HV RBERN Update

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NYSED OBEWL has released this Guidance Document for the Provision of Services for ELL and World Languages Students During School Closures. The HV RBERN has scheduled a virtual meetup for this Monday, May 18, 2020, from 9:00 – 10:30 AM for district and school administrators and Bilingual/ENL program directors/coordinators to discuss the guidance and implications, and to share implementation ideas. Interested participants must register at this link in order to get the Zoom connection information.

As a reminder, the Hudson Valley Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network (HV RBERN) is gathering information about how we can support schools and educators on behalf of ELLs as we transition to summer and fall. Please complete this HV RBERN Regional Ongoing Support survey to inform our work. Please forward this survey to other educators in your district as well.

New sessions of Elementary and Secondary ELL Connection Fridays have been scheduled until the end of the school year. Please note, this is a new series and those who participated in previous series need to re-register in order to receive the connection details:

Upcoming NEW HV RBERN Professional Learning Opportunities

Annual Title III Immigrant Student Count for 2020-2021 ESSA Title III Allocations

NYSED has released the memo Immigrant Student Counts for 2020–21 ESSA Title III Immigrant Allocations to inform all LEAs to update and/or verify their counts of immigrant students in the Student Information Repository System (SIRS). NYSED will use these counts to calculate the allocations to LEAs for 2020-2021 ESSA Title III Immigrant funds.

Other Professional Learning Opportunities

SUNY Oneonta is offering its Bilingual Education Advanced Certificate program completely online. For more details, view the flyer here.

LIU Hudson continues its highly successful online program to provide Childhood Education Certification to currently certified New York State ENL teachers. Their 7th Cohort of teachers will begin their program on June 24, 2020 and complete it in May 2021. Please view the following documents: a flyer about the program, an application, and a brief checklist of items needed for admission. For additional program information, contact Dr. Janet Simon at Janet.Simon@liu.edu.

Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

HV RBERN Update

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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

In order to continue to be responsive, the Hudson Valley Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network (HV RBERN) is gathering information about how schools are planning for the future. We are requesting your feedback; please complete this survey to inform our work. Our intent is to gauge how the HV RBERN can better support you in your work with ELLs. We also encourage you to forward this survey to other educators in your district.

We are pleased to announce that Elementary and Secondary ELL Connection Fridays will continue until the end of the school year. Please register using the links below in order to receive the connection information.

Professional Development

Mercy College Clinically-Rich Intensive Teacher Institute for ESOL
Significantly Reduced Tuition for NYC DOE Teachers

Certified NYCDOE teachers can earn an additional NYS certificate in ESOL PreK-12 within one year and at a substantially reduced tuition rate. This clinically-rich program offers teachers a pathway to ESOL certification, with the goal of addressing the shortage of NYC teachers in English as a Second Language/English as a New Language. View program flyer here.

To apply for this program, you’ll need to submit an online graduate application, in addition to the specific grant application form. The online application can be found using this link: https://apply.mercy.edu/apply/.

Summer 2020 application deadline is extended to May 15, 2020.

Career Opportunities

ENL Teacher (Tenure Track positions) (2)
Peekskill City Schools
View job posting here.

HV RBERN Update

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The HV RBERN ELL Connection Fridays continue this week. Click on the links below to register:

Professional Learning and Resources

SUNY New Paltz's TESOL program still has a few spots available in the Clinically Rich Intensive Teacher Institute beginning in August 2020. This Certificate of Advanced Study is designed for professionally certified teachers who are working full time in public schools in New York. The coursework consists of a sequence of 5 hybrid courses with online and some in-person (or Zoom) Saturday meetings and leads to New York teaching certification in ESOL. Because of grant support from NYSED, if the program is completed in its entirety, the full cost for teachers after reimbursement for the 15 graduate credits and certification recommendation to the state is $1,750. For more information, check out their website at: https://www.newpaltz.edu/iti/ or write an email to intensiveteacher@newpaltz.edu expressing your interest. Because of COVID-19, the deadline has been extended until June 30th. New information and/or orientation sessions will be held later this spring/summer. Dates are TBA.

New York State Community Schools Technical Assistance Centers (NYS CS TAC) are requesting feedback on how they can best serve their districts. Please complete their survey here. For more information about NYS CS TAC, contact: cstac@rockland21c.org.

NYSTESOL has had the Google Classroom Student Tutorial translated into 9 languages: Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Haitian, French, Korean, and Arabic. For more information contact: NYSTESOL.

Career Opportunities

HSE PREP TEACHER, ESL TEACHER
Southern Westchester BOCES
View job posting here.