Frontline Education

1. Schoology Essentials: From Student View to Staff Success

Program: Distance Learning

Audience: Anyone interacting with Schoology

Dates: 7/24/2025 to 8/21/2025

This training will provide an introduction to Schoology as a Learning Management System (LMS), highlighting its core features from both the student and educator perspectives. We'll cover course navigation, posting and managing assignments, communicating with students, and tracking progress. The session is designed to help staff confidently use Schoology to streamline instruction, enhance communication, and support student learning within a centralized digital platform.

2. Distance Learning Room Training for New Teachers and Support Staff

Program: Distance Learning

Audience: Distance Learning Instructors and Room Aides

Dates: 8/20/2025

Starting Soon

This training is designed for new teachers who are delivering instruction to another school district, as well as room aides supporting teachers in distance learning classrooms. Participants will receive hands-on guidance in effectively using distance learning equipment, including cameras, microphones, monitors, and control systems. The session will cover essential operational procedures, troubleshooting common issues, and ensuring high-quality audio/visual communication.

3. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and Special Education Administrators, Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, School Psychologists and other Related Service Providers.

Dates: 8/21/2025

Starting Soon

This training is designed to ensure that students with disabilities and their families are aware of the multiple pathways to graduate school with a diploma and exiting credentials.
1. Define Self-Determination
2. Discuss credit requirements for graduation
3. Discuss the multiple pathways to Regents diploma
4. Discuss appeal eligibility criteria
5. Discuss safety nets for students with disabilities
6. Discuss exiting credentials

4. Enhancing Numeracy: Exploring the NYSED Numeracy Briefs

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 8/22/2025

Starting Soon

Join fellow educators in a collaborative workshop designed to unpack the New York State Education Department's Numeracy Briefs. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the briefs, reflect on their impact on math instruction, and explore practical strategies to strengthen numeracy in the classroom. This session supports meaningful shifts in practice to promote deeper mathematical thinking for all students.

5. NEW Lead Evaluator Training for Principals and Building Leaders

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Principals, Administratively certified educators

Dates: 8/25/2025

This in-person session is our APPR Lead Evaluator Training for leaders who are new and will be observing teachers.

This training is for administrators who have not attended Lead Evaluator training in the past.

Lunch will be provided.

6. Mentor Training

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 8/26/2025

Participants will receive training designed to prepare them for the role of mentor in their school districts. Topics include:

- Mentor requirements per 100.2(dd) of the NYSED Commissioner of Education Regulations
- The role of a mentor, including supervision vs. evaluation
- Tools and resources to facilitate an effective mentoring relationship, including a) an overview of adult learning theory; b) generational differences to consider; and c) effective feedback practices
- Considerations for guiding your mentee to develop relationships with students, families and colleagues

Coffee, tea, water and light snacks are provided at our workshops. Participants are on their own for lunch, and have one hour.

7. Co-Teaching: A Comprehensive Approach,
Module 1: Six Models of Co-Teaching, Module 2: Building
Your Co-Teaching Team

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Co-teaching teams, special education teachers, related service providers, administrators

Dates: 8/27/2025

Module 1: Six Models of Co-Teaching
The purpose of this training is to help participants gain a foundational understanding of co-teaching as
a service delivery model and the six models used to implement it. In New York state the co-teaching
model is most often associated with the special education service integrated co-teaching. This model
will be covered as well as the use of the co-teaching model among other service providers (e.g. English
as a New Language [ENL] teachers, speech language pathologists etc.). Variations for use of the
models will also be discussed throughout the training.
Module 2: Building Your Co-Teaching Team
In this workshop we will focus on the three key components of an effective co-teaching partnership which are
co-respect, co-responsibility and co-planning. Building and maintaining a strong partnership is essential for
optimizing the benefits of co-teaching for student learning. The blended expertise of the team provides teachers
with a unique opportunity to reach many more students academically, emotionally and behaviorally. It is critical
to understand the importance of both building a strong partnership as well as maintaining the strong partnership
through ongoing reflective practices

8. Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction: Understanding the Science of Reading (Asynchronous Training August 1st-August 29th)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Principals

Dates: 8/29/2025

Self Paced Course

Asynchronous training through a shared Google Drive. Participants will be able to:

•describe the current status of reading achievement of students in the United States and New York State;

•describe the gap between what is known about effective reading instruction and the implementation of effective reading instruction;

•identify theories of reading that are supported by research; and list the skills that are essential for proficient reading and how to best teach those skills Credit will be given based on activities completed. ***Please excuse the date- this is a asynchronous training that will run from August 1st-August 29th at your own pace***

9. Explicit Vocabulary Instruction for Teachers

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Principals

Dates: 9/2/2025

New

PD on embedding explicit vocabulary instruction into primarily Tier I instruction:
Participants will be able to explain the importance of robust vocabulary instruction for students in the elementary grades.
Participants will understand how explicit instruction can be applied to vocabulary instruction.
Participants will be able to describe key features of vocabulary instruction and identify ways to incorporate vocabulary instruction into different parts of the school day.

10. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 9/16/2025

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

11. REFRESHER Lead Evaluator Training for Leaders who observe teachers

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Principals, Administratively certified educators

Dates: 9/17/2025

This in-person session is our APPR Lead Evaluator Training for leaders who observe teachers.

This training is for administrators who have attended Lead Evaluator training in the past.

12. Universal Screening: Best Practices in Screening for Academic Deficits

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Administrators, Literacy Specialists, School Psychologists, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, any others interested in implementing universal screening

Dates: 9/18/2025

The purpose of this training is to provide participants with an overview of what universal screening is and how to
adopt this practice in their schools. At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
1. Define universal screening
2. Describe the purpose of universal screening
3. Describe the features of a high-quality universal screening measure
4. Identify tools to guide them in selecting a universal screening measure
5. Describe ways in which data from a universal screening measure can be used

13. Overview of Specially Designed Instruction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 9/25/2025

The Overview of Specially Designed Instruction professional development training package is the first in a suite of trainings on the development and use of specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities. This introductory training is intended to develop participants' working knowledge of the components of SDI, the rationale for using SDI, using SDI alongside other instructional strategies, and selecting appropriate SDI based upon student needs and characteristics.

14. NEW Lead Evaluator Training for Principals and Building Leaders

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Principals, Administratively certified educators

Dates: 9/26/2025

This in-person session is our APPR Lead Evaluator Training for leaders who are new and will be observing teachers.

This training is for administrators who have not attended Lead Evaluator training in the past.

Lunch will be provided.

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

Asynchronous training course from September 1st to September 30th

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Support Staff, Related Service Providers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, School Psychologists and Counselors who work with and support students in preschool through 12th grade

Dates: 9/30/2025

Self Pace

In this training, 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.

***Please ignore the time and date for this activity- this is a self-paced training from September 1st-September 30th***

16. Transition Targeted Skills Group (TSG) @ ISSC

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Downsville Central School, Laurens Central School, Margaretville Central School, Oneonta City School District, and Walton Central School.

Dates: 9/30/2025 to 3/10/2026

The Transition Targeted Skills Group (TSG) is a result of the OSE Educational Partnership Designations for a Focused Intervention. This provides districts with the requirements of the State Performance Plan (SPP) 13: Secondary Transition. During this TSG we will review the requirements and provide professional development encompassing the best practices to meet the requirements of Secondary Transition Planning and the Documentation of this in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) of students that are 14 and older. Participants take a deep dive in best practices, reflect on current systems and practices, are provided numerous resources to build their own transition resource binder, collaborate with additional school district participants and provide facilitated work time with scaffolding.

Note: The first Training Session is Mandatory for all participants/district team representatives. This session includes training mandated for all districts that will be part of the SPP Indicator #13 Compliance Review in the 2026-2027 school year. All CSE Chairpersons for secondary students and any administrator that is responsible for the meetings that may include Directors of Special Education Programs and/or Principals or Superintendents.

Coaching sessions will be scheduled with the district for additional support and scaffolding. Registrations for each session will be created once the date and time has been scheduled. It is a requirement that a coaching session of at least 1 hour will be provided by a Regional Partnership Center (RPC) member and at least one district team member.

26 (minimally) Each Training Day 5.5 hours Coaching Days are district dependent 1 - 6 hours

17. The Language of Classroom Management
Must attend both days

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Administrators, P-12 General education teachers, Special Education Teachers, aides and teaching assistants.

Dates: 10/1/2025 to 10/30/2025

This is a two-day, multiple module training designed for PreK- 12th grade educators who would like more information on positive behavior support-classroom management strategies which include:
arranging the physical environment
defining, teaching, and acknowledging expectations and rules
defining and teaching classroom procedures and routines
active supervision
behavior specific praise
response strategies for inappropriate behavior
class wide group contingencies
multiple opportunities to respond

Time will be provided to review and revise classroom management strategies within your own classroom and how to effectively implement changes to current classroom procedures and routines.

This is a two day training. Please plan to attend both days.

18. Graduation Targeted Skills Group (TSG)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Delaware Academy, Hunter-Tannersville Central School, Milford Central School, and Worcester Central School.

The district is asked to create a team of representatives that must include an administrative representative that has the authority to make decisions and CSE chairperson/director, as well as general and special education teachers, school counselor(s), and transition coordinator(s).

Dates: 10/7/2025 to 4/14/2026

The Graduation Targeted Skills Group (TSG) is a result of the OSE Educational Partnership Designations for a Focused Intervention. Districts will develop systems using evidence-based practices and best practices to enhance the successful completion of school for students with disabilities during the training sessions. Training will include information about Work-Based Learning (WBL), Student Centered Planning, Self-Determination, Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) across the lifespan, Early Warning Systems, Transition Planning and Multiple Pathways to Graduation.

Coaching sessions will be held every other month where the district representative/teams will meet with the Regional Partnership Center (RPC) specialist and/or the Family Engagement Facilitator from the Family and Community Engagement Center (FACE) for a scaffolded approach to gathering and reviewing district specific data, determining root causes and creating a system to address those root causes including preventative procedures. It is an expectation of the Office of Special Education that this occurs for a minimum of 1 hour with at least one district team member. Registration for each session will be created once the date and time has been mutually agreed upon.

The districts are asked to create a team of representatives that must include an administrative representative that has the authority to make decisions and CSE chairpersons/ director, as well as general and special education teachers, school counselor(s), and transition coordinator(s,).

16 (minimally) Each Training Day 3 hours Coaching Days are district dependent 1 - 6 hours

19. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 10/14/2025

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

20. Training for New Dignity Act Coordinators

Program: DASA

Dates: 10/15/2025

*PLEASE BE AWARE THIS IS NOT THE 6 - HOUR REQUIRED TRAINING FOR CERTIFICATION* This training is designed for new Dignity Act Coordinators, and addresses the following topics: - Overview/requirements of the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) - Roles and Responsibilities of the Dignity Act Coordinator - Definitions and differences - misconduct vs. bullying/harassment - Prevention and intervention strategies - Tips for conducting Investigations - Impact and importance of school culture to create a welcoming and affirming environment ***Please note registration ends October 12th*** Coffee, tea and water will be available.

21. Understanding Intervention: Overview of Tiered Intervention in Schools

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Principals

Dates: 10/16/2025

Introductory PD on instructional matching:
Participants will be able to identify and differentiate between skill-based, fluency-based, and performance-based interventions
Participants will learn when each of these approaches is appropriate, given the nature of the observed problem.
Participants will learn how to titrate the intensity of intervention to the learner as a response to instruction

22. Mentor Training

Program: Instructional Support/School Improvement

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 10/21/2025

Participants will receive training designed to prepare them for the role of mentor in their school districts. Topics include:

- Mentor requirements per 100.2(dd) of the NYSED Commissioner of Education Regulations
- The role of a mentor, including supervision vs. evaluation
- Tools and resources to facilitate an effective mentoring relationship, including a) an overview of adult learning theory; b) generational differences to consider; and c) effective feedback practices
- Considerations for guiding your mentee to develop relationships with students, families and colleagues

Coffee, tea, water and light snacks are provided at our workshops. Participants are on their own for lunch, and have one hour.

23. Next Steps in Specially Designed Instruction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 10/23/2025

The Next Steps with Specially Designed Instruction professional development training package is the second in a suite of trainings on the development and use of specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities. This advanced level training is intended to further develop participants' knowledge of specially designed instruction and how SDI should be designed and developed based on individual student need to address their learning barriers.  Participants will be trained on how specially designed instruction is used alongside other instructional strategies and the process of developing appropriate specially designed instruction based on individual student needs and characteristics. 

24. IEP Writing Workshop @ ONC BOCES ISSC in Oneonta

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 10/27/2025

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2025-2025 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

25. Developing Measurable Annual Goals

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 11/6/2025

The purpose of this training is to help participants gain skills to develop measurable goals in the Individual Education Program (IEP). Participants will learn the regulations related to goal writing, how to develop observable language for the goal and how to determine the specific components that measure progress in the goal. The training will also focus on the importance of well written, data-based present levels of performance as the foundation of the goals.

26. Fundamentals of Work-Based Learning (WBL)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 11/12/2025

Fundamentals of WBL will provide Educational Organizations (EOs) with the foundational knowledge of what high-quality WBL looks like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to: exploring registered programs and unregistered experiences available to students with disabilities, reviewing the career development process and the NYS framework for WBL, infusing WBL into individual education programs (IEPs), and determining who the essential partners are in order to ensure students are receiving an individualized and collaborative experience.

27. Implementing Unregistered Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 11/12/2025

Implementing Unregistered WBL (WBL) Experiences provides Educational Organizations (EOs) with the foundational knowledge of what high-quality WBL unregistered WBL experiences look like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to reviewing in-depth unregistered experiences, discussing the alignment of WBL and the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential, identifying high-quality instructional practices that support the implementation of WBL, and determining specific areas that may increase the success rate of the WBL program. It is suggested as a follow-up/next step in the WBL series after completing Fundamentals of Work-Based Learning.

28. Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring Introduction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, Literacy Specialists, School Psychologists, any others interested in acquiring introductory knowledge to progress monitoring individual students. The training is most applicable to those who will be engaging directly in the progress monitoring process with students.

Dates: 11/18/2025

Overview of what progress monitoring for academics is and how to implement this practice with individual students.
Applicable to work with all general education students within a tiered model of academic support (e.g., MTSS, RTI) and students receiving special education services.
Covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to understand the importance and core features of progress monitoring, as well as modeling and practice with feedback on implementing progress monitoring.
Opportunity for independent work with support from the presenters.
Participants should be able to: 1. Describe the purpose of progress monitoring 2. Define progress monitoring 3. Identify the steps for implementing progress monitoring at the individual student level

29. IEP Writing Workshop @ DCMO SSC

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 11/18/2025

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2023-2024 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

30. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 11/21/2025

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

31. Fundamentals of Work-Based Learning (WBL)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 12/2/2025

Fundamentals of WBL will provide Educational Organizations (EOs) with the foundational knowledge of what high-quality WBL looks like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to: exploring registered programs and unregistered experiences available to students with disabilities, reviewing the career development process and the NYS framework for WBL, infusing WBL into individual education programs (IEPs), and determining who the essential partners are in order to ensure students are receiving an individualized and collaborative experience.

32. Implementing Unregistered Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 12/2/2025

Implementing Unregistered WBL (WBL) Experiences provides Educational Organizations (EOs) with the foundational knowledge of what high-quality WBL unregistered WBL experiences look like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to reviewing in-depth unregistered experiences, discussing the alignment of WBL and the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential, identifying high-quality instructional practices that support the implementation of WBL, and determining specific areas that may increase the success rate of the WBL program. It is suggested as a follow-up/next step in the WBL series after completing Fundamentals of Work-Based Learning.

33. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 12/17/2025

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

34. IEP Writing Workshop @ ONC BOCES ISSC in Oneonta

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 12/18/2025

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2025-2025 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

35. Consultant Teacher Services: Supporting Classroom and Curriculum Participation
(Asynchronous Training from Dec. 1st-Dec 31st)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 12/31/2025

Self Paced

The purpose of this training is to help participants understand how to use consultant teacher services to support the participation of students with disabilities in the general education classroom and curriculum. Participants will examine the purpose and goals of including consultant teacher services in a student's Individualized Education Program (IEP). The training will define consultant teacher services according to New York State regulations as well as offer insight into what effective consultant teacher services look like in the classroom. Participants will learn how to determine if consultant teacher services are appropriate for meeting a student with a disability's unique educational needs, what information about consultant teacher services should be included in an IEP, and the roles and responsibilities of educators in providing these services. We will also explore how teachers can engage in effective collaboration and co-planning to ensure the effective delivery of high-quality consultant teacher services.

***Please ignore the time and date. This is a self-Paced course from Dec. 1st-Dec. 31st. ***

36. Phonological Awareness: Establishing Foundations for Reading Success (Asynchronous training from Dec. 1st-Dec 31st)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy/Reading instructors; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; Administrators

Dates: 12/31/2025

Self Pace

The purpose of this training is to help participants gain a greater understanding of the Science of Reading; specifically, what phonological awareness is and how crucial this skillset is to the foundation of reading success. 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.

***Please ignore the date and time. This is a self-paced course from Dec. 1st-31st.***

37. IEP Writing Workshop at ONC BOCES- OAOC

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 1/6/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2023-2024 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

38. Specially Designed Instruction for Families

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 1/13/2026

Specially Designed Instruction: A Guide for Families and Caregivers training package is the fourth in a suite of trainings on the development and use of specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities. This foundational level training is intended to develop participants' basic understanding of SDI in order to increase knowledge of parents and other family members as engaged meaningful partners in the special education process and the education of their child.

39. Testing Accommodations for Students
with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers, Building Principals/Administrators, Committee on Special
Education (CSE) Chairpersons, Parents/Familie

Dates: 1/14/2026

Participants will:
- know the purpose of test
accommodations.
- define test accommodations.
- understand their role in supporting a
student with their test accommodations.
- recognize that instructional
accommodations used in the classroom
should be aligned with the testing
accommodations provided during
assessment.

40. Developing an Effective Student Exit Summary

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers and administrators, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency staff, as well as students and families

Dates: 1/29/2026

This training contains information on the development and provision of an effective exit summary for students. It will cover both the traditional exit summary, and the exit summary provided with the Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential.

The goals of this training are to ensure participants will recognize and identify:
1. Analyze the importance of students' self-determination skills in making the SES a meaningful and relevant document
2. Learn the federal and state requirements for the SES
3. Recognize and identify the required components of the SES
Identify a process for the development and issuance of the SES that that is student-centered

41. Developing an Effective Student Exit Summary

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers and administrators, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency staff, as well as students and families

Dates: 1/29/2026

This training contains information on the development and provision of an effective exit summary for students. It will cover both the traditional exit summary, and the exit summary provided with the Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential.

The goals of this training are to ensure participants will recognize and identify:
1. Analyze the importance of students' self-determination skills in making the SES a meaningful and relevant document
2. Learn the federal and state requirements for the SES
3. Recognize and identify the required components of the SES
Identify a process for the development and issuance of the SES that that is student-centered

42. IEP Writing Workshop @ ONC BOCES ISSC in Oneonta

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 2/2/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2025-2025 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

43. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 2/11/2026

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

44. Using Web-Based Tools to Enhance Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers and administrators, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency staff, as well as students and families

Dates: 2/12/2026

The purpose of Using Web-Based Tools to Enhance WBL Experiences is to define high-quality WBL and its benefits for students with disabilities, identify advantages and potential obstacles to utilizing web-based tools in WBL experiences, explore technology supported delivery formats to improve WBL outcomes, discover new resources to assist in developing and enhancing WBL
experiences, and apply strategies to ensure that technology-infused WBL experiences are
successfully integrated into student learning experiences.

This training serves as a tool to help Educational Organizations (EOs) understand and utilize resources that may assist in utilizing web-based tools to enhance WBL activities. It is not intended to be an exhaustive resource, but rather a tool to develop high-quality WBL opportunities for students to enhance in-person WBL experiences.

45. Explicit Instruction: An Evidence-Based Practice for Effective and Long-Term Learning
(Asynchronus Training from Feb. 1st-Feb. 28th)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 2/28/2026

Self Paced

This explicit instruction training package is intended to support participants' knowledge of explicit instruction and teachers' abilities to effectively implement explicit instruction. Explicit instruction is a high leverage practice that has proven to be effective for special education students. Research has shown higher achievement results for students with disabilities in both reading and math after receiving explicit instruction.

***Please ignore the date and time. This is a self-paced course from Feb.1st-Feb. 28th***

46. The Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Learning Standards Across the Lifespan: Connecting Knowledge to Skills

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers and administrators, related service personnel, school counselors, agency representatives, families, and students.

Dates: 3/3/2026

Goals of the Training:
The goals of this training are to ensure that participants will:
1. Identify foundational New York State (NYS) Part 100 Regulations and field memos related to career exploration and development in the classroom
2. Identify effective instructional design practices to teach academic and transition skills simultaneously
3. Apply the CDOS learning standards into all academic instruction across all grade levels
4. Recognize how the CDOS learning standards support all of the Multiple Pathways to Graduation and Exiting Credentials

47. IEP Writing Workshop @ DCMO SSC

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 3/4/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2023-2024 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

48. The Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Learning Standards Across the Lifespan: Connecting Knowledge to Skills

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers and administrators, related service personnel, school counselors, agency representatives, families, and students.

Dates: 3/5/2026

Goals of the Training:
The goals of this training are to ensure that participants will:
1. Identify foundational New York State (NYS) Part 100 Regulations and field memos related to career exploration and development in the classroom
2. Identify effective instructional design practices to teach academic and transition skills simultaneously
3. Apply the CDOS learning standards into all academic instruction across all grade levels
4. Recognize how the CDOS learning standards support all of the Multiple Pathways to Graduation and Exiting Credentials

49. Co-Teaching, Module 1, Six models of Co-Teaching

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 3/11/2026

The purpose of this training is to help participants gain a foundational understanding of co-teaching as a service delivery model and the six models used to implement it. In New York state the co-teaching model is most often associated with the special education service integrated co-teaching. This model will be covered as well as the use of the co-teaching model among other service providers (e.g. English as a New Language [ENL] teachers, speech language pathologists etc.). Variations for use of the models will also be discussed throughout the training.

50. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 3/20/2026

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

51. IEP Writing Workshop at ONC BOCES- OAOC

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 3/23/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2023-2024 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

52. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 3/26/2026

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

53. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 4/15/2026

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

54. Building Your Co-Teaching Team

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 4/23/2026

In this workshop we will focus on the three key components of an effective co-teaching partnership which are co-respect, co-responsibility and co-planning. Building and maintaining a strong partnership is essential for optimizing the benefits of co-teaching for student learning. The blended expertise of the team provides teachers with a unique opportunity to reach many more students academically, emotionally and behaviorally. It is critical to understand the importance of both building a strong partnership as well as maintaining the strong partnership through ongoing reflective practices

55. IEP Writing Workshop @ ONC BOCES ISSC in Oneonta

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 4/29/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2025-2025 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

56. Co-Teaching, Module 3: Planning for Instruction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers; general education teachers; administrators

Dates: 5/7/2026

In educational research, co-teaching is referred to as the instructional methodology or structure that two teachers use. Co-planning is critical to the success of this teaching structure. The purpose of this training is to provide foundational knowledge for the effectiveness of purposeful co-planning. In addition, participants will gain knowledge about options for co-planning and apply the information to co-plan a lesson for current or future use. Co-teaching can be applied in any situation when two teachers provide instruction together. It is highly recommended that co-teaching teams attend together, although the information provided will benefit individual teacher practice as well.

57. IEP Writing Workshop @ ONC BOCES ISSC in Oneonta

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education teachers and Related Service Providers

Dates: 5/22/2026

New

Disclaimer: Participants must attend Creating the IEP training before they will have access to this IEP Writing Day. If you attended Creating the IEP in the 2025-2025 school year, you are able to attend.

Participants will:
Learn how to write quality IEPs with review around Present Levels of Performance, Goal Writing, and Accommodationations/Modifications
Have collaboration time to work with other educators throughout the region and ask questions of the trainer

Participants should bring draft copies (or electronic access to a draft) of IEPs to work throughout the day.

58. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and Special Education Administrators, Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, School Psychologists and other Related Service Providers.

Dates: 5/28/2026

This training is designed to ensure that students with disabilities and their families are aware of the multiple pathways to graduate school with a diploma and exiting credentials.
1. Define Self-Determination
2. Discuss credit requirements for graduation
3. Discuss the multiple pathways to Regents diploma
4. Discuss appeal eligibility criteria
5. Discuss safety nets for students with disabilities
6. Discuss exiting credentials

59. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and Special Education Administrators, Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, School Psychologists and other Related Service Providers.

Dates: 5/28/2026

This training is designed to ensure that students with disabilities and their families are aware of the multiple pathways to graduate school with a diploma and exiting credentials.
1. Define Self-Determination
2. Discuss credit requirements for graduation
3. Discuss the multiple pathways to Regents diploma
4. Discuss appeal eligibility criteria
5. Discuss safety nets for students with disabilities
6. Discuss exiting credentials

60. Creating the IEP

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services, and chairpersons. Administrators who
may be in a dual administrative role such as chairpersons or directors of special education

Dates: 6/17/2026

Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to
provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

61. Specially Designed Instruction for Administrators (Asynchronous from June 1st- June 30th)

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Administrators

Dates: 6/30/2026

Self Pace

The Specially Designed Instruction for Administrators professional development training package is the fifth in a suite of training on the development and use of specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities. This training is intended to further develop administrator's knowledge of SDI and how SDI should be designed and developed based on individual student need to address their learning barriers. Administrators will be able to define SDI, recognize how to differentiate SDI from general education, identify what SDI looks like in the classroom setting, and gain necessary skills for supervision of implementation of SDI. This package is primarily designed to be delivered as a 2-3 hour in-person training; however, the training is structured to allow for online delivery based upon EO scheduling requirements.

***Please ignore the date and time of this course. This is a self-paced course that will start June 1st-June 30th***

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