Past Spotlights
The sun was streaming in through large windows and students were working in a variety of learning centers in each classroom at the Baldwin Early Learning Center, a small school in Brighton with an ethnically diverse population of students in K0 through grade 1. Read more about the Baldwin, featured in this month's "We're Learning Here."
On the morning of April 5, over 800 students from more than 50 Boston public schools crammed the three BTU halls to compete in the first-ever citywide math competition. Students from around the city in grades 3 through 12, accompanied by over 75 teachers, came to show off their math skills in this exciting competition.
Creativity and collaboration are alive and well at Hyde Park's Roosevelt K-8 school, where over 400 students and a committed staff are thriving and learning each day. Students make connections across grade levels, and all classes are fully inclusive. Read more about the Roosevelt, featured in this month's "We're Learning Here."
A sprawling elementary school with almost 500 students, Jamaica Plain's Hennigan Elementary School is thriving. Student choice seems to have been a casualty of our testing mania in upper elementary grades, but it is alive and well in the Hennigan’s K-2 classes, featured in this month's "We're Learning Here."
Spotlight on Excel High School Where Great Teaching and Learning Is Going On in Classrooms Every Day
Teachers may be working without a contract for over a year, but through it all they and their students are focused on doing their job: teaching and learning and creating caring communities. Featured this month in "We're Learning Here," is Excel High School.
In December 2010, a city task force released a report that called on certain non-profits to pay their fair share of property taxes. Nonprofits are exempted from the obligation to pay property taxes under a law that was passed in 1830. (That's not a typo!) This latest city report called for certain non-profits to gradually increase their payments over a five year period, after allowing for a 'community benefits reduction' and a few other offsets.
On Friday, November 18, thousands of BTU members around the city came to school that morning with an added purpose: to tell the school district that it's time to settle contract negotiations. View a video of thousands of BTU members as they picketed at their schools and community sites demanding that the school district 'Talk to Teachers.'
Through all the drama, challenges and volatility in public education these days, BTU staff and BPS students are keeping focused on doing their job: teaching and learning and creating caring communities.
Featured this month in "We're Learning Here, is Madison Park Technical Vocational High School.
AFT President Randi Weingarten held a press conference with the BTU to criticize Supt. Johnson and the Boston school department for its uncompromising negotiating position against offering BTU members any compensation for working an extended day.
Through all the drama, challenges and volatility in public education these days, BTU staff and BPS students are keeping focused on doing their job: teaching and learning and creating caring communities.
Featured this month in "We're Learning Here, is the Higginson-Lewis K-8 School.
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