WSKG's Community Converstation

At 7:00pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, WSKG will be focusing in Community Conversation radio program on the state-wide education initiatives. Mary Kay Fryes, Superintendent at Johnson City CSD, Ken Slentz, Depute Commissioner of Education, and George Lohmann, Director of the Tioga County Teacher Center, will be interviewed. A podcast of the program will be available for 24 hours on WSKG's Website. WSKG is at 89.3 (Binghamton) or 90.9 (Ithaca)or 91.7 Oneonta/Cooperstown) or 91.1 (Elmira/Corning) or 88.7 (Hornell/Alfred)FM.

STTCN Representatives with Gail Moon at Network Team Training in Utica

Mary Ann Luciano, Director Catskill Regional Teacher Center; George Lohmann, Director Tioga County Teacher Center; and Gail Moon, Associate, New York State Education Department participate in training focused on Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLSs), the Teaching Standards, and Data-Driven Instruction (DDI).

Directors Representing Teacher Centers at the Network Team Training January 17-19, 2012

Clockwise from bottom left: Carol Forman-Pemberton, Greater Capital Region Teacher Center; Annette Romano, NBCT; Susan Bogdan-Ritty, NBCT; Cheryl Herman, Orleans Niagara Teacher Center; Kathy Fessette, North Country Teacher Resource Center; Joe Pesavento, Mid-Hudson Teacher Center; Martha Kennedy, Mid East Suffolk Teacher Center; Mary Ann Luciano, Catskill Regional Teacher Center

Commissioner King Addresses Network Teams and Teacher Center Directors

New Kind of Learner

Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner
By John K. Waters
December 13, 2011
Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabularies. According the Pew Research Center, the combination of widespread access to broadband Internet connectivity, the popularity of social networking, and the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner, one that is self-directed, better equipped to capture information, more reliant on feedback from peers, more inclined to collaborate, and more oriented toward being their own "nodes of production." Click HERE to learn more.

STTCN

Network directors debrief after dialogues and coordinate plans for upcoming professional development. From right to left: Judy Mitrowitz, JCTC; Mary Ann Luciano CRTC; Christine Rebere LGTC; Jenny Dean, SCT/CTC and STSCN; Bonnie Calzolaio CCTC and DTC; Pat Rice CTC; and Starr Latronica, Policy Board member from the TC of Broome County. George Lohmann, TCTC, is taking the picture.

"December Dialogues" with Legislative Representatives

On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, the STTCN met with two State Assembly staff representatives at Johnson City High School to dialogue about the professional development being provided by network Teacher Centers. From right to left: Scott Esty, Chief of Staff for Assemblyman Christopher Friend (137th District); Deb Howard, Tioga County staff representative for Assemblyman Gary Finch (123rd District); Jenny Dean, SCT/CTC and STSCN; Christine Rebera LGTC; Bonnie Calzolaio CCTC and DTC; Mary Ann Luciano CRTC; and Judy Mitrowitz, JCTC.