at the Crowne Plaza in Albany.

Because of the late Labor Day holiday this year and school’s starting later than usual, we’ve extended the deadline for registrations and hotel reservations through Friday, September 4th. Please contact Iris as soon as possible with your attendance information: imaxon@syr.edu or (315) 443-1881.

See the Draft Agenda attached

To be held at St. John Fisher in the Hughes Rotunda, which is right at the main entrance of the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. School of Education.

The School of Education is Building #4. The entrance and the Hughes Rotunda are closest to Parking Lot N but you can also park in Lot B or Lot W.

at NYIT in the Wiser Library

To be held at Pace - Westchester

Taking place at Cazenovia College.

Learn how and why Autistic Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed and by whom. Get information on learning styles, recent research and ways to promote success at home, at school and in the community

Who should attend: Parents, caregivers, respite workers, recreation program staff, childcare providers, those who live/work with individuals who have
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD

Niagara County Community College - Parking Lot 1
Social Sciences and Humanities Building - Room E140
3111 Saunders Settlement Road
Sanborn, NY 14132
Call or go online to reserve your spot today!

The Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies presents

“On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America”
A Public Lecture by Allison C. Carey

4:00—5:30 pm

500 Hall of Languages on the Syracuse University Campus

at NYIT in the Wiser Library

in Rochester NY.

Visit the website for details. www.nydcdt.org

Call for proposals deadline is Sept 14, 2009

Proposals and registration can be done from the website.

in Rochester NY.

Visit the website for details. www.nydcdt.org

Call for proposals deadline is Sept 14, 2009

Proposals and registration can be done from the website.

in Rochester NY.

Visit the website for details. www.nydcdt.org

Call for proposals deadline is Sept 14, 2009

Proposals and registration can be done from the website.

Conversations in Teacher Preparation: Evidenced-based Practices for Behavioral Interventions

Touro College

Promising Practices in Literacy

at SUNY Cortland in the Sperry Bldg. The specific room location will be posted on the entry doors for your reference.

Our upcoming meeting will be a work session to begin and/or continue our work on the following activities:

1. Regional Higher Education Leadership Summit on Inclusive Elementary Teacher Preparation
We plan to invite leaders from higher education institutions (deans, chairs, coordinators, field placement directors) to a round table discussion regarding ways to best prepare teachers for inclusive education. The Summit will be held at Lemoyne College in the Spring 2010.

Being held at Roberts Wesleyan College. Parking is not a problem.

The lot right behind Rinker (Lots C and F) is relatively easy parking.

2301 Westside Drive
Rochester, NY 14624-1997

This meeting has been canceled.

at the College of New Rochelle

at NYIT in the Wiser Library.

The date for this has changed from the 2nd to the 7th of December.

at SUNY Cortland

Time and date to be determined.

at Nazareth College.

We will be holding our first regional task force meeting of 2010 this coming Thursday from 10:30-1:30 at Nazareth College. Thanks to Ellen Contopidis for making these arrangements. Ellen sends the following details.

We have Galisano room 21 reserved and bagels and coffee ordered. The meeting is from 10:30-1:30. Parking is a bit of an issue in that we have all our student teachers on campus that week. People will just need to find spots in the front and side lots, I will have passes when they arrive.

at Manhattanville College

(focus on advocacy for parents of swd)

at College of New Rochelle.

Focus on supporting middle and high school teachers with literacy strategies across the content areas for inclusive instruction.

at Wells College.

at Mercy College.
Time to be determined.

 Conversations in Teacher Preparation: Teacher Candidate Dispositions

Location to be determined.

at Rockland Community College

Focus on working with liberal arts faculty to support swd.

at The Advocacy Center on South Ave in Rochester, NY.

Barb Klein (contact info below) has agreed to be our hostess and looks forward to our visit. Thanks Barb.

Barb will not be in the office until Monday 2/22, therefore, if you need directions, please let me know and I can mapquest them and send them to you.

I will pick up some local goodies for the meeting, so please RSVP to me, by Sunday, so I can be sure I have enough on hand.

Barb Klein
Director of Parent Training & Information
The Advocacy Center
590 South Avenue
Rochester, NY 14620
(585) 546-1700

at Pace University.

 A Network to Support Inclusive Educators

At the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) Headquarters
52 Broadway, New York

Teachers currently working in inclusive classrooms please join us to have the opportunity to:

At Parent to Parent.
Time to be determined.

Friday, March 5 from 2:00 - 4:00 at SUNY Cortland in the New School of Education Bldg, room 1242 (second floor).

Directions:

link for a campus map: http://www2.cortland.edu/about/maps-and-directions/#Admissions

From Syracuse and points north

Take Interstate 81 south to Cortland Exit 11.
Turn right off the exit ramp onto Clinton Avenue Extension.
At the second traffic light take a right on Clinton Avenue/Route 13.
Drive approximately one mile, get into the center lane and make a left-hand turn at the light onto Church Street.

The Spring Statewide Meeting of the Task Force for Quality Inclusive Schooling is scheduled for Friday, March 26th, 2010 at the Crown Plaza in Albany, NY. The meeting promises to be energizing and informative. An agenda will be forthcoming in a few weeks.

at the University of Rochester

Parking passes will be at the kiosk at the entrance to the university (off of Elmwood). We are meeting in Dewey 1-305; I’ll put up signs.

Map and agenda attached below:

at SUNY Cortland

Children as Consumers, Children as Learners; Markets, Inequality and Public Space

Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall on the Syracuse University Campus

The NYU Council for the Study of Disability and The NYU Student Chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children invite you to a special showing of:  

Including Samuel

Featuring:

Dan Habib and Richard Ellenson

Friday, April 9th, 2010,
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
19 University Place

at NYIT

MEETING REMINDER

Systems Change for Inclusive Schooling

at the deSeversky Center, NYIT

Pedro J. Ruiz. Ph.D.
Coordinator Office of Bilingual Education & Foreign Language Studies NYSED will be speaking on including ELLs in student successes.

Please spread the word to your colleagues, and adjust your schedule accordingly.The conversation will begin at 10 AM and end by Noon. It will be preceded by a half-hour "business" meeting for TF members, 9:30-10. We will be meeting at the offices of Parent Network of WNY, 1000 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. Parking is convenient at that location. Look for signs as you enter
the building, for our room. We have conversationalists from Buff State, NU, and Canisius; so far.

Flier attached below

At Touro College.
Time to be determined.

at Cazenovia College.

at Alfred University

Making Sense of Autism!

Working with autism instead of against it
in cooperation with
Syracuse University’s Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies

Present:

Susan Golubock, Occupational Therapist

Jim Sinclair, Rehabilitation Counselor

Effective Therapeutic Strategies for Working with Autistic Clients

June 6-7, 2010
Syracuse, NY

Don’t Miss Out!

Advance Registration Required

Meet the Speakers

Making Sense of Autism!

Working with autism instead of against it
in cooperation with
Syracuse University’s Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies

Present:

Susan Golubock, Occupational Therapist

Jim Sinclair, Rehabilitation Counselor

Effective Therapeutic Strategies for Working with Autistic Clients

June 6-7, 2010
Syracuse, NY

Don’t Miss Out!

Advance Registration Required

Meet the Speakers

at Wisser Library, NYIT

in Whitestone NY. Time to be determined.

at Niagara University

at Niagara University

What Every General and Special Education Teacher Needs to Know

at NYIT

What Every General and Special Education Teacher Needs to Know

at NYIT

What Every General and Special Education Teacher Needs to Know

at NYIT

at Pace University in Pleasantville

at Saint John Fisher College
We are meeting in the Alesi Education Center, Room 102, which is Building 14 on the map. It is directly across the street from the main entrance to the college.

If you enter the front door, walk down the hall, turn left and go all the way to the end of the hall.

Revealing the Strengths of Learners with Autism

First Annual Nazareth College Inclusion Institute
November 6, 2010 Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

We encourage presentations that reflect the Inclusion Institute theme, "Revealing the Strengths
of Learners with Autism," from early intervention to post-secondary transition in any of the following strand areas:

We are meeting in Whitestone on October 8, 2010 at 9:30AM.
Breakfast and lunch will be served at the retreat. Please let me know if you will attend. I will send out the directions to my home and the agenda shortly. -Brenda

Besides evaluating the work we did during 2009-2010 , we will make plans for 2010-2011.

In addition, we will be honoring those who retired this year, Kathleen McSorley and Pauline Bynoe.

Attached is a call for proposals for next October's combined NYSATE/NYACTE - Task Force Conference at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs, NY.

As Kate DaBoll-LaVoie and I described at the Statewide Meeting on March 26th, for this coming fall's Statewide Meeting, the TF has combined with NYSATE/NYACTE to offer a somewhat different venue for its work. As such, our support of our membership for the event will reflect a different structure. HESC will pay for members' registrations for the conference ($185).

Attached is a call for proposals for next October's combined NYSATE/NYACTE - Task Force Conference at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs, NY.

As Kate DaBoll-LaVoie and I described at the Statewide Meeting on March 26th, for this coming fall's Statewide Meeting, the TF has combined with NYSATE/NYACTE to offer a somewhat different venue for its work. As such, our support of our membership for the event will reflect a different structure. HESC will pay for members' registrations for the conference ($185).

This will take place at Nazareth College in Rochester NY.

More details to be announced later.

The call for proposals can be found here. http://www.inclusion-ny.org/node/2481

at NYIT in the Wisser Library

at Nazareth College; School of Education
4245 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14618

Golisano Building Room 61

bagels and beverages will be served.
Parking is best in the Q lot and then people can come in through the canopy entrance and walk straight to the other end of the building.
Campus Map : http://www.naz.edu/campusmap/
MANY Thanks to Ellen Contopidis at Naz and her colleagues for making these arrangements.

Linda Ware has asked that we discuss the clinically rich graduate teacher education pilot RFP in regard to an urban/rural collaboration.

At Syracuse University, Room 034 School of Education in Huntington Hall (corner of Marshal St and University Ave)

at Parent to Parent.

Time unknown

at NYIT Wisser Library

at St. John Fisher College

at the Parent Network in Buffalo ?

Location TBA

at Nazareth College GAC Rm 61

at SUNY CORTLAND

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

at the United Federation of Teachers

Time to be determined

meeting to be held at Pace University's Dept. of Education

I would like to request that the liberal arts focus group present the workshop/content that they had shared at the October statewide meeting to colleagues in our region as part of our agenda. Please make sure to attend this important meeting and rsvp through e-mail.

Other agenda items include:
update on dvd production by our regional adolescent ed focus group
STAIR update
current school/college collaborations

At University of Buffalo

We will be in Baldy Hall (#11 on map) Room 555 on UB campus.

People should park in the Center for Tomorrow lot (#53 on map) (Flint road) and take the Green line shuttle to Capen Hall. They should get off at Capen, go to their right. They can walk through O'Brien (#12 on map) by taking the elevator to the 5th floor or they can walk to Baldy (the buildings are connected)

The shuttle runs every 10 minutes or so and is free. You do not need a permit to park in the Center for Tomorrow lot.

We’d like to begin right at 10. Thanks, Chandra

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

Preservice teachers from IHEs in the Mid-State region are eligible to apply for a grant to support their visit to an inclusive S3TAIR-validated school.  Please see attachment.  Deadline is February 11, 2011, 5 pm.

at Nazareth College

at LE MOYNE

Location TBA

at the Wisser Library at NYIT

Albertus 110 at The College of St. Rose

Lisa Luderman from SED will join us to provide technical assistance regarding the SWD 7-12 Generalist and subject area extensions and to have a conversation about revising currently existing programs into ones that will lead to the SWD 7-12 Generalist certification.

All are welcome!
The discussion will be rich with a variety of stakeholder views about how to best prepare future educators to teach adolescents with disabilities.

at the Crowne Plaza in Albany

Location: Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES (Auburn, NY)

Keynote: TBD

Breakout sessions: TBD

This meeting has been postponed and will be re-scheduled shortly.

In the Wisser Library at NYIT

We will be at the Parent Network, 1000 Main St. in Buffalo.

In the Wisser Library at NYIT

at Touro College in Forest Hills hosted by Stephen Levy

Time to be determined

at SUNY Geneseo

Taking place at Pace University Westchester, Pleasantville

at Utica College

in the Wisser Library at NYIT

at Marymount

Time to be determined.

Touro College: 60th Street at Lincoln Center

at NYIT

at Canisius College

At the RIT Inn and Conference Center in Henrietta (see attached for brochure for details)