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At the Lower Hudson RSE-TASC, we start with our Why: Ensuring success for students with disabilities

Our goal to improve outcomes for all students with disabilities by

ensuring the development of strong academic, social-emotional and self-

determination skills is at the center of everything we do.

We evaluate our work in terms of the impact it has on student

performance. These impacts are shared in our Bright Spot stories, through

which we celebrate students’ accomplishments.

Our focus is on How educators ensure student success:

Implementing evidence-based practices and systems

Students with disabilities are successful when schools and districts

provide them full access to the educational

experience by identifying, implementing and

assessing the impact of:

student self-advocacy & goal setting

individualized educational programming

family-school-community collaborations

evidence-based instructional practices

specially designed instruction

multi-tiered systems of support

career development and work-based

learning

serving districts in

Volume 6, Issue 1, September 2016

RSE-TASC REPORTER LOWER HUDSON REGIONAL SPECIAL EDUCATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT CENTER

Inside this issue: RSE-TASC Why, How & What

1

RSE-TASC Training Calendar

2

School Tool: RSE-TASC Website

3

Community Trainings 3

Bright Spot 4

Contact Information 4

The Lower Hudson Regional

Special Education Technical

Assistance Support Center:

Why, How & What

(cont’d on pg. 4)

To Register for our Regional Workshops: Please go to www.pnwboces.org/catalog to register

online. Click on the down arrow next to the box that says “Click one or more options…”, then select RSE-TASC and click “Search”. Scroll down the

webpage until you see the workshop in which you are interested and then click on its name to see details and enroll.



Teachers, 9/13

Specially Designed Instruction for

Students with Disabilities and

English Language Learners (3-

Day), 9/14, 9/28 and 10/5

Explicit Direct Instruction (3-

Day), 9/22, 9/29 and 10/6

October

Special Education 101 for ENL

Teachers, 10/14

Specially Designed Instruction for

Students with Disabilities and

English Language Learners (3-

Day), 10/19, 10/28 and 11/10

Literacy for English Language

Learners: What’s Different?, 10/20

Explicit Direct Instruction for Non

-District Settings (4-Day), 10/21,

11/18, 3/22 and 5/19

November

Understanding Specially

Designed Instruction for Students

with Disabilities, 11/2

Understanding Cultural and

Linguistic Diversity, 11/14



December


Teachers, 12/2

Understanding Cultural and

Linguistic Diversity, 12/6

Improving the Sentence, 12/12



Leadership September

Graduation Options: For

Administrators, 9/19

Effective Implementation of

Evidence-Based Practices, 9/20

CSE Roundtable, 9/27

October

CPSE Colloquium, 10/13

December

CSE Roundtable, 12/7

Effective Implementation of

Evidence-Based Practices, 12/13

CPSE Colloquium, 12/14

Consortium, 12/8

Graduation Options, 12/20

Behavior & Discipline Supports

September

PBIS Kick-Off, 9/30

October

PBIS Forum for Administrators, 10/7

Universal / Tier 1 Team Refresher,

10/25

November

Team Implementation Guidance for

Social & Behavioral Supports, 11/1

PBIS Coaches’ Forum, 11/10

New Coaches’ PBIS Basic Training,

11/10

PBIS TAC Regional Forum, 11/29

December

PBIS Tier 2 Supports with Dr. Terry

Scott, 12/16

Individualized Education Planning and

the CSE Process September

IEPs for English Language Learners,

9/16

October

IEP Institute 1: Developing Quality

IEPs (2-Day), 10/18 and 11/1

Student Directed IEPs, 10/19

New CSE/CPSE Chairperson Training

(3-Day), 10/20, 11/3 and 11/10 *WAIT

LIST*


10/24

November

Language Acquisition vs. Learning

Disability, 11/9

IEP Institute 2: Developing Quality IEP

Goals (2-Day), 11/7 and 11/14


11/17

Language Acquisition vs. Learning

Disability, 11/30

December

Student Directed IEPs, 12/5

Instructional Practices September


Come Learn with us at our Fall 2016 Regional Trainings! School-Wide Systems

Transition

September

Putnam County Transition

Consortium, 9/8

CAN*DO, 9/9

Transition Boot Camp: An Overview,

9/13

Transition Specialist Network, 9/26

Rockland Road Trip, 9/29

October

CDOS Commencement Credential,

10/7

CDOS Credential: Implementing

Program Options, 10/7


Consortium, 10/13

Work-Readiness Options for Students

with Disabilities: School-Based

Enterprises, 10/17


with Disabilities: Activities Aligned

with the CDOS Commencement

Credential, 10/17

November

The Forum: The OPWDD Eligibility

and Application Process, 11/2


with Disabilities: An Overview of

Community Work-Based Learning,

11/7


with Disabilities: National Work

Readiness Credentials, 11/7

Exploring CareerZone, 11/15


Consortium, 11/17

Transition Assessment & Planning for

Career Bound Students, 11/29

December


with Disabilities: How Career and

Technical Education Aligns with the

CDOS Commencement Credential,

12/7


with Disabilities: Registered Work-

Based Learning Programs, 12/7


http://www.pnwboces.org/catalog

We are excited to have launched our new website, www.pnwboces.org/rsetasc!

Take a walk through our site ...


School Tool: Lower Hudson RSE-TASC Website Launch!!


Visit our What

Works pages to

learn about

evidence-based

practices in the

areas of IEP &

CSEs, Explicit & Specially Designed

Instruction, Behavior Supports,

Transition Planning and Quality

Improvement Processes...

Visit our Bright

Spots pages to be

inspired by student

accomplishments

and the strategies

educators used to

support them

Visit our Resources to read

previous RSE-TASC

Reporter articles … and to read our Blogs or take a

Mini– Training

Community Events Co-Teaching & Inclusion Education

Academy (Grades K-5); starts 9/13,

Guidance & Child Study Center (GCSC) @

PNW BOCES, www.pnwboces.org/

catalog

Literacy Support for ELLs: Reading

Strategies for K-12 at Orange-Ulster

BOCES; 9/15, Hudson Valley Regional

Bilingual Education Resource Network

(HVRBERN), www.swboces.org/

support.cfm

Addressing Disproportionality Through

a Culturally Responsive and Systemic

Self Review, 9/20 & 27, NYU Technical

Assistance Center for Disproportionality,

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/session-1-

assessing-our-data-policies-and-practices-

related-to-disproportionality-through-a-

tickets-27477077679

Building Strong Programs & Delivering

Effective Instruction to ELL’s; starts

9/20/16, GCSC @ PNW BOCES,

www.pnwboces.org/catalog

WRS Level 1 Certification: Practicum;

starts 9/20, The Hudson River Teacher

Center (HRTC) at PNW BOCES,

www.pnwboces.org/catalog

New York State Alternate Assessment

(NYSAA) 2016-17 Full Training; 9/23 or

9/26, Rockland BOCES,

www.rocklandboces.org

Co-Teaching Basics—Practical Options

for New Partnerships; 9/26 and 9/17,

www.rocklandboces.org

Integrated Co-Teaching for English

Language Learners; HVRBERN,

www.swboces.org/support.cfm

9/27 at Orange-Ulster BOCES

9/30 at Rockland BOCES

Visit our Training Calendar to

see what trainings are

coming up and to register

http://www.pnwboces.org/rsetasc



http://www.swboces.org/support.cfm


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/session-1-assessing-our-data-policies-and-practices-related-to-disproportionality-through-a-tickets-27477077679






http://www.rocklandboces.org



(cont. from pg. 1) RSE-TASC REPORTER

LOWER HUDSON REGIONAL SPECIAL EDUCATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT CENTER

We develop our What:

Providing regional technical assistance and support to educators

We provide a coordinated system of high quality regional technical

assistance, professional development and on-site support to district and

school communities in Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties in

partnership with Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES, Rockland BOCES,

Southern Westchester BOCES and Yonkers City Schools. This support

ranges from regional trainings on effective practices and systems (see our

current calendar of trainings on page 2), to intensive quality improvement

supports on-site for individual schools, to web-based tools and supports (see

our website link on page 3).

Patti Slobogin, Director Leslie Zedlovich, Jr. Administrative Assistant Felecia Morris, Sr. Office Assistant

Regional Trainers: John Boniello, Bilingual Special Education Specialist Kit Casey, Transition Specialist Sara Fienup, Behavior Specialist Dale Langley, Behavior Specialist Erin Leskovic, Preschool Behavior Specialist Laurie Levine, Regional Special Education Specialist Ann Narcisse, Regional Special Education Specialist Stephanie Wozniak, Transition Specialist

Special Education School Improvement Specialists (SESIS): Randy Ascher, Yonkers City Schools Andrew J. Ecker, Putnam Northern Westchester Fran Fernandez, Special Act and Approved Private Schools Denise Jaffe, Southern Westchester Nicole Scariano, Rockland David Luhman, Southern Westchester John McCabe, Special Act and Approved Private Schools Martha Trujillo-Torp, Yonkers City Schools

RSE-TASC Staff—Contact us at 914-248-2289

Lower Hudson RSE-TASC:

Providing regional technical assistance and support to educators in implementing evidence-based practices and systems that ensure success for students with disabilities

Bright Spots! Thank you again to all the survey respondents at the end of 2015-2016 — we really appreciate your feedback on the supports we offer and your stories. These are just a few of the Bright Spots from your survey responses.

“We executed a trial run of the Tier II Check-In Check-Out program and saw improved social connections between students and building staff, improved self-monitoring skills and self-awareness in students, and overall improved behavior for students that followed the routines.” “As a direct result of using Specially Designed Academic Instruction with our ELL students, students are more engaged and motivated to work independently. We see a great increase in reading comprehension and more retention and use of taught strategies.” “I taught all of my students to construct the 4 basic types of sentences to incorporate into and create more in-depth introductions. Student essays improved dramatically. Students felt so much better about their introductions and they felt relieved after having struggled with introductions and conclusions for so long.”

Thank you for sharing all of your stories—we’ll keep publishing them throughout the year!

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