The FWSU Story

Ensuring all students receive as much in-person instruction as possible while maintaining health and safety in our schools has been a shared goal across all FWSU schools since we began our planning for this uniquely challenging school year. Throughout these unprecedented times, FWSU administrators and teachers have continued to prioritize the comprehensive well-being of students … Continue reading Keeping us Whole

To ring in the new year, Fletcher Elementary students have finished one significant community service project and are beginning another. In December, students from Fletcher Elementary School collected 331 non-perishable food items as part of a school-wide food drive. Classes teamed up with the school's parent group, Friends of Fletcher Elementary, to organize the effort that … Continue reading Fletcher Students Complete Community Service to Support Children and Families

Moving Forward We tentatively plan to return fifth and sixth grade students for four days of in-person instruction at BFA Fairfax and Georgia Middle School on January 11th, 2021.  Principal Justin Brown and Principal Julie Conrad’s faculty and staff have been preparing for quite a while for the return of fifth and sixth graders while … Continue reading New Year, New Opportunities

In the spirit of looking forward to a new year, one of the things that we at BFA Fairfax are looking forward to is the delivery of our new electric buses. While we were working through the tribulations of 2020, one of the projects we were working on in the background was the acquisition of … Continue reading Electric Bus Update

BFA administrators and staff have been engaged in learning and conversations about equity for several years. Last spring, while we were on dismissal, racial justice came to the forefront of our students' worlds, but we were not in a position to have daily conversations with them to help them make sense of it all. School … Continue reading BFA Fairfax High School Racial Justice Alliance

As we approach the start of the new year, many would label 2020 as the “Year of Covid-19." In our schools, however, 2020 should be labeled as the  “Year of Creativity."  That creativity was on full display the night of Wednesday, December 16, when our Middle and High School music department put on their annual … Continue reading BFA Fairfax Music Students and Staff ROCK the 2020 Winter Concert

Georgia Middle School’s goal this year is for 100% of our students to develop and extend beyond proficiency as writers. We have begun this year with two main sub-goals in this process: have students writing regularly in every class and to instruct and support the ‘steal and slide’ strategy to all students. As James Clear … Continue reading Elevating Our Middle School Writers

University of Vermont's 2020 Outstanding Teacher  Every year, the College of Education and Social Services (CESS) at the University of Vermont, together with Vermont supervisory unions and school districts, the Vermont Agency of Education, and the Vermont NEA, all join to honor the accomplishments of our state’s outstanding educators.  This year’s University of Vermont Teacher … Continue reading Celebrating Excellence in Education