2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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Sandy Oringel was formerly the math enrichment specialist, staff developer, and consultant teacher at
the Putnam Valley Elementary School for more than 20 years. She is the author of teacher resource books
published by ETA/Cuisenaire, including Math Activities with Dominoes and several books in the Math Super
Source series. She works as a math consultant throughout the region, and until recently was a math curriculum
specialist with a major educational publishing company. Mrs. Oringel has led the regional elementary math
leaders to share best practices and research-based strategies. Mrs. Oringel is a member of the Putnam/Northern
Westchester BOCES Network Team. Mrs. Oringel is available to provide professional development and support
in the area of
• elementary mathematics curriculum
• enrichment
• strategies including learning centers.
LITERACY
NYSED Network Team Turnkey Training
Lauren Benjamin taught for many years both in New York City and Westchester County. Throughout her
classroom experience, Ms. Benjamin worked with diverse populations of students and taught both primary and
upper grades. Her classroom served as a lab where teachers and administrators from around the country could
view elementary literacy instruction. Now, as a consultant, she conducts workshops and teaches graduate
level courses in literacy. She guides teacher planning and analysis, forms study groups, and delivers workshops.
In addition, Lauren has presented at many national and state level conferences. Ms. Benjamin’s classroom
was an integral part of two of Tony Stead’s videos on nonfiction literacy instruction entitled Time for Nonfiction
and Bridges to Independence: Guided Reading with Nonfiction. In addition, she co-authored an article on
the nonfiction read aloud that was published by School Talk in the spring of 2005. She is currently writing a
book on content integration throughout the literacy block. Ms. Benjamin is available to provide professional
development and onsite support in the areas of
• elementary balanced literacy
• strategies to implement the Common Core Standards
• readers’ and writers’ workshop models.
Lucretia Pannozzo comes with more than thirty-five years of experience in public education as a teacher
of English in middle and high school, Instructional Leader for English, Director of Humanities, and secondary
staff development coordinator, including for new teacher and mentoring programs. Lucretia Pannozzo was
one of the first ninety National Board Certified Teachers in ELA/ Early Adolescence. She served for five years
as a teacher representative on New York State’s Professional Standards and Practices Board. She has taught
graduate courses in reading for ELA and content areas. Lucretia Pannozzo has worked extensively in districts
around literacy, Common Core, formative assessment, curriculum development and mapping. She is part of
the Network Team Institute and is available for consultation in your district in the areas of
• teacher mentoring
• assessment design
• Common Core Standards implementation • strategies for teacher observation and feedback
• curriculum development and review using • literacy in the content areas
Understanding by Design
• literacy and English language arts instruction with an
• teacher portfolios emphasis in grades 5-12.
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