Franklin West SU BFA, FES, FWSU, GEMS

Reflecting on Schools: Our Awesome Places of Learning

Sometimes it is helpful for all of us to take a step back and reflect on the tremendous value that we have in our schools and in communities. Today we remember that our teachers, students, staff, and families are truly awesome. We are blessed to have schools that are learning organizations - places where students are challenged every day to … Continue reading Reflecting on Schools: Our Awesome Places of Learning

Franklin West SU BFA

BFA Middle Schoolers Learn Value of Respect and Responsibility

Target 1: Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. Students at BFA Fairfax in grades 5-8 participated in a performance called "We Will … Continue reading BFA Middle Schoolers Learn Value of Respect and Responsibility

Franklin West SU BFA

BFA Fairfax Elementary Goes To The Dogs

Target 1: Student-Centered Learning - FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step - Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. BFA Fairfax Elementary recently hosted three guests at its weekly All-School Morning … Continue reading BFA Fairfax Elementary Goes To The Dogs

Franklin West SU BFA

BFA Student Leaders Make Operation Happiness a Success

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 - Provide multiple avenues for students and staff to lead, advocate, and serve within the school and community. This year, the BFA Fairfax Middle School Council … Continue reading BFA Student Leaders Make Operation Happiness a Success

Franklin West SU BFA

Students Learn Real-World Lessons in Simulated Stock Market Challenge

Target 1: Student Centered Learning - FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem-solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step - Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem-solving and creativity for students and staff. Seventh graders in Jenn Skerrett’s Extended Learning Opportunity class at BFA-Fairfax are participating in the … Continue reading Students Learn Real-World Lessons in Simulated Stock Market Challenge

Franklin West SU BFA

Students Make New Friends in Kenya, Explore Holiday Traditions Around the World

Target 4: Engaged Community Partners -  FWSU staff and students will collaborate, innovate, create and conceptualize ideas and learning with local, regional, state, and global partners to make a difference in their community, state, and world. Action Step - Develop partnerships with global partners to carry out a project related to units of study. As … Continue reading Students Make New Friends in Kenya, Explore Holiday Traditions Around the World

Franklin West SU BFA

WWII Veteran Awarded High School Diploma from BFA Fairfax

When Clement Thibault left Rumford, Maine to enlist in the Navy in February of 1944, he walked away from his high school education.  Now, 68 years later, he has been awarded his high school diploma from Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax through the High School Diplomas for Veterans program. Mr. Thibault, now 86 and living in … Continue reading WWII Veteran Awarded High School Diploma from BFA Fairfax