Around the District
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High School Community Celebrates Ramadan
The High School’s (HS) International/Latino Heritage Club (formerly Hispanic Heritage and World Cultures Club) hosted a Ramadan celebration for the entire HS community to enjoy. Click to read more!
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High School Staff Supports Sparrows Nest Charity
On March 17, High School faculty and staff participated in the Sparrow's Nest Dress Down Day fundraiser. Click to read more.
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Middle School of Rock
Recently, NPMS’s School of Rock band traveled to Duzine Elementary School, where Duzine Principal Ross Hogan introduced the group’s performance by asking the time-honored question, “Are you ready to rock…?” The under-eight-years-old crowd responded with a resounding ‘Yes!’” Grade 7 and Grade 8 student musicians from band and chorus audition every fall for the Middle School’s afterschool School of Rock program. Click to read more about it!
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High School Student Participates in Junior Science Symposium
The New Paltz High School (NPHS) Science Research students attended the University at Albany Junior Science and Humanities Symposium recently. Click to read more!
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NPHS Mathletes Make It Count at DUSO Math League!
Twenty teams competed from Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, and Orange (DUSO) counties in the DUSO Math Competition held at Vassar College. Our own Mason Eyler of Grade 11 was the top scorer in the league for the 2022-2023 year, out of more than 340 students! Click to see more.
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Lenape Students Become Hot Chocolate Historians
Lenape Elementary School’s Grade 3 students in the class of Linda Sinforoso, Joanna Wilcox and Amy Chapman read "The Chocolate King" by Michael Leventhal, a historical tale about how chocolate first came to France. Click to read more!
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Duzine Students in Biffar's Class Imagine Their Heroes
Laura Biffar’s Grade 1 class at Duzine Elementary School recently created their very own superheroes after concluding a learning unit dedicated to the topic. Click to read more!
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Maley's Early Explorers
Lenape Elementary School students in Adrienne Maley’s Grade 4 class have been supplementing their research with their imaginations. Click here to read more!
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HS Art Students Visit the Met
Last week a group of the High School’s advanced art students visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art with art teachers Laurene Pountain and Todd Martin. Click to read more!
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Duzine/Lenape PTA's Spring Fling Fun
More than 400 people came through last week’s Spring Fling at Lenape Elementary to enjoy games, crafts, ice cream and entertainment. The event was designed to facilitate connection and conversation between Superintendent Gratto and Deputy Superintendent Linda Oehler-Marx and the school community. Click to read more!
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High School Hispanic Heritage and World Cultures Club Align in the Kitchen
Grade 12 students Emily Inga and Melissa Nieves said they found themselves in a Spanish 6 class, feeling surprisingly at-ease surrounded by only fellow Spanish-speaking peers. Craving that sense of deeper belonging and understanding in a world where they said they sometimes feel “not white enough at school and too white at home,” the girls approached their Spanish teacher Rod Castro about forming a group where they could safely and intimately explore and enjoy their unique cultural identities. Needing eight students to formalize the group, the students enlisted friends whose families immigrated from Pakistan and Bangladesh to fill in the club ranks. The Western and Eastern students quickly recognized that though their native or family’s homelands were oceans apart, they actually shared more in common than they expected. Click to read more!
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Duzine Elementary Class Has Minds Full of Mindfulness
Cheryl Tomasetti’s Grade 2 students have minds full of mindfulness. Since shifting gears can be hard, most days after recess the students return to the classroom to spend time meditating with the lights on low. Click to read more!
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Duzine Celebrated 100 Days of School Last Month
Can you believe we have reached 100 Days of School? Click to read more.
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Lenape Elementary School Teacher Recognized by New York State Association for Language Teachers
Lenape Elementary School World Languages teacher Jenny Delfini has been awarded the annual Ferdinand DiBartolo New York State Distinguished Foreign Language Leadership Award. The award recognizes her service as President of the New York State Association for Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) as well as her dedication to her profession. Click to read more!
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Middle School Art Students Honor Black History Month Through AFRICOBRA Artwork
Middle School Grade 6 students in MaryJane Nusbaum and Kim Abrahamsen’s art classes honored Black History Month by learning about AFRICOBRA an art movement created by a Chicago-based group of black artists whose shared aim was to develop their own aesthetic in the visual arts in order to empower and uplift black communities. Click to read more!
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New Paltz Students of Color Alliance Host School Wide Black History Month Celebration
In honor of Black History Month, the High School’s Students of Color Alliance (SOCA) hosted a special celebration that incorporated some of our favorite things. Click to read more about it!
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Lenape Students Recreate Human Organs
Recently, Lenape Elementary School students in Meredith Oppenheimer and Erin Bulson’s Grade 4 classroom learned about the human body systems in Science. Click here to see more!
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Lenape Rock Detectives
Students in Paul Mattes and Tara Crowder’s Grade 5 class recently put on their thinking caps and became “rock detectives.” Click to read more!
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Duziners Make Moves for Black History Month
The Duziners were treated to professional dance lessons in a special school wide “Town Hall” assembly in honor of Black History month. Click to read more!
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Lenape Students Can Change the World With Their Hands
In honor of Black History Month, Lenape Elementary School Grade 3 students in Traci Miranda’s class wrapped their arms around a pretty big concept: how they can change the world. Click to read!
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