Date: July 12, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 Location: Virtual

Everyone in a school could benefit from an understanding of how a student with Autism thinks, feels, and functions. This training will dive into the characteristics of autism to help us develop an empathy and understanding for this disability. Come with questions and scenarios if you have them, as there will be time at the end of the session.

Audience: All are welcome & would benefit from learning the basics of Autism

Presenter: Sarah Trunfio

Date: July 12, 2022 Time: 12:00-3:00 Location: Virtual

Educators responsible for curriculum and instruction for students on the spectrum, can come to learn instructional strategies, tips, and environmental design such as the Structured Teaching Model, to set their students up for success in the Fall.

Audience: All are welcome & would benefit from learning the basics of Autism

Presenter: Sarah Trunfio

Date: July 13, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Do you want to create a better environment for your students? This session focuses on the basics of classroom management. Teachers will learn strategies and techniques for managing their classroom.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: July 14, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

The New York State Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education (CRS-E) Framework calls for teachers to be culturally responsive to the students they teach. This session will focus on a deep dive into understanding the framework as well as implementation strategies for culturally responsive pedagogy.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: July 18, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Games have been used as a learning tool for a long, long time. It helps to keep learning engaging and motivating. Now more than ever, students need the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers, and game-based learning is a great way to tie in collaboration. Whether you are working on problem-solving skills, looking for a memorable way to review key concepts, or just want students working together - this session will provide the tools and inspiration you need to turnkey game-based learning in your own classroom. During our time together we will work through 3 topics: Introduction & Reflection, Digital Games, and Physical Games. Within each topic, you will be actively participating in different examples, as well as given time to create meaningful activities that can be used in your classroom. We will conclude our session by sharing our creations with others, so that we may find inspiration and new ideas that can be used at a later date. In addition, you will be given access to pre-created templates that can easily be personalized for any content area. Not only will you walk away from this course with the confidence of knowing that you can implement game-based learning into your curriculum in a way that directly supports student learning while also increasing their engagement, but you will also have the tools necessary to do so!

Audience: All Educators

Presenter: Kristin Spinella, MORIC Model Schools

Date: July 19, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Many of you may be familiar with the activity of an escape room. You are locked in a room with other people and in order to get out you must solve a series of puzzles within a given amount of time. In this session, you will learn how to take the fun and engagement of an escape room into your classroom, while directly supporting your students’ learning and your curriculum. Using a Breakout EDU, students are tasked with a series of puzzles that they must complete in a pre-determined amount of time. However, instead of looking for a way out of a room, they are attempting to remove locks from a lockbox that has been given to them with a “key” inside. The puzzles students solve, will reveal combinations to the locks on the box provided. Our session will begin with a breakout in which you will be asked to work with others to use your critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills to break out before time runs out! Once you have experienced this activity for yourself, you will then be provided with time and support to start creating your own breakout. The breakout you create will directly support your learners’ needs as well as the curriculum you are teaching. In addition, we will also discuss the ways in which you can create digital breakouts that will also directly support your curriculum and student needs while still being fun and engaging. These activities are great for reviewing, or can be used to introduce new topics! Either way, you will leave our time together having a completed breakout, that you can use in your classroom in the new year.

Audience: All Educators

Presenter: Kristin Spinella, MORIC Model Schools

Date: July 27, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Are your students struggling to connect to the content? This session will introduce teachers to strategies that can be implemented to create a sense of belonging for students. Creating and cultivating a sense of belonging will encourage curiosity and inquiry mindsets. Current research reveals a direct link between the sense of belonging students experience and their persistence in their classes.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: August 10, 2022 Time: 8:30-3:00

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Are your students spending too much time being spectators? This session will introduce teachers to engagement strategies that work. The session will cover the meaning behind engagement as well as strategies for discussion, formative assessment and active learning strategies to involve students in the process of learning. This session will review the gradual release process as well as teacher talk vs. student talk.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: August 11, 2022 Time: 8:30-3:00 PM

Location: Herkimer Jr/Sr High School Room 102 Herkimer, NY

This training is designed for PreK-12th grade educators who would like more information on positive behavior support and classroom management strategies including: 1) arranging the physical environment 2) defining, teaching, and acknowledging expectations and rules 3) defining and teaching classroom procedures and routines 4) active supervision 5) behavior-specific praise 6) response strategies for inappropriate behavior 7) class-wide group contingencies 8) multiple opportunities to respond.

Audience: PK-12 Educators

Presenters: Toni Ann Johns & Kelly Lanckton

Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Formative assessment is an important part of teaching and learning. This session will focus on ways to make formative assessment fun for your students. We will also talk about ways that formative assessment can be a fantastic tool to drive the learning and teaching of your students.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: August 17, 2022 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Do students ignore the feedback you give? Are you looking for ways to create a culture where feedback is utilized and appreciated? Feedback is paramount to learning. This session will provide teachers with the background around a feedback culture and ideas and strategies for giving feedback that is useable and meaningful to students' growth as a learner.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: August 25, 2022 Time: 8:30-3:00

Location: Little Falls High School Multi-Purpose Room

Are you looking for techniques to hone your teaching craft? This session will focus on strategies from Teach Like a Champion 3.0 and how to implement them into your everyday teaching techniques.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton