December 17, 2025
Let’s take a moment to reflect on a year of effective learning and innovative strategies aimed at creating the conditions for thriving learners and empowered communities. This retrospective highlights this year’s most viewed webinars that feature invaluable insights and transformative discussions with WestEd experts and partners.
WestEd’s Leading Together 30-Minute Webinar Series
The Leading Together webinar series features WestEd experts sharing research and evidence-based practices aimed at bridging opportunity gaps and supporting positive outcomes for both children and adults—all in 30 minutes.
Literacy Practices That Support Multilingual Student Success Across Content Areas: Explore four literacy practices that can serve as powerful tools to engage all students—especially multilingual students—in meaningful disciplinary learning with WestEd’s Annette Gregg and Amanda Nabors. Learn how educators can encourage translanguaging, highlight key language functions, leverage high-quality instructional materials, and foster opportunities for disciplinary discourse.
Responsive, Respectful, and Relationship-Based Approach to Infant and Toddler Care: Learn about the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) approach with Peter Mangione and Amber Morabito. Explore responsive, relationship-based strategies that help create predictable emotionally connected care and support the well-being, learning, and development of infants and toddlers.
Nurturing the Whole Child: Supporting Early Learning Approaches That Meet the Needs of All Children: Discover how Beginning Together integrates child intentions and developmentally appropriate practices to create meaningful and supportive environments for young children with disabilities from birth through age 5. Linda Brault and Ine Jack highlight key strategies for honoring each child’s unique strengths and fostering a sense of belonging.
Ensuring Literacy Success Across the Disciplines for Students With Disabilities: Learn more about how to help students with disabilities in reading (including dyslexia) succeed. Elizabeth Zagata, Katie Drummond, and Misty Sailors discuss strategies that draw upon disciplinary literacy approaches. Discover how educators can deliver specially designed literacy instruction while ensuring that students can engage with grade-level texts through strategic accommodations.
Reading and Writing Across the Content Areas: Helping Students Improve Comprehension in Grades K–5: Building on the science of reading, Robin Sayers and Kathryn Grogan offer an overview of comprehension instruction inside content areas (K–5) and evidence-based comprehension instruction that supports academic success, with practical examples of what disciplinary literacy instruction can look like in science, math, and language arts classrooms.
Looking Ahead to 2026
The webinars featured in this year’s wrap-up reflect WestEd’s commitment to supporting educators, caregivers, and leaders in creating accessible learning environments; each session offers evidence-based strategies and practical tools that can be implemented immediately.
Don’t miss out on opportunities to learn, grow, and connect—stay tuned for more webinars in 2026!
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