Target 2: Leadership in a Student-Centered Learning Environment - FWSU will foster development of teacher and student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, and diverse resources. Bellows Free Academy Fairfax finished … Continue reading BFA Takes 2nd Place in Vermont Treasury Cup Challenge
BFA Elementary Takes Farm-to-Table Challenge with New Kitchen Garden!
Target 3: Flexible Learning Environments - FWSU will maximize flexible learning environments by redefining the school day, promoting learning experiences that extend beyond the school classroom, and fostering creativity, innovation, and differentiated learning opportunities for all. Action Step - Make relevant and authentic problems become the focus of connected learning. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful … Continue reading BFA Elementary Takes Farm-to-Table Challenge with New Kitchen Garden!
Teacher Appreciation Day 2013
"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Each year we pause in May to celebrate and thank all of our hardworking teachers in the Franklin West Supervisory Union. Our teachers work with our communities most valued resource everyday - our children. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you do!
BFA Welcomes Inductees to National Honor Society
Target 2: Leadership in a Student-Centered Learning Environment - FWSU will foster development of teacher and student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, and diverse resources. Friday night, the BFA Fairfax chapter of … Continue reading BFA Welcomes Inductees to National Honor Society
BFA First Graders Take Virtual Tour to Visit Pengiuns & Puffins
Target 3. Flexible Learning Environments – FWSU will maximize flexible learning environments by redefining the school day, promoting learning experiences that extend beyond the school classroom, and fostering creativity, innovation, and differentiated learning opportunities for all. Action Step - Make relevant and authentic problems become the focus of connected learning. After studying a unit on penguins, first graders at … Continue reading BFA First Graders Take Virtual Tour to Visit Pengiuns & Puffins
BFA Educator Presents Webinar – Live From the Tundra
Target 2 – Leadership in a Student Centered Learning Environment: FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, & diverse resources. BFA Teacher Tom Lane, currently on leave studying the … Continue reading BFA Educator Presents Webinar – Live From the Tundra
BFA 8th Grade Students Predict and Test Physics Experiments
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students. Last week, BFA students in Mr. Palmer's 8th Grade Science class studied Newton's First Law of Motion: "An object at … Continue reading BFA 8th Grade Students Predict and Test Physics Experiments
BFA Students Mix it Up at Lunch
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students. This week at BFA middle school, students participated in Mix it Up at Lunch Day. The event is a national campaign designed by the Teaching … Continue reading BFA Students Mix it Up at Lunch
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