By: Rob Austin/LCSW Ocean Academy recently hosted a successful clothing drive. It is interesting how the clothing drive got started. Each morning the 11th graders take part in a social skills current/events group. The hurricanes that devastated parts of America and Puerto Rico were discussed extensively. Many students asked what they could do to help […]
By: Robert Scheiderman /Paraprofessional The classroom moved to the climbing wall on two occasions for Ocean Academy, as students were broken into groups and each given a day out of the OA classroom to experience a classroom of a different sort…a challenging vertical assessment of their team-work abilities, their coping skills and thought processes.
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Jim Cooney on Advocating for Change and Driving the Mission October 16, 2017 – As CEO of Ocean Mental Health Services in Ocean, NJ, Jim Cooney has been an advocate for ensuring quality mental health care reaches consumers. In an ever-changing landscape of economic models, sometimes Mr. Cooney’s ability to deliver on this mission is more challenging
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By: Drennan Hayden/ Art Teacher Phase one of the “Artistic Makeover” of the OA shed is completed. Recently the whole school participated in putting a mural up on the back side of the shed. Mural classes were taught how to center a piece and lay a grid over a small drawing in order to accurately
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By: Eileen Catalano/English & History Teacher The wonderful art work donated for display and sale by the Ocean County Artists Guild once again graces the halls of Ocean Academy. Francine VanOstrand worked with students to arrange and hang the art work; deciding what pieces should be displayed together and the order they should flow through
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By: Drennan Hayden/ Ocean Academy Art Teacher Artwork By: Drennan Hayden I think the therapeutic value of art was clear to me long before I had even given any thought to mental health. In the process of art making we put forth some of our most personal energies, in a way exposing our thoughts to ourselves
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By: Kathleen Caffee/Science Teacher Thanks to the research and hard work of our senior class at Ocean Academy, we will be going native. Native plants are plants that have naturally existed in local areas for thousands if not millions of years. They are well adapted to their local environment and therefore easy to care for!
By: Drennan Hayden/Art Teacher & Marie Cooper/ Math Teacher This week in geometry students combined techniques in drawing and painting to achieve some pop-art inspired results. Students illustrated a prism of their choice using rulers to maintain straight and parallel lines, as well as defined planes.Using basic illustration techniques students expressed a prism on a
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By: Tom Goldberg/History Teacher Students in U.S. History I learned about the cultures of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations that dominated Mesoamerica at various times between A.D. 400 and 1530. Many artifacts were found from all of these civilizations, but we paid special attention to the gold and silver statuettes found made by the
By; Drennan Hayden/Art Teacher We love Art to the moon and back! The recent eclipse served as great inspiration for our first project of the year. In this lesson, we used a number of materials and techniques to achieve some wonderful results. Students illustrated with pencil, colored with pastels, cut and glued their subject and
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