Winter 2014 School Reporter - Brecksville Broadview Heights City

Newsletter for Brecksville-Broadview Hts. School Community
Winter 2014
www.bbhcsd.org
CITE Center Opened in January
The Center for Innovation and Technology in Education (CITE), a space
dedicated to professional development to help teachers incorporate nextgeneration teaching methods and technology in their classes recently opened.
Existing space at the Middle School that previously housed the Stepping
Stones Preschool (now at Hilton Elementary School) and originally was used
for locker rooms was reconfigured as classrooms and meeting space for staff.
Through professional development efforts coordinated at CITE, teachers
will expand their use of inquiry, project-based learning, differentiation and
intervention strategies with students without leaving the district. Through the
Strategic Vision process, the district embraced an increased focus on preparing students for their futures. It is no longer sufficient for students to simply
recall, describe and explain factual information. The successful learner must
apply, analyze and evaluate information and combine it with ideas in innovative ways to create new solutions to complex problems.
At the same time, teachers are enhancing their use of technology to prepare
and deliver instruction and monitor student progress. In a technology-rich
world where many students are connected with computers and mobile devices,
schools must take advantage of those resources to foster learning. Bringing
the technology resources of the district into the same space with instructional
coaches and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) coordinators will help the district better leverage existing technology in ways that
benefit all students.
Kindergarten Registration –
March 18 & 19
Kindergarten registration for the 2014-15 school year will be held on
Tuesday, March 18, from 8 AM to 4 PM, and on Wednesday, March 19 from
noon to 8 PM. Both registration sessions will be held at the Board of Education
Office, 6638 Mill Road, Brecksville.
The district offers two kindergarten programs. Students who register for the
part time program will attend school on either Mondays and Wednesdays for
a full school day and a half-day on Friday, or on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a
full school day and a half-day on Friday. There is no cost associated with this
program.
The district also offers a tuition-based all-day kindergarten program which
is held Monday through Friday for the full school day. Annual tuition for the
all-day program is $2,600. For more information about this optional program,
please visit the district’s website: www.bbhcsd.org or call Mrs. Jodi Hetman at
440-740-4029. An all-day kindergarten application can be downloaded from the
website.
The 2014 Brecksville-Broadview Heights Board of Education (left to right):
Kathleen Mack, Mark Dosen, President Mark Jantzen, Debbie Bernauer, and
Vice President Mike Ziegler are joined by Superintendent Scot Prebles (far
left) and Treasurer/CFO Rick Berdine (far right) at the
January Organizational Meeting.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
Brecksville- Broadview Heights
High School Auditorium
A Magical
Evening of Mu
sic and Amazement
The Cleveland Orchestra’
s Youth Orchestra (COYO
our high school an evenin
) will perform at
g of outstanding music
featuring the sounds
of talented young music
ians selected for this pre
stigious orchestra.
Two BBHHS seniors are
performing in the COYO
this year. Michael
Bednarski (a three year
veteran of COYO) and Pa
trick Grimone both play
the clarinet. The concert proceeds ben
efit the musical arts pro
school and middle schoo
gram at our high
l. The event is sponsored
by the Brecksville
Kiwanis Club and the Mu
sic Department of Breck
sville-Broadview
Heights High School.
For further information
contact Doug Huth, 216-7
Jim McAllister, 216-835
80-0397 or
-8355. Tickets will be ava
ilable soon.
A student must be five before September 30, 2014 for entrance to either
program.
College Signings
Congratulations to the fifteen Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School
student athletes who recently signed national letters of intent to continue
their playing careers at the collegiate level:
Melissa Rains
Cross Country
Slippery Rock University
Colton Czack
Football
Duquesne University
Troy Lang
Football
Notre Dame College
Jay Rose
Football
Hillsdale College
Tim Tupa
Football
Naval Academy
Anne Morgan
Soccer
Naval Academy
Michaela Romito
Gymnastics
Kent State University
Josh Murphy
Wrestling
Drexel University
Josh Armbruster
Baseball
Notre Dame College
Perry Dellavalle
Baseball
Seton Hill University
Anthony Demeo
Baseball
Geneva College
John Kunakowsky
Baseball
Tiffin University
Nicole Best
Softball
Scottsdale College
Frank Savena
Lacrosse
Walsh University
Ellen Falko
Lacrosse
Ohio Wesleyan
A reception honoring these 15 student athletes was held on Wednesday,
February 5th in the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School Gymnasium.
Family, friends and fans were in attendance on College Signing Day when 15 BBHHS student athletes committed to continuing
their athletic careers at the college level.
Winter Blast!
While many in northeastern Ohio found this snowy
and cold winter to be too
much, students at Highland
Drive Elementary School
enjoyed playing outdoors in
the snow at recess.
Winter Weather Impacts Ohio
Achievement Assessments
Due to the number of days schools across Ohio were closed this winter
because of inclement weather, the Ohio Department of Education expanded the
window for administration of the Ohio Achievement Assessments (OAA).
While always concerned about the safety of students on bad weather days,
Brecksville-Broadview Heights School Superintendent Scot Prebles shared with
state leaders and other educators his concern about missed instructional time
and the need to prepare students for the assessments. He supports the decision
to move the testing back one week.
Consequently, students in grades 3-8 in our district will take their OAA exams
the week of May 5-9 rather than the week of April 28 – May 2, as previously
announced and printed in the PSO calendar. The scoring and reporting of the
Third Grade Reading OAA by the Department of Education will be made a priority to fulfill the Third Grade Reading Guarantee requirements.
The week of May 12 will be the make-up week for students who were absent
for testing.
School Calendar for 2014-2015
The school calendar for the 2014-15 school year was approved in December by
the Board of Education and is now posted on the district’s website.
The highlights of the calendar are listed below.
First day for students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 27, 2014
Labor Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2014
Inservice/Waiver Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2, 2014
NEOEA Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 17, 2014
Inservice/Records Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 31, 2014
Thanksgiving Break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 26-28, 2014
Winter Break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 22, 2014 - January 2, 2015
Martin Luther King Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 19, 2015
Records Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 23, 2015
President’s Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 16, 2015
Inservice/Records Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 27, 2015
Spring Break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 3-10, 2015
Memorial Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2015
Last Day for Students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 10, 2015
Search for Children with a
Disability Annual Notice
School districts throughout Ohio participate in an effort to identify, locate,
and evaluate all children with a disability. Services are available for children
with disabilities from birth through age 21. If you know of a child who may
have a disability, please contact Pupil Services, at 440-740-4027 to make a
referral.
School Notes
2010 BBHHS graduate Mary Guido was one of only 60 people from across
the country selected to live-tweet the State of the Union Address from the
Eisenhower Building in Washington DC. After the address, Guido and the others were able to ask questions of a panel of White House administrators. She is
now a senior at Ohio State majoring in Strategic Communication and German.
Joshua Dietrich, Sabrine Djemil, Heidi Van Valkenburgh, Aashna Waiwood
and Adam Yaseen, members of BBHHS Class of 2014, have advanced from the
status of National Merit Semifinalists to National Merit Finalists for 2014. These
academically talented students will continue to compete for National Merit and
other scholarships.
Senior citizens lunches and programs will continue each month for the
remainder of the school year. Seniors are invited to Chippewa Elementary
School on March 13, Highland Drive Elementary School on April 3, the high
school on May 1 and Hilton Elementary School on May 22. The cost of the
luncheon including beverage is $3. Please call the Senior Centers to make your
reservations. Linda at Brecksville: 440-526-2499 and Amy at Broadview Heights:
440-526-4685.
2011 BBHHS grad Dan Lemmer represented the Cleveland Cavaliers and The
Wheelchair Cavaliers at the NBA All-Star weekend in February. Dan was selected by the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. His team also won the
championship in 2010 and he received a championship ring from Cavs owner
Dan Gilbert.
Hilton teachers Kelly Allar (Kindergarten) and Karen Graham (3rd grade)
brought their students together to work on a joint project. Each younger student
was asked to select a favorite winter Olympic sport. Then with assistance of a
third grader, a descriptive sentence was written and memorized about the sport.
Using Tellagami, a free iOS app, the students created customized characters performing the sport. Each pair of students recorded their sentence. Using the app,
media specialist Beth Blaustein combined the character and sentences of all the
students in a short animated movie called “Gami.” In this photo with Kelly Allar,
Kindergarten teacher, are Abhinav Kambhampati and Nemi Kapur.
DATED MATERIAL
Scot T. Prebles, Superintendent
Cathy Harbinak, APR Editor
Mark Jantzen,. President
Michael Ziegler, Vice President
Debbie Bernauer
Mark Dosen
Kathleen Mack
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