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1. Mobile Apps for management and creation

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 5/22/2019

Meeting Times: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Webinar

Starting Today
iPhone user? Android? Explore and brainstorm apps to elevate mobile phone or tablet users for creation in school.

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  • Enrolled: 3/20
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2. Choose Your Own Adventure Activities

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 5/29/2019

Meeting Times: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Webinar

Use links in Google Slides, Docs, and Google Forms in order to tell your story and work with students to get the right information for them!
  • Enrolled: 7/20
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3. edTPA: Preparation and Practice

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Elementary Level

Dates: 5/30/2019

Meeting Times: 4:00-6:00

is intended to be used as a summative assessment given at the end of a educator preparation program for teacher licensure or certification and to support state and national program accreditation. This workshop will provide basic information on the elements of the portfolio, diretions regarding registration and access to edTPA materials, and insights into how to successfully approach the various tasks contained in the

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  • Enrolled: 0/20
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4. Global Scoring Workshop

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 5/30/2019

Meeting Times: 12:00pm-3:00pm

This workshop is designed to assist teachers scoring the new exam and the sharing of strategies for review for upcoming tests. Bring strategies that you feel be helpful to our students to foster mastery

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  • Enrolled: 4/20
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5. Teaching Reading to ELLs: What's Different

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Classroom Teachers & Administrators of ELLs and General Ed, Reading and Speech Teachers

Dates: 5/30/2019

Meeting Times: 9:00am-3:00pm

Instruction in the 5 pillars of reading is necessarybut not sufficientfor teaching English language learners to read and write proficiently in English. In this workshop, participants will examine: ...what is different about teaching the key components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) to ELLs ...how to create opportunities to develop oral language, ...strategies for before, during and after reading supports. ...cross-linguistic relationships in second-language learners and the sociocultural contexts for literacy development.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Enrolled: 12/30
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6. Teaching Reading to ELLs: What's Different

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Classroom Teachers & Administrators of ELLs and General Ed, Reading and Speech Teachers

Dates: 5/31/2019

Meeting Times: 9:00am-3:00pm

Instruction in the 5 pillars of reading is necessarybut not sufficientfor teaching English language learners to read and write proficiently in English. In this workshop, participants will examine: ...what is different about teaching the key components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) to ELLs ...how to create opportunities to develop oral language, ...strategies for before, during and after reading supports. ...cross-linguistic relationships in second-language learners and the sociocultural contexts for literacy development.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Enrolled: 23/30
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7. Science Leadership Forum

Program: School Improvement

Audience: PK-12

Dates: 6/4/2019

Meeting Times: 12:00-3:00

Come and share unique approaches to Social Studies. It is time to go beyond the every day modus operandi. Let's launch out into deep and explore innovative methods to capture our students attention. Bring your ideas and any creative research along with diverse forms of assessments.You are invited to share your resources as well as add to your Social Studies stockpile of goods."Creativity is intelligence having fun."

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  • Enrolled: 4/20
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8. FACS Leadership Forum

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 6/7/2019

Meeting Times: 12:00-3:00

This forum is designed for teachers of FACS to convene and discuss emerging and current issues around FACS instruction and assessment. Participants will engage in a round table discussion around various topics such as assessments, current research and instructional strategies. All teachers should come prepared with questions, announcements and items to share that support student success. Plans to turn-key information in districts will also be covered.

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  • Enrolled: 0/20
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9. Next Gen:Adjusting and Aligning Math Curriculum

Program: School Improvement

Audience: 2-5

Dates: 6/11/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30-3:30

"This session will give educators the time to use data in vertical teams to modify curriculum to essential alignment to Next Gen standards in math."

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  • Enrolled: 10/20
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10. Young Adult Book Club: American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott

Program: School Library System

Audience: secondary educators

Dates: 6/11/2019

Meeting Times: Tuesday, June 11th at 3:30 - 4:30pm

"This book club is for all secondary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your high school library should have a copy to borrow.
A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a road trip in search of healing. With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro "T" Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with a devastating case of PTSD. In a desperate effort to save Manny from himself and pull their family back together, T's fiery sister, Xochitl, hoodwinks her brothers into a cathartic road trip. Told through T's honest voice, this is a candid exploration of mental illness, socioeconomic pressures, and the many inescapable highs and lows that come with growing up"
•including falling in love. "

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  • Enrolled: 0/25
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11. School Business Officials

Program: Business Office

Dates: 6/12/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30AM- 11:00AM

Monthly meeting with component school district Business Officials
  • Enrolled: 2/15
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12. SCITTA

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 6/12/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30am-11:30am

SCITTA
  • Enrolled: 0/30
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13. Elem/Middle Gr. Book Club: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

Program: School Library System

Audience: Elem./Middle School Educators

Dates: 6/13/2019

Meeting Times: Thursday, June 13th at 4:00 - 5:00pm.

This book club is for all elementary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your school library should have a copy to borrow.
After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? With that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins."

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  • Enrolled: 0/20
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14. Next Gen:Adjusting and Aligning Math Curriculum

Program: School Improvement

Audience: 6-8

Dates: 6/14/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30-3:30

"This session will give educators the time to use data in vertical teams to modify curriculum to essential alignment to Next Gen standards in math."

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Enrolled: 4/20
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15. Sullivan County Data Leaders

Program: School Improvement

Dates: 6/19/2019

Meeting Times: 2:00-3:30pm

Monthly Articulation between District Data Coordinators and other data personnel to share information and best practices.
  • Enrolled: 1/25
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16. Sullivan County Transition Council

Program: Special Ed

Dates: 6/21/2019

Meeting Times: 1:00-3:00 pm

Location: CTE Dining Room

The Sullivan County Transition Council is dedicated to improving post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities and the transition planning process for families. They locate, develop and share information on available services, best practices, and effective tools; provide opportunities for professional networking; discuss transition issues of concern and identify accessible resources. They also facilitate partnerships with community members to foster and sustain collaborative efforts that support student success and independence.
  • Enrolled: 1/30
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17. Zoom Book Club Presents: The Book in Question: Why and How Reading is in Crisis by Carol Jago

Program: School Library System

Audience: Secondary Educators

Dates: 7/9/2019

Meeting Times: Tuesday, July 9th at 9:00 - 10:30am

Location: No travel needed Join using Zoom for a live discus

Participants will read the book "The Book in Question: Why and How Reading is in Crisis"½ by Carol Jago BEFORE attending the session. We will use ZOOM video conferencing to meet. "Reading is in crisis, Too often, too many students are choosing not to read."½ This is especially true for middle and high school students."The author provides practical suggestions for how to nurture a community of readers, providing a wealth of ideas for helping students to; Begin to think of themselves as readers. Choose books for themselves purposefully-for pleasure and for a challenge. Know what to do when confronted with unfamiliar vocabulary. Find time to read outside of class. Write from the heart about what they have read. Copies will be available for loan from Sullivan BOCES School Library System contact the office at 845-292-0246 or lynn.miller@scboces.org.

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Enrolled: 0/15
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18. Elem/Middle Gr. Book Club: Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Program: School Library System

Audience: Elem./Middle School Educators

Dates: 7/15/2019

Meeting Times: Monday, July 15th at 10:00 - 11:00am.

This book club is for all elementary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your school library should have a copy to borrow.
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there's a lot more to her-and to everyone-than a label, and that great minds don't always think alike.

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  • Enrolled: 0/20
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19. Young Adult Book Club: Bull by David Elliott

Program: School Library System

Audience: secondary educators

Dates: 7/16/2019

Meeting Times: Tuesday, July 16ht, at 10:00 - 11:00am

This book club is for all secondary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your high school library should have a copy to borrow.
Much like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in Hamilton, The New York Times best-selling author, David Elliott turns a classic on its head: this rough and rowdy retelling of the Minotaur myth in verse will have readers reevaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters.

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  • Enrolled: 0/25
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20. Orton-Gillingham Training--Intermediate Level

Program: School Improvement

Audience: teachers of grades 3-5; grades 3-12 special education teachers; and ENL teachers

Dates: 7/29/2019 to 8/2/2019

Meeting Times: 8:00am-3:30pm

This intermediate training provides participants with an understanding of the Orton-Gillingham methodology specifically designed for upper elementary or older students who require foundations reading skills and continue to struggle in literacy development. Participants will learn how to teach advanced spelling rules, encoding/decoding with seven syllable types, morphology, and vocabulary. This course offers more of an in-depth study on orthography and morphology for struggling students, but will include some phonics as well. This approach can be incorporated into an already existing literacy program. Participants should have already attended the Comprehensive level training. Participants will learn: higher level spelling rules; syllabication patterns for encoding and decoding; assessment; morphology; vocabulary; and guidelines for weekly lesson plans. Cost: $1200 for component districts; $1500 for non-component districts (May vary slightly with enrollment.)

This activity has a required evaluation

  • Enrolled: 23/24
  • Wait: 2/5

21. Zoom Book Club Presents: Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News

Program: School Library System

Audience: Secondary Educators

Dates: 8/12/2019

Meeting Times: Monday, Aug.12th at 9:00 - 10:30am

Location: No travel needed Join using Zoom for a live discus

Participants will read the book "Fact vs. Fiction..." BEFORE attending the session. We will use ZOOM video conferencing to meet. "Although the cry of "fake news" seems relatively recent, it's a refrain that's been heard throughout history, as LaGarde and Hudgins remind us, though the scope, proliferation, and speed at which misinformation spreads online garner more attention. Citing research, the authors state that the problem is less about the technology and more about readers who believe what confirms their biases. The book features a fake news self-assessment that presents news stories as they would appear on a cell phone-readers decide if the article is legitimate. This exercise demonstrates the difficulty in applying knowledge of traditional media to the news accessed on a cell phone, especially since news feeds are based on users' "likes" and whom they follow. Encouraging teacher and librarian collaboration, the authors offer educators many resources to use in honing their own skills and creating media literacy lessons that will help students navigate the overwhelming amount of information online. While the lessons here apply to students of all grade levels, the volume is best for educators working with fourth through twelfth graders. VERDICT A thought-provoking resource for teachers and librarians seeking to foster their students' critical thinking" Copies will be available for loan from Sullivan BOCES School Library System contact the office at 845-292-0246 or lynn.miller@scboces.org.

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  • Enrolled: 1/15
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22. Young Adult Book Club: I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

Program: School Library System

Audience: secondary educators

Dates: 8/13/2019

Meeting Times: Tuesday, Aug. 13th, at 10:00 - 11:00am

"This book club is for all secondary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your high school library should have a copy to borrow.
""This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer."½½-The New York Times Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness. After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive-for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. After: With only her father's dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she's stronger than she ever imagined. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father"½½and she wants revenge.

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23. Elem/Middle Gr. Book Club: Posted by John David Anderson

Program: School Library System

Audience: Elem./Middle School Educators

Dates: 8/15/2019

Meeting Times: Thursday, Aug. 15th at 10:00 - 11:00am.

"This book club is for all elementary educators to read and enjoy the book before they attend the book club session. Your school library should have a copy to borrow.
In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes-though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well. In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frost's lunch table. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and it's clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself won't easily hold another. As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that after this year, nothing will ever be the same."

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24. Fundations (Wilson) Level K Training

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Kindergarten teachers

Dates: 9/24/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30am-3:00pm

The Fundations® Level K Workshop provides the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations® Level K curriculum. At the completion of the workshop, attendees will be able to: Have a solid background knowledge and understanding of the research base supporting the why and how of Fundations® instruction. Identify the skills taught in Fundations® Level K: phonological awareness; phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle; sound mastery; ways to form the key linkages-letter name, formation and sound; phonics; vocabulary; high frequency/trick words; fluency; comprehension strategies; manuscript handwriting, spelling, and punctuation. Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction that engages multiple learning modalities with multisensory instruction, repetition, and immediate, specific feedback. Prepare a daily Level K learning plan and practice lesson activity procedures. Build a learning focused classroom: maximizing instructional time, learning lesson activities, using questioning to guide student learning and mastery, and encouraging craftsmanship for optimum outcomes.

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  • Enrolled: 6/10
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25. Fundations (Wilson) Level Grade 1 Training

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 1 teachers

Dates: 9/25/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30am-3:00pm

The Fundations® Level 1 Workshop provides the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations® Level 1 curriculum. At the completion of the workshop, attendees will be able to: Have a solid background knowledge and understanding of the research base supporting the why and how of Fundations® instruction. Identify the skills taught in Fundations® Level 1: phonemic awareness; the alphabetic principle; sound mastery; ways to form the key linkages-letter name, formation and sound; phonics and word study; vocabulary; high frequency/trick words; fluency; comprehension strategies; manuscript handwriting, spelling, and punctuation. Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction that engages multiple learning modalities with multisensory instruction, repetition, and immediate, specific feedback. Prepare a daily Level 1 learning plan and practice lesson activity procedures. Build a learning focused classroom: maximizing instructional time, learning lesson activities, using questioning to guide student learning and mastery, and encouraging craftsmanship for optimum outcomes. Cost dependent upon enrollment

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  • Enrolled: 6/30
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26. Fundations (Wilson) Level Grade 2 Training

Program: School Improvement

Audience: Grade 2 teachers

Dates: 9/26/2019

Meeting Times: 8:30am-3:00pm

The Fundations® Level 2 Workshop provides the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations® Level 2 curriculum. At the completion of the workshop, attendees will be able to: Have a solid background knowledge and understanding of the research base supporting the why and how of Fundations® instruction. Identify the skills taught in Fundations Level 2: phonemic awareness; the alphabetic principle; sound mastery; phonics and word study; vocabulary; high frequency/trick words; fluency; comprehension strategies; spelling and punctuation. Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction that engages multiple learning modalities with multisensory instruction, repetition, and immediate, specific feedback. Prepare a daily Level 2 learning plan and practice lesson activity procedures. Build a learning focused classroom: maximizing instructional time, learning lesson activities, using questioning to guide student learning and mastery, and encouraging craftsmanship for optimum outcomes. Cost dependent upon enrollment

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  • Enrolled: 5/30
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