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Baldwin High School Presents
Hello Dolly!
O
ver 150 Baldwin High School students participated in
the delightful rendition of Hello Dolly! from November
20-22, coordinated by Secondary Supervisor of Fine and
Performing Arts Deepak Marwah. The students received
their cues from director Mary Truelson, vocal director
Kristine Simko, musical conductor Kimberly Roof, technical director Scott Peritz, art director Philip Zirkuli, and
choreographer Ann Marie Lupo. The sets were constructed
by the Stagecraft class under direction of Scott Peritz and
Anthony DeAngelis and managed seamlessly by the stage
crew (“Krough”). The period costumes were designed by
Barbara Kirby.
The musical, based on the book by Michael Stewart
and play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, is best
remembered in the words and music by Jerry Herman in
the Broadway play with Carol Channing and movie with
Barbra Streisand. Baldwin High School’s production starred
Ashley Mayers as Dolly Gallagher Levi, Kaedon Campbell
as Horace Vandergelder, Audrey Wilson as Irene Molloy,
Daelynn Jorif as Minnie Fay, and Malik Somers and Johnathan Fulcher as comedic sidekicks Cornelius Hackl and
Barnaby Tucker. They were joined by an ensemble cast
belting out all the classic songs from “It Takes a Woman”
to “Before the Parade Passes By” and “Hello Dolly” in the
grand finale.
Winter 2015
Baldwin High School Students
Attend Adelphi Art Program
Secondary Supervisor for Fine and Performing Arts Deepak
Marwah, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Sara Heuser, and Principal Susan Knors
Baldwin High School students Kelly Fitzpatrick and Sara
Heuser were accepted into the “For the Love of Art: Art
Foundations” program at Adelphi University, a 10-week
series of intensive art classes in which the students drew
from live models in a college studio setting. The three-hour
intensives, which were held on Saturdays, concluded with
a dinner and gallery reception for families.
Baldwin High School Students
Represent BOCES STEM Program
Baldwin High School
Nassau Zone Winners
Marissa Rhoden and Jared Warner with their
certificates and medals
Baldwin High School students Jared Warner and Marissa
Rhoden were selected as the Nassau Zone winners – the
top male and female students who demonstrate athletic
performance, scholastic ability and leadership. The students were honored at a dinner at the Crest Hollow Country
Club on December 2 sponsored by the New York State
Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation,
and Dance (NYS AHPERD).
UPenn Educator Views Baldwin
High School Signature Programs
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Shari Camhi, Kelsi King, Luzia
DaMotta, and Board Trustee Deborah Rebore
Baldwin High School students Luzia DaMotta and Kelsi
King were two of the four students representing the BOCES
Doshi STEM program who presented science research
projects at the New York State School Boards Association
(NYSSBA) convention and education expo in October.
Baldwin High School
Acceptances to Harvard
At the Baldwin High School Sophomore College Night in
October, the chairperson of the Long Island Schools and
Scholarship Committee commented that every year there is
at least one Baldwin student admitted to Harvard College and
some years there have been 2-3 admittances to Harvard,
which she said “is very rare.” She added that “Baldwin
students are very qualified and extremely well prepared and
that is why they do very well at Harvard.” And, Baldwin High
School has already received the first Harvard acceptance
for 2015-16! More college acceptance information to follow.
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Bob Jarvis of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Center
for Educational Leadership and coordinator of the Long
Island Consortium for Excellence and Equity (LICEE)
visited Baldwin High School this fall for a tour of some of
the school’s signature programs. Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Shari L. Camhi, Principal Susan Knors, and Supervisor
of Fine and Performing Arts Deepak Marwah accompanied
Mr. Jarvis around the building to see rehearsals of the
award-winning Concert Choir and Orchestra, the Robotics
Team fine-tuning their robot for competition, and the Medical
Career Academy students involved in hands-on learning
in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and laboratory testing.
At a recent LICEE meeting, in which the Baldwin
School District actively participates, Mr. Jarvis asked
Dr. Camhi to share some of these Baldwin stories
with other district members. Dr. Camhi plans to invite
additional educators to the district throughout the
school year to share Baldwin successes with them.
Baldwin Public Schools
Baldwin Music Accolades
Many Thanks to...
Baldwin Foundation for Education (BFE) for continuing
to support the district with mini-grants for 2014-15. They
are: In Recognition of Excellence Dinner, Dr. Camhi, $400;
A Little Bit of Broadway, Scott Stolzenberg, Steele, $400;
and Student Transition to Work, Kelley Snow, BHS, $100.
Baldwin 4 Children (B4C) and the BFE for overseeing
the Modell’s fundraiser again this year to help fund BFE
maxi-grants in the spring.
Baldwin High School’s Vocal Jazz and Sweet Adelines groups
performed at the Coral House and were featured on Channel 11
Baldwin students from every district school were selected
for the All-County ensembles that perform in January
at the Tilles Center. The Baldwin High School students
are Chloe Agostino, Nicholas Barba, and Kevin Meyers
for Division 5 band; Alex Montalvo and David Zuckerman
for Division 5 Orchestra; Demesvar Clerge, John FelderWashington, Philip Orselli, and Malaya Press for Division 4
Band; Hannah Batsford for Division 4 Jazz Band; Danielle
Davis for Division 4 Orchestra; Michaela Barnett, Owens
Borno, and Daelynn Jorif for Division 4 Chorus; and Chloe
Agostino, Jonathan Fulcher, Ashley Mayers, Malik Somers,
Catherine Sweeney, and Audrey Wilson for Division 5
Vocal. The Baldwin Middle School students are Evan
Batsford, Joshua Davis and Clyde Tre Riggins in Division
3 Band; Violet Cochrane in Division 3 Choir; Summer
Wojtczak in Division 3 Orchestra; Kaliela Jones in Division
2 Band; Emma Randazzo and Carina Yorro in Division 2
Choir; and Michael Dones in Division 2 Orchestra. The
Baldwin elementary students are: Brookside - Olutoyin
Green and Brielle Irvins-Austin; Lenox - Morgan FieldsNewtown, Giselle Garcia, Lesly Lucero, Brianna McLeod,
Sara Prager, Megan Amani Ranson, Ashel Bernal Santos,
and Jose Sibrian; Meadow - Kaitlyn Gonsalves, Danielle
Grant, Charlie Leader, and Aurora Wojtczack; Plaza - Robert Croshere, Nigel Floreska, and Zachary Kirchner; and
Steele - Jeffrey Pietrzak.
Additionally, several Baldwin High School students were
selected to perform in Nassau-Suffolk ensembles: Kevin
Meyers and David Zuckerman with the Nassau-Suffolk
Wind Symphony, Hannah Batsford with the Nassau-Suffolk
Concert Band, and Chloe Agostino and Malaya Press with
the Nassau-Suffolk Vocal Jazz Band.
A number of Baldwin students are performing with other regional ensembles, including Baldwin High School students
Jackson Connor with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra;
Sierra Wojtczack with the Children’s Orchestra Society;
Nicholas Barba, Hannah Batsford, Danielle Davis, Ashley
Dyer, Shenyece Ferguson, Philip Orselli, and Jade Young
in the Long Island Youth Orchestra; and Danielle Davis
and Devon Smyth and Baldwin Middle School student
Summer Wojtczack with the Long Island String Festival
Orchestra.
Nassau County Legislator Laura Curran and resident
Heather Cameron for sponsoring a holiday adopt-a-family
drive that benefited 15 families with children in the district
schools.
Carole O’Reilly for the hundreds of sewing buttons for
projects in the Fashion I and Lifeskills classes.
Staff and Student Kudos
Barbara Riess, Baldwin High School science teacher
and career academy coordinator, was the recipient of
the Nassau BOCES Education Partner Award and will be
recognized at a reception in March.
Tanya Siburon, a Baldwin Middle School student, was
nominated to represent Baldwin at the National Young
Leaders Conference in the spring where she will be among
other high achieving students from across the region
and will participate in interactive workshops that promote
leadership skills.
Regina Gutierrez, a Baldwin Middle School student, was
the winner of the local Lions Club Peace Poster Contest
with the theme “peace, love and understanding.” She was
presented with a $100 check by the Baldwin Lions Club.
Alessa Ramos, a Baldwin High School student who is
on the New York Rolling Fury youth wheelchair basketball
team, trained with her team and Dr. Oz last month and
then went to The Dr. Oz Show on November 17. Although
she was not one of the students featured on the show, she
enjoyed being part of the televised coverage of the team.
Breanne Nasti, a Baldwin High School senior, was selected
for the Class of 2015 Softball Hall of Fame as one of 16
players, coaches or contributors statewide representing
their area. She will be inducted into the hall of fame at a
ceremony upstate on June 20.
Jesse Cohn, a Baldwin High School graduate from the
Class of 1998, was recently honored as one of Fortune
Magazine’s “40 Under 40” most influential young people in
business. He is currently the portfolio manager and head
of U.S. equity activism, a position created specifically for
him, at hedge fund Elliott Management.
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Homecoming 2014
B
aldwin High School celebrated Homecoming 2014 starting with Spirit Week, during which students and staff
dressed to a different theme each day, such as Decades Day and Blue & Gold Day. The week culminated
with Pep Rally on October 17 with the Varsity Cheerleaders cheering, Pep Band playing and all the fall sports
teams represented. A big surprise this year was a guest appearance by UFC Middleweight Champion and Baldwin alumnus Chris Weidman, who graciously gave autographs and took group photos. The Royal Court was also
named: King Jared Warner and Queen Bridgette Walsh (12th grade), Prince Myles Bayne and Princess Liana
“It is important to create spirit in the community
and do community service to make Baldwin
a more comfortable and beautiful town.”
“Any building can be a place where a group
of adolescents learn, but what makes it a
school is the spirit of the people inside.”
“We can show our school spirit by taking
pride in who we are collectively.”
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Baldwin Public Schools
Homecoming 2014
Dominique (11th grade), Duke Philip Orselli and Duchess Danielle Davis (10th grade), and Lord Malcolm Bell and
Lady Olivia-Sade Gonzalez (9th grade). (Below are quotes from their winning essays on the topic of school spirit.)
The next day was the Homecoming football game with the Bruins playing the Freeport Red Devils. At halftime,
Varsity Cheerleaders performed their routines and in the annual Band Day, the elementary, middle school and high
school bands played separately and then together filling the fall air with music. The Bruins won 42-13, maintaining
their undefeated momentum to the Nassau County Championship game.
“I’ve always wanted to become part of a varsity
team due to the sportsmanship, togetherness,
caring and spirit the team holds.”
“If the student body is what gives the name Baldwin
life and meaning, then it is the student body that
should support one another to promote school spirit.”
“Positive school spirit can be shown in our
school community through simple acts of
kindness that can make a huge difference.”
“Pride and spirit stem from unity. Without a whole there
is nothing to be proud of.”
“Whether on or off the field, I feel that it is important to
positively represent Baldwin at all times.”
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Fall Sports Kudos
Baldwin Spelling Champs
Four Baldwin High School fall sports teams
were named Scholar-Athlete teams for having
combined academic averages of 90 or higher: Girls Tennis,
Girls Soccer, Girls Volleyball, and Boys Cross Country.
In Boys Varsity Cross Country, Isaac Facey and Will
Salmon were All-Conference.
In Girls Varsity Cross Country, Charlotte Gondre and
Germine Museau were All-County, and Tiffany Raymond
was All-Conference.
Varsity Football finished with a 10-1 overall record and
8-0 in the regular season and the team advanced to the
Nassau County Championship game. Nick Deluca, Matt
Eberhardt, Kadeem Langhorne, and Paul Nosworthy were
All-County. Jared Warner received an All-County Honorable
Mention, and Jared Juarbe-Myles and Chris Debique were
All-Conference.
Girls Varsity Field Hockey advanced to the Nassau
County Championship Semifinal round. Sophia Moore was
All-County and Christy Davis received All-County Honorable
Mention. Jenn Doyle, Nadia Elcock, and Daniella Specht
were All Conference. Lizzie Rattoballi received the Nassau
County Exceptional Senior Award, and Kayla Brown was
named Nassau County Unsung Hero.
The five elementary schools and Baldwin Middle School held
their annual school spelling bees in December and January
with the winner of each bee invited to participate in the
Long Island Regional Spelling Bee at Hofstra University on
February 8. Perhaps one of these Baldwin spelling whizzes
will be the regional winner who will go on to represent Long
Island at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington
D.C. in the spring. And the building winners are:
Brookside:
1. Kayla Bennett 2. Ariana Jean
Lenox:
1. Caileb Chery 2. Maxell Turenne
Girls Varsity Volleyball advanced to the Nassau County
Championship Finals for the third year in a row. Bridgette
Walsh and Erica Ackerman were All-County. Allie Ahearne,
Kiera Knauer, and Taylor Krucher were All-Classification,
and Allie Ahearne was also All-Tournament.
Meadow:
1. Samson Mathew 2. Anthony Capellan
Boys Varsity Soccer finished the season fourth in the
conference. All-County Honorable Mention went to Carlos
Padilla while Jeremy Hui, Klyde Jacques and Jake Sable
were All-Conference.
Steele:
1. Kira Russell 2. Zavior Foster
In Girls Varsity Soccer, Kelsey Cohen was All-County,
while Jade Aponte and Marissa Rhoden were AllClassification, and Julia Annechiarico was All-Conference.
Morgan Rachlin won the Scholar-Athlete Award.
In Girls Varsity Tennis, Daija Spencer was All-Conference
and Kiera Hyacinthe and Jalyn Simmons were All-Division.
Joanna Sayed-Ahmed and Sheynece Ferguson received
the Sportsmanship Award.
Be sure to follow scores and updates on all the Bruins
sports teams throughout the school year on Twitter @
Baldwin_Bruins.
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Baldwin Middle School students Jasmine Rebore and
Annemarie Uellehdahl with Principal Timothy Maher
Plaza:
1. Ashton Hummler 2. Tatiana Aquino
Baldwin Middle School:
1. Annemarie Uellehdahl 2. Jasmine Rebore
Kindergarten Registration
is January 26-February 6
If you have a child who is turning 5 years old on
or before December 1, 2015, be sure to register
for kindergarten for the 2015-16 school year!
Registration will take place by appointment only at the
District Office from January 26 through February 6. Please
call the Registration Office at 377-9290 to schedule an
appointment and receive a registration packet. Registration
packets are also available on the district website.
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Baldwin Takes on the Common Core and More
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Shari Camhi facilitated
professional development for administrators
The Parent Academy Workshop on the Go Math! program
was packed with parents.
During the fall, Baldwin School District offered training for
both staff and parents on the Common Core Curriculum
Standards and the new K-5 math program Go Math!, which
aligns with the standards. In October, approximately 150
parents turned out for the Parent Academy Workshop,
sponsored by the district and the Baldwin Council of PTAs,
where educational consultant Melissa Pagano presented
the components of Go Math!, which encourages active
learning to solve and explain math. This was followed by
more math strategies for parents of students in grades 3-5
at the Districtwide Parent Workshop at Steele in November
and a Parent University program in December. There will be
a Parent University program for parents of students in K-2 on
January 27 and a Districtwide Parent Workshop in the spring.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Shari L. Camhi has also
started a series of professional development programs
for district administrators. At the first meeting in October,
they worked on a deepening understanding of the rubric
for the Danielson Framework for Teaching that correlates
with the Common Core. Baldwin’s teaching practices
focus on five pillars of instruction: differentiation, inquiry,
Teaching for Understanding, Understanding by Design,
and social/emotional learning. At the Superintendent’s
Conference Day in November, staff participated in a
variety of workshops, including ones on Go Math!,
elementary writing, and Response to Intervention (RtI),
and out-of-district trips such as to Brookhaven Lab,
Cradle of Aviation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Community Coalition and Input
Baldwin Teacher Center
Course Offerings
The Baldwin Teacher Center offers many courses and
workshops for educators with inservice and graduate
credits. Classes are held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and
Thursday after school and Saturday mornings at various
Baldwin locations. Please email TeacherCenter@
baldwinschools.org for more information and a copy of the
BTC course catalog and newsletter.
Over the last year, leaders of the key stakeholder groups in
Baldwin have formed the Community Coalition of Baldwin,
and Dr. Camhi has been assisting the coalition in creating a
strategic action plan to work together to enrich the economic,
academic and social life in Baldwin. The coalition agreed on
four goals: to create a thriving downtown, aspire to academic
success, foster a sense of family in the community, and
communicate and promote Baldwin success stories. These
goals were presented at the Community Input Meeting,
where residents participated in a giant brainstorming
session. The ideas generated from the meeting were
analyzed by the coalition to set short-, medium-, and
long-term actionable projects that will be publicized soon.
Budget Work Session Dates
The Baldwin Board of Education will hold
three public Budget Work Sessions to discuss
the components of the 2015-16 school
budget. The meetings will be held as follows:
February 4 February 11
February 25
Baldwin Public Schools
Administration and Capital
Baldwin High School, 8 p.m.
Program
Baldwin High School, 7 p.m. (before the BoE meeting)
Revenue, Budget Summary and
Adoption of Proposed Budget
Baldwin High School, 8 p.m.
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Mary Jo O’Hagan, Vice President
Eric Harrison
Joel Press
Deborah Rebore
Current Resident
Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Shari L. Camhi
Newsletter Editor
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Important Dates
January
26-2/06
26-30
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27
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KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION, DO
HS Midterms and Regents
National History Day, MS, 7pm
Parent University Go Math! K-2, HS, 6:30pm
Community Input Meeting and PTA Reflections Reception,
MS, 8pm
MLK Poster Contest Reception, DO, 3:45pm
PTA Meeting, Plaza, 7pm
Progress Reports, K-5
3
4
5
7
9
10
11
12
13
16-20
24
25
26
28
PTA & PTSA Founders Day (MS/HS) @HS, 7pm
Board of Education Budget Work Session, HS, 8pm
PTA Founders Day, Brookside, 7pm
Saturday Night Alive, HS, 7pm
District Choral Festival, HS, 7:30pm
PTA Founders Day, Lenox, 6:30pm; Plaza, 7pm; Steele, 7pm
Board of Education Budget Work Sesssion, HS, 7pm
Board of Education Meeting, HS, 8pm
Valentine Dance, MS, 3-5pm
Report Cards, HS&MS; Elementary Flag Awards
Winter Recess - SCHOOLS CLOSED
PTA Founders Day, Meadow, 7pm
Board of Education Budget Work Session, HS, 8pm
PTA Council Legislative Forum, HS, 7:30pm
Sportsnite Preview, HS, 1:50pm
February
March
2
3
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
12
Sportsnite Sneak Preview, HS, 4pm
PTSA Meeting, HS, 7:30pm
Father/Daughter Night, HS, 7pm
Picture Day, Meadow
Banquet, HS, 7pm
Multicultural Festival, MS, 3-5pm
Tea Dance, HS, 7pm
Sportsnite, HS, 7:50pm
Districtwide Family Life Orientation, Plaza, 7pm
Spring Concert, Lenox (4-5), 7pm
PTA Meetings, Brookside, 7pm; Meadow, 7pm
Basketball Shootout (4-5), HS, 3:30pm
Board of Education Meeting, Meadow, 8pm
Math Fair, MS, 7pm
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23-27
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24-26
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25
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Progress Reports, HS&MS
K-2 Spring Concert, Lenox, 9am
Tennis and Badminton Tryouts, HS
PTA Meeting, Steele, 7pm
Bye Bye Birdie, MS, 3:30pm
Parent/Teacher Conferences (K-5), 6-9pm
Report Cards (K-5)
Bye Bye Birdie, MS, 7pm
Parent/Teacher Conferences (K-5), 8:30am-3pm
SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Report Cards (K-5)
Bye Bye Birdie, MS, 7pm
Pre-Kindergarten Screening
PTA Meeting, MS, 7:30pm
Someone Special Breakfasts, MS, 7:30am
College Bound Junior Night, HS, 7pm
Picture Day, Brookside
PTA Council, DO, 7:30pm
District String Festival, HS, 7:30pm
Blue and Gold Night, MS, 7:15pm
Saturday Night Alive, HS, 7pm
PTA Meetings, Lenox, 7pm; Plaza, 7pm
Suites and Sweets, HS, 7:30pm
Inclement Weather Notification
If schools are closed or there is a delayed opening
due to inclement weather, the Baldwin School
District will call parents/guardians through the
automated messaging system, Blackboard Connect.
To be sure to receive these and other important
messages from the Baldwin School District, please
inform the main office of your child’s school of any
changes to your telephone numbers or email addresses.
The message about school closings or delayed openings
will also be available on the district website at www.
baldwinschools.org. In addition, this information will be
broadcast on WALK (1370 AM & 97.5 FM), WCBS (880
AM), WKJY (98.3 FM), WHLI (1100 AM), WINS (1010 AM),
WNYW (Channel 5), Fios 1, and News 12 Long Island.