There are many opportunities to earn diplomas, credentials and in some cases - both! Join us as we explore the Multiple Pathway (4+1) options available to students seeking to earn Regent as well as local diplomas. We will also explore requirements to earn the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential and the Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential.

This is an in-person training which will take place at Southern Westchester BOCES.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 11:59pm
Mandatory In-Person Session: Monday, January 8, 2024, 9:00am-11:30am

The goals of this training are to provide CPSE/CSE Chairpersons with information to enhance their knowledge and skills to: 

- understand the special education process as delineated in New York State (NYS) Education Law and Regulations; 

- perform specific responsibilities as Chairperson of the Committee;

- develop practices that encourage parental involvement and cultivate home-school partnerships; and

- identify strategies for the Committee to make high-quality decisions that will result in an individualized education program (IEP) that meets State requirements and will result in educational benefit to the student. 

The first 2 sessions on 7/30 & 8/1 will be held at Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES. The third and fourth sessions on 8/6 & 8/8 will be held at Rockland BOCES.

Registration Deadline: Monday, July 29, 2024, 11:59 pm.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

This interactive workshop is designed to help general and special education preschool teachers set up learning environments that are developmentally appropriate for preschool students with diverse needs and backgrounds. Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) requires that educators have a deep understanding of "typical” preschool development and what the research says about how children this age learn best, as well as an awareness of individual development and cultural context.

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the three core considerations of DAP

• Identify typical developmental milestones for three-, four-, and five-year-old children

• Identify six key guidelines for setting up a developmentally appropriate preschool classroom

• Identify practices/actions that they will introduce and modify in their settings to ensure their classrooms are developmentally appropriate

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Monday, August 5, 2024, 11:59 pm.

This workshop is designed to further develop administrator's knowledge of SDI and how SDI should be designed and developed based on individual student need to address their learning barriers.

Administrators will be able to define SDI, recognize how to differentiate SDI from general education, identify what SDI looks like in the classroom setting, and gain necessary skills for supervision of implementation of SDI.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

This is an in-person session.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 22, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

This training describes the diploma and credential options that are available to New York State (NYS) students, focusing on the options available to students with disabilities, including multiple pathways, safety nets, appeals, exiting credentials, and the Superintendent's Determination Option.

This training includes a live Zoom session and asynchronous activities. Participants will first review the content through interactive modules at their own pace, then participate in a Zoom session to clarify any questions. Participants who would like to receive CTLE credit for the workshop must complete both portions which will take approximately 4 hours to complete.

The live Zoom session will take place on September 25th at 8:30 am - 9:30 am. The asynchronous course content on Brightspace will be available beginning September 9th until September 27th. Asynchronous content, including a short quiz, must be completed by September 27th to receive CTLE credit. Information to access the Zoom and Brightspace content will be emailed to the participants via the email with which they register.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Friday September 6, 2024, 11:59 pm
Mandatory Zoom Session: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 8:30 am - 9:30 pm
Brightspace Self-directed course begins: Monday, September 9, 2024, access instructions will be sent
Brightspace course closes: Friday, September 27, 2024, 11:59 pm

A key element of positive student outcomes is an educational organization's ability to assess the learning of their students in order to plan effective instruction. This training provides participants with an overview of universal screening and how to adopt this practice in their schools to work with all general education students within a tiered model of academic support (e.g. MTSS and RtI) as well as students receiving special education services. The content of this training focuses on the essential knowledge and skills for identifying a universal screening measure to adopt, establishing a plan for implementing universal screening practices, and understanding the basics of how to interpret and apply information from a universal screening measure.

Intended Outcomes: Participants will be able to define and describe the purposes of high-quality universal screening and identify the steps for implementing a universal screening process.

Research indicates that early and accurate identification of students with disabilities and at-risk students through universal screening leading to individualized and intensified intervention increases the likelihood of improved learning outcomes and participation in general education classrooms. This training is one within a series of data-based literacy instruction for improving student outcomes. Recommended trainings within this series include Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It, Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring: An Introduction, and Reviewing Your Literacy Curriculum: Evaluating Alignment with the Science of Reading. Please note that each of these trainings requires its own registration.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2024, 11:59 pm

This training package empowers educators to understand and effectively manage the conflict cycle of behavior.

In this one-day training, participants will ground themselves in a common understanding of the phases of acting-out behavior and how to effectively manage unexpected social, emotional and behavioral situations in the classroom. Participants will learn to recognize and respond to acting-out behavior with de-escalation strategies tailored to each phase of the acting-out cycle.

Equipped with this knowledge, educators will build their toolbox of techniques aimed at fostering a safer and more conducive learning environment that increases instructional time and improves student performance.
*Please note that this is NOT a crisis or emergency intervention training.*

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2024, 11:59 pm

Function-based thinking is an evidence-based strategy that can prevent mild to moderate problem behaviors from escalating to more severe or chronic issues. It has been shown to be effective with students of all ages and ability levels. By the end of this training, participants will be able to identify and define behavioral functions, determine the function of students' behaviors based on their antecedents and consequences, and develop function-based strategies for responding to challenging behaviors and encouraging the use of appropriate social and communication skills. In addition, participants will learn how to use this information to adjust the learning environment to prevent future occurrences of problem behaviors.

This training is designed for preschool - grade 12 educators in both general education and special education settings.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024, 11:59 pm

Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) is a state and federal mandated practice for adapting instruction for individual students within content, methodology, and/or delivery of instruction for students with disabilities.

In this workshop, you will learn what SDI is and how it can be applied within instruction through the delivery of Explicit Instruction.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration deadline: Friday, September 21, 2024, 11:59pm

This workshop is designed to follow the Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Overview workshop.

Participants must have completed our Specially Designed Instruction workshop prior to attending this Next Steps workshop. In this course, participates will determine specially designed instruction practices based on various case studies to then create lesson plans with evident SDI. This training will be in person and will follow the SDI Overview training the same day in the morning, consider registering for both courses. Each course is 3 CTLE credits.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration deadline: Friday, September 21, 2024, 11:59 pm

This explicit instruction training is intended to support participants' knowledge of explicit instruction and teachers' abilities to effectively implement explicit instruction. Explicit instruction is a high leverage practice that has proven to be effective for special education students. Participants will learn how to use the Recognizing Effective Special Education Teachers (RESET) Explicit Instruction Rubric (EIR) which is aligned with best instructional practices for students with disabilities within this training.

This in-person workshop will take place at SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER BOCES.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website.

If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Monday, September 23, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Date: Tuesday, September 24th; from 9:00am to 3:00pm

This is a 4-Part Series with a Tech Assistance Session. Participants in this series will be part of a think tank with like-minded educators.

Self-determination and its benefits provide the foundation for the ideas and resources shared to support students with disabilities at all grade levels to increase their participation in IEP development, Committee on Special Education (CSE) participation and IEP implementation. Networking and brainstorming with colleagues from other Educational Organizations (EO)s and national resources are provided.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Day 1- 10/15/24, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Day 2- 11/12/24, 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Day 3- 12/9/24, 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Day 4- 5/30/25, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

*OPTIONAL, INVITATION ONLY for participants who are attending this 4-day series, Tech Assistance Zoom Session:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00am - 11:00am (You must register separately for this session)

Registration Deadline: Friday October 11, 2024, 11:59 pm

This professional learning session is designed to help Elementary and Early Childhood Educators (Preschool-Grade 5) set up learning environments for young students with diverse needs, skill levels, and backgrounds that are developmentally appropriate and promote positive behaviors.

Participants will learn about 8 evidence-based classroom management practices:
1) arranging the physical environment,
2) defining, teaching, and acknowledging expectations and rules,
3) defining and teaching classroom procedures and routines,
4) active supervision,
5) behavior-specific praise,
6) response strategies for inappropriate behavior,
7) class-wide behavior management systems and
8) promoting active student engagement.

The training includes interactive activities and opportunities for participants to consider how to apply the information to their settings.

This TWO-DAY in-person training will take place at ROCKLAND BOCES.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website.

If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Dates: Wednesday, October 16th and Tuesday, October 29th; both from 9:00am to 3:00pm

In the morning: This training will help participants gain a foundational understanding of co-teaching as a service delivery model and the six models used to implement it. In New York state the co-teaching model is most often associated with the special education service integrated co-teaching. This model will be covered as well as the use of the co-teaching model among other service providers (e.g. English as a New Language [ENL] teachers, speech language pathologists etc.). Variations for use of the models will also be discussed throughout the training.

In the afternoon: Planning for Instruction - . Co-planning is critical to the success of this teaching structure. The purpose of this training is to provide foundational knowledge for the effectiveness of purposeful co-planning. In addition, participants will gain knowledge about options for co-planning and apply the information to co-plan a lesson for current or future use. Co-teaching can be applied in any situation when two teachers provide instruction together. It is highly recommended that co-teaching teams attend together, although the information provided will benefit individual teacher practice as well.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website. If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Date: Friday, October 18th; from 9:00am to 3:00pm

The Evidence-Based Practices for Improving Graduation Rate and Decreasing Dropout package is designed to assist Educational Organizations (EOs) to develop systems and evidence-based practices that are known to enhance successful completion of school for students with disabilities

Participants will learn about graduation and dropout rate calculations, state and local school completion data, disaggregated data, and resources to support school completion.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
*This session will be held via Zoom

The goals of this training are to provide CPSE/CSE Chairpersons with information to enhance their knowledge and skills to:

- understand the special education process as delineated in New York State (NYS) Education Law and Regulations;
- perform specific responsibilities as Chairperson of the Committee;
- develop practices that encourage parental involvement and cultivate home-school partnerships; and
- identify strategies for the Committee to make high-quality decisions that will result in an individualized education program (IEP) that meets State requirements and will result in educational benefit to the student.

This four-day, in-person training will take place over four consecutive Fridays at Rockland BOCES.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website. If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Dates: Friday, November 1st; Friday, November 8th; Friday, November 15th; Friday, November 22nd; all from 9:00am to 3:00pm

This professional learning session is designed to help Middle and High School Educators (Grades 6-12) set up learning environments for general and special education students with diverse needs, skill levels, and backgrounds that are developmentally appropriate and promote positive behaviors.

Participants will learn about 8 evidence-based classroom management practices:
1) arranging the physical environment,
2) defining, teaching, and acknowledging expectations and rules,
3) defining and teaching classroom procedures and routines,
4) active supervision,
5) behavior-specific praise,
6) response strategies for inappropriate behavior,
7) class-wide behavior management systems and
8) promoting active student engagement.

The training includes interactive activities and opportunities for participants to consider how to apply the information to their settings.

This TWO-DAY in-person training will take place at SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER BOCES.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website.

If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Dates: Monday, November 4th and Tuesday, November 19th; both from 9:00am to 3:00pm

Special Education Quality Assurance (SEQA) conducts the State Performance Plan (SPP) 13: Secondary Transition compliance review in the Fall of the school year a district is scheduled for monitoring of SPP Indicator 13 (in accordance with the six-year monitoring cycle). The purpose of this training is to review key concepts of this compliance review to ensure districts are developing individualized education programs (IEPs) for students aged 15 and over that meet SPP Indicator 13 compliance requirements. Districts are required to complete this training the school year prior to undergoing review. This training is focused on meeting compliance for SPP Indicator 13. The required district staff to attend this training is the CSE Chairperson for secondary students. Special education administrators and/or special education teachers from districts are also welcome to complete this training.

This session will be held via Zoom.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024, 11:59 pm

This explicit instruction training is intended to support participants' knowledge of explicit instruction and teachers' abilities to effectively implement explicit instruction. Explicit instruction is a high leverage practice that has proven to be effective for special education students. Participants will learn how to use the Recognizing Effective Special Education Teachers (RESET) Explicit Instruction Rubric (EIR) which is aligned with best instructional practices for students with disabilities within this training.

This in-person workshop will take place at ROCKLAND BOCES.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Geraldine Gilmore, ggilmore@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Cancellations or delays due to inclement weather can be found on the PNW BOCES website.

If a delayed opening is announced:

- Morning trainings will be cancelled and we will attempt to reschedule at a later date.
- Full-day workshops will start at 10:30am and will be postponed if BOCES closes.
- In case of early dismissal, afternoon trainings will be cancelled.

Registration Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2024 at 11:59pm
Training Date: Tuesday, November 19th; from 9:00am to 3:00pm

*INVITATION ONLY FOR THOSE ENROLLED IN THE 4-DAY SERIES!*

OPTIONAL Tech Assistance for Check-In: This is a 4-Part Series Tech Assistance Session. Participants who are part of this 4-Part Series will be able to ask questions and receive additional support and brainstorming with colleagues via Zoom.

Our trainings are accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations, please contact Felecia Morris, fmorris@pnwboces.org, at least three weeks prior to your event.

Registration Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2025, 11:59 pm
Zoom Access Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2025