• Regional workshops, seminars & symposiums - seminars and symposiums are excellent learning opportunities for educators. Each workshop is carefully designed to support the most current thinking in education, and provide a forum for new ideas.
• In-district workshops - are professional development sessions requested specifically by a particular district to address a particular need. These workshops are customized by BOCES staff in collaboration with district administrators.
• In-district coaching/mentoring - is a method used by many school districts to supply the extra support that may be required by teachers either in a particular grade level or content area. Highly expert coaches work, over a period of time, in classrooms with teachers and outside the classroom in training sessions with those teachers and their administrators according to the unique needs of that school district.
• Suffolk County Literacy Center
  For information on the following literacy programs please call 631-244-4250.
• Reading Recovery (New York University) - Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention of one-on-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. Individual students receive a half hour lesson each school day for up to 20 weeks, with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can read within the average range of their class and demonstrate a self-extending system that ensures the ability to continue to achieve, the tutorial session is discontinued and a new student begins individual instruction. Reading Recovery was developed by New Zealand educator and researcher Dr. Marie Clay. It has been in the United States for more than 15 years, with more than 700,000 first graders participating.
• Reading Recovery Council of North America
• NYU Steinhardt - Reading Recovery Project
• Designing, reviewing, evaluating and updating curricula - is an ongoing process wherein school district teams organize to create high quality curriculum products for classroom teachers.
• SED Information sessions - and help sessions are available as needed in response to new initiatives or requirements for school districts from SED.
• My Learning Plan - is an outstanding web based data management system. It permits districts to align goals for professional development electronically and even to maintain clear tracking of teacher data regarding workshops and courses as one of the components. On-line registration for teachers and the ability for districts to grant prior approval electronically for conferences and workshops are particularly valuable elements of this system. Please feel free to register for our Professional Development Opportunities workshops through My Learning Plan.

Curriculum Development
For information on the following programs please call (631) 244-4269.

• K-6 Science Program - supporting the Science 21 program by providing delivery, pickup of kits, professional development and instructional support.
• Project WISE - pairs students with scientists/scholars from SUNY Stony Brook. Students meet monthly throughout the school year and a summer session is also available.
• Naval/Air Force ROTC - operates Navy and Air Force Junior ROTC programs, located in local High Schools for students in grades 9-12.
• Effective Schools Surveys - Seventeen different surveys are available, including a staff survey, a technology needs survey and student and parent surveys.

Curriculum and Assessment Services
For information on the following programs please call 631-244-4250

• Comprehensive Curriculum Development Service - Curriculum projects to help schools meet NYS Common Core State Standards are offered. This service also includes:
• Discounted workshops on curriculum writing for the common core standards
• Summer curriculum writing projects in which Eastern Suffolk BOCES hires your teachers to write curriculum over the summer
• Use of the Eastern Suffolk BOCES bid on printed materials for curriculum
• Use of Eastern Suffolk BOCES’ duplication services to reproduce NYSED documents to support classroom curriculum
• Regional Scoring and Training for NYSED Tests - Regional scoring sessions are available for all NYSTP grades 3 – 8 Assessments, NYSESLAT and NYSAA. Large centralized scoring sessions and cluster sessions in local schools can be arranged. Turnkey training sessions for Grades 3 – 8 assessments are also available.