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This immersive full-day workshop invites educators to explore the psyche-soma connection-the interplay between mind, body, and lived experience-and how it shapes presence, energy, and connection in the classroom. Through reflective inquiry and experiential learning, participants will examine how alignment and disconnection within this relationship influence thoughts, emotions, behavior, and overall well-being. Grounded in both philosophical […]

Research supports having children understand and interact with complex, informational texts across content areas. Students benefit from explicit instruction in identifying text structure, examining text features, and distinguishing salient from less relevant information as they build comprehension and new knowledge. This workshop provides educators with a robust, integrated approach to effectively use informational texts in […]

This interactive session supports educators in aligning their actions, behaviors, and instructional practices with the expectations they have for students. Using the New York State Portrait of a Graduate framework, participants will reflect, analyze, and design a personal "teacher portrait” to strengthen their impact. Participants will: -Build community with fellow educators -Analyze the components of […]

Neurodiversity is a word used to explain the unique ways people's brains work. Being neurodivergent means having a brain that works differently from the average or "neurotypical” person. This may be differences in social preferences, ways of learning, ways of communicating and/or ways of perceiving the environment. Because of this, a neurodivergent person has different […]

How can teachers preserve the creativity and independence of a writing workshop while also giving students the explicit instruction they need to write clear, powerful sentences? This full-day workshop explores how sentence-level writing strategies can strengthen and enhance a workshop classroom. Drawing on research-based approaches to writing instruction, including strategies described in The Writing Revolution […]

Have you noticed how we have been drawn into a ‘smart' world? At first, remote controls and touch screens were fascinating. We stumbled as we learned to release our ‘fingers from doing the walking', to learning instead how to just ask the assorted A.I.'s to do the work for us. We didn't realize that we […]

Many teachers face disruptive behaviors in their classrooms. Researchers have found a relationship between instructional practices, student engagement, behavioral issues and academic success. When students are frustrated by academic tasks, this often results in behaviors that interfere with teaching and learning. Participants will learn effective research based instructional strategies that have been shown to increase […]

The new Grade 8 NYSED Science Assessment and Science Regents exams, such as Life Science/Biology and Earth and Space Sciences are now entirely literacy based. In secondary math courses, such as Algebra I and II, students are expected to understand complex word problems and explain their computation thinking in writing. This workshop will equip secondary […]

Challenging times call for school adults to communicate issues and needs without judgment or blame. This workshop introduces a simple 4-step process for improving our ability to: 1) say what we are observing without evaluation, 2) listen for and acknowledge the feelings and needs of others, 3) state our needs, and 4) make requests instead […]

Participants will learn how to develop small group reading sessions to help strengthen comprehension skills while building confidence and a love of reading. The small groups will cover all areas of reading comprehension such as -improving reading fluency, -expanding vocabulary skills, -identifying main ideas and supporting details, and -practice making predictions. The participants will learn […]

Participants will examine effective strategies to help Transitioning, Expanding, and Commanding ELLs access grade-level academic content, understand complex concepts, and participate confidently and successfully in the mainstream classroom. The session will focus on the importance of explicitly teaching academic and content-specific vocabulary, providing purposeful scaffolds, and creating meaningful opportunities for students to develop their academic […]

This interactive professional development introduces teachers to Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) practices adapted specifically for the Social Studies classroom. Participants will experience engaging thinking tasks designed to promote curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, and productive struggle. Teachers will explore practical strategies for forming groups, using vertical non-permanent surfaces to make student thinking visible, asking questions, and […]

-Understand the key similarities and differences between a child's home language and English (e.g. phonology, grammar, vocabulary) and leverage the use of cognates to bridge language gaps and enhance language acquisition -Encourage home language discussions with same language peers to support building context knowledge -Allow students to write in their home language when appropriate and […]

Designed for teachers in their first years of implementing New Visions Earth and Space Science, this series of six unit-based workshops provides just-in-time support as teachers move through the curriculum. Each session builds understanding of an upcoming unit's storyline and key instructional decisions, with a focus on translating the pedagogical shifts of the NYSSLS - […]

How exciting! The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence - the formal founding document of the United States which led to the American Revolution, is on July 4, 2026! New York State will formally commemorate the 250 or the Semiquincentennial, through the year 2033. The NYS Library Resource Guide is chock […]

Designed for teachers in their first years of implementing New Visions Biology, this series of six unit-based workshops provides just-in-time support as teachers move through the curriculum. Each session builds understanding of an upcoming unit's storyline and key instructional decisions, with a focus on translating the pedagogical shifts of the NYSSLS - phenomena-driven instruction, 3D […]