Nassau BOCES Online Professional Development Courses

Nassau BOCES has expanded it's online professional development course catalog to include self-paced courses in addition to their high quality facilitated courses.

Nassau BOCES online courses range from 15-45 hours and span the PreK-12 curriculum.  Courses cover relevant topics such as Charlotte Danielson's Framework, incorporating the Common Core State Standards into ELA and math curriculums and using data to inform instruction.

Below is a list of their online courses.  Please visit their website (www.nassauboces.org/opd) for course descriptions and frequently asked questions.

All courses will begin April 4, 2013.  Participants must register before March 25, 2013 at www.mylearningplan.com.  Please visit the Nassau BOCES Distance Education Services website (www.nassauboces.org/opd) for more information.


FACILITATED COURSES
1 Inservice Credit/15 hours


Reading Across the Curriculum

Partnering with Parents

Common Core Mathematics

Creating a School Culture That Combats Bullying By Developing Upstander Responsibility Part I

SELF-PACED COURSES
3 Inservice Credits/45 hours


Assessment and the Common Core State Standards

Character Education, Part I: Community and Cultural Change

Charlotte Danielson's A Framework for Teaching - Making the Most of Teacher Evaluation

Common Core State Standards in Math Grades 3-8

Data-Driven Decision Making: Implementing Strategies for Student Achievement

Differentiation and Assessment for Middle School

Differentiation and the Brain

Discovery-Based Mathematics, Part I: Real, Whole, and Negative Numbers

Discovery-Based Mathematics, Part II: Multiplication, Division, Fractions, and Decimals

Elementary Reading Strategies

Motivating and Engaging Students

Motivating Underachievers Using Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction

Setting the Stage for Teaching ELLs Across the Curriculum Part I

Setting the Stage for Teaching ELLs Across the Curriculum Part II

Supporting Struggling Students with Rigorous Instruction

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, K-5

Technology Applications for Teaching and Supporting the Struggling Reader

Understanding Culture and Race



For further information, contact Nassau BOCES at 516-608-6643 or visit our website at www.nassauboces.org/opd.

Digital Learning Day!

Join InterCounty Teacher Resource Center on Digital Learning Day!
February 6, 2013
A series of webinars on technology resources for educators!

The New York State Technology Committee and NYIT will present a series of free webinars from 2:00 to 6:30 showcasing the New York State Teacher Center's Public-Private Partnerships and their wonderful Common Core-based instructional resources. Educators may join as many half-hour webinars as they choose.

The attached flyer includes log-on links for each of the webinars.

Thank you for your support of New York educators and your support of InterCounty Teacher Resource Center!
--
Carol Weintraub, Director
InterCounty Teacher Resource Center
intercountytc@gmail.com
(631) 348-3242


Digital learning Day Time Table

Learning.com
presenter Carol Weintraub
2:00 2:30
http://tiny.cc/learningdotcom

Professor Garfield X-treme Comic Contest
presenters Bob Levy, Clive
Goodinson, and Barbara Knab
2:30 3:00
http://tiny.cc/garfield-comic-contest

ESRI Geospatial Informational
Software (GIS) Use in Schools
presenters Anita Palmer, Roger Palmer, Darren Faccilonga
3:00 3:30
http://tiny.cc/esrigissoftware

Digital Wish
presenter Heather Chirtea
3:30 4:00
http://tiny.cc/digitalwish

Professor Garfield
presenters Bob Levy and Madelyn Ferris
4:00 4:30
http://tiny.cc/professor-garfield

Intel Teach
presenters Tom Diener and JoAnn Murphy-Genter
4:30 5:00
http://tiny.cc/intelteach

Google Apps for Education
presenter Edward Murray 5:00 5:30
http://tiny.cc/googleapps

SAS Curriculum Pathways
presenter Barbara Knab
5:30 6:00
http://tiny.cc/sascurriculumpathways

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
presenter Marie Studer
6:00-6:30
http://tiny.cc/encyclopediaoflife

NaMaYa PD for the New York Educators

Happy New Year to all New & Returning Educators!

ASPDP Spring 2013 session is now open for registration. Courses start February 4th through June 10th.

All courses are designed to impact student achievement and focus on Children First priorities including accountability tools, Common Core Standards, data driven differentiated instruction, improving learning outcomes for high need populations, English Language Learners, Special Education, and middle schools.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW

REGISTRATION PROCESS *

Step 1: Login to ASPDP and register to the desired course(s) paying the appropriate course fee(s).

Step 2: Return to this page and register below with NaMaYa.

Step 3: An email confirmation with login information will be sent to you confirming your registration.

Register Now

CCLS PD on Lucy Calkins new book!

Pathways to the Common Core:

A Text Study with Application

In this 15 hour Professional Development opportunity, participants will read and discuss Pathways to the Common Core  by Lucy Calkins. They will explore the application of the Common Core Learning Standards for planning and instruction, and create their own lessons and units based on the CCLS for immediate instructional implementation.

Dates: Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 26, and Mar. 5, 2013

Time: 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Location: NYIT, Building 66, Room 236

        300 Carleton Ave. Central Islip

Instructor:  Carol Weintraub

Cost: Free!

Registration: Register by Jan. 22 online

   Pathways to the Common Core Registration

   http://tinyurl.com/btn236p

A copy of the book Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement

will be given to each participant to keep at the beginning of the first session.

Nassau BOCES Online Professional Development Courses - Registration ends November 30, 2012

Nassau BOCES has expanded our online professional development course catalog to include self-paced courses in addition to our high quality facilitated courses.

Nassau BOCES online courses range from 15-45 hours and span the PreK-12 curriculum.  Courses cover relevant topics such as Charlotte Danielson's Framework, incorporating the Common Core State Standards into ELA and math curriculums and using data to inform instruction.

Below is a list of our online courses.  Please visit our website (www.nassauboces.org/opd) for course descriptions and frequently asked questions.

All courses will begin December 11, 2012.  Participants must register before November 30, 2012 at www.mylearningplan.com.  Please visit the Nassau BOCES Distance Education Services website (www.nassauboces.org/opd) for more information.


FACILITATED COURSES
1 Inservice Credit/15 hours


Reading Across the Curriculum

Ethics for Education Professionals

Formative Assessment

Technology in the 21st Century Classroom


SELF-PACED COURSES
3 Inservice Credits/45 hours


Assessment and the Common Core State Standards

Character Education, Part I: Community and Cultural Change

Charlotte Danielson's A Framework for Teaching - Making the Most of Teacher Evaluation

Common Core State Standards in Math Grades 3-8

Data-Driven Decision Making: Implementing Strategies for Student Achievement

Differentiation and Assessment for Middle School

Differentiation and the Brain

Discovery-Based Mathematics, Part I: Real, Whole, and Negative Numbers

Discovery-Based Mathematics, Part II: Multiplication, Division, Fractions, and Decimals

Elementary Reading Strategies

Motivating and Engaging Students

Motivating Underachievers Using Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction

Setting the Stage for Teaching ELLs Across the Curriculum Part I

Setting the Stage for Teaching ELLs Across the Curriculum Part II

Supporting Struggling Students with Rigorous Instruction

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, K-5

Technology Applications for Teaching and Supporting the Struggling Reader

Understanding Culture and Race



For further information, contact Nassau BOCES at 516-608-6643 or visit our website at www.nassauboces.org/opd

SCOPE Professional Development Fall 2012 Registration

Register for SCOPE’s Professional Development Courses this fall. 

Online course catalog and register at Scope Online

Catalogs are also available in your school. 

Online classes begin on October 1st.

The 83rd Saturday Reunion

The 83rd Saturday Reunion

October 27, 2012
9:00 am - 3:00 pm


Join the TCRWP community as we open our doors to thousands of K-8 educators from around the world for more than 140 free workshops, keynotes and closings on state-of-the art methods in the teaching of reading, writing, performance assessments and the Common Core. The entire TCRWP staff will present on this day, including Lucy Calkins. Topics will include: argument writing, embedding historical fiction in nonfiction text sets, opinion writing for very young writers, managing workshop instruction, aligning instruction to the CCSS, using performance assessments and curriculum maps to ratchet up the level of teaching, phonics, guided reading, critical literacy, using video to teach comprehension, and more.


Major Speakers include:

Tony Wagner is the author of the critically important book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It. His other titles include: Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools, Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools, and the recently released Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World.

Jack Gantos, the 2012 Newbery Medal winner for his novel, Dead End in Norvelt, has written picture books, middle school fiction and novels for young adults. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key was a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control was a Newbery Honor book.
Carl Anderson is the author of many books on writing, including How's it Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers. His latest project is the series, Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations That Move Young Writers Forward.

Lucy Calkins is Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and the Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College. She is the author or co-author of more than 30 books, including the upcoming Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade: A Yearlong Workshop Curriculum (Heinemann, 2013). She is also co-author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5, and of Pathways to the Common Core.

Mary Ehrenworth, Deputy Director for Middle Schools at the Project, is co-author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5, of The Power of Grammar, and of the recently released Pathways to the Common Core. Mary also does major keynotes across the world.

Amanda Hartman, leader of the Project's K-2 work, is co-author of Authors as Mentors, The Conferring Handbook and of One-to-One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers. She has co-authored two books in the upcoming Units of Study for Teaching Writing.

Chris Lehman is author of A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, 5-8 and of the new book, Energize Research Reading and Writing (Heinemann).

Laurie Pessah, Senior Deputy Director of the Project, is co-author of Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports and of A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing. Laurie organizes all of the TCRWP's work with schools and has special responsibilities for leading the organization's work with principals and assistant principals.

Shanna Schwartz is author of Making Your Teaching Stick as well as a contributing author for Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade, a series due to be released in early 2013 (Heinemann). She supports other staff developers in primary literacy.

Kathleen Tolan, Senior Deputy Director of the Project, is co-author of five books in The Units of Study for Teaching Reading Series, as well as of Literary Essays in the forthcoming series, Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade (Heinemann, 2013). Kathleen leads the Project's work with reading and all of the organization's summer Institutes.


The Morning Keynote will be held at Riverside Church at 9:00 a.m.
490 Riverside Drive (between 120th and 122nd Streets)
The ensuing workshops will be held at Teachers College, 525 W.120th Street, NY 10027
No registration required. For more information, visit our website at: www.readingandwritingproject.com