{"id":297976,"date":"2026-05-03T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:35:44","slug":"long-beach-high-school-teacher-eric-krywe-earns-lifetime-achievement-award-herald-community-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297976\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach High School teacher Eric Krywe earns Lifetime Achievement Award | Herald Community Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Krywe<\/a> was a sophomore at SUNY Oswego in 1999, and can recall walking toward the school library and spotting a pamphlet under a single spotlight about teaching technology. Now a Long Beach High School<\/a> television production teacher for 24 years, Krywe has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Long Island-based Broadcast Alliance for Senior High.<\/p>\n

The organization, formerly known as the Broadcast Awards for Senior High<\/a> and commonly known as BASH, recognizes teachers for their contributions to high school media education.<\/p>\n

The Long Beach High television studio started as an idea on the first floor of the building, where teachers and students in a photography class developed black-and-white photos. For Krywe (pronounced CRY-wee), who grew up making stop-motion videos on his grandfather\u2019s VHS, there was a drive to make it something more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started, I really had the vision of creating a television production class and a film class,\u201d he said, \u201cwhich the high school didn\u2019t have.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2009, Krywe and Michael Richez, the then high school\u2019s director of technology, visited schools and colleges in the Albany area, looking for ideas on how to build a studio that would reshape media education in Long Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using money from a $98 million bond passed in 2008, school officials turned a modest setup of four camcorders and four MacBook computers into a student production facility, complete with a control room, post-production lab and a studio, as part of the school\u2019s expansion in 2015.<\/p>\n

Even after the studio opened, Krywe said, he continued visiting high schools across Long Island, including Glen Cove, Great Neck South and Southold, to gather ideas and to help other districts launching similar programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it was a lot of research, as well as trial and error,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was so challenging that when other schools started building their own lab, I was like, I want to help anybody, so they don\u2019t have to go through what I went through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each day during the school year, Krywe teaches television studio production, a four-year sequence blending classroom instruction with hands-on work. Freshmen learn storyboarding, scriptwriting and camera operation, along with editing software such as Final Cut Pro and Photoshop. Sophomores begin producing commercials, public service announcements and short films that are entered in film festivals throughout the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By their junior and senior year, students take on larger production roles. They help run \u201cThe Morning Wave,\u201d the school\u2019s daily livestreamed morning show, and seniors can also earn college credit as well as a Career and Technology Education Certification that can help them find production work after they graduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very robust, high-level program where these kids are learning real industry standards in high school,\u201d Krywe said. \u201cThey come in and they\u2019re running the full show every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Topics for \u201cThe Morning Wave\u201d come from teachers and coaches around the building, who submit story ideas online for students to report on. Recent segments have highlighted sporting events, musicians performing at Carnegie Hall and the high school robotics team competing at the FIRST Championship in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Krywe, the larger goal has been to help students build confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cKids nowadays need that \u2018we\u2019re so proud of you\u2019 moment,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes them feel a higher sense of self-worth. For kids to be able to see themselves, I think it motivates them to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keith Harvey, the district\u2019s directory of technology and innovation, praised Krywe\u2019s commitment to giving students professional-level experience, noting that Long Beach students recently earned eight awards at the Locust Valley Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an outstanding educator,\u201d Harvey said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see him provide students with the skills and confidence to provide the morning news for our school, as well as their work on short films and other projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krywe grew up in Greigsville, in western New York, where he developed interests in technology, film and theater. He was also a three-sport athlete, the MVP of York High School\u2019s basketball and baseball teams as a senior, and one of 60 football players who competed in the Eddie Meath All-Star Game, which honors the best athletes in the state\u2019s Section V.<\/p>\n

Now he coaches junior varsity basketball and baseball in Long Beach, and says his competitive drive also fuels his ambition to see the television production program continue to flourish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have local and state recognition,\u201d Krywe said. \u201cNow I want to become one of the best in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Krywe was a sophomore at SUNY Oswego in 1999, and can recall walking toward the school library…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[126298,126297,131,133,67606,132,126300,126299],"class_list":["post-297976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-bash-award","tag-eric-krywe","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-high-school","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-island-teacher-recognition","tag-television-production-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}