Month: December 2014

Several students from the Sandy Creek Central School District recently participated with other exceptional musicians from across the county during the Oswego County Music Educators’ Association Elementary All-County Music Festival at Mexico Middle School. The students were selected from the participating schools’ music programs and represent the best student musicians throughout the county.

November’s STLE 3 meeting (Strengthening Teacher and Leader Effectiveness) shared insight into the Fulton City School District’s Standards-Based Progress Reports. The new style of progress report benefits students by allowing them to be more aware of what is expected from them.

“As educators, we are in the business of saving lives,” said Dr. Luis Cruz, the keynote speaker for Fulton City School District’s Staff Development Day. “I have some news!” declared Cruz. “Poor children can learn! English learners are intelligent! All kids are capable – black kids, white kids, Native American kids, Latino kids!”

Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Junior High School Band performed a spectacular Winter Holiday Concert. The auditorium was filled with joyful holiday melodies as teacher Janet Fiacco conducted the band.

James E. Lanigan Elementary School in the Fulton City School District has once again received a $500 grant from the ExxonMobil Corporation’s Educational Alliance program. The grant money will be used to promote math and science programs at Lanigan.

Six-year-old Leah Norton, as Toto, has been practicing doggy expressions in rehearsals for Wizard of Oz.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute is New York’s globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem, formed from the merger of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and SUNY Institute of Technology.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Grant of Sterling was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.