New Courses Added

Course Description: In this course, Arts teachers will convene in grade-level/ content specific groups to discuss and share culturally responsive, standards aligned best practices and content specific pedagogy. Teachers and guest presenters, in collaboration with representatives from the Department of Bilingual Education, will provide pedagogical demonstrations of discipline specific skills and techniques. All sessions will be 5 hours in length. Participants should plan to have a working lunch and attend the entirety of the session. Partial credit will not be issued. All participants are expected to actively engage in discussion and participate in activities with colleagues and facilitator.

Target Audience: K-12 Arts Teachers: Music, Art, Theater & Dance

Outcomes: Teachers will be better prepared to deliver culturally responsive, standards based, grade-level appropriate instruction to RCSD students.

Course Number in TNL: 36527

Dates: August 17, 18, 19 and 20, 2021

Time: 9:30am - 2:30pm

Course Description: Professional Development will be provided to new Lead Teacher-Mentors and Independent Evaluators on peer coaching strategies, learning-focused conversation skills, and CIT program principles and procedures. This training will prepare our mentors to support new teachers to develop a positive classroom environment, increase cultural competence, engage students in learning, use high-quality questioning/discussion techniques, and use the APPR Evaluation Rubrics to foster professional growth.

Target Audience: Registration restricted to newly selected CIT Lead Teacher-Mentors.

Outcomes: New mentors will become prepared to work with new teachers. Highly effective induction programs require well-trained mentors in order to strengthen instruction and maintain our high teacher retention rate. New teachers require well-trained mentors to help them provide their students with high quality instruction. Retention of high quality teachers is essential to progress in student achievement.

Course Number in TNL: 36513

Dates: July 26, 27, 28 and 29, 2021

Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Course Description: CIT Lead Teacher Mentors will work in concert with District leaders, Teaching and Learning Directors, the Office of Professional Learning, RTA Officers, the Office of Human Capital, outside agencies, and Lead Teacher presenters to provide RCSD Intern teachers with contractually-required “orientation and in-service.” in August. District leaders will welcome new teachers to the RCSD and provide them with relevant workshops in Planning and Preparation, Instruction, Classroom Environment, Professional Responsibilities, and Culturally Responsive practices. All sessions required.

Target Audience: For new RCSD teachers, counselors, social workers, library media specialists, school psychologists, speech language therapists (and those who joined the RCSD during the 2020-2021 school year).

Outcomes: Interns will attend valuable interactive and practical sessions to help establish a positive classroom environment, to work with district and RTA leaders. to focus on instruction with department directors, and to provide strategies to help them deepen their relationships with students and families. Effective induction programs contribute to stronger instructional practice and better teacher retention. Participants will begin the year with many tools for a confident and positive start to the school year.

Course Number in TNL: 36514

Dates: August 23, 24 and 25, 2021

Time: 8:00am - 3:00pm

Date: August 26, 2021

Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: This session will discuss co-teaching relationships through various activities. Participants will examine their beliefs about co-planning and the ESOL teacher's role. We will then explore the concept and examples of high leverage practices for teaching content and language. This workshop will use videos, interactive tools and share resources for co-planning. This session will explore the benefits and challenges of co-planning and share practical tips and tools for scaffolding content and language. Participants will examine the role of the ESOL Teacher and engage with High Leverage Practices for co-planning and virtual collaboration.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: Participants will understand the responsibility of the ESOL teacher, the benefits of high-impact co-planning and be able to plan using tools for high-impact co-planning.

Course Number in TNL: 36523

Date: July 15, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Course Description: The Department of Special Education is offering this Professional Development to provide secondary teachers guidance and strategies on how they can better support our students with disabilities in regards to providing and documenting specially designed instruction per the NYSED Regulations on Special Education and in accordance to the Strategic Action Plan to ensure both compliance and a rigorous learning environment for SWD.

Target Audience: 6 - 12th grade educators

Outcomes: Participants will be able to apply specially designed instructional strategies across all content areas.

Course Number in TNL: 36479

Date: August 11, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm

Date: August 26, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: The Department of Special Education is offering this Professional Development to provide elementary teachers guidance and strategies on how they can better support our students with disabilities in regards to providing and documenting specially designed instruction per the NYSED Regulations on Special Education and in accordance to the Strategic Action Plan to ensure both compliance and a rigorous learning environment for SWD. This course is open to PreK - 5 educators.

Target Audience: PreK - 5 educators

Outcomes: Participants will be able to apply specially designed instructional strategies across all content areas.

Course Number in TNL: 36478

Date: August 10, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm

Date: August 25, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: This course will provide those who teach social studies an introduction to the Hallmarks of Advanced Literacies and how they can manifest themselves in the social studies classroom.

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers of Social Studies

Outcomes: Participants will leave this session understanding how to incorporate the Hallmarks of Advanced Literacy in the social studies classroom.

Course Number in TNL: 36516

Date: August 11, 2021

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: New York finally passed Erin’s Law and now schools across the state are tasked with implementing this very important education to students. Child sexual abuse is a major public health crisis in this country. Stopping this crisis requires a comprehensive, preventive approach concerning the education of adults, children and communities.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: Participants will learn about Erin’s Law objectives, what comprises good prevention education, why prevention education is needed and learn about Bivona’s 360 degree prevention approach to assist our community in meeting this mandate and protecting our most valuable asset, our children.

Course Number in TNL: 36498

Date: July 13, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Course Description: Designed to create an efficient college application process, eDocs enables staff to spend more time where it matters—supporting students. Schools can securely send student application-related transcripts, forms and recommendations electronically to more than 2,500 colleges and universities.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will learn how to efficiently process college applications and related documents through use of the platform.

Course Number in TNL: 36504

Date: August 19, 2021

Time: 9:30am - 11:30am

Course Description: Naviance is a comprehensive College, Career and Life Readiness Framework (CCLR) that helps schools align student strengths and interests to postsecondary goals, improving student outcomes and connecting learning to life. The research-backed CCLR Framework outlines six competencies that students in grades 6-12 must achieve to become college, career and life ready. Each competency outlines themes and objectives as well as grade-specific activities.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will learn about the six competencies needed for students to become college, career and life ready. Participants will gain a better understanding about how to utilize the activities to increase student awareness. Participates will receive an overview and updates regarding new features.

Course Number in TNL: 36510

Date: August 11, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Course Description: Naviance is a comprehensive College, Career and Life Readiness Framework (CCLR) that helps schools align student strengths and interests to postsecondary goals, improving student outcomes and connecting learning to life. Attendees will learn how to navigate and use the platform to increase college, career and life readiness development for scholars.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participant will learn about the benefits of the Naviance platform, and learn how to utilize platform tools.

Course Number in TNL: 36502

Date: July 13, 2021

Time: 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Course Description: Naviance creates and supports a college-going culture by encouraging all students to explore post-secondary education options. Use of the reporting tools will help participates track, monitor and better support students throughout their academic careers.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will learn how to utilize report tools to monitor, track and increase the college-career going culture.

Course Number in TNL: 36511

Date: July 27, 2021

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: For more than a century, education providers throughout the United States have strived and struggled to meet the diverse needs of American children and families. A complex system of biases and structural inequities is at play, deeply rooted in our country’s history, culture, and institutions. This system of inequity — which routinely confers advantage and disadvantage based on linguistic background, gender, skin color, and other characteristics — must be clearly understood, directly challenged, and fundamentally transformed. The results we seek for all our children can never be fully achieved without incorporating an equity and inclusion lens in every facet of our work. This understanding has created an urgency around promoting equitable opportunities that help all children thrive. The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) framework is intended to help education stakeholders create student-centered learning environments that affirm cultural identities; foster positive academic outcomes; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; empower students as agents of social change; and contribute to individual student engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the cultivation of critical thinking.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) framework is intended to help education stakeholders create student-centered learning environments that affirm cultural identities; foster positive academic outcomes; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; empower students as agents of social change; and contribute to individual student engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the cultivation of critical thinking.

Course Number in TNL: 36539

Date: August 4, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Date: August 10, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Date: August 19, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Course Description: The greatest challenge society and the [education] profession faces is “making the ‘invisible’ visible”. That can only be accomplished when people are willing to openly and honestly engage in a dialogue about race and racism. Sue et.al (2007) In an effort to make the invisible visible, we use the text Everyday Anti-Racism as a tool for courageous conversations about race. Conversations that focus on things to do in our schools and classrooms, rather than just on ways to think differently. One of the beauties of this text is it keeps the conversation objective while at the same time keeping it personal. We will define Everyday Anti-Racism and participants will amass two to three Anti-Racist tools.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: This session is designed to get participants thinking about how everyday actions can harm children. It is designed to get participants to ask “ Do my everyday actions help promote a more equitable society?”

Course Number in TNL: 36538

Date: July 19, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Date: July 20, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Date: August 3, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Date: August 11, 2021

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Date: August 12, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Course Description: This course will provide school counselors with tools to be able to work collaboratively with scholars to identify the best college to meet their needs. Counselors will explore the benefits of HBCUs, MSIs and Tribal Colleges.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will learn the difference between HBCUs. MSIs and Tribal Colleges as well as the benefits of each institute.

Course Number in TNL: 36499

Date: August 3, 2021

Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Course Description: In order to better serve RCSD’s expanding multilingual population, participants will learn about NYS Part 154 regulations as well as how to properly create a schedule for ENL students to ensure they have equal access to courses and programs required for graduation.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will learn about Commissioner's Part 154 regulations and how to leverage resources to properly schedule ENL students.

Course Number in TNL: 36540

Date: August 18, 2021

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Course Description: Learn about the benefits for the SAT assessment and how to prepare for the administration of the assessment.

Target Audience: School Counselors and SAT Coordinators

Outcomes: Participants will learn about the benefits of the SAT assessment and how to properly prepare for administer the assessment.

Course Number in TNL: 36507

Date: August 4, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Course Description: Support Services at MCC provides a broad range of supports that help students navigate through college successfully, including academic counseling and tutoring.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: Participants will learn about support services available at the college level. Participants will learn how to help students transition from secondary to college level support services.

Course Number in TNL: 36500

Date: August 10, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Course Description: Social-emotional learning plays a significant role in the lives of development of scholars. As scholars transition back to school, we want to ensure we are creating a safe, caring and supportive learning environment.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: Participants will learn how SEL can be utilized to create safe and supportive environments for scholars.

Course Number in TNL: 36508

Date: August 2, 2021

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm

Course Description: This course will outline the role school counselors play as it relates to equity, inclusion and advocacy.

Target Audience: School Counselors

Outcomes: Participants will explore concepts around equity, inclusion and advocacy as well as how the concepts and themes are related to school counseling.

Course Number in TNL: 36506

Date: August 5, 2021

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Course Description: In this collegial circle, we will examine the criteria for the essential social and emotional factors that lead to student success: a sense of optimism; a sense of belonging; a sense of pride, self-esteem and self-confidence; and a sense of purpose. We will look at methods to gauge a school’s cultures, strategies behind successful high-poverty, high-performing schools, pathways for emotional and social development from K-12 and beyond, and processes to help students plan for 21st century lives. Participants are responsible for obtaining their own book, Building a Culture of Hope by Robert Barr and Emily Gibson, ISBN 978-1-936764-62-4. Participants must sign up for both sections.

Target Audience: All

Outcomes: Participants will discover strategies and ideas to assist in creating a caring and safe learning environment.

Course Number in TNL: 36512

Dates: July 13 and 20, 2021

Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm

Course Description: The 3 Tiers of Attendance Intervention suggested by Attendance Works provides a framework to reduce chronic absenteeism. Tier 1 represents universal strategies to encourage good attendance for all students; Tier 2 provides early intervention for students who need more support; and Tier 3 offers intensive support for students facing the greatest challenges to getting to school. The RCSD Office of Student Attendance will offer a three hour summer professional development opportunity for school attendance team members, social workers, counselors and administrators to learn about Tier 3 attendance interventions offered by our community partners. The format will allow each partner to address the services that their agency provides, share criteria for referrals as well as the specific referral form, and an opportunity to bring clarity to how the agency works with students and families. This course is specifically geared to active school attendance team members.

Target Audience: Attendance Team Members, Social Workers, Counselors, and Administrators

Outcomes: Participants will learn about community resources to help chronically absent students and their families.

Course Number in TNL: 36515

Date: July 19, 2021

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm