Professional Development Opportunities
Higher Education Programs
RTCI/WTCI partners with Manhattanville University and City Tech to provide discounted programs, certificates, and graduate-level courses for all of our consortium members. Please click here for a list of our extensive program offerings.
SWD Extension Programs - Effective July 1, 2021, SWD teachers in grades 7–12 who teach special classes in subject-specific areas must: Be certified in each subject area they teach, OR meet experience requirements for the Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE) and have an active SOCE application in TEACH. Teacher Centers have been approved to offer 45- hour CTLE courses in ELA, Math, and Biology to support these certification requirements. We are currently offering programs in ELA and Biology. For more information, click here.
SWD Extension Programs - Effective July 1, 2021, SWD teachers in grades 7–12 who teach special classes in subject-specific areas must: Be certified in each subject area they teach, OR meet experience requirements for the Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE) and have an active SOCE application in TEACH. Teacher Centers have been approved to offer 45- hour CTLE courses in ELA, Math, and Biology to support these certification requirements. We are currently offering programs in ELA and Biology. For more information, click here.
Free Full Day Conferences
The Future-Ready Student: Unlocking Agency with Google's Newest AI Tools- March 19, 2026, from 8:00 am - 2:30 pm @ Hofstra University
In this high-energy, immersive full-day experience, we will flip the script. Instead of just learning about tools, you will step into the shoes of a student. Through hands-on simulations and challenges, we will explore how Google's most advanced AI can transform students from passive consumers of information into active creators and critical thinkers.
Wellness and Art II- April 27, 2026, from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm @ Nassau County Museum of Art
Well Teachers → Thriving Classrooms is an interactive, restorative, and deeply practical workshop designed to help educators reconnect with themselves, regulate stress, and bring calm, clarity, and confidence back into their classrooms.
A Day at Sea with the Waterfront Center- May 15, 2026, from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
In this high-energy, immersive full-day experience, we will flip the script. Instead of just learning about tools, you will step into the shoes of a student. Through hands-on simulations and challenges, we will explore how Google's most advanced AI can transform students from passive consumers of information into active creators and critical thinkers.
Wellness and Art II- April 27, 2026, from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm @ Nassau County Museum of Art
Well Teachers → Thriving Classrooms is an interactive, restorative, and deeply practical workshop designed to help educators reconnect with themselves, regulate stress, and bring calm, clarity, and confidence back into their classrooms.
A Day at Sea with the Waterfront Center- May 15, 2026, from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
NYSUT Offerings
NYSUT-The Science of Reading, A Practical Approach For Educators
This free, in-depth course on reading instruction is designed for educators across all grade levels. It provides the latest, research-backed strategies for teaching literacy and explores evidence-based methods grounded in current literacy research—helping teachers enhance their instructional practices and improve student outcomes.
NYSUT is offering FREE Implicit Bias Workshops: "Sticks & Stones" Click HERE for more details and to register.
This free, in-depth course on reading instruction is designed for educators across all grade levels. It provides the latest, research-backed strategies for teaching literacy and explores evidence-based methods grounded in current literacy research—helping teachers enhance their instructional practices and improve student outcomes.
NYSUT is offering FREE Implicit Bias Workshops: "Sticks & Stones" Click HERE for more details and to register.
FREE Online Webinars
Making with a Purpose - March 10, 2026
Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers: Importance of Vocabulary and Complex Texts - March 10, 2026
Give Growth Informed Feedback and Expand Growth Mindset - March 11, 2026
Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers: Integration of MTSS Framework - March 24, 2026
A Day at Sea with The Waterfront Center- May 15, 2026
Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers: Importance of Vocabulary and Complex Texts - March 10, 2026
Give Growth Informed Feedback and Expand Growth Mindset - March 11, 2026
Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers: Integration of MTSS Framework - March 24, 2026
A Day at Sea with The Waterfront Center- May 15, 2026
Free Webinars for Teaching Assistants and Paraeducators
Confident, Capable, Connected: A Series for TA's: Enhancing Classroom Teamwork and Collaboration - March 12, 2026
Confident, Capable, Connected: A Series for TA's: Build Confidence in Supporting Diverse Learners - March 26, 2026
Confident, Capable, Connected: A Series for TA's: Build Confidence in Supporting Diverse Learners - March 26, 2026
Additional Resources
The New York State Education Department, in partnership with the Region 2 Comprehensive Center, has created a webinar series highlighting promising culturally responsive-sustaining practices that are being implemented across school districts in New York State. The recorded videos, a Video Viewing Guide to promote discussion and further professional development, and introduction videos from Chancellor Lester W. Young, Jr. and Deputy Commissioner for P-12 Instructional Support, Angelique Johnson-Dingle, are now available on NYSED’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education website.
edWeb Webinars- Free webinars on a wide range of innovative topics for early childhood educators, librarians, teachers, and administrators. EconEdLink-The Council for Economic Education offers free professional development training Findnyculture.org, a searchable directory of New York’s 4600+ museums, libraries, historical societies, science centers, parks, zoos, university art galleries, planetariums, and more.
Restorative Justice Resources NYS: Computer Science and Digital Fluency Resources- To help teachers investigate strategies and activities to successfully implement the CS & DF Standards NYS Teacher Centers have compiled a list of resources, including Newsletters based on each key concept and classroom activities to coincide with each concept of the standards: Teaching Digital Literacy Teaching Computational Thinking Teaching Cyber Security Teaching Impacts of Computing Teaching Networks and Systems Design |
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