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
BFA Chinese Student Exchange Makes a Lasting Impact
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. This week … Continue reading BFA Chinese Student Exchange Makes a Lasting Impact
Student Assembly Focuses on the Power of Youth Advocacy
This week, BFA Fairfax High School students participated in a school-wide assembly with representatives from the Kony 2012 Invisible Children organization. The event, developed by Global English teachers Sara Villenueve and Will Brooks along with Principal Mike Clark, addressed the following Enduring Understanding: Change is possible through Question, Persistence and Advocacy. The assembly was a continuation of … Continue reading Student Assembly Focuses on the Power of Youth Advocacy
Virtual High School Offers BFA Students Access to the World
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. Strategies Provide students with access to content, resources, and methods for learning beyond the school day and beyond … Continue reading Virtual High School Offers BFA Students Access to the World
The Value of World Language Learning
❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞ ‒Nelson Mandela At FWSU we are fortunate to be able to offer world languages to many of our students. Learning a new language is not … Continue reading The Value of World Language Learning
A Little Bit of Thai
The positive energy was great yesterday at Fletcher Elementary's inservice after Melissa Sargent-Minor shared a traditional Thai string-tying ceremony called Bai Sri Su Kwan with faculty and staff. Melissa served as a FWSU Visiting Scholar this summer in Thailand sponsored by the UVM Asian Studies Program. The program enhances teachers' knowledge of Asian cultures and helps bring that information … Continue reading A Little Bit of Thai
Saying Goodbye
Our second year of the BFA High School Chinese Cultural Exchange Camp with 30 visiting students from China has come to a close. It was another amazing experience for all of the students and families who were involved. It is always hard to believe how much impact visiting students have on a family in just two short weeks. It was also fun "showing off" our communities and … Continue reading Saying Goodbye
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