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 SP2026-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 SP2026-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: SP2026-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: SP2026-ON-119 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Christina Sciarrotto

Dive into the Science of Reading with a course tailored to decodables. In this course, you'll learn what is a decodable and how to effectively utilize decodable texts to support readers. Additionally, you will discover innovative ways to utilize AI tools to create decodable text and access to a wealth of free resources.

Standards include: ELA and Technology.

Appropriate for Grades K-8.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-114 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Joan Carrozza

In this online course, we will closely examine the strategies used to effectively teach English as a New Language (ENL) students. We will focus on best practices including co-teaching, helpful web tools, strategies for classroom teaching, and meaningful classroom talk. We will brainstorm ways to involve parents as we create a welcoming classroom environment for all students. We will explore resources and cross-reference lesson plans and curriculums so that each teacher has customized lesson plans to address individual needs. At the end of the course, you will have a toolkit that will include visual ideas, translation resources, conversation tools and vocabulary resources.

* Participants will receive the course log in information before the course is scheduled to begin.

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-084 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Christina Sciarrotto

This course will examine the components of a Google for Education including Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, and Classroom. Additionally, you will learn how to share, collaborate and edit using the features of Google.

Standards include: ELA and Technology.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-109 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Christina Sciarrotto

Unlock the power of Genially to create interactive presentations, engaging games, and dynamic visuals that bring learning to life! In this course, teachers will explore how to design activities that captivate students, from clickable infographics to escape rooms and quizzes. Whether you're new to Genially or looking to expand your skills, you'll leave with ready-to-use projects and creative ideas to transform your classroom.

Standards include: ELA and Technology.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-122 | 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 SP2026-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: SP2026-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: SP2026-ON-052| 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: SP2026-ON-102 | 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: SP2026-ON-118 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Joel Vetter
This course provides guidance to educators and administrators so they can prepare to respond to an active shooter or killer situation. Upon completion of the course, educators will be able to:

+ Describe and understand threats in your institution
+ Actions to be taken when confronted with an active incident
+ Describe actions to take to prevent and prepare for incidents
+ Describe how to manage the consequences of an incident

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 SP2026-ON-075 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Are you charged with conducting a rigorous and comprehensive reading environment for your children and do not know where to begin? Look no further- This course will give you tools and tips to help empower you and your students. Topics to cover: Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Irregular Words, Multisyllabic word reading, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-6.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-096 | 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: SP2026-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 SP2025-ON-016 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Tracey Calise

Are you looking for support for your ESOL children? This course will give you help with Spanish letter/sound systems, spelling sequences, Spanish syllable types and patterns, and the cross-language transfer.

Meets Standards ELA RL, RI, & W.

Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Course Number: SP2026-ON-098 | 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: SP2026-ON-120 | 3 Credits/45 Hours

Instructor: Lisa McGovern

Vocabulary is not just about knowing more words-nothing in the world does not have a word attached to it. Every word is a concept. Strong vocabulary skills are the key to unlocking access to learning for students in every subject. Vocabulary is the basic skill for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking-skills essential for academic success and lifelong learning. This course will explore the impact of vocabulary skills on learning in all content areas. The vast majority of content learning relies heavily on learning the terminology associated with the content information. Becoming aware of the necessity of simultaneously teaching content terminology with subject content can assist educators in enhancing the overall learning experience of and outcomes for students. Additionally, this course will give an overview of word-building basics to clarify how words work in order to enhance teachers' abilities to teach the vocabulary associated with their content area. Finally, this course will offer specific teaching strategies educators can apply in their classrooms to easily incorporate the teaching of their content-specific terminology while providing instruction of their regular content.

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

Appropriate for all grade levels.

Course SP2026-ON-71 | 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: SP2026-ON-111 | 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.

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