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🎨 September 14-20 is National Arts in Education Week! We’re proud to support arts in education and celebrate all the amazing ways students bring their creativity to life. #ArtsEd #NationalArtsInEducationWeek #MoreThanYouThink #americansforthearts

🎉 Today we hosted 212 students from 13 component districts for the Seal of Biliteracy, presenting in 24 languages! Thanks to Mid-State RBERN & 51 panelists for supporting this celebration of multilingual excellence.
#OCMBOCES #SealOfBiliteracy #MidStateRBERN

🎖️ Big news from SkillsUSA! Ten OCM BOCES students placed in the Top 3 at the NYS competition — including 2 first-place winners who qualify for nationals this summer! 🎉
See the full list of winners: tinyurl.com/y7tp23xr
#OCMBOCES #SkillsUSA #MoreThanYouThink

Proud of our CTE & New Vision students repping OCM BOCES at the #SkillsUSA NYS Competition today! 👏 #OCMBOCES #MoreThanYouThink

Huge thanks to the Alpha Phi Sorority from SUNY Cortland for bringing the energy and green thumbs to our Cortlandville Campus garden! You showed up, pitched in, and made it beautiful. 🌼 #OCMBOCES #AlphaPhi #CortlandvilleCleanup

Spring break? Not for our Welder/Fitter & Construction Trades Adult Ed students—they’re leveling up with silica safety training from Upstate Medical University! 💥

BOCES is #MoreThanYouThink: career-ready, safety-smart, real-world tough.

#OCMBOCESAdultEd #SilicaSafety #ThankYouUpstate

OCM BOCES is #MoreThanYouThink — offering top-tier training opportunities for educators. Today, Ken Shelton joined us for an inspiring AI literacy session, thanks to a collaboration between our O²CM School Library System, Model Schools, and STEM Team 👏 #OCMBOCES #EdTech

🎵🎨 Arts and music educators gathered at the Everson Museum for the Inspire, Create, Educate: Arts Educators Conference, exploring new classroom techniques through hands-on workshops like yoga, basketmaking, instrument repair, printmaking, puppetry, and more! 👏 #ArtsInEducation #EmpoweringAllLearners

Teachers participate in a mental health training

Teachers at BOCES learn about technology

Educators learn about instructional technology

Teachers discuss classroom strategies at OCM BOCES

Wow, talk about going ALL OUT! Teachers & staff at OCM BOCES dove into a professional development day packed with learning & growth. OCM BOCES offered 48 sessions to hundreds of educators to help improve instruction. Now it's time to bring this knowledge back to the classroom!💪#EmpoweringAllLearners

🇺🇸 We love celebrating our incredible students and staff, and today was extra special at our Crown Road Campus! Everyone came together to cheer on cafeteria worker Jana Fusco, who recently achieved a huge milestone—becoming a U.S. citizen! 👏 #CongratulationsJana #EmpoweringAllLearners

📚 #BattleOfTheBooks2025 is on! 📚 Best of luck to all students participating. #OCMBOCES #cnybob

🎉🥧 Happy Pi Day from OCM BOCES! Our Mathematics Teacher Trainer, Amanda Brenner, reminds us: Pi goes on forever—just like the love of learning. Keep pushing, keep growing. It’s a great day to be irrational!

What’s your favorite “pi?” Share below ⬇️ #EmpoweringAllLearners #PiDay

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Our own Allie Glassman is teaming up with Katie Harmon from Westhill CSD for a weekly dose of the hottest ed-tech trends, with practical tips and tricks, and unfiltered conversations with fellow teachers. www.instagram.com/digitaldishp...
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🎉 What a fantastic finale to Black History Month! 🎉 Our OCM BOCES Crown Road Campus students were treated to an AMAZING performance today by the incredible dancers and drummers of Wacheva Cultural Arts Inc., of Syracuse. #BlackHistoryMonth #OCMBOCES #EmpoweringAllLearners

🙌 What an incredible morning for our Adult Education students! Our Community Service Fair was a huge success, buzzing with energy and opportunities thanks to the support of 35+ amazing community service agencies. #EmpoweringAllLearners #OCMBOCES

❤️ What a heartwarming Valentine's Day celebration! ❤️
Students in the Friends of Rachel Club at Innovation Tech spent quality time this week with residents of Parkrose Estates Senior Living Community. They created adorable no-sew heart pillows, shared hot cocoa, and sang! 🎶

#EmpoweringAllLearners

Happy to announce our NEW Adult Education Heavy Equipment Operator program in partnership with CNY Works, starting March 17! Read more at our website: tinyurl.com/4hyt2f5a
#HeavyEquipment #OCMBOCES #CNYWorks #I81Viaduct #ConstructionCareers #EmpoweringAllLearners

Check this out! 23 First Lego League teams are competing today in Baldwinsville to see whose Lego "robots" can complete the most missions on a table designed around this year's theme, "Submerged." Thank you to the amazing Model Schools Team at OCM BOCES for organizing this event!

📚✨We proudly hosted the P-3 Literacy Instructional Best Practices event this week—a statewide effort to strengthen literacy instruction, ensuring all students from PreK-3 receive high-quality, research-based instruction.
#OCMBOCES #P3Literacy #BestPractices #EmpoweringAllLearners

🎄✨ Holiday cheer was in full swing today at OCM BOCES Cortlandville! Students had a blast decorating cookies, enjoying festive treats, and got a special surprise visit from Santa! 🎅🎁 They also picked out thoughtful gifts for their loved ones at our Holiday Workshop 🎉 #EmpoweringAllLearners #OCMBOCES

Exciting day ahead! 🚀 Our New Vision Engineering Professions class, led by instructor John Campbell, is heading to Syracuse University to explore its amazing engineering programs. Can't wait to see what they'll learn! #FutureEngineers #EmpoweringAllLearners #OCMBOCES

Coding @ocmboces.bsky.social Lego + Wonder= Math!

👏 Give it up for our Adult Ed Practical Nursing students—ALL of whom passed their med math exam—and celebrated with a 🍕🎉 today! #EmpoweringAllLearners #OCMBOCES

Morning Wake-up relay in engineering class @ocmboces.bsky.social #studentengagement

🎃🎉 Our Sensory Friendly Fall Festival at Crown Road Campus was a big hit! Students & families enjoyed pizza, face painting, cookie decorating, crafts, playdough, a community fair, and a bounce house featuring Lightning McQueen! Thanks to our amazing OCM BOCES staff! #EmpoweringAllLearners #OCMBOCES

Our Thompson Road CTE Heavy Equipment Repair, Operation & Diesel program recently took 27 students to UDig NY to learn safe excavation practices. They got real-world experience locating, marking, and exposing underground utilities. #CTE #EmpoweringAllLearners

#scienceexperiment #adulteducation #cosmetology #EmpoweringAllLearners

Check out these amazing "Anything but Hair!" creations by our Adult Ed Cosmetology students! 🌊🍦🎬🎄They transformed plain mannequin heads into stunning works of art. Huge thanks to Instructor Dawn Iozzo for inspiring such incredible talent! #OCMBOCES #AdultEducation #EmpoweringAllLearners #BOCESProud

🎉 A huge shoutout to our Thompson Road Campus students who are raising money to help Hurricane Helene victims 🙌 #EmpoweringAllLearners

🙌We're thrilled to share that Amanda Brenner, a math teacher-trainer at OCM BOCES has been recognized by the Association of Math Teachers of New York State (AMTNYS) for her outstanding contributions to math education!

#OCMBOCES #MathEducation #TeacherAppreciation #EmpoweringAllLearners