2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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Improving Results for Every Student
Judy Barbera recently retired as an administrator after a 40 year career in education. She has served in
various roles where she gained a systemic instructional perspective as a high school mathematics teacher,
an elementary school principal and the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. Ms. Barbera has expertise
in the supervision and evaluation of teachers and administrators. She has extensive training and experience
with Charlotte Danielson’s Components of Professional Practice and the Learner-Centered Initiative
Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric and can facilitate work related to Professional Goal Setting,
Instructional Rounds, classroom observations and summative evaluation with teachers and administrators. In
the area of curriculum and assessment design, Ms. Barbera promotes the Wiggins and McTigue Understanding
by Design curriculum development model and Heidi Hayes-Jacob’s approach to curriculum mapping. She
is proficient in the use of Rubicon Atlas, a digital curriculum mapping platform. She embraces a “balanced
assessment plan” model and is interested in supporting the refinement of mandated Student Learning
Objectives. Judy Barbera is affiliated Bill Daggett’s International Center for Educational Leadership and the
AVID Center (Advancement via Individual Determination). She is available for on-site support for building and
district administrators and teachers in the following areas
• Leadership
• Administrative Mentoring and Coaching
• Supervision and Evaluation • Post-Workshop Extensions.
• Curriculum and Assessment
Karen Bronson is a former principal and secondary teacher of English. She does extensive PD work with teams
of teachers and administrators both upstate and downstate on all aspects of Instructional Leadership and
RTTT implementation including APPR, Common Core, SLOs and Lead Evaluator Training. She is also an adjunct
instructor for SUNY Oneonta and a member of the NYS Educator Leader Cadre for the PARCC Assessments and
a member of the P/NW BOCES Network Team. Ms. Bronson is available to provide professional development
and onsite support in the areas of
• leadership
• APPR requirements, including evidence-based
• differentiated instruction
observation and student learning objectives
• academic support
• Data-informed teaching and decision-making.
• literacy
Barbara Gill has been a public-school educator for thirty-eight years. She retired from the Hendrick Hudson
School District in Westchester, N.Y. where she served as an elementary building principal and reading teacher
specializing in Early Intervention. Prior to that, Barbara was an elementary principal in Pawling, an assistant
principal in Carmel, and a reading coordinator. Her teaching career spanned grades kindergarten through
grade twelve. She has extensive experience with implementing new reading assessments and instructional
programs. In addition, Ms. Gill has had a special interest in the implementation of new state and federal
programs over the last three decades. Her education includes a Certificate of Advanced Study from SUNY
New Paltz in School District Administration, an M.S. in Reading from Western Connecticut State College, and a
B.A. in English from Marist College. She holds certification in building and district administration, reading K-12,
elementary N-12, and English 7-12. Ms. Gill is currently doing training in areas related to Race to the Top and
Literacy. Ms. Gill is available to provide onsite support in the areas of
• Response to Intervention
• data inquiry
• Race to the Top
• literacy curriculum design and implementation
• reading assessment
• school improvement.
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