This is the LHRIC's capstone teaching and learning event for the year! This event is designed for district stakeholders from across the region as a showcase for what works, what we should look forward to, and even what to avoid as we move to a more personalized learning environment across all teaching and learning. The LHRIC is frequently asked to help districts learn about what others are doing well, and what should we be paying attention to. This is that event! The keynote speaker for TLI Tech Expo is Liz Kolb. Celebrated professor, classroom teacher, presenter, and author. Her most recent publication is Learning First, Technology Second where she demonstrates her Triple E Framework for assessing the effectiveness of technology in lesson plans. For questions regarding this activity, please contact Sarah Martabano.
Teams of librarians and classroom teachers in grades 3-8 will work together to learn the basics of film making (on January 30 & 31) Focus will be on film techniques (such as angle, timing, and more) and creating a story with your film. This program will be useful for those who have participated in a previous Maker programs, as well as for newcomers. Participants will begin by spending two days with the videographer who will demonstrate film making and storytelling techniques. Strategies to include students as filmmakers and creators will be discussed. This hands-on and interactive workshop will leave you inspired and equipped to teach through your students’ language. The third day, February 27, will be spent developing curriculum applications. On the morning of June 3rd, we will share and celebrate our work. We recommend using iPads for this program. The use of a Padcaster will not be necessary, although it may be helpful in the long run.
8:30am - 12:00pm
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Who won the big CTE Cupcake Wars?
Collision students at our CTE campus will prep a vehicle for official use by Rye Police.
School board members toured our CTE campus and saw our career programs in action.
Culinary students served up gourmet fare at the SWBOCES Annual meeting.
The final Threat Assessment Team training workshop focused on Parent Reunification.
TELL Awards honor outstanding innovators in instructional technology.
Superintendent Harold Coles tries new Virtual Reality tools at our CTE campus.
CTE programs were in the spotlight at the "BOCES in the Well" event in Albany.
State Sen. Shelley Mayer meets with CTE student Juliette Suarez on BOCES Advocacy Day.
See what surprise awaited students who toured the New York City HBO studio last week. In addition to learning more about post-production work, they also had fun with an interesting prop.
Friends and family gathered recently to celebrate the 33 students who were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.
Network Technology Consultant Azhar Ahmad was honored by the Board of Education earlier this year with the SWBOCES Ambassador Award. Ahmad has served as Director of IT at East Ramapo since 2011.
Which flavor would prevail? Judges had a delicious job on their hands when they tasted five different cupcakes in order to declare a winner in this year's culinary Cupcake Wars. Read more about which flavor, and bakers, were declared the winners.
The deadline to apply to Southern Westchester BOCES' Practical Nursing Program for the Fall 2019 cohort has been extended until May 22. Find application and financial aid information at http://adulted.swboces.org. Take the first step today toward a rewarding career in nursing!
ComicFest provided to be a fun event for Career Services administrators and staff who wore costumes made by Fashion Design and Merchandising students.
Students in Paul Casagrande's Auto Body & Collision class have taken on a special project. Over the next several months they will be painting and refurbishing a Chevy Tahoe for the Rye Police Department. The vehicle will eventually become part of the department's fleet.
Students got closer look at construction jobs during the Hudson Valley Construction Career Day.
Teacher Michael D'Abruzzo's Animal Science class was donated a 23-year-old Russian tortoise. D'Abbruzzo's students have been working on trimming the animal's overgrown beak so he can eat more comfortably, as well as trimming its overgrown toenails and cleaning the crevices of its shell.
Fashion Design & Merchandising students have been busy wielding their superpowers with a thread and needle. They have designed and sewn costumes for faculty and administrators to wear at the upcoming White Plains ComicFest on April 27.
Board members from component districts were invited today to join members of the Southern Westchester BOCES Board of Education on a tour of the Career Services campus in Valhalla.
The event began with an overview of Career and Technical Education highlights and initiatives - including a budding drone program and a prestigious CISCO Academy - by Principal James Matera and Senior Director of Adult, Community & Career Services Claudia Murphy.
The campus is home to 17 diverse career-area programs, such as Automotive Collision, Commercial Art, Culinary Arts and Security, Law & Policing. Visitors took a tour of those programs, highlights of which were stops in the Animal Science program, where students were practicing canine resuscitation techniques, and the studio that serves the Sound and TV/Video Production programs.
The tour was arranged as an opportunity to show component district officials the many Career and Technical Education opportunities available to their students. To learn more, contact the Center for Career Services at 914-761-3400 or go to www.careers.swboces.org.
The Southern Westchester BOCES Board of Education publicly presented the 2019-2020 Budget at its Annual Meeting Wednesday evening. BOCES administrators, principals and staff welcomed component district representatives to the Career Services campus in Valhalla, where Culinary Arts students demonstrated their skills, serving a gourmet, three-course meal.
Producer Tony Dofat shared stories of how he became an award winning music producer, working with some of the biggest names in hip-hop, with students in the Sound Production class.
The art gallery on the second floor of the White Plains Public Library recently underwent a transformation as the bare walls were filled with colorful and unique work done by students in the Commercial Arts program at the Center for Career Services. The Art Show runs through April 22.
Students at the Center for Career Services had an opportunity to interview for jobs at Rye Playland on March 28. The event afforded students an opportunity to interview for a variety of summer positions, including ride operators, cashiers, EMT personnel, ticket-takers and more.
Animal Science students recently learned more about the Veterinarian Technology program at the New England Technical Institute.
Sergeant Amery Bernhardt with the Westchester County Department of Public Safety and SWBOCES Supervisor of School Safety and Facilities Brandon A. Cruz led today's latest installment in our Threat Assessment Team workshop series: Parent Reunification.
Sgt. Berhardt and Mr. Cruz provided nearly three dozen educators, mental health professionals and members of law enforcement with instruction on the theory, process, and execution of reunification after various incidents, with focus on both on- and off-campus sites. Participants also learned action steps to begin this process in their home school districts.
Today's workshop was the third and final one in an ongoing series offered by the Center for Professional Development and Curriculum Support. For more learning opportunities like this, please consult My Learning Plan or our website at http://pd.swboces.org.
Library Conference keynote speaker Susan D. Ballard told school librarians this morning to let their brand shine. Hosted by Southern Westchester BOCES at its Harrison training center, the 2019 joint Library Conference theme is Building Upon Shared Foundations!
Students in Richard Thomas' Construction and Plumbing class, refurbished benches for the Grove at Valhalla, located next door to the Center for Career Services campus.
