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Coupon Code Required to Register  Please contact your Regional Office for the Coupon Code Date: 12/16/26 Time: 4:15-5:45 pm Location: Zoom Audience: NYSUT Regional Offices (NYSUT Members Only) This interactive seminar examines the impact of reduced device use on student attention, engagement, and social interaction in today’s classroom. Participants will explore the concept of the “digital hangover” and how it affects focus, motivation, and communication. Aligned with NYSED priorities, including SEL, CR-SE, and whole child practices, the session provides practical strategies to re-engage learners through pattern interrupts, social scaffolding, and curiosity-driven hooks. Educators will leave with actionable tools to increase engagement and support meaningful, student- centered learning.  Read more

Coupon Code Required to Register  Please contact your Regional Office for the Coupon Code Date: 1028/26 Time: 4:00-7:00 pm Location: Zoom Audience: NYSUT Regional Office In addition to learning a new language, ELLs have to adjust to a new environment and culture while learning new academic skills and content knowledge. Explore the impact of culture on academic achievement and identify factors that contribute to a culturally responsive classroom in this engaging session. Read more

Coupon Code Required to Register  Please contact your Regional Office for the Coupon Code Date: 9/30/26 Time: 4:15-5:45 pm Location: Zoom Audience: NYSUT Regional Offices (NYSUT Members Only) The Silent Classroom is a seminar designed for this moment in New York’s educational landscape. It explores the “post-phone” reality and the psychology of students who are relearning how to navigate face-to-face interaction. Moving beyond policing devices, this session focuses on re-humanizing the classroom. Participants will examine patterns of compliance without connection and explore strategies to shift toward authentic engagement. Through practical approaches, educators will learn how to spark productive thinking, re-engage attention in a digitally driven world, and strengthen meaningful classroom relationships. We are not just teaching content, we are helping students reconnect, interact, and engage in the world around them. Join us to transform the silence into the vibrant, messy, and essential hum of a truly engaged classroom. Read more

Coupon Code Required to Register  Please contact your Regional Office for the Coupon Code Date: 11/16/26 Time: 5:00-8:00 pm Location: Zoom Audience: NYSUT Regional Office In this engaging 3-hour session, participants will peruse the latest research findings on literacy development and explore how they can be applied to create effective instructional practices in literacy curriculum and instruction that focuses on the unique challenges of ELLs. Learn and demonstrate strategies that empower ELLs to develop crucial literacy skills and enhance their reading comprehension. Additionally, discover assessment techniques that provide valuable diagnostic feedback on ELLs’ reading skills and their comprehension of text. This seminar is the gateway to understanding and improving literacy outcomes for English language learners. Meets Standards Read more