Pictures from today's Teambuilding Activity at BW. A great way of learning about others and having fun together. Introducing new staff to the positive culture at BW. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience #bwrunners #bw
A great day of reviewing our Language Arts achievement with @caedpartners. Adding a second team today in our meeting at the Padre Hotel. The team will work in connection with the math team, and will focus on continuous improvement. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience #SSDA
Moving the needle on student achievement in Language Arts. A half day session in the further implementation of @achieve3000 at BW. An awesome group of teachers with student achievement being the main focus. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Summer PD Continues--A great day of training with Erin Walker from @next_gen_math. A key component in BW's growth in academic achievement this past year. Focusing on raising DOK Levels. #1townschoolcommunity
Mrs. Gutierrez, our school psychologist, leads today's CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) refresher course. The group is focusing on deescalation services. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
When you have great MOT staff like Darryl Tindell that can do woodworking, our BW railings can be replaced and look like the originals. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Day 3 of our Westside Summer Institute was awesome. What a way for teachers and admin to end the 3 days of great presenters. @casas_jimmy delivered a very powerful message about the importance of, and how/why to #culturize our districts. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Day 2 of our Westside Schools is a success. @stevefarber presented The Radical LEAP for leadership (Love, Energy, Audacity, Proof). Everyone is a leader on campus. He also shared GTY (Greater Than Yourself). #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Mrs. Younger and Mrs. Turpin from @ButtonwillowUSD led afternoon sessions on implementing @next_gen_math with a focus on teaching to the math standards. Thank you to @Lakeside_Supt and @KClearnnetwork for providing sessions as well #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Day 1 of our Westside Schools was held today. Marc Johnson, former Sanger and National Superintendent of the year shared about Professional Learning Communities and doing what is right for students. #1townschoolcommunity #BWExperience
Let the staff trainings begin. Beside CPI and AVID earlier this summer, our PD series began Thursday with Miss Tobias and Miss Twiford attending training in Core Growth that aligns Kinder Readiness assessments with 12 other districts in Kern County. #1townschoolcommunity
Thanks to our MOT staff for their hard work this summer, especially during the last two weeks of really hot weather. Steven, Ruben, Misty, Darryl, and Rosa, you are awesome and also did a great job of modeling in front of the new BW backdrops.
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Part of the BW staff was in Sacramento for #AVIDSI19. With the focus being on student achievement they met as a site team in the Capitol Advisors conference room. They had a visit from Kevin Gordon and Jack O'Connell, former State Supt of Instruction. #1townschoolcommunity
After completing our STEM Summer School Program, #CampBlast19 with @csubted our students turned in tickets to win T-shirts from tech universities as well as @CSUBakersfield #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Our next year's 7th and 8th graders visited the Long Beach Aquarium today. Thank you to Mrs. Lopez and Mrs. Turpin for spending time with the students in Long Beach and on the bus today. A good culminating activity for summer school. #1townschoolcommunity #bwexperience
Thank you to the Bakersfield West Rotary for the $4,000 grant to #KEDF. It will help fund our Buttonwillow STEM Academy for our 5th-8th grade participants this year. Thank you Cheryl Scott at KEDF for working with our school district. #1townschoolcommunity
Our Roadrunners will be sporting new jerseys in all sports next year. There will be new Under Armour uniforms for boys and girls beginning in September with football and volleyball. Thank you Buttonwillow Foundation for the funds needed to get new uniforms. #1townschoolcommunity
Another great graduation in the books. Good luck to the BW Class of 2019. Thanks to all those who helped make the event successful and overcome some concerns at the start of the day. We are #BWRunners. #1townschoolcommunity
At BW we focus on relationships and creating a positive learning environment. Miss Contreras models this each day. When she graduated from @CSUBakersfield last week with a Masters in C & I, 12 of her 7th grade students attended. #1townschoolcommunity @csubted #culturize
A new tradition at Buttonwillow. Our former 8th grade grads from @shafter_high came back to BW to walk the halls and talk next steps that included trade school, JC, and/or 4 year university. @General_Pride #1townschoolcommunity @KHSD_Official @AVID4College
