HFM BOCES Deputy Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Hohenforst has received a statewide service and leadership award from the Staff/Curriculum Development Network of New York State. Recognizing her career-long leadership in the field of education, the organization has named Dr. Hohenforst the recipient of the 2018 Jane Bullowa Service and Leadership Award. The Staff/Curriculum Development Network serves […]
Ag PTECH freshmen on Monday — their last day of school before exams — visited the St. Johnsville Nursing Home to talk with residents and build wheelchair-accessible gardens for them. In small groups, the students “interviewed” the residents about different aspects of agriculture and the changes they have seen during their lifetimes. Each group had […]
PTECH hosted its first-ever Entrepreneurship Expo on May 31, a culmination of the work students have done developing their own business plans. Throughout the school year, students in Michael LaMastra’s Entrepreneurship class developed their concepts for businesses and created marketing and financial plans for their companies. Some of the plans conceptualized by students featured at […]
Fulton Montgomery Community College and Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES jointly hosted the third annual Student Recognition Dinner Monday, June 4 to honor nearly 60 outstanding seniors from high schools in the region. Honorees were selected to attend the awards dinner to recognize their academic and personal achievements during high school. Districts nominating students for recognition were Amsterdam, […]
Four years into the program, the Hamilton Fulton Montgomery Pathways in Technology Early College High School has its first group of students completing the program. Twelve students, about 28 percent of the inaugural HFM PTECH class, have earned their associate degrees from Fulton Montgomery Community College and will receive their high school diplomas in the […]
A team of Fort Plain Junior-Senior High School teachers, which works together to teach an immersive, co-curricular unit on immigration, was honored during the 26th Annual HFM BOCES School Library System Awards Luncheon Thursday, May 17. This year’s Collaborative Teacher of the Year Award was presented to reading teacher Kevin Bogus, special education teacher Adam […]
Nearly 30 HFM BOCES employees and friends participated in the annual CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge Thursday, May 17. The 3.5-mile road race is held to promote health and fitness in the workplace. A group of HFM employees participate in the event annually. Proceeds from the race go to non-profit organizations including the Hudson-Mohawk Road Runners […]
Students at the HFM BOCES McNab School in Gloversville successfully hatched 15 chicks during a schoolwide incubation project. The first chick hatched May 13. The incubators and eggs were provided to the school by a local resident, who will also take the chickens to raise. Incubation projects such as this help teach students about the […]
Sophomores in Patrick Clear’s Earth Science class at Ag PTECH collected samples from the Mohawk River and Zimmerman Creek on Thursday to send them to be DNA tested for the presence of invasive species of fish. The testing kit the students used is part of FishTracker, a student-oriented citizen science project based at Cornell University. […]
HFM BOCES and the Mayfield Central School District Board of Education held a ceremony Tuesday, May 8 to recognize the late Mr. David Edwards and his longtime service to school districts in the local area. Mr. Edwards served 37 years on the BOCES Board of Education, and was president of the board for several years […]
