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Brian Huskie’s refugee students are far more than beautiful, foreign faces and strange, rolling languages to him. He knows their stories, and they are entwined with his own frayed rope and hope. He’s a National...

Albany public school students at pre-K-5 Philip Schuyler Achievement Academy are often learning about making change. And, for the third year in a row, they spent the month of March focusing on a change they could count on. Third-grade teacher Susan Lofrumento initiated Pennies for Patients campaign to get her students’ hands on a service learning opportunity.

Charlie Giglio (photo, above) likes to say that about his career:  “I kind of worked my way up the river.” He’s also worked his way up the adult honor roll: In 2015, he was named...

Registered dietitian Colleen Jackson walks the floors of Brookhaven Memorial Hospital caring for patients’ nutrition needs. But she also puts pressure on her sneakers in the annual Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes on...

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I...

Left to right, front row, Collin Parent, Emily Dowd, Conner Riano, Abby Tefoe, Whitney Newell, Matt Spain. Back row, Juaneika Agyeman, Diane Murray, Lindsey Gibson and Eric Jasuta. In what was once an abandoned, enclosed...

Members of the Hicksville Congress of Teachers joined together to produce their first Talent for the Troops extravaganza to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Teachers throughout the district performed in this talent...

At 93 and 90, you might expect retired teachers Jim and Muriel Crawford to be talking about aches, pains and doctor appointments, or the damp weather shifting from Schroon Lake across the road to...

At the Dairy Queen he owned and worked at summers and weekends during half of his teaching career, Nick Ascienzo learned how to dish it out. Now, he’s serving up another kind of treat. A...

From Left: Greenville School Psychologist Audrey Douglas, 2015 NASP School Psychologist of the Year Pam Agan-Smith, NASP president Steve Brock Pam Agan-Smith went to college as an art major but after a teacher piqued her...