Professional Education Program Outreach

Our mission is to play a major role in the Long Island region by supporting, strengthening, and developing school-community-university partnership programs.

School-University Partnership Programs:

• Teaching American History Program 
  The Professional Education Program (PEP) contracts to support the Smithtown Central School District (SCSD) in their efforts to improve Teaching American History for Social Studies teachers in the middle and high schools at SCSD and William Floyd Union Free School District (WFUFSD). A grant has been awarded for 3 years (2008 - 2010) by the U.S. Department of Education for Exploring Controversies to Better Understand America’s Past. The PEP Outreach office contributes towards the preparation of these teachers to help them succeed as educators in New York State, as well as nationwide, by providing them with the intellectual rigor of an academic major as well as a professional credential providing in-service credits and other on-campus support to run the program.
• Environmental Education Summer Camp
• Chautauqua Short Courses For College Teachers
• Dialogues Across Differences - "If Long Island Were a Village: The 100 People Model"
  An engaging and interactive workshop supported by a 2008 Stony Brook University Presidential Grant awarded to the PEP Outreach Office administrator on Dialogues Across Differences for Diversity and Internationalization was conducted on May 5, 2008 at the Stony Brook campus. P-16 Long Island educators and Stony Brook University students from diverse areas were invited to use the 100-person model to challenge their assumptions and reconsider practices regarding the 2.75 million people on Long Island. Participants explored surprising characteristics of our Long Island community, and considered how to use new insights to fulfill their roles as teachers, administrators, community leaders, and other professionals.
• Liberty Partnership Program and Teacher Opportunity Corps.
• Essay Contest for secondary school students on the Italian-American Experience.
• Earthstock- Involved school districts in the Stony Brook area for potential exhibitors/participants promoting the theme of Sustainability- Our future is Today.
• Reading is Fundamental - Annual collaboration between the Comsewogue School District and the Professional Education Program to interact with students on this theme.
• Cooperative Learning - A professional development workshop conducted for Sachem High School .
• Eastern Suffolk BOCES’ Model Schools Program - The annual Celebration of Technology in Education (CTE) event at which K-12 teachers and students in the 53 Eastern Suffolk BOCES districts showcase the educational technology projects they use in their classrooms to support student learning.
• Pre-College Japanese Language Program - Collaboration with the Pre-College Japanese Language Program to promote the Japanese language for high school students. http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/japanese.nsf/pages/language.
• JCSB - Canon Essay Competition - The aim of this essay contest is to promote awareness and understanding of Japan in the United States, and to help young Americans broaden their international horizons. Public relations for this essay competition in the New York City and Long Island areas is cosponsored by the Professional Education Program.

For more information please contact:

Professional Education Program Outreach Office
Stony Brook University
Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, S-109
Stony Brook, New York 11794-4335
Tel: (631) 632-7696
Fax: (631) 632-7968