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1. DASA: Harassment, Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Discrimination in Schools: Prevention and Intervention Certification Training

Program: Online Workshops: Professional Development Unit

Activity Owner/Manager: Laura Purdy - lpurdy@cayboces.org

Dates: On-Going (Ends Jun 1, 2024)

DASA: New York State's Dignity for All Student's Act (Dignity Act) seeks to provide NYS public elementary and secondary school students with a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function. The Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES is a NYSED approved provider of the Dignity Act certification training.

The required training consists of a 6-hour asynchronous online training with accompanying assignments.

****You will be sent an invoice for $50.00 upon registration. All registration fields must be filled out including address and phone number.

Specific links will be emailed to you once payment has been received by our business office.****

Please contact Sara Herman with any questions at sherman@cayboces.org

2. One Trusted Adult Foundations Course-Online-4 hour course.

Program: Online Workshops: Teacher Center

Audience: Anyone that works with students.

Dates: 6/1/2023 to 8/31/2023

Access to 4-hour course completely paid for by your Teacher Center! Participants in this course will: Review evidence, and recognize the importance of every child being able to name a trusted adult Become a trusted adult who is Accessible, Boundaried, and Caring and prompt self and organizational reflection Set up spaces to meet the BASICS (universal youth needs), including tools and strategies to use with your students for connection and reflection Establish healthy and appropriate youth-adult relationships and avoid boundary blur and professional burnout Encourage teamwork and build a network of many trusted adults within your school community and beyond Apply the caring modes and comfort zone frameworks for effective mentorship. Grade-level teams are encouraged to sign up together. A link with a code will be emailed to you upon registration. Please send me the certificate of completion that you received for full CTLE credit and attendance verification. All video content also includes closed captioning.

3. Micro Credentials and Digital Badging Courses-Personalized Professional Learning-You choose!

Program: Online Workshops: Teacher Center

Audience: All educators and teaching assistants.

Dates: 6/2/2023 to 8/31/2023

Earn up to 10 hours of CTLE hours by simply completing 15 of these badges on your own time. Choose any that you are interested in and take charge of your professional learning!

1. Register to earn your badges here.
2. Visit: badgelist.com/cayuga-onondaga-teacher-center
3. Sign up for an account using your Google credentials or create an account. (this just earned you a badge!)
4. Use the join code: CO Teacher Center
5. Start with badge #1. Badges 101 and click join to begin.
6. Review and submit the required evidence to earn a badge.

CTLE will be awarded once the badge requirements have been assessed before 09/15/23. Direct questions to Brenda at baull-klaben@cayboces.org *You must put in 5 zeros and the last 4 of your SS# when asked if you want a certificate at the end of the course.

4. One Trusted Adult Book Study, Online

Program: Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center

Audience: All K-12 educators and administrators

Dates: 6/5/2023

Packed with real-life stories and invaluable tips, One Trusted Adult inspires all adults to build strong connections, embrace sustainable career practices, break the silence around boundary violations and abuse, be present for the young people in their lives-and, in doing so, ensure that the young people in their care are growing into their greatest potential. In clear, accessible terms, One Trusted Adult lays out: *The critical nature of trust, along with simple tools that help build trusting relationships with young people and expand the opportunities for positive impact. *What boundaries are, and how to set clear expectations that keep both young people and the adults who work with them safe. *How to create an organizational culture that cares for the whole child and celebrates the adults who get it right while holding accountable those who don't. *Ways to partner and surround young people with the only thing better than one trusted adult: many trusted adults!

5. The why, what, and how to approach and sustain mentorship

Program: Professional Development Unit

Audience: CTE and Compass future mentor teachers

Dates: 6/12/2023

Starting Soon

In this session, we will explore what it means to be a mentor and how best to create a relationship where mentees and mentors learn with each other as they engage in the important and difficult work of teaching. OUTCOMES: Why mentoring matters to new teachers? What are the roles and responsibilities of a mentor? How do you approach and sustain mentorship?

6. Opals workshop

Program: School Library System

Audience: librarians and library aides that work with Opals

Dates: 6/14/2023

Starting Soon

Harry and his team will be in-person to demonstrate updates to the Opals system and be on hand to assist librarians in implementing those updates.

7. Implementing Culturally Responsive Practices in Schools

Program: Online Workshops: Professional Development Unit

Audience: All educators

Dates: On-Going (Ends Sep 15, 2023)

Starting Soon

Participants in this course will follow a path of self-reflection and discovery to develop an understanding of the who, what, why, and where of Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CR-SE). This 5 module course is grounded in the CR-SE Framework as well as supplemental resources to support individual growth. A course-specific journal will be provided to use as a place to reflect on beliefs and systems that impact diversity, equity and inclusion.

This course includes:
An essential question to guide the intention of each module.
Moments of reflection, including self-awareness around the knowledge, skills, and practices around the core principles of CR-SE.
Leveled professional learning based upon participant identified readiness.
Opportunities to set goals to drive their action plan for the final module's work.

8. CO BOCES Teaching Assistant Academy: Fundamentals 101

Program: Professional Development Unit

Dates: 6/16/2023

Calling all BOCES Teacher Assistants! This workshop is designed for new and current teacher assistants that want to build up their skills in building student engagement, collaborating with colleagues, and utilizing SEL and sensory strategies for diverse learners. We will also have time to build connections with other TAs in your schools and grade levels. Join us for a day designed specifically for the role and responsibilities of teacher assistant.

9. New York State Teacher Center's Equity Challenge-Self Paced-Asynchronous

Program: Online Workshops: Teacher Center

Audience: All Educators and Teaching Assistants

Dates: 6/26/2023 to 9/4/2023

The NYSTC Equity Challenge is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to explore resources at their own pace, focusing on how education is impacted when inequitable systems exist. You will explore 10 topics in total. A new topic will be shared every week for 10 weeks via email. You will then complete the corresponding badge for each week. Topics include Equity, Personal Identity, Race and Equity, Bias, Privilege, Levels of Racism, Being an Ally, and more. All weeks will provide an introduction to the topic. You will read the introduction and explore any links embedded in it. All weeks will include infographics to reflect on and a corresponding badge to complete for CTLE credits. Most weeks will include a "Know the Impact on Education", "Stretching Our Thinking" and a "Reflect and Act" section. The final challenge is structured to provide you with opportunities to reflect on the entire challenge and offer you resources to explore. Upon completion of all requirements, participants will receive 10 CTLE hours. Partial credit will not be given. This course is completely online and done independently.

10. LETRS-Volume 1

Program: Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center

Audience: K-12 Teachers, Reading Teachers, Literacy Coaches

Dates: 6/27/2023 to 8/9/2023

LETRS is a professional development course that bridges deep, meaningful research into practical classroom success. LETRS provides educators with the background, depth of knowledge, and tools to teach language and literacy skills to every student. LETRS can be used regardless of the literacy program in use. Price of $875.00 (Payable to Jordan-Elbridge) includes all materials and licenses. Lunch is on your own. This course is being co-sponsored by the Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center to lower the cost to districts.

11. Teaching Historical Thinking and Culturally Responsive Content through Local Primary Sources CNY Region Summer Educator Workshop

Program: School Library System

Dates: 7/11/2023

ConsidertheSourceNY.org Diversity and Collaborative Knowledge Program presents a day of learning, collaboration, and sharing for teachers and school librarians in the CNY Region at the Oneida Community Mansion House. Learn about the Oneida Community and its legacy through on-site and online resources.

12. Inspiring Creativity with Canva

Program: Instructional Support Services

Audience: K-12 Teachers and Librarians

Dates: 7/13/2023

This workshop is for K-12 teachers and librarians interested in learning how to use and apply Canva in their classrooms. Canva is an online graphic design tool available to all teachers and students that can be used to create professional presentations, infographics, media, and more. Inspire creativity in your students through Canva projects. Participants will learn Canva's key features, brainstorm student uses, and design their own projects.

13. Effective Elements of Co-teaching & Collaboration

Program: Professional Development Unit

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 7/13/2023

Co-teaching is a collaborative approach to instruction involving the purposeful pairing of two educators who are equally accountable to the classroom responsibilities of planning, delivery, and assessment. It is a common method of delivering specially designed instruction to students with disabilities, however, this model has the potential to maximize learning for all students in inclusive classrooms.

In this session participants will:
Explore the benefits of co-teaching
Investigate key components of effective co-teaching and collaboration
Examine the six approaches to co-teaching and their practical implications
Learn strategies for developing and maintaining healthy co-teaching relationships

14. Soundzabound Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/1/2023

Are you looking for copyright-compliant music and sounds for student projects or school events such as graduation or pep rallies? Need some music for your students that increases brain activity? Confused about whether your student projects can go on social media with the music? Find out all about this and more with Soundzabound.

15. Sora Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/1/2023

Learn the ins and outs of accessing ebooks for your students through Sora. Explore features such as personalization and annotations tools, as well as class title assignments.

16. Introducing TeachingBooks Webinar:

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/3/2023

Explore author videos and recordings, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more. Discover resources that will expand the experience readers have with diverse books. Leave this session with tools to meet readers where they are while deepening connections to books and authors.

17. Digital Theatre + Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/3/2023

Digital Theatre+ is an online learning platform that provides access to high-quality theatre productions, prose adaptations, poetry resources and much more. This session will show you how to navigate the platform and find resources that are relevant to what you are teaching in your English classes. You will also learn more about the ELA skills filtering, Poetry in Action Series, Speaking and Listening Series,Unlocked (literary devices, structure, characters,theme, and language) Series, and Compare and Contrast Series. Bring any questions you haveto the session! A recording will also be availableif you aren't able to make it.

18. Cricut in the Classroom

Program: Instructional Support Services

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 8/8/2023

Cricut is a non-industrial die-cutting machine that can be used in the classroom for several project based learning activities. Students can design and upload their own designs or select from pre-existing art work and modify. Join this workshop to learn how to effectively integrate Cricut and its design software into the classroom. In this session you will design, create and learn a variety of activities that can be incorporated into instruction to enhance teaching and learning.

19. Get Factcited! Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/8/2023

FactCite has lesson plans and activities to support teachers and students with research. FactCite's consulting librarian Sheila Cavooris will present lesson ideas and activities (bingo, digital escape rooms, and more!) for students in primary grades through middle school. You'll leave the session with ideas you can use to jumpstart reading and research with each database -- Factcite 1-2-3, Biography for Beginners, World Mythology, American History, Science and Technology, Countries and Cultures -- in the new school year!

20. Infobase- Historical Databases Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/8/2023

Join us to learn more about the five historical databases- African-American History, American History Online, American Indian History, Ancient and Medieval History, Modern World History.

21. Create a Library Procedures Handbook

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/9/2023 to 8/16/2023

In two half-day sessions, participants will collaboratively plan and create a draft library procedures manual. Participants will review their district policies, discuss procedures important to school library maintenance, and create a draft manual aligned to district policies. The manual will cover library instruction, programs and collection development. Day 1 will focus on distinguishing between policy and procedure, identifying essential procedures, and beginning a draft. Day 2 will focus on collaboration and draft revesion.

22. STEAMify Your Classroom with MakeyMakey & LEGO

Program: Instructional Support Services

Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers and Librarians

Dates: 8/10/2023

This workshop is for elementary and middle school teachers and librarians who are looking to bring STEAM experiences into their classrooms. Participants will be introduced to Makey Makey and LEGO Education Spike Kits. Makey Makey is an invention kit that allows you to control everyday objects with your computer. Bring any project to life using a little bit of coding and conductive objects! LEGO Education has standards aligned curriculum for grades 1-8 that features robot building and coding challenges. Join us for hand-on lessons and develop your own projects for the coming school year!
Participants will have access to equipment from the BOCES lending library for use during the school year.

23. Learn 360 Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/10/2023

Join us and learn about Learn 360, Mailbox Plus and Classroom Video on Demand.

24. Exploring Nature Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/10/2023

Our ZOOM Tour will explore the K-12 science resources available on Exploringnature.org. Join us to see how to find unit reading, diagrams, tests, activities, and worksheets for life science Earth science, biology, anatomy, and K-5 science concepts and investigations.

25. Academic Video Online for Middle School Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/15/2023

Academic Video Online is a unique video resource designed to support teachers in their classrooms and help engage students. This 30-minute session will discuss the available content, explore how to navigate the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform, best practices for locating and sharing content, and how to use the video player.

26. Academic Video Online- for High School Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/15/2023

Academic Video Online is a dynamic video collection with a diverse array of authoritative content across disciplines. Designed specifically for educational environments, it helps support more engaged classrooms and successful students. This 30-minute session will discuss the content available in Academic Video Online. We will also explore how to navigate the interface, best practices for searching and sharing content, and how to use the video player.

27. 2nd Registration: Recent Advances in Understanding Word-Level Reading Problems: Implications for Instruction and Intervention (no book provided)

Program: Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 8/17/2023

New

This workshop from David A. Kilpatrick, PhD will focus on how children learn to read and remember words and why some children struggle, with a focus on translating research into practice regarding scientific findings of reading acquisition and reading difficulties. A summary of the most important findings will be presented, common misconceptions will be addressed, and practical implications for reading instruction and intervention will be modeled and discussed. Additionally, there will also be a Q & A session to answer any specific questions from the audience.

In this session participants will:
Understand the nature of word-level reading development and how word-level reading problems can guide instruction and intervention.
Investigate how reading works and why some students struggle, illustrating approaches to intervention that can yield very large reading gains for such students.
Establish a knowledge base for educators to choose the most effective instructional and intervention practices.

**Participants in this registration will be able to come to the training BUT will not receive the book, "Equipped for Reading Success". We felt the knowledge to be gained is so important that we did not want to limit it to the number of people we could provide a book to.**

28. Recent Advances in Understanding Word-Level Reading Problems: Implications for Instruction and Intervention

Program: Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center

Audience: Teachers

Dates: 8/17/2023

Closed

This workshop from David A. Kilpatrick, PhD will focus on how children learn to read and remember words and why some children struggle, with a focus on translating research into practice regarding scientific findings of reading acquisition and reading difficulties.A summary of the most important findings will be presented, common misconceptions will be addressed, and practical implications for reading instruction and intervention will be modeled and discussed. Additionally, there will also be a Q & A session to answer any specific questions from the audience.

In this session participants will:
Understand the nature of word-level reading development and how word-level reading problems can guide instruction and intervention.
Investigate how reading works and why some students struggle, illustrating approaches to intervention that can yield very large reading gains for such students.
Establish a knowledge base for educators to choose the most effective instructional and intervention practices.

29. Teen Health and Wellness Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/17/2023

TEEN HEALTH & WELLNESS: Learn about the database resource providing middle & high schoolers current, nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular, and self-help support correlated to standards. Resource aligns with student inquiry about diseases, disorders, drugs, nutrition, social emotional topics, bullying and much more. Of particular interest to faculty: ELA, PE, Science, Health, Guidance, school Nurses.

30. Newsbank Webinar

Program: School Library System

Dates: 8/17/2023

NewsBank's resources, provided to you by Cayuga Onondaga BOCES School Library System, prepare K-12 students for success by enhancing critical thinking and media literacy skills. Learn how to easily integrate these unmatched current and historical resources into your curriculum and classrooms.

31. NYS Lab Investigations: Intermediate Level Science Exploration

Program: Professional Development Unit

Audience: 6-8th Grade Science Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators/Administrators

Dates: 8/23/2023

This workshop is for 6-8th grade science teachers to explore the four required intermediate level lab investigations. Join us for a hands-on experience with the investigations and to hear tips and tricks for success in your classroom.

32. NYS Lab Investigations: Elementary Level Science Exploration

Program: Professional Development Unit

Audience: 3-5th Grade Science Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators/Administrators

Dates: 8/24/2023

This workshop is for 3-5th grade science teachers to explore the four required elementary level lab investigations. Join us for a hands-on experience with the investigations and to hear tips and tricks for success in your classroom.

33. Essential Elements of Effective Instruction (Teacher Moves)

Program: Professional Development Unit

Audience: New Teachers and Instructional TAs

Dates: 8/29/2023

Core instruction is the foundation for student learning and success. As someone new to this role, it's important to understand the essential elements of effective instruction to provide your students with the best possible learning experience.

Participants in this session will explore the key building blocks of effective core instruction and the impact they have on student achievement, including:
planning and preparation
managing the environment
instructional delivery
student engagement
assessing understanding

34. Teaching Assistant Academy: Fundamentals 101

Program: Professional Development Unit

Dates: 8/30/2023

Calling all Teacher Assistants! This workshop is designed for new and current teacher assistants that want to build up their skills in building student engagement, collaborating with colleagues, and utilizing SEL and sensory strategies for diverse learners. We will also have time to build connections with other TAs in your schools and grade levels. Join us for a day designed specifically for the role and responsibilities of teacher assistant.

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