Webcasts and Webinars
ROUNDTABLE
October 27, 2021
California college admissions amid the pandemic: What you need to know
With most California colleges no longer requiring the SAT or ACT, more students are applying to competitive campuses. Colleges, bombarded with more applications, face questions about their admissions decisions.
ROUNDTABLE
September 30, 2021
Universal Transitional Kindergarten: What parents need to know
This roundtable included policymakers, researchers, advocates and a transitional kindergarten teacher, who discussed the expansion of TK.
ROUNDTABLE
August 31, 2021
Back to school: Teachers reflect on the first days and the year ahead
EdSource's Anne Vasquez and John Fensterwald checked in with some of California's leading teachers about how the pandemic has changed their perspective on teaching and schools.
ROUNDTABLE
June 24, 2021
How community colleges prepare a post-pandemic workforce
This roundtable explores the opportunities and roadblocks confronting California’s 116 community colleges.
WEBINAR
September 29, 2020
Diversity in community college faculty and leadership: Why it Matters
In this webinar, the speakers discuss the challenges they've encountered in improving the racial climate on their campuses and strategies for improving diversity in their colleges.
WEBINAR
August 12, 2020
Back-to-school town hall with EdSource reporters and editors
In this virtual town hall, EdSource reporters discuss what education will look like this fall in California.
WEBINAR
June 03, 2020
Transforming education in a post-pandemic world: the next phase of distance learning
In this webinar, Anaheim Union High School District Superintendent Michael Matsuda, explains how the district is re-envisioning education in a post-pandemic world by valuing teachers’ ideas and instructional capacity and developing students’ relational and emotional intelligence.
WEBINAR
June 02, 2020
Distance Learning 2.0: Pajaro Valley looks ahead, with Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez
In this webinar, Supt. Rodriguez and EdSource's John Fensterwald dive deeper into the strategies and successes of Pajaro Valley's transition to deeper learning.
WEBINAR
May 12, 2020
To the Extent Feasible: Strategies for success with distance learning
In this webinar, analysts share their most recent findings on how districts and charters have set effective teaching and learning expectations, defined staff roles and responsibilities and handled policies for grading, taking attendance and providing supports for students with special needs.
WEBINAR
February 11, 2020
Linking High School and College: What’s next for dual enrollment in California?
Dual enrollment enables high school students to take college classes. Learn more about how it works, its challenges and opportunities in this panel discussion.
WEBINAR
June 18, 2019
Building for the future: Funding school renovation and construction
Experts on California's school facilities funding explore why more state building aid is needed and discuss whether the formula for matching state aid should be changed.
WEBINAR
May 21, 2019
Avoiding the fiscal cliff: How adequate school funding can close equity gaps
Experts on California's school funding and equity discuss what it would take to get to a fair and adequate level of funding for all schools.
WEBINAR
May 01, 2019
Unaffordable housing and teacher shortages: What can be done?
Experts on California's teacher shortage and housing crunch discuss the challenges teachers face in finding housing they can afford and districts face in finding and keeping teachers. Experts explore the most promising strategies that have emerged to address them.
WEBINAR
March 06, 2019
California’s School Pension Crisis: Who pays and what could be done?
Experts on California's pension system discuss the challenge of rising pensions costs, address the root causes and explore potential solutions.
WEBINAR
December 10, 2018
Quality Early Education for all Kids in California What Will It Take?
Governor-elect Newsom has pledged to significantly expand early education in California. But with more than 3 million kids aged 5 and under in the state, what would it take to do that?
WEBCAST
May 23, 2018
Candidates for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Join Louis Freedberg and John Fensterwald for a conversation with candidates in the race to be California's next superintendent of public instruction.
WEBCAST
March 21, 2018
Understanding education equity – and achieving it
This video conference looks at how to define education equity and what California schools and districts can do to close achievement and opportunity gaps for their students.
WEBCAST
January 09, 2017
After Proposition 58: What’s Next For Bilingual Education in California?
The passage of Prop. 58 has the potential to usher in a new era for bilingual education in California. Our panel of experts will discuss the opportunities, benefits and challenges.