BACK-TO-SCHOOL IN BARTOW: We're equipping all Bartow teachers with high impact instructional tools through expert LeAnn Nickelsen! See any of your favorite teachers? #TierOneExcellence #betterinbartow
SYSTEM SHOUTOUT: WOW! Our School Nutrition staff served nearly FOUR TIMES as many summer meals as last year! What an incredible service to our community! About 30,000 meals were distributed in 2023 and more than 115,000 meals were handed out this year! Join us in congratulating this staff on a JOB WELL DONE!
BACK TO SCHOOL IN BARTOW: Help us welcome back our amazing Bartow County teachers!
A FOND FAREWELL: Standing room only to celebrate the retirement of our beloved Payroll Manager Robin Rickles! Thank you for serving our school community for 32 years! We will miss you!
BACK-TO-SCHOOL IN BARTOW: Shout out to our amazing Technology Department! They're hard at work, setting up laptops for our staff and students! 💻 #betterinbartow #b2school
BACK-TO-SCHOOL IN BARTOW: New Teacher Orientation successfully wrapped up today after presentations from Superintendent Terza, Deputy Superintendent Suttle, Ms. Dot and the Education Foundation, and dozens of our A-Teams! Tomorrow, teachers will pick up their laptops and tour their schools! It's an exciting time in BCSS history!~ #betterinbartow #b2school
BACK-TO-SCHOOL IN BARTOW: The collaboration continues! Superintendent Clint Terza, Deputy Superintendent Christian Suttle, and Chief Leadership and Learning Officer Dave Stephenson met with principals today to address learning priorities and discuss maximizing instructional impact! #betterinbartow
BACK-TO-SCHOOL IN BARTOW: Today, we welcomed approximately 125 new/new-to-Bartow teachers to the BEST SCHOOL SYSTEM AROUND! We're thankful that they're starting this journey with us! Our teacher mentors were also on hand today for New Teacher Orientation as keynote speaker, Ms. Annette Breaux, addressed the group and system leaders held informational breakout sessions! #betterinbartow #b2school
BOARD RECOGNITIONS: Bartow County School Nutrition receives the Turnip the Beet Award from the state for the third consecutive year, and the Bartow County Board of Education honors the staff’s hard work and achievements!
Recognized for its outstanding Seamless Summer Meal Program, Bartow County is one out of only six gold level award winners from Georgia. Other counties include Douglas, Gordon, Henry, Newton, and Wayne!
👀👀: Check out these sweet students on the cover of the new 2024-25 Student Handbook! Spot anyone you know?
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME: Nearly three dozen of our high school Exceptional Education students were able to attend a Braves game thanks to Cara Shores and a sponsorship by Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency and Career Technical Instruction! Our group participated in a panel discussion led by Braves employees with disabilities, AND two of our students were interviewed by Atlanta News First! What an exciting day to be a Braves fan from Bartow!
PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: Many of our local police chiefs met Superintendent Clint Terza today and watched a presentation on our new emergency alert system. Special thanks to Bartow County School Police Chief Billy Henson for presenting and hosting this important luncheon!
In attendance:
Sheriff Clark Millsap, Bartow County
Chief Frank McCann, Cartersville PD
Deputy Chief Yeager, Euharlee PD
Chief Kyle Teems, Emerson PD
Chief Jason Smith, White PD
Chief Mike Jones, Adairsville PD
Chief David Horace, Georgia Highlands College
SNEAK PEEK: Here's your very first glance inside the new Mission Road Elementary School! Final inspections are being made, and we are getting ready to officially move in and unpack! Doesn't it look great?!
COMING SOON: That's right! Coming soon to a College and Career Academy near you...a new Esports Arena and STEM Innovation Center! It's taking shape! We'll announce a ribbon cutting date soon!
LET'S GOOOO, FUTURE CATS: Woodland High School cheerleaders hosted a three-day cheer camp full of dances, stunts, tumbling, games, and more! We're not sure who had more fun, our student athletes or our future Wildcats?! 📢🎉
PREVIEW: When Clint Terza was named our new superintendent, we just KNEW our students had a few questions for him! So, we put a mic in their hands and "let the good times roll!" Enjoy this short preview! We'll release the entire video before school starts so you can all get to know the man at the helm of the Bartow County School System!
https://youtu.be/0NWS2fr-u2w
FROM CARTERSVILLE TO COSTA RICA: The Bartow County School System sure does provide some unique opportunities for its students! Check out these Adairsville High School students whitewater rafting down the Sarapiquí River, ziplining through the jungle, and hiking to see the Arenal Volcano!
Students also performed a water analysis to test the health of the water for its inhabitants, visited an organic farm and restaurant where they harvested and prepared their own lunch, and completed a service project at one of the local schools.
Talk about amazing summertime memories!
The BCSS has been approved to use federal relief funds to purchase essential school supplies for all students in grades pre-K through 12.
This one-time allotment of funds will cover most of the supplies needed in students’ classrooms this academic year.
Updated elementary and middle school supply lists will be published on your school’s website in the next few weeks.
Items that will be provided by the school system include but are not limited to paper towels, Lysol wipes, loose-leaf paper, crayons, pencils, notebooks, and binders.
Graphing calculators, headphones, backpacks, and lunch boxes are examples of items that the school system will not be able to purchase.
Again, check your school's website for an updated supply list as the academic year approaches, and please note, this is a one-time disbursement of supplies.
TEACHER TRAINING: Check out these photos from White Elementary School! Our local extension office picked a great school to host its 2024 School Garden Teacher Training event! Connecting STEM to the school garden, teachers learned six hands-on classroom lessons to take back to their schools! WES Teacher Jennifer Martin also gave an informative tour of the Warrior's award-winning garden!
Special thanks to UGA Extension County Coordinator Paul Pugliese for doing such wonderful work in the Bartow County School System!
HURRY: If your family could benefit from FREE school supplies, backpacks, and other back-to-school items, make sure to register for the SUPPLIES 4 KIDS events by June 30th!
https://supplies4success.blesscoalition.org/
