There is a new student store at Cooke Elementary School, thanks to the technology teacher and some talented students from Monticello High School. The creation of the Cooke school store began back in May of 2018. Student Council advisor, Kelly Mitchell, along with Donald Waddell, high school technology teacher, designed the architectural plans to build …
Article courtesy of Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers Nearly twenty five years ago, Dr. Bettye H. Perkins founded the Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers Program. This organization recruits and trains culturally diverse and economically challenged students in high school, and supports them through college to become dedicated, effective teachers, and committed leaders. TSTT opens doors to students …
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Monticello educators joined other community members from around Sullivan County for an intensive two-and-a-half-day ChildLight Yoga and Yoga4Classrooms training, courtesy of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County and funded by a grant from the NYS Department of Health. According to SueAnn Boyd, who is the Healthy Schools Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, and was the …
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Fourth and fifth grade students at KLR participated in a STEAM Fair. What is STEAM? It stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. The focus is hands-on learning with real-world applications to help students develop a variety of skill sets. The projects created by the students for the KLR STEAM Fair were amazing. The …
On May 15, the Monticello High School Academy of Finance (AOF) celebrated its graduating seniors during the annual AOF senior reception held at SUNY Sullivan. The 13 AOF seniors are: Abraham Corces Joseph Evans Fiona Feltman Sofia Heimowitz James Hiciano, Jr. Raheem House Aiden Johnson James Lopez Kayla Medina Alison Monroy Mejia Ashvi Patel Kevin …
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Name of Project: Green Screen Supports Literacy Project Topic: Project-Based Learning Demographics: The Monticello Central School District is located in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York state – a rural area that has seen a significant economic decline in the past few decades, after a drop in the tourism industry. It is …
Students of the George L. Cooke Elementary School have been waiting for warmer weather to gear up the garden for planting. The Student Council from the after-school program joined forces with the Garden Club to help first grade teacher Dennis Lankau get the garden ready for the planting season. Some students raked up the leaves, …
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A group of Monticello Central School District science students spent the greater part of the day on Friday, May 10 calculating water pH levels, performing tests to determine how height and incline influence speed and conducting experiments to learn the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Although the tools they used were what you would …
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Sixth-grade students in Danielle Dillon’s science classes used some yummy ingredients for their plate boundary lab recently – specifically graham crackers, fruit roll-ups and icing. They were learning about tectonic plates – convergent, divergent and strike slip plate boundaries. The graham crackers represented the continental crust, the fruit roll-ups represented the oceanic crust and the …
The George L. Cooke Elementary School Student Council has been looking for ways to pay it forward to the community. On Earth Day, when they learned about how long it takes for sneakers to decompose in the local landfill, they wondered if there was a way to recycle sneakers instead of throwing them away. The …
