Category: Superintendent’s Messages

February 23, 2017 Dear Putnam Valley Staff and Community Members: On Friday March 17, 2017, our schools will follow an early dismissal schedule to provide an opportunity for professional development. The School District also invites community members to join us from 12:30-2:00 PM as we explore ways to sustain a community of respect and support for our…

Dear Putnam Valley Community:

In the past week, I was able to observe some extraordinary student activities that are particularly meaningful as prepare to celebrate Presidents’ Day on Monday. Visiting fourth grade classrooms last Friday, I observed students proudly presenting their research on colonial history and lives of early citizens. Using Google…

Dear Putnam Valley Parents/Guardians:

Once again, I am writing to you to ask that you support our teachers and administrators in providing the instructional foundation and environment that supports student learning and achievement as creative and critical thinkers, readers and writers. As we have indicated in prior letters, we continue to look…

Dear Putnam Valley Community: 

You may have heard about an initiative at our high school called Rachel's Challenge sponsored by the student's Make A Difference Club.  Rachel Scott was one of the first students killed at Columbine High School in 1999.  Her parents found in her room a diary that reflected her…

Dear Putnam Valley Community:

Based on my recommendation to the Board of Education, it is anticipated that Travis McCarty will be appointed to the position of Putnam Valley Middle School Principal on February 9, 2017.  This appointment will be effective July 1, 2017.  As you know, Mr. Hallisey, will be retiring after…

Dear Putnam Valley Community:

The United Nations has designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz and Birkenau by Allied troops near the end of World War II.  Reflections of American soldiers from that experience catalog the horrors they viewed. They witnessed the…

Dear Putnam Valley Community: 

I would like to invite you to our next "Superintendent's Listening Hour" which will be held tomorrow night, Thursday, January 19. We will meet in our high school library at 6:00 pm, just prior to the Board of Education meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in our high…