Good Afternoon Students, Parents, and Community Members:
This week was our first week of Quarter 3 and grades are now updated in PowerSchool that show Quarter 2 grades. We encourage students and parents to check your PowerSchool accounts at least once every two weeks. Most teachers update grades weekly and even daily. If you have any questions about how to access your PowerSchool login as a student or parent, please contact Mr. Higgins (BHiggins@bcahs.com).
Wednesday, February 10th: We will be having an early release day for students on Wednesday so our staff can receive training on new security software called CrisisGO
Wednesday, February 10- All students Virtual
Assembly @ 8:15
Go to. www.zoom.us At the top right of the screen, click "Join a Meeting". You will need the following information to join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 932 5181 2574
Password: 031566
Period 1: 8:10-8:50 (same)
Period 2: 9:00-9:40 (same)
Period 3: 9:50-10:30 (same)
Period 4: 10:35-11:25 (CHANGE)
Dismissal @ 11:25
bristol babble: Check out Elana and Keely’s edition of bristol babble. Click here
National School Counselor Week is always celebrated the first full week of February each year, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems. National School Counseling Week, sponsored by ASCA, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.
We use this time to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors in our schools. This week highlights the impact that school counselors have in fostering academic and career development for every student and the impact that counseling programs have in a student’s personal and social-emotional development. Below are some resources.
School Counselors are professional licensed educators who, just as teachers, develop curriculum, units, and lesson plans based on national and state standards and benchmarks around three important areas: Academic, Work Readiness/Career, and Personal/Social Development. Their lessons are also aligned with Massachusetts ELA and math standards.
School Counselors can help students develop the attitudes, behaviors, and skills that promote self-knowledge, personal responsibility, and self-direction. (MA CDE Benchmarks PS-1)
Through their work with students, especially in small groups, School Counselors can help students develop the behaviors, attitudes, and skills that foster respect for diversity. (MA CDE Benchmarks PS-4)
School Counselors can help students develop the attitudes, behaviors, and skills to work with others. (MA CDE Benchmarks PS-2)
School Counselors can help students gain the knowledge and gain the skills for planning and decision making. (MA CDE Benchmarks W-1)
Through their multiple interactions with students, School Counselors can help students gain an exploratory attitude towards self, life, and later on the world of work. (MA CDE Benchmarks W-4)
One of the most important tools School Counselors can give to students is Strategies for Time Management. Time Management is a lifetime soft skill much needed throughout school, college, and the world of work.
Through the teaching of problem-solving skills, School Counselors can help students learn about collaboration and how to build and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships.
Through a metacognitive process, School Counselors can help students develop strategies to approach difficult situations. They identify the issue, explore potential solutions, and identify challenges as well as supports to overcome obstacles.
School Counselors help students identify, formulate, evaluate and monitor personal, academic, and work-readiness/career goals.
School Counselors assist students in the identification of courses and programs that match their interests, personality, values, abilities, and skills.
School Counselors use a number of tools such as interviews, inventories, and tests to help students learn about their interests, values, skills, abilities, and personality.
School Counselors help students identify available supports, refer them to other professionals and/or services for a variety of academic, personal, and social-emotional issues.
School Counselors use data to collect information and monitor the development of the whole child while in school with the purpose of implementing prevention strategies to ensure smooth transitions and academic and personal success.
School Counselors assist students with career development helping them gain career awareness and opportunities for career exploration and immersion. Studies have shown that students who participate in career development have a significant advantage over their peers as they have a greater understanding of their post-secondary options, show a higher level of self-efficacy, and greater school engagement.
Various studies have concluded that in schools with structured comprehensive school counseling programs students have a higher rate of academic success than their peers.
School Counselors help students improve academically by directly teaching them organization, study, note-taking, and test-taking skills, among others.
School Counselors use data to identify students at risk and to generate early personalized and /or group interventions to prevent them from failing.
School Counselors help students learn appropriate coping strategies for stress reduction. These techniques can reduce anxiety but they also improve, focus, control, and test scores.
School Counselors use data to identify students at risk and implement dropout prevention programs that include personalized educational plans for success that include academic tutoring, referrals, and individual and group counseling among others.
School Counselors have the common goal of supporting students’ academic, personal/social-emotional, and work-readiness/career development so they can be successful in and after school.
School Counselors are committed to helping students acquire the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that would equip them to navigate post-secondary education and the world of work.
Today's school counselors are vital members of the education team. They help all students in the areas of academic achievement, personal/social development, and career development, ensuring students become productive, well-adjusted adults.
School counselors provide all students with standards-based school counseling curriculum to address universal career, academic, and social/emotional development.
School Counselors provide short term, brief, solution-focused, and structured interventions for students; and provide referrals to other professionals when necessary.
School counselors require a minimum of a masters’ degree in school counseling. They must complete an internship and be certified by the state department of education. They are uniquely trained in areas of human development, trauma, relationships, crisis response, and specific counseling/therapy techniques and theories.
School counselors help build a culture of empathy, through a culture of emotional literacy. Research suggests that 50% of our empathic capacities are genetically inherited and the rest we learn -- because empathy is not a simple matter of wiring it is a matter of experience.
School counselors help students learn about all that they are instead of all that they are not.
School counselors want you to know that feelings are messengers: anger tells us where we feel powerless; anxiety, where something in our life is off-balance; and fear, speaks of something we care about. That is why, if we want to move on, we need to be able to let them speak to us and tell us what we really need.
Mackenzie Allen
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
Aydin Buckley
U.S. Army Reserves, training as a CBRN specialist*
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH*
Natasha Chantre
Western New England University, Springfield, MA
University of New England, Biddeford and Portland, ME
Springfield College, Springfield, MA
Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
Lily Dias
SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY
Hannah Dorrance
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Curry College, Milton, MA
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Mackenzie Dugas
Becker College, Worcester, MA
SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY
Kaylee Finch
University of Maine at Machias, Machias, ME
University of Maine, Orono, Orono, ME
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Trinity McDougal Lancaster
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Hannah Surdis
Western New England University, Springfield, MA
Mackenzie Walker
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Dean College, Franklin, MA
UMASS Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
Wheaton College.edu, Norton, MA
Extends: We are back in action!
If you would like to join us for in-person Extends, you can make an appointment with Ms. Szurley here (Freshman/Seniors: Monday, Sophomores/Juniors: Tuesday). To make an appointment for virtual Extends with Mrs. Kazijian click here.
Below, Sharon Erickson & Noah Hanson, our helpers from the National Honor Society, help Kay-Lee, Amber and Julie get their grades up!
Physical Education: Both Mr. Poloskey and Ms. Garabedian encouraged students this week to get outside for some fitness and take some pictures of themselves. See below our students taking advantage of the winter season.
FFA:
It is all about connection! Last week, students attended a virtual live workshop facilitated by the Massachusetts FFA State Vice President Trevor Clapp and State Secretary Logan Caruthers (both Bristol Alums). Students discovered how stories connect people and how they can use stories from their lives to connect with others. This was open to all students.
Student Services
We know that finding motivation can be challenging for our students as they continue to navigate hybrid and virtual learning. We wanted to share this article with you as a resource and possible conversation starter for you and your student. My Kid Is Not Motivated, Now What -Delaney Ruston, MD
MSBA Update: The construction crews are well underway at Gilbert Hall with demolition. The demolition phase should be completed by the end of February, then reconstruction will take place.
South Campus Alternate Route: Due to safety concerns, we are creating an alternate route for any students who need to access the Natural History Museum, Arbor, and Mr. Ryan’s Landscape and Design classroom will need to use the alternate route listed below. When crossing over from CSE, use the main crosswalk and use the stairs behind Agricultural Mechanics that lead you to the lower drive and around to the back of Gilbert Hall. See diagram below.
***This does not impact Agricultural Mechanics or Flor. Flor students will be able to access Flori through the main door.***
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Braga (KBraga@bcahs.com).
The Week Ahead:
Monday, February 8
Freshman/Seniors In-Person
Sophomores/Juniors Virtual
Gym: Sophomores 2nd period
EXTENDS 2:45-4:00
Tuesday, February 9
Sophomores/Juniors In-Person
Freshman/Seniors Virtual
Gym: Freshman 2nd period
EXTENDS 2:45-4:00
In-Person with Ms. Szurley (RM 2303): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here
Virtual with Mrs. Kazijian (via Google meet): Students will need to sign up ahead of time by clicking here
School Building Committee Meeting @ 5:30 pm
Board of Trustees Meeting @ 7:00 pm
Wednesday, February 10- All students Virtual
Assembly @ 8:15
Go to. www.zoom.us At the top right of the screen, click "Join a Meeting". You will need the following information to join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 932 5181 2574
Password: 031566
Period 1: 8:10-8:50 (same)
Period 2: 9:00-9:40 (same)
Period 3: 9:50-10:30 (same)
Period 4: 10:35-11:25 (CHANGE)
Dismissal @ 11:25
PD Starts @ 12:30 in cafeteria
Thursday, February 11
Freshman/Seniors In-Person
Sophomores/Juniors Virtual
Friday, February 12
Sophomores/Juniors In-Person
Freshman/Seniors Virtual
The Following Week- February Break- February 15-19th
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