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.
Dutchess BOCES brought together 48 literacy leaders from across the region Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, for the first ever New York State Education Department Literacy Symposium. The event, held at BOCES locations throughout the state, came the day after Gov. Kathy Hochul put the focus on literacy in her State of the State address.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When Ava Schultz was younger, she remembers building a snowman with her aunt and using a hot dog for the nose.
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.
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.
For students in Jason Imperiale’s morning Automotive Technology class, knowledge is fuel. Now they are passing it on to students in the Pegasus program.
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.
Employees of Central Hudson’s various departments visited Dutchess BOCES Nov. 14 for the first Career Path Day for that company.
There’s no business like show business, and Alternative High School students in Kathy Muenz’s dance and theater class got to see the inner workings of the Bardavon during a recent field trip.
School counselors from Dutchess BOCES’ 13 component districts visited the Career & Technical Institute (CTI) Nov. 1 to learn about or reacquaint themselves with the many programs and services CTI offers, and see two of them in action.