News
17th Annual Career Day At Powells Lane A Huge Success
March 15, 2006
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| Career Day Coordinators Ms. August, Mr. Abbott and Ms. Como |
Powells Lane's 17th Annual Career Day was a wonderful experience. This year's program, which took place on March 15th, drew people from approximately 33 professional fields. Our students were exposed to professionals from the Criminal Justice System, Medical Profession, Film and Commercial Making, and a member from PAWS who stressed the importance of humane treatment of animals.
The students were enthusiastic to interact with the presenters and greeted them with a barage of questions. It afforded the students an opportunity to grasp the school/work world connection in that the presenters tied components of their careers with elements of the students' curriculum. This made it meaningful for our youngsters.
The magnitude of this program attracted members of the Westbury School District administration, who were on board to lend a hand. Aside from being a learning experience for the students, it was interesting to see the presenters interacting with each other. They too were impressed with the diversity and magnitude of the program and found this to be a good opportunity to interact with one another.
Special Area Teachers receive training from Apple Computer, Inc.
March 2006
Apple Educational Consultant Steve Cowdrey was on hand for the second installment of four two-day training sessions in digital media arts this school year using the latest Apple developed technologies. Ms. Bates, Mrs. Grisafi, and Mr. Floreska attended the training along with numerous other teachers within the district as part of the 21st century digital arts programs.
Teachers learned how to create video-based projects using digital video cameras and edit them on their iBook computers. All of the software discussed and used during the training sessions is already available to all students and staff at Powells Lane and is in regular use by many of the school's students during library, art, and computer classes.