2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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FACILITATOR: Marilyn Tropiano is a literacy support consultant with secondary and elementary classroom
teaching experience. Mrs. Tropiano is also a reading specialist, and has organized and conducted
turn-key NYS ELA Scorer Leader training for Grades 3-8 testing in district and at BOCES. She also helped
develop the new teacher Mentor program and was the Mentor Coordinator for the Hendrick Hudson
School District. She is currently working at Pace University as a Clinical Supervisor monitoring and
assessing student teachers. Mrs. Tropiano is a member of the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES
Network Team.
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. She is available for
consultation in your district.
Kathy Conley has been an educator for the past twenty-eight years. Prior to that time, she was
employed by a local bio-medical instrument manufacturer as a data analyst. She has held various
administrative positions including principal, Director of Pupil Personnel Services, and Assistant
Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Personnel. She is currently the Assistant
Executive Director of the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC). Kathy’s passion for using
data to inform decision-making led the way to an evolving relationship with the LHRIC going back to
the time when data warehousing was first being conceptualized in this region. Over the past eight
years, Kathy has done extensive analysis of student and district data and has facilitated data inquiry
teams to inform and enhance classroom instruction. In her current position, she supervises the Data
Analysis, Data Warehouse, Test Scoring, State Reporting and Instructional Technology departments.
Literacy and Language Arts
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