
🎸🎶Earlier this week, the Visual and Performing Arts Leadership Community at SHS hosted Flame The Band, a group of musicians entirely composed of people with varying intellectual and developmental disabilities. Learn more here https://www.flametheband.com/🎸🎶




Happy Friday!
Please click on the link to open Superintendent Soler's Brief for this week: https://www.schenectadyschools.org/page/superintendent-s-brief-april-21-2023
Have a great weekend. #schenectadyrising


Happy Eid al-Fitr to members of our Schenectady community celebrating. The holiday marks the end of Ramadan.


🏖 Think Summer😎
Enrollment for Summer Enrichment Program is open now.
Sign up using Parent Portal🔗 https://schenectady.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/students/scsd.jsp
Find out more here🔗 https://www.schenectadyschools.org/page/2023-summer-enrichment-program


Community Job Fair 4/27
LOCATION: Center City Lobby, 433 State Street Fl1, Schenectady
Need help preparing a resume? Want the full list of employers attending?
CONTACT: Schenectady College & Career Outreach Center:
(518) 631-2257
Schenectady County Connects:
(518) 344-2737


Good luck to all of our grades 3-8 students who are taking the state tests that begin today!


Don't miss out on this Saturday morning fun! It's Scrabble Rama on Saturday, April 22 from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Schenectady High School.
More: https://www.readingisfun.org/copy-of-scrabble-rama-2022


Thank you to Schenectady City Council for giving Superintendent Soler time on your agenda last night to talk about the Revitalization Plan 2030. There is another info session scheduled for tonight at 5;30 pm in the MPMS Auditorium. #schenectadyrising




ALUMNI PROFILE: Nafeesa Koslik,Nafeesa Koslik, graduated from Sch'dy High School in 1994 & currently works as Dir of Workforce Development & Culture at AIM Services. She is also the owner of Nani's Indian Kitchen. #SCSDalumni


We love highlighting our alumni. If you graduated from Sch'dy schools and would like to be featured in an Alumni Profile, please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LQ_rqW3-P5EZhnMrjlxew3yqTKDrtvSwmAZPM_eCAU0/edit


🌻STEAM Camp fun with Farm to School lessons on photosynthesis🌿
Each student is bringing home a sunflower to grow this summer🌻#SchenectadyRising











ALUMNI PROFILE: Marshae White is a 2007 graduate of SHS who currently lives in Georgia. Marshae credits skills she learned while working on the SHS yearbook with sparking her interest in photography. #SCSDAlumni


SCHOLAR ATHLETE RECOGNIZED
Congratulations to Jalyssa Terry for being named Basketball Scholar-Athlete for the 2022-2023 Season.


All SCSD Employees are invited to participate in the the "Workforce Team Challenge" on 5/18 at 6:25 p.m. at the Empire State Plaza. All abilities welcome. You can walk or run the 3.5 mile course. Register online by May 1 - https://www.cdphpwtc.com/#details


Sch'dy Rotary & Adirondack Cornhole League are bringing 2nd Annual "Cornhole for a Cause" - to benefit SCSD Community Schools - on 7/9 at River's Casino & Resort. https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2760/SCSD/2929122/Cornhole_for_a_Cause.pdf


2023-2024 Pre-K Applications are NOW available!
Click on the link for info on the process, the registration checklist, FAQs, and to download the application. https://www.schenectadyschools.org/page/prekindergarten


💡Energy for the Common Good partnered with the district and Paige Elementary for the Generation Fusion Pilot Program. Students learned about climate change, clean energy, and fusion energy. Their projects were interpretations of a fusion reaction #SchenectadyRising


Happy Easter Schenectady Community!
Enjoy spring break, classes resume 4/17


📸 On April 5, SHS celebrated the grand opening of its new Parent Empowerment Center. The center will be planning monthly events and kicked it all off with a potluck dinner. The center has information on child care, utilities, food and nutrition assistance + more!


Please click on the link to open Superintendent Soler's Brief for this week: https://www.schenectadyschools.org/page/superintendent-s-brief-april-6-2023
Have a fantastic recess. We will see you on the 17th.
#schenectadyrising
