November

November Staff and Students to Celebrate!

These students and staff were recognized for their excellence at our November Community Meeting

Educator of the Year- Eve Thorsen

Eve Thorsen, English Language Arts Educator, was honored at UVM's Outstanding Educator Day in November. She is truly an outstanding educator. Eve sees the highest potential in students. She holds students to high standards while also being able to maximize their ability on a personal level. She believes her students are capable of college-level reading and writing. Eve creates flexible learning environments that highlight personal learning for all students. She has created student leaders through the Yearbook program over the past few years. Eve is a superlative high school teacher. Congratulations!

Stellar Students

In partnership with highway safety offices across the country, Choices Matter is a life-changing program for high school students using personal stories and interactive materials to inspire students to make the right choices both behind the wheel and in life. BFA high school students were highly engaged in the presentation and activities. We would like to thank VSP and VPA for bringing this program to BFA.

Kagan and Esther take center stage in the Fall production of Little Shop of Horrors. The cast and crew put on a spectacular performance!

Sophomore Tristan Metruk plays '500' with his Creative Connections buddies in the elementary school. Over 45 high schoolers connect with elementary students during the week.

Career & Technical Education Students

NCTC Human Services staff, faculty and students organized a fall festival for our pre-school students and their family members where they painted pumpkins, created leaf rubs, played ghost bowling and candy corn toss.

NCTC Public Safety & Law Enforcement students work on mitigation planning for FEMA events.

Cold Hollow students are awarded for their dependability in the month of November.

BTC students learn how to screen print in Design and Illustration.

Mathematics Department

Students in Math 2 reinforce their understanding of Quadratic Functions with a Desmos.com (online graphing app) activity.

Calculus students are using derivatives to determine where the max and min of functions are located.

Intro to Geometry and Stats students confer on the definitions of angles formed by parallel lines and a transversal.

Students in Math 4 find the domain and range of various parent functions.

Science Department

Students in Botany analyze plant cell structure using a microscope.

Students are using renewable energy materials to generate electricity. This group was changing the angle of the photovoltaic cell to determine the effect on electricity production.

Students build model replicas of satellites in Astronomy.

Modeling light intensity in Mr. Pfeiffer's Physics class.

ELA Department

Freshman students experience their first Harkness discussion in Foundations of ELA.

Freshmen students practice dialogue techniques and provide evidence from text in a Harkness Discussion.

Students in the College Writing course take notes about sentence structure.

Creative Writing students get to know each other as the new trimester begins.

Global Citizenship Department

AP Psychology students work on how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves memories.

Alden argues a point during the AP US History bracket challenge. What influenced the start of the Civil War?

Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas visits with students in Current Events and Know Your Rights to discuss issues critical to them.

Foundations of Global Citizenship students have their government designs analyzed by Mr. Brooks.

World Languages Department

French

In Foundations 2 class, students discuss, in French, their various travel experiences.

SPANISH

Students in Spanish work on age and birthdays.

Mandarin

Ms. Xiang introduces the Lunar New Year holiday to first-graders who are learning about celebrations across the world.

Unified Arts Department

The high school Chorus class rehearses for the winter concert.

Students work on team building activities in Foundations of Art.

Jazz Band has an early morning practice.

Counseling Department