Providing high-quality professional development opportunities to NYS CTE Educators is one of the highest priorities of the CTE TAC.
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December 5, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Introduction to Social Emotional Learning, preparing students for success in the workforce and career and technical education. (Part 1)
Description: This introductory session will provide an overview of social-emotional learning competencies in relation to employability.
Presenter(s): Laura Ficarra, Brockport Research Institute
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): SEL, WBL
December 6, 2022
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Cultivating our Emotionally Intelligent Leadership In Service of SEL Implementation: Would you follow you? Leading with Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Part 1
Description: Strong leadership is critical for SEL implementation but what does it really mean to be an SEL leader and what does SEL leadership require? This 90-minute session will provide a foundation in Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership Foundations, and set the course for the year-long SEL-focused professional learning series.
Presenter(s): Meena Srinivasan, Karuna Consulting LLC
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): SEL, Leadership
December 7, 2022
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Leading with Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Part 2
Description: This session is usually offered as Part 2 to Cultivating Emotionally Intelligent Leadership in Service of SEL Implementation. In this 90-minute session participants deepen their understanding of Emotional Intelligence, create an Emotional Intelligence Action Plan, and engage in peer coaching.
Presenter(s): Meena Srinivasan, Karuna Consulting LLC
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): SEL, Leadership
December 7, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
LGBTQIA Youth: Creating Safe Environments for Children
Description: School climate is composed of numerous factors, including not only the level of physical safety at school but also the extent to which members of the school community feel valued and welcomed at school.LGBTQIA students experience bullying at a higher rate than their non-LGBTQIA peers, often with serious consequences. This workshop will describe the differences between gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation to help educators build safe and positive learning spaces for all students.
Presenter(s): Liz Gallo, WhyMaker
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): DEI, Engagement Strategies
December 8, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Best Practices for Lesson Planning
Description: Having very successful lessons hinges on having a great lesson plan. In this workshop, educators will practice writing great objectives and ensure that assessments measure what they planned for their students. Educators will also learn the importance of connecting to prior knowledge, and how to hook students to engage them in deeper learning.
Presenter(s): Liz Gallo, WhyMaker
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
December 12, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Integrating and aligning social-emotional learning with career and technical education and/or workforce education/workforce development. (Part 2)
Description: This session will engage participants in the planning and implementation of social-emotional learning within the career and technical education/workforce development curriculum.
Presenter(s): Laura Ficarra, Brockport Research Institute
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): SEL, WBL, Instructional Strategies
December 13, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Vocabulary! 3 Tiers of vocabulary & CTE (Part 3 of 5)
Description: Vocabulary! How will students use the vocabulary they are learning in CTE classes in the ‘real world?’ In this series, educators will learn about the three tiers of vocabulary instruction, and what they mean for CTE courses and student learning. Also included in this series are strategies and resources for encouraging students to use, practice, and apply new content-specific vocabulary.
Presenter(s): Jen Hesseltine, Jen Hesseltine Consulting
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
December 14, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Best Practices with Multi-Tiered Systems of support in CTE Math Instruction
Description: Enhancing teacher’s skills with strategies integrating Mathin CTE and strategies to meet the needs of students with special needs. Review best practices related to Multi-Tiered Systems of support (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI). Review best practices for Universal Design for Learning(UDL). Review the Math-in-CTE Model pedagogical framework. Explore five research-based strategies for use in CTE classrooms. Examine ways to assess student learning.
Presenter(s): Susan Hildebrandt & Katrina Arndt, Brockport Research Insitute
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
December 14, 2022
10:00 - 11:00 AM
CTE Leadership: Using Situational Leadership to support All Educators
Description: Situational Leadership is the foundation for a flexible, practical approach to leading a diverse team of CTE educators. Being able to identify the readiness of the staff and support them appropriately is key to building a positive and productive working relationship.
Presenter(s): Patrick Darfler Sweeney, WhyMaker
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Leadership
December 15, 2022
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Program Approval: The Self Study
Description: Scheduling meetings; Self-study format options; Required components; Resources available on the NYSED CTE web pages
Presenter(s): Steve Perry & Tracy Gyoerkoe, CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Program Approval
January 3, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Vocabulary! 3 Tiers of vocabulary & CTE (Part 4 of 5)
Description: Vocabulary! How will students use the vocabulary they are learning in CTE classes in the ‘real world?’ In this series, educators will learn about the three tiers of vocabulary instruction, and what they mean for CTE courses and student learning. Also included in this series are strategies and resources for encouraging students to use, practice, and apply new content-specific vocabulary.
Presenter(s): Jen Hesseltine, Jen Hesseltine Consulting
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
January 4, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Helping CTE Students Learn New Vocabulary
Description: There are always so many new vocabulary words in our classes, that it can be overwhelming for our students. Learn lots of strategies to help students learn and retain new vocabulary.
Presenter(s): Liz Gallo, WhyMaker
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
January 5, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
The Language Diverse Classroom: Effective English Communication for the Diverse Classroom - Part 1
Description: This interactive workshop is designed to help native English speakers adapt their English to be better understood by non-native English speakers. The first step in improving comprehensibility is to become aware of the idioms, expressions, and slang that are a natural part of native speech. By the end of this two-part workshop, participants will be able to recognize and modify their use of language to be better understood in the classroom.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Captial Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs, DEI
January 10, 2023
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Teacher Retention
Description: Keeping and growing teachers is the most effective way to improve student learning. In this session, administrators will learn strategies for teacher retention that they can immediately implement in their school or district. Leaders will leave this session with a concrete plan with both short-term and long-term strategies for teacher retention.
Presenter(s): Jeremy Abarno, Hendy Avenue Consulting
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Leadership
January 10, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Enhancing Group Work in the CTE Classroom
Description: Group work allows students time to collaborate, develop their social skills, and learn content at the same time. In this session, participants will learn how to effectively this session, participants will learn how to effectively design group work to ensure all students participate equally while learning. Tips and strategies regarding setting up and managing group work will be addressed.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Engagement Strategies
January 11, 2023
10:00 - 11:00 AM
CTE Leadership: Modeling Effective Communication & Collaboration with the Community
Description: Industry leaders talk about the need for their workers to collaborate and communicate effectively in the workplace. This workshop focused on increasing the CTE Leader's ability to collaborate and communicate with their faculty & staff. The leader is also the primary liaison to the community. We explore activities and approaches to enhance connections to the local community that build a thriving and practical education for students.
Presenter(s): Patrick Darfler Sweeney, WhyMaker
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Leadership
January 12, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
The Language Diverse Classroom: Effective English Communication for the Diverse Classroom - Part 2
Description: This interactive workshop is designed to help native English speakers adapt their English to be better understood by non-native English speakers. The first step in improving comprehensibility is to become aware of the idioms, expressions, and slang that are a natural part of native speech. By the end of this two-part workshop, participants will be able to recognize and modify their use of language to be better understood in the classroom.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Captial Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs, DEI
January 17, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Vocabulary! 3 Tiers of vocabulary & CTE (Part 5 of 5)
Description: Vocabulary! How will students use the vocabulary they are learning in CTE classes in the ‘real world?’ In this series, educators will learn about the three tiers of vocabulary instruction, and what they mean for CTE courses and student learning. Also included in this series are strategies and resources for encouraging students to use, practice, and apply new content-specific vocabulary.
Presenter(s): Jen Hesseltine, Jen Hesseltine Consulting
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
January 18, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Using an EmployabilityProfile as a formative assessment
Description: This workshop will serve as a focus on driving instruction on the essential performance skills that are key to career readiness in an industry. Planning and analysis of a collective group of student employability profiles using a simple protocol will emphasize the needs of an individual student, a small group of students, or a whole class.
Presenter(s): Stacey Eger-Converse, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, Watertown CSD
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
January 19, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
The Language Diverse Classroom: Using Gender Inclusive Language in the Modern Day Classroom - Part 3
Description: This interactive workshop will be based on the guidelines from the United Nations for using gender-neutral/gender-inclusive language. Participants will review the guidelines and practice modifying written and verbal statements with the goal of taking this new knowledge back to the classroom.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Captial Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs, DEI
January 19, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Program Approval: External Review
Description: Including a variety of stakeholders (required as well as additional); Conducting the curriculum and standards review; Conducting the program review; Report out from self-study team representative; Utilize the collected data; Seeking and recording feedback; Using external review feedback
Presenter(s): Di Hesler & Tanner Thompson, CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Program Approval
January 24, 2023
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Sharing and Support
Description: 7 Content Area Programs - TBD
Presenter(s): CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Educators, Leaders
Content Area(s): Sharing and Support
January 25, 2023
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Sharing and Support
Description: 7 Content Area Programs - TBD
Presenter(s): CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Educators, Leaders
Content Area(s): Sharing and Support
January 26, 2023
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Sharing and Support
Description: 7 Content Area Programs - TBD
Presenter(s): CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Educators, Leaders
Content Area(s): Sharing and Support
January 31, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Hindsight is 20/20 with Assessment
Description: This workshop will walk participants through a step-by-step guide to analyzing a current assessment(unit test, etc.) from a post-design perspective for its alignment to the initially intended purposes/instruction. While participating in the workshop, attendees can use existing assessments and examine and evaluate their content alignment but also practical administrative components such as time on test, etc. ensuring that explicit and implicit messages given to students align.
Presenter(s): Stacey Eger-Converse, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, Watertown CSD
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
February 2, 2023
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Perkins: Data, data, data - Part 1 of 2
Description: Some of the most frequent questions we were asked in2022 were related to data: Where and how do I access the data that I need for the Perkins application? How do I sort and analyze the data? What is “Root Cause Analysis” and how can I use it to improve the quality of and access to CTE programs? Part one of two sessions devoted to data will review various one of two sessions devoted to data will review various types and sources of data, how to gather and sort it, and how to display it in a way that can be understood by stakeholders.
Presenter(s): Tracy Gyoeroke, CTE TAC of NY, Cily Rueda & Brittany Kitterman, NYSED
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Perkins & CLNA
February 7, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
An Introduction to Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness
Description: This workshop will provide CTE teachers with an introduction to approaches for supporting their students who are experiencing homelessness. The session will begin with an overview of the McKinney-Vento HomelessAssistance Act, and available assistance from the federal, state, and local levels, as well as strategies to implement at the classroom level to foster academic success. The session will conclude with a guided discussion.
Presenter(s): Kate O'Hara, NYIT
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Special Populations & ELLs
February 14, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Strategies of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Description: Vocabulary is crucial to a student's ability to understand the content but vocabulary instruction can be a challenge for both students and educators. This session will focus on creative research-based strategies that will assist teachers as they help students retain the needed academic vocabulary for their field of study. Educators will explore rigorous and engaging ways to teach vocabulary and leave with easy, ready-to-use tools.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
February 16, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Program Approval: Preparing the application
Description: Review application; What to attach, in which order, and how to group them; Do’s and don’ts
Presenter(s): Steve Perry & Tanner Thompson, CTE TAC oF NY
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Program Approval
March 2, 2023
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Perkins: Data, Data, Data - Part 2 - Root Cause Analysis
Description: After the Perkins series last year, we were asked how to go about digging deeper into the data analysis. Part 2 of the data-focused Perkins series will focus on root causes analysis, walking participants through a deep dive into their data in order to improve student outcomes. You are encouraged to attend with your leadership team and with your data in hand in order to participate fully.
Presenter(s): Tracy Gyoerkoe, CTE TAC OF NY, Cily Rueda, NYSED, Stacey Eger-Converse, Watertown CSD
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Perkins & CLNA
March 7, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Google Sites as Portfolios
Description: Google Sites are such a wonderful tool for documenting student work as a portfolio. Learn how to use a template of a Google Site to capture your students' learning and growth over time. You can use it as an assessment tool to integrate writing and reading. Once you see how easy and current it is to use Google Sites, you will be hooked and have your students making sites right away.
Presenter(s): Jonathan Redecker, WhyMaker
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
March 9, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Fostering Student Ownership of Work
Description: Allowing students to take ownership of their work provides students with an opportunity to develop many valuable life lessons. However, creating a classroom culture of accountability can be challenging at times. In this session, educators will explore easy-to-implement tools and strategies to provide student choice, develop independent learning habits and provide formative feedback to continually help students grow.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
March 21, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Effective Student Presentations
Description: Presentations can benefit students in various ways. They can help students learn to speak to students in front of a group, prepare students for a needed professional skill, help students synthesize learned information, and assist students with their speaking skills. This session will help educators discover ways to set up the classroom environment to make the most of student presentations. Educators will learn strategies to manage class presentations, keep all students engaged during presentations as well as ways to provide meaningful feedback.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
March 22, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Differentiating for ELLs: Creating Lessons (Part 1 of 3)
Description: This workshop will focus on creating lessons that are accessible to ELLs while maintaining the integrity of the curriculum and the learning outcomes. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to differentiate objectives on a given topic.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Special Populations & ELLS, Instructional Strategies
March 23, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Differentiating for ELLs: Differentiating Assessments (Part 2 of 3)
Description: In this workshop, the primary focus will be on how to create and use formal and informal assessments to help ELLs demonstrate their knowledge. By the end of the workshop, participants will have some new resources in their assessment-making tool kits.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Special Populations & ELLS, Instructional Strategies
March 23, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Program Approval: Setting up systems and Q&A
Description: Delivering the program; systems for Curriculum updates and review; conducting and tracking WBL Data collection; ensuring assessments are given and technical endorsements awarded; Amendments to the program; Growing and/or expanding the programs.
Presenter(s): Tanner Thompson and Karyn Watt, CTE TAC of NY
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Program Approval
March 29, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Differentiating for ELLs: Scaffolding for the Language-Diverse Classroom (Part 3 of 3)
Description: In construction, scaffolding helps to safely support and create elevation temporarily–until the project is complete. It serves the same purpose in the classroom! From modeling expectations to schema-building, scaffolding allows students to reach new heights with the help of various modes of content delivery.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Special Populations & ELLS, Instructional Strategies
March 30, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Questioning as a Formative Assessment Technique
Description: We all use questioning in our classrooms. Rote questions, in-depth questions, and logistical questions are all pieces of a day for both us as educators and our students. But, what happens to the brain when questions are posed to students? Why is wait time important anyway? Investigate some of these topics and think more
Presenter(s): Stacey Eger-Converse, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, Watertown CSD
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
April 20, 2023
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Perkins: The 2023-24 Perkins Application
Description: The 23-24 Perkins application will look very similar to the previous one. Participants will review the form and be offered tips to complete it efficiently and effectively, incorporating their previous CLNA and any additional data that is available. Participants will also be offered the opportunity to share with their colleagues any successful initiatives they have completed over the 22-23 program year.
Presenter(s): Tracy Gyoerkoe, CTE TAC, Cily Rueda, NYSED
Audience: Leaders
Content Area(s): Perkins & CLNA
April 25, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Integrating Reading in CTE
Description: In the CTE classroom, students are presented with numerous authentic texts such as lab reports, blueprints, business plans, and technical manuals. Students can greatly benefit from developing literacy skills to navigate through such texts. This workshop will introduce educators to various literacy strategies, ones that help students summarize materials they read, think critically about that material, and then use evidence from texts to support claims.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
April 26, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Assessment Literacy In-Depth
Description: Learn more about authenticity, rigor, validity, reliability, and more components of quality assessment design. If you are designing assessments for your program on your own, you will want to consider all of these factors and others to ensure your assessment meets the needs of your curricular and instructional vision and also sends a clear message to students on what is important.
Presenter(s): Stacey Eger-Converse, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, Watertown CSD
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
May 2, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Integrating Writing in CTE
Description: Research indicates that students' success in both college and career demands an ability to write effectively for a variety of purposes. Writing instruction is the responsibility of all educators. In this workshop, participants will develop an understanding of why writing instruction is critical and how various writing strategies can easily be integrated into CTE classrooms.
Presenter(s): Sherry St.Clair, Reflective Learning
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies
May 3, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Best Practices for ELLs Success: Tips/Best Practices for ELL Classroom Success (Part 1 of 3)
Description: This interactive workshop will highlight best practices for teaching ELLs while drawing on the successful experiences that the participants have had during this school year. Teachers will leave this workshop with a mini toolkit for future classroom success.
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs, Engagement Strategies
May 10, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Best Practices for ELLs Success: Best Practices for Creating Multimodal Lessons for ELL Success (Part 2 of 3)
Description: Students learn in unique ways, and what works for some doesn't work for all. To help ELLs grasp content, the more modes the better! From infographics to video, the this two-part workshop will explore how to deliver a lesson in several different ways. Put your creative caps on and join the fun!
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs
May 17, 2023
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Best Practices for ELLs Success: Best Practices for Creating Multimodal Lessons for ELL Success (Part 3 of 3)
Description: Students learn in unique ways, and what works for some doesn't work for all. To help ELLs grasp content, the more modes the better! From infographics to video, this two-part workshop will explore how to deliver a lesson in several different ways. Put your creative caps on and join the fun!
Presenter(s): Kim Andersen, Capital Region Language Center
Audience: Educators
Content Area(s): Instructional Strategies, Special Populations & ELLs
June 15, 2023
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Sharing and Support
Description: 3 Programs - TBD
Presenter(s): TBD
Audience: Educators, Leaders
Content Area(s): Sharing and Support
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