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Superintendent Blog Post - Friday, November 8, 2019
Posted by Victoria Jackson on 11/8/2019Superintendent Blog Post - November 8, 2019
Thanks for Supporting our Professional Learning Day on November 5th!
On our Professional Learning Day, teachers worked on curriculum, assessment design, new technology implementation, and restorative practices. We had a group of teachers at DIA:Beacon for half of the day learning about ways to support the arts in our teaching and curriculum. It was a great day and I appreciate your support of our learning.
Responsive Classroom
Responsive Classroom is a community-building model that several of our elementary teachers have been trained in and are working on implementing in their classrooms this year. Some of the highlights of the program are morning meetings, a focus on teacher/student language, logical consequences, and overall relationship building in the classroom. It is a powerful, research-based model. We had 21 of our elementary teachers from all four elementary schools get trained over a week this summer and our hope is to have many more of our teachers be trained over the coming years. It will take a few years to be fully implementing this model but we want to start finding ways to share what is happening in some of our elementary classrooms. We will have four of our elementary teachers presenting to the Board of Education on Tuesday, November 12 at 7:00 on Responsive Classroom as part of our ongoing work on the Board Goal of creating a culture of care in the district. They will put the board through a simulation of a morning meeting and answer questions about the model. Tune in if you are interested or check out their website: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/ .
Anonymous Tip Line
If you scroll down our website on the right, there is an anonymous tip line. We will send this information out in a separate email next week, but I wanted to alert everyone that we have this tool. The information gets submitted to our administrative team so we can look into a variety of issues. Let me know if you have any questions.
Star Student - Nahari Powell - Rombout Middle School
No special treatment" is what Nahari Powell always tells her teachers. Nahari doesn't want anyone at RMS to give her any special accommodations or to treat her differently because she is visually impaired. Nahari knows no boundaries. She navigates around the building without assistance, she maintains high honor roll while doing all of her work in braille, and she recently just won our Star Spangled Banner singing competition. Nahari's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was enjoyed so much by the students that she won the competition with over a 100 point lead. In addition to this accomplishment, the faculty also selected Nahari as the October Student of the Month. The sky's the limit for this young lady!
Star Employee - Leo Leiva - Facilities Department
Leo Leiva has been with BCSD for about three and a half years as a Groundsmen. He has quickly emerged as one of the most reliable, hardworking staff members in the Facilities Department. You won’t have to look hard to find Leo. He can be frequently seen taking care of Hammond field, painting lines for various sports at multiple locations, cleaning up after a storm, etc. He always stays busy and takes much pride in the work that he does. He’s kind and gentle and has a positive impact on the Facilities Department. Thanks for all that you do, Leo!
