Month: October 2023
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#FacultyFriday: Lisa Schwartz
This Friday we are celebrating Lisa Schwartz, a Goshen High School Spanish teacher who has been with the district for 17 years! After serving as an early intervention special education teacher around the county and Spanish teacher at Washingtonville High School, Schwartz joined the Goshen Central School District in 2007. “I had been offered jobs […]
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Support for students with IEPs, receiving special education services
Lower Hudson Valley Early Childhood FACE Center (Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties) Mid-Hudson Early Childhood FACE Center (Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, and Sullivan counties) Hudson Valley School-Age FACE Center (Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, and Sullivan counties) Beth Poague: bpoague@wihd.org Debbie Goddard: dgoddard@wihd.org Joyce Hawk: jhawk@wihd.org Visit the website to check the events calendar and […]
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#FacultyFriday: Char O’Connor
Today’s #FacultyFriday spotlights Goshen Intermediate School Nurse Char O’Connor, who has been with the district since 2004! In addition to school nursing, O’Connor has worked as a critical care nurse and taught CPR and IV therapy. She has also taught yoga and is a life coach. This year, O’Connor is working on a worthwhile goal […]
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GHS, SAS students bond at Hispanic Heritage Month bilingual read-aloud
Students find common ground with a shared home language “What color is an apple?” Charles asked the students after finishing the book and teaching them how to say colors in Spanish. “Rojo!” answered the class. Charles told the students he goes to Mexico every year, and it’s a long journey. “My parents speak a way […]
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Parent/Guardian contact information update forms
Please be sure to update contact information as soon as you make any changes. The following forms can be used to update contact information in our databases for school communications: Once you fill out the form, please send it to one of the following staff members at your child’s school:
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GIS Choose Love Ambassador Club inspires young leaders
Twenty of this year’s fifth graders at Goshen Intermediate School are becoming ambassadors through a new student leadership program. The core formula of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement is that courage, gratitude, forgiveness and compassion-in-action combine to “Choose Love”– and Goshen schools have adopted this formula for the past three years. At GIS in […]
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#FacultyFriday: Teresa Batista
This week’s #FacultyFriday is dedicated to one of Goshen Intermediate School’s newest team members, Teresa Batista — an AIS Reading and Math teacher who started with us in September of this year. After working in education for the past 17 years and graduating from WGU with her master’s degree in Childhood Education, Batista is excited […]
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New community-initiated SEPTSA chapter comes to Goshen
Since its inception on Aug. 15, the district’s new Special Education Parent Teacher Student Association (SEPTSA) has hit the ground running to help support the unique needs of students with disabilities in Goshen. The SEPTSA chapter is designed to be a place where parents/guardians, teachers, students and administration come together for support – and the […]
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#FacultyFriday: Margaret Storms
This week we want to use our #FacultyFriday to shout out Family & Consumer Science Teacher Margaret Storms. Storms joined the Goshen CSD in September 2007 after an 18-year career as a lead negotiator and trainer for Prudential Financial. Although she enjoyed the job, she said, it just wasn’t her calling. “I always wanted to […]