At Briarcliff Manor School District, just about everything is a team effort. Recently, Briarcliff High School’s Red Cross Club conducted a holiday drive and, in a collaborative effort with Briarcliff Middle School, Todd Elementary School and the Girl Scouts of Briarcliff, donated care packages to military personnel serving overseas.

We’ve got the scoop on Scoop Powerball! Todd third graders in Christine Elliott and Robin Difeo’s classes recently played Scoop Powerball in physical education class and had a blast tossing balls and scoring points.

Briarcliff Middle School eighth graders are learning to give constructive criticism. Right before Thanksgiving, students in Jessica Dubin’s eighth grade art class held a gallery walk and viewed students’ collages, while making comments and asking their peers questions about their artwork.

Ready, set, go! The Action-Based Learning Lab is back in action at Todd Elementary School. And no one is more excited than physical education teacher Rob Higle Jr.

It is hard to believe that less than six months ago they were only second graders, but students in Lisa Cerrato and Christine Elliott’s third grade class are now writing full-page essays, complete with introduction and conclusion and beautiful handwriting, to boot.