October is Board of Education Recognition Month! The CPC (Central Parent Council) Board and President, Wendi DeSchutter, were pleased to recognize our Board of Education members with gifts and kind words for their volunteerism and tireless dedication and commitment to the students of Cold Spring Harbor.
Board of Education October Meeting Recognitions…
Music Honor Society The 11th annual induction ceremony for the Tri-M Music Honor Society was held at the CSH Public Library on Oct 16th. Tri-M is a program of the National Association for Music Education, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of music education.
Congratulations to Sheila Mauriello, who has been selected to the NYS Master Teacher Program in partnership with the State University of New York and Math for America. This is one of the highest designations and honors a teacher can receive.
Starting two years ago, the roll-out of “flexible furniture” began to change the template of standard "row" seating into collaborative face-to-face work environments. Just as corporate America workspaces have changed with the removal of cubicles and corner offices, and coffee shops are packed with couches and communal tables, school classrooms have also changed.
If you told recent CSH alumni that SMARTBoards were outdated, and now there is a new world of Promethean Boards, they would not only be surprised, but would ask “What’s a Promethean Board?” One thing is for sure, technology changes very fast! SMARTBoards were amazing new technology with projectors hanging from the ceiling that powered oversized installed computer white boards that could magically draw and erase. Today
The ability to transform a classroom into a playground of imagination has students running to enter the STEAM Lab at Goosehill!
Dear Resident: The opening of school is always marked with great anticipation and much excitement about the new year. From our very youngest at Goosehill to our incoming seniors at the Jr./Sr. High School, students returned to the classroom, enthusiastic and eager to begin anew. As the summer came to an end, September began with a flurry of activity; new grade levels and courses of study, the start of co-curricular clubs and athletic teams, and a time to reacquaint with all those we had not seen.
Museum Educator, Ms. Tami Wood, at the Heckscher Museum of Art recognized CSH students Emma Wood (Lloyd Harbor School, 5th grade), Sylvie Schneider (Jr High School, 7th grade) and Charlie Wood (Jr High School, 8th grade) for their service as Youth Ambassadors for the Heckscher Museum of Art where they led museum tours for visitors during the Huntington Village Art Walk on October 6th..
On September 19th, the Advanced Science Research I students, under the direction of NYS Master Teacher Sheila Mauriello and 8 lab scientists, went to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to collect invertebrate organisms and perform water testing in the sandpit and coastline of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory property.
