The last school day before spring break was a busy one on the BOCES campus. At SPC, students celebrated the season by decorating cookies, creating spring-themed flip sticks, and having some fun with “floating Peeps.”
The students at Resilience Academy had a fun PBIS activity lined up for them this month!
EMT Teacher Danielle Bohlmann and her students have a new tool to help them learn the skills needed to become EMTs with the installation of an ambulance simulator in the classroom. BOCES invested $65,000 to purchase the unit and have it installed.
Developing Dutchess County’s workforce was the thrust of the Career and Technical Institute’s Main Advisory Council meeting today, March 19.
Dutchess BOCES students and staff had the luck of the Irish leading up to St. Patrick's Day today, celebrating across the campus.
It all began Friday, as Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management students made savory corned beef Reubens with fresh-baked Irish soda bread and coleslaw on the side for staff lunches.
As part of a yearly tradition, first-year students from the Career & Technical Institute’s (CTI) Careers in Animal and Plant Sciences (CAPS) read an agricultural-themed book to Salt Point Center (SPC) students and worked on a related hands-on activity with them during Agricultural Literacy Week, w
At Dutchess BOCES’ Superintendent’s Conference Day March 10, faculty and staff attended meaningful sessions in support of their professional growth.
The Dutchess BOCES Bulldogs brought grit, determination and - most importantly - smiles to the Special Olympics New York Regional Aquatics and Basketball Competition at Marist University Sunday, March 8.
After a warm-up of sinking 3s and high fives, the Bulldogs shouted out the Special Olympics Athlete Oath alongside all the other athletes: “Let me win! If I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt!”
Despite an early morning snowfall, the Dutchess BOCES Polar Plunge team braved the elements on Sun. March 1, to participate in the Hudson Valley Polar Plunge, a fundraiser for the Special Olympics. This year, the event held at Eastdale Village in the Town of Poughkeepsie, was one of three plunges in the Hudson Valley, with others taking place at Dutchess Stadium and Marist University.
A big congratulations to the 45 CTI students who made everyone proud by participating in the SkillsUSA Area IV Conference held in Westchester County on Feb. 28 and scoring high marks in various competitions.
Janet Bisti joins BOCES as its new Director of Educational Resources after serving as the Poughkeepsie City School District’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction.
This year’s Winter Olympics in Milan are epic and students at Salt Point Center are joining the fun by participating in special activities themed around the games during the weekly Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Fridays initiative in the school’s gym.
Dutchess BOCES educators have been utilizing artificial intelligence to level up in the classroom.
Shelley Cuccia, an Instructional Coach for CTI, discussed how beneficial these tools can be for CTI educators specifically.
When Margaret (Meg) Buckland was growing up, she would often accompany her mother, a teacher of 38 years in the Wappingers Central School District, during the summer to set up her classroom before the school year began. Her mother’s love for the job sparked Buckland’s lifelong interest in teaching and learning.
Students enrolled in Dutchess BOCES’ Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program visited the distribution center of GAP Inc. in Fishkill on Feb. 3 to see large-scale technological applications in action.