The Artist Barbara Beisinghoff Visits PDS

Barbara Beisinghoff at PDS PDS, and the middle school in particular, were fortunate to have the internationally known artist Barbara Beisinghoff spend a day on campus. Barbara was brought to Poughkeepsie by Vassar College through their Creative Arts Across Disciplines…

Learning to Felt

The middle school art class was without its usual and very competent teacher this morning. I jumped in to fill the gap. More or less. Truthfully, mostly less…I don’t know how to felt. Lucky for me, the students have learned…

A Day on the Field in Fall and More

On the first day of school, when I led our first middle school assembly, I made the pronouncement that, even though we would give each student a schedule on the first day of school, there would be few days that…