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1. American Red Cross First Aid Update for Coaches by Howard Arciniegas

Program: Coaching Courses

Audience: Coaches

Dates: 8/17/2026

Starting Soon
Individuals who apply for a Temporary Coaching License Renewal or a Professional Coaching License or License Renewal must obtain a valid (not expired) first aid certificate of completion by completing either an Initial or Review course (not a Challenge or fully online course).

This course is required every 3 years to maintain First Aid Certification.
  • Max Class Size: 15

2. American Red Cross Adult CPR/AED FULL

Program: Coaching Courses

Dates: 8/18/2026

Starting Soon
This course satisfies the state guidelines for elementary and secondary coaching certification. This certificate is valid for 2 years.

This class starts at 7:00PM

Location at Spring Valley High School in the upper gym.

Please use the entrance for athletics.

  • Max Class Size: 12

3. American Red Cross Adult CPR/AED FULL

Program: Coaching Courses

Dates: 8/24/2026

This course satisfies the state guidelines for elementary and secondary coaching certification. This certificate is valid for 2 years.

This class starts at 7:00PM

Location at Spring Valley High School in the upper gym.

Please use the entrance for athletics.

  • Max Class Size: 12

4. American Red Cross First Aid Update for Coaches by Howard Arciniegas

Program: Coaching Courses

Audience: Coaches

Dates: 8/25/2026

Individuals who apply for a Temporary Coaching License Renewal or a Professional Coaching License or License Renewal must obtain a valid (not expired) first aid certificate of completion by completing either an Initial or Review course (not a Challenge or fully online course).

This course is required every 3 years to maintain First Aid Certification.
  • Max Class Size: 15

5. Planning for Active Learning in Pre-K: Making Every Part of the Day Count

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Pre-K Educators, Assistant Teachers, & Instructional Support

Dates: 9/2/2026

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What makes a great day in Pre-K? It's not about filling every minute, it's about making each part of the day meaningful, engaging, and fun.

In this interactive morning workshop, we'll explore simple ways to plan a Pre-K day that keeps children busy, curious, connected, and learning. Participants will look at how to turn learning goals into hands-on experiences, make routines and transitions run more smoothly, and create a balance between teacher-guided learning and child-led play.

Through examples, conversation, and hands-on planning, participants will leave with practical ideas for creating a day that feels purposeful without feeling over-planned.

What We'll Explore:
*Plan with Purpose:Turn learning goals into hands-on experiences that children are excited to explore.
*Make the Day Flow: Find ways to make routines and transitions smoother, with less waiting and more learning.
*Balance Learning & Play: Create a day that includes teacher-guided experiences while leaving plenty of room for children to explore and make choices.
*Keep It Flexible: Build simple plans that provide direction while allowing you to follow children's interests and needs.

Participants Will Leave With:
*Practical ideas for planning an engaging Pre-K day
*Ideas they can put into practice right away

Materials needed: Creative Curriculum Teacher Guide

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 50

6. Creating Purposeful Pre-K Learning Spaces: Where Children Learn, Play & Grow

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Pre-K Educators, Assistant Teachers, & Instructional Support

Dates: 9/2/2026

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In this hands-on afternoon workshop, we'll explore how classroom spaces and learning centers can bring your plans to life. Participants will discover simple ways to organize and refresh learning centers, connect classroom themes and learning goals to play, and create spaces that encourage curiosity, independence, and meaningful learning while looking at how everyday play provides valuable opportunities for observation and progress monitoring. Participants will learn how to notice what children know and can do, capture meaningful evidence of learning, and use that information to decide what children may need next while keeping the focus on play and exploration.

Through examples, discussion, and hands-on activities, participants will leave with practical ideas for making their classroom spaces more engaging, purposeful, and useful.

What We'll Explore:
*Create Spaces That Invite Learning: Discover simple ways to arrange your classroom so children can move, explore, make choices, and become more independent.
*Bring Learning to Life Through Play: Find creative ways to connect classroom themes and learning goals to centers.
*Use Play to Monitor Progress: Learn how to observe children during activities, identify what they know and can do, and gather meaningful information about their progress.
*Turn Observations Into Next Steps: Explore how to use what you notice during play to plan follow-up activities, provide support, and extend children's learning.

Participants Will Leave With:
*Practical ideas for organizing and refreshing classroom centers.
*Creative ways to connect learning goals to play.
*Strategies for encouraging independence and engagement.
*Ways to observe and monitor student progress during centers.
*Ideas for using observations to plan what comes next.
*Tools and strategies you can use in your classrooms right away.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 50

7. Secondary School Librarian Network

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 9/15/2026 to 5/11/2027

The Secondary School Librarian Network is a forum to support school librarians as leaders in their educational community on program development, curricular development, educator collaboration, and advocacy. School librarians will share successes, ideas, and strategies for professional growth and to build a network of peers. All school librarians are invited to join.
  • Max Class Size: 20

8. Secondary School Librarian Network

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 9/15/2026 to 5/11/2027

The Secondary School Librarian Network is a forum to support school librarians as leaders in their educational community on program development, curricular development, educator collaboration, and advocacy. School librarians will share successes, ideas, and strategies for professional growth and to build a network of peers. All school librarians are invited to join.
  • Max Class Size: 20

9. Elementary School Librarian Network

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 9/16/2026 to 5/12/2027

The Elementary School Librarian Network is a forum to support school librarians as leaders in their educational community on program development, curricular development, educator collaboration, and advocacy. School librarians will share successes, ideas, and strategies for professional growth and to build a network of peers. All school librarians are invited to join.
  • Max Class Size: 20

10. Maximizing Shared Resources for Secondary Students: Strengthening Teaching and Learning with Rockland School Library System Digital Tools

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 9/23/2026

Join us for a hands-on webinar in which we will explore a variety of digital tools provided to members of the Rockland School Library System. We will share practical strategies for effectively integrating the resources into your teaching practice as well as discussing insights and techniques for enhancing use and strengthening educational impact across your school community. We will take a deep dive into three powerful platforms (Overdrive's Sora, TeachingBooks, and Tech-Talk) and discuss how each can support student learning and engagement. Whether you are new to these tools or looking to expand your current use, this webinar will leave you with actionable insights to bring back to your classroom or library.
  • Max Class Size: 15

11. Maximizing Shared Resources for Elementary Students: Strengthening Teaching and Learning with Rockland School Library System Digital Tools

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 9/23/2026

Join us for a hands-on webinar in which we will explore a variety of digital tools provided to members of the Rockland School Library System. We will share practical strategies for effectively integrating the resources into your teaching practice as well as discussing insights and techniques for enhancing use and strengthening educational impact across your school community. We will take a deep dive into three powerful platforms (Overdrive's Sora, TeachingBooks, and Tech-Talk) and discuss how each can support student learning and engagement. Whether you are new to these tools or looking to expand your current use, this webinar will leave you with actionable insights to bring back to your classroom or library.
  • Max Class Size: 15

12. Math Curriculum Council: Secondary (6-12) 2026-27

Program: Professional Development Center

Dates: 9/29/2026 to 5/25/2027

The Math Curriculum Council is a Professional Learning Community (PLC) who will meet for four half day sessions to keep informed of recent changes in mathematics curriculum, instruction, and assessment initiatives from the New York State Education Department.

Our Curriculum Council will explore items related to improving curriculum and instruction for all students. There will be a focus on building capacity within your district as you transition to the Next Generation Mathematics Learning Standards.

The council will participate in discussions focused on research based strategies and current best practices in mathematics, develop awareness and knowledge of the progressions across grade levels, develop a global view of mathematics across all levels, share technology resources and promote a culture of collective knowledge and expertise.

Council members will have the opportunity to discuss and share ideas on how to best prepare students for success.

Participants will have access to shared materials and become part of a list serv to raise questions and get answers, not just from Valerie, but from each other!

Price is per district and includes participation in both the Elementary and Secondary Math councils.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 30

13. Communications Coordinators (Liaison) and Council Joint Meeting

Program: School Library System

Dates: 9/29/2026 to 6/10/2027

The School Library System Council meets regularly to recommend policy, perform long-range and short-range planning, including overseeing the development of the system's Plan of Service. Participants will also work to approve the annual system budget, the system's annual report, and to evaluate the system's services. The December 8th meeting's snow date is December 10, 2026. The March 3rd meeting's snow date is March 10, 2027.
  • Max Class Size: 20

14. ELA Curriculum Council Grades K-5

Program: Professional Development Center

Dates: 10/7/2026 to 5/11/2027

Are you a Literacy Leader in your District? If you are, this council is an ideal opportunity for you to come share ideas, resources and strategies with your colleagues from across the county. The ELA council is a Professional Learning Community (PLC) who will meet four times throughout the school year during rotating half day sessions.

During the councils, participants will examine instructional strategies and best practices currently being implemented in classrooms across the county in ELA. Updates from the State Education Department will be shared along with how to navigate the Next Generation ELA Learning Standards.

The council provides an opportunity for collaboration with Literacy colleagues across the districts to discuss professional development needs, best practices, vertical alignment across grade levels and provide direction for ELA instruction in Rockland County.

Participants will be added to the list serv to raise questions and get answers from all members of the council!

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 30

15. Rockland Read In: Reading, Community, and Connection

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 10/8/2026

Join us for an engaging webinar on bringing the 43rd annual Rockland Read In to your school! We will walk through setting up your school's participation, share creative activities other Rockland County Schools have used to make their Read In a success, and explore how the event connects to broader literacy initiatives. You will leave with tips for coordinating volunteer readers and practical strategies for keeping the reading momentum in your school alive long after the Rockland Read In. Whether you are a first time participant or a seasoned Read In organizer, this workshop has something for everyone.
  • Max Class Size: 15

16. Rockland Read In: Reading, Community, and Connection

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 10/8/2026

Join us for an engaging webinar on bringing the 43rd annual Rockland Read In to your school! We will walk through setting up your school's participation, share creative activities other Rockland County Schools have used to make their Read In a success, and explore how the event connects to broader literacy initiatives. You will leave with tips for coordinating volunteer readers and practical strategies for keeping the reading momentum in your school alive long after the Rockland Read In. Whether you are a first time participant or a seasoned Read In organizer, this workshop has something for everyone.
  • Max Class Size: 15

17. ELA Curriculum Council Grades 6-12

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Administrators, ELA Chairperson

Dates: 10/9/2026 to 5/12/2027

Are you a Literacy Leader in your District? If you are, this council is an ideal opportunity for you to come share ideas, resources and strategies with your colleagues from across the county. The council is a Professional Learning Community (PLC) who will meet four times throughout the school year during rotating half day sessions.

During the councils, participants will examine instructional strategies and best practices currently being implemented in classrooms across the county in ELA. Updates from the State Education Department will be shared along with how to navigate the Next Generation ELA Learning Standards.

The council provides an opportunity for collaboration with Literacy colleagues across the districts to discuss professional development needs, best practices, vertical alignment across grade levels and provide direction for ELA instruction in Rockland County.

Participants will be added to the list serv to raise questions and get answers from all members of the council!

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 30

18. World Language Collegial Circle/Professional Learning Community

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Teachers of World Languages

Dates: 10/14/2026 to 5/6/2027

During World Language Collegial Circle/Professional Learning Community meetings, members will delve into pertinent topics in World Language teaching and learning. Discussions will revolve around updates from the State Education Department and the most recent developments in the field. The group will tackle present trends, issues, and persistent questions. Agendas will be structured around aspects of curriculum and instruction. Participants will seek guidance, propose solutions among their peers, exchange ideas, enhance programs, and learn about schools' diverse approaches to addressing various issues.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 25

19. World Language Collegial Circle/Professional Learning Community

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Teachers of World Languages

Dates: 10/14/2026 to 5/12/2027

During World Language Collegial Circle/Professional Learning Community meetings, members will delve into pertinent topics in World Language teaching and learning. Discussions will revolve around updates from the State Education Department and the most recent developments in the field. The group will tackle present trends, issues, and persistent questions. Agendas will be structured around aspects of curriculum and instruction. Participants will seek guidance, propose solutions among their peers, exchange ideas, enhance programs, and learn about schools' diverse approaches to addressing various issues.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 25

20. Teaching for Proficiency: Maximizing Target Language Use and Assessing Performance

Program: Professional Development Center

Dates: 10/29/2026

Morning: Increasing Target Language Use in the Classroom

During this half-day workshop, participants will gain strategies for creating a supportive environment to build student confidence in using the target language and for maximizing teacher and student target language use.

They will gain thinking frames for planning opportunities for students to perform in all modes of communication in the target language.

Afternoon:

Assessing Student Performance in the Proficiency-Focused Classroom How do we gauge student growth in proficiency in the language classroom? In this workshop, participants will gain strategies for designing proficiency- based performance assessments, calibrating scoring, and practice providing students with meaningful feedback to grow in their proficiency level. They will examine proficiencybased rubrics, Can-Do statements, and templates and processes for designing real world and developmentallyappropriate assessments for language students.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 25

21. Rockland's Resource Sharing Network: Interlibrary Loan Made Simple

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 10/29/2026

This workshop introduces Rockland school librarians and other library staff to the fundamentals of interlibrary loan (ILL) services and how they can expand access to resources for students and staff. Participants will learn how to request and respond to requests for materials, navigate the union catalog, and understand timelines involved in borrowing and lending in the Rockland School Library System. We'll cover best practices for managing requests, availability of materials, and troubleshooting common challenges. By the end, you'll feel confident using interlibrary loan as a powerful tool to service your school community.
  • Max Class Size: 15

22. Rockland's Resource Sharing Network: Interlibrary Loan Made Simple

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 10/29/2026

This workshop introduces Rockland school librarians and other library staff to the fundamentals of interlibrary loan (ILL) services and how they can expand access to resources for students and staff. Participants will learn how to request and respond to requests for materials, navigate the union catalog, and understand timelines involved in borrowing and lending in the Rockland School Library System. We'll cover best practices for managing requests, availability of materials, and troubleshooting common challenges. By the end, you'll feel confident using interlibrary loan as a powerful tool to service your school community.
  • Max Class Size: 15

23. Rockland Read In: Reading, Community, and Connection

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 11/17/2026

Join us for an engaging webinar on bringing the 43rd annual Rockland Read In to your school! We will walk through setting up your school's participation, share creative activities other Rockland County Schools have used to make their Read In a success, and explore how the event connects to broader literacy initiatives. You will leave with tips for coordinating volunteer readers and practical strategies for keeping the reading momentum in your school alive long after the Rockland Read In. Whether you are a first time participant or a seasoned Read In organizer, this workshop has something for everyone.
  • Max Class Size: 15

24. Rockland Read In: Reading, Community, and Connection

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians, K-12 Educators

Dates: 11/17/2026

Join us for an engaging webinar on bringing the 43rd annual Rockland Read In to your school! We will walk through setting up your school's participation, share creative activities other Rockland County Schools have used to make their Read In a success, and explore how the event connects to broader literacy initiatives. You will leave with tips for coordinating volunteer readers and practical strategies for keeping the reading momentum in your school alive long after the Rockland Read In. Whether you are a first time participant or a seasoned Read In organizer, this workshop has something for everyone.
  • Max Class Size: 15

25. Building Thinking Classrooms with Peter Liljedahl Session 2 (11/19)

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Elementary Teachers; mathematics teachers, K-12

Dates: 11/19/2026

Dr. Peter Liljedahl will be giving a full-day workshop on Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC), the second of his full 3-day training. He will be outlining 14 research-based classroom practices that promote thinking in the mathematics classroom. This workshop will not only give an overview of the ideas in BTC, but also allow teachers who have begun to implement these practices to ask questions about implementing these practices successfully.
***NOTES***
--If you can no longer attend after being fully enrolled, you will need to find someone to take your place. No refunds will be given.
--Please be fully enrolled by September 18, 2026.
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Building Thinking Classrooms is an educational approach developed by Dr. Peter Liljedahl, professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Sparked by observing dozens and dozens of teachers struggle to engage students in deep thinking and problem solving, and observing hundreds of students engaged in a lot of behavior that didn't include thinking-or learning-Peter set out to find the answer to a simple question: How can we get more students to think and to think longer?
Over the next 15 years, he set a research course to break every institutional norm possible to see what shifts could get students thinking. Out of this research grew 14 specific norm-busting teaching practices that have proven to enhance thinking-and thus learning in hundreds of thousands of classrooms around the world. And it doesn't stop there. Not only do the 14 practices enhance thinking, they enhance other competencies in students such as collaboration, perseverance, risk-taking. Further, they enhance access and equity to learning and student autonomy and ownership of learning.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 60

26. ****ONLINE****UPDATED IDENTIFICATION & REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE & MALTREATMENT - THIS IS AN ON LINE COURSE AND FOR REGISTRATION PURPOSES

Program: SAVE and Child Abuse Awareness

Audience: Classroom teachers, teaching assts, educ in adm/supv service, coaches, persons NY State cert/license

Dates: On-Going (Ends Dec 30, 2026)

This is an ONLINE course. Candidates applying for New York State certification/license, or are have an active registration in TEACH, in New York State, must complete two hours of course work in the **UPDATED** Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment in accordance with Education Law. Rockland BOCES is providing a two-hour fully online certification course that fulfills this requirement. A certificate will be issued to participants at the completion of this course as well as an electronic upload of completion directly to TEACH.

Participants register and pay thru Frontline. Upon receipt of payment, each registrant will receive an online account.

Usernames, enrollment password for the course, and link to the course are then emailed to the student. Students may begin the course when they receive their account information. Participants do not have to wait until the date posted on this registration.

  • Max Class Size: 250

27. **ONLINE** Dignity For All Students (DASA) - 6 Hour Certification Course

Program: Dignity for All Students Act

Audience: Anyone needing training for certification

Dates: On-Going (Ends Dec 30, 2026)

WORK AT YOUR OWN PACE IN THIS 100% ONLINE COURSE

Effective December 31, 2013 all applicants for Certification are required to complete six clock hours of coursework or training in accordance with Article 2 Sections 10-18 of the Education Law. Rockland BOCES is pleased to be a provider of DASA Training. Upon completion of the workshop, you will receive a Certification of Completion.

The coursework will address the social patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimination, marginalization and microaggressions, including but not limited to those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex.

PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED TO RECEIVE LOGIN INFORMATION **NOTE - WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONLINE PAYMENT**

A check may be mailed to:
Rockland BOCES
Attn: Stacy Muthig
Building 10 65 Parrott Rd,
West Nyack, NY 10994

please email Stacy Muthig: smuthig@rboces.org.

Once payment is received you will receive your login credentials via email and you may begin the course right away!

No district approval and building required.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 200

28. S.A.V.E. Online Class

Program: SAVE and Child Abuse Awareness

Audience: Classroom teachers, teaching assts, educ in adm/supv service, coaches, persons NY State cert/license

Dates: On-Going (Ends Dec 30, 2026)

Candidates applying for a New York State certification/license, must complete two hours of course work in school violence prevention (Schools Against Violence in Education) in accordance with Education Law. Rockland BOCES is providing a two-hour fully online certification course that fulfills this requirement. A certificate will be issued to participants at the completion of this course.

Participants register thru MyLearningPlan. Upon receipt of payment, each registrant will receive an online account. Once participants receive their account information, they may start the course. Participants do not have to wait until the date posted on the registration.

Usernames, enrollment password for the course, and link to the course are then emailed to the student.

  • Max Class Size: 250

29. Portraits of Possibilities: Inquiry, School Libraries and Lifelong learning

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 2/10/2027

Portraits of Possibilities: Inquiry, School Libraries and Lifelong Learning will engage school librarians in exploring how inquiry skills develop from elementary through high school and how they connect to the Portrait of a Graduate and the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum. Keynote speaker Dr. Barbara Stripling will inspire participants with examples of how students can develop meaningful inquiry questions and become empowered, lifelong learners at every stage of their educational journey. The symposium will provide opportunities for collaboration and the reflection of participants' own experiences as they explore strategies for advocating for inquiry, project-based learning, building partnerships, and navigating instructional change. School librarians will leave with practical tools, collaborative planning protocols, and ready-to-use strategies for designing inquiry-based lessons and units that can be immediately implemented in their schools.

Rockland BOCES is a local host for this statewide event sponsored by the School Library Systems Association of New York State.

  • Max Class Size: 30

30. Building Thinking Classrooms with Peter Liljedahl Session 3 (3/11)

Program: Professional Development Center

Audience: Elementary Teachers; mathematics teachers, K-12

Dates: 3/11/2027

Dr. Peter Liljedahl will be giving a full-day workshop on Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC), the third of his full 3-day training. He will be outlining 14 research-based classroom practices that promote thinking in the mathematics classroom. This workshop will not only give an overview of the ideas in BTC, but also allow teachers who have begun to implement these practices to ask questions about implementing these practices successfully.
***NOTES***
--If you can no longer attend after being fully enrolled, you will need to find someone to take your place. No refunds will be given.
--Please be fully enrolled by January 10, 2027.
***********
Building Thinking Classrooms is an educational approach developed by Dr. Peter Liljedahl, professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Sparked by observing dozens and dozens of teachers struggle to engage students in deep thinking and problem solving, and observing hundreds of students engaged in a lot of behavior that didn't include thinking-or learning-Peter set out to find the answer to a simple question: How can we get more students to think and to think longer?
Over the next 15 years, he set a research course to break every institutional norm possible to see what shifts could get students thinking. Out of this research grew 14 specific norm-busting teaching practices that have proven to enhance thinking-and thus learning in hundreds of thousands of classrooms around the world. And it doesn't stop there. Not only do the 14 practices enhance thinking, they enhance other competencies in students such as collaboration, perseverance, risk-taking. Further, they enhance access and equity to learning and student autonomy and ownership of learning.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Max Class Size: 60