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Special Education Personnel Participate in Leadership Workshops
 | | Haldane School District’s Julia Sniffen (left) participated in the Collaborative Leadership Network workshop at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES with facilitators (from left) Dr. Diane Lordi, also of Haldane, Ellen Doherty, Dr. Carol Franks-Randall, and Lynn Allen. |
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Area administrators working in the increasingly complex area of special education are benefiting from a new-this-year Collaborative Leadership Network under the auspices of Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES’ Center for Educational Leadership.
More than two dozen educators recently participated in the second of four workshops on BOCES’ Yorktown campus, where they discussed ways to apply leadership principles to help implement the many new state and federal special education mandates. Facilitating the workshop were Dr. Carol Franks-Randall, Elmsford superintendent and an expert in the field; Dr. Diane Lordi, director of instructional services in the Haldane School District; Ellen Doherty, assistant director of special education in Katonah-Lewisboro; and Lynn Allen, director of BOCES’ Special Education Training and Resource Center.
The Collaborative Leadership Network was established by request of the participants after they had attended a three-day institute at BOCES last summer entitled “Special Education Leadership: Challenges and Solutions,” offered by BOCES and Bank Street College of Education.
 | | Putnam Valley School District’s David Fine and Natalie Doherty (front) participated in the Collaborative Leadership Network workshop at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES with facilitators (from left) Dr. Diane Lordi of Haldane , Ellen Doherty, Dr. Carol Franks- Randall, and Lynn Allen. |
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“This collaborative environment fosters a professional learning community that is providing support to special education leaders in school districts both regionally and nationally,” Dr. Franks- Randall said.
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