Spring Professional Times
Spring Professional Times
It feels like we're finally just getting outside to explore Spring, and already Summer is just around the corner! At the Greece Professional Learning Center in collaboration with the Greece Teachers' Association, we are thrilled to announce that we have several new PL opportunities for the upcoming spring and summer months. Whether you are an educator looking to enhance your practice or a leader looking to support your staff, our courses offer the perfect opportunity for growth and collaboration! As always, our courses are available to you and your colleagues at no cost.
Proposals for Spring ( 3/2-6/1) and Summer (7/1-8/30)are being accepted now. Also, if you’re looking for differences in Committee work and PL, the Committee Guide will help. The last day to submit for PL hours is 6/1/24.
All PL Activities must be completed & submitted in Frontline by 6/1 for 2023-24
NYS Teacher Centers at NYSUT's Committee of 100
This month, representatives from the Greece Professional Learning Center and New York State Teacher Centers throughout the state met with legislative policy makers to highlight the work of our teaching colleagues at NYSUT's annual Committee of 100 Event. During these meetings, we have an opportunity to share the courses that teachers are requesting in response to the ever-changing needs of their students, and to highlight the critical work being done in the classroom every day in the districts we serve.
Pictured above: New York State Teacher Center representatives Michelle Ebert & Barbara Morreale and NYSUT members meet with NYS Senator Jeremy Cooney.
SEARCH OUR PL CATALOG BY PROGRAM AREA
We know how busy our colleagues in education are right now and we value your time. To help you find upcoming relevant courses as quickly as possible, we have made it very easy to filter our digital PL course catalog by program area. Find what you need - when you need it! See what's currently running in each of these programs areas, and register today to reserve your spot!
- Art
- Business
- Data Driven Inquiry/Response to Intervention
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion/ Social Emotional Learning
- English as a New Language
- English Language Arts
- Family and Consumer Science/Technology
- Health/Physical Education/Wellness
- Instructional Strategies
- Leadership
- Library Media Science
- Mathematics
- Music
- New Teacher Support, Coaching & Mentoring
- Professional Learning Day
- Science
- Social Studies
- Technology Integration
- Bilingual Education & World Languages
To track your completed PL hours:
* Log into your Greece Professional Growth account. On the left, click on “My Info”, the Portfolio-View by Purpose. Then you will see your completed PL hours. Click on “View Current Year” for this year’s info. You can also check your progress by looking at your "My Growth Journey".
To track your PL hours in progress:
* Log into your Greece Professional Growth account. On the left, click on Insights. You can click on “Where I am Now” to see your current activities. You can also click on “Where I’ve been” to see completed professional learning and click on your portfolio. How to check your PL hours.
To find a useful guide containing important information:
Featured Teacher Centers Programs
The Greater Rochester Teacher Center Network is providing professional learning to NYS Educators at no cost. <REGISTRATION INFO>
GCSD Calendars for PL
Featured GCSD Programs
Badges
FROM OUR COLLABORATORS
Outside Providers of PL,Use Request for PL Hours Form in Frontline Fill-in Forms
Accessing ARC Core Workshops for PL Hours
For those implementing the soft roll out of the ARC Core program, here are some one hour workshops previously recorded, that you may view as a webinar.
- Multilingual Learners and the Science of Reading
- Building Knowledge in the Classroom
- Rethinking Reading Comprehension
- The Active View of Reading
- Leading Through Adversity
- What’s Next? Identifying Common Ground in Reading Research and Policy
- The Role of Universal Screening
- Voices from the Field: Organizing, Leading, and Learning for Improvement
- Language Variance Is an Asset: The Power of Removing Barriers
- Coffee & Conversation with Jim Cummins and Claude Goldenberg
Strengthen your community’s understanding of social and emotional learning
CASEL has created a free, one-hour, virtual learning experience about SEL. The course includes reflection prompts, videos, and application activities and is designed to introduce SEL..
- Participants will build connections between SEL and their personal goals, reflect on ways they are already promoting SEL for young people, and identify intentional strategies for modeling SEL in their interactions.
- Anyone can take the course independently online
Newsela Certified Educator (NCE)
NCE is a free, self-paced program designed to recognize leaders in the Newsela Community.
- Get a certificate for 5 PL hours
- Know all things Newsela, from the building blocks to more advanced classroom applications.
- Be the first to know.
- Get early notice of new features.
- Test and give feedback on new ideas.
Free Webinars
On-demand PL🔍 from Amplify Science
Amplify is offering no-cost, on-demand PD for K–8 science educators, featuring curriculum experts from UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science and topics specifically designed for you.
Sign up today to dive into the three webinar courses available:
- Establishing a Culture of Figuring Out in Your Next Generation Science Classroom
- Lead with Phenomena and the Three Dimensions Will Follow
- Leveraging Science to Accelerate Learning
Pick and choose which ones you’d like to complete to earn a certificate of completion (available for each course)!
Magic School Professional Learning
Log into Classlink. Log into Magic School. Click on Training along the left side for PL opportunities !! PL needs to be 1 hour in length. You may take several PL opportunities that equal 1 hour. The certificates would need to be submitted on one Professional Learning (PL) Hours Request From Helpful directions
Looking for book study ideas?
One page overview of recommended books.
As a Greece Central employee, you have access to books that you can download to a computer or an e-reader and read and listen to. You can type in a topic like feedback and the search will create a list of all the resources on feedback in the form of chapters in books or sections of books or maybe an entire book. You can save searches to your own library. Or, you can download a whole book and read the entire book. *This e-library collection is provided at no cost to GCSD employees with funding from the New York State Teacher Centers.
1. Go to Gale Virtual Reference Library
2. To Log-in click on the sign-in with Google and then sign in with your Greece Google account.
3. The blue View All button will show you all the book covers in our collection. The video linked here will walk you through all the ways you might want to use this Professional Library.
Online PL sessions from Honoring The Teacher’s Heart
Session #1 (Well-Being): Recording link (no passcode necessary)
Session #2 (Values + Integrity): Recording link, passcode: MGMXt?h7
Session #3 (Boundaries): Recording link, passcode: Cd4Z0^0=
Session #4 (Gratitude): Recording link (no passcode necessary)
In addition to the Well-being videos we already have, we will be adding Teacher Well-being videos on our Education+ YouTube channel soon, so please be sure to subscribe to our channel to get those updates!
Finally, be sure to check out our 100% free Well-Being Canada and Well-being USA curriculum to help you build your students’ well-being!
Free Webinars with Corwin Press
Spend an hour with some of education’s most influential thought leaders
Join us for a free hour of professional learning to discuss a range of critical issues and gain practical tools and evidence-based strategies.
Free Webinars with Learning Forward
There are several ways to learn more about the instructional technology tools and digital programs we use in GCSD. This page is meant to collect and share the many opportunities that are offered from the edtech tools themselves! Most can be used to earn teachers' Professional Learning hours by submitting the PL Hours Request Form (see here for more info). Visit this page often as it will be updated with timely offerings!
The Greece CSD Instructional Technology Teachers (ITTs) have curated a landing page on our Instructional Technology website called, Recommended Professional Learning for Instructional Technology, to highlight high-quality content that can be used for self-paced professional learning for instructional technology. As a reminder, the Instructional Technology website can also be found in Classlink’s orange Technology Folder.
How to Enroll or Lead
How to enroll in PL
To enroll in PL, you will log into Frontline. You will have access to Activity Catalogs from Greece as well as across the State of NY!<More Info Slide Deck> <Watch Video>
We also have an independent study option. <More Info Slide Deck> <Watch Video>
How to enroll in Non- catalog PL Hours
To enroll in PL that is offered by other vendors, professional organizations, or to participate in an Independent Study, you will log into Frontline and complete the Professional Learning Hours Request form. <More Info Slide Deck> <Watch Video>
How to facilitate, instruct or lead PL
To lead PL, you will log into Frontline and complete a Professional Learning Catalog Proposal Form (Choice Activities)<Slide Deck> <Watch Video>
What, Why & How
What, Why & How of the New GTA Professional Learning Contract
We're more than workshops!
We have an extensive professional lending library, ebooks & tech resources and academic resources. Our academic resource room is now open at no cost to you! VariQuest, the company that makes the electronic die cut machines, have a monthly newsletter that includes PL. Here is a quick video where you can learn how to make classroom resources for free! In addition, if you are looking for a way to collaborate with your colleagues (and get compensation!) reach out to your policy board rep for more information.
Classlink: Professional Learning Center
For GCSD employees, you can now access PL resources within Classlink. Resources:
GCSD Frontline Professional Growth Guide
The GCSD Frontline Professional Growth Guide is a resource for information on tuition reimbursement, individual, or group conferences. Note: These do not earn PL hours.
Section A: Greece Teachers’ Association (GTA) Tuition Reimbursement
Section B: Non-GTA Tuition Reimbursement (AGCEP, GUSS, GESS, Teamsters)
Section C: Conference Request/Out of Greece
Section D: Group Event/ Group Conferences Proposal
Section E: Group Event/ Group Conferences: Directions for Participants
Section F: Tuesday Professional Learning/Staff Meeting Proposal (for building secretaries)
Section G: Summer Curriculum Writing Proposal
Section H: Guidelines for Greece TSSF Conference Rooms
Greece Professional Learning Center
Email: marguerite.dimgba@greececsd.org
Website: https://www.greececsd.org/Page/296
Location: 1790 Latta Road, Rochester, NY, USA
Phone: 585-966-2130
Twitter: @greecementors
Greece Teachers Association
Email: Kara.Manjerovic@greececsd.org
Website: https://greeceteachers.com
Location: 120 Erie Canal Drive, Suite 320 Rochester, NY 14626
Phone: (585) 471-5765
Facebook: facebook.com/Greeceteachers/
Twitter: @greeceteachers