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Unleashing The Power Of Music

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Photos courtesy of the Farmingdale School District The Howitt Players rocked the house with their electrifying rendition of School of Rock! Based on the hit 2003 film, School of Rock follows Dewey Finn, a failed musician who poses as a teacher at a prestigious prep school. He forms a rock band with his students while […]
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Classes Collaborate At Poetry Café In Deer Park

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Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Brittany Skrypek’s seventh grade English as a New Language class collaborated with Rachel Burkel’s Life Skills classes for a Poetry Café at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School. Prior to the event, Skrypek’s students wrote ode poems inspired by Kwame Alexander’s “The Crossover.” Burkel’s class had visited Frost […]
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Birch Third Graders Dance Around The World

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Pictured: Papa’s class performed the cumbia. Photo courtesy of the Merrick Union Free School District After learning about cultures from around the world during their history and English curriculum, third graders at Birch School in the Merrick School District worked on various dances during a five-day residency with an outside arts in education program. The […]
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Fifth Graders Light It Up During STEM Lesson

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Photo courtesy of Copiague School District As part of their science investigations, fifth graders at Deauville Gardens East Elementary School in the Copiague School District recently worked with electrical circuits for the “light it up” activity. The students had to apply scientific ideas to design, test and refine a circuit that transfers energy and converts […]