Hudson Valley RBERN Update

HV RBERN Professional Learning Opportunities

Current HV RBERN Workshops

• 3/6/25, 4/1/25, 4/8/25 Integrated ENL Co-Teaching 3-Part Series - at Dutchess BOCES

• 3/10/25 Enhancing Reading Comprehension for ELLs through Knowledge Building - at Dutchess BOCES

• 3/10/25 Incorporating Vocabulary Routines for ELLs in Grades 3-12 - at Dutchess BOCES

• 3/11/25 Accelerating Academic Success for Long-Term English Learners - at Dutchess BOCES

• 3/11/25 Designing Accessible Instruction for ELLs: A UDL Approach to Inclusive Classroom Instruction - at Dutchess BOCES

• 3/12/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - at Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES

• 3/20/25 Pre-Referral Considerations for ELLs - at Dutchess BOCES

• NEW! 3/21/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - via Zoom

• NEW! 3/24/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - via Zoom

• 4/3/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - at Orange-Ulster BOCES

• NEW! 4/4/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - via Zoom

• 4/8/25 NYSESLAT Administration Training - at Rockland BOCES

• 5/1/25 Accelerating Academic Success for Long-Term English Learners - at Rockland BOCES

• NEW! 5/6/25 Integrated ENL Co-Teaching for School and District Leaders - at Southern Westchester BOCES

• 5/8/25 ENL, Immigration, and Graduation Pathways for High School Counselors and Directors of Guidance - at Orange-Ulster BOCES

• 5/21/25 Accelerating Academic Success for Long-Term English Learners - at Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES

• 6/3/25 Accelerating Academic Success for Long-Term English Learners - at Rockland BOCES

• 6/12/25 New York State ELL Identification Workshop - at Orange-Ulster BOCES

Self-Guided HV RBERN Workshops

Experience RBERN workshops at your own pace and earn CTLE certificates when it's convenient for you. Registration is not required.

• ENL Co-Teaching Models

• ENL Collaboration and Co-Teaching Foundations

• Linguistically Diverse Learners and Advanced Literacy Instruction: Elevating the Instructional Core for All Students

• NEW! NYSESLAT Administration Training - Asynchronous Course

• NYSITELL Administration Training

Other Professional Learning Opportunities

CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education

PK-12 Immigration Literature Conference: Storytelling for Visibility, Understanding and Transformation - Breakout Sessions Announced

Saturday, March 8, 2025 10:00-3:00 PM, The City College of New York - Great Hall at Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY

This one-day conference is designed to inspire and empower educators to integrate immigration-focused literature into their classrooms by fostering a deeper understanding of the migration experience. Through a keynote presentation, interactive breakout sessions, and a panel with children and young adult literature authors, participants will experience the power of storytelling as a means to learn about oneself and one’s neighbors, and to take action to create a stronger and more interconnected society.

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Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages

OBEWL will be offering the following three webinars for world language educators this spring. Please consider registering. All webinars come with one (1) hour of CTLE or attendance credit. Webinars will be recorded and uploaded to their website for on-demand viewing within about a week of the original event.

Administering the Interpersonal and Presentational Assessment Tasks at Checkpoint A

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom

In this webinar, participants will review the relevant sections of the Principles and Guidelines for Adopting or Creating Locally Developed Benchmark Assessments for Checkpoint A (Modern Languages) and sample scoring guides aligned to the NYS WL Master Rubrics. Participants will examine a variety of tasks and observe how to apply the scoring guides to assess student proficiency at the Checkpoint A level.  

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Presentational and Interpersonal Communication for Classical Languages - Part 1

Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom

Building on the previous Classical Languages webinar on Standard 1, Interpretive Communication, you will dive into the two output standards: Standard 2 - Presentational Communication; and Standard 3 - Interpersonal Communication. Participants will explore ways to create engaging contexts for students to share their proficiency in the target language in Presentational Writing and Speaking and Interpersonal Speaking. You will consider various Presentational and Interpersonal Strategies integrated into the context of thematic lessons.

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Creating Meaningful Communicative Contexts

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom

In this webinar, you will look at ways to transform lessons in the 3 modes of communication into tasks that compel students to learn and communicate in the target language. You will examine ways to construct prompts and scenarios to engage learners and also simple changes that can be made to existing lessons to provide meaningful contexts that allow students to communicate in the target language.  

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Siena College

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - Graduate Program Virtual Info Session

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 3:30-4:30 PM

Join Doreen Morris, Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions, and Dr. Gretchen Oliver, Assistant Professor of Education, for this virtual information session.

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Resources

Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages

February OBEWL Newsletter Released

The OBEWL February newsletter is now available. Previous newsletters can be accessed on their newsletter archive page.

Please contact the HV RBERN for support or with any questions you may have.