Upcoming Lab Hours
Days/Hours subject to change - check here before you plan to come in
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May 6 Mon: 2:30 - 5:00
May 8 Wed: 2:30 - 5:00
May 9 Thu: 2:30 - 5:00
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*The Lab doors are locked (and alarmed) by the Library staff outside posted user hours.
*The Lab DOES NOT operate if the Library is closed or there is no school - including snow days
RTC Policy Board Info
Next Meeting:
Mon May 20th 4:00PM
Location: RTC Lab
Meeting Dates
Policy Board Info (PB Members Only)
What are your current Teacher Center needs? We'd like to know! Please Take Our
We are located UPSTAIRS in Jervis Library
613 N Washington St. Rome, NY
Director: Jessica Lattimore
Program Specialist: Sarah Keesler
Lab Assistant: Fred Hall
Email: Rometc01@gmail.com
Phone: 315-336-4570 x248
Follow us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/RomeTeacherResourceCenter/
DIRECTIONS (Once inside the Library):
Access the Lab by going up the stairs by the Reference Desk, around the stacks to the right, down the hallway through the green door on the right marked "LOCAL HISTORY/GENEALOGY AND QUIET STUDY ROOM" and then through the double doors on the left.
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Take the elevator to the Second Floor and follow the signs to the Conference Room. Go through the double doors and you have arrived!
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List of Workshops and Information We Offer at the RTC
Rome Teacher Center
!!! IMPORTANT NOTES !!! (updated Jan 26 2024)
*** In-Service (Contact Hours) Credit:
!!! Our Program with ASCD ended December 2023. This was a hard cut-off date. NO Past or Future ASCD Course Credit turned in after that date will be accepted !!!
ALL Other In-Service Credit Requests for the July 1, 2024 cycle must be turned in to the RTC by Wednesday, June 12th via hard copy or email to the RTC or Jessica. Any received after that date will be held for the October 2024 cycle.***
+++ (6/24/2021) New Teacher Center CTLE Certificate Requirements - more info now needed.+++
As a condition of renewal of our CTLE status with the NY State DOE , we are now required to collect and display the following trainee information on their training certificates:
- Date of Birth
- Last 4 digits of SSN
This information is required when you submit CTLE hours to the State. If they audit any of our records going forward they want to be able to positively identify certificate holders. Records must be kept a minimum of eight years. NOTE: We do not require this information for Contact Hour certificates submitted to the RCSD for in-service credits.
Before we issue a CTLE completion certificate, we will be asking for DOB and last 4 of SSN. Without the data - we can't issue a cert.
*** Please SIGN-IN when entering the RTC Lab: ***
Anyone knowingly exposed to, or tested positive for COVID in the last 7 days, or displaying any symptoms of any illness - please DO NOT ENTER the Lab. You must sign in when you enter. Once inside, proper distancing and hand sanitizer use is required.
USING THE LAB
The Lab is closed when no staff is present. Please DO NOT use the Poster Printer or Laminator without a Lab Staff member present. Lab days and hours could change with short notice. Bookmark this page and check the hours section above.
For the most efficient use of lab resources, when at all possible - please come with items to print or laminate prepared ahead of time.
LAB TECHNOLOGY NOTES:
10/12/2023 - We have two desktop computers for users - one is dedicated to the Poster Printer. If multiple Lab users are present, there may not be an available computer until someone is finished. You may bring in your own laptop and connect to the RTC wireless network and color laser printers in order to do your work.
General Lab Info
The LAB is typically OPEN Mon, Tue, and Wed afternoons. The LAB is CLOSED when the RCSD or Jervis Library is closed - including Holidays and Snow Days. Check the list of day/times above frequently for updates.
-- If you have loaned items to return to the Teacher Center
Bring them in during Lab User Hours or Call or text Jessica at: 315-371-5488
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HELPFUL INFO:
My Learning Plan How-To:
Receive and Track Your CTLE Hours
Follow These Steps:
Register for the Event
Once the event is completed you must complete the Survey (if there is one assigned).
Mark Completed after you have attended a RCSD or RTC event.
For BOCES events:
Once your attendance has been marked by BOCES you must mark it Completed.
Other information:
Once all the above steps have been taken you may print a certificate.
If you have certificates from events that are not recorded in My Learning Plan you may upload them into My Learning Plan to keep a digital record of them.
-Scan the certificates onto your computer and then upload into My Learning Plan to track all your hours
in one place.
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CTLE vs. Inservice vs. Graduate Hours
See Slide Presentation HERE
(click the arrow at upper right for full size copy of page below)
CTLE v Inservice v Graduate.pdfImportant RCSD Forms:
Notification of Course of Study
Request for Advancement to Higher Salary Schedule
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NYSUT Certification Webinars
Latest Info on the NYS Special Ed CTLE Certification Extension Series
(click the arrow at upper right for full size copy)
https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=13576&I=4279027
Link to the RTA Professional Development Site (NOTE: you must authenticate with your rcsd.org account for access)
https://sites.google.com/romecsd.org/rta/professional-development?authuser=0
IMPORTANT ADVANCEMENT COURSE NOTE 6/26/2023:
The Rome Teacher Center spoke with our contact at Advancement Courses and we were informed that they have merged with another company, Teaching Channel. At this time we are waiting to hear what kind of group promotions this new merged company will provide. As soon as we have more information we will share it with you and those of you who emailed us in the last round please know that you will be the first group that we reach out to with any discount information.
We have no idea if or when they may offer any discounts. You may take a course you have had approved at any time at their full price.
Thank you for your patience and understanding
Coursework for Salary Advancement
Members are reminded that we are not allowed to work on coursework for salary advancement during school hours. Thus, refrain from any such activity between 9 am and 3 pm Monday through Friday.
Events & Course Offerings
Events & Classes will be held at the Rome Teacher Center unless otherwise stated.
Register for all Classes on My Learning Plan (Frontline)
15 Contact Hours = 1 In Service Credit
CTLE Hours May or May Not count towards In-Service Credit
See the "More" tab above for expanded descriptions
**Please scroll down and take our Course Survey. We would like your input.**
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!!! New Offerings !!!
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The Following Courses are available for Rome Teacher Center Contact Hours towards salary advancement (15 contact hours = 1 Inservice credit).
Register on your own through Frontline
Note: You do not have to take all courses in a series to get parial credit.
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The Rome Teacher Center has The One Trusted Adult online course and book study available you may sign up for it at any time, by emailing Jessica or RomeTC01@gmail.com and we will send you all the details.
You may also sign up for Dr. Meredith Madden's DEI Matters online course at anytime, by emailing Jessica or RomeTC01@gmail.com and we will send you all the details.
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Watch for dates: On these topics: Understanding Poverty and Its Impact on Our Schools, Incorporating Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education into Your Educational Spaces, Bridge and Breathe, Building Stong TA and Teacher Bonds, and Trauma Informed workshops.
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The Writing Rope Book Study (In person)
Location: Rome Teacher Center
Facilitator Jessica Lattimore
Audience: Grades 4-8 Teachers, Support providers
Date: Watch for April/May Dates
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Credit: 15.0 Contact and CTLE Hours
During the study teachers and staff will discuss multiple skills and strategies broken into five fundamentals of a comprehensive writing curriculum: critical thinking, syntax (sentences), text structure, writing craft, and transcription (spelling and handwriting). Teachers of Grades 4-8 will get crystal-clear guidelines to help students “write to learn.” Teach students how to use writing to enhance their learning across different content areas. Learn how to plan effective writing assignments in different content areas, and explicitly teach students skills for summarizing texts and writing about narrative and expository text. With dozens of included templates, handouts, and other resources—available for download online—teachers will have all the tools they need to design and deliver explicit, high-quality writing instruction.
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Shifting the Balance Grades 3-5 with the Science of Reading (Blended)
Location: Google Classroom & Zoom
Facilitator Jessica Lattimore
Audience: Grades 3-5 Teachers and Support Staff
Dates: March 29 - April 30
Zoom Date: April 15
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Credit: 10.0 Contact & CTLE Hours
During the study teachers and staff will discuss 6 ways to bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom. This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom. Teachers will learn how to:
-Untangle a number of “misunderstandings” that have likely contributed to the use of the common practice
-Propose a more science-aligned shift to the current practice
-Provide solid scientific research to support the revised practice
-Offer a collection of high-leverage, easy-to-implement instructional routines to support the shift to more brain-friendly instruction
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Educators Equity Challenge: (NOTE: PRE-APPROVAL NO LONGER NEEDED - Email Jessica and sign up in Frontline)
Rome Teacher Center All-Inclusive Educator Equity Challenge led by Rome Teachers who have completed all of the Meredith Madden Diversity and Equity Series and are doing their part to give back and share their new knowledge and insight. This is a 45-hour synchronous and asynchronous course designed to challenge our ideas and biases as teachers and help us to create a safe, diverse, and welcoming learning environment. Each week focuses on a different aspect of creating an equitable learning community. Teachers will be challenged and will be asked to explore their personal biases and examine how their actions affect their students and the environment in which they are creating. The following topics will be explored:
WEEK #1: An Introduction to Equity & Exploring Personal Identity
WEEK #2: Exploring Bias - “Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable”
WEEK #3: Power & Privilege
WEEK #4: Culturally Responsive Teaching
WEEK #5: Levels of Racism
WEEK #6: LGBTQIIA+
Location: Google Classroom and Google Meet
Facilitator: Rebecca Ferby, Nicole Iverson
Audience: All Staff
Dates: April 17 May 1, 8, 15, 22
Times: 3:30 - 5:30PM
45 Contact hours (1 Inservice credit) and CTLE Hours
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Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Series with Dr. Meredith Madden:
Location: IN PERSON
Facilitator Dr. Meredith Madden
Audience: Open to all educators
Dates: TBA
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Credit: 7.0 CTLE Hours
Step 1: What is culturally responsive sustainable education (CRSE)? This 1 hour pre-recorded video will provide you with the foundational core content on the CRSE framework and the CRSE principles. You will have the freedom to watch this on your own in your time the week before the workshops begin.
Step 2: live on Zoom with Meredith, an interactive course to learn culturally sustaining education pedagogical strategies and an opportunity to build a CRSE toolkit to bring directly to your classroom.
This DEI training supports the culturally responsive-sustainable framework of NYS by empowering educators with content and applied knowledge to uphold CRSE principles in today’s classroom.
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One Trusted Adult Study
There are now THREE OPTIONS of the One Trusted Adult. We have The One Trusted Adult 4-hour online Foundational Course separate from the Book Study.
Option #1 Combo: Book Study and Foundations 4-Hour Online Module Course
Location: Google Classroom and Parlay
Facilitator: Jessica Lattimore
Audience: All Staff
Start Date: Once you receive all the links and information
End Date: When all work is completed
15 Contact hours (1 Inservice credit) and CTLE Hours
This blended course includes an asynchronous course of video modules with Brooklyn Raney and a One-Trusted Adult Book Study. One Trusted Adult offers research-based opportunities that learn the fundamentals needed to build strong connections and healthy boundaries with young people.
**This course will be offered multiple times throughout the 2023-2024 school year.
Option #2 OTA Foundational Training 4-Hour Online Module Course
Location: Online Asynchronous
Audience: All Staff
Start Date: Once you receive all the links and information
End Date: When all work is completed
4 Contact hours (1 Inservice credit) and CTLE Hours
One Trusted Adult: Foundations for Educators is an online on-demand, 4-hour course, including exercises, assessments, and a downloadable workbook. An individual certificate of attendance is issued upon completion.
Option #3 One Trusted Adult Book Study
Location: Google Classroom Asynchronous
Facilitator: Jessica Lattimore
Audience: All Staff
Start Date: Once you receive all the links and information
End Date: When all work is completed
11 Contact hours (1 Inservice credit) and CTLE Hours
*There will be live and in-person One Trusted Adult Conversations held throughout the Fall watch for dates.*
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DEI Matters: Foundational Course
A short video (5 minutes) where Meredith describes her course: DEI Matters Video Introduction
Location: Asynchronous
Facilitator: Meredith Madden
Audience: All Staff
Start Date: Once you receive all the links and information
End Date: June 2024
Suggested: Live Synchronous Dates: One hour Discussions (October, January, March, June TBA)
15 Contact hours (1 Inservice credit) and CTLE Hours
DEI MATTERS is an asynchronous online self-paced learning and development series for in-service educators in today’s schools with videos and course work with Dr. Meredith Madden of Equity Prof. This professional learning and development series gives educators access to ten recorded DEI webinars that are approximately 1-hour each. Each webinar builds off the other and intentionally carves out a sustainable DEI pathway for educators. Educators who complete the full webinar series receive a DEI MATTERS certificate of completion.
**This course will be offered multiple times throughout the 2023-2024 school year.
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Savvas Social Studies and Amplify Science Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) for Grades K-6
Please read: Rome Teacher Center PLC Requirements
Objectives: (will adjust with the PLC members)
● As we proceed into our 2nd year with Amplify and Savas curriculum, we will analyze and review the curriculum with our NYS Science and Social Studies Standards.
● By July 2023, teams will collaboratively identify essential learning standards for each unit
● Identified standards should prepare students for success at the next level
● For each standard the team will write the standard in kid-friendly terms, determine the
level of rigor, identify prior skills/academic vocabulary needed, map out the lessons and
Amplify and Savvas resources that will be used to measure mastery, create a timeline
for teaching standard based.
We will also bring in experts as needed to work with the teams.**
● Identify additional resources as needed
Dates:
Location:
Audience: Grades K-2
Facilitator: Jessica Lattimore
CTLE Credit Hours/Contact Hours or paid at curriculum rate per the district
Dates:
Location:
Audience: Grades 3-6
Facilitator: Jessica Lattimore
CTLE Credit Hours/Contact Hours or paid at curriculum rate per the district
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DEI: Book Study: Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Boy (10 CTLE/Contact Hours)
The Rome Teacher Center will bring this to your school.
In-person at your school or join with Google Meet.
You will be given reading assignments and questions to discuss as a group.
You will have access to resources to support each topic.
Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times bestseller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, an essential young readers edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation.
Approaching every awkward, taboo, and uncomfortable question with openness and patience, Emmanuel Acho connects his own experience with race and racism―from attending majority-white prep schools to his time in the NFL playing on majority-black football teams―to insightful lessons in black history and black culture.
Contact the Teacher Center if you are interested or if you have questions. Rometc01@gmail.com
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Coursework for Salary Advancement
Members are reminded that we are not allowed to work on coursework for salary advancement during school hours. Thus, refrain from any such activity between 9 am and 3 pm Monday through Friday.
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