Assistant Principal at Douglas Grafflin
Joined October 2019
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Grafflin is back in action! 📚🎒
Our Pre-K through Grade 4 students are here and ready for a new year of learning, friendships and fun. We’re so happy to have everyone back at Grafflin! 💙🧡
#WeAreChappaqua #FirstDayOfSchool
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💙🧡 Welcome to Chappaqua! New Family Orientation Meetings are Wednesday, Aug. 26.
🕘 9:00 AM – Grades 1-4 Douglas Grafflin, Roaring Brook & Westorchard
🕚 11:00 AM – Bell & Seven Bridges
🕐 1:00 PM – Horace Greeley
We can't wait to welcome you!
#WeAreChappaqua
ALT Graphic with the Chappaqua Central School District logo and the headline, "Welcome New Families! New Family Orientation Dates and Times." Orientation schedule: 9:00 AM: Grafflin, Roaring Brook and Westorchard Elementary Schools (Grades 1–4) 11:00 AM: Robert E. Bell and Seven Bridges Middle Schools (Grades 5–8) 1:00 PM: Horace Greeley High School (Grades 9–12) The graphic features navy blue and orange district branding on a white background with the schedule displayed in a three-row table.
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Grafflin librarian Ms. Lester created bookmarks for each 4th grader featuring their library memories, including the total # of books they checked out & images of their first and last library books. They loved looking back at their reading journey! #WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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Grafflin 2nd graders in Ms. McCarthy’s class used their time and money skills to plan and run their own talent show. They created schedules, made posters, "sold" tickets and put on a variety show with singing, dancing, magic tricks and more! #WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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🎓 The next chapter starts now.
Congratulations to Grafflin’s 4th graders on their Moving Up Ceremony. We are proud of how much they have grown, the friendships they have built and the contributions they have made to the school community. #WeAreChappaqua
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Grafflin’s first-year students welcomed special guests, Greeley students Nicholas Tilghman & Ryan Sykes, who shared memories of being new to DG and favorite school traditions. They then teamed up to create welcome cards for incoming Grafflin students new to CCSD.
#WeAreChappaqua
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Congratulations to our retiring faculty and staff! 🎉
Thank you for the impact you have made on generations of students and the Chappaqua school community. Your dedication and service have helped shape CCSD in lasting ways. 💙🧡
#WeAreChappaqua
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🔔 DG 4th graders visited St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site, the American Revolution’s “Neutral Ground.” They learned about the church and its role as a military hospital in 1776, the cemetery, 1758 bell and the Battle of Pell’s Point. #WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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Congratulations to the 26 CCSD educators who were recognized for receiving tenure at the May 20 Board of Education meeting. Join us in thanking them for their commitment to our students, schools and community: bit.ly/3Pz8xwR 💙🧡 #WeAreChappaqua
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🌱 Grafflin third graders in Mrs. Cardinale’s class take turns caring for classroom plants as student horticulturists, enjoy salads from the schoolwide harvest and track bird sightings on the class birder chart each morning. #WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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Young leaders, a job well done at Grafflin. 💙🧡
Grafflin’s fourth-grade Student Government members took on leadership roles throughout the year through Earth Day projects, donation drives, reading with younger students and more. #WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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🌿 Grafflin’s hydroponics lab is growing more than plants.
Led by Linda Bosco, the space has become a spot where students can study plants, read, play games with classmates and enjoy a quiet moment during the day. 🌱
#WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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🌷 Spring in full swing.
K-4 students are shaping up the garden, writing in a quiet spot and running around and playing. A few marked yesterday with "May the fourth be with you."
#WeAreChappaqua @alissa_stoever @RBSChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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☀️ Ms. McCarthy’s 2nd graders took their measurement and data work into the Grafflin garden.
Students measured plants, flowers and other objects, recorded their findings and then created bar graphs and line plots to present their results.
#WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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🌍 Big ideas in action. #EarthWeek
At Grafflin, Ed Bosco and Katie Bosco, a Greeley alum, shared projects they’ve worked on to modernize and use sustainable, renewable energy to run major venues like Citi Field, Madison Square Garden and Sphere.
#WeAreChappaqua♻️ @CoachSpillane
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🚀 A countdown to curiosity/
Grafflin kindergarteners watched the Artemis II mission, then built rocket ships and designed astronaut helmets—one step closer to a deeper interest in space and planetary science.
#WeAreChappaqua @CoachSpillane
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As part of Women’s History Month, kindergarteners in Mrs. Worth’s class at Grafflin learned about Alma Thomas and her artwork, then created collage pieces reflecting her use of color and pattern.
#WeAreChappaqua #WomensHistoryMonth @CoachSpillane
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Watch what happens when science bubbles up at Grafflin.
To wrap their unit on fast and slow changes, Ms. Mancuso’s second graders created model volcano eruptions, exploring how heat and pressure beneath the Earth’s crust lead to real eruptions.
#WeAreChappaqua