The Lower Division Winter Dance (for grades 1st - 4th) will be 12/20 2-3pm, during the school day. Questions? Reach out to Mr. Jerry.
We are excited to invite you to our Holiday Breakfast & Concert Wednesday, 12/18, a special event to celebrate the season with food, music, and the joy of spending time together. Below are the full details to help you plan for this festive occasion.
Event Schedule & Logistics:
K1-K2 (Delivered to classrooms): 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
7th and 8th Grade (Performing in concert)
Breakfast Pickup: 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
Parents in the Classroom: 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM
1st-2nd Grade (Performing in concert)
Breakfast Pickup: 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
Parents in the Classroom: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
3rd-4th Grade
Breakfast Pickup: 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Parents in the Classroom: 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM.
5th-6th Grade
Breakfast Pickup: 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Parents in the Classroom: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM.
Location: The event will take place across several areas of the school: Cafeteria, Classrooms, and Atrium.
Concert Start Time: The Holiday Concert will begin at 10:30 AM in the Atrium. We encourage all families to join us for this performance, as students will be sharing their music and holiday spirit with you!
Grade Level Breakfast & Classroom Visits: Each grade will have a designated 15-minute breakfast pickup time to allow families to enjoy breakfast and spend quality time together. After breakfast, parents and students can visit their child’s classroom or stay in the cafeteria for the next 30-minute window.
Timing:
Breakfast Pickup: Each grade level will have a 15-minute window to pick up breakfast. Please plan to arrive during your child’s assigned time to avoid crowding.
Classroom Visits: After breakfast, families will have 30 minutes to spend with their children in their classroom, or in the cafeteria, where families can sit and eat together.
Parents in the Cafeteria: Families are invited to eat together in the cafeteria with their children. If you prefer to stay and share breakfast with your child in this festive space, it will be a warm and welcoming environment for all.
Parking: Please be mindful of the limited parking space and plan accordingly for the day. We anticipate a large turnout, so arrive early to ensure a good parking spot.
Special Requests and Family RSVP: If you have dietary restrictions or special requests for breakfast, please notify us beforehand so we can accommodate your needs: RSVP here.
This is a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate the holiday season with our students. We can’t wait to see you there!
Testing begins December 16th, however the majority of testing will take place after we return from winter break.
i-Ready is an online program for reading and mathematics that will help your student’s teacher(s) determine your student’s needs, personalize their learning, and monitor progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows your teacher(s) to meet your student exactly where they are and provides data to increase your student’s learning gains. i-Ready consists of two parts: Diagnostic and Personalized Instruction.
This Winter, we’ll be taking the Middle of Year (MOY) iReady Benchmark tests to measure your scholars’ growth from the Beginning of Year (BOY) to now. We’ll do this again in late Spring to measure their End of Year (EOY) growth as well. We look forward to celebrating your scholars’ achievements!
Your scholars’ Reading and Math teachers will be administering this assessment during designated testing periods. This will be the main focus of the days’ instructional blocks, since we want students to focus on the importance of the test to ensure we receive valid data to guide our future instructional delivery.
For more resources, visit iReady Family Center
DIBELS are measures that help teachers and schools determine how students are performing on important reading skills. DIBELS stands for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. These measures are designed for students in grades K-8. Here at Bridge Boston Charter School, we use this assessment for students in Grades K2-6 only.
A student’s scores on the DIBELS measures give the school information about whether or not a student is on track for grade-level reading success. A school can quickly identify students who do not meet the goals on each DIBELS measure and provide extra help. For example, if your child is reading words accurately, but slowly, the teacher can provide extra practice re-reading stories and passages to improve his or her reading rate or fluency. The teacher can use the progress monitoring scores to make sure your student receives extra help to improve other reading skills during the school year.
Teachers can review scores on DIBELS measures for all the students in a class to make decisions about how to prepare their day-to-day reading lessons. School and district staff can also study the test scores across classrooms and grade levels to make decisions about how to best use resources to make sure that every child in the school, including your child, is on track to become an accurate and fluent reader.
All students in a school building are given the DIBELS test three times each year; usually this occurs in the fall, winter, and spring. This school-wide testing is called benchmark assessment. School personnel may also regularly check on the progress of students who receive extra reading help to make sure their reading skills are improving. These regular checks are called progress monitoring. Students who are progress monitored may complete one or two of the individual DIBELS tests as often as once a week or as little as once every 6 weeks depending on school resources and the needs of the student.
In order to take these assessments, students are pulled individually by their Reading teacher and/or Reading Specialist. Depending on the portion of the test, it takes anywhere between 1-6 minutes to complete the assessment.
For more resources, visit Parents Guide to DIBELS Assessment
These are quick assessments used to determine your scholars’ math fluency across the main domains their grade level addresses.
This data helps our teachers to create intentional instructional groups aimed at targeting student specific math support needs. This allows us to provide targeted instruction based on strengthening their foundational math skills, as well as closing any foundational fluency gaps, to support their overall math calculation and problem solving skills.
These assessments are given three times per year to measure each scholar’s growth in each of these areas. Depending on your scholars’ grade levels, as well as their individual needs, tests may be administered during their Math instructional block through a whole group testing session, or individually/small groups.
This assessment provides information about students’ English language abilities in school. ACCESS measures what students know and can do in English domains of Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing.
Educators use this information to make decisions regarding students’ education and instructional needs, specifically centered around English language acquisition and application. ACCESS scores provide guidance around the amount and frequency of continued ELL instructional services.
Students who qualify for this assessment are tested either individually, or in small groups, by their ELL teacher. Since the test is broken into four domains, participating scholars will partake in four testing sessions spanning four different testing days. For example, your scholar may take Listening on Monday, Reading on Tuesday, etc.
ELL teachers will be reaching out to parents to notify them of their scholars’ specific schedule.
For more resources, visit WIDA
BBCS families are invited to join us for our Annual Winter Drive! There will be food and gently used clothing for free pickup, as well as our Toy Shop and Wrap. Please RSVP by Wednesday, 11/12!
The Upper Division Winter Dance will be Friday, 12/13 6-9pm. Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 at the door.
Students are not permitted to stay after school. Dismissal will happen as usual, then drop off for the dance is at 6pm. The Lower Division Winter Dance will be 12/20 2-3pm, during the school day.
Questions? Reach out to Mr. Jerry.
Happy Spirit Week, Bridge Boston! Join in the fun by dressing with each day’s theme. Remember: Friday will be regular day and students must earn Friyay/Dress down.
Consider making a donation to the Bridge Boston DEIB Committee’s Generosity Drive this November!
Join us for our first Family Conferences of the 2024-2025 school year!
Teachers will reach out to families with information about scheduling.
Questions? Reach out to Principal Walker.
Bridge Boston 4th-8th graders are invited to audition for the Jaguar Flame Squad Steppers!
We will have a mandatory information session for all members who are interested on 10/17 @ 6:30 via zoom. Tryouts will be 10/22 and 10/24 3:30-6pm. Decisions will be posted 10/29. Learn more about the team on their Instagram. Questions? Reach out to Ms. Tamila.
Bridge Boston 6th Grade Families are invited to attend our workshop on applications to exam exam schools, including Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School, and John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. If your family is unable to attend, you can view the handouts from the event below:
Questions? Reach out to Ms. Kim.
Bridge Boston 8th Graders and their families are invited to attend our High School Application Workshop! The objective of the event is to begin the practical steps for the high school application process. We will be running multiple "stations" around the classroom: One will be registering for the charter school lottery; another will be making an appointment at the BPS Welcome Center and talking about how to navigate the process of enrolling their student in BPS; another will be making the application account for private schools; the last will be making sure parents have access to PowerSchools so they can keep tabs on their student's grades.
If families are completely unable to attend, a Zoom option can be offered. Food and chromebooks will be provided. We will meet in Ms. O'Connor's 8th grade classroom, room 201. Questions? Reach out to Ms. Kim.
Join us for our first Parent Council Meeting of the year, followed by Family Movie Night!
Parent Council will be from 5-5:30pm in room 206. Family Movie Night will be from 5:30-7pm in the Gym.
Questions? Reach out to Principal Walker.
Join us for our Annual Curriculum Night! The evening will begin at 5pm in the Gymnasium.
Questions? Reach out to Principal Walker.
Duet is a Boston based program that offers very affordable (and often free) and flexible college degree programs through Southern New Hampshire University. We've had Bridge parents and staff take advantage of this program.
If you're interested in learning more about the Duet + Bridge partnership, please join us on Wednesday, May 22nd at 6pm on Zoom for an information session.
Questions? Reach out to Patti McKenna.
Join the BBCS Drama Club in preparing for their upcoming musical!
The set pieces for the upcoming production of Aladdin are finished: we’ll take them to a whole new world with PAINT! Join us for one of 2 time slots: 10am-12pm, or 1pm-3pm.
Aladdin Jr. Performances will be held on June 6th and 7th at 5pm.
Join BBCS in welcoming our new Executive Director! Hear from OG about his philosophies on teaching & learning, his visions for the future of Bridge, and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Learn more about our selection process and Town Hall meeting
Learn more about Orin in the Bridge Boston Bulletin.
Questions about this event? Reach out to Hailey Linenkugel.
Ready, Set, Read! Join BBCS in annual March Reading Challenge, complete with themes, mini-competitions, and prizes.
Please join us for our BBCS Family Movie Night to celebrate Black History Month. We will be watching the movie Soul and dinner will be provided. Make sure to RSVP by using the link below. Questions? Reach out to Ms. Correa.
Beginning Monday, February 26th, Bridge Boston will use Pickup Patrol to communicate with families about dismissal procedures. All families will need to create an account and learn how to use the website ahead of time.
Families will use Pickup Patrol to communicate to school when a child’s plan for dismissal changes. When your child goes home a different way, let us know through PickUp Patrol. For example: a student is leaving early for an appointment, staying after for sports, or being picked up by a friend.
Pickup Patrol streamlines communication directly between our families and Bridge Staff, and allows the front desk to organize dismissal plans with teachers. Pickup Patrol ensures our students safely arrive where they need to be.
BBCS staff is available in-person, over the phone, and via email. Our Director of Operations, Jacori Telfair, will be at school 8am-3pm February 19th-23rd during February Break to help with questions in-person. You can also reach him or the front desk via email or phone below.
You should receive an email from Pickup Patrol on Friday, February 2nd. In your email from Pickup Patrol, underneath “Important Action Needed,” select “Register by clicking HERE.”
Your username will be the email address the message was sent to. You will be prompted to create a password.
Once the password is set, you will be brought to the Pickup Patrol website. Here you will be given an overview of how to use Pickup Patrol.
At the bottom of the screen, select “Default” with the image of the train.
Choose which student you want to edit, and select “update.”
Bridge Boston has uploaded your student’s Default Plan. Please review and select “confirm default plans” at the bottom of the screen.
At the bottom of the screen, select “change”.
Select what day you want to change your student’s dismissal plan.
Under “plan,” select the new dismissal procedure.
Under “dates,” you can apply this new plan to several days. For example, if your child will be picked up by a grandparent for a whole week, you can choose all these dates at once in the calendar.
Select “submit.”
You should receive an email confirming the change.
The email should be coming from pickuppatrol@pickuppatrol.net. The subject line should be “Bridge Boston Charter: It’s Time to Set Up Your Pickup Patrol Account.” Try using these search items.
Check your spam folder.
If there is another email address that Bridge might have on file, check that inbox too.
If you still cannot find the email, reach out to Jacori Telfair.
The link in each email only last 48 hours.
In your email from Pickup Patrol, after clicking “Register by clicking HERE”, you can request a new email to be sent.
Follow-up emails will be sent to everyone who has not registered. Each of these emails will have a new link. Be sure to use the most recent link to register.
PickUp Patrol is NOT an app — it is a WEBSITE.
You can use the Pickup Patrol website on both computers and mobile devices.
You can save the Pickup Patrol website to your phone’s home screen to look like an app. View Pickup Patrol’s guide here.
Jaguar Flame Squad Steppers will be hosting their 1st showcase of the season on Friday February 16th 2024 6:30-7:30 in the gym! Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and include a dinner plate, sold by Miss Tamila. Any questions please reach out to Miss Tamila and Mr T! Come support JFSS!
Bridge Boston invites sealed proposals from Contractors for the Outdoor Play Spaces project. The work includes but is not limited to installation of play equipment, as well as resilient safety and artificial turf surfacing for two outdoor play spaces at Bridge Boston. General Bids will be accepted until 2:00PM on Friday March 1, 2024. The estimated cost of the work is $450,000.
This project is being electronically bid (e-bid) and all bids shall be submitted online at www.projectdog.com. Hard copy bids will not be accepted. Bidders may obtain bid documents online at www.projectdog.com starting Friday, February 9, 2024 after 11:00 AM by entering the project code 859930 in the project locator box and selecting “Acquire Documents”. A pre-bid conference will be held for all interested parties on-site Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 11:00AM. Meet at 435 Warren Street, Boston, MA 02119. Attendance at this pre-bid conference is strongly recommended for parties submitting a bid. If you have any questions, please contact Nicole Dorn at ndorn@bridgebostoncs.org or 617-515-6183.
After our “snow” day on February 13th, the BBCS art show is rescheduled to Tuesday, February 27th.
Bridge Student Artists in fifth through eighth grade have been preparing for the upcoming Second Annual Art Fair! On Tuesday, February 27th from 5-7 pm, our artists will present and sell their art work to families, staff, community members, and other students.
Learn more about Art at Bridge.
Clear communication with families is an important aspect of Bridge Boston’s mission.
Teachers will be in contact with families with more information about scheduling.
For questions, reach out to (person).
Bridge is really focused on celebrating our students' academic growth. Although we use several different assessments, the one assessment that students (K2-8) take in both subjects (Reading & Math), and that we can consistently measure across grade levels throughout the years, is iReady. Now that students have completed their Middle of Year (MOY) assessments, we're looking to see who has achieved 50% or more of their Average Typical Growth. Average Typical Growth is calculated by iReady and is specific to each student's Beginning-of-Year level of performance-so basically based on their BOY scores, how much growth is typical for that student to make by the EOY.
If a student has made 50% of that growth by MOY, in either subject or both, it's time to celebrate. All students will join us in an awards ceremony to recognize the students' achievements. Those students who have achieved their growth will then participate in a "Growth Party" following the awards. Growth is important, so the goal is to get our staff and students talking about their goals and how to reach them. These celebrations will take place after each diagnostic moving forward, with the intention being to increase awareness of student-led goal setting. We want students to be able to speak to their own data and their progress towards their goals. Student ownership of their learning and achievements, always striving for academic excellence! Achievement doesn't have to mean meeting the benchmark or grade-level proficiency expectation, but everyone can grow and that's what we're looking for and celebrating.
Teachers share the data and goals with parents during Parent-Teacher Conferences, but parents can be encouraged to continuously ask their scholar about their learning and progress too :)
Join Bridge as we Celebrate the 100th Day of School! Our students are 100 days smarter. That’s something to celebrate! Our teachers will be celebrating in their own ways in their classrooms.
Learn more information about Math at Bridge
Bridge Boston is proud to host the Charter School Showcase this January. This is an opportunity for new families to get information about the charter schools and what they have to offer.
Current Charter School families to learn more about local high schools prior to the February 29th application deadline.
For questions or more information about the event, reach out to Evelyn Correa.
Bridge Boston will be off school in observance of Martin Luther King Junior Day.
Testing begins December 18th, however the majority of testing will take place after we return from winter break.
i-Ready is an online program for reading and mathematics that will help your student’s teacher(s) determine your student’s needs, personalize their learning, and monitor progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows your teacher(s) to meet your student exactly where they are and provides data to increase your student’s learning gains. i-Ready consists of two parts: Diagnostic and Personalized Instruction.
This Winter, we’ll be taking the Middle of Year (MOY) iReady Benchmark tests to measure your scholars’ growth from the Beginning of Year (BOY) to now. We’ll do this again in late Spring to measure their End of Year (EOY) growth as well. We look forward to celebrating your scholars’ achievements!
Your scholars’ Reading and Math teachers will be administering this assessment during designated testing periods. This will be the main focus of the days’ instructional blocks, since we want students to focus on the importance of the test to ensure we receive valid data to guide our future instructional delivery.
For more resources, visit iReady Family Center
DIBELS are measures that help teachers and schools determine how students are performing on important reading skills. DIBELS stands for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. These measures are designed for students in grades K-8. Here at Bridge Boston Charter School, we use this assessment for students in Grades K2-6 only.
A student’s scores on the DIBELS measures give the school information about whether or not a student is on track for grade-level reading success. A school can quickly identify students who do not meet the goals on each DIBELS measure and provide extra help. For example, if your child is reading words accurately, but slowly, the teacher can provide extra practice re-reading stories and passages to improve his or her reading rate or fluency. The teacher can use the progress monitoring scores to make sure your student receives extra help to improve other reading skills during the school year.
Teachers can review scores on DIBELS measures for all the students in a class to make decisions about how to prepare their day-to-day reading lessons. School and district staff can also study the test scores across classrooms and grade levels to make decisions about how to best use resources to make sure that every child in the school, including your child, is on track to become an accurate and fluent reader.
All students in a school building are given the DIBELS test three times each year; usually this occurs in the fall, winter, and spring. This school-wide testing is called benchmark assessment. School personnel may also regularly check on the progress of students who receive extra reading help to make sure their reading skills are improving. These regular checks are called progress monitoring. Students who are progress monitored may complete one or two of the individual DIBELS tests as often as once a week or as little as once every 6 weeks depending on school resources and the needs of the student.
In order to take these assessments, students are pulled individually by their Reading teacher and/or Reading Specialist. Depending on the portion of the test, it takes anywhere between 1-6 minutes to complete the assessment.
For more resources, visit Parents Guide to DIBELS Assessment
These are quick assessments used to determine your scholars’ math fluency across the main domains their grade level addresses.
This data helps our teachers to create intentional instructional groups aimed at targeting student specific math support needs. This allows us to provide targeted instruction based on strengthening their foundational math skills, as well as closing any foundational fluency gaps, to support their overall math calculation and problem solving skills.
These assessments are given three times per year to measure each scholar’s growth in each of these areas. Depending on your scholars’ grade levels, as well as their individual needs, tests may be administered during their Math instructional block through a whole group testing session, or individually/small groups.
This assessment provides information about students’ English language abilities in school. ACCESS measures what students know and can do in English domains of Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing.
Educators use this information to make decisions regarding students’ education and instructional needs, specifically centered around English language acquisition and application. ACCESS scores provide guidance around the amount and frequency of continued ELL instructional services.
Students who qualify for this assessment are tested either individually, or in small groups, by their ELL teacher. Since the test is broken into four domains, participating scholars will partake in four testing sessions spanning four different testing days. For example, your scholar may take Listening on Monday, Reading on Tuesday, etc.
ELL teachers will be reaching out to parents to notify them of their scholars’ specific schedule.
For more resources, visit WIDA
