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Community Circles Create Attachment For Students To School – And Each Other

The Community Circlce in Kamaree Brown’s third-grade class at Love Elementary School is almost like a family. Kamaree participates the circle daily with her teacher, Christine Yocum and her classmates. JPS teachers are using community circles as a tool to help students: feel more connected to each other and the school community, foster peaceful learning classroom environments and support social emotional development. In a Community Circle, teachers and students sit alongside each other and talk about a prompt, which could be about something learned in class that day or a class ...

Jefferson JUMP Students Create Food Trucks This Summer

The smell of sweet treats filled the air in front of Jefferson Middle School at the end of the summer thanks to the efforts of Jefferson JUMP students who created two “food trucks” as part of a summer project-based learning unit. The students created Pastry’s Pies and Two Sides ...

Persell JUMP Students Became Gardening And Forensic Pros

Persell Middle School JUMP students learned more about gardening and forensic science through their summer learning program. Teachers Jayme Genco, David Gee, Lina Scoma, Emily Naetzker, Julie Alfa and Ali Pezzulo, took their students on a journey to gain real-life experiences, while also ...

JCC Announces May 2021 Graduates

Kirk Young, vice president of student affairs, and Marilyn Zagora, vice president of academic affairs, at SUNY Jamestown Community College have announced the names of those who were awarded degrees or certificates from the Jamestown and Cattaraugus County campuses in May 2021. A total of 396 ...

JCC Announces College Connections Students Of Year

Jamestown Community College recently honored 58 area high school students from throughout southwestern New York as the 2020-21 students of the year in the College Connections program. In selecting the students of the year, schools were asked to consider College Connections participants who had embraced the challenges of completing college level work while in high school and demonstrated resourcefulness, integrity, and dedication. College Connections, JCC’s concurrent enrollment program with regional high schools, is accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment ...