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1. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Policy Board Engagement and Strategies to Achieve a Quorum

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors and Policy Board Members

Dates: 1/5/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Analyze common challenges to Policy Board engagement and propose at least two effective strategies to increase member participation and consistently achieve a quorum for meetings.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

2. Teacher Academy: The Power of Relationships in Teaching & Learning

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 1/7/2026 to 1/14/2026

The purpose of the Teacher Academy on the Power of Relationships in Teaching & Learning is to provide teacher leaders an opportunity to reflect on their work with others doing similar work. The goals of this Teacher Academy are to:

-Develop relationships with other teacher leaders
-Explore the impact of relationships on teaching and learning
-Reflect on the practice of teaching in collaboration with other teacher center leaders

This workshop meets the needs of teacher leaders who can often feel as though they work alone or lack deep professional connection with others in similar positions. It will also help them to develop ideas and share resources with those in the same line of work. A final goal is to model some of the work in reflective practice that teacher center leaders might take to their home schools to implement. (5 CTLE hours)

3. Teacher Academy; Student Engagement: Why It's Important and How to Promote It

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: K-12 Teachers

Dates: 1/12/2026 to 1/30/2026

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Student engagement is the foundation of effective teaching. When students are truly involved in their learning, they're more motivated, they remember more, and they develop essential skills like teamwork and critical thinking. This 10-hour course is designed for K1/412 educators who want to delve deeper into what engagement looks like, learn practical strategies to spark it, and walk away with tools they can apply immediately in their classrooms. Across five modules, teachers will create resources, try out questioning techniques, and practice ways to get students working together so that classrooms become places where learners take real ownership of their growth.

Please note: Asynchronous work dates listed below are simply placeholders for the work of the course. You may complete asynchronous work during hours that work best for you. District approval is needed for in-service credit. (10 CTLE hours)

4. The Joy of Reading

Session Code: 1.ELA

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 1/12/2026 to 2/11/2026

The Joy of Reading, by Donalyn Miller and Teri S. Lesesne, is a practical guide for educators, librarians, and families, with a focus on nurturing a lifelong love of reading in students. Drawing on decades of classroom experience, the authors explore what reading joy is, why it matters, and how school practices can sometimes undermine it. The book offers actionable strategies for increasing students' access to books, honoring their reading choices, encouraging authentic responses to texts, and building supportive reading communities-all aimed at creating conditions where joyful reading can thrive.

5. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-January 2026

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: New Directors

Dates: 1/13/2026

New TC Directors

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors.

6. Using ChatGPT for Program Evaluation

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 1/20/2026 to 1/27/2026

Teacher Centers are expected to show impact-fast. This two-part online series shows directors
how to use ChatGPT to plan, collect, analyze, and report evaluation data for professional
learning-without adding workload. You'll leave with ready-to-use prompts, templates, and a
simple workflow that aligns to NYS Professional Learning Standards and Guskey's five levels of
evaluation.

Participants will be able to:
Translate program goals into measurable outcomes and indicators.
Draft high-quality survey and reflection items aligned to NYS PLS and Guskey levels.
Build AI-assisted workflows to summarize open-ended feedback and identify themes, strengths, and next steps.
Create quick, board-ready briefs and slide visuals (figures, key quotes, recommendations).
Set up a repeatable evaluation cycle for future workshops.

(3 CTLE Hours)

7. Teacher Academy: Adapting Instruction to Reduce Unwanted Behavior

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: K-12 Educators

Dates: 1/26/2026 to 2/12/2026

We often look at behavior as something that needs to be addressed before instruction can occur. Research shows that with the right instructional tools, we can limit those unwanted behaviors that interrupt the learning process. Educators in this course will examine dozens of research based strategies to address behavior through instruction. Each educator in this course will focus on specific behaviors from their classes and will utilize research based strategies for overcoming these barriers to learning.

Please note: Asynchronous hours are placeholders for the work in this course. Participation in the required synchronous meetings are required to obtain full credit for this course. (10 CTLE hours)

8. Teacher Academy: Optimizing Student Learning

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: All grades and content areas

Dates: 1/28/2026 to 2/25/2026

Are you interested in becoming a more effective teacher? Best practices may vary by teachers' style and students' needs, but high leverage practices utilized coherently are impactful for all students. Through seeing techniques in the classroom with video analysis and discussing the attributes of effective teaching, you will gain content and pedagogical knowledge.

What am I learning? Why am I learning it? How do I know I've learned it?
Our Professional Intentions:

* Explore and reflect on high leverage, research evident practices when planning and establishing the learning environment in order to optimize student learning.

* Analyze classroom examples of explicit instruction and collaboration in order to enhance our repertoire of planning, engagement, and assessment during instruction (Danielson) with exemplars and non-examples of student work and revision and cooperative structures and protocols for discussion.

* Explore asynchronously strategies in explicit instruction with modeling and scaffolds and in note making, advanced organizers, graphic organizers, and foldables, in order to optimize meaning-making. Digital and multimedia resources of practices, structures, and videotape classroom vignettes for asynchronous work will be provided in these strategies for participants' self-selection. (10 CTLE hours)

9. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Outreach & Advocacy

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors and Policy Board Members

Dates: 2/2/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Apply best practices for teacher center funding outreach and advocacy, effectively utilizing the NYSUT Committee of 100 and strategic engagement in legislative meetings.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

10. Healthy Respectful Relationships: Tools for the Classroom

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: K-12 teachers and staff

Dates: 2/3/2026 to 2/5/2026

Information on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has begun to be introduced in NYS to a variety of educational professionals - from early childhood through K-12. While education about ACEs is critically important, it is arguably even more paramount that education in building skills in mitigating ACEs be provided to teachers and staff. Children often spend more waking hours in school settings than they do at home. Schools work to deepen student understanding of bullying prevention, but often have staff whose interactions with students are grounded in power and control, instead of respect and the trauma principles. We know from the research that safe, stable and healthy relationships with trusted adults improve outcomes for children. This training series will ground school professionals in an understanding of ACEs, the Protective Factors Framework and healthy, respectful relationship building.

This program is fully synchronous online. (3 CTLE Hours)

11. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-February 2026

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: New Directors

Dates: 2/10/2026

New TC Directors

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors.

12. Building Safe Spaces: A Strength-Based Behavior Management Mixed Media Course

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators in the Classroom

Dates: 2/23/2026 to 3/30/2026

Building Safe Spaces: Strength-Based Behavior Management Mixed Media Study Course is a 15-hour blended program designed to empower educators with knowledge and practical tools to create safe, supportive learning environments through a strengths-based lens. Participants engage with readings, multimedia, reflection, discussion, and student-based simulations to identify, nurture, and leverage strengths for positive behavior management.

13. From Idea to Blueprint: Designing Your Engaging Course

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: Aspiring Online Course Instructors

Dates: 2/23/2026 to 3/23/2026

This 15-hour, hands-on course guides educators through the process of creating an AI-integrated course blueprint for an online or hybrid learning environment. Over five modules, you'll leverage cutting-edge AI tools to refine your course vision, understand your learners, scaffold instruction, and design for maximum engagement and accessibility. By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive blueprint, complete with SMART learning outcomes, AI-enhanced lessons, and strategies for both synchronous and asynchronous delivery, ready to transform your educational ideas into a dynamic learning experience.

14. Mindshifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: K12 Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Counselors

Dates: 2/24/2026 to 3/17/2026

The course starts with practical examples of how our minds fool us into positions of powerlessness and techniques that tap into our natural resourcefulness. The course progresses through a framework for understanding how our minds can rapidly make decisions, but also how those quick reactions often lead us into flight, fight, or freeze mindsets, whereas ideally we would think critically, innovate, and collaborate. We then learn techniques to reset our minds to consciously tap into executive function, critical thinking, and perseverance, for ourselves and to develop those habits of mind for others, such as students, peers, coworkers, and family.

These are the habits of mind that the course develops:
Motivation
Grit and perseverance
Creative and critical thinking
Executive function and self-regulation
Social emotional intelligence
Constructive vs destructive states of mind

The course consists of 6 two-hour live sessions (12 hours of seat time), plus there are practice and reflection exercises after each session (5 hours of practice over the course of three weeks), and each person will create a lesson or lesson plan (3 hours to create the lesson) for a total of 20 hours. (20 CTLE hours)

15. How to Know a Person: Book Study

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: K-12 Educators

Dates: 2/27/2026 to 3/20/2026

The better we know and understand our students, the better we can teach them. This 15-hour asynchronous book study invites educators to explore David Brooks's How to Know a Person, a compelling examination of the skills, habits, and mindsets that deepen our understanding of others. Through reading reflections, online discussions, and practical application activities including a case study, participants will consider how Brooks's insights can transform classroom relationships, school culture, and professional practice.

Designed for busy educators, the course allows participants to engage with the material on their own schedule while connecting with peers through discussion forums and optional collaborative activities. Each module highlights key themes-such as attentive listening, moral humility, curiosity, and the art of truly seeing students-while offering strategies for fostering trust, empathy, and belonging in the classroom and school environments.

This book study is ideal for teachers, instructional coaches, counselors, and school leaders seeking practical tools to build stronger human connections and create classrooms where every learner feels known, valued, and supported. (15 CTLE hours)

16. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-In Person Albany, NY

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: In Person (In Person, NY)

Audience: New Directors

Dates: 3/9/2026

New TC Directors

New York State Teacher Centers Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this in person meeting for 1st year Teacher Center Directors to come together and discuss how they can advocate for TC funding with NYSUT during the Committee of 100.

During this meeting they will also review the creation of the annual continuation grant application, end of the year report, FS10as, and other important items needed to manage their teacher centers through their local education agencies.

17. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Course Proposal and Management Strategies

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors

Dates: 3/9/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Apply best practices in course proposal development and ongoing course management to ensure high-quality curriculum, effective instructional delivery, and positive learning outcomes.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

18. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Instructor Recruitment & Budget Planning

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors

Dates: 4/14/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Develop a comprehensive strategy for instructor recruitment and budget planning, encompassing best practices for attracting a diverse pool of qualified instructors and creating sustainable budget models that support program growth and quality.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

19. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-April 2026

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: New Directors

Dates: 4/14/2026

New TC Directors

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors.

20. Mindshifting: Resilient Mindsets for Long-Term Success

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)

Audience: K12 Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Counselors

Dates: 4/14/2026 to 5/5/2026

This course is especially helpful for being resourceful and resilient even when things go wrong, and will provide educators and students a framework for assessing problems and opportunities, coming up with solutions, listening to how other people are framing situations, and choosing what to do next in order to start and continue down a productive path instead of endless debates, inaction, half-hearted attempts, and dead-end game plans.

Over the long term, success depends on being able to prevail despite uncertainty and unpredictable change. This doesn't happen by accident; this happens through preparing to iterate quickly and well, observing the situation with discernment, analyzing and synthesizing to devise possible solutions, selecting the beneficial options, acting in ways that add to our own abilities and knowledge while minimizing the ability of unforeseen events and opposition to derail our progress, and then modifying our actions based on results.

This course covers habits of mind involved with
*Critical thinking
*Innovation
*Overcoming failure
*Decision making in complicated and complex situations
*Dealing with ambiguity
*Avoiding the traps of simplistic and urgent thinking
*Resilience
*Problem solving, design thinking, and iteration
*The differences between slow and fast problem solving and when to use each
*Individual and group decision making
*Analysis and synthesis

These skills are especially valuable in problem-based learning whether individual or in groups, and can also be used facing the many unforeseen obstacles that occur both in school and outside for both students and teachers. (20 CTLE hours)

21. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Program Evaluation and Reporting

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors

Dates: 5/4/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Design and implement a comprehensive program evaluation plan using Thomas R. Guskey's five levels of professional learning evaluation as a framework to measure and report on program effectiveness, from participant reactions to student learning outcomes.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

22. NYSTC Statewide Leadership Team Meeting-May 2026

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: In Person (In Person, NY)

Dates: 5/6/2026 to 5/7/2026

SLT Members Only

This Spring meeting allows for the members to collaborate in their Task Groups and Focus Areas to continue to support all Teacher Centers across the state by generating professional learning opportunities to be used by educators and directors throughout the New York State Teacher Center Network.

During this meeting, the members will plan and develop the NYSTC continuation grant application, approve remaining 2025-2026 expenditures, and approve the incoming Tri-Chairperson.

23. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-May 2026

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: New Directors

Dates: 5/12/2026

New TC Directors

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors.

24. NYSTC Wisdom Wellspring: Navigating Records Compliance

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org

Location: Synchronous- Online (Synchronous- Online, NY)

Audience: Teacher Center Directors

Dates: 6/1/2026

TC Directors PB Members Only

Join your colleagues each month in our virtual "Wisdom Wellspring", a dedicated space for sharing insights, reflecting on experiences, and discovering effective strategies in teacher center work. Each session will delve into a specific theme, allowing us to collectively tap into our shared knowledge and cultivate a deeper understanding of best practices that empower educators and strengthen our centers. Let's draw from our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
*Best practices for records management, including retention, secure storage, and disposal, to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and SED policies.
*Collaborate with peers to troubleshoot challenges and share best practices

Let's tap into our collective wisdom and make our work even more impactful-together. (1 CTLE hour)

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