Dutchess BOCES

Rebecca Cossa’s Careers in Animal and Plant Sciences students are being community difference makers this month by collecting hygiene and cleaning products for those in need.

Students across campus demonstrated how kind they can be on Nov. 13 as part of World Kindness Day. 

Representatives from various Dutchess County school districts, law enforcement and local and state government shared expertise on everything centered on student and staff safety at this year’s Dutchess County School Safety Advisory Com

In honor of Veterans Day, students at Dutchess BOCES’ Salt Point Center (SPC) spent Nov. 10 making colorful cards thanking the veterans for their service, while students in Christine Ciccone’s class got to ask a real life soldier about his experiences in the field.

Guidance counselors from Dutchess BOCES’ component school districts learned about the Career and Technical Institute’s new EMT program and other new initiatives at the annual Counselor’s Meeting last week. It was also an opportunity to reacquaint them with other trade programs and services CTI offers.

Rachael Brammer, Heather Murphy and Melissa Murphy earned recognition from the Mid-Hudson School Study Council at its Fall Awards for Excellence recently.

Resilience Academy students in April Hart's class are lending a helping hand to the Career & Technical Institute's Automotive Technology and Electrical programs by sorting out materials so students in those programs can find what they need much quicker. This project helped students in the Pegasus program develop life and work skills.

Some of Dutchess BOCES' Work-Based Learning students proudly represented the organization during the fall BOCES Expo on Monday in Albany. Quadir Wheeler-Kairee, Yarami Sartillo Gutierrez, and Johan Melchor Vasquez shared about their work-based learning experiences with many people, including officials from the New York State Department of Education.

Dutchess BOCES’ Educational Resources (ER) team, along with the Arlington, Beacon, Rhinebeck and Wappingers school districts will host an inaugural Regional Professional Learning Day on November 4 featuring over 70 professional learning opportunities across five sites.

The halls of the Resilience Academy were a sea of orange for its celebration of Unity Day, part of National Bullying Prevention Month where students and staff wear orange to promote kindness, acceptance and inclusion. While this event was recognized nationally on Wednesday, Oct.

Dutchess BOCES’ Human Resources Network Mini Series began this September, giving employees pathways for professional learning and providing resources to support their collective talent and help them grow. There are also two external-facing consortiums for BOCES’ component districts to learn about the Educators’ Employee Assistance Group (EAP) and Regional Certification Office.

Students in the Career & Technical Institute’s (CTI) Security & Law classes created healthy meal plans that were prepared by students in Chef Instructor Amanda Scoca’s Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management morning class after going through officer wellness training and a nutrition unit. Both are mandated by New York State’s Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Dutchess BOCES is on track to get municipal water by fall 2026, thanks to a project with the Dutchess County Water and Wastewater Authority.

As part of a wider initiative to recognize National Bullying Prevention Month, Resilience Academy staff welcomed a representative from the Grace Smith House last week to speak with students for two workshops centered on bullying and cyberbullying.

The day is finally here! Salt Point Center’s students have been eagerly awaiting their new playground, and it is now officially open.