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Conferences and Workshops

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Building Thinking Classrooms Across Content Areas: Designing for Engagement, Retention, and Deep Learning

This full-day session is grounded in the core principles of Building Thinking Classrooms and extends them beyond mathematics to support instruction in ELA, science, social studies, world languages, the arts, CTE, and electives.

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Aspiring Leaders Seminar

For educators (interns, new administrators, team leaders, department chairs) considering a career in administration, currently taking courses, or entering the field.

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Regents 2026: Deep Dive, Design Time, and Ready-to-Use Tools

With the rollout of the new NYS English Regents in June 2026, teachers need clarity, alignment, and time to prepare students effectively. This session provides both. This session is designed to reduce uncertainty, strengthen instructional coherence, and ensure students are prepared without adding unnecessary test-prep fatigue.

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Reclaiming Focus: Addressing Student Attention Fragmentation in the Post-Phone Era

This one-day institute helps participants understand the neuroscience and social-emotional roots of attention fragmentation and explore research-based strategies to rebuild students’ capacity for sustained focus, self-regulation, and deep learning.

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Motivational Interviewing: The evidence-based tool transforming behavioral and learning outcomes in schools

Build intrinsic motivation through brief, collaborative sessions that help students make a lasting positive change. This student-centered tool builds autonomy by guiding students to explore their own reasons for change and take the steps required to make a meaningful change.

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Capital District Regional Music Educators Symposium

The Capital District Regional Music Educators Symposium will return October 29th - stay tuned for more details!

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Roundtables

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Athletic Directors Roundtable

Join us to communicate, collaborate and share your practice with other Athletic Directors in the Capital Region.

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Mental Health Provider Roundtable

In the third year of this popular roundtable for Mental Health Providers we will explore the benefits and challenges of working collaboratively in a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS).

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MTSS Support Roundtable

The MTSS Roundtable will provide participants with research, strategies, and a supportive community to share ideas, best practices, and reflections with colleagues from across the region.

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School Counselors Roundtable

A collaborative offering from CASDA and the Capital District Counselors Association (CDCA).

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Special Education Roundtable

 A collaborative forum for Special Education teachers, directors and administrators where participants have opportunities for connecting and sharing experiences and innovative practices.

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Speech and Language Therapy Roundtable

This roundtable will provide speech and language educators with the opportunity to share, discuss and learn about issues of concern to them in the field, and include resources and guest speakers.

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Technology Supporting Diverse Learners Roundtable

Join CASDA for a Monthly Gathering of IT/AT Professionals from Across the Capital District

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The Principal Collaborative

The Principal Collaborative is a unique, responsive professional development opportunity for principals and assistant principals to develop their leadership and practice in a joint forum.

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Virtual Series

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Innovation-Based Instruction Webinar Series

Preparing Students to Grapple with  21st-Century Problems Using Innovation-Based Instruction - a FREE five-part webinar series by Creosity.

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Unlocking Student Motivation: An Evidence-Based Approach to Behavior and Learning

Motivational interviewing is a behavioral science technique that has been successfully used across diverse school settings to improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students through brief, structured conversational sessions.

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Healthy Alliance: Connecting School Communities with Resources and Support

This webinar will introduce school personnel to New York State’s Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Services and the role of Social Care Networks (SCNs) in connecting students and families to essential non-medical supports.

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