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Dates: August 25, January 20, May 20
Registration Deadline: 01.11.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Grades K-12 Educators in their 3rd Year of Teaching
Overview: This series provides newer teachers (in their 3nd year of teaching) with intensive professional development in evidence-based strategies around effective instructional design, student engagement, classroom management, feedback, questioning and many other pieces that make up "highly effective” teaching. Participants will receive and utilize feedback from a coach on strategies that meet students' needs in their classrooms. Throughout our time we will have both full group and district-specific learning experiences in order to better meet participants' needs.
Dates: August 26, January 13, May 19
Registration Deadline: 01.11.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Grades K-12 Educators in their 2nd Year of Teaching
Overview: This series provides newer teachers (in their 2nd year of teaching) with intensive professional development in evidence-based strategies around effective instructional design, student engagement, classroom management, feedback, questioning and many other pieces that make up "highly effective” teaching. Participants will receive and utilize feedback from a coach on strategies that meet students' needs in their classrooms. Throughout our time we will have both full group and district-specific learning experiences in order to better meet participants' needs.
Dates: August 31, September 1, January 11, May 17
Registration Deadline: 01.11.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Grades K-12 Educators in their 1st Year of Teaching
Overview: This series provides new teachers (in their 1st year of teaching) with intensive professional development in evidence-based strategies around effective instructional design, classroom environment, student engagement, classroom management, explicit teaching and many other pieces that make up "highly effective” teaching. Participants will receive and utilize feedback from a coach on strategies that meet students' needs in their classrooms. Throughout our time we will have both full group and district-specific learning experiences in order to better meet participants' needs.
Regional Conference Days: High-Impact Tier 1 Literacy Strategies for Secondary Classrooms
Dates: October 9, March 12
Registration Deadline: 08.27.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Johnson City Learning Center
Audience: ELA, Science, Social Studies, SPED, Literacy 6-12
Overview: The Regional Conference Days series is designed for grades 6-12 ELA, Social Studies, and Science teachers seeking practical, research-based literacy strategies that can be immediately implemented in their classrooms.
Each session builds on the previous learning, allowing teachers to refine routines, analyze student data, and strengthen instruction throughout the year. Emphasis is placed on simple, repeatable classroom routines that support diverse learners and align across content areas.
Whether teachers are new to literacy instruction or looking to refine their Tier 1 practices, this regional professional learning opportunity provides practical tools, collaborative learning, and strategies that translate directly into improved classroom instruction and student outcomes.
Dates: September 21, December 15, May 26
Registration Deadline: 09.15.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Invite Only
Overview: Are you ready for an epic adventure in education? Look no further! This pilot was designed for cross curricular school teams of teachers and building administrators looking to do things a little differently. The goal is to embrace the task of implementing Performance-Based Learning Assessments (PBLA) while receiving comprehensive support from the BT BOCES PLIC staff. Throughout the 2026-2027 school year, these teams will develop, implement, and reflect on PBLA experiences for their students. The program includes individual coaching, team coaching, and collaborative opportunities with other regional schools participating in the pilot, all aimed at enhancing insights into the PBLA implementation process.
Building Future Focused Classrooms
Dates: October 8, December 4, February 24, June 4
Registration Deadline: 10.08.26
Time: See Frontline for Details
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 Educators
Overview: Building Future-Focused Classrooms is a yearlong professional learning experience designed for tenured teachers who are ready to make meaningful, lasting shifts in their practice. Grounded in the principles of ASCD and ISTE Transformational Learning and aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate, this experience moves beyond strategies and into deep instructional change that empowers teachers to design learning that is relevant, engaging, and future-focused.
Community-Engaged Learning Lab
Dates: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 13, February 17, March 17, April 14, May 12
Registration Deadline: 09.23.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: University Downtown Center
Audience: PK-12 School Staff (Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Counselors, Related Service Providers, Librarians), Community Schools Coordinators, Social Workers, Curriculum Directors, Athletic Directors, University Partners, School Staff
Overview: In this course, participants will join a collaborative community of practitioners focused on solving real problems in their schools and communities. Participants will identify challenges in their own practice and develop hands-on inquiry projects that address those challenges directly. Led by a partnership with Couper-Owens Center for Community Schools, Binghamton University faculty, and BOCES, participants will critically discuss community needs through the University-assisted Community Schools approach, tailoring their research and solutions to the unique contexts of their schools and communities. Throughout the course, participants will also connect with organizations and university researchers working on community-engaged projects across all levels of education.
Discourse By Design: Tools & Frameworks for Effective Classroom Conversations
Date: December 7, March 15
Registration Deadline: 10.01.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: See Frontline for Details
Audience: Grades 6-12 teachers (any content area), teacher leaders, librarians
Overview: How do we help our students express their views, remain open to others, and navigate classroom discourse? This content-agnostic workshop provides tools and protocols for facilitating classroom conversations around a variety of topics. Participants will explore frameworks for classroom discourse, tools for managing difficult conversations, and ways to create classroom norms that support open, respectful communication. This is a two-day session with an optional coaching visit.
Dates: October 5, December 3, March 1, May 24
Registration Deadline: 05.15.27
Time: 8:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 ENL Educators
Overview: A Community of Practice is a group of educators that meets regularly, shares expertise, and works collaboratively to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students. The goal of the group is to improve the skills and knowledge of educators through collaborative study, best-practice exchange, professional dialogue, and data analysis. Educators in this group will share strategies and best practices for ENL education and continue to build a regional community. Participants will collaborate to design the plan for each session in order to best meet their collective needs.
Secondary Art Community of Practice
Dates: October 6, December 7, February 22, May 4
Registration Deadline: 05.01.27
Time: See Frontline for Details
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: 6-12 Art Educators
Overview: This year, the group will deepen its shared understanding of the IAAP by focusing on clear communication, consistent expectations, and regional coherence. Participating districts will work collaboratively to calibrate their processes, clarify requirements, and move toward a unified regional approach to IAAP implementation. A central focus will be continuing the Visual Arts Presention Day.
Secondary Music Community of Practice
Dates: October 6, December 7, February 22, May 4
Registration Deadline: 05.01.27
Time: See Frontline for Details
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: 6-12 Music Educators
Overview: This year the group will focus on educating and providing information about the IAAP. Participants will collectively develop regional resources and strategies to assist in the success of the IAAP and achievement of HSII Music Standards.
Dates: October 15, December 10, May 18
Registration Deadline: 10.10.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Invite Only
Overview: Are you ready for an epic adventure in education? Look no further! This pilot was designed for cross curricular school teams of teachers and building administrators looking to do things a little differently. The goal is to embrace the task of implementing Performance-Based Learning Assessments (PBLA) while receiving comprehensive support from the BT BOCES PLIC staff. Throughout the 2026-2027 school year, these teams will develop, implement, and reflect on PBLA experiences for their students. The program includes individual coaching, team coaching, and collaborative opportunities with other regional schools participating in the pilot, all aimed at enhancing insights into the PBLA implementation process.
Brains in the Balance: Trauma, ACE’s, and Student Success
Date: October 15
Registration Deadline: 10.15.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: PK-12 School Staff (Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Counselors, Related Service Providers)
Overview: Join this powerful and engaging experience designed to equip education professionals with the tools to understand, respond to, and transform the impact of trauma in school communities.
Hacking the Brain: Improving Executive Function in K-12 students
Date: October 22
Registration Deadline: 10.15.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers, teaching assistants, counselors, speech therapists
Overview: Participants will define Executive Functioning and explore the brain science behind it and examine its role in the classroom setting as well as learn about, and plan to use, routines, strategies, and activities that will help students develop Executive Function Capacities to support their engagement in culturally responsive, equitable learning environments.
Productive Struggle in the Classroom
Date: October 23
Registration Deadline: 10.15.26
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Overview: Productive struggle is critical for deep, meaningful learning that cultivates agency, transfer, and resilience. Rooted in Portrait of a Graduate attributes, this session will explore ways to create a classroom culture that prioritizes process over speed and persistence through uncertainty. Participants will experience a variety of practical strategies that support students in grappling with challenging tasks, solving complex problems, and reflecting on learning processes.
Career Connected Learning As the Engine for NY Inspires
Date: October 23
Registration Deadline: 10.15.26
Time: 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: Teachers grades 6 - 12
Overview: This session supports educators in understanding how career-connected learning experiences serve as a powerful vehicle for developing the competencies emphasized in NY Inspires. Participants will explore the NY Inspires framework and Portrait of a Graduate competencies, examine why career-connected learning builds durable, future-ready skills, and consider how projects, industry professionals, mentors and real-world experiences can demonstrate authentic student readiness. The session reframes career-connected learning as an integral approach to instruction and assessment that brings rigor, relevance, and meaning to student learning.
Dates: October 26, November 19
Registration Deadline: 10.22.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Powerful questions do more than check for understanding-they ignite curiosity, amplify student voice, and develop the communication and critical thinking skills at the heart of the New York State Portrait of a Graduate. In this engaging and interactive session, participants will explore high-impact questioning practices that move learning beyond simple answers and into meaningful dialogue. Educators will discover practical strategies and discussion protocols that encourage students to ask their own questions, engage in rich peer-to-peer conversations, and become active contributors to the learning process. Participants will leave with ready-to-use tools and a personalized action plan to cultivate classrooms where curiosity thrives, every voice matters, and students grow as confident communicators, collaborators, and critical thinkers.
Getting Started with Performance Based Learning Assessment
Date: October 27
Registration Deadline: 10.22.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Have you been wondering about Performance Based Learning Assessments (PBLA)? How can this work support state initiatives around the NYS Portrait of a Graduate? Join us for a full-day deep dive of learning about PBLA for the first time or refamiliarizing yourself with the elements that go into designing high quality learning experiences for your students
From Portrait to Practice: Building Reflective and Future Focused Students
Date: October 28
Registration Deadline: 10.21.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Union Endicott District Office
Audience: K-12 Educators of ALL content
Overview: Students become more independent learners when they understand where they are, recognize how they are growing, and think intentionally about where they want to go next. In this session, teachers will explore how to design learning experiences that develop reflective and future-focused learners aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate. Participants will leave with practical strategies to build reflection, goal setting, self-assessment, feedback, and student ownership into everyday learning so students are better prepared to recognize their growth and take meaningful next steps.
Enhancing Student Collaboration through Performance-Based Learning Assessment (PBLA)
Date: November 5
Registration Deadline: 10.29.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Join us for this full-day session of thinking about how teachers can successfully provide opportunities for students to be more collaborative through Performance Based Learning Assessments. We will explore various structures that can be implemented through single collaborative learning opportunities, co-use learning, and multi student projects that will allow for increased student collaboration. Participants will leave with a PBLA plan which can be used in their classroom right away.
From Portrait to Practice: Building Global Citizens
Date: December 9
Registration Deadline: 12.2.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Union Endicott District Office
Audience: K-12 Educators of ALL content
Overview: Classrooms can help students understand that their learning, choices, and actions are connected to people and communities beyond themselves. In this session, teachers will explore how to design learning experiences that develop global citizens aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate. Participants will leave with practical strategies to broaden student perspectives, build empathy, explore diverse experiences, make connections to real-world issues, and create meaningful opportunities for students to contribute to their classrooms, communities, and world.
Portrait of a Graduate in Action
Date: December 14
Registration Deadline: 12.10.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Johnson City Learning Center
Audience: Grades K-5 Teachers
Overview: In this session we will be discussing teaching strategies revolving around New York State's Portrait of a Graduate at the elementary level. Kindergarten through fifth grade teachers will engage in activities that will help them in incorporating the seven Portrait of a Graduate attributes into their teaching practices.
From Portrait to Practice: Building Creative Innovators
Date: January 21
Registration Deadline: 1.14.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 Educators of ALL content
Overview: Creativity is not limited to the arts-it happens whenever students imagine possibilities, generate ideas, experiment, take risks, and create new solutions. In this session, teachers will explore how to design learning experiences that develop creative innovators aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate. Participants will leave with practical strategies to build curiosity, encourage idea generation, create opportunities for exploration, and give students space to design, revise, and innovate across K-12 classrooms.
Design, Assessment, and Rubrics to support Performance Based Learning Assessment (PBLA)
Date: January 14
Registration Deadline: 01.07.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Interested in rethinking your instruction or how to assess learning differently in your classroom? Come spend a full day with the PLIC team thinking about your instructional design, assessment experiences, and rubric creation all through the lens of Performance Based Learning Assessment. Participants will leave with a plan to implement new PBLA strategies in their classroom.
Getting Started with Performance Based Learning Assessment
Date: February 8
Registration Deadline: 2.4.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Have you been wondering about Performance Based Learning Assessments (PBLA)? How can this work support state initiatives around the NYS Portrait of a Graduate? Join us for a full-day deep dive of learning about PBLA for the first time or refamiliarizing yourself with the elements that go into designing high quality learning experiences for your students.
Hacking the Brain: Improving Executive Function in K-12 students
Date: February 10
Registration Deadline: 02.04.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers, teaching assistants, counselors, speech therapists
Overview: Participants will define Executive Functioning and explore the brain science behind it and examine its role in the classroom setting as well as learn about, and plan to use, routines, strategies, and activities that will help students develop Executive Function Capacities to support their engagement in culturally responsive, equitable learning environments.
From Portrait to Practice: Building Critical Thinkers
Date: February 23
Registration Deadline: 2.16.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Union Endicott District Office
Audience: K-12 Educators of ALL content
Overview: Strong classrooms give students opportunities to do more than recall information-they ask students to analyze, question, make connections, and solve problems. In this session, teachers will explore how to design learning experiences that develop critical thinkers aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate. Participants will leave with practical strategies to strengthen student reasoning, questioning, problem solving, and decision making so critical thinking becomes a natural part of learning across K-12 classrooms.
The Silent Shaper: How Unconscious Bias Influences Our World
Date: March 2
Registration Deadline: 02.25.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: PK-12 School Staff (Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Counselors, Related Service Providers)
Overview: Have you unpacked your bias lately? As human beings we all have biases. However, if we are unaware of the biases we hold or they go unchecked, our decisions, behaviors and interactions with others may have unintended consequences. This workshop is designed to create a safe space for participants to increase awareness of their biases, understand the impact on day to day life, and learn strategies to disrupt the cycle.
Brains in the Balance: Trauma, ACE’s, and Student Success
Date: March 18
Registration Deadline: 03.11.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: PK-12 School Staff (Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Counselors, Related Service Providers)
Overview: Join this powerful and engaging experience designed to equip education professionals with the tools to understand, respond to, and transform the impact of trauma in school communities.
Design, Assessment, and Rubrics to support Performance Based Learning Assessment (PBLA)
Date: March 23
Registration Deadline: 03.18.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Interested in rethinking your instruction or how to assess learning differently in your classroom? Come spend a full day with the PLIC team thinking about your instructional design, assessment experiences, and rubric creation all through the lens of Performance Based Learning Assessment. Participants will leave with a plan to implement new PBLA strategies in their classroom.
Enhancing Student Collaboration through Performance-Based Learning Assessment (PBLA)
Date: March 2
Registration Deadline: 02.25.27
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Instructional Support Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Overview: Join us for this full-day session of thinking about how teachers can successfully provide opportunities for students to be more collaborative through Performance Based Learning Assessments. We will explore various structures that can be implemented through single collaborative learning opportunities, co-use learning, and multi student projects that will allow for increased student collaboration. Participants will leave with a PBLA plan which can be used in their classroom right away.
From Portrait to Practice: Building Effective Communicators
Date: April 15
Registration Deadline: 9.23.26
Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Union Endicott District Office
Audience: K-12 Educators of ALL content
Overview: Every classroom can create opportunities for students to develop strong communication skills. When students express ideas through speaking, writing, creation, movement, collaboration, and presentation, they learn to communicate their thinking with clarity and purpose. In this session, teachers will explore how to design learning experiences that develop effective communicators aligned to the New York State Education Department Portrait of a Graduate. Participants will leave with practical strategies to strengthen student voice, collaboration, peer feedback, and authentic communication across K-12 classrooms.
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