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1. ONLINE: Mondays with FACE - Virtual Community Cafe 2023-2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Parents/caregivers, community members.

Dates: 9/11/2023 to 6/10/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom4877

Presented in English and in Spanish

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Workshop Description:

All sessions will have breakout rooms offered exclusively in Spanish. Please contact us to get a hold of flyers for additional workshops offered in Spanish to share with families! Join us for an informal meeting for caregivers of children with disabilities:
Interested in learning more about special education?
Looking to connect with other parents of children with disabilities?
Looking for resources or referrals? Workshops?
Have questions about your child's IEP?
Then these meetings are for you!

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2. ONLINE: Nassau County CPSE Chairperson and Early Childhood Service Provider Collegial Circle 2023-2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: CPSE Chairpersons, NYSED Approved Early Childhood Providers, Nassau County Department of Health

Dates: 9/13/2023 to 6/12/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom7477

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Workshop Description:

Our collegial circle is a Professional Learning Community made up of CPSE Chairpersons, Special Education Early Childhood Service Providers, members of the Departments of Health, the Long Island Regional Partnership Center and the Long Island Family and Community Engagement Center. Members of the circle come together on a monthly basis to discuss a common goal, need, interest, or question in order to improve their professional practice.

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3. ONLINE: Suffolk County CPSE Chairperson and Early Childhood Service Provider Collegial Circle 2023-2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: CPSE Chairpersons, NYSED Approved Early Childhood Providers, Nassau County Department of Health

Dates: 11/8/2023 to 6/12/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom6690

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Workshop Description:

Our collegial circle is a Professional Learning Community made up of CPSE Chairpersons, Special Education Early Childhood Service Providers, members of the Departments of Health, the Long Island Regional Partnership Center and the Long Island Family and Community Engagement Center. Members of the circle come together on a monthly basis to discuss a common goal, need, interest, or question in order to improve their professional practice.

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4. ONLINE: Transition in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) - April 2, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers, administrators, Committee on Special Education (CSE) chairpersons, guidance counselors, school psychologists and other staff involved with the development of the student's IEP. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome. Districts reporting on Indicator 13 in August 2022 and August 2023 are strongly advised to attend.

Dates: 4/2/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom4673

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Workshop Description:
Participants will:
- Identify key components of high-quality Transition IEPs and understand the transition planning process.
- Identify key elements of the Present Levels of Performance; transition needs and course of study; the Coordinated Set of Activities; and the components needed to develop and write measurable postsecondary goals
- Identify the components needed to develop and write measurable annual goals that support each of the measurable postsecondary goals
- Ensure student participation in the development of a transition IEP and parent involvement in the transition planning process
- Describe the role of agencies and promote interagency collaboration
- Be able to directly apply and implement these practices to ensure student success with postsecondary goals

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5. In-Person: Nassau Transition Consortium April Meeting- April 4, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Nassau County High School Transition Coordinators and transition liaisons

Dates: 4/4/2024

Location: Plainview-Old Bethpage Central Administration

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Workshop Description:

The Nassau Transition Consortium is a Professional Learning Community made up of Nassau County High School Transition Coordinators and transition liaisons. Members of the consortium come together on a monthly basis to discuss common goals, needs, interests, and/or questions in order to improve professional transition practices on Long Island.

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6. ONLINE: Training of the Parent Member of the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) and Committee on Special Education (CSE) - Special Education 101- April 5, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Parents/Guardians of children with disabilities who are interested in becoming, or who are already, a CSPE and/or CSE Parent Member. Please note, all stakeholders are welcome.

Dates: 4/5/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2650

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Workshop Description:

This workshop is for anyone interested in learning more about the special education process. It also provides the needed training, as required by NYSED, to become an approved Parent Member of the CPSE/CSE. This workshop provides an overview of regulatory guidance related to the special education process, eligibility, and IEP development.
Participants will:
Gain a foundational understanding of the special education process
Understand the role and requirements of the additional Parent Member
Learn techniques and strategies to become an effective participant in the CPSE/CSE process

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7. Online: Learning Communities for Transition (Nassau) - April, 9 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: All are Welcome! Educators, agency personnel and any other stakeholder committed to improving outcomes for students with disabilities.

Dates: 4/9/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1076

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Workshop Description:

The goal of this interactive workshop is to bring together a variety of stakeholders who are united by their passion for improving post-school outcomes for students with disabilities and determined to learn how to purposefully plan together to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes.

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8. ONLINE: Dimensions of Equity in Education - April 9, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: All members of Educational Organizations. All stakeholders are always welcome!

Dates: 4/9/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom8885

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Workshop Description:

Develop your equity and cultural lens by exploring the dimension of equity and Cultural Responsive Education as a practice that recognizes the mind-body connection involved in learning. Explore differences between multicultural education, social justice education, and culturally responsive pedagogy and review how concepts of Equity in your organization's policies and procedures take shape.

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9. Online: Learning Communities for Transition (Suffolk) - April 11, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: All are Welcome! Educators, agency personnel and any other stakeholder committed to improving outcomes for students with disabilities.

Dates: 4/11/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1130a

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Workshop Description:

The goal of this interactive workshop is to bring together a variety of stakeholders who are united by their passion for improving post-school outcomes for students with disabilities and determined to learn how to purposefully plan together to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes.

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10. ONLINE: Test Accommodations for Students with Disabilities- April 15, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers, Building Principals/Administrator, Committee on Special Education (CSE) Chairpersons, Parents/Families. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 4/15/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom5287

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Workshop Description:
This workshop will facilitate the understanding and appropriate use of test accommodations for students with disabilities, in order to provide access to and participation in general education curriculum and in courses that will prepare them to take and pass required examinations.

Participants will:
- Understand the purpose of test accommodations
- Define test accommodations
- Identify types of test accommodations
- Learn about the decision-making process
- Learn how test accommodations are documented in the IEP
- Understand roles in supporting a student with their test accommodations
- Recognize that instructional accommodations used in the classroom should be aligned with the testing accommodations provided during assessment

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11. ONLINE: Agency 101: Connecting Individuals with Disabilities to Adult Services- April 15, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Educators, administrators, related service personnel, agency representatives, families, and students. In addition, any family member of a student with a disability will benefit from the information in this workshop. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 4/15/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1095

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Workshop Description:

This workshop provides an overview of the primary adult agency providers available and the services offered by each. It is meant to increase student and family knowledge of, and connection with appropriate, referral options and processes. The goal is to increase appropriate referrals as these supports are shown to correlate with improved outcomes for students with disabilities.

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12. Online: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction for Teachers- April 17, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: We especially invite general and special education teachers, content specialists, school psychologists, and building administrators. Caregivers and other participants are welcome to join in consideration of building home-school connections. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 4/17/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom4480

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Workshop Description:

This workshop on Explicit Vocabulary Instruction (EVI) helps us support and meaningfully engage ALL learners. Importantly, EVI has several attributes, including


Having a substantial impact for diverse groups of students across all grade levels and settings.
Its appropriateness for teaching both academic and non-academic concepts.
The ease with which it can be embedded into Tier 1 instruction in both general and special education classrooms.
It being an approach that integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
It being an important component of Specially Designed Instruction for students with disabilities.

We will explore principles, steps, and strategies of EVI and word selection, including tiered vocabulary.

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13. ONLINE: Developing an Effective Student Exit Summary (SES) - April 18, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers and administrators, school counselors, transition coordinators, agency staff, as well as students, and families. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 4/18/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1439

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Workshop Description:

The goals of this training are to ensure participants will recognize and identify:

1. Analyze the importance of students' self-determination skills in making the SES a meaningful and relevant document
2. Learn the federal and state requirements for the SES
3. Recognize and identify the required components of the SES
4. Identify a process for the development and issuance of the SES that that is student-centered

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14. In-Person: Creating the Individualized Education Program (IEP)- April 19, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services and chairpersons. Administrators who may be in a dual administrative role as chairpersons or directors of special education. As always, All stakeholders are welcome!

Dates: 4/19/2024

Location: Room TBD

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Workshop Description:

Do you want to know how to write a Quality IEP? How to align all parts of the IEP so that it is developed in a way to support students with disabilities to make progress toward general education? Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

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15. ONLINE: Preschool Special Education Process for Professionals (2-part Series) April 29 & 30, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Special education administrators, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, agency/community service providers, administrators of 4410 and county representatives. Additional audiences could include: CPSE chairpersons, transition specialists, school counselors, and general education teachers. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome!

Dates: 4/29/2024 to 4/30/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2907a

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Workshop Description:

This workshop is intended to assist county representatives, program administrators, educators and other preschool service providers in understanding the preschool special education process delineated in education laws and regulations; knowing the roles and responsibilities of the various members of the Committee; developing practices which encourage communication, parental involvement and cultivate home-school partnerships; and having an understanding that the Committee is charged with making high quality decisions that will result in an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that meets New York State (NYS) requirements and will result in educational benefit to the student.

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16. ONLINE: Student Involvement in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for Families: Lunch & Learn (*condensed workshop) - May 3, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Parents/Family members with school-aged children and any other appropriate related professionals. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/3/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom4017

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Workshop Description:

This condensed, interactive workshop is intended to provide participants with an overview of the student directed IEP process. Participants will identify ways to meaningfully engage and promote their child's participation in IEP development and Committee on Special Education (CSE) meetings. Materials and resources to promote self determination and student involvement in the IEP process will be reviewed.

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17. ONLINE: Fundamentals of Work-Based Learning (WBL)- May 7, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers, administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, agency/community service providers or case managers, job coaches, families, and students. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/7/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2600

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Workshop Description:
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide the foundational knowledge of what high-quality work-based learning (WBL) looks like in New York State (NYS) including but not limited to: exploring registered programs and unregistered experiences available to students with disabilities, reviewing the career development process and the NYS framework for WBL, infusing WBL into individual education programs (IEPs), and determining who the essential partners are in order to ensure students are receiving an individualized and collaborative experience.

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18. ONLINE: Foundations of Job Coaching for Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences- May 7, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: This workshop is intended for anyone who supervises students in Work-Based Learning Experiences. Teachers, administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, agency/community service providers or case managers, job coaches, families, and students. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/7/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom9829

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Workshop Description:
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to: describe the role and expectations of a job coach, recognize the importance of effective communication and problem-solving for successful WBL experiences aligned with the students' Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), create or utilize job and task analyses and training methods to support skill acquisition, review strategies to encourage successful inclusion into the workplace, and identify and utilize methods for observing, collecting, and sharing student data.

Participants will be able to:
- Describe the role and expectations of a job coach
- Recognize the importance of effective communication and problem solving for successful WBL experiences aligned with students' IEP
- Create or utilize job and task analyses and training methods to support skill acquisition
- Identify and utilize methods for observing, collecting, and sharing student data
- Explain strategies used to encourage successful inclusion into the workplace

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19. ONLINE: Foundations of Effective Reading Instruction: Understanding the Science of Reading- May 8, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: We especially invite general and special education teachers, content specialists, school psychologists, and building administrators. Caregivers and other participants are welcome to join in consideration of building home-school connections.supported by the science of reading. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/8/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1585

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Workshop Description:

This workshop 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 and the impact they have on reading proficiency, in order to realign our thinking and pedagogy to what is research-based and effective. Participants will also gain context for the importance of equity in reading instruction in order to address barriers. 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.

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20. ONLINE: Specially Designed Instruction (SDI): Overview and Next Steps - May 10, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Related Service Providers. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/10/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom1739

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Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop provides participants with an understanding of Specially Designed Instruction (SDI); the adaptation of the content, methodology, and/or delivery of instruction based on the needs of an individual student to ensure access to general education curriculum. Many practical applications for designing and including it in instruction and the IEP will be shared with participants.

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21. ONLINE: Implementing Unregistered Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences- May 14, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers, administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, agency/community service providers or case managers, job coaches, families, and students. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/14/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom_8645

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Workshop Description:
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide the foundational knowledge of what high-quality unregistered work-based learning (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.

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22. ONLINE: How to Effectively Build and Manage Business Relationships for Work-Based Learning (WBL) Experiences- May 14, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Teachers, administrators, WBL coordinators, paraprofessionals, related services professionals, school counselors, agency/community service providers or case managers, job coaches, families, and students. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/14/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom3017

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Workshop Description:
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to: review what Work-Based Learning (WBL) looks like in New York State (NYS) including specific examples of how community businesses can participate in WBL experiences, utilize strategies and resources designed to effectively recruit and build rapport with local businesses, and identify methods and resources to positively maintain business relationships throughout WBL experiences.
Participants will be able to:
● Identify methods and approaches to positively engage with employers
● Utilize strategies designed to effectively recruit employers and build rapport
● Recognize and identify the family's role in job search and retention

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23. In-Person: Values, Equity, and Cultural Responsiveness- May 17, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Educators, members of Educational Organizations. All stakeholders are always welcome!

Dates: 5/17/2024

Location: Nassau BOCES Lupinskie Center: RM: LS2

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Workshop Description:

Our ever changing communities allow for us to be exposed to diverse cultures that may have similar or varying values. Join this interactive workshop to explore values as an element of culture, while reflecting on your values and connecting between values, equity, and the provision of services for students with disabilities. This interactive workshop will engage participants in tools for exploring values with students and families to foster cross-cultural exchanges between families and educational organizations.

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24. ONLINE: Special Education 101: Training of the Parent Member - Conducted Exclusively in Spanish- May 17 & 24, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Parents/Guardians All are Welcome!

Dates: 5/17/2024 to 5/24/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2694

Presented in Spanish

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Workshop Description:

Este taller de dos partes proporciona una descripción general de la orientación reglamentaria relacionada con el proceso de educación especial, la elegibilidad (definición de estudiante con discapacidad/categorías de clasificación) y el desarrollo del IEP. También es valioso para cualquier persona que desee aprender más sobre el proceso de educación especial. Los participantes: - Comprenderán el papel y los requisitos del Padre Miembro adicional en el CPSE/CSE y el proceso de educación especial - Aprenderán técnicas y estrategias para convertirse en un participante eficaz en el proceso del CPSE/CSE - Obtendrán una comprensión fundamental del proceso de educación especial . ¡Este es un taller maravilloso para aprender sobre el proceso de educación especial! Esto debe estar en español para el folleto y MLP también

(This 2 part workshop provides an overview of regulatory guidance related to the special education process, eligibility (definition of student with a disability/classification categories), and IEP development. It is also valuable for any individual who is looking to learn more about the special education process. Participants will: - Understand the role and requirements of the additional Parent Member on the CPSE/CSE and the special education process - Learn techniques and strategies to become an effective participant in the CPSE/CSE process - Gain a foundational understanding of the special education process.)

25. Online: Distinguishing Language Acquisition from Learning Disabilities in English Language Learners- May 20 & 22, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: School districts that have received disproportionality notifications and are designated for support in the Regional Resource Plan. In the context of this training package, "disproportionality” includes any of the following compliance indicators:


• SPP Indicator 9: Disproportionate Representation in Special Education by Race/Ethnicity


• SPP Indicator 10: Disproportionate Classification in Special Education by Race/Ethnicity


• Significa

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

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom0980

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Workshop Description:

With the increased numbers of English Language Learners disproportionately identified as students with disabilities, this workshop series provides an overview of policies and practices that address the issue. District leaders and staff will engage in the review of core concepts to support foundational understanding with opportunity to put theory into practice in reviewing concepts of language difference and disability, the identification process, and more.

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26. ONLINE: Function Based Thinking: Applying a Proactive Process to Support Student Behavior in the Classroom- May 31 & June 7, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Preschool/K-12 Educators. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 5/31/2024 to 6/7/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom7490

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Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop offers an overview of challenging behaviors, the behavior pathway, and how to apply the function-based thinking process to challenging behavior. Function-based thinking is a Tier 1 support that can be used for all students, that requires teachers to informally gather data on student behavior, analyze the behavioral data, use the behavior pathway to determine the function or "why” of the behavior, and match interventions to the function of the student's behavior. Professionals will leave with an understanding of how to observe, analyze, and intervene on challenging behaviors.

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27. ONLINE: Explicit Vocabulary Instruction for Parents; How to Support Your Child's Vocabulary Development- June 3, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: We especially invite general and special education teachers, content specialists, school psychologists, and building administrators. Caregivers and other participants are welcome to join in consideration of building home-school connections. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 6/3/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom5752

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It is never too early to start promoting your child's vocabulary development! In this workshop on "Explicit Vocabulary Instruction for Parents: How to Support Your Child's Vocabulary Development,” you will learn what you can easily do at home to strengthen your child's vocabulary knowledge. This workshop will teach you simple techniques that you can implement at home that will support and meaningfully engage all learners in developing their vocabulary, leading to stronger verbal, reading, and writing skills. Participants will be able to demonstrate the importance of vocabulary instruction for their children in the elementary grades by being able to incorporate explicit vocabulary instruction in their home.

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28. ONLINE: Agency 101: Connecting Individuals with Disabilities to Adult Services- June 4, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Educators, administrators, related service personnel, agency representatives, families, and students. In addition, any family member of a student with a disability will benefit from the information in this workshop. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 6/4/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom5436a

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Workshop Description:

This workshop provides an overview of the primary adult agency providers available and the services offered by each. It is meant to increase student and family knowledge of, and connection with appropriate, referral options and processes. The goal is to increase appropriate referrals as these supports are shown to correlate with improved outcomes for students with disabilities.

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29. ONLINE: The Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Learning Standards Across the Lifespan: Connecting Knowledge to Skills- June 5, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: This workshop is appropriate for a wide range of participants including, but not limited to, K-12 teachers, administrators, transition coordinators, all related service providers, school counselors, agency representatives, families, and students. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 6/5/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom4994

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Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop will focus on how the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) learning standards can be taught in grades K-12 in order to assist all students (with and without disabilities) in developing increased self and career awareness to apply throughout school, home, and post-secondary settings. Instruction in the CDOS learning standards is part of transition-focused education, which allows students to develop career decision making skills and more effectively participate in planning for post-secondary life. Instruction in these standards will also better enable students to meet the CDOS Commencement Credential requirements (an approved Pathway to Graduation in NYS) and are connected with Career and Technical Education (CTE) as a kindergarten through adult program area of study that includes rigorous academic content closely aligned with career and technical subject matter, using the CDOS learning standards as a framework. Methods and strategies for infusing instruction of the CDOS standards into curriculum lessons will be reviewed.

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30. In-Person: Creating the Individualized Education Program (IEP)- June 6, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: General and special education teachers, psychologists, related services and chairpersons. Administrators who may be in a dual administrative role as chairpersons or directors of special education. As always, All stakeholders are welcome!

Dates: 6/6/2024

Location: Room TBD

- Please note, registration for this in-person workshop via MLP closes 24 hours prior to the event. If you plan to register within 24 hours of the workshop, please email us at Post-CCI@liu.edu.

Workshop Description:

Do you want to know how to write a Quality IEP? How to align all parts of the IEP so that it is developed in a way to support students with disabilities to make progress toward general education? Participants will develop their understanding of the components of a quality IEP designed to provide students with disabilities access to the general education curriculum.

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31. In-Person: Nassau and Suffolk County Learning Community for Transition- June 6, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Educators, agency personnel and any other stakeholder committed to improving outcomes for students with disabilities. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 6/6/2024

Location: LIU Brentwood

- Please note, registration for this in-person workshop via MLP closes 24 hours prior to the event. If you plan to register within 24 hours of the workshop, please email us at Post-CCI@liu.edu.

Workshop Description:

The goal of this interactive workshop is to bring together a variety of stakeholders who are united by their passion for improving post-school outcomes for students with disabilities and determined to learn how to purposefully plan together to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes.

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32. ONLINE: Phonological Awareness: Establishing Foundations for Reading Success- June 12, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: We especially invite general and special education teachers, content specialists, school psychologists, and building administrators. Caregivers and other participants are welcome to join in consideration of building home-school connections. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome.

Dates: 6/12/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2973

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Workshop Description:

The purpose of this workshop 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 workshop 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.

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33. ONLINE: Long Island Regional Partnership Center's Academic Community Cafe- June 17, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Previous Workshop Participants. Please note, all stakeholders are always welcome

Dates: 6/17/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom0680

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Description:

Office Hours- Informal setting for participants of previous workshops to attend and have additional needs addressed.

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34. ONLINE: Agency 101; Navigating Adult Services - Conducted Exclusively in Spanish- June 20, 2024

Program: LI Regional Partnership Center & Family and Community Engagement Centers

Audience: Families and caregivers interested in learning about the transition process from early intervention services to preschool special education services. Please note, all are welcome!

Dates: 6/20/2024

Location: https://bit.ly/Zoom2694

Presented in Spanish

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Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop provides an overview of primary adult service agencies available in New York State (NYS) and the different types of services they provide. The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with information so they are able to: recognize and identify the most recent definition of self-determination and the eight different components which comprise self-determination. access and utilize materials and resources to aid in the promotion of self-determination throughout the transition planning process. recognize the various adult service agencies available in NYS and the different types of services they provide; connect students with disabilities and their families to essential post-school options and supports. recognize that appropriate referrals to adult State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, community agency providers, independent living centers and other community systems of support correlates to attaining positive postsecondary outcomes, including employment outcomes. connect a student's IEP to referral and preparation for adult services.

Aprenda a conectarse con los servicios y apoyos disponibles. Reconozca los ocho componentes diferentes que componen la autodeterminación. Accede y utilize materiales y recursos para ayudar en la promoción de la autodeterminación a lo largo del proceso de planificación de la transición. Comprenda el proceso de elegibilidad, referido y de aplicacion de cada agenci.