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1. New Administrator's Network

Program: School Improvement

Audience: New Administrators (less than 3 years)

Dates: 8/14/2023 to 5/15/2024

Meeting Times:
9/20/2023 (virtual) 3:30-5:00
10/11/2023 (virtual) 3:30-5:00 PM
1/10/2024 (in person at BOCES) 3:30-5:00 PM
3/13/2024 (virtual) 3:30-5:00 PM
5/15/2024 (in person at BOCES) 3:30-5:00 PM

Location: Online and Virtual

Congratulations! You've secured your first role as a school administrator. It's an exciting time in your career and you have high hopes for how you will positively impact staff and students in your care. Now, who is going to take care of you? Who will help you think through and address the myriad issues and challenges you will face in the coming months?

Join us for a year long series of meetings designed to provide you with support from both a facilitator and colleagues who are also new in their roles and experiencing many of the same things you are. The primary objectives of this series are to provide networking opportunities, informal mentoring and opportunities to discuss issues pertinent to those new in their roles in a safe, confidential space.

Meetings will be held at the following times:

9/20/2023 (virtual) 3:30-5:00 PM
10/11/2023 (virtual) 3:30-5:00 PM
1/10/2024 (in person at BOCES) 3:30-5:00 PM
3/13/2024 (virtual) 3:30-5:00 PM
5/15/2024 (in person at BOCES) 3:30-5:00 PM

These sessions are provided at no cost to component districts. Non-component district personnel may participate @ $100 per session.

2. APPR - Lead Evaluator of Principals

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Principals

Dates: 9/11/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00m-3:00pm

This is a mandated training for any school administrator who will be evaluating Principals

3. Mentor Training (Online Asynchronous)

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 9/11/2023 to 9/28/2023

Meeting Times: Asynchronous

This will be a three (3) week asynchronous course on standards and methods regarding mentoring new teachers. The training is for experienced or new mentors. Topics covered will include the NYS mentoring standards, coaching methods, strategies for giving feedback, and more. This training is free for teachers from component districts.

4. Asynchronous- Implementing IXL in the Classroom and Making the Most of IXL Data.

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/25/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: Asynchronous

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In this asynchronous course we will cover using IXL in your instruction. The class will review the basics of IXL Running the diagnostic and targeting skills in IXL. We will also look at the data collected by IXL and how to use this to improve and target instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn CTLE credit hours. Complete some or all for full credit (5 CTLE credits) modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

5. Asynchronous- Implementing Nearpod in Classroom Instruction and Utilizing Nearpod Data to Inform Instruction.

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/25/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: Asynchronous

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In this asynchronous course we will cover using Nearpod in your instruction. The class will review the basics of Nearpod operations and creation, with interactives and assessments as well as how to create your own content and pull resources from Nearpod's library. We will also look at the data collected by Nearpod and how to use this to improve and target instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn CTLE credit hours. Complete some or all for full credit (5 CTLE credits) modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

6. Asynchronous- Using Book Creator in your Classroom

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/25/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: Asynchronous

Starting Soon
In this asynchronous course we will cover using Book Creator in your instruction. The class will review the basics of incorporating the program into your classroom Instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn 2 CTLE credit hours. modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

7. Asynchronous- Implementing IXL in the Classroom and Making the Most of IXL Data.

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/26/2023

Meeting Times: 8:00am-3:30pm

Location: Zoom

Starting Soon
In this asynchronous course we will cover using IXL in your instruction. The class will review the basics of IXL Running the diagnostic and targeting skills in IXL. We will also look at the data collected by IXL and how to use this to improve and target instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn CTLE credit hours. Complete some or all for full credit (5 CTLE credits) modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

8. Asynchronous- Implementing Nearpod in Classroom Instruction and Utilizing Nearpod Data to Inform Instruction.

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/26/2023

Meeting Times: 8:00am-3:30pm

Location: Zoom

Starting Soon
In this asynchronous course we will cover using Nearpod in your instruction. The class will review the basics of Nearpod operations and creation, with interactives and assessments as well as how to create your own content and pull resources from Nearpod's library. We will also look at the data collected by Nearpod and how to use this to improve and target instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn CTLE credit hours. Complete some or all for full credit (5 CTLE credits) modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

9. Asynchronous- Using Generation Genius in your Classroom

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/26/2023

Meeting Times: 8:00am-3:30pm

Location: Zoom

Starting Soon
In this asynchronous course we will cover using Generation Genius in your instruction. The class will review the basics of incorporating the program into your classroom Instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn 2 CTLE credit hours. modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

10. SLS: 1st Quarterly SLS Council Meeting & PD Workshop

Program: School Library System

Audience: K-12 School Librarians

Dates: 9/27/2023

Meeting Times: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

NewStarting Soon
Our first order of business will be approving the annual report. Following the business portion of our meeting, we will be having a presentation from TeachingBooks, We will also be having a refresher of the resources we purchase regionally and Kelly will be sharing some TLC tips and tricks.

11. Using Nearpod Activities to Promote Student Engagement

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/27/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

Starting Soon
Take a deeper dive into Nearpod and it's various activities for students that make learning fun, engaging, and interactive. We will look at different types of Nearpod activities and how to enhance your Google slides and Nearpod content all while collecting important data about your students learning.

12. Asynchronous- Using Book Creator in your Classroom

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 9/29/2023

Meeting Times: 8:30am-3:30pm

Location: Zoom

In this asynchronous course we will cover using Book Creator in your instruction. The class will review the basics of incorporating the program into your classroom Instruction. As you accomplish tasks you will earn 2 CTLE credit hours. modules are self-paced and can be completed anytime between September 26 - December 11, 2023. Registrants will be notified by email once registration is complete with course access information. If you have additional questions about the course email: John.Larson@scboces.org

13. Integrating Brain Pop into Google Classroom

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 10/4/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: 8:00 AM-3:00 PM

Location: ZOOM

In this workshop we will look into adding Brain Pop content into your Google Classroom. We will review the process of importing your classes, assigning work, and navigating Brain Pop content.

14. SLS Zoom Book Club: Newbery Contenders - The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Program: School Library System

Dates: 10/4/2023

Meeting Times: Wednesday October 4, 2023 @ 3pm

Location: Online - Zoom

Join us for a one-hour discussion of current and starred reviewed titles that are contenders for the Newbery Medal. Participants will read the book and be ready to discuss the work during the ZOOM hour. "The Mona Lisa Vanishes” is available on Sora, your school library's ebook collection. The Zoom link will be sent to participants after registering on MLP. Genre: Nonfiction On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves-and detectives-of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa-the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all. Here is a middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout, written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty. -- From the publisher

15. Grade 5 NYSED Required Elementary Science Investigation "Structure and Properties of Matter: What's in the Bag?"

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 5 Science Teachers

Dates: 10/5/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop will introduce and prepare grade 4 teachers with the required investigation, "Structure and Properties of Matter: What's in the Bag?". Teachers will examine the materials that are needed and will work through the intricacies of the investigation. district administrators must provide the investigation packet for the their teachers (PE 5-PS1-4)

16. Middle School Data Meeting: Sullivan West CSD Only

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Sullivan West CSD Teachers, Building Administrators/Leadership

Dates: 10/6/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-2:30pm

Location: SWCSD

Taking a deep dive into Middle School assessment data correlated to standards to find out where our efforts can be concentrated to best support our students.

17. Making the Most of IXL

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 10/11/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

In this workshop we will explore key elements of IXL and best practices when implementing the program with your students. We will explore the smart-scoring algorithm and how to get the most from the program.

18. Grade 3 NYSED Required Elementary Science Investigation "A Cloud in a Bottle"

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 3 Science Teachers

Dates: 10/12/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop will introduce and prepare grade 3 teachers with the required investigation, "A Cloud in a Bottle". Teachers will examine the materials that are needed and will work through the intricacies of the investigation. District administrators must provide the investigation packets for their teachers (PE-3-ESS2-3)

19. SLS Zoom Book Club: Printz Contenders - The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Program: School Library System

Dates: 10/18/2023

Meeting Times: Wednesday October 18, 2023 @ 3pm

Location: Online - Zoom

Join us for a one-hour discussion of current and starred reviewed titles that are contenders for the Printz Medal. Participants will read the book and be ready to discuss the work during the ZOOM hour. "The Spirit Bares Its Teeth” is available on Sora, your school library's ebook collection. The Zoom link will be sent to participants after registering on MLP. Genre: Horror Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness-a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness-and shipped away to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton's innards and expose its guts to the world-so long as the school doesn't break him first. Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White's much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity. -- From the publisher

20. Introduction to Yoga & Mindfulness for Diverse Abilities

Program: School Improvement

Audience: All are welcome

Dates: 10/19/2023

Meeting Times: 9am-4pm

Location: Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Building

Want to develop your skills with individuals of diverse abilities? Join us to learn the how‐to of integrating yoga and mindfulness‐based activities into your practice! This professional development workshop will provide light refreshments and lunch with two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch break. Please register through the following link: https://pub.cce.cornell.edu/event_registration/main/events.cfm sullivancce.org  sullivan@cornell.edu  845‐292‐6180

21. Intro to SeeSaw

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 10/23/2023 to 12/2/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

In this workshop we will look at the fundamentals of SeeSaw and We will look at its features as both an LMS and repository of learning activities

22. Minecraft EDU

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 10/25/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

Come explore everything Minecraft has to offer in the classroom. In this course we will explore the educational uses of Minecraft and take a deep dive into the educational resources provided by Microsoft. We will explore how to engage both students in the classroom and at home within a variety of disciplines. This workshop requires a district MineCraft EDU license.

23. Grade 4 NYSED Required Elementary Science Investigation "Energy: Light It Up"

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 4 Science Teachers

Dates: 10/26/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop will introduce and prepare grade 4 teachers with the required investigation, "Energy: Light It Up". Teachers will examine the materials that are needed and will work through the intricacies of the investigation. district administrators must provide the investigation packet for the their teachers (PE 4-PS3-4)

24. Star Lab Training

Program: Sullivan County Teacher Center

Audience: All Districts: Teachers

Dates: 10/26/2023

Meeting Times: 4:pm-7:00 pm

Essential course in the set up and operation of the Star Lab equipment. This course is necessary for any persons wishing to borrow Star Lab for their district.

25. CATCH MY BREATH: E-CIGARETTES & JUUL: AN EPIDEMIC AMONG OUR YOUTH

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Teachers, Building Administrators/Leadership, Instructional Coaches, Team Leaders/ Content Leads, Librarians, Psychologists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Special Education, AIS Educators, MTSS/RTI Educators, Educators K-2, Educators 3-5, Educators 6-8, Educators 9-12, Teacher Assistants

Dates: 11/1/2023

Meeting Times: 12:30-3:30

"CATCH My Breath" is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based youth vaping prevention program developed by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. The program provides up-to-date information to teachers, parents, and health professionals to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of e-cigarettes, including JUUL devices. CATCH My Breath utilizes a peer-led teaching approach and meets National and State Health Education Standards."

26. Engineering Design Process and 5E Lesson Planning - **ECSD Only**

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 11/1/2023

Meeting Times: November 1, 2023 from 8:30 am to 3 pm

Location: Eldred Central School District

Teachers explore diverse examples of incorporating the engineering design cycle through three-dimensional, 5E Lesson Planning. Teachers will choose activities based on their content area/grade level to experience engineering practices. Resources for planning will be shared.

27. Grade 3 NYSED Required Elementary Science Investigation "Life Cycles and Traits: Circle of Life"

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 3 Science Teachers

Dates: 11/2/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop will introduce and prepare grade 3 teachers with the required investigation, "Life Cycles and Traits: Circle of Life". Teachers will examine the materials that are needed and will work through the intricacies of the investigation. district administrators must provide the investigation packet for the their teachers (PE 3-LS1-1)

28. Intro to Edpuzzle

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 11/6/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

Learn how to create interactive videos that save time and boost student engagement. We will embed open-ended or multiple choice questions, audio notes, or comments onto already created videos from YouTube, Edpuzzle library or ones you created yourself

29. Making the Most of IXL

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 11/7/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

In this workshop we will explore key elements of IXL and best practices when implementing the program with your students. We will explore the smart-scoring algorithm and how to get the most from the program.

30. SLS Zoom Book Club: Newbery Contenders - The Puppets of Spelhorst

Program: School Library System

Dates: 11/8/2023

Meeting Times: Wednesday November 8, 2023 @ 3pm

Location: Online - Zoom

Join us for a one-hour discussion of current and starred reviewed titles that are contenders for the Newbery Medal. Participants will read the book and be ready to discuss the work during the ZOOM hour. "The Puppets of Spelhorst” is available on Sora, your school library's ebook collection. The Zoom link will be sent to participants after registering on MLP. Genre: Fantasy Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends-a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl-bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the truth is more astonishing than any of them could have imagined. A beloved author of modern classics draws on her most moving themes with humor, heart, and wisdom in the first of the Norendy Tales, a projected trio of novellas linked by place and mood, each illustrated in black and white by a different virtuoso illustrator. A magical and beautifully packaged gift volume designed to be read aloud and shared, The Puppets of Spelhorst is a tale that soothes and strengthens us on our journey, leading us through whatever dark forest we find ourselves in. -- from the publisher

31. Grade 6-8 Structures and Properties of Matter: All Mixed Up

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 6-8 Science Teachers

Dates: 11/16/2023

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop will introduce and prepare intermediate level science teachers with the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices and cross cutting concepts needed to present this investigation to students. Teachers will examine the materials that ae needed and will work through the intricacies of the investigation. Investigation packets must be provide by the district administrators. (PE MS-PS1-8)

32. SLS Zoom Book Club: Printz Contenders - Impossible Escape

Program: School Library System

Dates: 11/29/2023

Meeting Times: Wednesday November 29, 2023 @ 3pm

Location: Online - Zoom

Join us for a one-hour discussion of current and starred reviewed titles that are contenders for the Printz Medal. Participants will read the book and be ready to discuss the work during the ZOOM hour. "Impossible Escape” is available on Sora, your school library's ebook collection. The Zoom link will be sent to participants after registering on MLP. Genre: Nonfiction It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won't stop until he reveals the truth to the world―and that each day that passes means more lives are lost. Lives like Rudi's schoolmate Gerta Sidonová. Gerta's family fled from Slovakia to Hungary, where they live under assumed names to hide their Jewish identity. But Hungary is beginning to cave under pressure from German Nazis. Her chances of survival become slimmer by the day. The clock is ticking. As Gerta inches closer to capture, Rudi and his friend Alfred Wetzler begin their crucial steps towards an impossible escape. This is the true story of one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, and how his death-defying escape helped save over 100,000 lives. -- From the publisher

33. Using Nearpod Activities to Promote Student Engagement

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 11/29/2023

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

Take a deeper dive into Nearpod and it's various activities for students that make learning fun, engaging, and interactive. We will look at different types of Nearpod activities and how to enhance your Google slides and Nearpod content all while collecting important data about your students learning.

34. Getting Started with Kami

Program: Model Schools

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 12/13/2023 to 1/6/2024

Meeting Times: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Location: ZOOM

In this workshop we will explore Kami and how it can be used to transform all your static documents, PDFs, images, or other learning resources into an interactive experience ready for expression, analysis, or debate. Create a Seamless workflow where you can create, send, and grade assignments all from one place. Kami works with Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology Learning Management Systems.

35. Assessing 3D Learning **ECSD only**

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 2/12/2024

Meeting Times: 02/12/2024 8:30am to 3 pm

Location: Eldred CSD

How do we assess complex learning in science? Using samples from other states' assessments, teachers will explore NYSSLS-aligned assessments in preparation for the NYS new science exam adoption schedule.