Instructor: Dana Kalachik

🌟 Revolutionize Your Teaching with AI! 🌟

Are you ready to supercharge your teaching journey? Join this exciting course on "AI in Education: Your Personal Teaching Assistant!" 🤖 Meet Your New Co-Teacher: Discover the incredible ease of integrating AI into your classroom! Imagine having a tireless, intelligent assistant by your side, ready to help you with everything from lesson planning, to support for differentiation, to increasing and managing student engagement.

📚 AI for Every Subject: Learn how AI can effortlessly adapt to all subjects, providing personalized support that caters to each student's unique learning style.

💡 AI-Powered Lesson Planning: Experience the magic of AI-driven lesson planning! Watch as AI generates creative and effective lesson plans, tailored to your curriculum, saving you hours of precious time so you can focus more on other areas that need attention.

👩‍🏫 Student Engagement Amplified: AI isn't just a tool; it's your secret weapon to captivate students' imaginations! Explore how AI can turn class into an interactive, dynamic experience that keeps students eager to learn.

🌐 Join the AI Education Revolution: Embrace the future of teaching with open arms! This course is your gateway to an easier, more rewarding teaching experience. Don't miss out on the opportunity to have AI as your personal teaching assistant!

🚀 Elevate your teaching game - Let AI be your ally! Enroll today and unlock a world of possibilities in education. 🚀

Appropriate for all grade levels and standards.

Course FALL25-ON-104 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Dana Kalachik

🌟 Transform your teaching toolkit with Canva for Educators! 🌟

This dynamic professional development course is designed to empower teachers with the skills and creativity needed to bring lessons to life. Discover how Canva's intuitive platform can revolutionize your classroom, from creating eye-catching visuals and interactive learning materials to designing engaging presentations that captivate your students. Whether you're a tech novice or a seasoned pro, this course offers step-by-step guidance, innovative strategies, and inspiring ideas to help you elevate your teaching and connect with students like never before.

Join me and unleash the power of design to make your classroom a more vibrant, engaging, and effective learning environment!

Appropriate for all grade levels and standards.

Course FALL25-ON-112 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

This course provides educators with practical tools and strategies to identify and address learning gaps resulting from the pandemic. Participants will explore diagnostic assessments, differentiated instruction, and targeted interventions to support students at varying academic levels. The course emphasizes creating personalized pathways to help students regain confidence and achieve academic success.

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-117 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Delve into the latest findings in neuroscience to transform your teaching. This course focuses on how the brain learns, including memory, attention, and motivation. Educators will gain insights into brain-friendly teaching techniques, such as scaffolding, spaced repetition, and emotional engagement, to optimize student learning and retention.

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-119 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Taught by a veteran teacher who works in a low income at risk school. This class will help teachers handle the "at risk" student. This course will also help teachers through situations that may challenge them daily.

Meets Standards ELA 3 & 4; HPEFACS 1-3; MST 5-7.

Appropriate for Grades K-6.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-056 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Stop stressing over ELA assessments and start teaching key concepts that will help students pass the state exams. Save time while producing effective lessons that will cover everything students need to know to improve performance on the ELA.

Meets Standards HPEFACS 1-3.

Appropriate for Grades K-6.



Course Number: FALL25-ON-059 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Stop stressing over the NYS Math assessments and start teaching key concepts that will help students improve performance on the state exams. Collaborate with other teachers to discuss new and effective lessons.

Meets Standards HPEFACS 1-3.

Appropriate for Grades K-6.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-060 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

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Instructor: Jennifer Vetter

Email has become an integral part of life for almost everyone, and you probably use it dozens of times a day. But, do you use it really effectively? Lots of people don't. And do you use it for communicating with your students and their parents? This course has a simple goal, to help you use email more effectively in communicating with your students, their parents, coworkers, administrators and others.

Standards: Appropriate for all subject areas and all grade levels.

Participants will receive weekly lessons and have direct communication with the instructor via email.

**NOTE** This course was originally created and taught by the esteemed Harvey Singer, whose passion for education and dedication to his students left a lasting impact. Before his passing, Harvey entrusted Jennifer Vetter with continuing his educational legacy. Jennifer is deeply honored to carry forward his work, ensuring that his knowledge, insights, and teaching philosophy continue to inspire future learners.

Course FALL25-ON-067 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Jennifer Vetter

Google Slides (formerly called Google Presentations) is the free Google alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. If your students need free presentation software, or if your school has adopted Google Chromebook computers, Google Slides may be the perfect solution for you and your students. For you, Google Slides may be the perfect way to prepare and present lessons to your students, as well as presentations to colleagues, school administration, and other groups. And for your students, it is ideal for classroom reports. Best of all, Google Slides makes it really easy to prepare effective, professional looking presentations. To participate in this class, all you need is access to a computer with Internet access.

Meets Standards CDOS 1, 2, 3a & 3b; MST 1-3 & 5-7.

Appropriate for all grade levels and standards.

**NOTE** This course was originally created and taught by the esteemed Harvey Singer, whose passion for education and dedication to his students left a lasting impact. Before his passing, Harvey entrusted Jennifer Vetter with continuing his educational legacy. Jennifer is deeply honored to carry forward his work, ensuring that his knowledge, insights, and teaching philosophy continue to inspire future learners.

Course FALL25-ON-069 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Karen Zdrojeski

"Are you pulling my leg?” What does language have to do with literacy? This course will look into specific language skills that affect your students ability to read and comprehend what they have read. Do you know the difference between phonics and phonological awareness? This course will explain both and will give you tools to use to understand your students weaknesses with reading. Do you know the difference between phonology and articulation? What are idioms and how do they affect your student's comprehension? It is all in this course and you will leave with specific skills and how to work with your students to improve their reading skills through language.

Meets Standards CDOS 1, 2, 3a & 3b; ELA 1-4; MST 1, 2, 4-7.

Appropriate for all grade levels.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-100 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Danielle Sicari

This course will encourage teachers to use yoga and mindfulness to enhance their curriculum. Using yoga and mindfulness in the classroom can help meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. More students than we know come to our classrooms with social and emotional deficits, trauma and behaviors that can get in the way of learning. Yoga and mindfulness enhances learning, helps students to better understand themselves, improves their social behavior, promotes healthy development and helps them function more effectively as individuals. If we teach children how to become aware of their feelings, minds and bodies, we will lay the foundation for a better way to learn.

The major focus of this class will be to provide teachers with the tools necessary to include yoga and mindfulness into their classroom. Some topics will include:
1. Breathing techniques for students
2. Meditation and journaling for students
3. Chair yoga
4. Creating "Peaceful Place" in the classroom
5. Using picture books to increase awareness of mental and physical health
6. Finding your personal practice

*No previous yoga experience is necessary! This will be an informative and interactive class that will allow you to bring the yoga/mindfulness experience back to your classroom.

(Grade Level K-12)
Course Number: FALL25-ON-052| 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor:Michael Jannace

The course will train teachers in various types of internet-based technology that are useful for the 21st century classroom setting. The technology will help them to implement lesson activities that can be adapted for any content area, grade level or related services. The online technology includes castle learning, e-school training and My Learning Plan tutorials that allow for Common Core standards to be addressed, as well as, interactive learning, improvement in reading skills and vocabulary enhancement.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-028 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Marissa Boscia-Wittekind

Educators have to meet the needs of their students in a very different matter over the past year, specifically students' mental health needs. Combined with the drug epidemic that was already upon us, this adds a great deal of stress and behaviors that educators must deal with on a daily basis. This course will cover ways the educator can assist in identifying students that may be struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, strategies for addressing their concerns with the student, parents and staff, and provide educators with resources they can use and/or provide to families in order to get the students' needs met.

Meets Standards CDOS 1, 2, 3a & 3b; ELA 1-4; MST 1, 2, 4-7.

Appropriate for all grade levels.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-102 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Joel Vetter

The purpose of this course is to provide personal/community preparedness through engaging activities. These simple activities are a set of building blocks. The material adapted to include crucial local information on hazards, alerting and warning systems and community resources. Preparedness does not have to complex or overly time consuming, rather it should be motivating, empowering and engaging for all.

Joel Vetter is an emergency responder and educator with 29 years of escalating experience in Fire, EMS, hospital healthcare system and institutions of higher education.

Appropriate for all grade levels.

Course FALL25-ON-076 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

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Instructor: Christina Sciarrotto

Science of Reading: What is the Science of Reading and why is everyone talking about it? In this course, you will learn about the different components of the science of reading. Additionally, you will learn how to make the "shift” in your classroom.

Standards include: Next Generation Standards for ELA

Appropriate for Grades K-6.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-106 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Marissa Boscia-Wittekind

For over a year, people's mental health has been taxed heavily. Educators have been asked to meet higher expectations than ever before, resulting in a stressed and burnt out workforce. This course will cover self-care strategies for the educator, developing coping skills for stress, and strategies for maintaining mental wellness. In addition, the course will provide educators with the tools to ensure they are their best selves for their students. These strategies can be adapted to any area of stress, but will take a specific look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone's mental health.

Meets Standards CDOS 1, 2, 3a & 3b; ELA 1-4; MST 1, 2, 4-7.

Appropriate for all grade levels.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-101 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Michael Jannace

The course will cover various lesson activities that can be adapted for any content area or grade level. Lesson activities include Smart Board interactive activities that allow for cooperative learning, paired activities, presentations, direct instruction, and vocabulary enhancement.

Course FALL25-ON-016 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Delve into the latest findings in neuroscience to transform your teaching. This course focuses on how the brain learns, including memory, attention, and motivation. Educators will gain insights into brain-friendly teaching techniques, such as scaffolding, spaced repetition, and emotional engagement, to optimize student learning and retention.

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-120 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Christina Sciarrotto

As technological advances increase each day and everyone has become more dependent on the internet for daily activities, it is crucial to engage students in their learning. Book Creator, NearPod, Pear Deck, Flipgrid, BrainPop, and Padlet are a few examples that can be used to do this. Each has its own unique abilities and skills for engaging students.

Standards include: ELA and Technology.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: FALL25-ON-111 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

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Instructor: Jennifer Vetter

This course provides educators with the foundational knowledge, context, and tools needed to create inclusive, affirming, and supportive environments for LGBTQIA+ students. Participants will explore key terminology, the history of LGBTQIA+ communities, and the unique challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ youth-particularly in school settings. Through multimedia resources, reflective assignments, and real-world strategies, educators will learn how to foster safer classrooms, use inclusive language, address bias, and support students navigating issues related to gender identity and sexual orientation.

Emphasizing empathy over expertise, this course encourages educators to examine their own assumptions, check biases at the door, and make small but impactful changes that promote belonging and respect for all students.

Standards: Appropriate for all subject areas and all grade levels.

Participants will receive weekly lessons and have direct communication with the instructor via email.

Course FALL25-ON-121 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor:Lauren McGlone
In today's diverse classroom environments, personalized learning is more crucial than ever. "Unleash the Magic: Mastering Small Group Math Instruction" is a transformative continuing education course designed specifically for K-5 educators who aim to enhance their teaching strategies and meet the dynamic needs of their students. This course emphasizes the importance of small group instruction as a powerful tool to foster individual growth, increase engagement, & improve mathematical understanding among young learners. Aligned with the New York State Learning Standards, this course offers educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and skills in delivering targeted math instruction. Participants will explore effective techniques and resources for creating a collaborative and supportive learning atmosphere where every child can thrive. By focusing on differentiated instruction, this course empowers teachers to address diverse learning styles & abilities, ensuring that each student receives the attention and support needed to succeed.Key components of the course include:

• Understanding the principles & benefits of small group math instruction

• Designing & implementing lesson plans that align with New York State standards

• Utilizing formative assessments to guide instruction & monitor progress

• Integrating technology & innovative tools to enhance learning experiences

• Building a community of learners through effective communication and collaboration By the end of this course, educators will unlock the potential of small group math instruction & make a lasting impact on their students' educational journey. Whether you're a seasoned teacher or new to the profession, this course provides invaluable insights and strategies to elevate your teaching practice and ensure your students' success. Appropriate for all grade levels and standards.

Course FALL25-ON-116 | 3 Credit