August 30, 2019
Dear BCCHS Families,
Welcome to a new school year! We are excited to welcome back your teenagers and to meet our new 9th graders. This year, we have a lot of exciting learning opportunities available for our Baruchians! I wanted to take a moment to welcome you back and share our priorities and goals for the upcoming school year.
At BCCHS, our learning is rooted education as a social justice call to action, rigorous, college-ready coursework, and elevating student voice in our school community. Specifically, we are focusing on:
As an honors-level, screened school, our goal is to challenge, nurture and support our students.
- With this in mind, we have expanded our AP courses so that all upperclassmen take AP US History and AP English Language & Literature. We have also expanded AP math to two sections and added 10th grade AP science for students in advanced math. We will focus on how to challenge and support all of our students in AP classes, and how to prepare them in the younger grades to enter AP.
- To support students who need additional support in AP for All courses, they will take an elective course to support their access to AP curriculum.
- Upperclassmen will take an elective course, including art, computer science, sociology, Spanish 4.
- Students have the opportunity to develop career-readiness skills through our upperclassman teacher internship program.
- Our Flex Program is for our underclassmen, in which the 9th grade students are identified by data for intervention and enrichment cycles during the school day, and 10th grade students receive additional support and extension through additional periods of core courses on a weekly rotation.
Student voice is embedded in classroom instruction through collaborative group work in all classes.
- This year, we will support student voice through quarterly grade-level Town Halls which include identity-based clubs presenting to the school community.
- Students engage in Socratic Seminar discussions in their humanities courses and collaborative group work and project-based assessments in all classes.
- In partnership with Manhattan Class Company Theater, our 9th & 10th grade students will embed drama and acting in their English classes with a Romeo & Juliet performance in the spring and a poetry slam in the fall.
- Students take ownership of their learning and present their progress in student-led parent-teacher conferences in the spring.
- We are a community that stands for equity and social justice. Our commitment to diversity is actively and intentionally undertaken by every community member: to be aware of ourselves and each other, to take care of our community – local and global – and to name and oppose inequity and injustice when it is present.
- Classroom environments are “courageous communities” where students learn through social justice and with an active focus on dismantling oppression.
- In the 10th grade, our students engage in a year-long social action project, in partnership with the KING Movement, in both English and Math, where they identify an area in society that they want to build awareness and make change.
- Our 12th graders, in partnership with WiSE, complete a Senior Exit Research Project on a Quality of Life issue and compete city-wide.
- Our Equity Team engages with parents, students and families in conversations about the importance of identity, culture and equitable access to political, economic, and social rights and opportunities.
We focus on both the academic and the social-emotional growth of our community.
Our 9th grade is supported in transitioning to high school with the Senior Mentor Program, and a series of workshops in the fall and mid-year which will support them in high school readiness and belonging.
- In advisory, we engage in Restorative Circles, to build community, connection and understanding.
- We have several grant-funded innovative programs this year as well!
- BCCHS has an InvenTeam! Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams™ are comprised of high school students, educators, and mentors that receive up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems of their own choosing.
- We are part of the CA4All Grant, which provides resources to expand and deepen our college and career readiness supports for students. This year, we will be expanding our career readiness program, with a career fair in March and an after-school SAT/ACT drop in tutoring center.
We are looking forward to a fantastic year!
In unity/somos unidos/在团结中,
Alicia Perez-Katz
亲爱的BCCHS家庭，
欢迎来到新学年！我们很高兴欢迎您的青少年回来并与我们的新九年级学生见面。今年，我们为Baruchians提供了许多令人兴奋的学习机会！我想花点时间欢迎你回来，分享我们即将到来的学年的优先事项和目标。
我们的学习根植于教育，作为社会公正的行动呼吁，严谨的，大学就绪的课程作业，以及提升我们学校社区的学生声音。具体来说，我们专注于：
作为一所荣誉级别的筛选学校，我们的目标是挑战，培养和支持我们的学生。
考虑到这一点，我们扩展了AP课程，以便所有高年级学生学习美国历史和AP英语语言文学。我们还将AP数学扩展到两个部分，并为高级数学学生增加了10年级的AP科学。我们将重点关注如何挑战和支持所有AP课程的学生，以及如何在年轻的年级准备他们进入AP。
为了支持需要在AP for All课程中获得额外支持的学生，他们将选修课程以支持他们访问AP课程。
高年级学生将选修课程，包括艺术，计算机科学，社会学，西班牙语4。
学生有机会通过我们的高年级老师实习计划培养职业准备技能。
我们的Flex课程适用于我们的低年级学生，其中9年级学生通过上学期间的干预和充实周期数据进行识别，10年级学生通过每周轮换的额外核心课程获得额外支持和延期。
通过所有班级的协作小组工作，将学生的声音嵌入课堂教学中。
今年，我们将通过季度级别的市政厅支持学生的声音，其中包括向学校社区展示的基于身份的俱乐部。
学生在人文课程和协作小组工作以及所有课程中基于项目的评估中参与苏格拉底研讨会的讨论。
与曼哈顿班级公司剧院合作，我们的9年级和10年级学生将在英语课上嵌入戏剧和表演，春季演奏罗密欧与朱丽叶，秋季演出诗歌大满贯。
学生将在春季学习并主持以学生为主导的家长教师会议。
我们是一个代表公平和社会正义的社区。我们对多样性的承诺是由每个社区成员积极和有意地承担的：了解我们自己和彼此，照顾我们的社区 – 地方和全球 – 并在存在时指出和反对不平等和不公正。
课堂环境是“勇敢的社区”，学生通过社会公正学习，并积极关注拆除压迫。
在十年级，我们的学生与英国运动一起参与为期一年的社会行动项目，包括英语和数学，他们在社会中确定了他们想要建立意识和改变的社会领域。
我们的12年级学生与WiSE合作完成了一项关于生活质量问题的高级退出研究项目，并在全市范围内展开竞争。
我们的公平团队与家长，学生和家庭进行交流，讨论身份，文化和公平获得政治，经济和社会权利和机会的重要性。
我们专注于社区的学术和社交情感发展。
我们的9年级通过高级导师计划过渡到高中，并在秋季和年中举办一系列研讨会，以支持他们在高中准备和归属。
在咨询中，我们参与修复圈，建立社区，联系和理解。
今年我们还有几项资助资助的创新项目！
BCCHS有一支InvenTeam！ Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams™由高中学生，教育工作者和导师组成，每人收取高达10,000美元的费用，为他们自己选择的现实问题创造技术解决方案。
我们是CA4All Grant的一部分，它提供资源来扩展和深化我们的学院和为学生提供的职业准备支持。今年，我们将扩大我们的职业准备计划，3月举办职业展览会，辅导中心的课后SAT / ACT下降。
我们期待着美好的一年！
