Irvington High School Brings Clue to Life on Stage

Irvington High School’s Fall play, performed November 1-2, was the murder-mystery comedy Clue, adapted from a board game to a movie in 1985 and then into a play.   Directed by Stephen DiGiovanni, the […] Read more »

PSAT Day Provides A Day of Special Learning Activities at BHS 

At Briarcliff High School, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) day in late October broadened beyond a day of testing for juniors (and some sophomores).  “By administering the test on a […] Read more »

Irvington Appoints Mary Ellis Interim Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and Human Resources 

The Irvington School District Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kristopher Harrison have appointed Mary Ellis as interim assistant superintendent for instruction and human resources for the balance of […] Read more »

Seventh Graders and Kindergarteners Are Reading Buddies at Todd Elementary

This year’s seventh grade and kindergarten Reading Buddies project kicked off in the Briarcliff Middle School Library when Library Media Specialist Kathleen McCabe led an in-depth discussion with the middle […] Read more »

Road to College: Holiday Edition 

On the Road to College, we must occasionally take stock of what we have, appreciate who we are with, and look back with pride on what we have accomplished as […] Read more »

Sleepy Hollow Middle Students Become Scientists for the Day

Samuel Guzman’s eyes widened with wonder as he looked at his own cells under a microscope. Guzman is one of the seventh-grade students from Sleepy Hollow Middle School who took […] Read more »

BioBus Magnifies the World of Scientists for Ossining Fifth-Graders

Is it a crab? Is it a spider? Why is it jiggling so much?    The questions came rapid-fire as fifth-graders at Roosevelt School in Ossining looked at samples of pond […] Read more »

Irvington’s Dows Lane First Graders Build Food Supply Defenses  

First graders at Dows Lane Elementary School who have been learning how plants and animals use their defenses to survive in nature, recently applied this knowledge to solve a real-life […] Read more »

When Choosing a School, Listen to Your Heart

This is the time of year when most twelfth graders are getting college applications ready and the anxiety can be palpable. In a place like Westchester, many kids are coming from homes […] Read more »

Putting STEM to Work – Fourth in a Series

Thanks to the generous support of Regeneron, each quarter, a local high school student with a passion for science will be paired with a Regeneron scientist so they can learn what […] Read more »