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1. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education Administrators, General Education and Special Education Teachers, School Counselors and Other Related Service Providers, CSE Chairpersons, Transition Specialists and Family Members

Dates: 1/8/2024

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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

2. Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring Introduction at Southern Westchester BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, Literacy Specialists, School Psychologists. The training is most applicable to those who will be engaging directly in the progress monitoring process with students.

Dates: 4/8/2024

Participants will gain an overview of what progress monitoring for academics is and how to implement this practice with individual students. Content is applicable to work with all general education students within a tiered model of academic support (e.g., MTSS, RTI) and students receiving special education services.

At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the purpose of progress monitoring
2. Define progress monitoring
3. Identify the steps for implementing progress monitoring at the individual student level

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

3. Consultant Teacher Services

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers, general education teachers, administrators, service providers.

Dates: 4/8/2024

This training will help participants understand how to use consultant teacher services to support the participation of students with disabilities in the general education classroom and curriculum.

Participants will examine the purpose and goals of including consultant teacher services in a student's Individualized Education Program (IEP). The training will define consultant teacher services according to New York State regulations as well as offer insight into what effective consultant teacher services look like in the classroom.

Participants will learn how to determine if consultant teacher services are appropriate for meeting a student with a disability's unique educational needs, what information about consultant teacher services should be included in an IEP, and the roles and responsibilities of educators in providing these services. We will also explore how teachers can engage in effective collaboration and co-planning to ensure the effective delivery of high-quality consultant teacher services.

This workshop will take place at Rockland BOCES

Registration Deadline: Monday, April 1, 2024 at 11:59 pm

4. Overview of Specially Designed Instruction 2-Day

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Teaching Assistants

Dates: 4/8/2024 to 4/17/2024

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This training is intended for TEACHING ASSISTANTS. In this virtual 2-DAY training, TAs will learn the key components of Explicit Instruction on DAY 1 and Specially Designed Instruction on DAY 2.

This course is a blend of synchronous live sessions and asynchronous (self-guided) work. There will be two required Zoom sessions. During these sessions, TAs will have the opportunity to ask questions about the course materials and interact with other participants. Both sessions are required.

Registration Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

5. Explicit Instruction: An Evidence-Based Practice for Effective and Long-Term Learning - SW BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Administrators; Instructional Coaches

Dates: 4/15/2024

This explicit instruction training package is intended to support participants' knowledge of explicit instruction and teacher' 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.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

6. Implementing Unregistered Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Targeted Audience(s) Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition specialists, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 4/17/2024

The purpose of this workshop is to provide Educational Organizations (EOs) with the foundational knowledge of what high-quality WBL unregistered WBL experiences look like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to: reviewing in-depth unregistered experiences, discussing the alignment of WBL and the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential, identifying high-quality instructional practices that support the implementation of WBL, and determining specific areas that may increase the success rate of the WBL program.

This session will be held on-line via ZOOM

Unregistered WBL Experiences include:
Job shadowing
Community service/volunteering/service learning
Industry-based projects
School-based enterprises (SBE)
Mentoring
Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
School Year/Summer Internships
Community-based work experiences for students with disabilities

Registration deadline: Monday, April 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
Zoom access sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2024

7. Values, Equity, and Cultural Responsiveness at Southern Westchester BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Educational Organizations (Administrators, Teachers, Pupil Personnel Staff, and other staff members)

Dates: 4/18/2024

This package contains materials that explore values as an element of culture. Educators and Educational Organizations will be asked to reflect on their values and to consider the connection between values, equity and the provision of services for students with disabilities.

The package also contains tools for exploring values with students and families to foster cross cultural exchanges between families and Educational Organizations.

For information on workshop content, please contact the trainer directly.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
In-Person Session: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at Southern Westchester BOCES

8. Universal Screening: Best Practices in Screening Academic Deficits

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: District and Building Level Administrators, Literacy Specialists, School Psychologists, General Education Teacher and Special Education Teachers

Dates: 4/24/2024

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 is an introduction to Universal Screening, a critical component of MTSS, RtI and an effective assessment system for all educational organizations, from the district level to the individual classroom.

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.

This training is the first offering in a sequence designed to provide an overview of data-driven literacy instruction to improve outcomes for all readers.

Every training requires its own registration. You do not need to attend every session.
May: Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring Introduction
June: Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It
June: Academic Screening & Class-Wide Intervention After Pandemic-Related Learning Loss

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

9. Alternatives to Suspension

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: This workshop is intended for district administrators, building administrators, and PBIS/MTSS team members at the Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 level. Participants are strongly encouraged to register and attend with a team of people from their setting.

Dates: 4/25/2024 to 6/7/2024

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This 3-day in-person workshop is intended to help participants understand that exclusionary practices have significant short and long-term negative effects on academic, social-emotional, health and family outcomes and that there are prevention strategies and alternative approaches to discipline that lead to improved student outcomes.

Participants will gain knowledge of the recent research on school suspensions and disproportionality, examine scenarios when alternatives to suspension may be used to change behavior, learn how a systemic change on the approach to discipline and problem behavior can affect school climate, and learn about several practical, research-based strategies to use as effective alternatives to suspension.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

10. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education Administrators, General Education and Special Education Teachers, School Counselors and Other Related Service Providers, Principals, Pupil Personnel Directors, Special Education Directors, CSE Chairpersons, Transition Specialists and Family Members

Dates: 4/25/2024

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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 Regents as well as local diplomas.

We will also discuss requirements to earn the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential and the Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential.

This is a half-day workshop.
Please join us in the afternoon for a separate training, Agency 101: Connecting Individuals with Disabilities to Adult Services.
You must register for each workshop separately.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:59 pm
This is an in-person session

11. Agency 101: Connecting Individuals with Disabilities to Adult Agencies

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education and general education teachers, school counselors, school social workers and psychologists, transition specialists and CSE chairpersons.

Dates: 4/25/2024

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Please join us to learn about NYS agencies and community based organizations and the services they provide to individuals with disabilities. Adult agencies such as Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), Adult Career and Continuing Education Services - Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR), and the Office for Mental Health (OMH) will be discussed. You will explore ways to collaborate with community partners to help students as they move into the adult world. Learn about how students apply for services, eligibility requirements, the types of programs available and how you can make referrals. This afternoon workshop follows the Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities workshop being help in the morning. Please note that you must register for each separately if you wish to join us for the day. Both workshops will be held in person at PUTNAM|NORTHERN WESTCHESTER BOCES.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 11:59pm
In-Person Session: Thursday, April 25, 2024 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm

12. Parent and Family Engagement within the FBA and BIP Process

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: District and school level teams who are responsible for the development and implementation of the FBA, BIP, and Progress Monitoring, including: Teachers, Clinical Staff, Administrators, Assistants.

Dates: 4/26/2024

This regional training is intended to support district and school level personnel in effectively engaging parents and family members in the development, implementation, and progress monitoring of their student's FBA and BIP process. Workshop content will focus on the value of including family members on the FBA-BIP team, discuss specific ways to actively engage families in the work, and provide examples and recommendations of tools to help increase their knowledge about FBAs and BIPs. Based on the information and resources shared during the training, participants will have the opportunity to select, modify, or create materials for their school district/building to use.

This will be an in-person workshop at Putnam|Northern Westchester BOCES.

Registration Ends: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 11:59 pm
In-Person Session: Friday, April 26, 2024, 9:00am to 3:00pm

13. Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction: Understanding the Science of Reading

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Administrators; Instructional Coaches

Dates: 5/1/2024 to 5/2/2024

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The Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction: Understanding the Science of Reading training was developed to help participants gain a greater understanding of what the science of reading has determined to be the foundational skills that are needed in order to become a proficient reader. Participants will explore current instructional practices in reading and the impact it has on reading proficiency scores. The training will also provide context for the importance of equity in reading instruction. It is impossible to ignore the disproportionate impact on black and brown children and it is our responsibility as educators to effectively address this through equitable, research-based practices. In order to overcome equity barriers, educators need to focus on systemic, explicit instruction to teach the skills supported by the science of reading. We will take a look at some ineffective current practices and why those may not be working, in order to realign our thinking and pedagogy to what is research-based and effective.

This in-person workshop will take place over two mornings 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.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Dates: Wednesday, May 1st and Thursday, May 2nd; both from 9:00am to 1:00pm

14. Overview of Transition in the IEP: Condensed Overview

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education administrators, special education and general education teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, school psychologists, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers, case managers and families.

Dates: 5/1/2024

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Join us as we explore the transition planning process and related IEP components. You will deepen your understanding of best practices and evidence-based strategies related to quality transition services and planning. Hands-on activities will be included throughout the training. A separate afternoon workshop entitled "Overview of Transition in the IEP: Case Study Application" is being offered as an extension of this session. You must register on Frontline for each workshop individually to join us for the full day of learning about Transition in the IEP.

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.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Wednesday, May 1st; from 9:00am to 11:30am

15. Overview of Transition in the IEP: Case Study Application

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education administrators, special education and general education teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, school psychologists, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency/community service providers, case managers and families.

Dates: 5/1/2024

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This afternoon workshop is a follow-up to to the morning session, Overview of Transition in the IEP: Condensed Overview. Join us as we unpack a student case study, focusing on Transition in the IEP document. You will identify and understand key transition components of high-quality IEPs, and understand the planning process. During this hands-on session, you will utilize mapping templates to help guide you through your own IEP development process. PLEASE NOTE: All participants are strongly encouraged to complete the Transition in the IEP: Condensed Overview workshop prior to attending this training. Please bring a redacted IEP or have access to an IEP of a transition aged student to this session. You may register separately for both workshops on Frontline.

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.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Wednesday, May 1st; from 12:30pm to 2:30pm

16. Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Anyone delivering instruction that is interested in learning how to use data to drive instruction/interventions and how to apply it.

Dates: 5/6/2024

Identify and differentiate between skill-based, fluency-based, and performance-based interventions in the content of mathematics. Learn when each of these approaches is appropriate, given the nature of the observed problem, and learn how to determine the intensity of intervention to the learner as a response to instruction.

This interactive, hybrid course requires participants to complete a self-paced, asynchronous course online using our D2L/Brightspace platform AND attend an in-person session at Putnam | Northern Westchester BOCES.

Registration Deadline: Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 11:59pm
Asynchronous Course Begins/Access Instructions Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024
Course Ends: Sunday, May 12, 2024
Mandatory In-Person Session: Monday, May 6, 2024, 12:00pm-3:00pm

17. Educational Benefit IEP Reflection

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: For special education teachers, administration, service providers

Dates: 5/8/2024

The Educational Benefit IEP Reflection: Strategies for Improving Education Programs and Decision Making at the Committee on Special Education professional development training package is intended to build awareness that student growth should be reflected across multiple years of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Furthermore, it is intended to guide participants to the realization that throughout the IEP there should be indicators of how the student learns, what their needs are, and the specialized instruction that their disability requires.

● - Participants will learn the historical context around Educational Benefit.
● - Participants will understand what constitutes Educational Benefit.
● - Participants will perform a replicable process for reviewing IEPs.

***Please bring 3 consecutive years of a student's IEP with the corresponding progress notes for each year (paper copy only and DE-IDENTIFIED).

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

18. Fostering High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Educational Organizations (Administrators, Teachers, Pupil Personnel Staff, and other staff members).

Dates: 5/8/2024

Fostering High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction is one of four high leverage principles identified in the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) Framework. Research shows that teachers' expectations of students can influence their academic achievement and behavior. Teachers are more likely to under-estimate students with disabilities, students from low-income families, English Language Learners, and Black, Latinx, and Native American students.

By the end of this training, participants will:

  • - Understand how high expectations and rigorous instruction can improve student outcomes
  • - Develop strategies for fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction
  • - Identify 2-3 next steps for ongoing professional learning

This in-person workshop will take place at PUTNAM|NORTHERN 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.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Wednesday, May 8th; from 9:00am to 3:00pm

19. Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring Introduction at Rockland BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, Literacy Specialists, School Psychologists The training is most applicable to those who will be engaging directly in the progress monitoring process with students.

Dates: 5/14/2024

Participants will gain an overview of what progress monitoring for academics is and how to implement this practice with individual students. Content is applicable to work with all general education students within a tiered model of academic support (e.g., MTSS, RTI) and students receiving special education services.

At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the purpose of progress monitoring
2. Define progress monitoring
3. Identify the steps for implementing progress monitoring at the individual student level

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

20. Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction: Understanding the Science of Reading 2-Day Workshop

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Administrators; Instructional Coaches

Dates: 5/20/2024 to 5/22/2024

The Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction training has been designed to help participants gain a greater understanding of what the Science of Reading has determined to be the foundational skills that are needed in order to become a proficient reader.

Participants will explore current instructional practices in reading and the impact it has on reading proficiency. This 2-day training will also provide context for the importance of effective reading instruction and the impact that it has on equity for all students. In order to overcome equity barriers, educators need to focus on systemic, explicit instruction to teach the skills supported by the science of reading. We will take a look at some ineffective practices and why those may not be working, in order to realign our thinking and pedagogy to what is research based and effective.

This workshop will take place at Rockland BOCES
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

21. Transition Assessment for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Session 4

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers, Committee on Special Education (CSE) chairpersons, school counselors, school psychologists, related service providers, and families; anyone else involved with the development of the student’s IEP

Dates: 5/21/2024

This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and resources to complete transition assessments with their students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Topics will include an overview of transition assessment, transition assessments for students with ID/DD, and using transition assessment results.
Participants will review over a dozen transition assessments to support transition planning and measurable postsecondary goals.

Our trainings are accessible to persons with disabilities. Individuals who need special accommodations should contact us at least three weeks prior to taking the workshop. Please contact Felecia Morris at fmorris@pnwboces.org.

Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 19, 2024, 11:59 pm
Zoom Access sent: Monday, May 20, 2024

22. PBIS Tier 3 / FBA-BIP Technical Assistance Session

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: This technical assistance (TA) session is available to anyone who has attended or is currently attending our multi-day FBA-BIP workshop. This is not a training; it is a work session in which participants are expected to bring their own materials and data (with any personally identifying student information redacted). Examples of materials participants should bring include ABC data, graphs of student behavioral data, indirect assessments, or completed behavior pathways. The RPC Behavior Specialis

Dates: 5/22/2024

This technical assistance (TA) session is available to anyone who has attended or is currently attending our multi-day FBA-BIP workshop.

This is not a training; it is a work session in which participants are expected to bring their own materials and data (with any personally identifying student information redacted). Examples of materials participants should bring include ABC data, graphs of student behavioral data, indirect assessments, or completed behavior pathways.

The RPC Behavior Specialists will be available to provide guidance and consultation to help participants analyze their data, engage in data-based decision making, problem solve, and implement the FBA-BIP process with fidelity and in accordance with NYSED regulations.

This is an invitation-only, in-person work session at PNW BOCES. Please note there will be NO PRESENATION. Participants must bring their own FBA and/or BIP materials in order to make use of this session effectively.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 11:59 pm
In-Person Session at Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES: Wednesday, May 22, 2024

23. Phonological Awareness: Establishing Foundations for Reading Success - SW BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers, general education teachers, literacy/reading instructors, administrators

Dates: 5/29/2024 to 5/30/2024

The purpose of this 2-day training is to help participants gain a greater understanding of the Science of Reading; specifically, what phonological awareness is and how crucial this skillset is to the foundation of reading success.

Participants will explore what skills to teach when, and how to teach these skills for students to master phonological awareness. The training will also provide context for the importance of using assessments to improve the effectiveness of phonological instruction for students. To overcome equity barriers, educators need to focus on systemic, explicit instruction to teach the skills supported by the science of reading.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

24. Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Administrators; Instructional Coaches

Dates: 6/3/2024

Increasing ability to provide strategic instruction based on data to provide greater access to curriculum and improve student achievement. This training will help participants identify and differentiate between skill-based, fluency-based, and performance-based interventions.

This in-person workshop will take place at PUTNAM|NORTHERN 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.

Registration Deadline: Friday, May 31, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Monday, June 3rd; from 9:00am to 2:00pm

25. Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It for TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: TEACHING ASSISTANTS interested in learning how to use data to drive instruction/interventions and how to apply it.

Dates: 6/3/2024

This session will be worth a total of 6 CTLE credits for completion of the entire course. Please note, the asynchronous, self-guided portion starts on June 3rd. There is no meeting on June 3rd. You have until June 17th to complete the coursework which should take 4 hours to complete. The Zoom session will be held on Wednesday, June 12th from 3:30 pm -5:30 pm. totaling 6 hours.

Teaching Assistants will identify and differentiate between skill-based, fluency-based, and performance-based interventions. Learn when each of these approaches is appropriate, given the nature of the observed problem and learn how to determine the intensity of intervention to the learner as a response to instruction.

The interactive, hybrid course requires participants to complete a self-paced, asynchronous course online using our D2L/Brightspace platform AND attending a mandatory Zoom session.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 11:59pm
Asynchronous Course Begins/Access Instructions Sent: Monday, June 3, 2024
Mandatory Zoom Session: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Course Ends: Monday, June 17, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

26. Diploma and Credential Options for Students with Disabilities

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special Education Administrators, General Education and Special Education Teachers, School Counselors and Other Related Service Providers, Principals, Pupil Personnel Directors, Special Education Directors, CSE Chairpersons, Transition Specialists and Family Members

Dates: 6/5/2024

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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 Regents as well as local diplomas.

Information about Regents score appeals will be reviewed. We will also discuss requirements to earn the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential and the Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential.

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.

Registration Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2024, 11:59 pm
This is a virtual session

27. Academic Screening & Class-Wide Intervention After Pandemic-Related Learning Loss

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special education teachers, general education teachers, school psychologists, and administrators

Dates: 6/6/2024

This training is intended to assist educators in remediating COVID-19 pandemic-related learning loss; provide strategies for distinguishing pandemic-related learning loss from students at-risk for academic difficulties and/or learning disabilities; and introduce educators to the use of class-wide progress monitoring and intervention as tools for identifying students for intensified intervention services.

This training is the fourth offering in a sequence designed to provide an overview of data-driven literacy instruction to improve outcomes for all readers.

Every training requires its own registration.

You do not need to attend every session.

February: Best Practices in Screening Academic Deficits

May: Best Practices in Academic Progress Monitoring Introduction

June: Identifying and Intensifying Intervention: What to Do and How to Do It

June: Academic Screening & Class-Wide Intervention After Pandemic-Related Learning Loss

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 11:59pm

28. Co-Teaching: A Comprehensive Approach & Planning for Instruction

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Co-teach pairs, special education teachers, general education teachers, related service professionals, administrators

Dates: 6/6/2024

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.

This in-person workshop will take place at PUTNAM|NORTHERN 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.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Thursday, June 6th; from 9:00am to 3:00pm

29. Explicit Instruction: An Evidence-Based Practice for Effective and Long-Term Learning Rockland BOCES

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Literacy Specialists; Special Education Teachers; General Education Teachers; School Psychologists; Administrators; Instructional Coaches

Dates: 6/6/2024

This explicit instruction training is intended to support participants' knowledge of explicit instruction and teacher's 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.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 29, 2024

30. Foundations of Job Coaching for Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences

Program: Regional Partnership Center

Audience: Special and general education teachers, special and general education administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, transition specialists, agency/community service providers or case managers, and job coaches.

Dates: 6/7/2024

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Join us to learn about the role of the job coach in work-based learning experiences. We will explore task analysis and other training methods to support skill acquisition in the workplace. You will learn about effective communication, data collection and problem solving for successful wok based learning experiences aligned with your students' IEPs.

This in-person workshop will take place at PUTNAM|NORTHERN 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.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 11:59pm
Workshop Date: Friday, June 7th; from 9:00am to 11:30am