TST BOCES Competitors

The Rochester City School District is one of the 5 largest school Districts in New York State, employing approximately 6,000 staff members and serving approximately 22,000 students, with over 50 schools and programs. We are excited to present our collective vision for the future of education in the Rochester City School District. Our strategic plan, crafted in collaboration with students, parents, staff, and community members, sets ambitious and achievable goals to propel us toward excellence as OneRCSD. Rochester is the fourth largest metro in New York State. Nestled between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes region in Upstate New York, Rochester combines small-town accessibility with big-city services. The region attracts millions of visitors to its 11 lakes, 130 wineries, 75 breweries and distilleries, and eight ski resorts. The city is easy to get to, even easier to get around, and within a six-hour drive of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Syracuse, New York City, Toronto, and Boston. Rochester is known as a festival city with events centered around food, music, and the arts and culture scene that make it a vibrant community. It is home to the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Strong National Museum of Play, George Eastman Museum, and Lilac Festival, which attracts visitors from all over the world to beautiful Highland Park. While Rochester serves as the home territory for the Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Sabres, it also hosts several minor-league sports teams, including the Rochester Red Wings baseball team and the Rochester Americans hockey team.

The Center for Professional Learning and Curriculum Support at SWBOCES serves more than 32 PreK-12 districts, 143 schools, 300+ leaders, and 9250+ teachers each year through our diverse and robust portfolio of programs and services and impacts more than 78,963 students. Our programs and services are grounded in research and focused on practical teaching and learning experiences. We blend academic excellence, expertise in curriculum and pedagogy with transformative professional learning opportunities to inform and improve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of educators who provide high-quality learning experiences for all students. Professional learning opportunities are designed to support all members of a school district in their specific roles. We rely on our meaningful partnerships with districts, particularly Curriculum Council members, institutions of higher education, and initiates from NYSED to inform and prioritize programs each year and to foster a culture of collaborative responsibility to positively impact teaching and learning. Using data collected from these stakeholders, we build experiences that include embedded coaching, workshops, institutes, online learning, and special events for individual teachers, schools, districts, micro-networks, and special councils across the region. While all of our professional learning programs address both content and pedagogy, our professional learning opportunities are grouped by emphasis; content-focused (subject/ grade level) and strategy-specific. Whether you learn with us at our campus, 450 Mamaroneck Ave. Harrison, NY, in your district, or online, our programs are led by the Center’s faculty, professors from higher education, and carefully selected experts chosen for their proven successes and recognized for their ability to teach, lead, build capacity, and connect with educators. We invite you to explore the many ways we can partner with you, your school, and/or your districts on your learning journey.

OCM BOCES (Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services) provides a wide array of services for 23 component school districts.