Professional Development opportunities
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SUPPORT PERSONNEL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT CARD (SPARC)
Target Audience: School Counselors, Directors, Administrators
This session will help you showcase the best of what your counseling program does at your school site. We will:
- Identify trends and initiatives that are currently operational in New York and your school district.
- Engage in structured activities to reflect on essential services and data components of your school counseling program.
- Review report cards from California, Massachusetts, Texas, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and Alabama for best practices.
- Create an outline for a one page SPARC that can be shared next year with board members, administrators, faculty, parents, students, legislators and your community.
Presenters: Bob Tyra & Jan Tkacyzk
Bob Tyra worked with a team of California educators to develop and implement a state-wide SPARC initiative starting in 2001. His professional experience in Massachusetts, California, and New York includes twelve years of counseling experience in junior high and high school grade counseling programs as well as high school and adult school career counseling.
Jan Tkacyzk is currently with UTI. Jan was at the Ohio School Counselor Association conference session on SPARC in October; she is one of the state leaders who pioneered the development and implementation of the Massachusetts Accountability Report Card (MARC) in her state.
Date: April 12, 2013 (Friday) Time: 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Registration: 8 – 8:30 a.m.)
Location: West Conference Room
School Services Building
Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES
200 BOCES Drive, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Fee: $20 – Includes continental breakfast
One hour lunch break – Turco’s, Panera Bread, pizza shops, etc. located in town.
Pre-registration is required.
For Complete Workshop Flyer and Registration Info, Click HERE.
Region 6 covers the following counties: Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, Tompkins
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If you are a NYSUT member Register now for the Professional Issues Forum on Health Care
Register online for NYSUT’s 11th annual Professional Issues Forum on Health Care to be held April 27 at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs. The program and registration materials are available on NYSUT’s health care professionals page. Deadline to register is March 25.
This conference provides professional development and networking opportunities for: pre-K-12 school nurses; higher education health care faculty and professionals; school psychologists, therapists and school counselors; VNA nurses; nurses and health care professionals in hospitals and other health care facilities. For more information, contact Marianne Perry in Program Services at 800-342-9810, ext. 6297.
This year’s conference features the Beeckmantown School District (NY State’s 1st ASCA RAMP recipeints) and SUNY Plattsburg presenting a workshop on Evidence-Based Practices for School Counselors!
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Bully
The NYIT School of Education will be sponsoring a free screening of the new documentary, Bully, directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, on Wednesday, May 1st, at 5pm in the NYIT Auditorium, 1871 Broadway, New York 10023. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, Bully documents the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids and captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with refreshments.
To RSVP, please visit http://tinyurl.com/af4hbhh. For questions, please contact Erin Fabian at 212-261-1529 or efabian@nyit.edu.
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Where Do We Go from Here?
Best Practices in School-Based Mental Health Programming
Did you know that 80% of children receiving mental health services do so in schools? (Center for Health and Healthcare in Schools)
Keynote: Laura C. Murray, Ph.D. (c), University of Pennsylvania
Making Mental Health Part of the School Safety Solution
Break-Out Sessions: Responsive Classroom, School-Based Play Groups/Counseling, Creating a Character Culture in Your School and much, much more!
Saturday, May 4, 2013
8:30am-12pm
Location: Western Connecticut State University
Midtown Campus
Science Building
Preregistration will “go live” on April 1st at http://pacfamilyresourcecenter.pbworks.com
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Association for Humanistic Counseling
2013 National Conference
Friday, June 7, 2013 and Saturday, June 8, 2013
New York Institute of Technology
West 60th and 61st Streets on Broadway – Manhattan
New York, New York 10023
Please go to www.humanisticcounselor.com and click on the AHC Conference tab to view the Call for Proposals, Registration Form, and Hotel Information.
If you are a NYSUT member Register now for the Professional Issues Forum on Health Care
Register online for NYSUT’s 11th annual Professional Issues Forum on Health Care to be held April 27 at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs. The program and registration materials are available on NYSUT’s health care professionals page. Deadline to register is March 25.
This conference provides professional development and networking opportunities for: pre-K-12 school nurses; higher education health care faculty and professionals; school psychologists, therapists and school counselors; VNA nurses; nurses and health care professionals in hospitals and other health care facilities. For more information, contact Marianne Perry in Program Services at 800-342-9810, ext. 6297.
This year’s conference features the Beeckmantown School District (NY State’s 1st ASCA RAMP recipeints) and SUNY Plattsburg presenting a workshop on Evidence-Based Practices for School Counselors!