Williamsville Teacher Center

The vision of the Williamsville Teacher Center is to establish a viable professional growth center where training, research, and development can occur for individuals and groups by extending the District’s current commitment to professional development. 

To extend the District’s current commitment to Staff Development.

To provide another mode to meet the needs of our teachers as related to district goals.

To provide leadership opportunities for teachers to exhibit their knowledge and expertise.

To support the goals of the district through pilots and case studies using cutting edge research and technology as a catalyst for district initiatives.

Established in 1992, the Williamsville Teacher Center services employees of the Williamsville Central School District, as well as the thirteen non-public schools located with the district's boundaries.  The Center has a high level of support and cooperation with the Williamsville Central School District which has a robust professional development program.

The Williamsville Teacher Center policy board sees our role as providing opportunities for teachers to initiate new instructional technology in our case studies and workshops to develop effective uses of the resources. The center strives to share best practices and strategies to enhance the student learning process and strengthen the foundations of the teacher. The focus in not on the technology, but rather the effective teaching strategies that enhance learning in the classroom. Our case studies, workshops and professional learning opportunity support have been effective in demonstrating the learning value of instructional technology resources, which has led the district to take over the initiatives and provide the resources for more classrooms. 

Our focus this year, we will continue to focus on emerging instructional technology best practices and strategies in most of our case studies, workshops and learning opportunities or materials provided to our center members. 

The Williamsville Central School district is fortunate to have a robust professional development program with a full-time Staff Development Instructional Specialist. The Williamsville Teacher Center works collaboratively with this department to supplement and support the wide variety of courses and workshops being offered to teachers. Further collaborative meetings with instructional specialists in the content areas help to determine programs and activities which would support our teachers as they deepen their content knowledge and implement the Next Generation New York State Learning Standards into their instructional practices. 

The program goals for the school year focus on professional development which enhances the content knowledge of teachers, helps teachers understand and apply the NYS P-12 Learning Standards to instruction and ongoing assessment of student learning, helps teachers effectively integrate technology to support student achievement. 

The hours of operation of the Williamsville Teacher Center are 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on weekdays. The policy board meeting dates can be found by visiting the Meetings and Minutes tab above. Additional meetings of sub-groups will be scheduled throughout the year including the Fiscal Advisory, the Grant-Writing and the Teacher of the Year Award Committee. Meetings are held in District Office at 105 Casey Road, East Amherst, NY in the Information Technology Conference Room. Public is welcome to attend.