Mar
26
10:00 AM10:00

3rd Grade WINN Celebration

Families of 3rd-grade students are invited to join us for an exciting WINN Celebration showcasing student creativity, collaboration, and hard work!

📅 Date: March 26, 2025

🕙 Time: 10:00–11:00 AM

📍 Location: Classrooms & Gym

What to Expect:

✅ Explore student-led presentations in Crochet, Doodle, and Money Club

✅ Watch exciting performances and activities, including:

🎶 Ukulele Halftime Show

⚽ Soccer Game

🏀 Basketball Game

Upon arrival, families will be greeted and welcomed to move through the presentations at their own pace before transitioning to the gym for the performances and games. This is a great opportunity to see the incredible work our 3rd-graders have created!

🚗 Important Reminder:

To ensure a smooth school day, all families must clear the parking lot by 11:15 AM so that regular dismissal is not interrupted. If you plan to dismiss your child early, please check out at the front desk before leaving.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

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Mar
26
10:00 AM10:00

5th + 6th Grade WINN Celebration

Families of 5th and 6th graders are invited to join us for an exciting WINN Celebration showcasing student leadership, creativity, and teamwork!

📅 Date: March 26, 2025

🕙 Time: 10:00–11:00 AM

📍 Location: Cafeteria, YMCA, and Atrium

What to Expect:

✅ WINN Gallery Walk – Explore student-led presentations in:

  • FYRE: Girls Club (Cafeteria)

  • Book Club – Divergent (Cafeteria)

  • Graphic Novel Club (Cafeteria)

  • Arts & Crafts Club (Cafeteria)

  • Fitness & Volleyball (YMCA)

✅ Debate Club Presentation – Watch engaging student debates in the Atrium

Families will be greeted at the front door and provided with an event pamphlet upon arrival. You are welcome to move through the presentations at your own pace before transitioning to the atrium for the debate session. Siblings of participating students are also invited to attend!

🚗 Important Reminder:

To ensure a smooth school day, all families must clear the parking lot by 11:15 AM so that regular dismissal is not interrupted. If you plan to dismiss your child early, please check out at the front desk before leaving.

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Mar
26
8:30 AM08:30

K2, 1st, + 2nd Grade WINN Celebration

Join us for our Spring 2025 WINN Celebration! Families of students in grades K2, 1, and 2 are invited to experience the fantastic projects and activities our students have been working on in their WINN clubs.

📅 Date: March 26, 2025

🕣 Time: 8:30–9:30 AM

📍 Location: School Atrium, Classrooms, and Cafeteria

What to Expect:

✅ Explore student-led Knitting, Pottery, Jewelry, Photography, Self-Care, Cooking, and Slime Club presentations.

✅ Enjoys watching exciting activities like basketball games, sneaker fashion shows, and soccer games.

✅ Celebrate students’ hard work during the Closing Ceremony & Awards

Upon arrival, families will be greeted at the front door and provided with an event pamphlet. Families are welcome to move through the presentations at their own pace before moving to the cafeteria for the games and ceremony. Siblings of participating students are also invited to attend!

🚗 Important Reminder:

To ensure a smooth school day, all families must clear the parking lot by 11:15 AM so that regular dismissal is not interrupted. If you plan to dismiss your child early, please check out at the front desk before We’reng.

We’re looking forward to celebrating with you!

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Mar
15
10:00 AM10:00

Parent Academy

Families and caregivers of Bridge Boston scholars are invited to a day of hands-on learning, here at BBCS! Come hear informative sessions about homework help, social-emotional growth, and more from our Bridge staff, fellow parents, and other community partners. Check-in begins at 10am in the gym. Breakfast will be provided. Lunch will be available for purchase from our Parent Council.

After Parent Academy, consider joining Men of Power for their Movie Matinee in the gym at 2pm! Parents can bring their own blankets and snacks, and we’ll be playing a movie in the gym.

Not available for all of Parent Academy? Consider stopping by and supporting Parent Council’s Bake Sale Fundraiser from 12-1pm. Menu and details below.

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Jan
25
10:00 AM10:00

Parent Academy

Families and caregivers of Bridge Boston scholars are invited to a day of hands-on learning, here at BBCS! Come hear informative sessions about homework help, social-emotional growth, and more from our Bridge staff, fellow parents, and other community partners.

Check-in begins at 10am in the gym. Breakfast will be provided. Lunch will be available for purchase from our Parent Council.

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Dec
18
8:00 AM08:00

Winter Breakfast and Concert

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!

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Dec
16
to Jan 10

Middle-of-Year Testing

Testing begins December 16th, however the majority of testing will take place after we return from winter break.

Math Fluency: K2-8th

Purpose: 

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.  

Why?

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! 

How?

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: K2 - 6th Grade Literacy

Purpose:

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. 

Why?

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.

How?

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

iReady: K2-8th

Purpose: 

These are quick assessments used to determine your scholars’ math fluency across the main domains their grade level addresses.

Why?

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.

How?

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.

ACCESS Testing: English Language Learners

Purpose:

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.  

Why?

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. 

How?

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

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Oct
16
5:00 PM17:00

Exam School Workshop

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.

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Oct
9
5:00 PM17:00

High School Application Workshop

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.

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May
22
6:00 PM18:00

Duet + Bridge Info Session

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.

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Apr
4
6:00 PM18:00

Meet & Greet with Orin Gutlerner

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.

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Feb
26
8:00 AM08:00

Pickup Patrol

Introducing: Pickup Patrol

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.

Need Support?

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.

User Guide

  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • 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.

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