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Afterschool PD Series (2022-2023)
Afterschool PD Series (2022-2023)
Find the materials and recordings from various afterschool professional development hosted by Teaching and Learning so that leaders and teachers can access them year-round!
9/12/22: Small Group Instruction & Classroom Management
Curriculum Associate Patrick Sitzer presents a quick method of creating small, mixed-ability teams to maintain higher engagement during instructional time.
9/13/22: Pacing, Standards, and Planning with the NGLS
Instructional Specialist Stacie O'Brien breaks down updates on the Next Generation Learning Standards in crosswalks with the Common Core.
9/14/22: Discovering Newsela in Your Classroom
Newsela staffer Marie Smith introduces teachers and leaders to the basics of Newsela's resources and the ways you might integrate across the curriculum.
9/14/22: Differentiating Instruction with Newsela
Newsela staffer Allison Griffin highlights ways that teachers of multiple content areas can use Newsela's dynamic features to differentiate.
9/15/22: Using Discovery Education in Your Classroom
Discovery Education staffer Casendra Thomas shares a wide overview of Discovery Education for teachers to use in their classrooms for the school year ahead.
9/15/22: Using Discovery Education's Assessment Builder
Discovery Education staffer Patrick Heath demonstrates Discovery Education's powerful Assessment Builder tool for teachers to save time building tests.
9/16/22: MAP Proctoring for Fall Administration
Associate Superintendent Stephen Marositz covers everything you need to know to successfully proctor the MAP Growth test this fall.
10/11/22: Infusing Religion Across Content Areas
Associate Superintendent Linda Dougherty shares ways you can integrate Catholic teaching into everyday classroom subjects.
10/13/22: Guided Reading
Instructional Specialist Javon Newkirk outlines and models the basics of guided reading. Teachers of older grades can adapt these practices to increase reading abilities in their classrooms, too!
11/16/22: Targeted Student Feedback
CCS Ari Kovics presents on best practices for giving students targeted, practical, and timely feedback on their work across all grade levels. Explore the presentation and its resources below!
11/17/22: Effective Small-Group Instruction
Curriculum Associate Patrick Sitzer models the use of MAP data to create intentional, mixed-ability small groups for students to engage more with each other.
1/12/23: Center-Based Instruction
Upper Counties Early Childhood team provides a snapshot of the basics to get center-based instruction going in your classroom. Spoiler: it starts with clear routines and procedures!
1/19/23: Cross-Curricular Planning
NYC Area Manager Lauren Wyner shares some ideas for integrating engaging work for students across traditional subject matter boundaries to boost student achievement and depth of knowledge.
3/14/23: Tier 2 Instructional Strategies
Director of Special Education Eileen Murtha provides guidance on tailoring your instruction using an RTI model to effectively reach the learners in your classroom.
3/16/23: Family Partnership + Engagement
Instructional leader Sara Shea details the importance of building (and fostering) partnerships with your students' families over the course of your school year to increase a sense of community.
4/25/23: Sustaining Engagement for All Learners
Instructional Specialist Claire Wilbiken breaks down engagement into behavioral, intellectual, and emotional domains for you to consider the ways you might keep all your classroom learners engaged.
5/18/23: Outdoor Learning
Regional Superintendent Dr. Noelle Beale shares ways you might engage students of all ages in dynamic, outdoor learning activities as we head toward summer vacation.
Past PD Opportunities
Past PD Opportunities
NWEA: How Catholic Schools Influence Growth
In this free webinar, NWEA will share findings based on MAP Growth data from both before and after the pandemic. Using student-level models, these findings offer clearer insight into how Catholic schools influence growth. Boston College professor Shaun Dougherty will share findings from national MAP Growth data, revealing how outcomes vary by race/ethnicity, subject, and location, plus what it all means for schools today.
Workshop Objectives:
Discover eight executive function skills and their impact on learning, motivation, and behavior.
Develop an understanding, the importance, and the consequences of the relationship between ADHD and executive function skill development.
Learn strategies for engaging and maintaining students' attention and active participation and increase students' performance in structured activities and open learning times.
Examine how to reduce students' stress levels to perform better and meet greater expectations.
Explore how classroom structures improve focus and participation for students with ADHD and executive function challenges.
This summer, Catholic School middle-school and high-school teachers have a unique and exciting opportunity to explore the teaching of Holocaust and human rights within the framework of a Catholic school classroom for 3 days right here in NYC! The seminar is free, and grants are available to cover other costs. Learn more here.
Summer Music Educators Workshop
Application Open: March 13
Application Deadline: June 10
Program Start: June 29–July 2, 2024
Exciting Opportunity for Music Teachers!
What does innovation look like in your music classroom? What small steps can educators make to see big changes in their student’s musical learning? Join K–12 music educators from across the country to expand the impact of your work with young musicians. In this workshop, we will reinvigorate your creativity, explore Carnegie Hall’s Great Music Teaching Framework, and invest in your own artistry through participatory music making sessions.
This four-day workshop will take place in Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing. The registration fee for this workshop is $75. Travel and accommodations are the responsibility of the participant. Travel stipends are available for qualifying individuals after acceptance into the workshop.
🆓 SADLIER: Fluency Is Essential in Effective Reading Instruction
Reading fluency is the bridge to comprehension and is key to motivating readers to find joy in reading. Join Ellen Edmonds to delve into strategies and techniques to build fluency, and explore the impact it has on comprehension and overall reading success.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and practical tools that you can use to inspire and empower your readers.
Fill out the form on this page to register for this free webinar. Even if you cannot attend live, register here to receive the recording.
Science of Reading Fundamentals (Microcredential)
Dive into The Science of Reading with this self-paced and asynchronous online course, earning NYS teachers 35 CTLE hours upon completion! For a one-time fee of $50.00, P-12 teachers will delve into about the Five Pillars of Reading—Phonemic Awareness, Phonics (including alphabetic principle and orthography), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
This course can be completed in as little as seven weeks or as long as six months. Interested teachers are urged to sign up through this link.
🆓 Talking Tuesdays | July-August 2024 | 9:00-10:00 AM
Are you looking for ideas? Resources? Need help planning something for next year? Join Upstate PDRC for Office Hours this July and August.
🆓 Summer Choice Board PD Sessions!
Choose from a menu of 16 different PD sessions with PDRC this summer! Click here to find the varying topics!
🆓 TEQ Summer PD 2024
Make your summer learning fun and convenient with Teq’s free, virtual PD! We’ve got a great line up of courses for everything from brushing up on basics to exploring cutting-edge edtech. Topics include the Google Suite, an intro to Computer Science Standards, Blended Learning, and more! Space is limited, so snag your spot early!
Jim Crow and Its Challengers (4-Day Summer Seminar)
Over the course of four August afternoons, this synchronous Zoom Seminar will examine the rise, institutionalization, fall, and lasting impact of racial segregation laws in the United States. Click here to read more. Interested teachers are urged to register via this link and earn up to 22 PD credits for a one-time fee of $25.
🆓 Virtual EdTech Workshops
OK2Ask offers a number of free professional learning sessions for EdTech this July 2024. Register here. (Note that these are not CTLE.)
🆓 NYS Clean Energy Educator Workshops (4-Day Summer Institute)
Do you teach Grade 4 or up? Are you committed to teaching your students and colleagues about clean energy? If so, please apply for this free 4-Day Summer Institute offered by Whymaker in NYC this July. (Significant stipend included for participating teachers.) Click here to read more and register.
🆓 Virtual Sessions on Varying Topics: 6/18 & 6/20
If able to join, the Staten Island region welcomes all ADNY school leaders and teachers to virtual sessions surrounding a multitude of topics, including executive functioning, managing behavior challenges, literacy development, sensory dysregulation in the classroom, and more. Click here for details.
🆓 For Social Studies teachers:
June 6th, 2024 | 3:00pm-4:00pm
In this Newsela webinar, you'll hear from S.S. teachers on measuring outcome and making gains in achievement and growth. Read more/register here.
🆓 Assessment and Grading in Differentiated Classrooms (3 one-hour sessions)
Join PDRC on Tuesday, March 26, April 16, & May 1, 2024 (4-5 PM) to explore how to align assessment and grading in differentiated classrooms, using brief articles by well-renowned educational leaders as points of engagement. Click here to read more and here to register (3 CTLE)!
🆓 Best Academic Literacy Development Practices for ENL Students (1 hour seminar/webinar)
Gleaning from her research at St. John's University, this free one hour session led by Dr. Jenny Yang on March 20, 2024 (6 PM) will delve into "best practices for supporting the mathematical talent and literacy development of English learners" as well as "how advanced mathematics can be made accessible to English learners, with a special focus on how children think and learn about math in K-5. Participants can expect to engage in a spirited discussion." Learn more and register here.
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