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Friday, February 2, 2018
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Roslyn pitches new electives for students Middle, high schools adding science, physical education, tech courses BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The Roslyn Board of Education was treated to two presentations on Thursday — one about a budding new elective in the high school and another about 13 potential new electives at the middle and high schools for the 2018-19 school year. Roslyn High School English teachers Joshua Cabat and Joseph Capozzi spoke to trustees as their first semester of the TED talks elective was finishing after years of planning and development. Roslyn junior Estee Sharabani took a writing enrichment course with Capozzi in eighth grade, which featured TED talk Friday, and wanted to continue with similar studies in high school. The two developed the idea for the elective, which Cabat said was an easy replacement for the district’s waning public speaking elective, and the course enrolled
enough students this year to make the vision a reality. Sharabani read her speech, “The gym: an unlikely microcosm” during the meeting, which related her summer-long struggles of getting to the gym to the struggles some immigrants face in the United States, and Capozzi said many of his students developed confidence during the course. “From the onset, the hope was that it would be geared toward public speaking, and that certainly has come true, but it’s not just about getting up and talking,” Capozzi said. “It really is about improving the students’ analytical skills. The course was really watching a lot of TED talks, dissecting them and having them use those to formulate their own TED talks.” Capozzi said much of the semester was spent watching and analyzing TED talks by famous businessmen like Elon Musk and Continued on Page 44
PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN MADIGAN
Westbury Fire Department spent four hours at 5 Tatem Way Thursday night fighting a house fire.
Old Westbury mansion fire ruled accidental BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
said. Westbury Fire Department Chief" John Bartunek said the A house fire in Old West- fire at 5 Tatem Way in Old bury late Thursday night re- Westbury began shortly after quired more than a dozen 11 p.m. and took about two departments and about four hours to control, and firefighthours to extinguish, officials ers were on the scene another
two hours until about 3:15 a.m. During that time, the Nassau County Police Department closed a section of Store Hill Road. Bartunek said 14 departContinued on Page 44
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