Teacher Communities
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K-5 Literacy Leaders Community
This is a new community that will be coming together to explore CKLA Amplify as a curriculum resource.
Instructional Coaches Learning Community
This community of educators will engage in professional dialogue around topics and issues intended to support the craft of coaching. Such topics as intentional trust and relationship building, growth producing feedback, communication skills, and mindful presence will be explored. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to bring issues and challenges to the table for exploration and support with colleagues.
Counselor, Social Worker & Mental Health Personnel Learning Community
The intention of this learning community is to provide a space for exploration of and collaboration around the unique needs and challenges of the role of Counselors, Social Workers and Mental Health support personnel. We will also consider the role of social emotional learning in this context. Other topics include the prioritization of work, communicating clearly the parameters of roles, supporting Tier One instruction, addressing attendance concerns, graduation pathways, transitions plans and more.
World Language Learning Community
This community of educators will focus on professional dialogue aligned to rigorous tasks, standards alignment in curriculum and instruction, best practices for engaging with all students, and more. Who should attend? Any World Language teacher that wants to collaborate, learn, and grow as an educator. Additionally, if you are a teacher leader, all meeting materials and resources will be shared and can be used with your department and as turnkey opportunities.
This community of educators will focus on professional dialogue aligned to rigorous tasks, standards alignment in curriculum and instruction, best practices for engaging with all students, and more. Who should attend? Any secondary mathematics teacher that wants to collaborate, learn, and grow as an educator. Additionally, if you are a teacher leader, all meeting materials and resources will be shared and can be used with your department and as turnkey opportunities.
New Teacher Learning Community
This community of educators will engage in professional dialogue around topics and issues intended to support new teachers as they deepen their practice in the first 5 years of teaching. Such topics as intentional trust and relationship building for classroom community, classroom management, planning to meet standards, SEL integration, mindful presence, and self-care will be explored. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to bring issues and challenges to the table for exploration and support with colleagues.
English as a New Language educators will collaborate on best practices for establishing a successful co-teaching relationship and co-teaching model. Our learning community will collaborate on expertise, knowledge, skills, equipment/materials, and strategies needed to be successful.
This year-long network is intended for all school leaders and teachers who support other educators with SEL integration. How do we lead and facilitate through an SEL lens? What might we be modeling in every interaction that supports SEL integration? Creating the space and culture that supports SEL is important to our work. This group will explore this in depth and share strategies to do this work well.
This community of educators will focus on professional dialogue aligned to culturally responsive practices in literacy, standards alignment in curriculum & instruction, evidence-based practices in reading and writing and more. Who should attend? ANY secondary teacher that embeds literacy practices in their subject area and wants to learn and grow. Additionally, if you are a teacher leader: ALL meeting materials/resources are shared and can be used with your department and as turn-key opportunities to create your own literacy community.
Special Education Learning Community
This community is for special education teachers. The purpose is to offer networking opportunities to enhance student learning. Teachers will have opportunities to share strategies around topics such as: differentiation, behavior, progress monitoring, goals, IEP writing, and more. This learning community is designed to connect and empower special education teachers.
This community of educators will focus on professional dialogue aligned to culturally responsive practices, NYS Science Learning Standards alignment in curriculum & instruction, changes in the new assessments at elementary/secondary, and more. Are you a department chair? An instructional coach? Teacher liaison? This community will support your needs as well. ALL meeting materials/resources are shared and can be used as turn-key opportunities to facilitate meetings with your own district or team.
Social Studies Learning Community
This community of educators will focus on professional dialogue aligned to culturally responsive practices, standards alignment in curriculum & instruction, and Seal of Civic Readiness. Who should attend? ANY secondary teacher that wants to learn and grow. Additionally, if you are a teacher leader: ALL meeting materials/resources are shared and can be used with your department and as turn-key opportunities to create your own learning community.
Fine Arts Learning Communities
These targeted communities will provide Fine Arts teachers the ability to collaborate with other like professionals (ie, middle school band, high school media arts, musical theater director) from across the region to take part in collaborative conversation, learning, sharing, and creation. These communities will provide focused support to those teachers that are often “on an island” and provide them with collaborative learning opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
Physical Education Community
This community will focus on the creation and development of curriculum writing and design towards vertically aligning Physical Education departments UPK-12 based on the newest NYSED Physical Education standards. The group will partake in dialogue surrounding the wellness needs of their schools/community and how a robust Physical Education program can work to address some of those issues. This community will provide collaborative space to encourage the growth and leadership of its participants, so we can build strong Physical Education programming from the teachers' voices.
