Community Circle: Week of 1/31/23
Check out our Community Circle, which includes important announcements and information about academics and extracurriculars this week.
Check out our Community Circle, which includes important announcements and information about academics and extracurriculars this week.
Do you have an 8th grade student? Want to learn more about BCAM? Come to our open house!
Virtual: Wednesday, November 9th and Tuesday, November 22nd at 6pm on Zoom (MEETING ID: 852 8181 0661, PASSCODE: 488812)
In Person: Tuesday, November 15th at 10am and 6pm, and Saturday, November 19th at 10am (300 Willoughby Ave.)
Please join us Thursday, September 29th from 6-7:15pm on Zoom for our annual Curriculum Night. Meet your student's teachers, learn about extracurricular activities, and understand our school-wide structures of support.
Happy new year BCAM families! As we return to school, we still want to prioritize our community's health and safety. Please read the attached DOE Chancellor letter regarding COVID testing and protocols. Please also do not hesitate to contact us with questions or concerns. We will host a Zoom for any families this Wednesday, 1/5 at both 10 am and 6 pm to discuss new and changed COVID processes and answer any questions you have.
BCAM's very own Ms. Pope was recently featured in an online article about student assessment! You can read more about it HERE.
Check out our Chancellor's homecoming message to families.
Check out our Community Circle, which includes important announcements and information about academics and extracurriculars this week.
BCAM received $110K from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams for an exciting technology upgrade project! Many thanks to the BBP and his office for their support in giving our students a state-of-the-art education!
BCAM Families, click HERE to check out our welcome back slide show, which provides important 2021-22 back-to-school information and info on the BCAM school year in general.
This project develops an annual exchange between Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM) with New Orleans-based art school and community organization The Black School (TBS). The exchange takes a targeted group of 10 students from each school with strong interests in, and an established track record around, the visual and/or performing arts, and has them travel to the sister city, i.e New Orleans and conversely Brooklyn/New York City for a connected, connective and multidimensional exchange experience. BCAM students travel to New Orleans in April, 2023 and participate in a 5-7 day intensive, hosted by The Black School. Later that term, in May, 2023, BCAM will host a group of Black School students in a reciprocal intensive. The exchange is framed around college and cultural exposure, activism oriented community inquiry, artistic development and, of course, building sister-city bridges.
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Monday, November 21, 2022
Dear BCAM Families:
We hope this letter at the beginning of our 2nd Academic Quarter finds you well. We want to thank all the families that attended our Zoom-Video Parent-Teacher-Conferences last Thursday and Friday.
We also want to invite you to our annual Winter Visual Art & Performance Showcase Friday, December 16, 4:30pm-7:00pm here at school. We ask all students and guest to make a $5 entry donation to our arts program. This showcase will be followed by a student party for all students in good academic standing 7:15pm-9:15pm.
Please see enclosed your student’s BCAM student 1st Quarter Report Card. This can be found in their MySchools Account. If you do not know how to access your student’s MySchools Account, please immediately email our Community Director Joseph Cooper (jcooper12@schools.nyc.gov) and he will get you linked to your account. And please also be aware that 1st Quarter Report Card Grades are official. They now will average with 2nd Quarter Report Card Grades (November 14th- January 23rd) to result in your student’s semester grade which is placed on their permanent transcript.
In addition, included in this mailer are your individual directions to access our Jupiter Online Grading System. This will allow you to access your student’s current grades whenever you wish. Our BCAM teachers update grades every few weeks, so if you don’t see a particular assignment, please be patient—it will be loaded upcoming.
Finally, the items below provide you key information about important topics and dates to support you in maintaining strong connection to our school community. We will continue to share updated information constantly via our Kinvo Text System, our website www.bcamhs.org, our Instagram @bcamhs, and phone calls. Please do not hesitate to contact us by Kinvo text, call (718)230-5748 or email Mr. Cooper with any questions or concerns. Your child’s safety and security, and academic, artistic and professional development is our clear mission. As always, in any situation, we are partners and we are #BCAMStrong!!!
Best,
James O’Brien, Principal; Janna Bello-Andrews & Brent Lawrence, Assistant Principals;
Joseph Cooper, Community Director
and the entire BCAM Staff
At Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM), we prepare our students for 21st century academic, creative, and professional success. Through an art, media, and technology-enriched academic curriculum emphasizing community collaboration, we challenge ourselves to think critically and create knowledge in pursuit of personal excellence and meaningful social change.