Race to the Top Resource Launched
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New York State has announced the launch of a new website resource for the Race to the Top Initiative! Useful information about Common Core standards, data-driven instruction, teacher and leader effectiveness, and other vital information is included. Called EngageNY, the site is designed to be a one-stop shop for New York’s teachers, principals, administrators and Network Team to find the...
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Mark Elia: Ulster BOCES Helps a Carpenter Cook Up a New Career Path
Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Ulster BOCES means different things to different people. For Mark Elia, it meant acquiring a solid foundation for a surprisingly varied career that has taken him from carpentry to the culinary arts—and as far afield as Singapore. When Mark graduated from Highland High School in 1976, having completed Ulster BOCES programs in building maintenance and carpentry, he decided to forgo...
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Ulster BOCES Practical Nursing Students Graduate
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It was an evening marked by cheers, tears, and traditions, as 21 adult students graduated from the Ulster BOCES School of Practical Nursing (PN) during a dramatic candlelight “pinning” ceremony. The event took place in a gymnasium filled to the rafters with friends, families, and staff members who had supported the students during their rigorous educational journey, which included 1,200 hours of...
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Superintendent's Conference Date Change
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The Superintendent’s Conference Day scheduled
for Friday, April 27, 2012 was moved to Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
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Winter 2012 Classes
Adult Education, BOCES Home Page News
Download the postcard linked below to check out our exciting winter class offerings.Courses include:Geothermal Sales & Marketing OSHA Safety Training and Certification Spanish IIDefensive DrivingAnd many more!
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A Perfect Storm
Central Administration
District Superintendent Dr. Charles Khoury presented a PowerPoint to staff at a recent site-wide meeting. Dr. Khoury spoke about the upcoming challenges facing public education and how Ulster BOCES can meet these challenges in the face of "the perfect storm." The link below is an abridged version of his PowerPoint presentation.
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SMART Newsletter
Instructional Services, BOCES Home Page News
The January February 2012 edition of SMART! featuring highlights from Instructional Services programs, is now available online! Enjoy this issue packed full of interesting summaries of the positive work being done to support Ulster County, as well as regional, education. Click below to read SMART!
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Adult Education Fall Catalog
Adult Education
The Ulster BOCES Adult Career Education course catalog for Fall 2011 is now available! CLICK on the link below to view the online version today. We welcome all inquiries about our traditional and new training opportunities in health occupations, renewable energy, manufacturing, and beauty enhancement. In addition, we continue to offer many enjoyable community education courses...
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Environmental Education Directory Now Available
Instructional Services
Last year, over 7,500 students benefitted from the Ulster BOCES Environmental Education Co-operative Service. Across the Hudson Valley, student learning was enriched with special trips to places like the Mohonk Preseve and the Ashokan Center. Click on the link below to view the Ulster BOCES Environmental Education Directory.Environmental Education Directory
Ulster BOCES Manufacturing & Renewable Energy Technology Programs Address Region's Workforce Needs
Adult Education, Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
The “joint was jumping” recently, as the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center held an open house to familiarize prospective students, local businesses, and manufacturing executives with its cutting-edge, industry-based programs. Sponsored by the Ulster BOCES Manufacturing, Fabrication Welding, and Renewable Energy Technology Programs, the all-day event drew both former and prospective...
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Ulster BOCES Adult Students Celebrate GED Graduation
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There were raucous cheers, wide smiles, and more than a few tears as 21 Ulster BOCES adult students received their General Educational Development (GED) diplomas during a recent ceremony held by the Ulster Adult Career Education Center, a division of Ulster BOCES. The graduates honored were members of a group of 98 Ulster BOCES GED students completing their diploma requirements.Among those...
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Wide Area Network Successfully Completed
Central Administration, Management Services, BOCES Home Page News
Underground construction, internal fiber runs, and electronics were installed at 31 buildings.
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Work was recently completed on installing a new Wide Area Network (WAN) that was created to serve more than 34 area school districts and thousands of students, teachers, and administrators in a groundbreaking new project that connects Orange-Ulster, Ulster, and Sullivan BOCES. With multiple individual network contracts expiring, Mid-Hudson Regional Information Center’s Director Gene Knudsen...
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Adult Education Awarded Candidate Status from the Council on Occupational Education
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Ulster BOCES Adult Education division is awarded Candidate Status from the Council on Occupational Education (C.O.E.)The Commission Executive Committee of the C.O.E. has awarded Candidate for Accreditation status to Ulster BOCES. The Commission Chair, following the June Executive Committee Meeting made announcement of the action.Candidate for Accreditation is a pre-accreditation status grant...
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Ulster BOCES Sponsors School Bus Safety Event at Dutchess Stadium
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Sadly, an average of 20 children are run over and killed by their school bus each year. To heighten awareness of this tragic statistic and educate people about school bus safety, Ulster BOCES helped sponsor a school bus safety event this fall at Dutchess Stadium, prior to the final Hudson Valley Renegades game of the season. The special awareness event was held in cooperation with the Woodstock...
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Students Create “Taa Bora” to Help Haitian People
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Nearly 200 students from across the Hudson Valley, including those attending school in Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties recently learned a great deal about green energy when they created solar lanterns to help students in Haiti. An Ulster Adult Career Education Center (a division of Ulster BOCES) hands-on service-learning project, the sessions enabled students in fifth,...
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Career & Technical Center Honors Student Achievements
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The 473 seniors who completed Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center programs this year are well prepared to face today’s challenging economy. This year’s Career & Technical Center graduates, representing over 30 career fields, were recently honored at an achievement ceremony held at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Broadway in Kingston. The students, from school districts...
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MHLA: Designing Math Assessment Tasks: 2-6
Instructional Services
The Mid-Hudson Leadership Academy presents Designing Math Assessment Tasks: 2-6 with Sandra Alberti on Tuesday, February 28, 8:30 am to 2:30 pm at the Ulster BOCES Conference Center. What does "deep understanding" in mathematics mean, and how do we assess for it? How do we make sure that our assessments target and produce not only fluency, but application...
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American History Grant Launches Local Teachers on a Voyage of Discovery
Instructional Services, BOCES Home Page News
Thanks to a Federal grant secured by Ulster BOCES, a group of teachers from the region recently experienced a most interesting professional development workshop. They visited the replica sailing vessel The Half Moon while it was docked at the Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY. The Half Moon is a reproduction of the sailing ship used in 1609 by Henry Hudson to...
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Formerly At-Risk Students Celebrated at Ulster BOCES
Alternative Education, BOCES Home Page News
On a recent sun-drenched June day, a very special ceremony included it all – moments of honor, heartfelt thanks, and poignant emotions. The Ulster BOCES Center for Alternative Education (CAE) held its 2011 Recognition Ceremony for 28 young adults at the Ulster BOCES Port Ewen campus, and it was a day filled with celebration, congratulations, and the satisfaction of hard-won achievement. The...
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The Arts Breathe Life into Classroom Lessons
Alternative Education, BOCES Home Page News
It was the author, William Faulkner, who said, “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it is life.” And the students in the Ulster BOCES Center for Alternative Education (CAE) recently had the opportunity to breathe life into their art and indeed “arrest...
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National School Public Relations Association Communications Contest
Management Services, BOCES Home Page News
Mid-Hudson schools that are served through the Public Information cooperative service at Ulster BOCES were awarded four of only 114 national Awards of Merit given in recognition of outstanding school communications by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) in the organization’s annual Publications and Electronic Media Contest. One of the Merit awards recognized the...
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SMART Newsletter
Instructional Services
The Summer 2011 edition of SMART! featuring highlights from Instructional Services programs, is now available online! Enjoy this issue packed full of interesting summaries of the positive work being done to support Ulster County, as well as regional, education. Click below to read SMART!
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Ulster BOCES Health Occupations Exploration Students Present Research Projects
Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Students enrolled in the Ulster BOCES Health Occupations Exploration Program recently presented their final research projects to an enthusiastic group of family, friends, and fellow students. Under the supervision of Health Occupations Exploration instructor Dina Navara and English teacher Michael Baxter, the students each conducted in-depth research on a health-related subject, sharing their...
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Ulster BOCES Coordinates a Day of Art in Ulster County
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On a recent Sunday, 30 students and 7 high school art teachers, art educators, and classroom teachers gathered for the first Ulster County Day of Art. Part of an Arts in Education initiative sponsored by Ulster County BOCES and the Arts Roundtable, the event drew students and teachers from the Rondout Valley Central School District, the New Paltz Central School District, the Saugerties Central...
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Arts in Education Showcase 2011 at Ulster BOCES
Instructional Services, BOCES Home Page News
Recently, more than 20 performing artists were featured at the 2011 Arts in Education Showcase, held at the Ulster BOCES Conference Center in New Paltz. The showcase provided an opportunity for educators to meet artists, review portfolios and résumés, and observe demonstrations of a panoply of Arts in Education programming. Attendees included teachers, principals, administrators, and...
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Drivers Hone Skills at School Bus Safety Road-eo
BOCES Home Page News
School bus drivers from across the Hudson Valley gathered to test their driving skills and knowledge of State driving laws and regulations at the 2011 Tri-Chapters School Bus Safety Road-eo held recently at the New Paltz High School. The School Bus Safety Road-eo was organized and sponsored by the Lower Hudson Valley, Mid-Hudson Valley, and the Tri-County chapters of the New York Association of...
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New Visions Health Career Exploration Students Volunteer
Career & Technical Center
Ulster BOCES New Visions Health Career Exploration Students on a trip to Washington D.C.
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Students enrolled in the Ulster BOCES New Visions Health Career Exploration program focus intently on volunteering throughout the school year. This year, the student's goal was to end hunger in Ulster County. With this ideal in mind, students worked with UlsterCorp, a non-partisan volunteer organization committed to building a culture of service in Ulster County. Students researched the problem of...
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Ulster BOCES Clean Energy Training Academy and Innovative Manufacturing Technology Open House
Adult Education, Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Recently, nearly 100 prospective adult students, local professionals, tradespeople, and others interested in solar energy and manufacturing technology attended the Ulster Adult Career Education Center’s Clean Energy Training Academy (CETA) and Innovative Manufacturing Technology (IMT) Open House at the Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Center in Port Ewen.For those who may have been thinking about...
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Students at Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center Celebrate National Career and Technical Education Month
Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Celebrating what career and technical education is, recognizing the benefits and opportunities it provides students, and acknowledging its impact on the community is the goal of National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, recently celebrated by students at the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center in Port Ewen. In keeping with this year’s national theme of “CTE: Learning Today,...
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School Bus Safety Demonstration Prepares Ulster BOCES Students
Special Education, BOCES Home Page News
If your school bus suddenly flipped on its side, would you know what to do? How would you get out? These alarming questions were posed to students at Ulster BOCES Special Education at Lenape program. However, there was a solution in sight: a model school bus on loan from Owego Apalachin Central School District that enabled a hands-on practice session designed for that very situation. The...
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Students Make Over Army Humvee for Ulster County Sheriff’s Office
Alternative Education, Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Recently, Ulster BOCES Career & Technical students from the Automotive Collision Technology program in Port Ewen performed a much-needed “makeover” on an H-1 United States (US) Army Humvee. The specialized military vehicle was donated by the US Army at their Fort Drum base in Watertown, NY to the Ulster County Sheriff's Department.Acquired several months ago through a Federal government...
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Success Story Kelly Callaghan
Adult Education, Career & Technical Center
Ulster BOCES means different things to different people. To Kelly Callaghan, a graduate of the Ulster BOCES Practical Nursing program, Ulster BOCES means the opportunity to become a helicopter nurse.When Kelly was just 15 years old and a student at Saugerties High School, she decided to take the first step of fulfilling her life-long dream of becoming a nurse. Her family had many...
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PAVA Students Perform The Glass Menagerie
Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Students in the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center’s Performing and Visual Arts program (PAVA) showcased a series of scenes from The Glass Menagerie recently at SUNY Ulster. As part of the innovative curriculum in the PAVA program, students also wrote and performed extended scenes from the classic screenplay, re-imagining the fictional Wingfield family in a variety of...
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Success Story: Lucy Van Leuvan and Lucia Lohrer
Adult Education, Career & Technical Center, BOCES Home Page News
Ulster BOCES means different things to different people. For Lucy Van Leuvan and her daughter Lucia Lohrer, it’s very much a family affair. Both women graduated from Ulster BOCES programs and went on to successful careers, as did several other family members. Today, both women are healthcare instructors at the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center in Port Ewen. According to Van Leuvan,...
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