The SCDN Statewide Framework Groups represent strategic bodies of work defined collaboratively by SCDN membership, the BOCES District Superintendents, and the New York State Education Department. The mission of SCDN Statewide Framework Groups is to strengthen the capacity of New York State school districts in their ability to successfully implement New York State Standards for all students.
SCDN Statewide Framework Groups are led by volunteer chairpersons and planned by a planning committee, all under the guidance and steering of the SCDN Executive Committee and the BOCES District Superintendents. Thank you to each of our Statewide Framework Chairpersons for your dedication to this work! Your volunteerism is appreciated.
Attendance at SCDN Statewide Framework Group functions is open to SCDN members with the intent to return resources and learning to local school districts via BOCES professional development experts.
SCDN Statewide Framework Groups are led by volunteer chairpersons and planned by a planning committee, all under the guidance and steering of the SCDN Executive Committee and the BOCES District Superintendents. Thank you to each of our Statewide Framework Chairpersons for your dedication to this work! Your volunteerism is appreciated.
Attendance at SCDN Statewide Framework Group functions is open to SCDN members with the intent to return resources and learning to local school districts via BOCES professional development experts.
2020-21 Statewide Framework Groups
Click on any SCDN Statewide Framework Group below to view group goals, session descriptions, and registration information.
Arts
Group Chairperson: Diane Lang, Orange-Ulster BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1: Communication, Collaboration, and Community Overview Course - Introduction to the Deconstructed Fall 2020 Conference
Registration:
August 28. 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582222
August 31, 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582256
September 15, 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582264
Date: 8/28, 8/31, 9/15; all sessions self-paced, 1 hour each
Location: Virtual, self-paced
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #2: Establishing Norms and Protocols in the Blended Arts Classrooms - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582343
Date: September 1, 2020, Live Webinar, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #3: Google Classroom and the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582305
Date: September 4, 2020, Live Webinar, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, 1 hour
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #4: Increasing Student Engagement in the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582412
Date: September 21, 2020, Live Webinar, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #5: Using NYSED Arts Learning Standards Professional Development Documents in Your Region - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582290
Date: September 22, 2020, Live Webinar, 8:30 am to 10: 00 am, 1.5 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #6: Communication, Collaboration, & Community: Supporting Students to Submit Work and Providing Feedback in the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582369
Date: October 5, 2020, Live Webinar, Time TBD, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #7
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582343
Date: 12/2-3
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Jaclyn Ellefsen and Jevina Lackan
Description: This session is designed to look at two district-wide case studies centered on embracing the NYS Arts Standards. Drawing insight from the case studies, participants will use standards documents to develop regional plans and supports for high-quality arts PL, instruction, and assessment. This session shines light on goals 2 and 3.
Meeting #8
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/catalog.asp?D=10304&M=&Term=SCDN+Art&btn_View=Search&StartDate=03%2F10%2F2021&EndDate=08%2F31%2F2022&Instructor=
Date: 4/12 and 4/14
Location: Online
Presenters: Dr. Mary Ann Reilly and Partners
Description: This session centers its focus on the arts and assessment (goal 3). Two lenses will be explored. Lens one will be that of the elementary classroom arts experience. Lens two will be that of specialist led instruction. Moving back and forth from these lenses participants will review a range of options for assessing and measuring arts skills, concepts, and content knowledge.
Meeting #9
Registration: TBA
Date: 6/2-3
Location: Orange-Ulster BOCES
Presenters: Nikki Redeker
Description: In an effort to address and marry goals 1, 2, and 3 this session will provide webinars and break out sessions to explore lighthouse classrooms where high quality arts instruction and assessment is under way. Using critical voices from the field of arts education research, we will develop PL modules centered on the research and the collection of lighthouse classroom videos.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Develop common understandings regarding the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts.
- Goal 2: Support the development of professional learning materials centered on the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts for live, blended, and remote teaching.
- Goal 3: Develop common understandings regarding the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts instructional topics and assessment topics.
Meeting #1: Communication, Collaboration, and Community Overview Course - Introduction to the Deconstructed Fall 2020 Conference
Registration:
August 28. 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582222
August 31, 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582256
September 15, 2020: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582264
Date: 8/28, 8/31, 9/15; all sessions self-paced, 1 hour each
Location: Virtual, self-paced
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #2: Establishing Norms and Protocols in the Blended Arts Classrooms - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582343
Date: September 1, 2020, Live Webinar, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #3: Google Classroom and the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582305
Date: September 4, 2020, Live Webinar, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, 1 hour
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #4: Increasing Student Engagement in the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582412
Date: September 21, 2020, Live Webinar, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #5: Using NYSED Arts Learning Standards Professional Development Documents in Your Region - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582290
Date: September 22, 2020, Live Webinar, 8:30 am to 10: 00 am, 1.5 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #6: Communication, Collaboration, & Community: Supporting Students to Submit Work and Providing Feedback in the Arts - Live Webinar
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582369
Date: October 5, 2020, Live Webinar, Time TBD, 2 hours
Location: Virtual
For more information, please email Elena Barnes (elena.barnes@ouboces.org)
Meeting #7
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10304&I=3582343
Date: 12/2-3
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Jaclyn Ellefsen and Jevina Lackan
Description: This session is designed to look at two district-wide case studies centered on embracing the NYS Arts Standards. Drawing insight from the case studies, participants will use standards documents to develop regional plans and supports for high-quality arts PL, instruction, and assessment. This session shines light on goals 2 and 3.
Meeting #8
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/catalog.asp?D=10304&M=&Term=SCDN+Art&btn_View=Search&StartDate=03%2F10%2F2021&EndDate=08%2F31%2F2022&Instructor=
Date: 4/12 and 4/14
Location: Online
Presenters: Dr. Mary Ann Reilly and Partners
Description: This session centers its focus on the arts and assessment (goal 3). Two lenses will be explored. Lens one will be that of the elementary classroom arts experience. Lens two will be that of specialist led instruction. Moving back and forth from these lenses participants will review a range of options for assessing and measuring arts skills, concepts, and content knowledge.
Meeting #9
Registration: TBA
Date: 6/2-3
Location: Orange-Ulster BOCES
Presenters: Nikki Redeker
Description: In an effort to address and marry goals 1, 2, and 3 this session will provide webinars and break out sessions to explore lighthouse classrooms where high quality arts instruction and assessment is under way. Using critical voices from the field of arts education research, we will develop PL modules centered on the research and the collection of lighthouse classroom videos.
Early learning
Group Chairperson: Erica Case, Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524675
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020; 10am-3pm (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen, Bright Morning Consultant
Description: In collaboration with the SEL and TLE statewide frameworks, we will work on understanding the habits and dispositions of resilient educators and spend time looking deeper to build awareness and understanding of our own emotions as we look to lead this rewarding and challenging work as educators.
Meeting #2
Registration: TBA
Date: August 18, 2020; 10am-2pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: As a statewide group we will consider our new learning from the previous week around resilience and our role in supporting early learning educators moving forward.
We will then move our attention to the work of supporting teachers as they begin to consider how to approach instruction. A focus will be on social emotional needs and academic needs. We will utilize ACEs best practices and consider developing a process to prioritizing learning standards in the P-3 classroom.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3590340
Date: September 15 & 16, 2020; 9am-11:30am (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Tracy Galuski & Dr. Mary Ellen Bardsley
Description: Participants will engage in professional development to better understand high quality assessment practices in the early grades (PreK-3) including the role and types of assessment (authentic assessment, formative assessment, etc.) what assessment looks like in the early grades, and how assessment informs instructional practice.
Meeting #4
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3678935
Date: December 8; 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Kristie Kauerz
Description: During this session we will begin to consider adult learning and mindset led by Dr. Kristie Kauerz. We will also begin to consider instructional approaches in early learning, specifically during a global crisis. Findings from this session will be used to further develop our next meeting time.
Meeting #5
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3678936
Dates: February 23 & 24; 10:30am-12:00pm (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Kristie Kauerz; Director of the National P-3 Center
Description: Dr. Kauerz will move the group deeper into developmental domains and bridge the gap between learning standards, DAP, and play. The goal of this time is to further the group's understanding of developmental domains and how that can be used by teachers to make sound instructional decisions.
Meeting #6
Registration: www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3776866
Date: 5/11-12
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Stephanie Smyka
Description: Stephanie Smyka will be joining us on the first day to lead us through a discussion around the whole language and phonics instructional approaches in early childhood education. The second day we will do some collaborative work to consider what this means for our statewide group and how we can support our state educators.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Develop participant capacity to understand and support districts with the role of play in Early Childhood Classrooms.
- Goal 2: Develop an understanding of the role of appropriate assessment, in an academic and social emotional lens as it relates to early learning.
- Goal 3: Consider instructional practices, specifically around play, developmental appropriateness, and reading instruction, utilizing documents from NYSED, Early Learning Advisory Council, and evidenced based research to develop common messaging.
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524675
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020; 10am-3pm (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen, Bright Morning Consultant
Description: In collaboration with the SEL and TLE statewide frameworks, we will work on understanding the habits and dispositions of resilient educators and spend time looking deeper to build awareness and understanding of our own emotions as we look to lead this rewarding and challenging work as educators.
Meeting #2
Registration: TBA
Date: August 18, 2020; 10am-2pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: As a statewide group we will consider our new learning from the previous week around resilience and our role in supporting early learning educators moving forward.
We will then move our attention to the work of supporting teachers as they begin to consider how to approach instruction. A focus will be on social emotional needs and academic needs. We will utilize ACEs best practices and consider developing a process to prioritizing learning standards in the P-3 classroom.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3590340
Date: September 15 & 16, 2020; 9am-11:30am (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Tracy Galuski & Dr. Mary Ellen Bardsley
Description: Participants will engage in professional development to better understand high quality assessment practices in the early grades (PreK-3) including the role and types of assessment (authentic assessment, formative assessment, etc.) what assessment looks like in the early grades, and how assessment informs instructional practice.
Meeting #4
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3678935
Date: December 8; 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Kristie Kauerz
Description: During this session we will begin to consider adult learning and mindset led by Dr. Kristie Kauerz. We will also begin to consider instructional approaches in early learning, specifically during a global crisis. Findings from this session will be used to further develop our next meeting time.
Meeting #5
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3678936
Dates: February 23 & 24; 10:30am-12:00pm (both days)
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Dr. Kristie Kauerz; Director of the National P-3 Center
Description: Dr. Kauerz will move the group deeper into developmental domains and bridge the gap between learning standards, DAP, and play. The goal of this time is to further the group's understanding of developmental domains and how that can be used by teachers to make sound instructional decisions.
Meeting #6
Registration: www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3776866
Date: 5/11-12
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Stephanie Smyka
Description: Stephanie Smyka will be joining us on the first day to lead us through a discussion around the whole language and phonics instructional approaches in early childhood education. The second day we will do some collaborative work to consider what this means for our statewide group and how we can support our state educators.
English language arts
Group Chairperson: Patrick Whipple, Genesee Valley BOCES & Kathryn Bailey, Broome-Tioga BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3624819
Date: October 22, 2020; 9am-12pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Kathryn Bailey & Patrick Whipple
Description: The ELA PD Framework Steering Committee will facilitate a structured debrief session for each of the book study texts. Additionally, there will be a large group discussion to draw out commonalities and differences amongst the texts. Book Study: All PD Framework participants will receive all texts, but each individual will participate in only one study.
Meeting #2
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3667533
Date: November 19, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: The purpose of this virtual event is to continue our book study focused on the area of writing. We will continue our debrief in small group zooms and come together to share major findings. We will begin in our small group, respective book studies, and facilitators will share out their Zoom links to their groups in advance of this session. We will then come together as a whole group to hear updates from professor and author, Steve Graham, and to begin to identify specifics topics we want to explore further at our January 2021 Statewide ELA session.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=18433&I=3700730
Date: January 21-22, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Teams will work together to create sessions of professional learning based on the book study texts in an effort to meet the goals articulated above.
Meeting #4
Registration: TBA
Date: March 15, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: On March 15th we will host a virtual conference open to any educator in NYS. The theme of the conference will be evidence based writing instruction. The conference will consist of a number of sessions, focused on various aspects of writing instruction: instructional strategies to support the writing process, explicit instruction in foundational writing skills, processes for feedback, and attending to purpose and audience.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Understand and implement evidence-based instructional writing practices emphasizing planning, drafting, and revising through the lens of explicit instruction.
- Goal 2: Understand and implement evidence-based instructional writing practices emphasizing foundational writing and sentence construction skills through the lens of explicit instruction.
- Goal 3: Research and develop systematic processes for continuous feedback for students regarding their writing.
- Goal 4: Ensure that the concept of purpose-- authenticity, varied, audience-- are clearly attended to throughout writing instruction.
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3624819
Date: October 22, 2020; 9am-12pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Kathryn Bailey & Patrick Whipple
Description: The ELA PD Framework Steering Committee will facilitate a structured debrief session for each of the book study texts. Additionally, there will be a large group discussion to draw out commonalities and differences amongst the texts. Book Study: All PD Framework participants will receive all texts, but each individual will participate in only one study.
Meeting #2
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3667533
Date: November 19, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: The purpose of this virtual event is to continue our book study focused on the area of writing. We will continue our debrief in small group zooms and come together to share major findings. We will begin in our small group, respective book studies, and facilitators will share out their Zoom links to their groups in advance of this session. We will then come together as a whole group to hear updates from professor and author, Steve Graham, and to begin to identify specifics topics we want to explore further at our January 2021 Statewide ELA session.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=18433&I=3700730
Date: January 21-22, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Teams will work together to create sessions of professional learning based on the book study texts in an effort to meet the goals articulated above.
Meeting #4
Registration: TBA
Date: March 15, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: On March 15th we will host a virtual conference open to any educator in NYS. The theme of the conference will be evidence based writing instruction. The conference will consist of a number of sessions, focused on various aspects of writing instruction: instructional strategies to support the writing process, explicit instruction in foundational writing skills, processes for feedback, and attending to purpose and audience.
Mathematics
Group Chairperson: Jessica Sheridan, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: To support teachers and leaders as they work to identify and address students' math learning gaps caused by the move to emergency remote learning.
- Goal 2: To continue to build teacher capacity for the Next Generation Math Learning Standards to ensure all educators are ready for full implementation by Fall 2021.
- Goal 3: To continue to build teacher capacity for the Next Generation Math Learning Standards by supporting development of local assessments aligned to NGLS.
- Goal 4: To model and create resources to support our group's ability to provide online/virtual professional development.
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=18662&I=3563859
Date: 8/20-21
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: During the May 2020 Math Statewide Framework meeting, participants were charged with joining a subcommittee. Subcommittees will work virtually over the summer on either a Planning for Learning Gaps document or a Building Capacity for NGMLS asynchronous online course. Members that joined the Planning for Learning Gaps document subcommittee will divide and conquer by grade bands. Each grade band group will review the mathematical concepts that were taught during the months of emergency remote learning, as well as the main priority standards for that grade level. Once identified, subcommittee members will create differentiated resource banks for the coherence standards that support/extend the main learning concepts (standards) of each grade level. The intent is to best support teachers' understanding for how to weave that concept (from the prior grade) into the teaching for the current year. The foundation for this work comes from Bill McCallum's Common Core progression documents and Achieve the Core's math standards coherence maps. This resource will support teachers as they work to close student learning gaps. Participants that choose Building Capacity for NGLMS will split into two groups, elementary and secondary. They will work to transform the full day in-person session (that was created by the Math Statewide Framework group in 2019-20) into an asynchronous online course that will be available for any educator across NYS to access. During the actual August (Meeting #1), subcommittees will share out their work and the full group will review to ensure accuracy and vertical alignment. Time in August will also be given to create resources to support the move to virtual professional development. This resource library would be available for all SCDN members to access to then create virtual PD for their own region. Time will also be given for a NYSED update from our Math Representatives.
Meeting #2
Registration: TBA
Date: 11/5
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: This half-day session will feature national math consultant, Graham Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher is known for his work with 3-Act Math Tasks and Mathematical Progressions. Through this experience, participants will learn how to provide teachers with new ideas for how to best engage with students of varying ability levels. Plan A is for this session to be in person as it precedes the statewide AMTNYS Conference that many of our members hope to attend and lead breakout sessions. If needed, we will move this to a virtual session. We are in talks currently with the presenter to ensure that he will still be able to meet our needs through an online environment. We are also in talks with him about holding it in-person for those that can attend along with a live streamline for that cannot attend in person.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?I=3692349&D=18662
Date: 1/7-8
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Participants will be introduced and learn from representatives from the NYSED Office of State Assessment. OSA will explain the work being done to create balanced and equitable assessments, as well as how performance level descriptions play into this work (what are performance level descriptions; how are they developed and used in assessments; how can they be used for instruction). Statewide members will be able to ask questions to the team and will then be given time to create protocols or workshop materials intended for turnkey use within each of their respective BOCES regions. Time will also be given for an update from our NYSED Math Representatives. In the event that someone from the Office of State Assessment is not available to lead this work with us, then we will look to bring in a national math assessment consultant to focus on standards-based assessment and feedback.
Meeting #4
Virtual Conference Website and Registration: https://sites.google.com/e1b.org/math-sci-virtual-conference-21/home
Date: 5/19-20
Virtual Statewide Framework Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=18662&I=3773159
Date: 5/21
Description: On May 19th and 20th, the Math Statewide team will host a Virtual Conference open to any educator from across NYS (and even across the country). We will model this event after our May 14, 2020 Math/Science Virtual Conference. There will be hour long session blocks throughout the course of the two days, with each session block having multiple sessions to choose from. We are expanding from one to two days so that some sessions can be run more than once and so that teachers and administrators have greater accessibility to join. On May 21st the full Statewide Framework team will meet virtually to debrief the Conference, hear updates from our NYSED Math representatives and finalize meeting plans for the 2021-2022 school year.
Science
Group Chairs: Amanda Zullo, Champlain Valley Educational Services & Laura Lehtonen, Capital Region BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1
Registration: TBA
Date: August 20, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Presenters will be specifically asked to help the group understand how to support teachers in shifting instruction to be more equitable, helping educators to leverage best practices in three-dimensional teaching and learning. The focus will be on determining methods for what knowledge students are coming in with and for helping teachers adjust/adapt instruction. The first (1 hour) session will focus on general online instruction practices and will be provided by a few teachers, in a panel format, recommended from BOCES. Hour two will have classroom teachers sharing how to design and hold discussions within the science classroom; this will also be provided by a panel of educators who are identified by BOCES representatives. A session may include online learning instruction experts. The group will break into smaller work groups to focus on developing usable professional learning resources to work with us on helping teachers to integrate and use their free materials.
Meeting #2
Registration: TBA
Date: September
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Hold a combined math and science virtual event; building off the event that was held May 14th. SCDN frameworks members will present; invitations to attend + registration will be sent out to all districts. The goal will be to leverage and operationalize content specific learning that has taken place to date to support schools in continuing to build capacity so that all students are set up to achieve proficiency on the new learning standards.
Meeting #3
Registration: TBA
Date: November-March
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Each group will meet online roughly three times for ~1-2 hours each meeting. Reflection on items developed and used in the last meeting will occur. Members will opt to work on resource curation + vetting; taking the Stanford SNAP Course (a course designed for vetting/developing formative assessment aligned to 3-d instruction) + developing/collating formative assessment activities aligned to NYSSLS; or building professional learning resources from existing items. Curation and vetting will include utilizing/building a protocol/process, a description of methods and online shared folders that contain resources + a table of contents. The curation group may choose to build Schoology courses that all within the Frameworks groups could access. The formative assessment group will begin to develop/collate activities that align to NYSSLS. The professional learning resources will be built for the ELL documents, special education documents, ELA/Math resources that may be posted/available/shared. Materials will be shared via a shared folder.
Meeting #4
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3729858
Date: March 1-2, 2021; 9:00-3:30 each day
Location: Virtual
Presenters: WestEd
Description: Group members will work with WestEd to analyze instructional shifts to create a common BOCES vision for science. In addition, members will analyze findings from the surveys to build an understanding of the state of science across the BOCES with the intended outcome of articulating high-leverage strategies for improving science learning.
Meeting #5
Registration: TBA
Date: May 11-12, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Sessions offered will be built from the learning that has taken place throughout the year. Materials for the sessions will be shared with participants and within the Schoology group.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Increase opportunities for district professional learning (online + in person).
- Goal 2: Resource curation and vetting.
- Goal 3: Increasing the connection and integration of science with other subjects (ELA + Math are priorities)
- Goal 4: Development of formative assessments aligned to 3-dimensional teaching and learning.
Meeting #1
Registration: TBA
Date: August 20, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Presenters will be specifically asked to help the group understand how to support teachers in shifting instruction to be more equitable, helping educators to leverage best practices in three-dimensional teaching and learning. The focus will be on determining methods for what knowledge students are coming in with and for helping teachers adjust/adapt instruction. The first (1 hour) session will focus on general online instruction practices and will be provided by a few teachers, in a panel format, recommended from BOCES. Hour two will have classroom teachers sharing how to design and hold discussions within the science classroom; this will also be provided by a panel of educators who are identified by BOCES representatives. A session may include online learning instruction experts. The group will break into smaller work groups to focus on developing usable professional learning resources to work with us on helping teachers to integrate and use their free materials.
Meeting #2
Registration: TBA
Date: September
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Hold a combined math and science virtual event; building off the event that was held May 14th. SCDN frameworks members will present; invitations to attend + registration will be sent out to all districts. The goal will be to leverage and operationalize content specific learning that has taken place to date to support schools in continuing to build capacity so that all students are set up to achieve proficiency on the new learning standards.
Meeting #3
Registration: TBA
Date: November-March
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Each group will meet online roughly three times for ~1-2 hours each meeting. Reflection on items developed and used in the last meeting will occur. Members will opt to work on resource curation + vetting; taking the Stanford SNAP Course (a course designed for vetting/developing formative assessment aligned to 3-d instruction) + developing/collating formative assessment activities aligned to NYSSLS; or building professional learning resources from existing items. Curation and vetting will include utilizing/building a protocol/process, a description of methods and online shared folders that contain resources + a table of contents. The curation group may choose to build Schoology courses that all within the Frameworks groups could access. The formative assessment group will begin to develop/collate activities that align to NYSSLS. The professional learning resources will be built for the ELL documents, special education documents, ELA/Math resources that may be posted/available/shared. Materials will be shared via a shared folder.
Meeting #4
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13606&I=3729858
Date: March 1-2, 2021; 9:00-3:30 each day
Location: Virtual
Presenters: WestEd
Description: Group members will work with WestEd to analyze instructional shifts to create a common BOCES vision for science. In addition, members will analyze findings from the surveys to build an understanding of the state of science across the BOCES with the intended outcome of articulating high-leverage strategies for improving science learning.
Meeting #5
Registration: TBA
Date: May 11-12, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Sessions offered will be built from the learning that has taken place throughout the year. Materials for the sessions will be shared with participants and within the Schoology group.
social emotional learning
Group Chairperson: Sarah Vakkas, GST BOCES & Beth Dryer, GST BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1
Registration: Please RSVP for sessions to Kate Taylor, ktaylor@gstboces.org. Please provide her your name, BOCES/District and email. If CTLE credit is needed please specify this as well. Again a link to these trainings will be sent following your registration.
Date: July 21, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: CASEL to present on their newly developed Leadership Re-Entry Toolkit. This session will introduce their toolkit for implementation of SEL that will support immediate planning needs for re-entry in the fall.
Meeting Recording: https://E2CCB-GST.zoom.us/rec/share/xepLHZ_XpkFLHaPL8B7uau09I9vcaaa8gXdK-vRbnx7Ukw1nZJllE7OH2gu9ikg5
Password: iPx4NV2?
Note - You must be logged into Zoom on your computer before you can see the shared video. Even if you were logged into the app, you would still need to log into your browser.
Meeting #2
Registration: Please RSVP for sessions to Kate Taylor, ktaylor@gstboces.org. Please provide her your name, BOCES/District and email. If CTLE credit is needed please specify this as well. Again a link to these trainings will be sent following your registration.
Date: August 3, 10, 24, & 31, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Chris Merle
Description: Weekly sessions with Chris Merle, presenter of You First! training. Chris will host virtual sessions on the topic of Transitioning Back to the Classroom, while Preparing to Go Back Online at any Moment. There will be a series of 4 sessions – 90 minutes each, focusing on Building Relationships & Creating Community, Encouraging Independence and Student Voice, Maximizing Classroom Discussions, and Increasing Accountability & Engagement.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524718
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen
Description: Cultivating Emotional Resilience workshop will take place on August 11 and 13 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST for each of these days. We also will have office hours from 10:00 am-11:00 am on Wednesday August 12 and Friday August 14.
Education is a physically and emotionally demanding field, and successful educators must develop their own resilience in order to thrive. This workshop will provide you with the tools to do just that. Participants will explore the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in Elena Aguilar's Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators. They'll spend time learning about themselves and develop a deeper awareness and understanding of their emotions. They'll use this to help them to recognize entry points into cultivating resilience in themselves and those they serve through learning and practicing a variety of methods to boost the resilience of those they coach, teach, lead and support. As participants boost their resilience, they will discover they have the energy to do the challenging work that is required of educators.
Meeting #4
Registration: TBA
Date: October 8, 2020; 9-12pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Chris Merle
Description: Chris Merle will join us again to present virtually on Strategies to Support SEL, Classroom Management & Engagement in an Online Environment. This three hour session will explore the challenges of our virtual environment and explores strategies to help overcome some of those challenges. This session is open to SEL framework participants, no cost for attending.
Meeting #5
Registration: TBA
Date: January 28-29, 2021; 2 session each day 10am - 11:30am & 1pm - 2:30pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Nick Yoder & Jakotora Tjoutuku
Description: The partnership purpose is to
Meeting #6
Registration: TBA
Date: March 29-30, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Pat Conner, CASEL Implementing SEL and Reviewing Outcomes
Description: We are currently planning this session to include how to use data to measure impact of SEL implementation strategies/efforts; Continue focus on instruction. This session is open to SEL framework participants, no cost for attending. This session is currently planned for in-person attendance at Capital Region BOCES.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Strengthen/cultivate adult SEL competencies and capacity (knowledge, mindsets, and skills).
- Goal 2. Develop common understandings regarding the SEL Competencies, Goals & Benchmarks for all NYS schools.
- Goal 3: Develop common understandings and shared utilizations of the SEL resources provided by experts in the field in addition to NYSED & CASEL.
- Goal 4: Develop common understanding of Whole School Implementation of SEL -- universal approach within a multi-tiered system of supports.
Meeting #1
Registration: Please RSVP for sessions to Kate Taylor, ktaylor@gstboces.org. Please provide her your name, BOCES/District and email. If CTLE credit is needed please specify this as well. Again a link to these trainings will be sent following your registration.
Date: July 21, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: CASEL to present on their newly developed Leadership Re-Entry Toolkit. This session will introduce their toolkit for implementation of SEL that will support immediate planning needs for re-entry in the fall.
Meeting Recording: https://E2CCB-GST.zoom.us/rec/share/xepLHZ_XpkFLHaPL8B7uau09I9vcaaa8gXdK-vRbnx7Ukw1nZJllE7OH2gu9ikg5
Password: iPx4NV2?
Note - You must be logged into Zoom on your computer before you can see the shared video. Even if you were logged into the app, you would still need to log into your browser.
Meeting #2
Registration: Please RSVP for sessions to Kate Taylor, ktaylor@gstboces.org. Please provide her your name, BOCES/District and email. If CTLE credit is needed please specify this as well. Again a link to these trainings will be sent following your registration.
Date: August 3, 10, 24, & 31, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Chris Merle
Description: Weekly sessions with Chris Merle, presenter of You First! training. Chris will host virtual sessions on the topic of Transitioning Back to the Classroom, while Preparing to Go Back Online at any Moment. There will be a series of 4 sessions – 90 minutes each, focusing on Building Relationships & Creating Community, Encouraging Independence and Student Voice, Maximizing Classroom Discussions, and Increasing Accountability & Engagement.
Meeting #3
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524718
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen
Description: Cultivating Emotional Resilience workshop will take place on August 11 and 13 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST for each of these days. We also will have office hours from 10:00 am-11:00 am on Wednesday August 12 and Friday August 14.
Education is a physically and emotionally demanding field, and successful educators must develop their own resilience in order to thrive. This workshop will provide you with the tools to do just that. Participants will explore the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in Elena Aguilar's Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators. They'll spend time learning about themselves and develop a deeper awareness and understanding of their emotions. They'll use this to help them to recognize entry points into cultivating resilience in themselves and those they serve through learning and practicing a variety of methods to boost the resilience of those they coach, teach, lead and support. As participants boost their resilience, they will discover they have the energy to do the challenging work that is required of educators.
Meeting #4
Registration: TBA
Date: October 8, 2020; 9-12pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Chris Merle
Description: Chris Merle will join us again to present virtually on Strategies to Support SEL, Classroom Management & Engagement in an Online Environment. This three hour session will explore the challenges of our virtual environment and explores strategies to help overcome some of those challenges. This session is open to SEL framework participants, no cost for attending.
Meeting #5
Registration: TBA
Date: January 28-29, 2021; 2 session each day 10am - 11:30am & 1pm - 2:30pm
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Nick Yoder & Jakotora Tjoutuku
Description: The partnership purpose is to
- invite educators to explore and collaboratively analyze/investigate the Harmony Curriculum as an SEL evidence-based program (P-6) that supports a range of student outcomes.
- invite educators to explore and collaboratively analyze/investigate Inspire Teaching and Learning resources to inform their own professional learning development and to facilitate the sharing of resources with other educators across NYS.
- Collaboratively analyze units of study within the Harmony curricula (p-6) in order to help educators:
- identify key characteristics of evidence-based programs and practices (EBPs);
- build a shared understanding of desired SEL instructional processes/practices (i.e., active forms of learning; explicit SEL goals; formative assessment practices;);
- deepen understanding of developmentally-appropriate practice with explicit linkage to NYS SEL learning benchmarks (linked here);
- select/create performance-based tasks and name associated criteria to monitor student growth/outcomes.
- Continue vertical alignment conversation/investigation through grades 7-12 via Meet Up & Buddy Up, Inspire resources, and/or the 10 SEL Teaching Practices.
- Define the characteristics of the remote learning environment and attendant contextual factors that are impeding/advancing student learning of SEL competencies, etc.
Meeting #6
Registration: TBA
Date: March 29-30, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Pat Conner, CASEL Implementing SEL and Reviewing Outcomes
Description: We are currently planning this session to include how to use data to measure impact of SEL implementation strategies/efforts; Continue focus on instruction. This session is open to SEL framework participants, no cost for attending. This session is currently planned for in-person attendance at Capital Region BOCES.
social studies
Group Chairperson: Patricia Walsh, Broome-Tioga BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3579552
Date: September 17-18, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Day One: Updates from NYSED, Launch Book Study, Collaborative work with supporting Civics, and best practices with blended learning. Day Two: Participant identified work groups based on field needs.
Meeting #2
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3696698
Date: February 4-5, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Daniel Braunfeld and team members from Facing History
Description: Join us on February 4 & 5 for work with Daniel Braunfeld and team members from Facing History. We will receive updates from NYSED re: Civic Readiness work and the upcoming opportunity for select districts to pilot in 21-22 and we will convene workgroups to prepare materials for the field. A more detailed agenda and links for accessing zoom will be provided to registrants prior to the session.
Meeting #3
Registration: TBA
Date: April 21, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Description of Event: Collaborate virtually using online conferencing platform ; NYSED updates; book study discussion; 2021-22 future-planning.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Create/Curate NYS Social Studies Framework and Practices aligned products and resources to support high quality social studies learning K-1.
- Goal 2: Support the Field with the transitioning to the Grade 10 and Grade 11 Framework aligned Regents Examinations.
- Goal 3: Collaborate with NYSED and other professional social studies organizations.
- Goal 4 : Design and Facilitate high quality adult learning for S/CDN Social Studies Framework participants.
Meeting #1
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3579552
Date: September 17-18, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Day One: Updates from NYSED, Launch Book Study, Collaborative work with supporting Civics, and best practices with blended learning. Day Two: Participant identified work groups based on field needs.
Meeting #2
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=14861&I=3696698
Date: February 4-5, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Daniel Braunfeld and team members from Facing History
Description: Join us on February 4 & 5 for work with Daniel Braunfeld and team members from Facing History. We will receive updates from NYSED re: Civic Readiness work and the upcoming opportunity for select districts to pilot in 21-22 and we will convene workgroups to prepare materials for the field. A more detailed agenda and links for accessing zoom will be provided to registrants prior to the session.
Meeting #3
Registration: TBA
Date: April 21, 2021
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: Description of Event: Collaborate virtually using online conferencing platform ; NYSED updates; book study discussion; 2021-22 future-planning.
teacher leaders effectiveness
Group Chairperson: Steve Graser, Erie 1 BOCES
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
Meeting #1: Overview to APPR
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524471
Please contact Elvie Mertz, emertz@e1b.org if you have any difficulty registering.
Date: July 15, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Alex Trikalinos, Office of Educator Quality
Description: Alex Trikalinos will be providing an overview on guidance related to the executive order for APPR on July 15, 2020 from 8:30 am - 11 am. Link to participate will be provided to all registered participants 48 hours prior to the session.
Meeting #2: Introduction to Having Uncomfortable Conversations: Race, Culture, Equity, and Anti-Racism in the Classroom
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524525
Please contact Elvie Mertz, emertz@e1b.org if you have any difficulty registering.
Date: July 23, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Multiple Speakers
Description: Social media and the current protests of the unlawful and unjust treatment that occurs to individuals based on race is sounding an alarm that we can no longer ignore as educators. As educators, we will be asked by our students and perhaps our colleagues how and why we as a country have landed in this hurtful place. In order for us to answer these tough questions, it is important for us to realize the factors at play. The United States has a deep history of racism and oppression, and while some progress has been made, explicit and implicit racism still exist in our communities and ultimately in our schools. Angela Davis said it best when she said, "In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist". Deconstructing implicit biases, preconceived notions about race, culture and language is important for work for educators. So too, is actively advocating against racial injustice. In order to safely engage your students and colleagues in these conversations educators need to be cognizant and informed of the fundamental issues related to it. Creating purposeful, restorative and healing dialogues on race helps in better equipping our students and colleagues in fighting injustices. Systematic change is a must in creating the educational equity that marginalized communities deserve, and educated conversations can be the first steps to making that change. This session will offer educators practical advice for starting conversations on race, culture, equity and anti-racism.
Meeting #3 : Cultivating Emotional Resilience
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524573
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen
Description: Cultivating Emotional Resilience workshop will take place on August 11 and 13 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST for each of these days. We also will have office hours from 10:00 am-11:00 am on Wednesday August 12 and Friday August 14.
Education is a physically and emotionally demanding field, and successful educators must develop their own resilience in order to thrive. This workshop will provide you with the tools to do just that. Participants will explore the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in Elena Aguilar's Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators. They'll spend time learning about themselves and develop a deeper awareness and understanding of their emotions. They'll use this to help them to recognize entry points into cultivating resilience in themselves and those they serve through learning and practicing a variety of methods to boost the resilience of those they coach, teach, lead and support. As participants boost their resilience, they will discover they have the energy to do the challenging work that is required of educators.
Meeting #4 : From Conversation to Practice: Implementing Anti-Racist Practice in the Classroom in Support of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3526996
Date: September 24, 2020; 9:00-11:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Ebony Bullock
Description: Similar to what Angela Davis said, in his book How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi writes, "The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' " One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist'" (p. 9). It is imperative that today's educators actively work to dismantle barriers within their context, content and pedagogy that perpetuate race-based inequities for students from marginalized communities. This may mean a complete overhaul and dismissing of any curriculum resource, lesson, or practice that does not explicitly respect the humanity and dignity of all people. This session will offer educators practical advice in operationalizing the tough conversations their communities are having about race, culture, equity and anti-racism.
Meeting #5: Teacher Evaluation in Virtual Spaces
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3607083
Date: October 7; 8:30-11:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Mike Fisher, Jessica Karches, and Kim Louttit
Description: As we launch into this year of many unknowns, we need to find creative and effective ways to engage in professional feedback and teacher evaluation. In this session, participants will look at considerations for online learning, engage in scenarios to practice evidence collection, and participate in opportunities to score several scenarios to calibrate inter-rater agreement. Included in this workshop is access to Danielson's updated Framework for Remote Teaching.
Meeting #6: Leading for Equity through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3624577
Date: November 19; 1:00-2:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lynn Allen and Andrew Ecker
Description: "While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism, build cross-cultural relationships, and cultivate adult and student practices that close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community. In doing so, schools can promote high-quality educational opportunities and outcomes for all students, irrespective of race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences.” (CASEL, 2020)
Participants will (a) practice leadership strategies for leveraging SEL to promote equitable student outcomes, (b) identify professional learning activities that grow capacity at various levels in this work, and (c) share how this work might, or might not, be applicable for themselves and the collective.
Presenting will be Dr. Lynn Allen, Assistant Superintendent, PNW BOCES; Dr. Andrew Ecker, Coordinator of the Guidance & Child Study Center; and Jackie Levine, Coordinator of School Leadership & Marketing Services.
The Zoom Link to participate will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours prior to the session.
Meeting #7: Effective Instruction in a Remote Environment
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3632672
Date: December 15
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Maria Sommer, Director of Curriculum and Instructional Support Services, Sullivan BOCES
Description: This workshop will be a consensus workshop utilizing Technology of Participation protocols. The aim of the workshop is to build shared knowledge and understanding of the elements necessary for effective instruction in a remote environment and where those elements can be found in the Teaching and Learning Standards and the various teacher effectiveness rubrics.
Meeting #8
Registration Link for March 25: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3728878
Registration Link for March 26: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3729014
Date: March 25-26, 2021; 8:30-3:00 each day
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: TLE's third annual professional learning conference. NYSED and SCDN Framework members will provide proposals and facilitate professional development sessions aligned to PSEL. Link to draft schedule.
The S/CDN Statewide Learning Team will focus on these goals:
- Goal 1: Work closely with NYSED Office on Educator Quality on any new regulations and guidance related to APPR. Create resources to provide professional development to local districts.
- Goal 2: Create professional development resources addressing PSEL with a focus on SEL, Equity, and Feedback.
- Goal 3: Create a best practice process to facilitate professional development concerning leadership topics using remote learning tools.
- Goal 4: Continue to foster learning and shared resources between BOCES across the state and the Big 5.
Meeting #1: Overview to APPR
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524471
Please contact Elvie Mertz, emertz@e1b.org if you have any difficulty registering.
Date: July 15, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Alex Trikalinos, Office of Educator Quality
Description: Alex Trikalinos will be providing an overview on guidance related to the executive order for APPR on July 15, 2020 from 8:30 am - 11 am. Link to participate will be provided to all registered participants 48 hours prior to the session.
Meeting #2: Introduction to Having Uncomfortable Conversations: Race, Culture, Equity, and Anti-Racism in the Classroom
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524525
Please contact Elvie Mertz, emertz@e1b.org if you have any difficulty registering.
Date: July 23, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Multiple Speakers
Description: Social media and the current protests of the unlawful and unjust treatment that occurs to individuals based on race is sounding an alarm that we can no longer ignore as educators. As educators, we will be asked by our students and perhaps our colleagues how and why we as a country have landed in this hurtful place. In order for us to answer these tough questions, it is important for us to realize the factors at play. The United States has a deep history of racism and oppression, and while some progress has been made, explicit and implicit racism still exist in our communities and ultimately in our schools. Angela Davis said it best when she said, "In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist". Deconstructing implicit biases, preconceived notions about race, culture and language is important for work for educators. So too, is actively advocating against racial injustice. In order to safely engage your students and colleagues in these conversations educators need to be cognizant and informed of the fundamental issues related to it. Creating purposeful, restorative and healing dialogues on race helps in better equipping our students and colleagues in fighting injustices. Systematic change is a must in creating the educational equity that marginalized communities deserve, and educated conversations can be the first steps to making that change. This session will offer educators practical advice for starting conversations on race, culture, equity and anti-racism.
Meeting #3 : Cultivating Emotional Resilience
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3524573
Date: August 11 & 13, 2020
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lori Cohen
Description: Cultivating Emotional Resilience workshop will take place on August 11 and 13 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST for each of these days. We also will have office hours from 10:00 am-11:00 am on Wednesday August 12 and Friday August 14.
Education is a physically and emotionally demanding field, and successful educators must develop their own resilience in order to thrive. This workshop will provide you with the tools to do just that. Participants will explore the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in Elena Aguilar's Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators. They'll spend time learning about themselves and develop a deeper awareness and understanding of their emotions. They'll use this to help them to recognize entry points into cultivating resilience in themselves and those they serve through learning and practicing a variety of methods to boost the resilience of those they coach, teach, lead and support. As participants boost their resilience, they will discover they have the energy to do the challenging work that is required of educators.
Meeting #4 : From Conversation to Practice: Implementing Anti-Racist Practice in the Classroom in Support of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3526996
Date: September 24, 2020; 9:00-11:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Ebony Bullock
Description: Similar to what Angela Davis said, in his book How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi writes, "The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' " One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist'" (p. 9). It is imperative that today's educators actively work to dismantle barriers within their context, content and pedagogy that perpetuate race-based inequities for students from marginalized communities. This may mean a complete overhaul and dismissing of any curriculum resource, lesson, or practice that does not explicitly respect the humanity and dignity of all people. This session will offer educators practical advice in operationalizing the tough conversations their communities are having about race, culture, equity and anti-racism.
Meeting #5: Teacher Evaluation in Virtual Spaces
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3607083
Date: October 7; 8:30-11:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Mike Fisher, Jessica Karches, and Kim Louttit
Description: As we launch into this year of many unknowns, we need to find creative and effective ways to engage in professional feedback and teacher evaluation. In this session, participants will look at considerations for online learning, engage in scenarios to practice evidence collection, and participate in opportunities to score several scenarios to calibrate inter-rater agreement. Included in this workshop is access to Danielson's updated Framework for Remote Teaching.
Meeting #6: Leading for Equity through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3624577
Date: November 19; 1:00-2:30
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Lynn Allen and Andrew Ecker
Description: "While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism, build cross-cultural relationships, and cultivate adult and student practices that close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community. In doing so, schools can promote high-quality educational opportunities and outcomes for all students, irrespective of race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences.” (CASEL, 2020)
Participants will (a) practice leadership strategies for leveraging SEL to promote equitable student outcomes, (b) identify professional learning activities that grow capacity at various levels in this work, and (c) share how this work might, or might not, be applicable for themselves and the collective.
Presenting will be Dr. Lynn Allen, Assistant Superintendent, PNW BOCES; Dr. Andrew Ecker, Coordinator of the Guidance & Child Study Center; and Jackie Levine, Coordinator of School Leadership & Marketing Services.
The Zoom Link to participate will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours prior to the session.
Meeting #7: Effective Instruction in a Remote Environment
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3632672
Date: December 15
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Maria Sommer, Director of Curriculum and Instructional Support Services, Sullivan BOCES
Description: This workshop will be a consensus workshop utilizing Technology of Participation protocols. The aim of the workshop is to build shared knowledge and understanding of the elements necessary for effective instruction in a remote environment and where those elements can be found in the Teaching and Learning Standards and the various teacher effectiveness rubrics.
Meeting #8
Registration Link for March 25: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3728878
Registration Link for March 26: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=19584&I=3729014
Date: March 25-26, 2021; 8:30-3:00 each day
Location: Virtual
Presenters: TBA
Description: TLE's third annual professional learning conference. NYSED and SCDN Framework members will provide proposals and facilitate professional development sessions aligned to PSEL. Link to draft schedule.
2020-21 Statewide Framework Group Meeting Calendar
Click on any SCDN Statewide Framework Group date below to access session registration information.
Arts |
Early Learning |
English Language Arts |
Math |
Science |
Social Emotional Learning |
Social Studies |
Teacher Leader Effective |
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July 2020 |
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7/21 |
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August 2020 |
8/11 & 8/13 8/18 |
8/20 |
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Sept 2020 |
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October 2020 |
10/8 |
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November 2020 |
11/5 |
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December 2020 |
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January 2021 |
1/28-29 |
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February 2021 |
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March 2021 |
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3/15 |
3/29-30 |
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April 2021 |
4/12 4/14 |
4/21 |
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May 2021 |
5/11-12 |
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June 2021 |
6/2-3 |