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A unique coalition of New York state stakeholders, has conceptualized and implemented a pilot teacher residency program — the Classroom Academy — designed by practitioners to advance effective teaching, student learning, and financial sustainability through a pioneering approach that can be a model for other districts, regions, and states.
Funded with a programmatic grant (Great Public Schools) from the National Education Association, the Classroom Academy is dedicated to the principles of accomplished teaching established by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. It tightly aligns high quality graduate level college academic preparation with two-year classroom residencies overseen by expert lead teachers. The Classroom Academy is unique in this teacher led approach-with a comprehensive mix of stakeholders, National Board principles, strong assessment and evaluation components, and a groundbreaking incorporation of “shared services” model financing that solves a persistent challenge for residency programs across the nation: financial sustainability. 
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Potential Resident Candidates Potential Lead Teachers Potential District Partners Potential Higher Education Partners Current PlacementsResidents for the 20-21 school year, from graduate programs in SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Empire, or Sage Colleges, can be matched and placed in in districts throughout the region.
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This is the greatest teacher education program ever!!! This should be the only way prospective teachers are educated!" -Scott Cutaiar, Attending Teacher 
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Expansion
In the 2020-2021 school year we are excited to expand to additional districts, including Hoosick Falls, as well as welcome candidates from our new higher education partners SUNY Empire State College and Sage Colleges Esteves School of Education.
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Anytime two teachers are in the classroom and work so well together, children will benefit!" ~classroom parent
We are working to Create All the Tools You Need to Succeed!
The Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES does not discriminate in its programs and activities, including employment and admission as applicable, on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, economic status, marital status, veterans' status, political affiliation, domestic victim status, use of a guide dog, hearing dog or service dog, disability, or other classifications protected under federal or state law, and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The designated district compliance officers will coordinate compliance with the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act, and the New York State Human Rights Law. The BOCES Compliance Officers are: Turina Parker and Ronald Black, Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES, 1153 Burgoyne Avenue, Suite 2, Fort Edward, NY 12828. phone: 518-746-3310, email: tuparker@wswheboces.org or rblack@wswheboces.org. Complaints may also be filed with the Office for Civil Rights, New York Office, U.S. Department of Education, 32 Old Slip, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10005- 2500, phone (646) 428-3800, fax (646) 428-3843, email:OCR.NewYork@ed.gov