Professional Development for Teachers & Administrators
LILAC is a CTLE certified organization, meaning that our professional development workshops can be used for teachers or administrators who need to log hours in order to maintain their teaching licenses.
LILAC offers three one-hour After School PD Workshops held in the fall and winter. These workshops are only a $10 registration fee. In support of our presenters who put a lot of work into preparing these workshops, we kindly ask that you log in to the virtual meetings no later than 10 minutes into the presentation and that you contact us with at least 24 hours notice if you are unable to attend for any extenuating circumstances. Thank you.
LILAC also offers two, on-site, three-hour Professional Development Workshop and Networking Events that include lunch to be held in December and May. These workshops are offered at a reduced price to LILAC members.
All participants will leave these PD workshops with something of practical value for their day-to-day instruction. See below for more detailed information about our topics, presenters and registration forms/fees.
After School Workshops
UPDATES FOR 24-25 COMING SOON
After School Professional Development Workshops
LILAC members pay a $10.00 registration fee and nonmembers pay a $20.00 registration fee
Wednesday, November 16, 2023 from 3:45 - 5:15 PM
Virtual PD - Teaching with Books of Choice with Amy Benjamin and Dana Musso
Thursday, January 17, 2024, from 3:45-5:15 PM
"Fostering a Community of Writers" with Gina Mingoia
Thursday, February 8, 2024 from 3:45- 5:15 PM
Virtual PD - “How to Recenter Student Agency in the Age of AI” with Katy Johnston, SUNY Stony Brook
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Clarifying Misconceptions and Building Bridges Between Balanced Literacy and the Science of Reading (SOR) with Erik Lepis
Wednesday, January 12, 2023
"Why Teach Literature? Historical Perspectives" with Andrew Newman, Professor of English and History · Stony Brook University
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Cultivating Culture: Making Our ELA Classroom Culture Responsive and Engaging with Dr. Ernest Morrell
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Using Bibliotherapy to Help Students Heal in These Unprecedented Times with Sarah Cordova
Thursday, January 13, 2022
In Words and Color: Pairing Poetry and Art for Analysis with Robin Aufses and sponsored by Marina Litvinskaya of Bedford, Freeman and Worth
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Introduction to Mindfulness for LILAC Educators with Melanie Anderson
Thursday, February 10, 2021, 3:30 - 4:45 PM
"Re-imagining The Magic of the Workshop Model" with Lauren Kaufman
Thursday, January 14, 2021, from 2:30-4:00 pm. "Facilitating Active Learning and Pre-Advanced Placement/Advanced Placement Preparation in a Virtual Learning Environment” with Kate Cordes
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 3:30 - 3:40 PM
Virtual PD - "Up-Close and Personal": Building Connections During Distance Learning" with Duncan MacDougal
All workshops cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic
Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 4:00 - 5:15 PM
Fall PD Workshop with Jeanie Flood, "The Escape Room in the ELA classroom" at Molloy College - Suffolk Center in Farmingdale
January 31, 2018, 4:00 - 5:15 PM
LILAC After School PD Workshop at Hofstra. University“Making Grammar Stick: Embedding Grammar into our Everyday Practice” with Sarah Cordova.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 4:00 - 5:15 PM
Fall PD K-12 Workshop at Molloy College, Farmingdale Campus. A collaborative group of teachers from six Long Island districts will present a workshop entitled “Growing a Collaborative Learning Community” where they will demonstrate how to use tools such as Google Drive to collaborate, reflect on practice, and support one another through their teaching journeys. Sponsored by Curriculum Associates.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 4:00 - 5:15 PM
Winter PD Workshop at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Sarah Cordova, founder of Distinctive Educators Institute, and literacy consultant will present a workshop titled “Making Grammar Stick: Embedding Grammar into our Everyday Practice”
LILAC ProfesSional Develpoment Workshop & Networking Events (lunch Included)
Coming Soon Luncheon Information for 25/26. Take a look at what we offered this year. (See below)
You are cordially invited to attend LILAC’s 2024 Winter Professional Development and Networking Event. This year, we are pleased to offer the workshop "Teaching Our Students to Write Effective Prompts for LLMs (AI Large Language Models)" with Dr. Katherine Johnston. In addition to this professional development workshop, last year’s LILAC mini-grant winners will present the programs that the 2023-24 LILAC mini-grants have supported.
At this one-hour interactive workshop, Dr. Johnston will share ways to help our students write more effective prompts for large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) program that uses deep learning to analyze and understand text. She will discuss and practice using the “C.L.E.A.R.” method for writing prompts, developed by Leo S. Lo, the Dean of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. We will also explore the limitations of LLMs and the value of under-prompting them to expose their hidden values and blind spots.
Dr. Katherine Johnston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University where she teaches and researches American Literature, Surveillance Studies, and Critical Data Studies. Her book, Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance and Twenty-first Century Literature, was published this year by the University of Iowa Press as part of their New American Canon Series.
Please join us and fellow colleagues at the Irish Coffee Pub, located at 131 Carleton Ave, East Islip, from 12:00pm – 3:00pm on Friday, December 6, 2024. For additional directions, please call the Irish Coffee Pub directly at (631) 277-0007. Lunch will be included at this event.
We hope you will join us for these presentations and the opportunity to exchange instructional strategies with colleagues from across Long Island. Pricing for this event is $44.00 for LILAC members and $49.00 for non-members. Please complete the registration form (CLICK HERE) and submit it along with a check payable to “Long Island Language Arts Council” or by completing the PayPal payment below.
On-site registration will be available as well. Please mail your check to the following address on or before December 2nd, 2024:
LILAC Professional Develpoment Workshop & Networking Events have a registraion fee that must be paid at the time of your registraiton by mailing a check made out to LILAC for the event amount to:
LILAC, C/O Kyrie Siegel
288 Holbrook Avenue
Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
(must be postmarked one week prior to the event)
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Use the button below to pay your registration fee after you complete the registration form below for your event.
Winter PD Workshop & Networking Event
More to come soon .
Friday, May 17, 2024
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
During this professional development and networking event, we will be honoring the local New York State English Council Educators of Excellence and our Kenneth Gambone Writing Contest winners. Our featured presenter will be Lauren Kolbeck. For over a decade Lauren worked as a lead staff developer at Teachers College and co-authored two books with Lucy Calkins. Currently, she provides literacy support and training to schools across Long Island.
Friday, May 19, 2023
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
During this professional development and networking event, we will be honoring the local New York State English Council Educators of Excellence and our Kenneth Gambone Writing Contest winners. Our featured presenter is local author, Gina Mingoia, who will share her experiences, inspirations, and the power of writing as a path toward healing through her discussion, “On Perseverance, Writing, and Healing.”
Friday, December 9, 2022
Harnessing the Power of Emotions in the ELA Classroom with Kate Cordes
Friday, May 20, 2022
12:00 - 3:00 PM.
Don’t miss our annual Kenneth Gambone Writing contest awards celebration along with a featured presentation by Sarah Cordova and Suzanne Hutt from Literacy Matters, at Captain Bill’s scenic waterfront setting.
DECEMBER PD WORKSHOP/LUNCHEON
Cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Friday, May 17, 2019
12:00 - 3:00 PM.
Don’t miss our annual NYSEC Educators of Excellence and Kenneth Gambone Writing contest awards celebration along with a featured local author presentation by Scott Starkey, author of How to Beat the Bully Without Really Trying, The Call of the Bully, and Revenge of the Bully, at Captain Bill’s scenic waterfront setting.
Friday, December 14, 2018
12:00 - 3:00 PM.
You are cordially invited to attend LILAC’s 2018-2019 “Winter Professional Development and Networking Event.” This year, we are pleased to offer “Inquiry and Research: Developing Great Questions and Using Reliable Sources.” In addition to this professional development workshop, last year’s mini-grant winners will present the programs which the mini-grants supported. The keynote workshop entitled, “Inquiry and Research: Developing Great Questions and Using Reliable Sources” will be presented by Victor Jaccarino, ELA Consultant, and Ed Schmieder, English Chair at Sayville Schools.
During this workshop presented by two LILAC Past Presidents, participants will focus on two shifts in how we teach research. The Next Generation Standards emphasize the need to develop inquiry questions and work with reliable sources. The presenters will address both issues and will explore the concept of “fake news.”