School starts for students on Monday August 29th, 2022. We’re very excited to welcome students back.
Teachers and staff have been working throughout the summer on planning curriculum and professional development. Our efforts are focused on 4 major areas: 1) social emotional learning — how we develop skills and attitudes to be successful which is particularly important as we move past the pandemic, 2) developing a portrait of the graduate in and across each school which includes what we want students to know and do, 3) fairness and inclusion — opening up access to everyone, and 4) proficiency-based assessment.
The School Committee continues to work on the high school project, the possibility or merging our high school with Southern Berkshire and is about to start next year’s budget process. We are also actively seeking volunteers for our building and outreach committees as well as a write in candidate for our School Committee. If you are interested, feel free to contact me.
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions: Peter.Dillon@bhrsd.org
Next issue, I’ll share some updates on newly hired faculty and staff and some new grants we received.
