Marta Valle Secondary School
145 Stanton Street
Manhattan
Room 341 (for the Summer session)

Lower East Side of Manhattan

By subway: F train to Delancey Street.

Dear Participants,

The ASPDP spring term ends on June 16, 2008.

Generally, certificates are processed at the end of the term, and we cannot put a rush order on individual certificates. We encourage you to review the program policy for details. Participants filing for their salary differentials have until December 30, 2008 to get in their applications (retroactive from July 1).

Participants requiring additional help may call us at (718) 935-5753. Please refer questions about applying for the salary differentials to the Office of Salary Status at (718) 935-2642 or visit the New York City Department of Education’s website, Teacher Page at http://schools.nyc.gov/Teachers.

Please be sure that your profile includes your name, mailing address, a contact number and e-mail. When paying by credit card, make sure that this information is correct if you are going to use it to match your billing information -- because it it does not match exactly, the bank will reject the transaction.

Please make sure that for every course you have registered you are also enrolled.

To complete the ENROLLMENT process you have to EITHER:

pay for the course by credit card
or
if you are paying to an Educational Partner that they have updated your registration to ENROLLED.

Thank you for visiting our new website

To become a new user
In the New User box
Click Register
Complete all of the information
Your user name is your file number
Set your password to Welcome.123

Follow the instructions to Enroll
Sign in
Your user id is your file #
Your Password is Welcome.123
On the left click Update your Profile

To enroll in courses:
Select Enroll/Pay
Select search
Find the course by scrolling through the pages
Click on the red pencil
Click on enroll
Find the Payment Dialogue Box to the far upper right
Follow the payment directions

If you are paying by credit card
Make sure all of the information is exactly as it appears on your card.
Make sure your address is exactly as it appears on your credit card account
If you are paying for more than one course you need to wait one full minute before you can make the next transaction.

Make sure you click confirm payment.

As the Director of the After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP), I welcome you to our new website. I am pleased to present the Summer 2008 Professional Development Course Catalogue.

The After School Professional Development Program has proudly served the New York City Department of Education for over 51 years. We take pride in offering pedagogues high quality, convenient, low-cost alternatives to college courses across all content areas that may be applied toward salary differential and the NYS 175 hours of professional development requirement.

Aligned with the Children First Initiatives, our mission is to offer valuable and viable alternatives to college courses. These courses are designed to positively affect student achievement through the professional development of teachers, secretaries, and other school personnel, and simultaneously enhance the professional staff’s skills and expertise.

In the past, limited copies of the published Professional Development Opportunities Catalogue were mailed directly to the schools. As we enter into a technological age, the “P” In-Service course listing is only available for on-line viewing at the After School Professional Development Program website, http://schools.nyc.gov/Teachers/aspdp

I strongly recommend that you read the ASPDP Program Policy before you register for any courses. When you register you are agreeing to the terms outlined in the Program Policy.

In addition you should frequently check the Program News for announcements regarding any updates and/or changes that have occurred. The information posted on this website contains the most up-to-date course information available.

We encourage you to look through the current course offerings, and that you share the information with your colleagues. Please feel free to contact the Office of After School Professional Development at 718-935-5753/2716 or contact us at aspdp@schools.nyc.gov with any questions or comments you may have.

We wish you success in all your educational and professional endeavors and hope that you have a rewarding and valuable professional development experience.

The Office of After School Professional Development, thanks for your continued support.

For more information email: aspdp@schools.nyc.gov

If you are AOL account user, please know that you may experience difficulty receiving e-mails from the ASPDP website. Unfortunately, due to virus worm threats AOL has set high security settings and may not deliver e-mails to your AOL account. This is especially the case for AOL members who have recently requested passwords and enrollment in a course.

To help rectify this problem the webmaster has been in communication with AOL and is desperately working to rectify this situation.

In the interim we asked that you kindly add the following e-mail addresses listed below to your AOL address book:

aspdp@schools.nyc.gov

This will allow you to receive e-mails form the ASPDP website. Additionally please check your AOL spam folder, as the e-mail may have been delivered to this folder.

If you still experiencing trouble or anxious about being closed out of a course please phone 718-935-5753 or 2716, and someone from the ASPDP office will enroll you in the course providing that it is available.

Thank you for your patience.

For more information email: aspdp@schools.nyc.gov

Please don't miss out "Periodic Assessment and Data Driven Instruction" and "Understanding the New York City Progress Report". Look under Accountability Tools.