Our spirit shop has launched! You can purchase the 2020 winning design on t-shirts, hoodies, and masks in both youth and adult sizes through the links here. The shop will be open until December 1st and orders will begin shipping on December 9th.
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The BSI Annual Book Fair Sunday, November 15 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Hosted by The Center for Fiction and the BSI PTO
Shop online now at the Center for Fiction (CFF) and 20% goes to the BSI PTO!
From today through November 30th you can order from the Center for Fiction with the code INQUIRY, and 20% of your purchase will go to the BSI PTO! Share the code with family and friends along with this special link: https://bookstore.centerforfiction.org/?q=h!
Our special BSI Book Fair website allows you to order read-aloud titles, teacher recommendations and any book from CFF’s full inventory. Support your BSI classroom by sending our hard-working teachers gift cards or books from their wish lists.
Your Book Fair To-Do List 1. Kids (and families), share your book recommendations before Sunday, and be entered into a lottery to win signed books! Make a one-minute Flipgrid video sharing a book recommendation with the BSI community! Check out some of the great videos and make your own.
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Join us at 7PM on 10/14/20 for the PTO Meeting & Board Election! Find the Zoom invite in your inbox and read the agenda here.
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Important Voting Information
Although voting will be conducted through an anonymous poll, we must verify the eligibility of all voters. To help us do so, please rename yourself upon joining the meeting (instructions) with the name of your BSI student followed by your name so that our election judges can check attendance against school rosters. If you have more than one child in the school just list one of them.
Phone-in attendees will have their votes taken manually by voice in a private breakout room. For this reason, we strongly encourage voters to join us using the Zoom video link or application rather than calling in via phone if you are able to. You don’t have to have your camera on it will just make voting much easier.
Please note: Each parent/guardian who wishes to vote will need to join the meeting from a separate device.
Welcome to a new and very different school year. I don’t know about yours, but my kids have never been more excited to return to school — even if it’s on a screen!
YOU, along with every other BSI parent or guardian and teacher, are automatically a member of the PTO. Our main goal is to advocate for the educational, emotional, and social needs of our children as we support the vision of our school leadership. Our mandate celebrates inclusion, openness, collaboration, and frequent forums for discussion. We hold many social events and fundraisers throughout the year. All of our activities are run by parent volunteers like you!
Thank you to all who joined the PTO meeting on Monday evening. We are so glad so many parents and teachers were able to join. If you were at the meeting, you heard teachers express concerns about the schedule they were being asked to work. We are so thankful that our teachers care so deeply about teaching their students that they want to make sure that the schedules are sustainable for the best possible outcomes in this challenging system. The teachers felt so supported by the parents as they voiced these concerns. It is a great credit to the administration that they too were truly listening to the teachers’ concerns.
Yesterday, Mr. Havlik went around and spoke with the teachers at length about their concerns and made adjustments. We heard from Ms. Audrey, who was the first teacher to address the concerns during Monday’s meeting, that the teachers are much happier with the adjustments and excitement for the beginning of the new year has returned to Avenue P! This is a testament to the strength of our community.
Thank you to teachers, parents and administrators for hearing each other and working together for solutions! There are bound to be other bumps in the road this year and we will meet them together with strength and with compassion.Join Us! As you heard on Monday, elections for the new PTO will be held at our October meeting. We have many current board members who are willing to serve again if re-elected but we also have many vacant positions. We encourage you to reach out to us if you are interested in running for the board at execbd@bsipto.org. The open positions that we need to fill are listed below.
Co-President (1)
Treasurer & asst. treasurer (especially book-keeping experience) (1 or 2)
Parliamentarian (1)
Co-VP of Fundraising Events (1)
VP of Direct Appeal or co-VPs (1-2)
Co-VPs of Community Building Events (2)
Co-VP of Communications (1)
During this time of blended learning and distance learning, the PTO will be operating remotely, as you saw with Monday’s meeting. This also means our community-building events will need to be rethought. We need an events committee to help us think of new and exciting ways to bring our community together and to fundraise for our school. Please write to parentinvolvement@bsipto.org if you would like to help us with community building and/or fundraising.
As mentioned on Monday’s call we are looking into moving onto Konstella as a hub for everything you need to know from the PTO. If we make that shift, you will receive an invitation to join Konstella — please be sure to join to stay in the loop!
In the meantime, here are the various ways to get PTO information:
If your questions are about school schedules, curriculum, or other in-school matters please address those to the administration. You can reach parent coordinator Kareem Knights at pc[at] bsi686.org.
Here’s to a GREAT school year ahead!
Tania Kirkman
PTO President, on behalf of the entire Executive Board
Last Updated: November 16, 2020 by Communication VP
Shop the BSI Spirit Store
Our spirit shop has launched! You can purchase the 2020 winning design on t-shirts, hoodies, and masks in both youth and adult sizes through the links here. The shop will be open until December 1st and orders will begin shipping on December 9th.
Shop Now
Shirts and Hoodies: https://www.bonfire.com/brooklyn-school-of-inquiry-shirts/
Masks: https://www.bonfire.com/brooklyn-school-of-inquiry-mask/
Last Updated: November 14, 2020 by Communication VP
TOMORROW: Zoom with Authors and Teachers at the BSI Virtual Book Fair
The live BSI Virtual Book Fair starts tomorrow (11/15) at 2 p.m.!
We can’t wait to see you there for teacher and author read-alouds and more. Here’s everything you need to attend.
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Passcode: 331095
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+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Passcode: 331095
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.
Last Updated: November 14, 2020 by Communication VP
Order Your Books & Preview the BSI Book Fair Schedule!
The BSI Annual Book Fair
Sunday, November 15 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Hosted by The Center for Fiction and the BSI PTO
Shop online now at the Center for Fiction (CFF) and 20% goes to the BSI PTO!
From today through November 30th you can order from the Center for Fiction with the code INQUIRY, and 20% of your purchase will go to the BSI PTO! Share the code with family and friends along with this special link: https://bookstore.centerforfiction.org/?q=h!
Our special BSI Book Fair website allows you to order read-aloud titles, teacher recommendations and any book from CFF’s full inventory. Support your BSI classroom by sending our hard-working teachers gift cards or books from their wish lists.
Your Book Fair To-Do List
1. Kids (and families), share your book recommendations before Sunday, and be entered into a lottery to win signed books! Make a one-minute Flipgrid video sharing a book recommendation with the BSI community! Check out some of the great videos and make your own.
2. Download our Book Fair Schedule to see all our readers!
3. Shop with code INQUIRY!
4. Zoom with us on Sunday from 2-5 p.m. here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87600991432…
Meeting ID: 876 0099 1432
Passcode: 331095
One tap mobile
+16465588656,,87600991432#,,,,,,0#,,331095# US (New York)
+13017158592,,87600991432#,,,,,,0#,,331095# US (Washington D.C)
Last Updated: October 15, 2020 by Communication VP
October PTO Meeting & Board Election Info
Join us at 7PM on 10/14/20 for the PTO Meeting & Board Election! Find the Zoom invite in your inbox and read the agenda here.
************************************
Important Voting Information
Although voting will be conducted through an anonymous poll, we must verify the eligibility of all voters. To help us do so, please rename yourself upon joining the meeting (instructions) with the name of your BSI student followed by your name so that our election judges can check attendance against school rosters. If you have more than one child in the school just list one of them.
Phone-in attendees will have their votes taken manually by voice in a private breakout room. For this reason, we strongly encourage voters to join us using the Zoom video link or application rather than calling in via phone if you are able to. You don’t have to have your camera on it will just make voting much easier.
Please note: Each parent/guardian who wishes to vote will need to join the meeting from a separate device.
Posted: September 17, 2020 by Communication VP
Welcome Back to School!
Dear BSI Families,
Welcome to a new and very different school year. I don’t know about yours, but my kids have never been more excited to return to school — even if it’s on a screen!
YOU, along with every other BSI parent or guardian and teacher, are automatically a member of the PTO. Our main goal is to advocate for the educational, emotional, and social needs of our children as we support the vision of our school leadership. Our mandate celebrates inclusion, openness, collaboration, and frequent forums for discussion. We hold many social events and fundraisers throughout the year. All of our activities are run by parent volunteers like you!
Thank you to all who joined the PTO meeting on Monday evening. We are so glad so many parents and teachers were able to join. If you were at the meeting, you heard teachers express concerns about the schedule they were being asked to work. We are so thankful that our teachers care so deeply about teaching their students that they want to make sure that the schedules are sustainable for the best possible outcomes in this challenging system. The teachers felt so supported by the parents as they voiced these concerns. It is a great credit to the administration that they too were truly listening to the teachers’ concerns.
Yesterday, Mr. Havlik went around and spoke with the teachers at length about their concerns and made adjustments. We heard from Ms. Audrey, who was the first teacher to address the concerns during Monday’s meeting, that the teachers are much happier with the adjustments and excitement for the beginning of the new year has returned to Avenue P! This is a testament to the strength of our community.
Thank you to teachers, parents and administrators for hearing each other and working together for solutions! There are bound to be other bumps in the road this year and we will meet them together with strength and with compassion.Join Us!
As you heard on Monday, elections for the new PTO will be held at our October meeting. We have many current board members who are willing to serve again if re-elected but we also have many vacant positions. We encourage you to reach out to us if you are interested in running for the board at execbd@bsipto.org. The open positions that we need to fill are listed below.
During this time of blended learning and distance learning, the PTO will be operating remotely, as you saw with Monday’s meeting. This also means our community-building events will need to be rethought. We need an events committee to help us think of new and exciting ways to bring our community together and to fundraise for our school. Please write to parentinvolvement@bsipto.org if you would like to help us with community building and/or fundraising.
As mentioned on Monday’s call we are looking into moving onto Konstella as a hub for everything you need to know from the PTO. If we make that shift, you will receive an invitation to join Konstella — please be sure to join to stay in the loop!
In the meantime, here are the various ways to get PTO information:
If your questions are about school schedules, curriculum, or other in-school matters please address those to the administration. You can reach parent coordinator Kareem Knights at pc[at] bsi686.org.
Here’s to a GREAT school year ahead!
Tania Kirkman
PTO President, on behalf of the entire Executive Board
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