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Student, Family & Community

Juneteenth Month

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas.

SpED Meeting (Tuesday, June 22)

Parents/Guardians of Students with an IEP or 504 - Join us next Tues., June 21, at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.


End-of-Year Info Session hosted by SpEdPAC co-reps: topics include: equity for our diverse learners, self-advocacy skills, planning for the fall, and more!


The newest members of our BLA community (P'25, '26, '27) will be invited to stay and share experiences/questions for an additional half hour or so.


Sign up to receive the Zoom link. https://forms.gle/hff3o66oHJRnZLjYA


7th Grade BBQ (Wednesday, June 22)

The Middle School BBQ will take place from 10:15a-1:40pm on Wednesday, June 22 at BLA. There will be lots of foods, games and FUN!

BLA Summer Jobs & Opportunities Fair (Wednesday, June 22)

We are having a school-wide Summer Jobs fair on Wednesday, June 22 from 10am to 12pm at Boston Latin Academy in the Side Cafeteria during lunch time. Students will have a chance to get information and apply to a variety of summer opportunities (jobs, paid internships, workshops, etc). All students encourgage to attend.

Community Partners Confirmed for Summer Jobs Fair

Mayor's Office of Workforce Development

Youth Options Unlimited

EdVestors Bloomberg Arts Internship

Department of Youth Engagement and Employment (YEE)

The Designery

Transformative Culture Project

Casa Myrna

Boston PIC

YMCA of Greater Boston

8th Grade Awards Ceremony (Friday, June 24)

On Friday, June 24, we will have our 8th grade 4th term awards ceremony. In addition, we will recognize the Class of 2026 moving onto high school. Students will receive a gift in recognition of this moment. Afterwards, students will have a fun day in the park with popsicles. In addition, the City of Boston will also be honoring longtime BLA 8th grade Latin teacher Janet Fillion by renaming the corner of Humboldt and Deckard Street (next to the park) after her. Congratulations to members of the Class of 2026 for moving onto high school! For more information, contact Mr. Martyn, rmartyn@bostonpublicschools.org

BLA Operations

M7 Summer Passes

M7 passes and transportation letter will be distributed on Wednesday during 1st period. These passes are operational once received and are good through August 31.


BPS DAILY HOME HEALTH CHECKLIST

Please use the BPS daily checklist everyday. The checklist is available in many languages and found HERE


MORNING SAFETY

Please follow the signs posted near the school and watch your speed during school arrival times. Please avoid blocking traffic by stopping in the middle of the road, parking in the spots designated for buses, making U-turns and dropping students off in the teacher parking lots.

HAPGOOD MONTHLY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER

Please check out this month's library newsletter

COVID Protocol

If you test positive for COVID, fill out the google form (below) so we can correctly excuse this absence and record this illness. Please follow the directions for quarantine on the form, if you need further assistance, feel free to reach out to Nurse Conlin and Price

Google Form for reporting positive COVID case: HERE

Student Support

Academic Supports Available to Students:

We are at the start of our final term. Please see below for a list of academic supports available to all students.

  • Math Center: Sign up for the math center during Support Block or go after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays in room 108 from 1:50-2:30.

  • Youth Virtual Learning Programs: Check out this spreadsheet which has over 200 programs available to students to support with academics in the virtual world.

  • Pie R Squared: Pie R Squared offers live math tutoring after school.

  • 826 Boston: 826 Boston’s after-school tutoring program operates Monday-Thursday for students ages 6-18. We serve the highest-need students in our community and give priority enrollment to students from low-income families and English Language Learners.



Upcoming Events

TUESDAY

  • SpED Meeting at 6:30pm

WEDNESDAY

  • Covid Pool Testing (All Day)

  • 7th Grade BBQ

  • Summer JObs & Opportunities Fair

FRIDAY

  • 8th Grade Awards Ceremony

  • Half a day

MONDAY, June 27

  • Half a day (Last day of classes)

Middle School Updates and Information

TAG I ALERTA 2021

We hope you and your families are safe and healthy during these challenging times for both students and staff alike.

We are glad to announce that this summer, our program will run in-person from July 5th-August 5th, Monday-Friday 9AM-3PM. We will be serving BPS Latinx, Multilingual, and English Learner students from grades 5 - 8 (rising 6th - rising 9th grades in Fall 2022). We are free to all BPS students, and we will offer project-based classes in Math and English, as well as enrichment activities that may include Art, Music, Dance, Sports, and STEM. Below are this year’s flyers in English and Spanish. For more info contact, tag@umb.edu or through phone 857.301.7850.


To apply, students/ families (I know there is an option for teachers/school staff to apply or help on their behalf) must apply through the SchoolMint. Our program can be found under, “Gastón Institute - TAG/ALERTA (Grades 5-8)” in the program selection section. Once we review their application we will reach out to families and send them directly our digital TAG | ALERTA specific application via DocuSign. DocuSign is easy to use on a computer, tablet or phone and families will be able to input information, sign, and submit with ease (available in English and Spanish). Additionally, immunization records and proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required.


NEMPAC Summer Youth Internship Application: https://forms.gle/6mLC8uufcTYHpSkM7


Intern Requirements & Details:

  • Student Intern must be entering 7th grade in for the 2022/2023 school year.

    • Exception for Broadway Bootcamp, where you must be 16 by the start of the program on August 12

    • Exception for PlayLab: Create, Produce Perform, where you must be 14 by the start of the program on August 22.

  • Students must be fully vaccinated in order to participate as an intern

  • There is a small stipend of $50/week for all workshop weeks

    • Exception for July 4th week of Kids Music Theatre/Dance, in which the stipend will be $40.

Summer Program Internship Workshop Descriptions, Dates & Shifts: Visit www.nempacboston.org/summerprograms

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Applications are open now! FREE Summer Filmmaking Program!

The Fresh Films Boston Summer Digital Content Experience is a 4-week program where teens will learn the ins and outs of filmmaking from entertainment industry professionals as they work on 2 different digital content projects!


From camera to sound, teens will gain experience in…

Film editing, script writing, creating shot lists, film techniques, sound design, digital storytelling, film marketing and more!


Who: Any teens ages 12 - 19

What: Build film & tech skills so you can tell your story through film!

When: June 27 - July 22 | Monday - Thursday @ 1-3pm

Where: VIRTUALLY! Via google meets!


Applications are open NOW through June 22! No experience necessary and the program is free! Just bring a desire to learn alongside other young people and get creative on your own film projects. Learn more and apply today!

Details and applications: freshfilms.org/bostonsummer

If you have any questions, please reach out to Leah (marketingteam@freshfilms.org)

We look forward to making movies with you!

Aidan & the Fresh Films Team


$30,000 ALKU Scholarship – Current Juniors

In honor of Mass Mentoring Partnership's 30th year, ALKU is thrilled to be awarding two $30,000 academic scholarships to rising high school seniors in Massachusetts. The recipients of the scholarship must have been positively impacted and engaged in a positive mentoring relationship for at least one year and have plans to attend a 4-year college or university.

This scholarship provides an opportunity for young people to apply for financial support in pursuit of their goal to attend college and earn a bachelor’s degree.

In addition to providing financial resources, ALKU and MMP strive to build the capacity of organizations to connect youth to a broader web of support, build on the opportunities their existing mentoring relationships have offered them, and help eliminate barriers to future academic, economic, or social success.

Requirements

  • To qualify for the ALKU Scholarship, the student must be:

  • Enrolled in a high school in Massachusetts

  • A rising senior (will be a high school senior in Fall 2022)

  • Will apply to a four-year, accredited institution to acquire a bachelor’s degree in any field

  • Engaged in empowering youth-adult relationship (defined as any adult other than the applicant’s parent or legal guardian who provides friendship, guidance, and support) for at least one year

  • Able to demonstrate exceptional leadership skills and a commitment to their communities

⇨ $30,000 ALKU Scholarship Application Link: HERE

All application materials must be submitted online by Friday, July 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST. Late and/or incomplete applications will not be considered. If you have any questions, please contact Amelia Aubourg at aaubourg@massmentors.org.

Best,

Sue

Click here for our volunteer opportunities!

My name is Adeesh and I'm the Program Head at the middle and high school artificial intelligence summer program taught by Stanford/MIT graduates. We are thrilled to launch a 1:1 individual AI research project mentoring program this summer for students with an interest in applying computational skills to an area of their interest such as healthcare, mobility, law, engineering, psychology, and more! We would love to invite club students at Boston Latin Academy to participate in this immersive summer research experience. The program includes:

  • 10 one-on-one mentorship sessions with an experienced AI research mentor from Stanford, MIT, or a leading university with industry/lab experience.

  • Guided research experience from dataset selection, to visualization and AI modeling culminating in a portfolio-ready research paper.

  • Science fair preparation: resources to advance the project further for a science fair event, high school journal submission, etc.

  • AI+X Researcher Certification: students who complete the 1:1 mentorship program are also eligible to receive an AI + X Researcher Certificate.

We would appreciate it if you could share the short program note below with families from grades 8 to 12. Students may apply here by May 30 to begin summer mentorship!

Warmly, Adeesh Goel, Program Head, Inspirit AI adeesh@alumni.stanford.edu

Boston University’s Upward Bound Program

Are you a BLA freshman or sophomore who is Interested in taking classes at Boston University this summer? Are you also interested in getting paid to participate in a program during the school year that increases your preparedness for college and future years of high school? Please apply to BU’s Upward Bound program here. To be eligible you must live in one of the following neighborhoods: Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester or East Boston.

The Artemis Project is a five-week summer program that introduces girls to the creative thinking and problem-solving skills that are at the core of computer science. Artemis will be offered from July 5th to August 5th, 2022 weekdays from 9:30 AM -3:30PM on the BU campus. The program makes fundamental topics in computer science fun and engaging by incorporating both hands-on activities as well as real-world applications. Participants will learn how to code in Python, design their own websites, build robots, and program microbits. They also will learn about conceptual topics including search and sort algorithms, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. Lunch is provided each day.

Artemis is run by undergraduate women concentrating in Computer Science and Engineering who are passionate about what they do. Through interactions with the coordinators, as well as with faculty and industry guest speakers, the participants will meet many female role models in the fields of computer science and engineering.

Students accepted into the program are required to pay a $100 non-refundable registration fee.

The program is administered by the Learning Resource Network (LERNet), a BU center with a long history of coordinating science and engineering programs for K-12 students. Additional program information can be found on the website: http://www.bu.edu/lernet/artemis


Please send email to cab@bu.edu if you have any further questions.


Intern Requirements & Details:

  • Student Intern must be entering 7th grade in for the 2022/2023 school year.

    • Exception for Broadway Bootcamp, where you must be 16 by the start of the program on August 12

    • Exception for PlayLab: Create, Produce Perform, where you must be 14 by the start of the program on August 22.

  • Students must be fully vaccinated in order to participate as an intern

  • There is a small stipend of $50/week for all workshop weeks

    • Exception for July 4th week of Kids Music Theatre/Dance, in which the stipend will be $40.

Summer Program Internship Workshop Descriptions, Dates & Shifts: Visit www.nempacboston.org/summerprograms

Summer Programs

  • Summer Stuff: The time to make your summer plans is now! BPS Summer Stuff has information on summer schools, camps, programs, activities & jobs! The website will be constantly updated, so check back often!

  • Thompson Island Outward Bound's Summer Learning Expedition: The Thompson Island Outward Bound Summer Learning Expedition is a 3-week overnight summer learning experience (July 3rd to 23rd) to help students grow as individuals, scientific thinkers, and stewards of the environment. Through backpacking, kayaking, camping, and hands-on field activities on the island, students will gain expertise living and learning in an outdoor environment and in community with one another. The program dates are July 3rd to July 23rd, 2022 and the program is FREE to rising 7th and 8th grade BPS students. Registration will open on April 1st with limited spots available! More information available at Summer Learning Expedition

  • Community Boat Building Summer Program: Summer programs feature different building projects, such as a Wooden Rowboat. In addition, participants spend time outside playing games and rowing on Fort Point Channel. For ages 7-18. Some financial aid is available. Programs start in July but fill up fast! Learn more and register here!


Interested in working in a hospital this summer? Are you in the 9th grade? Please read!

Project T.E.A.C.H (Teen Education About Careers in Health) is a summer program for rising 10th grade students. Students selected for Project T.E.A.C.H spend 6 weeks in July and August in the hospital setting as a paid Brigham and Women’s Hospital employee. While students are being exposed to the many possibilities of health or science related careers, it is our goal to further develop characteristics of responsibility, discipline, maturity, communication and work ethic.


Project TEACH is looking to recruit 9th grade boys from BLA for their summer internship program! If you are interested and would like to apply, please reach out to me ASAP through email (catie.sirois@bostonpic.org).


Boston Writing Project and the Museum of African American History

Student Application

Boston Writing Project & Museum of African American History UNITE: Writing Boston’s Future Student Fellowship

The Boston writing Project (BWP) and the Museum of African American History (MAAH) will renew interest and raise public attention about MAAH through the voices of young people. We aim to create new stories of today’s multiethnic Black families in and around Boston and Cambridge. This program will support you, young leaders to help transform the curriculum, teaching and learning, and to support writing growth around racial equity.


Complete and submit the application below to join us. You will take an inquiry stance to develop your focus and platform for your representation projects of the education of Black Bostonians and Cantabrigians. A closing ceremony will be held in March/April 2023 for you to share your work in progress. All materials will be exhibited and stored at MAAH.


Part One: Orientation and Summer Institute ($1,000 Stipend)


Fellows will meet with BWP/MAAH educator leaders to co-construct a summer learning experience for teachers who serve diverse students in the Greater Boston area. Alongside BWP/MAAH educator leaders, fellows will lead a one-week Summer Institute for teachers to explore writing through the lens of Boston's Black history.


Part Two: School Year Follow-Up 2022/2023 ($500 Stipend)


During the 2022-2023 school year, student fellows will participate in monthly writing response groups with Summer Institute teachers and BWP/MAAH educator leaders. Our meetings will culminate with an exhibit reflecting our work hosted at MAAH during March/April 2023.


Teacher Application

The Boston Writing Project/Museum of African American History's Writing Boston's Future Teacher Fellowship

The Boston Writing Project (BWP) is partnering with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) to renew interest and raise public attention about MAAH and engage the community, especially BIPOC youth, with MAAH as a site for public education. We aim to resuscitate the spirit and create new stories of today’s multiethnic Black families who are actively pursuing their civic duties in and around the Greater Boston area in this post-George Floyd era. The BWP and MAAH partnership takes a youth-centered, inquiry stance built upon a reparative, liberatory justice framework. We will partner to restore, nourish, uplift, and learn alongside/from BIPOC students in Boston and Cambridge. This program will support young leaders as we collaboratively work to humanize and transform the curriculum/teaching and learning, supporting writing growth around racial equity issues through understanding the past, analyzing our present, and preparing for an anti-racist, humanistic, civic-oriented future.


Selected teacher fellows will participate in a week long Summer Institute designed and facilitated by local high school students and BWP/MAAH educator leaders to explore writing through the lens of Boston's Black history. Teacher fellows will learn about the education of Black Bostonians in the past to rethink the art of teaching writing.

Sequence of Work:


Part 1: Summer Institute ($1,000 Stipend)


Fellows will meet with BWP/MAAH educator leaders to co-construct a summer learning experience for teachers who serve diverse students in the Greater Boston area. Alongside BWP/MAAH educator leaders, fellows will lead a one-week Summer Institute for teachers to explore writing through the lens of Boston's Black history.

Summer Institute hosted by Student Fellows BWP/MAAH Educator Leaders

Dates: July 25-29, 10-2pm

Location: Museum of African American History


Part Two: School Year Follow-Up 2022/2023 ($2,000 Stipend)


During the 2022-2023 school year, teacher fellows will participate in monthly writing response groups with Summer Institute teachers and BWP/MAAH educator leaders. Our meetings will culminate with an exhibit reflecting our work hosted at MAAH during March/April 2023.


Dates: December, February, March, April, 10-2pm Saturdays


Mental Health Support in the Summer