In late December, BHS held its required annual Title I Meeting. At that meeting, Interim Principal Sabrina Westdijk presented these informational slides, which include links to three important documents: the BSD Parent & Family Engagement Policy, the Draft BHS Family Engagement Procedure, and the BHS Home-School Compact. Please consider checking out these slides and related materials, since they inform you of the responsibilities of the school and your rights under Title I, as well as how BSD and BHS utilize Title I funding to support students and families. Given the low attendance at the December meeting, we may host a second, remote information session in January; stay tuned for follow-up communications with a date and time for that.
Burlington Technical Center Announces Prospective Student Visit Day
This year, BTC is excited to debut our Prospective Student Visit Day on Thursday, January 25, 2024. This visit is for ALL interested students from any of our sending schools! Students will come to either our Downtown or our East BTC location for just over two hours on the regularly scheduled school transportation, and will tour two programs* while here. There will be no regularly scheduled BTC programming on this day.
* 9th grade students will visit Pre-Tech for the entirety of their visit.
Signing up is easy: all you need to do is complete this online form here, or copy the link into your browser: btc.bsdvt.org/prospective-student-visit-sign-up-form-thursday-january-25-2024/
Copies of your form will be sent to you, BTC and your school counselor, who will support you in this process. If you have any questions, please email Stacy at sclark@bsdvt.org.
We can’t wait to see you, and show you around BTC!
Vermont Presidential Scholars in the Arts
Greta Ketterling, BTC Design & Illustration II of Burlington High School has been named a Vermont Presidential Scholar of the Arts.
Its purpose is to recognize students that demonstrate a passion for and a commitment to visual, creative and/or the performing arts. The Presidential Scholars in the Arts is open to students ages 15-18, grades 10-12.
This statewide recognition is done in conjunction with the general Vermont Presidential Scholars Program for high school seniors and the Presidential Scholars Program for Career Technical Education. Outstanding students from the state of Vermont are selected based on nominations from teachers and administrators. Additionally, students may nominate themselves with the endorsement of a qualifying adult. Selection committees will identify 5 student artists to be recognized. Selections will be made by the end of November and invitations will be sent out to an in-person reception in January 2024, at the Vermont State House.
BHS Annual Title I Information Session on Wednesday, 12/20 5-6pm *date change*
BHS’s Annual Title I Information Session will now be on Wednesday, December 20th from 5-6pm in the Cafeteria. Interim Principal Sabrina Westdijk will host this session, which will provide an opportunity to learn detailed information about what it means to be a Title I school, what services at BHS are funded by Title 1 funds, and what family rights and school responsibilities Title I status entails.
Districtwide, Title I funds support
- Multilingual Liaisons and Multilingual Liaison Coordinator
- Summer programs
- Homeless students .
- Personalized Learning Specialist – embedded PD, grades 6-12 .
- Technical and leadership team support for developing ClPs .
- Online tools for reading assessment, digital student portfolios, math, informational articles
- BSD Coordinator of the Office of Engagement .
- Parent Engagement materials (at each school)
We hope to see you there!
You Are Invited to the BHS Drama Club’s Presentation of “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”
November 16, 17, & 18, 2023 at 7 pm
Winooski School District – Performing Arts Center – 60 Normand Street, Winooski, VT 05404
Tickets available at the door $10/adult | $8/student
Congratulations BHS Musicians
On Friday October 27th & Saturday October 28th five BHS musicians participated in the Champlain Valley District Music Festival at Essex High School. Tran Vu, clarinet; Brendan Delaney, bassoon; Joe LaMonde, tenor sax; and Damien Lilly all participated in the concert band conducted by Mr. Aron Garceau of Missisquoi Valley Union High School. Vivian Halladay, clarinet; Devon Ellicock, trumpet; and Oliver Angell, percussion participated in the Wind Ensemble conducted by Dr. D. Thomas Toner of UVM.
UVM First-Generation College Celebration
Register at go.uvm.edu/firstgenday
Rising Tides Speaker Series
Click for flyer.
Tech Center Presentations
During 10th grade advisory on the first two Mondays of November our local Career Technical Education Programs will promote their hands-on learning programs with BHS students.
Burlington Technical Center (BTC) will join us on Monday, November 6th and Center for Technology Essex (CTE) will be our guests on Monday, November 13.
Calendar to the right
We are working on fixing the calendar to the right of this post. Please go to the tab marked calendar to find our events. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
