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Deer Park Hosts BOCES Life Skills Consurtium

Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District This winter, Deer Park hosted the first annual Western Suffolk BOCES Life Skills Consortium. Special education teachers from across the region gathered in the Deer Park High School library to collaborate and share educational strategies. “The opportunity to network with teachers who run similar programs in nearby districts […]
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Classes Collaborate At Poetry Café In Deer Park

Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Brittany Skrypek’s seventh grade English as a New Language class collaborated with Rachel Burkel’s Life Skills classes for a Poetry Café at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School. Prior to the event, Skrypek’s students wrote ode poems inspired by Kwame Alexander’s “The Crossover.” Burkel’s class had visited Frost […]