Mary Jo Casilio has been promoted to Supervisor of Professional Development, Leadership, and Mentoring. This was a role vacated by Jessie Karches earlier this fall when she was named an Associate Director.
Mary Jo has served as a staff development coordinator for Erie 1 BOCES, working closely with K-12 teachers and building leaders across WNY for the last 15 years. She leads professional development, mentors new teachers, and offers support relative to reading and writing...
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On Tuesday, October 18, high school students descended on the University at Buffalo campus for the first ever Careers in Education Conference. Students from throughout Western New York who expressed an interest in a career in education were invited to attend. Registration for the conference filled quickly, swelling the event to more than one hundred and fifty students representing eighteen school districts.
The conference opened with a keynote address from Alden High School...
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A good password should be difficult to guess, but easy to remember.
Utilizing things you dislike will help keep it hard to guess while making it easy to remember. Maybe you dislike eating poi (traditional Hawaiian staple), playing flinch (aka hand slap), or taking out the trash. Utilizing these three words together with lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters make a very strong 14 character passphrase.
P0iFl!nchTr@sh is easy to remember and since you don't...
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WNYRIC’s Josh Blair and Dave Kajdasz presented a check for $8,000 to Ronald McDonald House of Buffalo Executive Director, Marianne Hoover. The money represents the proceeds from the 21 st Annual WNYRIC Open Golf Tournament. This year’s donation is the largest in the history of the tournament; double what was raised at the last event in 2021. This brings the total donated to Ronald McDonald House of Buffalo to $56,000 since the partnership with the annual tournament.
The...
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In 2020, Erie 1 BOCES received the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Grant from the New York State Department of Health. This five-year grant intends to coordinate a multi-sector effort to reduce the risk of obesity in high-need communities and school districts. Due to COVID, the grant period began in June 2021 and will continue through 2026.
Kate Huber and her six-person team is facilitating the grant in several local communities and districts. Their intended outcomes...
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