Crystal Hernandez
@MsHernandezPCSD
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Christian, wife, mother, teacher, student, musician, proud Principal of Hillcrest Elementary School in the PCSD, & PVCSD BOE Trustee PVCSD. Posts R my own.
Westchester, NY
Joined March 2016
These ugly sweaters look pretty on our Hillcrest Hawks! 💙❤️
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Yesterday, our teachers engaged in professional development on the importance of using visual and kinesthetic engagement norms so that students can truly access learning. The following period, many of our teachers were utilizing many of these engagement norms to help students
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Oakside and Hillcrest leaders came together to plan for the NYS CBT assessments today. I am honored to work alongside such an amazing group of leaders! 💙❤️
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It’s so great to see my former students excelling at all they do! Ella, we are so proud of you!
We are so proud of Ella for being selected in the highly competitive US Senate Youth Program. She is one of two scholars from New York State to serve in this national program. She will represent the Peekskill City School District with pride.
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❤️💙Our students are learning Mandarin in our after school LEAP program. The @PeekskillCSD only coordinates the best experiences for our kids! ❤️💙
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Teacher-led labsites are an excellent way to build and align instructional practice. 🤓Ms. Perlowitz and Mr. Tirelli facilitated an ELA labsite 📓focused on strengthening students’ essay writing. 📝✍️
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I’m in love with my school. Our teachers and kids are working so hard! ❤️💙
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We are starting our day with Dual Language discussing the importance of language and literacy. 📚📖
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Hillcrest and PKMS are collaborating on the alignment of content and pedagogy.
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Hillcrest Staff and Students were definitely in the spirit today. 🎃🫶🏽 From some early morning staff trick or treating to a Fall Festival parade and dance celebration to culminate our afternoon. There was definitely a lot of fun happening and smiles too 🎃🧡
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All votes for our first annual pumpkin 🎃decorating throw down were tallied up. Our Scholars voted for the funniest, silliest, most creative , most adorable and the BEST teacher decorated pumpkins.🎃 🧡🎃🧡
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Today’s PD on Engagement Norms and best practices was incredibly sweet! 🍭 Thank you to Dr. Mojica, Ms. Vargas, Ms. Mackhanlall, Ms. Curry, and Ms. Pomerantz for their support, collaboration, and leadership!
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Ms. Connor and her students were rocking their Fundations lesson today! I’m so proud of our scholars!
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Our MBK Kickoff Breakfast was today and it was a blast! Ms. King, thank you for your leadership!
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Learning not only happens inside but also outside the classroom.🌳Our 4th grade scholars got to visit the Bronx Zoo 🦊🐻🐼🐨to explore, learn and build interests for their upcoming ELA Research Unit 📚🤓Scholar Quote: “my dream finally came true to go to the zoo. I'm so happy.”
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Day 2 of the NYSSBA Convention has been terrific. We even had an opportunity to see some familiar faces! The best perk was seeing some of my former students on a panel discussion. Today was a great day!
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Excited to participate in the 2025 NYSSBA Conference. I am beginning my day with educational law conversations.
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Tonight’s Multicultural Celebration was AMAZING! Thank you to @Hernandez_PCSD and our Events Committee for putting this together! Thanks to all of our families for cooking and sharing in this evening & a big shout out to our PHS Dance Team and Coach Johnson as well. ❤️💙
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We started our day by introducing our new Interim Director of Special Education and our new Special Education Coach!
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Our scholars are using rubrics to ensure that their work meets the expectation. They are becoming the teachers!
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