2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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Elementary ELA Leaders Professional Learning Community
How can we best assist in implementing CCLS into our curriculum?
Please join us this year in creating an ELA learning community; a series of four sessions have been planned.
Our collegial conversations will include timely topics such as:
• Sharing best practices that continue the transition/alignment of ELA curriculum to the Common Core
Learning Standards
• Revisiting the 6 ELA instructional shifts and how they are reflected in K-5 units and lessons
• Investigating the new--and optional-- NYS K-2 and 3-5 Model ELA Curricula
• The latest information from the state including the NYS Metrics and Expectations tools
• And the newest in children’s informational and literature texts.
Literacy and Language Arts
PARTICIPANTS: ELA, reading, and special education teachers, coaches, professional developers,
administrators providing professional development in grades K-5
DATE/TIME: Oct 7 2013 ; Nov 19 2013; Mar 13 2014; May 20 2014 8:30AM - 11:30AM
COST: $215 for Curriculum Center Members; $247 Curriculum Center Non Members
LOCATION: Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES; Yorktown Heights, NY; School Services Building
FACILITATOR: 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 on-site consultation.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY: 9/23/2013
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