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1. Overview of Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) for Paraprofessionals

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/8/2026

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In this training, paraprofessionals will gain a deeper understanding of specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities. This introductory training aims to develop paraprofessionals' working knowledge of SDI components and the rationale for using SDI when supporting students with disabilities.
  • Hours: 1
  • Enrolled: 0/15
  • Wait: 0/0

2. Explicit Instruction: An Evidence-Based Practice for Effective and Long-Term Learning

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/15/2026 to 9/17/2026

This explicit instruction training package is designed to enhance participants' understanding of explicit instruction and support teachers in effectively implementing it. Explicit instruction is a high-leverage practice that has been proven effective for special education students. Research has shown that students with disabilities achieve higher results in both reading and math after receiving explicit instruction.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 8/40
  • Wait: 0/0

3. Phonological Awareness: Establishing Foundations for Reading Success

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/15/2026

Participants will explore what skills to teach when, and how to teach these skills for students to master phonological awareness. The training will also provide context for the importance of using assessments to improve the effectiveness of phonological instruction for students. To overcome equity barriers, educators need to focus on systemic, explicit instruction to teach the skills supported by the science of reading.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 6/40
  • Wait: 0/0

4. Using the FBA/BIP Process to Support Students Needing Intensive Intervention

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Any role with significant involvement in conducting FBAs and developing BIPs (usually admin, psychs, social workers, etc)

Dates: 9/17/2026 to 9/24/2026

An intensive series for professionals involved in conducting and implementing FBAs and BIPs. Day 1 focuses on understanding the behavior pathway and conducting an FBA; participants will build fluency with theoretical foundations on which FBAs and BIPs are based, and understand and develop the skills necessary to complete the FBA per part 200 regulations. Day 2 focuses on using the competing behavior pathway to develop a behavior intervention plan, and participants will also develop the skills necessary to ensure the BIP is implemented and progress monitored with fidelity per part 200 regulations.
  • Hours: 12
  • Enrolled: 23/30
  • Wait: 0/0

5. Understanding, Assessing, and Increasing Educational Organization [EO] Capacity for Family Engagement

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/21/2026

Research shows that schools that successfully engage families find that their students earn higher grades, score higher on tests, develop better social skills, and are more likely to graduate. This training contains research and best practices on family engagement, including building meaningful, trusting, and culturally responsive relationships with families. It also outlines the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) Family Engagement Core Competencies.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 2/40
  • Wait: 0/0

6. Transition Assessment: The Essentials

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/22/2026

This training provides foundational information related to what quality transition assessment is and why it is important, as well as transition assessments that can inform each of the measurable postsecondary goal areas of education/training, employment, and independent living.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 7/40
  • Wait: 0/0

7. Understanding Intensive Intervention: Implementing Data-Based Individualization (DBI) in Schools

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 9/29/2026 to 10/6/2026

Understanding Intensive Intervention: Implementing Data-Based Individualization (DBI) in Schools is the second training in a two-part series designed to support schools in (a) understanding the Data-Based Individualization (DBI) process, (b) understanding why educators should use DBI for students who are not responding to intervention, (c) learning the steps involved in DBI, and (d) implementing DBI using resources from the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). This is the second of two modules focused on intervention. The first, Understanding Intervention: Overview of Tiered Intervention in Schools, focuses on how academic interventions are used in schools, the elements of high-quality intervention, and how to match intervention to student need.
  • Hours: 3
  • Enrolled: 6/40
  • Wait: 0/0

8. Creating Welcoming and Affirming Environments

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 10/5/2026

Creating Welcoming and Affirming Learning Environments is one of four high leverage principles identified in the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) Framework. When students feel like they belong at school, they have fewer absences, fewer disciplinary infractions, higher graduation rates, as well as increased engagement, self-esteem, and attitudes. Students with disabilities and students of different cultural backgrounds are less likely to feel like they have a positive relationship with their teacher and that their identities and abilities are valued and affirmed in school.
  • Hours: 3
  • Enrolled: 2/40
  • Wait: 0/0

9. Increasing Instructional Time and Student Performance Utilizing De-escalation Strategies

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 10/13/2026

This training package empowers educators to understand and effectively manage the conflict cycle of behavior. Participants will ground themselves in a common understanding of the phases of acting-out behavior and how to effectively manage unexpected social, emotional and behavioral situations in the classroom. Participants will learn to recognize and respond to acting-out behavior with de-escalation strategies tailored to each phase of the acting-out cycle. Equipped with this knowledge, educators will build their toolbox of techniques aimed at fostering a safer and more conducive learning environment that increases instructional time and improves student performance.
  • Hours: 3.5
  • Enrolled: 0/30
  • Wait: 0/0

10. Transition in the Individualized Education Program (IEP)-Present Levels of Performance

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 10/13/2026

The purpose of the Transition in the IEP 1/4 Transition in the Present Levels of Performance is to gain an in-depth understanding of the development of transition in the Present Levels of Performance and their connection to the components within a transition-focused IEP. Attendees will deepen their understanding of best practices and evidence-based strategies related to quality transition services and planning.
  • Hours: 1
  • Enrolled: 8/40
  • Wait: 0/0

11. CPSE/CSE Chairperson's Training

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 10/28/2026 to 11/10/2026

The goals of this training are to provide CPSE/CSE Chairpersons with information to enhance their knowledge and skills to: understand the special education process as delineated in New York State (NYS) Education Law and Regulations; perform specific responsibilities as Chairperson of the Committee; develop practices that encourage parental involvement and cultivate home-school partnerships; and identify strategies for the Committee to make high-quality decisions that will result in an individualized education program (IEP) that meets State requirements and will result in educational benefit to the student.
  • Hours: 18
  • Enrolled: 30/50
  • Wait: 0/15

12. Introduction to the Behavior Pathway

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 11/3/2026

Participants will learn each of the components of the Behavior Pathway in order to guide thinking that leads to the understanding of the function of behavior to promote desired behavior.
  • Hours: 2.5
  • Enrolled: 0/30
  • Wait: 0/0

13. Explicit Vocabulary Instruction for Teachers

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 11/5/2026

This PD focuses on fostering vocabulary development in the classroom using explicit instruction. Participants will be able to explain the importance of robust vocabulary instruction for students in the elementary grades, develop an understanding of how explicit instruction can be applied to vocabulary instruction, and learn how to incorporate vocabulary instruction into different parts of the school day.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 2/40
  • Wait: 0/0

14. Understanding Intensive Intervention: Implementing Data-Based Individualization (DBI) in Schools

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 11/10/2026 to 11/12/2026

Understanding Intensive Intervention: Implementing Data-Based Individualization (DBI) in Schools is the second training in a two-part series designed to support schools in (a) understanding the Data-Based Individualization (DBI) process, (b) understanding why educators should use DBI for students who are not responding to intervention, (c) learning the steps involved in DBI, and (d) implementing DBI using resources from the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). This is the second of two modules focused on intervention. The first, Understanding Intervention: Overview of Tiered Intervention in Schools, focuses on how academic interventions are used in schools, the elements of high-quality intervention, and how to match intervention to student need.
  • Hours: 3
  • Enrolled: 0/40
  • Wait: 0/0

15. Quality IEPs that Drive Student Success

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 11/17/2026

This training provides a practical overview of the Individualized Education Program (IEP), including its purpose and required components. Participants will learn how to develop standards-aligned IEPs, write clear Present Levels of Performance, and create measurable annual goals. The session will also cover key elements of transition planning and review other sections of the IEP to support complete and compliant development.
  • Hours: 6
  • Enrolled: 9/20
  • Wait: 0/0

16. Transiton in the IEP - Measureable Post-Secondary Goals & Coordinated Set of Transition Activities

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 11/17/2026

The purpose of this Transition in the IEP professional development package is to gain an in-depth understanding of developing both Measurable Postsecondary Goals and the Coordinated Set of Transition Activities, and how they connect to the transition planning process and other components within a transition-focused IEP. Attendees will deepen their understanding of best practices and evidence-based strategies related to quality transition services and planning.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 9/40
  • Wait: 0/0

17. Specially Designed Instruction for Adminstrators

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 12/2/2026

The Specially Designed Instruction for Administrators professional development training is designed to further develop administrators' knowledge of SDI and how it should be tailored to address individual student needs and learning barriers. Through case studies and applied activities, administrators will learn to define SDI, differentiate it from general education instruction, recognize what SDI looks like in the classroom, and build the skills needed to supervise SDI implementation.
  • Hours: 3
  • Enrolled: 13/40
  • Wait: 0/0

18. Using the Competing Behavior Pathway to Identify Interventions

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 12/8/2026

Participants will learn each of the components of the Competing Behavior Pathway in order to identify behavioral interventions to promote desired behavior.
  • Hours: 2.5
  • Enrolled: 1/30
  • Wait: 0/0

19. An Overview of Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 12/10/2026

Collaborative transition planning between students, families, schools, and community organizations such as Adult Career and Continuing Education Services 1/4 Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) is essential for supporting students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. This training will focus on reviewing Pre-ETS, integrating Pre-ETS into transition-focused Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), and highlight how strong community partnerships ensure successful outcomes.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 9/40
  • Wait: 0/0

20. Agency 101

Program: Capital District Regional Partnership Center

Dates: 12/17/2026

This package provides an overview of the various adult service agencies available in New York State (NYS) and the different types of services they provide.
  • Hours: 2
  • Enrolled: 8/40
  • Wait: 0/0