Thanks to the BCS Board of Education for recognizing BHS and the Academy for their second consecutive Reward School designation by the State of Tennessee.

Parents, please remember to check your child’s attendance on PowerSchool weekly, or after you have sent in a note. We have a very small window of time for making corrections, and we want your child’s attendance record to be 100% accurate. Sometimes notes don’t make it to the Attendance Office for one reason or another.
Emails (to vmoser@bartlettschools.org, jtaylor2@bartlettschools.org, or jmcdonald@bartlettschools.org) are always a good way to send a note or follow-up on a written note. Weekly checks will hopefully prevent situations at the end of the grading period, the semester, or the year, where we have inaccurate information and lack the ability to make changes.
Students, you can also monitor your attendance on PowerSchool and let us know about errors. This is good practice for second semester when you want to remain eligible for exam exemptions at the end of the year.

Parent Guide
<http://cpm.org/cca-additional-resources#parentguide>

Parent Homework Help:
https://homework.cpm.org/cpm-homework/homework/category/CC/textbook/CCA


Additional Practice sites and explanations
http://www.classzone.com/books/algebra_1_cs/index.cfm
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra
https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/skills.php?year=A1

“Rigor is a buzzword in today's educational circles, but there are many misunderstandings about the concept. Although rigor means having high expectations for all students, those expectations must be accompanied by appropriate support. Student success occurs when you create an instructional environment that sets high expectations for each student and provides scaffolding without offering excessive help. The key is to incorporate productive struggle.

Productive struggle is what I call the "sweet spot" in between scaffolding and support. Rather than immediately helping students at the first sign of trouble, we should allow them to work through struggles independently before we offer assistance. That may sound counterintuitive, since many of us assume that helping students learn means protecting them from negative feelings of frustration. But for students to become independent learners, they must learn to persist in the face of challenge.”

- Barbara R. Blackburn, Productive Struggle Is a Learner's Sweet Spot - Educational Leadership, December 13, 2018 | Volume 14 | Issue 11

We were grateful to have six of our Class of 2020 students, current seniors, come back to the Academy on Tuesday and talk with current freshmen about the important things that they need to be thinking about now in preparation for graduation. River Allbritton, Anna Bailey, McKenna Fleshman, Anna Tilley, Patel Qaladize, and Mason Davenport each spoke with English classes all day about preparing for success. This was a senior project put together and implemented by these six Honors Academy members. This was such a great experience, we are asking for them to come back in May to talk about transitioning to BHS next fall. We are also hopeful that this will become a tradition each year - current seniors coming to speak to current freshman. Thanks to our six seniors for paying it back and paying it forward at the same time. And thanks to Honors Academy sponsor, Mrs. Tara Smith, for coordinating.

Tutor brings excitement and empathy to her classroom each day and believes in challenging her students.

Coach Nebo would like to congratulate Sophie Burke for breaking the school record in 2000 M steeplechase & Distance Medley Relay, Sydney Swift for breaking the school record in Shuttle Hurdle Relay, and Maggie Roy breaking the school record in the indoor 1 mile, Distance Medley Relay, and being in the top 3 in 800 m run and top 4 in 1600 M in the our section. Theses ladies also with the help of Carrie Chalmers will compete for an opportunity to run at State next Saturday May 11 at Arlington at 12 noon.Also want to congratulate Tmirah Albea, Austin Baggett , and Evan Gaines for being a part of the 2019 Unified Sectional champions. These outstanding athletes will now compete at Middle TN State University on May 23rd at Blue Cross Blue Shield State Track Meet. Austin and Evan also won first place at Bellevue Baptist Unified Basketball Championship.