James Brown, a 5-6 grade STEM teacher at Sand Creek Middle School, made several presentations at the 2018 NSTA National Convention. He also attended numerous professional development opportunities, viewed the latest science materials and programs in the exhibit hall, and listened to lectures from researchers in the field. Brown’s presentations focused on Problem Based Learning, …
Sand Creek and Lisha Kill middle school STEM students participated at the KidWind competition held at General Electric Co. Wind Energy Labs in Schenectady. STEM teachers James Brown and Courtney Hynes worked with Div Pramanick, Ryan Seestadt, Dylan Morehouse, Stephen Pham, Amelia Hinckley, Ella Dannehy, Tessa Pekrol, Bonnie Warren and Neesa Osman as they researched …
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Student at Forest Park Elementary School participated in the American Heart Association Jump Rope for Heart program in February. This year 182 students participated in the program and raised more than $8,000. Over the last five years, students have raised more than $45,000 in support of the American Heart Association. Students were recognized by Coach …
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Following is a letter to parents from South Colonie Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Tim Backus, explaining changes in the upcoming New York State grade 3-8 assessments in ELA and Math. NYS Assessment Letter
Click Here To Visit Stacey Sebert’s Photo Gallery From Her Mexico Mission Click Here to View a Video of This Project Sand Creek Middle School Master Teacher Stacey Sebert was on a rescue mission recently to the seashore – hitting Mexico’s beach to study turtles endangered by nets. In the Magdalena bay area of Mexico, …
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Mrs. Harriman’s second graders at Shaker Road Elementary School took advantage of the recent snowstorm to make “snow ice cream” as part of their science lesson. Each child went outside and gathered a cupful of clean snow. After mixing it with a bit of evaporated milk and vanilla extract, they had their own special version of ice …
More than three dozen Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) students including students from South Colonie showed their in-depth knowledge of the skilled trades and earned medals at the regional SkillsUSA competition Wednesday in Schenectady. By doing so, all of the first-place winners and many of the other medal winners earned the right …
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Students in Mrs. Myers’ second grade class at Forest Park Elementary School became experts on a nonfiction topic. As part of the unit, students created dioramas featuring their animal in their natural habitat. Families and students visited the class Animal Expo and learned from the experts about the animals on display in the library. Forest …
Forest Park Elementary School hosted author, Karen Kuafmann Orloff, Wednesday in the library. Mrs. Orloff read her books and talked about how books are made. She collaborated with third and fourth grade students to make up their own story and answered questions students had about being an author. Thank you to the Forest Park PTA …
March brought one of our favorite motivational organizations back to Colonie Central Central High School to talk with us about Cyberbullying. Sweethearts and Heroes put on an amazing 80-minute assembly for our freshman and sophomores as well as held two breakout sessions for emerging student leaders. Tom Murphy and Rick Yarosh continue to captivate, inspire …
