Liberty School Scene 2018

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A Special Supplement to the Sullivan County Democrat

A look at activities in the Liberty Central School District

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uperintendent of Schools Dr. Augustine Tornatore makes no bones about it: he's entranced with Liberty.

“There's something magical about it, this little town in the mountains,” he said. “I'm exploring the history of this wonderful, diverse community.”

As of July, Tornatore took over the reins at Liberty Central School District after serving as Assistant Superintendent last year. This season's thrilling October Homecoming football game, during which Liberty bested Wallkill High, served to underscore his enthusiasm for District and town.

“A lot of staff, parents, teachers and the community showed up,” said Tornatore. “Everyone was celebrating that sense of 'Liberty Pride.'”

“I see that we have an extremely dedicated staff,” he added, “and that the District is the focal point of the town and the community. You feel the energy of Liberty pride. It's in all of us.”

After working as director of Social Studies for a huge school community, the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, Tornatore has hit the ground running here.

The year opened with an amazing feat: the launch of “makerspaces” in Liberty Elementary and Liberty Middle School with hopes of including the high school in the super-creative project. Few school districts in the U.S. boast makerspaces in k-12 schools.

Through science, technology, engineering, art and math projects, kids in makerspace labs tap into their own interests while learning to use

‘Nowadays there is open communication, bouncing ideas off of each other, deep types of questions.’

Dr. Augustine Tornatore Superintendent | tools and materials, both physical and virtual. They “explore, tear apart things and understand how things are built,” said Tornatore. “It's student-centered learning with the teacher as facilitator.”

“We need to educate our youth so that they are problem solvers,” he continued. “Nowadays, there is open communication, bouncing ideas off each other, deep types of questions.

We need to set students on a trajectory to be successful after high school.”

But building relationships with teachers and principals is one of the hallmarks of a good superintendent, and showing visible support is key to Tornatore.

Joined by new Interim Assistant Superintendent of Schools Timothy Bohlke, also from the Newburgh District, “we're always in the schools, always visiting,” said Tornatore. “At arrival and dismissal times, we'll go to the buildings and stand with administration. Tim and I even did bus duty one day.”

In their own careers as teachers first and then school administrators, “We've both experienced that 'central administration disconnect,'” said Bohlke. “Our model here is to be able to support our buildings.”

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The two take time to visit teachers and students in their classrooms, and then send notes saying how much they enjoyed the experience.

Robust communication among teachers, therefore, is in order as well. Tornatore and Bohlke have launched Professional Learning Communities, whereby time is alloted for teachers to meet during the school day to share helpful teaching practices and techniques.

A multi-tiered approach to assisting students with behavior problems is underway. And use of a model designed to help educators infuse technology into teaching and learning is also in the works.

“We are all at different levels of comfort with technology,” said Tornatore, “since most of us are digital immigrants and not digital natives.”

And there’s more planned: exploring state and federal grants; developing access to on-line college classes at the high school to supplement the 12 college classes now offered; and creating, along with Sullivan Cornell Cooperative Extension, an edible garden at the high school like those at the elementary and middle schools.

Tornatore noted that the District is also looking into the possibility of offering an additional foreign language course to supplement Spanish. The most widely spoken language in the world, Mandarin Chinese, is being considered.

“We want to help students tap into their strengths and give them the assistance they need in other areas,” said Tornatore. “We want our students to have a world-class educational experience. They deserve it.”

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New Liberty Superintendent of Schools Dr. Augustine Tornatore, left, strategizes with Assistant Superintendent Timothy Bohlke.

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New program probes: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’

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anet Rendon, 17, looks forward to what lies ahead after high school.

“I’m looking into nursing or being a pediatrics doctor,” said Rendon, who is a senior at Liberty High.

In teacher Dan Hart’s Career Exploration Internship Program (CEIP), Rendon learns about the expectations and realities of the work field in general and her chosen field in particular. Notably, she will also get an inside look at her chosen field as she serves an internship somewhere in a Sullivan County healthcare setting.

Hart developed the classroomplus-internship program along with the New York State Departments of Education and Labor, and students fulfilling the program will earn one credit toward their Regents or local diploma.

“This allows them to find out the career they might want to pursue,” said Hart. “They get to see what it’s like before they actually spend money on college and commit to a certain program or college major that might not be right for them.”

At their work site, students will enjoy the benefit of on-site mentors and must themselves maintain satisfactory standards of performance in order to keep the internships, which are unpaid.

In effect, said Hart “employers will get to help train the work force at the same time as they give back to the community. And the school can show the community what it’s doing with kids.”

CEIP is brand new this semester with five students signed up, a number that Hart expects will grow.

Students take the CEIP class during the ninth period, beginning at 2:30 p.m., and they attend every other day.

Hart is working to find appropriate internship placements in the community. Once placed, students must intern 108 hours during two semesters.

“By taking this course and interning, you can gain experience in what you’re interested in and increase your

chances of employment,” said senior Michael Mathurin, who is collegebound and will major in computer science.

Samantha Lawler, a junior, wants to start her own business. “Probably something in accounting or marketing,” she said.

Others in CEIP wish to explore their options. Robert Crowell, 12th grade, may go into law enforcement. Sean McMahon, also a senior, is looking into that same field, although signing up for the Air National Guard is also a possibility.

As part of the course, classmates took a skills assessment and interest survey to see what profession they might be adapted for.

“Mine pointed to a medical profession,” said Janet Rendon delightedly.

In CEIP, “I’m learning that what employers want is a person who manages time well, is well organized, able to communicate and has great listening skills,” she said.

Rendon looks forward to what happens next.

“I’m really excited,” she said, “about going to college and getting a profession.”

At new high school program, student Janet Rendon, left, will explore her options in the medical field while Samantha Lawler, right, looks into entrepreneurship.

Students Michael Mathurin, left, and Robert Crowell are researching professions and criteria for employment in the internship program. Mathurin hopes to have a career in computers and Crowell is looking at law enforcement.

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Teacher personalizes path for student success in math STORY AND PHOTO BY KATHY DALEY

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n years past, when a handful of students couldn’t grasp a particular math concept, the teacher would have to move on anyway.

There was no time to stop to ensure that everybody got it, recalled Liberty High School geometry teacher Liz Fuentes.

“In math classes you typically have a range of understanding, from kids barely able to get through the class to kids who excel and are bored,” Fuentes explained.

Fuentes, who is a 1998 graduate of Liberty High School, taught for 11 years before she was able to find a way to reach all kinds of kids. That was four years ago, and this summer she was asked to tell statewide colleagues from the 300-member Rural Schools Association how she does it.

At the conference that drew hundreds of educators to Cooperstown, N.Y., Fuentes spoke about the learning system RightPath, a program of Right Reason Technologies.

The key, Fuentes said, is the ability to tailor learning for individual student needs. Sitting at computers, the students make their way through programs that assess their needs and respond with specific help.

It all begins for Fuentes during the first week of school when she employs RightPath technology in her classes of 20 to 24 students.

“I assess them, testing the algebra skills they will need for geometry. At that point, the results tell me what they don’t understand and the program allows me to assign lessons to them,” she said.

On-line guided practice sessions alert the student to a wrong answer and show them how it should have been done. The technology continuously can test student work and then grade it.

Then, throughout the school year and during lab time only, students

‘During the regular learning period, it’s just me and them.

I put away technology. I teach a topic, and if students are having trouble, I reassign it to them. If there are a number of students not getting it, I reteach in small groups.’

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continue to work with RightPath.

Those who are gifted in geometry use lab time to work on more difficult problems. For those who are having trouble with a concept, working with RightPath offers Fuentes the ability to analyze, take action, monitor and support students as they make their way through grasping the concepts they must learn.

For sure, said Fuentes, “during the regular learning period, it’s just me and them. I put away technology. I teach a topic, and if students are having trouble, I reassign it to them. If there are a number of students not getting it, I reteach in small groups.”

But the one-on-one experiences on computers help keep all students abreast, at the same time as they prepare kids for the future.

“A lot of college courses have online programs,” said Fuentes, not to mention colleges’ continual use of technology in classrooms.

Liberty students, she said, “are extremely prepared for college. They

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Fuentes herself decided to teach math years ago when she studied under Liberty math teachers Mary Grabowski, Simone Heffley and Cindy Nolan.

“I loved Liberty and became a math teacher because of them,” Fuentes said. After education at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. and at

Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y., Fuentes taught for six years at the Brentwood, L.I. school district before deciding to move back to her hometown and high school alma mater nine years ago.

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High School math teacher Liz Fuentes connects with Calculus student Abby Milling, a senior, in her classroom. ‘I spend every free period here,’ said Milling. ‘It’s a good environment to work in. She’s a great teacher.’

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Joys of inventing, creating, re-doing at ‘MakerSpace’ schools STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY DALEY

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Fourth graders Juan Luero-Morles, left, and Jayvion Slater-Egan, construct a miniature tree house made of cardboard in a new MakerSpace lab at Liberty Elementary.

dents into special places focused on science, technology, engineering, art and math.

“We used to go to the Hurleyville Makers Lab,” said middle school technology teacher Mike Diehl. “But now we can do it in-house.”

MakerSpace projects and learning

are available from kindergarten through fourth grade at Liberty Elementary School and from fifth through eighth grade at the middle school.

“This is the vision of our new Superintendent (Dr. Augustine Tornatore,)” said Jacqueline Harris,

Elementary School principal.

MakerSpaces allow students to explore, focus, express themselves and get creative.

In Mike Diehl’s seventh and eighth grade classes, students use a UV printer to print the school logo on sports water bottles as a giveaway for weekly raffles. They create edge-lit LED signs for the classrooms and bathrooms.

In the Middle School library, fifth and sixth grade librarian Jill Parks is introducing “MaKey-MaKey” to students to their great delight. It’s an electronic invention kit that encourages kids to find creative ways to interact with computers by using every day objects as a replacement for their keyboard or mouse. For example, students hook up the miniature circuit board to the computer and then use a real banana in place of the space bar, or use Play-doh to move and click the mouse.

Through MaKey-MaKey, kids can explore everything from circuitry to interactive poetry lessons.

Parks’ students are also working on “coding” to make robots move and do

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aking is fundamental to what it means to be human. We must make, create and express ourselves to feel whole.”

So stated Mark Hatch, a leader in the global maker movement, and his words are echoed by fourth grade inventors Juan Luero-Morles and Jayvion Slater-Egan.

“It’s fun,” said Juan. “You do great new things, using a lot of tape and cardboard and glue.”

Jayvion points out that collaborating with another is a rich experience. He and Juan have just finished constructing a miniature tree house out of cardboard. Jayvion came up with the design of the structure, and Juan added the special touches, like tree house steps, secret passages, a cubby hole and even a tiny flag.

“If we did it each of us on our own, it wouldn't have looked as good as this,” Jayvion said.

The relatively new phenomenon of MakerSpaces in schools invites stu-

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‘We want to teach students to think like a scientist, to think like a historian.’

Jill Parks Fifth & Sixth Grade Librarian |

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Whatever the age, students learn to persevere and to understand that it's okay to fail because you learn from your failures.

“They learn, ‘I can do it. I can figure that out,’” said Terry.

They also find that gender roles tend to blur in MakerSpaces.

“I want to get a few sewing machines, and I want the boys to sew,’ said Terry.

“And I want the girls to know they can do things like coding and robotics.”

Mariah Cadet and Seriya Jorge, eighth graders, are delighted to learn the techniques of the new laser machine that allows for etching and engraving anything from acrylic to granite to leather via powerful lasers. The equipment was specifically purchased for the District's MakerSpace initiative.

Fifth graders Angela Wheeler and William Pennell experiment with the electronic invention called 'MaKey-MaKey' during a lesson by middle school school librarian Jill Parks.

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things. “We want to teach students to think like a scientist, to think like a historian,” said Parks.

In the elementary school, a large classroom is outfitted for MakerSpace learning. There teachers Tamika Terry and Lisa Treible work with kindergarten through fourth grade classes, with each student designing and inventing in the MakerSpace at least twice a week in 30 minute sessions.

Students cut, construct, take apart electronics to see what things look like inside. A simplest assignment for the smallest children might be to use a cardboard tube to make a person. They end up employing tape or random items from boxes of odds and ends.

Older students work on robotics, or projects that involve engineering or building. This year, they will work on learning “green screen technology” that is, substituting amazing backgrounds behind real kids. For example, a small group of children who report on the news in the school might be “standing” on a moonscape or what

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Kids eat it up as SUNY chef shares secrets of healthy snacks sauce, caramel sauce made of goat cheese, and coconut,” declared Bel. “YAY!” cheered the audience.

Organized by Sullivan Renaissance Project Coordinator Colleen Emery, the Chef in the Classroom program is hosted by the Catskill Edible Garden Project, which is a partChef Bel nership between Sullivan Renaissance, Catskill Mountainkeeper and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County. The Project works with schools and community organ-

‘We have to show children alternatives to junk food.’

izations to design edible gardens as outdoor educational and gathering spaces.

October is National Farm to School Month, making the “healthy eating” emphasis particularly pertinent.

“We have to show children alternatives to junk food,” said Chef Bel, who directs the college’s culinary program and also its hospitality program. “If kids don't like fresh food, then no one ever showed them how to make it appealing.”

Liberty schoolteacher Christy Green pointed out that part of the learning at the event included “this is what a chef does” along with teaching students where their food actually comes from.

Green serves as Liberty Elemen-

tary’s coordinator for the school’s edible garden.

Also rolling up their sleeves to help out were SUNY Sullivan’s instructional assistant Kathryn Scullion and Sullivan Renaissance staffers Carmella Hugel, Juan Journet and Cory Dame.

The adults watched as Chef Michael dicussed the different qualities of apples: green are tart, for example, while yellow apples have a taste that’s gentle and mild.

Then he went on to create a yummy carrot and apple salad.

“It all came out good,” said second grader Olivia Matuszak. “This is different,” she said. “We’re cooking. It's fun!”

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On Oct. 23, Liberty Elementary School welcomed a visit from Chef Michael Bel of SUNY Sullivan, who offered an after-school workshop on making tasty treats out of autumn fruit and vegetables.

“I'm going to show you how to make apple nachos,” said Bel. “Ooooh!” responded the students.

“What do you put on top of nachos?” he asked.

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Student Olivia Matuszak watches Chef Michael Bel stir up a healthy carrot and apple salad.

Calling all Veterans for a special assembly on Nov. 9

LIBERTY - On Friday, Nov. 9, at 9:30 a.m. Liberty Elementary School students will don their red, white and blue and honor our Veterans with an assembly featuring patriotic songs.

If you are a Veteran – or know a Veteran – that would like to attend and participate, please call 845-292-5400 ext. 6325 to let us know his/her name, branch of service and contact information.

In addition to the assembly, the Liberty Elementary School will be taking a collection of the following items and donating them to Veterans in need at the Veterans Hospital at Castle Point.

Students may bring these items in and place them in the box outside the main office: • toothbrush • toothpaste • shampoo • body wash • body lotion • puzzles • chocolate and/or hard candy • large print word find and/ or crossword puzzle books We greatly appreciate your help in honoring and supporting our Veterans.

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The November scene, entitled Winter Wonderland, was taken by Emily Kinne of Liberty. Kinne is a Liberty Central School student, as are many of the winning photographers. The school does have a photo club.

hotographers from Liberty High School were well represented at the unveiling of the 2019 Jeff Bank calendar.

The unveiling, which took place at the Catskill Art Society (CAS) in Livingston Manor, showcased the work of these young, aspiring photographers in a juried contest which culminated with the production of the 2019 calendar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are delighted to have so many of our award winners with us tonight,â&#x20AC;? Jeff Bank President and CEO George Kinne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year we focused on allowing high school students to enter and your work is truly outstanding.â&#x20AC;?

The 10th Anniversary Special Edition calendar was called, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sullivan County through the Eyes of Our Studentsâ&#x20AC;? and was open to students throughout Sullivan County.

The contest, which was organized by the CAS, attracted many entries.

Kinne said the calendars are for sale at all 12 Jeff Bank branches across Sullivan and Orange counties for a suggested donation of $5. That money, in turn, will be donated back to the CAS to support the arts community in Sullivan County.

Each winner was announced at the recent awards reception and given an opportunity to discuss their photo, what camera they used and what were the circumstances around the particular photo. â&#x20AC;˘ Front Cover winner (pictured on facing page) was Faakirah Brimfield, whose photo was titled: Urban Skies

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The 2019 Jeff Bank calendar was unveiled recently at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor with many of the award winners, at right, present to be recognized. The calendar is available at all branch locations of Jeff Bank for a suggested donation of $5.

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