Frontline Education

1. NYS Portrait of a Graduate & Inquiry-Based Learning in PreK - Grade 5

Program: Other

Audience: School Administrators and Building Leaders

Dates: 1/14/2026

This event, which will be a hybrid webinar with in-person discussion and presentations, will provide New York State administrators and school leaders with an opportunity to engage in regional discussions about what the NYS Portrait of a Graduate means in PreK to Grade 5, as well as how this connects to inquiry-based learning. Please note that to attend this event, you must attend in person at a BOCES or Big 5 designated site.

2. Structuring Math Intervention K-5

Program: Instructional Strategies

Dates: 2/6/2026

Suppose you have the opportunity during the day to provide Math Intervention or would love to have it. In that case, this session will explore the essential components that can make Math Intervention purposeful and effective. Participants will learn how to structure a Math Intervention block that provides support to all learners and ensures every student receives what they need.

3. Structuring Math Intervention K-5 (Check In)

Program: Instructional Strategies

Dates: 2/6/2026

This follow-up session checks in on how teachers are applying the strategies learned during the Math Intervention PD. Teachers will share what is working, discuss challenges, and look at student data to reflect on progress. The session provides additional guidance, short model demonstrations, and time to adjust intervention plans. The goal is to ensure consistent, effective use of intervention practices and give teachers support as they continue improving instruction.

4. Managing the Chaos of iReady Centers K-2

Program: Instructional Strategies

Dates: 3/20/2026

If you are using iReady Math Classroom 2024 curriculum, this PD is for you! This professional development session is designed to help educators effectively implement i-Ready Math Centers as a tool for differentiation, engagement, and targeted skill development. Participants will explore how to connect center activities to i-Ready data, structure centers for smooth classroom management, and ensure all students receive meaningful math practice. Participants to collaborate with colleagues to exchange effective strategies and successes of delivery and use of math centers. They will have the opportunity to share feedback and insights on the effectiveness of the different math centers, as well as plan and pre for future math centers.

5. Structuring Math Intervention: Frameworks, Strategies, and Data Tools

Program: Instructional Strategies

Dates: 5/29/2026

Suppose you have the opportunity during the day to provide Math Intervention or would love to have it. In that case, this session will explore the essential components that can make Math Intervention purposeful and effective. Participants will learn how to structure a Math Intervention block that provides support to all learners and ensures every student receives what they need.

6. TCIS Training - Initial Training

Program: Other

Audience: Any staff appointed by district to attend

Dates: 6/4/2026 to 6/5/2026

This 2 day training will be designed to give participants an overview of TCIS skills and techniques. Participants will participate in discussions and skills practice to allow them to attend the train the trainer course in August. During this training, more information regarding the train the trainer week will be discussed.

7. Asynchronous and ongoing- Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) (for all of 2026-2027)

Program: DASA 6-Hour Certification

Audience: anyone seeking NYS Certification

Dates: 7/1/2026

Beginning January 1, 2014, all persons applying to the NYS Education Department for an adminstrative or supervisory service, classroom teaching service, or school service certificate or license, must complete six (6) hours of coursework or training in harassment, bullying, and discrimination prevention and intervention. The training is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to create an affirming school environment for all students. This class must be paid for ahead of time. No credit card payments can be accepted. Checks may be sent to HFM BOCES 2755 StHwy 67, Johnstown, NY 12095 Att: Instructional Services. If your district is supplying payment they will be billed. This is an asynchronous workshop. Participants will receive a link with the required work and be given five business days to complete it. Please send questions to tcaraco@hfmboces.org

8. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 7/6/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

9. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 7/14/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

10. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 7/16/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

11. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators (rescheduled from July 27)

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 8/3/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

12. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 8/5/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

13. TCIS Training - Train the Trainer (5 Days)

Program: Other

Audience: Any staff who have received the pre requisite and assigned by district

Dates: 8/10/2026 to 8/14/2026

Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Train the Trainer The Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS) system is an adaptation of the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention System (TCI). TCI and TCIS embody the same concepts, but TCIS uses language and scenarios specific to the needs of a school audience. Additionally, TCIS recognizes the many challenges teachers and school staff face such as fluctuations in class size, staff shortages, ever-changing initiatives and regulations, children who live with complex trauma, and the diverse social economic conditions among school districts. TCIS is a trauma-informed system that provides school staff with safe, effective, and trauma-sensitive skills to manage the emotional and behavioral challenges they encounter in their daily interactions with students. During this training, participants will dive deeper into the TCIS system as well as develop the necessary skills to deliver this training to their school staff. There is a prerequisite to this course!

14. TCIS Training - Train the Trainer (5 Days)

Program: Other

Audience: Any staff who have received the pre requisite and assigned by district

Dates: 8/10/2026 to 8/14/2026

Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Train the Trainer The Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS) system is an adaptation of the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention System (TCI). TCI and TCIS embody the same concepts, but TCIS uses language and scenarios specific to the needs of a school audience. Additionally, TCIS recognizes the many challenges teachers and school staff face such as fluctuations in class size, staff shortages, ever-changing initiatives and regulations, children who live with complex trauma, and the diverse social economic conditions among school districts. TCIS is a trauma-informed system that provides school staff with safe, effective, and trauma-sensitive skills to manage the emotional and behavioral challenges they encounter in their daily interactions with students. During this training, participants will dive deeper into the TCIS system as well as develop the necessary skills to deliver this training to their school staff. There is a prerequisite to this course

15. New Evaluator Training - two days

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: new building administrators and outside evaluators

Dates: 8/24/2026 to 8/25/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training including inter-rater reliability and agreement for all new evaluators is a two day in-person workshop. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric. (lunch is on your own) This is for leaders new to evaluation. For anyone previously trained, please find a refresher listed in the catalog.

16. APPR and STEPS Refresher Training for Evaluators

Program: Lead Evaluator Training

Audience: Building administrators and outside evaluators who have previously been trained

Dates: 8/25/2026

This year's required evidence-based observation training will be in person at the HFM BOCES Conference Center. We will spend time with the NYS Teaching Standards as well as inter-rater reliability and agreement. This workshop will prepare attendees to evaluate teachers using the Danielson Rubric, or any four-point rubric, and support teachers with the NYS Teaching Standards.

17. New Mentor Training

Program: Mentoring

Audience: Teachers intending to become mentors in their district.

Dates: 8/27/2026

This workshop will prepare all who wish to become Mentors by introducing them to the key information and skills necessary to build effective mentoring relationships. Anyone who has completed this but would like a refresher is also welcome to attend.

18. Dignity Act Coordinator Training - HFM Leaders

Program: Other

Audience: Dignity Act Coordinators

Dates: 9/1/2026

New York State's Dignity for All Students Act seeks to provide the State's public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function. This three hour training will provide Dignity Act Coordinators with an overview of the requirements of the Dignity Act and provide multiple resources.

19. Library Connection Exchange

Program: School Library System/IRC

Audience: School librarians

Dates: 9/14/2026 to 5/10/2027

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Join us each month for Library Connection Exchange, a fun, informal virtual gathering where we'll connect with colleagues, ask questions, swap ideas, celebrate successes, and tackle those "Has anyone else dealt with this?" moments together. We'll wrap up each session with a quick Resource Exchange featuring a database, digital tool, makerspace idea, AI tip, or instructional strategy you can use right away.

20. Train the Trainer: Scaling a Portrait of a Graduate

Program: Other

Audience: District staff who will be responsible for implementation of NY Inspires

Dates: 9/15/2026 to 9/16/2026

A two-day institute that prepares participants to design and facilitate their own Portrait of a Graduate workshops. Day 1 immerses participants as learners in a model Deeper Learning experience by building community, unpacking the Portrait of a Graduate, and grounding the work in New Tech Network's daily instructional practices. Day 2 shifts participants into the designer role, using Day 1 and NTN's Principles of Adult Learning as a blueprint to plan and give peer feedback on their own workshops. Learning Outcomes Participants will be able to: Connect content, the Portrait of a Graduate, and NTN Practices to daily instructional practices Apply NTN's Principles of Adult Learning to design engaging professional learning experiences Use core facilitation tools to lead adult learning sessions Design an original Deeper Learning workshop for their home district Cost includes lunch Billing will go through HFM Business Office

21. Teach Like a Champion -2nd Year Coaching - Book Study

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: Teachers who joined the Teach Like a Champion Book Study during the 2025-2026 school year

Dates: 9/22/2026 to 5/5/2027

Starting Soon

This is for teachers who joined the Teach Like a Champion Book Study during the 2025-2026 school year and would like to continue their learning by diving deeper into the techniques. We will meet bi-monthly to discuss the techniques we read and tried last year, as well as a few new techniques from the book. We will learn from each other on making our classrooms better through these tried and true techniques. Our first meeting in September will be to decide what we would like our focus to be and why, as well as a debrief of how last year went.

22. Inspiring Libraries: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate

Program: School Library System/IRC

Audience: School Librarians

Dates: 9/23/2026

Starting Soon

Join fellow school librarians for a day of professional learning focused on strengthening library program, supporting student success, and building connections with colleagues. Discover practical AI and information literacy resources, learn about collection development and resource-sharing opportunities, and engage in goal-setting for teaching, leadership, and library growth. This is a Communication Coordinator required training.

23. Hackersjack Teacher/Librarian Training

Program: School Library System/IRC

Audience: school librarians and classroom teachers

Dates: 9/30/2026

This one hour virtual training will cover how to use the teacher platform for Hackersjack. Attendees will learn how to navigate the teacher dashboard, monitor progress, access reports and instructional resources covering Digital Fluency, AI and Digital Citizenship for grades K-12.

24. NY Inspires Transformation Coalition Work

Program: Leadership Training

Audience: District Leaders and others involved in implementation of NY Inspires

Dates: 10/2/2026 to 5/10/2027

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Please register and save these dates for work specific to SED initiatives and updates as they relate to the Portrait of a Graduate and NY Inspires. A small fee will be charged as lunch will be served at each event. Topics for each meeting will be announced prior to the meeting date. Topic for Day 1: Assessment and Systematic Approaches for all stakeholder groups

25. Engaging Students with PoGs and the Science of Learning

Program: Standards

Audience: All educators

Dates: 10/6/2026

New

Description of Learning: Remember POGs?! This virtual session will examine the craze from the 90s through the lens of the Science of Learning and make connections to the new and improved PoGs - Portrait of a Graduate traits. This session will also provide participants time to plan engaging instructional activities that utilize the Science of Learning… and PoGs! This PD addresses the following PoG traits: Academically Prepared Creative Innovator Critical Thinker Effective Communicator Global Citizen Reflective and Future Focused Materials needed: Computer with access to the internet. Zoom link will be provided prior to the session.

26. Building Thinking Classrooms and Social Studies

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: All educators

Dates: 10/14/2026

New

In this session we will discuss how Building Thinking Classrooms is more than just math - it's about promoting student discussion, productive struggle, and engagement. You will look at your SS curriculum/standards and come up with some strong tasks that engage deep thinking and learning. Let's promote student-driven classrooms with higher-order thinking where students actively discuss, analyze, explain, justify, and use feedback to enhance their own learning. This PD addresses the following PoG traits: Academically Prepared Creative Innovator Critical Thinker Effective Communicator Global Citizen Reflective and Future Focused Materials needed: Computer with access to the internet

27. HFM BOCES Mentor/Mentee Required Meetings for 26-27

Program: Mentoring

Audience: HFM BOCES Mentors and Mentees

Dates: 10/14/2026 to 6/9/2027

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Participants will discuss and collaborate on timely topics as part of the Mentor Plan here at HFM BOCES.

28. New! Personal Finance Education

Program: Standards

Audience: All educators

Dates: 10/20/2026

New

This session will examine the need for Personal Finance Education now required for K-12 by NYSED as part of the Portrait of a Graduate initiative. We will review a number of instructional resources provided by New York State, and consider how the Science of Learning might be utilized in delivering personal finance instruction. The session will include time to review the Personal Finance Education Learning Objectives and to begin planning units, lessons, and activities. This PD addresses the following PoG traits: Academically Prepared Creative Innovator Critical Thinker Effective Communicator Global Citizen Reflective and Future Focused Materials needed: Computer with access to the internet

29. Leading Learning Together: Planning for NY Inspires Through the School Library

Program: School Library System/IRC

Audience: building and district administrators, certified school librarians, and TOSAs or teaching assistants serving in a school library role

Dates: 10/21/2026

As districts begin planning for NY Inspires, this collaborative breakfast brings administrators and school librarians together to explore how school library programs can support the Portrait of a Graduate and advance district priorities. Using the New York State School Library Program Rubric as a strategic planning tool, teams will identify strengths, align goals, and develop next steps for supporting teaching, learning, and leadership.

30. Teaching Techniques for a Behaviorally Smooth Classroom Pk-12

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: anyone

Dates: 10/26/2026

This session will incorporate exclusively Teach Like a Champion techniques to improve procedures and routines, high behavioral expectations, and building student trust and motivation.

31. Strive-for-Five Conversations: Book Study (PK-2nd)

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: early childhood/primary educators, literacy coaches, and anyone seeking effective ways to strengthen oral language skills in students grades PK-2

Dates: 10/27/2026 to 12/8/2026

Teachers know that encouraging young children to talk and listen improves their ability to communicate. Strive-for-Five Conversations gives them a power tool aligned with the science of reading: the "Strive-for-Five” framework. These responsive conversations start with what children say and continue as the teacher listens and responds over five turns―with the goal of stretching their talking and thinking, knowledge, vocabulary, reasoning, and other skills that underpin reading success. This will be a 3 part book study perfect for early childhood educators, literacy coaches, and anyone seeking effective ways to strengthen oral language skills in students grades PK-2. There is a direct relation to Portrait of a Graduate for its importance of open ended questioning, thinking, explaining/justifying, and communicating in the early grades.
Please register before September 16th, or you will have to purchase the book on your own and the book fee will be waved.

32. New Tech Network Follow Up Workshops

Program: Leadership Training

Audience: Leaders from the HFM BOCES region

Dates: 10/28/2026 to 4/20/2027

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The two days of follow up work will be designed around specific needs aligned with NYInspires.

33. MODEL SCHOOLS: Easy Bake Coding with Canva Code!

Program: Integrating Technology into Curricula and Instruction

Audience: All educators

Dates: 10/29/2026

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Would you like to incorporate educational games, drag-and-drop tasks, virtual simulations, visual timers, or scoreboards into your instruction, but when you look online you can't quite find what you have in mind? Have you considered building activities, like Jeopardy review games, but found Google Slides too cumbersome (can't easily track question selection) and time consuming to build? Try Canva Code and let A.I. custom build it for you! Just like adding eggs and milk to an easy bake recipe, with Canva Code we will practice building fun and effective apps quickly and easily through a few simple prompts. Materials needed: Computer with Canva for Education Account and access to Google Gemini.

34. Teach Like a Champion 3.0 - New

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: Anyone

Dates: 11/3/2026 to 5/4/2027

Interested in refining everyday instructional moves that make lessons clearer, increase student engagement, and support consistent expectations across classrooms? Join us for a year long book study using Teach Like a Champion 3.0. This series is intentionally designed to be manageable and practical. We will not read the book cover to cover; instead, we'll explore a small number of high-leverage techniques and discuss how they look across PK-12 classrooms. Readings are short, discussion-based, and centered on strategies you can try right away. Teachers who wish to read more of the book are absolutely welcome to do so, and additional techniques may be shared throughout the sessions. Whether you're newer to the text or already familiar with it, this study offers space for reflection, collaboration, and professional conversation without added pressure.
Please register by September 18th, or you will have to purchase the book on your own and the book fee will be waved.

35. MODEL SCHOOLS: Canva Make and Take

Program: Integrating Technology into Curricula and Instruction

Audience: All educators

Dates: 11/4/2026

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This session will be an opportunity for participants to put Canva to use! Come prepared with some ideas for your classroom or ask us to help you brainstorm. This will be a collaborative time to use your skills to create something awesome for 2026-2027! Please be sure to bring a computer with access to your Canva for Education account.

36. Why Don't Students Like School?

Program: Instructional Strategies

Dates: 11/17/2026 to 2/9/2027

The book Why Don't Students Like School? answers exactly that. Written by a cognitive scientist,this book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Other questions Willingham answers are; How can you teach students the skills they need when standardized testing just requires facts? Why do students remember everything on TV, but forget everything you say? How can you adjust your teaching for different learning styles? Together we will read this book for the answers to these questions and for practical advice on helping your learners learn better.
Please register before September 25th, or you will have to purchase the book on your own and the book fee will be waved.

37. MODEL SCHOOLS Gems and Gemini Notebook

Program: Integrating Technology into Curricula and Instruction

Audience: All educators

Dates: 11/19/2026

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What are Google Gemini Gems? Gemini Notebook? How are they different and how can they help me as an educator? While they may both be useful A.I. tools, they are very different. In this session we will examine both platforms, demonstrate their utility, and provide time to build both for your own use! Computer with access to the internet, Google Gemini, and Gemini Notebook.

38. SLS Regional Showcase of Excellence

Program: School Library System/IRC

Audience: School librarians and acting librarians

Dates: 1/13/2027

This workshop will be the first Regional Showcase of Excellence. School librarians will share programs, lessons, and projects from their libraries. It will be held at Capital Region BOCES SLS with librarians from all four library systems in our region. This is a SLS Communication Coordinator Training. SNOW DATE IS JANUARY 25, 2027

39. Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It - Book Study

Program: Instructional Strategies

Audience: open to PK-12 (though mostly geared towards 4-12), admin, coaches, parents

Dates: 1/26/2027 to 4/13/2027

Read-i-cide: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline, poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative book Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It , author and teacher Kelly Gallagher suggests it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools. Readicide provides teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators with specific steps to reverse the downward spiral in reading-;steps that will help prevent the loss of another generation of readers. In this 4 part book study we will explore what we can do about this conundrum in our education system. This is open to PK-12 (though mostly geared towards 4-12), admin, coaches, parents, and anyone who wishes to learn more.
Please register before December 21st or you will have to purchase the book on your own and the book fee will be waved.

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