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Maggie Batkin and Charlie Piscatelli, center, were among the dancers representing Covert Elementary School at a ballroom dancing competition in Port Washington on Jan. 24. Behind them to the left, their classmates, Julia Coles and Lamont Briggs, showed off their skills.
Covert Elementary School students earn silver at ballroom dancing competition
A spirited bunch from Rockville Centre’s William S. Covert Elementary School took to the dance floor on Jan. 24 for Dancing Classrooms Long Island’s Winter Colors of the Rainbow Team Match & Festival in Port Washington, thrilling their parents and teachers and earning silver in the process. more
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Chris D’Ambrosio, a science teacher at South Side High School, helped student Emma Garrett use one of the district’s zSpace computers to analyze and label parts of the human body’s circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems.
South Side High School on cutting edge of evolving classroom practices
Watching a human heart beat up close is an experience reserved for cardiovascular surgeons, and to hold one in your hand sounds like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Yet at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, students can virtually grab a beating heart from a screen and pull it toward them, examining it from all angles, as vibrations — simulating blood pumping to vital organs — pulse through a stylus and into their hand.“If you put your face slowly into the heart,” teacher Chris D’Ambrosio said, smiling, “you’ll see the inside.” more
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Students in Christine O’Neill’s Spanish class at Mepham High School in North Bellmore used virtual-reality technology to tour Machu Picchu, in Peru, on Dec. 7.
Traveling to Machu Picchu — from desks in a classroom
Part 6 of the “Educating the 21st Century Child” series. Students held the Google Cardboard virtual-reality glasses to their faces on a recent Thursday. “Let’s get ready to … more
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William S. Covert Elementary School students danced the merengue during the culmination of a 10-week ballroom dance training program.
Dance program at Covert Elementary School morphs students into ‘ladies and gentlemen’
Fourth- and fifth-graders continued a tradition on Nov. 29 that has cemented itself into the culture at William S. Covert Elementary School over the last decade, as they performed an array of classic dances for their parents and teachers. more
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Hundreds of Long Beach School Employees Association members were joined by members of the City Council and Long Beach Professional Firefighters Local 287 at a rally led by Veronica Dale, left, before the March 9 Board of Education meeting to protest what they called a lack of progress in contract negotiations.
Board of Ed reaches contract settlement with teachers
After a two-year impasse, the Long Beach Board of Education and the Classroom Teachers Association announced last week that they had agreed on a new contract. At the March 9 school board meeting … more
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Covert students get "Mad Hot" at dance recital
Upper elementary students at William S. Covert Elementary School fox-trotted and waltzed their way into the hearts of everyone that attended their Mad Hot Ballroom recital on Nov. 29. The show was … more
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Joseph Canestro, 12, observed milkweed bugs through a magnifying glass.
Garden classroom keeps growing
John Youssef, 12, sprinkled a scoop of pearlite over a raised bed behind the Wheeler Avenue School on June 9 — his birthday. “It improves drainage and aeration,” he said. “That means it … more
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The portable classrooms were demolished to make room for the school’s second expansion, which will replace them with a permanent addition to the building. (Christina Daly/Herald)
Portables come down
It wasn’t as grand as Jericho, but the walls finally came down. After years of waiting, the Rockville Centre School District finally began demolishing the portable classrooms at South Side … more
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Seaford Harbor teacher Sue Ward is surrounded by first, second and third-grade students in her multi-age classroom.
Pioneer Harbor School teacher to retire
Seaford Harbor Elementary School teacher Sue Ward speaks of her profession with the same exuberance and passion she did when she first became a teacher 41 years ago. more
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Utilizing a flipped classroom model, Seaford Manor fifth-grade teacher Chris Feiler reinforces a math lesson that was introduced to students online the night before.
Turning education upsidedown in Seaford
As technology offers students access to online learning anytime and anywhere, some teachers are taking advantage of its benefits by introducing a flipped classroom method of instruction. more
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