25
Digital Well-Being Is A School Culture (Part 3)
Part 3 of Sue Thotz's series, focused on practical tools for partnering with families so digital habits align between home and school.
- Wed, September 30
AI for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership K-12 (Part 4)
Session 4 of the ASDN AI series: thinking strategically about AI for professional growth and school leadership.
- Thu, October 1
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 2)
Session 2 of the K-5 writing series: foundational transcription skills and how they support composition.
- Thu, October 8
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 3)
Session 3 of the K-5 writing series: evidence-based strategies with modeling and hands-on practice.
- Thu, October 15
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 4)
Session 4 of the K-5 writing series: sentence-level instruction and building toward paragraph composition.
- Thu, October 22
Supporting Students Who "Don't Know Their Facts" (Part 1)
Session 1 of a three-part series with Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams on why automaticity with basic facts matters for grade-level content, and what actually works.
- Thu, October 22
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 5)
Session 5 of the K-5 writing series: paragraph and multi-paragraph composition strategies for young writers.
- Thu, October 29
Unlocking Writing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Educators K-5 (Part 6)
Session 6 of the K-5 writing series: collaborative discussion and classroom application of the full writing framework.
- Thu, November 5
Supporting Students Who "Don't Know Their Facts" (Part 2)
Session 2 of Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams's series: effective intervention strategies for basic fact fluency (memorizing and skip counting songs not included).
- Thu, November 19
Supporting Students Who "Don't Know Their Facts" (Part 3)
Session 3 of the basic facts series: ensuring every student reaches automaticity with all their facts, with practical classroom routines.