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1. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-November 2023

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

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

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

Dates: 11/30/2023

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NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors. During this meeting we will discuss professional learning opportunities and badging.

2. Pathway to Highly Effective Teaching, Part 2- Teaching Practices

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Christine Sanfratello - sanfratelloc@gmail.com

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 12/6/2023 to 1/17/2024

As educators and designers, we are called to architect learning experiences for all learners by creating lessons with flexible goals, methods, materials, and assessments. This course is designed to delve deeper into best practices by examining the framework of teaching developed by Charlotte Danielson, highlighting seven essential elements of great teaching and providing a clear pathway to effective instruction.

Participants will explore how the Understanding by Design (UBD) framework and the Blended Learning model, when combined, can create flexible learning landscapes that support a student-centered learning environment. Participants will also examine digital tools to foster essential teaching practices that build on the foundation of planning and facilitating engaging and coherent instruction designed to meet the various needs of our students. There will be a strong emphasis on classroom equity and its role in creating an optimal learning environment for all students.

Consideration for the Holiday recess will be given in regard to coursework so that everyone can enjoy their holiday recess.

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. This course is part 2 of a 3-part series. While Part 1 of the course is not a mandatory prerequisite, it is highly recommended.

3. Students with Disabilities Certification Extension Grades 5-9

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: Teachers certified SWD 1-6 or 7-12

Dates: 1/4/2024 to 3/14/2024

This course is a New York State Education Department approved course and provides the hours and course content required for certification extension for SWD grades 5-9.

Eligible participants must have SWD 1-6 or SWD 7-12 certification and at least 3 years of teaching experience to be eligible for the certification extension.

This 45 hour course requires synchronous and asynchronous work. The course includes 3 sections, Knowledge of Students, Instructional Strategies, and Professional Practices.

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.

4. One Trusted Adult Foundations-Asynchronous Training

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

Dates: 1/8/2024 to 2/5/2024

One Trusted Adult: Foundations for Educators is an online on-demand, 4-hour course, including exercises, assessments, and a downloadable workbook.

Access to 4-hour course completely paid for by your Teacher Center! Participants in this course will: Review evidence, and recognize the importance of every child being able to name a trusted adult Become a trusted adult who is Accessible, Boundaried, and Caring and prompt self and organizational reflection Set up spaces to meet the BASICS (universal youth needs), including tools and strategies to use with your students for connection and reflection Establish healthy and appropriate youth-adult relationships and avoid boundary blur and professional burnout Encourage teamwork and build a network of many trusted adults within your school community and beyond apply the caring modes and comfort zone frameworks for effective mentorship. Grade-level teams are encouraged to sign up together.

A link with a code will be emailed to you upon registration. You will have 4 weeks to complete the work. Upon completion of the program, please email the OTA certificate to info@nysteachercenters.org, for full CTLE credit and attendance verification with NYSTC. All video content also includes closed captioning.

The asynchronous hours for this program are simply placeholders for the hours of work. You may complete the work during a time that works best for you.

5. Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning Focused Relationships

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Elizabeth Bell - elizabethbell118@gmail.com

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 1/10/2024 to 2/14/2024

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Any teacher will tell you they have learned some of the most influential and productive tools for their profession from a really amazing, seasoned teacher. The relationships we as teachers have with one another really mold how effective and successful our school year can be. Having the tools to cultivate a strong relationship with those expert teachers is invaluable. Mentoring Matters by Laura Lipton holds reference tools for mentors of beginning teachers, this guide offers structures, strategies, and techniques for developing expertise in teaching and launching a career of continuous learning. This reference adds new tools for time efficient, effective learning focused conversations, including templates for problem solving conversations that balance support with learning. Throughout this book study teachers will explore how to become an expert mentor in the field of education.

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)

6. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-January 2024

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

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

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

Dates: 1/22/2024

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors. During this meeting we will discuss refining job descriptions and moving money (FS10a).

7. Pathway to Highly Effective Teaching, Part 3- Effective Planning

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Christine Sanfratello - sanfratelloc@gmail.com

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: All Educators

Dates: 1/24/2024 to 2/28/2024

As educators and designers, we are called to architect learning experiences for all learners by creating lessons with flexible goals, methods, materials, and assessments. This course is designed to delve deeper into best practices by examining the framework of teaching developed by Charlotte Danielson, highlighting seven essential elements of great teaching and providing a clear pathway to effective instruction.

Participants will explore how the Understanding by Design (UBD) framework and the Blended Learning model, when combined, can create flexible learning landscapes that support a student-centered learning environment. Participants will also examine digital tools to foster essential teaching practices that build on the foundation of planning and facilitating engaging and coherent instruction designed to meet the various needs of our students. There will be a strong emphasis on classroom equity and its role in creating an optimal learning environment for all students.

Consideration for the Winter recess will be given in regard to the submission of coursework.

This course is part 3 of a 3-part series. While parts 1 and 2 of this course are not mandatory prerequisites, they are highly recommended.

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.

8. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults - book study

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Mykal Karl - director@cateachercenter.org

Location: Asynchronous (Asynchronous, NY)

Audience: All educators interested in diversity and indigenous knowledge systems

Dates: 1/29/2024 to 2/26/2024

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things―from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen―provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the desire to understand diversity to every educator from elementary to secondary, from science to the arts. This book is a paradigm shifter.

9. Book Study: Realizing Diversity in Music Education

Session Code: 4.ART

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Meghan Sheehy - meghanksheehy@gmail.com

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

Audience: Music teachers

Dates: 2/5/2024 to 4/18/2024

This book study is designed to help music educators gain confidence and comfort in designing music curricula that are just, equitable, safe, and welcoming with the purpose of fostering a positive music experience for a diverse student population. Participants will explore the following key questions: 1) How can we engage with diverse populations, repertoire, and identities while upholding integrity and achieving equity? 2) What are cultural appropriation, othering, tokenizing, and essentializing? 3) How can we avoid bias in our teaching and repertoire selection? How do we create a more socially just music education?

Educators will work within the four social justice domains of identity, diversity, justice, and action as they explore topics of anti-racism, gender and sexual identity, power and privilege, disabilities, economic realities, empathy, and critical consciousness in music education. Emphasis will be placed on practical application in the music classroom.

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.

10. Classroom Management Strategies That Work

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Meredith Murolo - Meredithmurolo@gmail.com

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

Audience: K-12 Educators

Dates: 2/5/2024 to 2/15/2024

This course will give participants strategies for improving classroom management in order to create an orderly and well organized environment where students can succeed and complete rigorous work. Participants will explore approaches for developing positive classroom communities that promote good relationships between the teacher and students as well as between peers. Effective classroom management is vital for teachers ' ability to teach and students ability to learn. Participants will learn how to maintain good student behavior, create feasible classroom expectations and procedures, and techniques for implementing behavior modifications when needed. Behavior intervention plans will be discussed as well as resources and service providers within the school building that are available when help is needed beyond the confines of the classroom. In addition, coursework will cover ways to teach students how to monitor and regulate their own behavior.

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.

11. NYSTC-New Director Meeting-February 2024

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

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

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

Dates: 2/6/2024

NYSTC Director Professional Learning task group is hosting this meeting for 1st and 2nd year TC Directors. During this meeting we will discuss what to expect at Spring Symposium.

12. Aspiring Educators for Teacher Assistants

Session Code: 9: ALL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Kaylee Bennett - Kayleeabennett@gmail.com

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

Audience: Teaching Assistants

Dates: 3/4/2024 to 4/1/2024

This 3 hour course will provide information for certified teaching assistants on the different pathways teaching assistants could take to become a certified teacher in New York State. This course will also provide some information relevant to teaching in New York State in an effort to encourage/recruit teaching assistants to become certified teachers. Participants will receive an overview on the different pathways one could take to become a certified teacher in NYS. Participants will also become familiar with the TEACH system to look up certification requirements and guidance on which steps to take to become a certified teacher

13. Collegiate Circle: Self-Awareness to Combat Bias

Session Code: 5.BEWL

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Alexa Toyas - alexatoyas2@gmail.com

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

Audience: Middle-High school teachers and administrators

Dates: 4/3/2024 to 4/17/2024

The format of this course is a collegiate circle. The focus of our discussions will be on a collaborative project entitled, "This is My Story". The project provides a welcoming and affirming environment that gives multi-lingual learners a chance to share their migration journeys to the United States. Common themes in previous entries have included human trafficking, family separation, and adjusting to a new culture, language, and education system. We will discuss how to use these stories can be used as a "window" and a "mirror" into their personal journeys, and embed their memoirs into a curriculum about the formal writing and editing process, grammar, and language acquisition for students with low home language literacy and English language skills.

14. Mental Health/Illness Collegial Cirle

Session Code: 8.INTEG

Program: New York State Teacher Centers

Activity Owner/Manager: Mykal Karl - director@cateachercenter.org

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

Audience: All UPK-12 education professionals

Dates: 4/8/2024 to 4/22/2024

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Two 90-minute Zoom sessions to discuss, develop, and practice with mental health and mental illness educator resources. Come discuss important themes surrounding our roles as educational professionals and the mental health of ourselves and our students. Be prepared to share resources you have already used and try new things as we discuss the challenges of mental health maintenance in the 2024 classroom. Come away with tools to use during Mental Health Awareness Month in May.

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