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Lois Baldwin

Interviewed by Greg Murphy:

I recently caught up with Lois Baldwin to find out what she has been doing since she retired as a BOCES supervisor in 2008. At that time she was in charge of several programs: the Gifted Special Ed., the Fragile and part of AIIM as well as leading several district-wide BOCES projects. She laughingly says she hasn’t retired; she has “rewired”.

She has worked as a professor, a consultant, an author, and a professional trainer, including a stint as the trainer of trainers for the Colorado Department of Education, since she left BOCES. Her specialty is twice exceptional children, individuals who are gifted and have a disability. They are the students who attended the gifted special education classes when that program existed in BOCES.

Lois is also actively enjoying travel, the arts, and physical activity. Although she still plays tennis, pickleball and occasionally golf, her preferred sport is hiking. One of her goals is to hike the 100 Westchester trails (see below) and she is over halfway there. She hikes internationally each year, having tramped across Greece, Spain, Patagonia, Croatia, and Scotland to name a few of the countries. Last year was Iceland and this year, she and her friends are going to hike the entire 73 miles that make up the country of Liechtenstein. One of her favorite trips was trekking up the mountain to see the wild gorillas in Rwanda. She also enjoys the theater, the numerous NYC museums, the ballet and the philharmonic. She says that she is blessed with a wonderful family, terrific friends, including her incredible BOCES friends, and amazing and rewarding opportunities.

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