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copenhagen little libraries

In Copenhagen, 'Little Libraries' bring big opportunities

Liza Frenette
Friday, 28 August 2020
It’s a different way to walk the beat. These days, Copenhagen retired teacher Deb Barnard Strianese makes the rounds once a week to check on and restock three new Little Libraries she helped bring into...

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kingston reads

Kingston educators begin community-wide book group on race

Liza Frenette
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Sometimes a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single book. In Kingston, that book is “So You Want To Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo. City residents are reading it as a group called Kingston Reads.

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culinary

Culinary arts professor cooks with kindness for his community

Liza Frenette
Monday, 18 May 2020
“I called it Depression Soup Kitchen when I first started,” said culinary arts professor Joe Forget, a member of the EOC Alliance local union. “But anti-depression is what I’m really doing.”

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Sing for Hope

Peace, Love and Hope: Message of piano continues to be important

Liza Frenette
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
In springtime in New York City, palettes of color emerge in rampant beds of tulips in Central Park, fields of bluebells in Brooklyn’s Botanical Garden, and daffodils in backyards in Queens. And then there are...

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bethlehem garden

Bethlehem garden guru volunteers with students

Liza Frenette
Friday, 27 September 2019
For more than a decade, teacher Lisa Wood has volunteered to work with students at Bethlehem Middle School twice a week after school in a garden club.

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demarco rail trail

Pearl River art teacher transforms rail trail with paint and imagination

Liza Frenette
Friday, 07 June 2019
In a crush of color, art teacher John DeMarco spent part of summer 2018 on a bicycle and walking path in Albany County transforming a quiet underpass with paint and imagination. He was chosen in a competitive quest for artists to brighten up a section of the nine-mile Helderberg-Hudson public rail trail.

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chris pendergast

For his 70th birthday, Chris Pendergast got his voice back

Liza Frenette
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Most of the time, Chris Pendergast — the retired Northport teacher and longtime ALS patient — speaks through the computer attached to the front of his wheelchair, using his bright blue eyes to stare at a letter and blink.

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it's what we do

With Collegiate Scholars of Tomorrow program, UUP member Christopher Ellis puts young students on the path to college

Liza Frenette
Thursday, 14 February 2019
By night, by weekend, and by evasive minutes and hours here and there, he directs a new program - Collegiate Scholars of Tomorrow - that puts hope and college money into NY 529 College Savings Program bank accounts for third graders across the city.

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schenectady culinary

Schenectady culinary instructor gets a sweet surprise

Liza Frenette
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Laura Macey is very busy these winter weeks. Her high school culinary students are providing food for a 14-school wrestling invitational, and then finger foods and desserts for 200 people at the Schenectady Education...

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mittens

A mitten tree grows in Guilderland

Liza Frenette
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Students in the town of Guilderland in the Capital Region are making mitten history today as they bring in warm, colorful hand coverings to share with others in need. Two educators set up a fake green fir as a Mitten Tree, and students soon began loading the branches with gloves, hats … and mittens.

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