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SPC Kid’s HEART Challenge

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by participating in the Kid’s HEART Challenge from the American Heart Association? Students at Salt Point Center (SPC) got their hearts pumping on Wednesday by hula hooping, jumping rope, long jumping, and much more.


BOCES campus unites to support Special Olympics

The Hudson Valley Special Olympics Regional Aquatics & Basketball Competition is fast approaching, and Dutchess BOCES is coming together to prepare athletes for the competition, as well as to fundraise for Hudson Valley Special Olympics as a whole.


Tips offer help beating winter blues

The winter season can bring about mixed feelings. Leading up to the holidays, the cold and snowy weather is often viewed as merry and bright, but what about after the new year? With a couple of winter months still to come, Lauren Sky – a Dutchess BOCES school social worker - and Salt Point Center student, Colton Schinella, share some tips for families and students to beat the winter blues.


BOCES welcomes new CTI Assistant Principal, Damian Lamm

Dutchess BOCES Career and Technical Institute’s new assistant principal, Damian Lamm, will support instruction and support teachers to “bridge the gap between the knowledge from working in the profession versus using that knowledge in a teacher setting so that knowledge can be imparted to students in the most effective way possible,” he said.


CTI representatives visit Dutchess County high schools

Career and Technical Institute representatives are visiting Dutchess County high schools to talk with students about the opportunities offered at CTI before local high school sophomores explore those opportunities by visiting Dutchess BOCES to tour CTI and meet CTI students and teachers.


Students make their voices heard at Model UN

High schoolers from four Dutchess County school districts represented the viewpoints of various countries while working together to come up with resolutions during Dutchess BOCES’ High School Model United Nations at Vassar College Dec. 18.


Students evolve at BOCES debate tournament

High school students from three area school districts brought their A-game to the Fall 2023 Dutchess BOCES Debate Tournament held at Dutchess Community College (DCC) earlier this month, debating complex and diverse topics.


Students use class skills to judge snowman contest

SPC students Ian Rios, Kevin Rodriguez and Jaime Rivera judge snowmen built by administrators.Do you want to build a snowman but lack snow? Well, members of Dutchess BOCES’ Administration building didn’t let that stop them and had students from Salt Point Center and the Resilience Academy judge their creations on Dec. 19, just in time for the holiday season.


Board approves Student Council rebranding proposal

A bevy of changes has come recently to Dutchess BOCES’ Alternative High School, including a reformed student council and a rebranding approved by the Board of Education Wednesday, Dec. 13.
The school’s rebrand, The Dutchess BOCES Resilience Academy, was chosen by students and staff during an in-school to give the school an identity and remove stigmas around alternative high schools.


Conference Day jam-packed with crucial info

Dutchess BOCES faculty and staff are always learning and one example of that is Superintendent’s Conference Day, during which various training sessions were offered, all to help better meet student needs.


Students of the Month make everyone proud

Five Dutchess BOCES students were honored for their efforts inside and outside the classroom by the Poughkeepsie-Arlington Rotary during the Student of the Month Ceremony Nov. 16 at Mahoney’s Restaurant.


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