During summer, the Educational Resources (ER) division of Dutchess BOCES has been helping to provide expanded opportunities. Teachers and administrators have taken courses to improve their skillsets. After benefiting from workshops, book readings, and re-certifications, they can bring those skills to the students they serve. One of the best parts of doing it through BOCES, is the flexibility that it gives participants.
Now is the perfect opportunity to join the Dutchess BOCES team and reap the benefits of a truly rewarding career.
Kiesha Tillman, an educator with more than 20 years of experience in the classroom and in administration, has been selected to serve as the new principal at the Dutchess BOCES’ Alternative High School (AHS), effective July 28.
Dutchess BOCES’ Career and Technical Institute once again offered its “Middle School Summer CTI Experience” starting July 24 and ending July 28 for 6th to 8th grade students interested in learning about a trade.
Despite being in a different bustling building, Dutchess BOCES’ Regional Academic Summer School, or RASS, is conducting business as usual.
An organization has awarded a $10,000 grant to Dutchess BOCES to support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) youth. The grant will be used to help create a safe and welcoming environment and to fund a gay/straight alliance club.
A group of students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing attended a get-together at Dutchess BOCES recently to meet each other, play games, have snacks and to learn more about Deaf culture.
The disco duo McFadden & Whitehead once belted out a tune called “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” and that was the mantra of the 36 graduates of Dutchess BOCES’ Practical Nursing Program at the Career & Technical Institute.
More than 275 seniors from Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute are now on to college, the military or the workforce after the annual recognition ceremony held on June 9 despite the finicky weather.
Family and friends gathered outside of the CTI main entrance to watch and cheer for their children as they enjoyed their success from completing the variety of programs BOCES has to offer.
Eleven students from the Career & Technical Institute (CTI) at Dutchess BOCES are heading to work as soon as they graduate where they will put the skills they learned in their respective courses to good use.
Family, faculty and staff celebrated the students of the Career and Technical Institute June 1 at the annual awards ceremony. Community partners donated more than $8,000 in scholarships and prizes to sweeten the day.
Alyssa Hoag hopes to operate a farm one day and may be on her way to doing so based on her results at the New York State Future Farmers of America Convention in Buffalo on May 18-20.
The student in the Careers in Animal and Plant Sciences program at Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute placed second on the Farm and Agriculture Business Management written test.
The 2022-23 school year has less than a month to go. Please mark your calendars for these important events. We look forward to celebrating your children’s accomplishments.
In the first of many measures to bring more equity to the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) community, Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute invited Dutchess County Pride Center Executive Director Karen Marder for two talks on May 10 to highlight the center’s services and to speak about LGBTQ matters.