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SULLIVAN BOCES | 6 WIERK AVENUE, LIBERTY, NEW YORK 12754 | (845) 295-4000 | SCBOCES.ORG

LINDA OEHLER-MARX

Director of Instructional Support Services

Instructional Support Services: A division of Sullivan BOCES

“Building capacity to support quality programs and outcomes for students throughout the educational community”

Linda Oehler-Marx, Director of Instructional Support Services January 2015

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES:

December and January have been filled with planning. We put together our spring catalog of courses from School Improvement and Model Schools, worked with districts to plan much of their embedded in-district support for School Improvement and Model Schools and began planning our summer work. Additionally, we continued to plan scoring, regional and vendor, for our component districts. In order to meet the variety of needs our districts have, our staff has sought training to aid in their development to better support the districts. We attend state trainings as well as seeking out specific development in areas of need. We continue to show the integration of our ISS services at meetings with county administrators, bringing our data analyst together with the curriculum and assessment people so districts have a clear understanding of how all our parts work together to support them.

I.S.S. OVERVIEW

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School Improvement In-District Service Days and Workshops Month 2013-4 Workshops

Participants Served

2014-5 Workshops

Participants Served

2014 Embedded In-District

Work

Number of Days

Summer 186 145 + 86 (Jensen) 1

September 99 6 4.5

October 72 39 + 691 (Jensen) 3

November 103 156 5

December 159 30 3

January

February

March

April

May

June

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Leadership Group Attendance as of 12/1 – 58 participants

By-District School Improvement Differentiated Service Days

Eldred SW Tri Valley Monticello LVM Roscoe Liberty Fallsburg BOCES

Sept 2 1.5 1

Oct 1 .5 1

Nov 3.5 1 2 .5 .5

Dec 2.5 .5 1

Jan .5 1 3 .5 4 4 .5

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

June

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Sandi Reyes, School Improvement Math Specialist January 2015

“Assist district administrators from component school districts to provide School Improvement program and technical support with a concentration in Mathematics.”

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES: (ex. new initiatives, status of program, updates on older efforts, student achievements, etc.)

School Improvement Workshops

Attendance at Math workshops continues to grow. Follow-up workshops and new workshops, as well a repeat of some highly requested trainings have been scheduled for Winter/Spring 2015. Teachers are bringing the information from workshops back into their buildings and asking administrators for follow-up work in-district. High-need topics are being delivered, along with some workshops to help stretch thinking into more contemporary subjects, such as STEM. In-District Work Requests for in-district work have increased dramatically. Through collaboration with district administration, coaches and teachers, needs have been identified and yearlong plans for support are in place for several districts. NYSED New Test Guides for the 2015 Grades 3 – 8 state tests have been released to assist teachers in preparing students for the expectations of this year’s exams. Additional sample questions for the new Common Core Geometry Regents have also been released. Leadership and Support Groups Leadership and support groups continue. Agendas include dissemination of information to teachers, sharing of best practices, time to research resources and small group planning. Teaching is the Core Grant Work We continue to participate in the TiTC grant work shared by Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties. As component districts analyze current assessment practices, support is provided to make the experience richer and to provide additional perspectives to the discussions.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

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Dola Deloff, ELA Specialist January 2015

Assists district administrators from component school districts to provide School Improvement program and technical support with a concentration in ELA. The primary focus is for School Improvement strategies, and efforts for College and Career readiness.

TRAININGS FACILITATED: (ex. new initiatives, status of program, updates on older efforts, student achievements, etc.)

Grades 3-6 Assessment Rubric Training Presented to elementary teachers in the Eldred school district. We examined the scoring rubric for the NYS assessments and discussed instructional methods that could lead to student improvement on future assessments. The data indicated that if students had been able to achieve one or two more points on the writing portions of the assessment, their overall score would have been positively affected. ELA Leadership Group Provided updates received at the NTI sessions about teaching students with special needs, facilitating student conversations in the classroom, understanding text complexity, and the advantages of fieldwork over field trips. Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Group Facilitated meeting to assist teachers with the application of the Common Core Standards. AP Council Delivered professional development to assistant principals who are looking to advance in the field of educational leadership. Session also included a visitor from the Sullivan County Department of Family Services who delivered a presentation and answered questions about services available to youth and their families. TRAININGS ATTENDED: Staff/Curriculum Development Network Attended 2nd quarterly meeting to become informed of latest changes and developments in the NY State Education Department. Topics included the new Learning Pathways, Bi-Lingual Education, and the new Social Studies Frameworks.

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Network Teams Institute Attended sessions sponsored by the State Education Department to receive the latest updates in ELA instruction and professional development around the Common Core. Topics included teaching students with special needs, facilitating student conversations in the classroom, understanding text complexity, and the advantages of fieldwork over field trips. Teaching is the Core Grant Participated in a session to be able to assist component school districts that have received the grant. ON THE HORIZON: Trainings to Facilitate Writing Workshop and the Common Core with Liberty CSD middle school teachers RTI with Liberty CSD high school and middle school teachers Application of the Tri-State Rubric with Fallsburg middle and high school teachers Instructional Strategies workshops with Roscoe CSD elementary teachers

Regents exams oversight and scoring/training

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Coordinator of RSE-TASC January 2015

“Special Education School Improvement Specialist”


We continue the search for this position.

RSE-TASC

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Susan Zieres Teeple, Model Schools Coordinator January 2015 “Leveraging technology to transform education to improve the learning and lives of students.”

Description of Training

Offered

Location Enrollment

Flipped Learning Support

Group

Model Schools

2

SMART Board Using

Interactive Vocabulary

Conf. Room #1

3

Digital Assessment that Feels

More Like Play

Webinar

6

Online Research Tools Webinar 3

Incorporate 21st

Century Skills

Into Your Classroom

Conf. Room #1

5

QR Codes in the Classroom Webinar 4

Total 23

MODEL SCHOOLS

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Model Schools State Consortium Meeting This past month we attended out statewide model schools meeting. The state is currently ironing out the details on how, what, and when they would like school districts to submit their technology plans. Our department will be helping districts develop their technology plans and submitting to the state. We will be receiving training from the state prior to the end of the year. County Technology Meetings This month we met with Teq Equip who demoed the new SMART Notebook. They also introduced our districts with new robotics products and 3D tech tools. In District Support LMCS – They are investigating several devices for the district. We did in district support with iPads, Surface tablets, and bring your own device possibilities. We also did additional training on their learning management system (My Big Campus). Sullivan West – We are doing several days of SMART Notebook, ShareMyWhiteboard.com, and Epson Brightlight Projectors. Webinars/Workshops Our spring ISS flyer (Jan-June) incorporates all of our upcoming webinars and workshops. Some of the topics we will be covering are Google, Web Tools, Connected Educators, Flipped Classroom, SMART Notebook, iPads, Office 2013, and 21st century skills.

MODEL SCHOOLS

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Jodie Pillius-MacKrell, Educational Research and Evaluation Analyst January 2015

“data analysis and instructional research”


TriCounty Teaching is the Core Consortium (TiTC3) Continuing with the Steering Committee and data analysis for 3-county project to improve quality of educational assessments and practices while reducing assessments that do not contribute to teaching and learning. Project will take place over several months. Monticello Central School District, Liberty Central School District, Sullivan West Central School District Continuing with data analysis and presentations to help drive instruction in the three districts. In Monticello, much analysis is being done on the graduation and dropout rate. Principal Meetings, SCCITA Meetings Attendance of meetings on a monthly basis to present and discuss data perspectives. Recently presented on Test Bias at all three meetings. New York Schools Data Analysis Technical Assistance Group (DATAG) Attended and presented at the December meeting of DATAG. Presented on Using Data from the Extended Response Questions on the NYS 3-8 ELA tests.

DATA SERVICE

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Shannon K. Leaney-Levenson - Educational Data Manager January 2015


Sullivan Boces

Continue work to prepare both Classmate and BOCES Direct for SIRS reporting; including course mapping and student demographic data validations. Monticello

NWEA – Northwest Evaluation Association o Provided refresher training to teachers at 3 Elementary buildings. o Load SchoolTool student class roster files for the winter testing session (begins 1/7/15). o Will perform assessment coordinator activities and provide user support throughout the month. Guide K-12 - a geo-visual student mapping program o Loaded updated student information and worked to correct address errors. o Set up a training webinar for new Administrators. Continued work to identify and get our vendor to correct a program bug in schooltool that is causing Elementary attendance minutes to be incorrect. In the meantime,

significant work is done weekly to identify and then manually correct the errors. Work with staff to provided data needed for 2 separate Grant submissions. Projects were time critical.

Both Sullivan Boces & Monticello

Complete the District BEDS ePMF (Personnel Master File) submission – due Jan 2015. Continue to assemble data for the Federal CRDC reporting – due date now extended to at least March 2015. Work with HR at both locations to be ready to submit the various new Staff templates required at Level0 in the coming months. This is a labor intensive project for all.

Training/Conferences Attended

DATAG (Data Analysis Technical Assistance Group) on 12/5 in Albany.

DATA SERVICE

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Monticello Data Team meeting on 12/22 at the Middle School.

Heather J. Strauss, Technical Data Specialist January 2015

“Data Team member - test coordinator, student management systems specialist, computer services”


BOCES CTE - Created Mid-Semester Benchmark tests on EDoctrina; Data projects, as directed; Met with principal at RPEC regarding January Regents.

Monticello

Continuous compiling data for state reporting; Updates on data discrepancies, score uploads, program services, assessments; Program services - Homeless (McKinney Vento), Migrant services updates; Program Services - student Title 1 funding - loaded to schooltool, and updated; Met with Superintendent regarding Regents scoring and teacher data.

District-wide

Continuing to create Pre-test level sets of exams for 3-8 & regents levels - written, coordinated and distributed. (BOCES, SullWest) Common Core MODULE Workbooks - Creating individual modules for each division (ie: All modules for Geometry, etc.) (BOCES, All)

DATA SERVICE

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Lynn Miller, School Library System Director January 2015

Our mission is to be instructional partners in preparing life-long learners for the 21st century.


Our School Library System Council met to discuss promoting the Battle of the Books participation this winter/spring. Many of our schools work collaboratively

with the public libraries that sponsor the teams. I presented the latest work being done with the Social Studies curriculum Writing for gr.7 & 8. We finished the day

with a webinar showing the updates to TeachingBooks.com

Jeanne Fiedler nominated Janine Carpenter for an Administrative Award in recognition for her support of the Overdrive rollout and moving eBook use forward in

our libraries. Not only did she invest district funds in building the collection, she also supported the effort by dedicating a set of Nooks for Secondary students to

check out.

Jill Parks nominated Jack Strassman for an Administrative Award for all that he has done to implement the PRIDE time each day in the middle school. Jill is

especially appreciative of Jack seeing the value in students’ free choice in reading each day. This daily practice will strengthen them as readers, build vocabulary,

and provide more depth of knowledge. She noted that she is especially pleased that the faculty has been modeling reading each day with the students.

We visited Rutherford Elem. School to work with the library teacher, Joy Tunno, in teaching third grade students to access OverDrive on iPads. The hot titles were

the Wimpy Kid, Judy Moody, Big Nate and Baby Animals series.

The Social Studies Curriculum Writing Group met this month. I presented OverDrive access to them as well as demonstrated the other streaming services we

provide to schools.

LIBRARY SERVICES

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Jennifer Hollingshead January 2015

Arts In Education Program Assistant


PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES: Scholastic Art Awards Adjudication took place on January 8th. The judges had 3,568 pieces of artwork to look at and Evaluate. That is almost 1,000 more pieces than last year! This year, we have 181 Gold Key, 218 Silver Key, 659 Honorable Mention, and 2510 Participation awards. We had one new school district participate this year, Rondout Valley Central Schools. Our staff is busy notifying award winners and their teachers. The Hudson Valley Affiliate Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, February 6th at 7:00pm at SUNY New Paltz. Arts In Education Contracts have been coming in for school performances from our CoSer participants. Sullivan County Elementary Art Show Scheduled for Friday, March 13, 2015 at the Hurleyville Museum. Sullivan County High School Art Show Scheduled for Saturday, March 28, 2015 at the Catskill Art Society.

ARTS IN EDUCATION

ARTS IN EDUCATION

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Thomas Ellison, Prevention Specialist January 2015 PBIS/Olweus


Liberty CSD

Provided discipline data studies, analysis and recommendations. Provided individualized follow up training and technical assistance for staff completing FBA/BIPs. Provided classroom environment assessments and follow up training for 2 teachers. Worked with transportation company to address student behavior on the bus.

Roscoe CSD

Provided monthly Olweus Bullying Prevention Program consultation. Monticello CSD

Provided discipline data studies, analysis and recommendations. Provided classroom environment assessments and follow up training for 2 teachers. Worked with transportation department to address training needs of drivers and aides. Met with building administrators at RJK to present information on the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program and complete a readiness assessment.

Fallsburg CSD Provided classroom environment assessments and follow up training for 3 teachers. Provided discipline data studies, analysis and recommendations. Worked with instructional coach to encourage best academic and behavioral practices. Developed a follow-up procedure for students returning from suspension. Developed a follow-up procedure for students involved in bullying incidents

PBIS/Olweus

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Sullivan BOCES

Completed observations in the Alternative Education Program and made recommendations. Participated in the review of FBA/BIP procedures. Provided information for long term PD planning.

Other Activities

Attended NYS Olweus Trainers Meeting in Syracuse. Worked with Dr. Dorothy Novogrodsky, R-TASC, and Melissa Stickle, Deputy Director of SC Community Services, to promote the use of Wraparound in the County. Dr.

Novogrodsky, with some assistance from me, will provide an overview of the Wraparound process for select Sullivan County staff and school personnel in February.

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