Professional Development

The NROC Project offers ongoing professional development opportunities that are free and can be accessed by anyone.

Upcoming

Check out our news and events page for upcoming professional development opportunities.

Webinars On-Demand

The NROC Project's ongoing webinar series is comprised of 1-hour professional development sessions that highlight educational thought leadership, NROC case studies, and technical trends, tips, and tricks. These videos are appropriate for both people new to the community as well as long-time friends and power users. If you are looking for details about implementation best practices, check out our Info Session series.

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Leaving COVID Behind: A Technology-Based Approach for Closing Proficiency Gaps

Watch our recorded webinar 'Leaving COVID Behind: A Technology-Based Approach for Closing Proficiency Gaps', with our partners at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, CO.

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Enhancing Your Classroom with EdReady: Tips and Strategies

Check out our recorded webinar to explore effective ways of integrating EdReady into your teaching practice. Learn how to make EdReady an effective and enjoyable tool for your students while leveraging its data and reporting features.

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Empowering Rural High Schools to Increase Dual Enrollment Access

This webinar will share the collaborative initiatives between Temple College and Trinity Valley College in Texas aimed at increasing dual enrollment access and career exploration in rural high schools using EdReady. Join us to learn more about how dual enrollment programs can help bridge the skills gap and create a sustainable future for our workforce.

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Paving the Way to Better Gateway Course Placement

Effectively preparing and training tomorrow's workforce begins with appropriate gateway course placement. York Technical College implemented a more flexible and accessible placement method with EdReady, the adaptive learning platform built by The NROC Project, as students may complete placement wherever they have internet access. Join us as we provide an overview of EdReady, an implementation roadmap, and share course-success data for students placed with this new method.

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Pathways to Postsecondary and Career Success

Discover cutting-edge strategies to customize educational pathways that meet the unique needs of students, providing them with adaptable routes to achieve academic and career success.

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How One University Developed an Evidence-Based Placement Practice That's Informing Graduation Rates

In 2015, Jacksonville State University (Jax State, formerly JSU) adopted EdReady as a learning-centered placement tool. Since then, the school has helped thousands of underprepared students avoid traditional remediation, effectively reducing student-incurred costs and improving student retention. During this webinar, Jax State faculty will unveil new institutional research that demonstrates that a student’s use of EdReady is a graduation indicator.

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Bridge Programs That Help At-Risk and Virtual Students Prepare for College

Join us as we explore how Dr. Bobbie Reeders, Principal of the Killeen Independent School District's Pathways Academic Program, and Kim Wray, Course Development Specialist at the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, are using EdReady, a personalized learning platform, to help at-risk and virtual students prepare for college.

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Low-Stakes Placement: Assess and Address Student Readiness

Join us for a conversation about how EdReady supports a placement practice that centers student agency and learning and prepares students for success in credit-bearing coursework and beyond.

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How to Launch an Effective, Personalized Summer Program

It’s not too late to implement an effective, personalized summer program.

Info Sessions

NROC Info Sessions are short, topical implementation presentations followed by a facilitated question-and-answer period.

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Leverage EdReady Reports to Support Your Students

Join us as we demonstrate EdReady's robust reporting capabilities. We'll orient you to data that you can leverage when you're utilizing EdReady in the classroom or assigning grades. Additionally, this session will showcase the reports to check, and the key details to monitor, to ensure your students are successful.

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EdReady Notifications: Bringing Student Activity to Your Attention

While EdReady reports surface a wealth of information, users previously had to proactively look for students who were making progress, not hitting milestones, or not effectively using the program. Join us as we review EdReady Notifications, which enable you to identify the student milestones and behaviors that you're interested in tracking and automatically alert your instructors when students demonstrate those actions.

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Making the Most of EdReady: Personalized and Powerful

EdReady can be configured to best support your institutional programs. Join us as we review the student experience, with a focus on customizable elements and how you can personalize the site to meet your needs. Additionally, we'll discuss key EdReady administrative tasks that will help you prepare for the new academic term.

EdReady as a Placement Alternative: Focus on Student Readiness and Success

EdReady is a powerful alternative to traditional placement tests. While typical tests may identify students who are not ready for college-level courses, EdReady helps students actively address their knowledge gaps and master the math and English concepts they need to know to be academically successful. The tool not only identifies initial student readiness aligned with specific courses at your institution, but it also provides students with a personalized study path to help them improve their readiness.

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EdReady 101

EdReady is a robust online learning system that individualizes math and English instruction. This session will illuminate how EdReady works, decode EdReady terminology, and spotlight reporting functionality.

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Leveraging EdReady and HippoCampus to Support Virtual Learning

Check out this 30-minute Info Session about how to use EdReady and HippoCampus to deliver exceptional virtual learning experiences.