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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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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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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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Workshop Titles:

- 01/29/2025: An Introduction to the Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Center
- 02/06/2025: Special Education101:Training of the Parent Member of the CPSE and CSE (IEP)
- 02/12/2025: Transitioning from Early Intervention (EI) to the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE)on Facebook Live!
- 02/26/2025: Transitioning from Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) to the Committee on Special Education (CSE)
- 03/06/2025: What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP) For Families of Preschool Students
- 03/13/2025: What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP) For Families of School-Age Students
- 04/03/2025: Transitioning from Early Intervention (EI) to the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE)
- 04/10/2025: What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP) For Families of Preschool Students
- 05/01/2025: Transitioning From Early Intervention (EI) to the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE)
- 05/07/2025: What Is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)? For Families of School-Age Students
- 06/04/2025: Agency 101: Navigating Adult Services

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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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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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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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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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TThe purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide participants with 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. The content covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to understand the importance and core features of progress monitoring, as well as modeling and practice with feedback on implementing progress monitoring. Participants are given an opportunity for independent work with support from the presenters.

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

Please note, this workshop contains a second part in the format of independent work that will be provided during the listed session.

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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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How do you support special and general education teachers to improve outcomes for students with disabilities? Do you know how specially designed instruction puts the "special" into "special education?"

The Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) for Administrators workshop is intended to further develop administrators' knowledge of SDI and how SDI should be designed and developed based on individual student need to address their learning barriers. Administrators will be able to define SDI, recognize how to differentiate SDI from general education, identify what SDI looks like in the classroom setting, and gain necessary skills for supervision of implementation of SDI.

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Workshop Description:

This training is a follow-up to the Overview of Specially Designed Instruction. It will explore the application of Specially Designed Instruction in classroom scenarios, lesson planning and in IEPs. Participants should have attended the Overview of SDI professional development session previously or have a strong knowledge of the principles of SDI.

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Workshop Description:

How does the way educators treat students based on their expectations impact student outcomes? Research suggests that students of varying backgrounds often face stereotypes and biases that negatively impact their performance. During this interactive workshop, develop strategies and explore how centering identities, harnessing strengths and interests, meeting students' individual needs, and engaging families fosters high expectations and rigorous instruction leading to improved student outcomes.

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Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop highlights the essential skills necessary to consider all students' needs as they relate to instructional practices. Instructors will be guided on how to utilize ongoing data collection to intensify reading instruction using evidence-based strategies. Participants will be exposed to skill-based, fluency-based, and performance-based learning deficits and will determine which interventions should be applied for each. Facilitators will discuss how this practice can be applied across all academic areas.

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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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This interactive workshop helps administrators gain a greater understanding of what the Science of Reading has determined to be the foundational skills needed to become a proficient reader.  Participants will explore current instructional practices in reading and the impact they have on reading proficiency.  This workshop will also provide context for the importance of effective reading instruction and the impact that it has on equity for all students. To overcome equity barriers, school leaders need to support educators in utilizing systemic, explicit instruction to teach the skills supported by the science of reading.  This training also highlights ineffective practices and why those may not be working; this is intended to inform leadership support of teachers implementing research-based and effective reading instruction.

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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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This interactive workshop is intended to develop participants' working knowledge of the components of SDI, the rationale for using SDI, using SDI alongside other instructional strategies, and selecting appropriate SDI based upon student needs and characteristics.

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Workshop Description:

Positive Solutions for Families is an evidence-based, parent training series for families of early childhood age children and professionals working with those families. Each session will provide information on how to promote children's social and emotional skills, understand their challenging behaviors, and use positive approaches to help children learn appropriate behavior at home, school or in community settings. Parents and professionals will gain general information on key strategies that may be used with all children at the early childhood stage of development including:
● The importance of building positive relationships with children
● The importance of play on building those positive relationships
● Understanding how to make expectations clear for children
● Learning how to teach problem-solving skills
● Identifying the meaning of challenging behavior
● Identifying supports for use with children during daily routines

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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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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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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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The purpose of this interactive workshop is to understand the importance of beginning career development at the elementary age for students with disabilities, explore and expand elementary career development activities that support self and career awareness, identity and career exploration, enhance understanding of collaboration among schools, families, and community connections in elementary career development, and review resources and strategies to ensure elementary experiences are impactful and encouraged for elementary- aged students with disabilities and throughout elementary school.

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Description:

Please join us in an informal setting to discuss and reflect on any number of topics related to teaching and learning. Are you interested in sharing evidence-based strategies and ideas that could engage and support students of all abilities? Join us in this casual forum where we share experiences and ideas on:

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary Development
Reading Comprehension
Explicit Instruction
Academic Screeners
Intervention and Progress Monitoring