Waverly Principal Carol Fisher has received National Principal Mentor Certification by the NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals). PNWBOCES has also asked Ms. Fisher to be a part of their Executive Leadership Academy.
Social Studies Department Chairperson Edye Caine was recognized by the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration for exemplary use of videoconferencing to enhance learning. For the past four years, Ms. Caine has organized and led a project that focuses on genocide and human rights.
HS Science teacher Joseph Saccone was awarded digital camera and a SMART Masters training class for his lesson on onion mitosis. His lesson will be posted on the SMART education solutions website and he will be recognized in the December issue of EDCompass newsletter.
HS Foreign Language teacher Lucrezia Lindia recently had a student workbook published by Soleil Publishing. She was asked to create the book, which is a study guide for the new AP Italian exam, based on the material that she had been using to prepare EHS students for the exam.
Eastchester High School Social Studies teacher Edye Caine was recognized by the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration for her exemplary use of videoconferencing to enhance learning. The award was announced in conjunction with National Distance Learning Week, November 12-16. For the past four years, Ms. Caine has organized and led a project that focuses on genocide and human rights. This project features a series of four videoconferences on genocides (Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur), each with a recognized expert in the human rights field and four classes of high school students (two in Europe - either the UK or Poland and two in the U.S.). In addition, the students collaborate online to build a wiki on genocide and human rights. The project culminates with students presenting action projects that they are going to undertake to impact on the problem. For instance, last year students in Ms. Caine’s class organized and presented a school wide assembly that featured a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and a videoconference with an expert on Darfur. The students' efforts included a variety of fundraising events to aid the victims in Darfur and the establishment of a human rights club.