Month: April 2016

Kristen Munger, associate dean of the SUNY Oswego School of Education, has edited and co-authored a new Open SUNY textbook on research-driven literacy teaching practices. “Steps for Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice” recently became the college’s first contribution to the open-access library of State University-published textbooks.

SUNY Oswego professor Dr. Damian Schofield, director of the college’s graduate program in human-computer interaction, spoke recently to Syracuse-area high school students at STEM Careers Day at Upstate Medical University’s Biotech Accelerator on East Fayette Street.

Lakeside Artisans welcomes new members, Jim and Suzanne Stout, to its gallery of talented local artists. A unique husband and wife team, Suzanne works in the store, while Jim creates one-of-a-kind wooden works of art in his shop.

Any residents of Oswego that would like to make their food dollars go farther may order May Food $en$e packages until 3 p.m. on May 6. All Oswego area residents may use the program.

Students in the Bridges to Success alternative education program are now equipped with tools to make healthy choices. Bridges, a CiTi program located on Dutch Ridge Road in Oswego, recently welcomed CiTi Teen Health Issues Educator Kristen Paura to discuss components of healthy relationships.

A lesson in having a generous heart that’s also healthy recently culminated for students at the Fourth Street School with a physical education celebration. Students of the Stepping Stones Day Program crushed their $200 Jump Rope for Heart goal, after having collected about $500 for the American Heart Association.

The Blue Team is at it again, vying for another national milk carton contest award. About five months after students in Robyn Yorker’s Stepping Stones Day Program classroom won a $1,000 prize for a milk carton sculpture contest in the fall, they have entered into the spring Carton2Garden milk carton contest.