Initial In-Person Training: Agenda - Fostering Mentoring Relationships, How Not to Get Fired, Certification, SEL/DEI Core Competencies, Effective Teaching, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Beginning of the Year Packet and Protocol

Monthly (September-June) Google Classroom Posts (Asynchronous): Online posts connect to professionalism, building rapport, building resiliency, coachability, technology, communication, induction check in, and reflection.

Bi-Monthly (Oct., Dec., Feb., April, End of May) Zoom-Webinars (Synchronous):NEW HIRES meet about Parent/Teacher conferences, class management, share great/difficult situations, technology, Google classroom posts, CSE meetings/procedures, reorganizing for the new year (curriculum mapping), certification, retirement/financial planning, field trips, state testing, observations, effective teaching, and priority standards. MENTORS join the meetings and breakout to share district specific information and then meet together to share challenges and needs based on the month's feedback.

Initial In-Person Training: Agenda - Fostering Mentoring Relationships, How Not to Get Fired, Certification, SEL/DEI Core Competencies, Effective Teaching, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Beginning of the Year Packet and Protocol

Monthly (September-June) Google Classroom Posts (Asynchronous): Online posts connect to professionalism, building rapport, building resiliency, coachability, technology, communication, induction check in, and reflection.

Bi-Monthly (Oct., Dec., Feb., April, End of May) Zoom-Webinars (Synchronous):NEW HIRES meet about Parent/Teacher conferences, class management, share great/difficult situations, technology, Google classroom posts, CSE meetings/procedures, reorganizing for the new year (curriculum mapping), certification, retirement/financial planning, field trips, state testing, observations, effective teaching, and priority standards. MENTORS join the meetings and breakout to share district specific information and then meet together to share challenges and needs based on the month's feedback.

Networking

Each meeting will provide tangible pieces of professional development (ranging from 5-30 minutes) that leaders can bring back to their district to implement where it would best fit (faculty meetings , PLC's, etc.). The goal of the DEI Leaders group is to further develop leadership capacity within districts regarding DEI work and share regional best/most effective practices.

Networking

Agenda: Introductions & Check-in; Updates; Principal PD; Round Table Discussion; and Closing Activity

The book includes information on how one's culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships; ten "key moves” to build students' learning operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners as well as prompts for action and valuable self-reflection. The book study will consist of 4 weeks of asynchronous activities. All school personnel are encouraged to attend. Anyone registered by Dec 1st will have a book provided to them. If you are registered after Dec 1st, books must be purchased independently.

Session dates: January 8-February 5, 2024

This is the topic and the course that everyone is talking about!

The Science of Reading Fundamentals introduces innovative, evidence-based tools and concepts that are a valuable complement to any P-12 literacy curriculum and a useful starting point for anyone interested in the latest research about how children learn to read.

While the course itself is an online, asynchronous course, the experience blends the best of both in-person learning and online materials. Participants will come to the site for each of the five days to be part of a cohort that grows and leans about literacy together. The experience will capitalize upon the attention provided by release time, the comradery of fellow educators, but also the insights of the best possible digital resources.

Participants will need to bring their own device to work from and headphones in order to hear video instruction.

Networking

This offering stems from the previously submitted RECOVS Grant attempt and engages districts in a district-wide literacy programmatic review. March 1st's half day will be for administration only while March 4th's all-day session will be for all of the Literacy Leadership Team (4 members total) per district. This is supplemented by online, asynchronous coursework and district consultation with KTL's facilitator, John Bennetts.

Please join me for a new experience with the Stanford University professor, bestselling author, and acclaimed educator Jo Boaler. This math guru has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education. In Limitless Mind, she explodes these myths and reveals the six keys to unlocking our boundless learning potential. Her research proves that those who achieve at the highest levels do not do so because of a genetic inclination toward any one skill but because of the keys that she reveals in the book. Our brains are not "fixed," but entirely capable of change, growth, adaptability, and rewiring. Want to be fluent in mathematics? Learn a foreign language? Play the guitar? Write a book? The truth is not only that anyone at any age can learn anything, but the act of learning itself fundamentally changes who we are, and as Boaler argues so elegantly in the pages of this book, what we go on to achieve.

Participants are responsible for purchasing their own book.

In this workshop, we'll explore ways to evaluate and select texts that represent multiple perspectives and experiences, examine why this is a key element of a rigorous instructional program and school reading culture, and share recommended resources that you can start using immediately. Open to all librarians, teachers, and TA's.

Mentor/Liaison Trainings:
Please join us for our 3rd McKinney-Vento Mentor and Liaison Meeting in-person at SLL BOCES for our Community Outreach Event. We will work with local community agencies to offer our M-V population additional resources. We will meet in the main Conference Rooms beginning at 8:30AM. We will conclude our session by 3pm. Coffee and lunch will be provided.

In today's educational climate of budget shortages, rigid testing standards, and diminishing autonomy in the classroom, how can teachers bring creativity and passion back into their work? Teach Your Class Off offers educators struggling with these issues and feeling burnt out a way to hit the reset button and reconnect with what energizes them about teaching.

Participants will take part in weekly discussions with their peers along with developing a plan to reset for the 2024-2025 school year.

Participants must procure their own copy of the book. ISBN 978-1951600105

The Key Comprehension Routine teaches students a foundational set of research-based comprehension strategies that support listening and reading comprehension in any subject area. Teachers learn how to teach strategies using existing content reading and instructional materials. When used across multiple grade levels, students benefit from a consistent approach to comprehension instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject.

The Key Comprehension Routine addresses these topics, strategies and skills: critical thinking, main idea skills, text structure knowledge, top-down topic webs, two-column notes, summarizing, generating questions, I, We, You instruction, and cooperative learning.

REGISTRATION: 8-8:30 A.M. ~ SESSION: 8:30 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Networking

Agenda: Introductions and Check-in; Updates; Round Table Discussion

This in-person workshop offers a unique networking and learning opportunity for wellness committee members from the Health Initiative's Creating Healthy Schools and Communities (CHSC) participant school districts: Clifton-Fine, Edwards-Knox, Gouverneur, Hammond, Massena, Morristown, and Norwood-Norfolk Central Schools. Agenda is anticipated to include CHSC and related updates; peer-to-peer learning regarding school wellness strategies and resources; presentation by a guest partner, and; an opportunity for district-specific teams to work together.

Join us for an enlightening session on literacy practices tailored for neurodiverse learners. In this workshop, we will explore strategies and evidence-based approaches designed to address the unique needs of neurodiverse individuals in literacy acquisition. Participants will gain practical insights and actionable tools to create inclusive learning environments that foster engagement and literacy skills for all learners.

Extensive research reinforces the multitude of advantages associated with hands-on mathematics instruction. According to studies, 'Hands-on math lessons provide students with the opportunity to engage more deeply with intricate concepts, leading to a more profound understanding.' Manipulatives are particularly suited to early elementary mathematics. This workshop will focus on using manipulatives to teach the key topics in the grades K-2 mathematics standards.
REGISTRATION: 8-8:30 a.m. ~ SESSION: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Join us for an enlightening session on literacy practices tailored for neurodiverse learners. In this workshop, we will explore strategies and evidence-based approaches designed to address the unique needs of neurodiverse individuals in literacy acquisition. Participants will gain practical insights and actionable tools to create inclusive learning environments that foster engagement and literacy skills for all learners.

Agenda: Introductions & Check-in; Updates; Round Table Discussion

Learning to code can be hard and setting up a coding course even more so! Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Academy makes learning to code and teaching coding easy! This curriculum is already being implemented in some of our area schools and students are having great success.

Get ready to meet the New York State Computer Science & Digital Fluency Standards for computational thinking through teaching your students Python. The basics of this course will teach you as an instructor how to draw images, create animations, and make simple games. You will be introduced to a self-paced, online curriculum that can be used on any device that leads to certification in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Academy. With this certification, you will be given access to a complete curriculum to use with students including a defined scope and sequence, an online IDE (integrated development environment) for students to program in, and a portal to monitor student progress.

This workshop will introduce participants to the curriculum and start the professionals on their path towards CSO certification. To receive certification, teachers will need to complete 4 units in Computer Science Academy CSO by the end of the academic year. While one unit may be completed during this in-person day, participants will need to work on their own time to complete the rest of the units as supported by our helpdesk of certified trainers.

Participants will receive 20 hours of CTLE credit 6 in-person and 14 online, asynchronous hours.