ISS Communicator 10/19 - 10/23
CiTi BOCES Weekly Outreach
The purpose of this weekly newsletter is to provide professional development,
support, resources, information, connections and best practices to foster adult
learning and student achievement. You will find offerings from
Instructional Support Services, Distance Learning and Model Schools Teams.
Up coming PD...
Online professional development offered by
CiTi BOCES ISS and Model Schools
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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness
Zoom Date: October 20th, 2020 4:00-5:00pm
Trauma sensitive mindfulness means we have a thorough understanding of trauma and mindfulness. Bringing these concepts together at the classroom or personal practice level involves understanding how these concepts can complement or conflict with one another depending on application. Join me at this introductory level session to explore ways to make mindfulness work for all populations. We will begin and end the session with example experiential mindfulness practices that embody trauma sensitive mindfulness.Registration Link: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3619293
Article Study: Adapting Reading Comprehension Instruction to Virtual Learning
Zoom Date: October 20th, 2020 8:10-8:30 am
In distance learning, teachers can adapt many of the strategies they would use in the classroom to promote reading skills. Join me in this 20 minute session where we will read a brief article and discuss how this may impact our instructional process. You must have access to the internet as the article will be shared through the Zoom chat and your microphone.Registration Link:
https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3640611
SEL Signature Practices: Welcoming Rituals 101
Zoom Date: October 21st, 2020 3:00-4:00 pm
The SEL Signature Practices from CASEL offer a simplistic structure that builds autonomy, belonging, and competence. A welcoming ritual is the first element that creates a climate of inclusion, belonging, and connection where all voices are heard through personal choice. This mini Zoom session offers "take home" activities for you to use immediately with students or any aged audience. Participants will engage in welcoming ritual activities, learn how to modify for virtual or in-person learning, and adapt for developmental needs. All participants will have a copy of the slide deck to adapt to their needs.Registration Link: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3638940
Mid-Week Mindfulness
Each time I ask educators what emotion is most present, the most common answers are "overwhelmed" and "anxious". I then think of Parker Palmer's words - "We teach who we are" and know that now more than ever, we must build into our schedule the habit of mindfulness and self-care. Our ability to maintain steady ground, presence, and calm in the face of uncertainty will have significant impact on our students and be a strong factor in keeping burnout at bay for ourselves. This weekly offering will focus on creating space for sharing together, building community and engaging in mindfulness practices that will sometimes be guided and sometimes be simple moments of silence and then dialogue. Register for October 21st.
See other dates and registration links in MyLearningPlan
Strategies to Support SEL, Classroom Management, & Engagement in an Online Environment
Zoom Date: October 22nd, 2020 3:00-4:40 pm
We will explore ways to support social emotional learning in an online environment, while establishing/maintaining positive classroom manage and engaging students academically. Participants will leave with strategies and activities to immediately use with online classroom settings.
Registration Link: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3639203
SEL Leaders Network Fall Meetings
The mindset and skills of SEL are needed now more than ever as we navigate our current world in our own lives and as we educate and support our students, colleagues and our community. This group continues to learn and grow in our efforts to foster SEL and mindfulness practices in our schools and classrooms through modeling of practices in our meetings, sharing of strategies and resources, and exploring a deeper understanding of our own lives in service of others. Join Kate and Liane for these collaborative conversations!
Meeting Dates (all meetings scheduled for 3:45 - 5:00 PM):
- October 15th
- November 9th
- December 10th
Article Study: How to Maslow Before Bloom, All Day Long
Zoom Date: 10/28/2020 8:00-8:30 am
Child psychiatrist Pamela Cantor told Edutopia in 2019 that "when we're able to combine social, emotional, affective, and cognitive development together, we are creating many, many more interconnections in the developing brain that enable children to accelerate learning and development.” Making time to integrate social and emotional learning into academics, in other words, is a better way for schools to achieve their goals than a focus on academics alone. Join me in this 20 minute session where we will read a brief article and discuss how this may impact our instructional process. You must have access to the internet as the article will be shared through the Zoom chat and your microphone.Registration Link:
https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3640742
Mindful Educator Fall Network Meetings
Upcoming Dates:
- 11/18
- 12/16
Meetings are scheduled 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Dignity for All Students Act: Required Training for Certification/Licensure - In Person
Dignity for All Students Act (The Dignity Act or DASA) Workshop: Six hour training in Harassment, Bullying, Cyberbullying and Discrimination in Schools: Prevention and Intervention. New York State's Dignity Act seeks to provide the State's public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function. School professionals applying for certification or license on or after DECEMBER 31, 2013 are required to complete six clock hours of course work or training in this area. This training is designed to fulfill that requirement. Tuition is $75.00 for employees of districts which subscribe to the Oswego BOCES School Improvement Co-Ser. Tuition is $100.00 for all other attendees. If you are self-paying, please mail a Money Order or Bank Check made out to CiTi Treasurer. NO CASH please. Send to: CiTi BOCES Attention: Staci Silliman 179 County Route 64 Mexico NY 13114 All registered participants will receive an email with the Zoom link the mornings of the training. This email will be delivered to the email address associated with your MLP account. This workshop will take place over the course of two sessions, three hours in length. Full attendance to both sessions is necessary for DASA requirements.
Registration: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=12396&I=3639477
Instructional Resources
CKLA Knowledge Strand Read Aloud Videos K-2
Listen & Read- Audiobooks
'BITS English Language Learning' is not just for ELL students. Use these audiobooks to provide pre-reading opportunities and support for struggling readers. Looking for audio of a full-length novel? Novellas? Short stories? Classic literature? This comprehensive website has an abundance of titles. Embed the link to the audio version of the novel you are reading in class to your virtual platform.
Virtual Teaching Techniques for Vocabulary Instruction
Vocabulary is “...the bridge between word-level processes and the cognitive processes of comprehension." (Hiebert & Kamil, 2005) How do you teach vocabulary instruction effectively? Direct, explicit instruction. Lesson plans should include language-rich opportunities for both teacher talk and student talk, visual representations, and frequent repetition and practice. Click here to access vocabulary instruction techniques, from AIM Institute for Learning and Research, that can be used for traditional instruction and virtual.
Your Daily Break: Archived Newsletters to Support Your SEL Needs
The Science of Reading- Recorded Webinar Series for Paraprofessionals
Decodable Text Webinar
Access link: Decodable Text Webinar for Paraprofessionals
Phonics & Word Chaining Webinar
Access link: Phonics and Word Chaining Webinar for Paraprofessionals
Phonemic Awareness Webinar
As we are searching for virtual enrichment opportunities it is often difficult to determine if a program will be the right fit for our students without seeing it first. Luckily for us, Academic Entertainment has put together a showcase of some of their top productions for our viewing pleasure to help us all find the right program for our needs. The showcase is free and open to all educators, you will just need to register on their website.
Registration is NOW OPEN for Academic Entertainment’s Virtual School Assembly Showcase on Thursday, October 15! Please follow this link to register for the event.
The free, online live event will be held on Thursday, October 15 across multiple time zones. The event will be live online, featuring fantastic school assembly presenters simultaneously at:
Here is the presentation lineup so that you may pick and choose which programs you wish to preview the most, based on your schedule.
• 10:05am Pacific/12:05pm Central/1:05pm Eastern – Virtual Music Technology
• 1:15pm Eastern – Virtual Corey The Dribbler
• 1:25pm Eastern – Brian Richards Virtual Magic
• 1:35pm Eastern – Doug Scheer Virtual Assemblies
• 11:45pm Eastern – The Virtual Game Show
• 1:55am Eastern – Virtual Zonda Dance
• 2:05pm Eastern – Virtual Diversity of Dance
• 2:15pm Eastern – Virtual Tales From A Bicycle Seat
• 2:25pm Eastern – The Virtual Poet – Darren Sardelli
• 2:35pm Eastern – The Virtual Physics Experience
• 2:45pm Eastern – Virtual Violin Rocks!
• 2:55pm Eastern – The Virtual Paper Airplane Guy
• 3:05pm Eastern – Dare to Draw w/ Mark Kistler
• 3:15pm Eastern – Youth Mover Brandon Lee White
The Instructional Support Services Team
Roseann Bayne
Kristen Foland
Liane Benedict
Kate Ginney
Carri Waloven
Will Jones
Instructional Support Services
Email: CiTiISS@citiboces.org
Website: CiTiboces.org/ISS
Location: 179 County Route 64, Mexico, NY, USA
Phone: 315-963-4425