Regional School Success Digest
'All things RSS' in a 'digestible' format - 09.28.2020
The purpose of our TST BOCES Regional School Success newsletter is to highlight upcoming opportunities and keep your informed with resources our department is both creating and promoting. Each newsletter will feature a variety of materials depending on what is on our calendar. We hope you will take advantage of any Professional Learning, Cooperative Enrichment, School Library System, or Instructional Technology opportunities that you believe will enhance your district & students' learning environment.
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Regional Professional Networks at TST BOCES
The intention of educator networks is to:
Build our knowledge base and skill levels
Engage in best practices and current research
Facilitate support for educators in the area
Collaborate across the region
TST BOCES is committed to ongoing professional learning opportunities in collaboration with the educators in the region. In order to successfully support one another, we need to provide a fluid process of turnkeying information back to our component districts.
Below you will find a link to a list of our Professional Networks,. Please explore, and share amongst the staff in your district who may be interested in serving on a network. The first meetings will be in October, so now is a great time to get involved!
Registration information is listed on the Professional Network Newsletter.
Check out this resource: The Hybrid Teacher - Survival Guide
This informational guide will help support and prepare teachers for the upcoming school year. Some highlights that this resource contains:
- Essential Edtech Tool Box
- The Hybrid School Model
- Synchronous & Asynchronous Learning
- Parent/Guardian Communication
- Technology Bootcamp
- Building Culture and Community
- And many more supporting tools and resources
Click here to access the PDF to read more.
10 Google Tips for Remote Learning from Shake Up Learning
Read about the 10 Google Tips that will help get you settled into your school year.
From Education Week: How to Thwart 'Zoombombing' in the Remote Classroom: 10 Tips
Read about tips on how to keep your remote classrooms safe from unwanted guests.
FOCUS: Come together for equity
New York State Library Digital Equity Webinar Series
Digital equity is a complex set of conditions that requires that every New Yorker has access to affordable broadband, adequate devices, necessary software, digital literacy skills, and a community of support. Persistent digital divides exist in communities -- urban, suburban, and rural -- across New York; in fact, more than 25% of students in New York lack access to the Internet and/or appropriate devices to participate in remote online education. The challenges to student connectivity can’t be considered in isolation, since they are part of larger systemic inequities disproportionately affecting people of color and people with lower incomes.
This webinar series is intended to bring together stakeholders from across sectors to:
Establish a shared understanding of the challenges to digital equity and
Develop a shared vision of how we can work together to achieve digital equity in New York.
Parent Pointers Website
Digital and Blended Learning Website
However, if you prefer a more self-paced version of these professional learning opportunities, we've designed modules for educators to build their own capacity to support students and families during this challenging time. See our Distance & Blended Learning Modules here.
Our specialists have setup modules within a Google Classroom. Click here to view the offerings and get the classroom codes.
Virtual Enrichment Programs
To view upcoming offerings, click here.
Regional Professional Development and Learning Opportunities from TST BOCES
Redefine Blended Learning with Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy
Infuse your synchronous and asynchronous remote teaching game with culturally & linguistically responsive practices to leverage the strengths students bring to the virtual classroom. Learn how to validate and affirm sociocentric, kinesthetic, communal, and spontaneous learners by participating in remote Think-Pair-Share, Thinking on your Feet, and Give One Get One protocols using tools including, but not limited to, Google Jamboard, Google Chat and Flipgrid.
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020, 04:30 PM
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Social Justice & Art: A 3 Part Series presented by Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
Off the Pedestal: Statues & Monuments in Public Displays
WHEN
October 8, 2020
WHERE
This is an online event.
MORE INFORMATION
This 3 part series of workshops will give educators the opportunity to explore current events in light of several types of artwork. Participants will read a short selection of text in preparation for each topic and then be led on a guided discussion with Johnson Museum of Art Educators. Participants will discuss the selected readings and selected works of art in a virtual model that they can use with their students. Practice looking at art and linking it to contemporary issues help validate and confirm conversations that students may be having. This series allows participants to practice a protocol for intellectual engagement for student collaboration and discourse.
Regional Distance Learning Reflection Forums
Elementary Teachers: October 19 at 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Secondary Teachers: October 19 at 4:30pm - 6:00pm
WHERE
These will be virtual events using Zoom and Google Meet.
MORE INFORMATION
Teachers, you have completed at least 3 weeks of distance (virtual/hybrid/blended) learning this school year, now, let’s take a step back to reflect and share our experiences. What’s working? What’s not?
The Professional Learning Team at TST BOCES will come together to facilitate and support discussions to support each other as teachers share resources and reflect to improve distance learning for their students, families, and themselves. This will help the team to communicate and assist teachers across the region This session will leverage breakout groups and collaboration to make learning accessible and meaningful. Please bring a question for the group as well as a strategy, resource, or tool that’s worked to support students, families, and teachers during distance learning.
Executive Director of RSS
607-257-1551, ext. 1004
neschler@tstboces.org
Coordinator of School Library System
Mary Kay Welgoss
607-257-1555, ext. 1033
mwelgoss@tstboces.org
Coordinator of Cooperative Enrichment
607-257-1555, ext. 7205
Coordinator of Professional Learning
Kira Carinci
607-257-1551, ext. 7202
kcarinci@tstboces.org
Instructional Specialist for Inclusive Learning
Teresa Heatherman
607-257-1551, ext. 7204
theatherman@tstboces.org
Instructional Specialist for Shared Technology Integration
TST BOCES Regional School Success
Email: rss@tstboces.org
Website: tstboces.org/rss
Location: 555 Warren Rd, Ithaca, NY, USA
Phone: 607-257-1551
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