Why did I choose Beacon High School
SPECIAL EDUCATION: Beacon offers special education teacher support services (SETSS) and small group support classes that students attend in addition to their regular subject classes. The building is also one of several instructional sites for Manhattan High School (P35M), which is part of District 75, the citywide district for students with severe disabilities. Manhattan High School shares one floor with Beacon.
Cecilia Rodriguez okay she came on board at the 2016 and build this program up to what it is today and actually she had a game today and I haven't hopefully she wants you made it in the playoffs so she was the number one seed also this year the beacon girls tennis team won the the whole thing just a fun fact they finished 12 and old okay and they 15in no against Bronx Science bringing home another championship for the Beacon Community all right I'll talk about this talk about the sports here because once again we have over 21 sports summer Sports we have for the fall we got boys and girls soccer cross country boys fencing those bowling girls volleyball girls have winter sports we have boys and girls basketball JV boys basketball we have indoor track the boys and girls are we do not have a JV girls team but we're trying our best to see if we can add teams it's just a challenge when it comes to space and time we also have the spring Sports we have girls softball Boys Baseball boys Lowe's outdoor track girls fencing boys tennis and JV soccer so we can have a multitude of sports that your child can be a part of of the Beacon Community no I'm going to visit teacher happy we have other colleagues at our work with us we have Mr Saatchi and Miss Rodriguez I just spoke about all students from grades 9 through 12 must have a p in high school or high school students what's an equivalent of 4 credits in PE to graduate students must have a PE a 90 minutes per week for a semester's basically basically you have a two semesters for marking.
Every student gets a half a credit you need a total of eight semesters or The Graduate grading policy your grading policies based on you know your effort I'm a big fan of you know a personal fitness training we try to Foster lifelong Fitness amongst our students there's an old adage if you don't use it you lose it so I'll first two to three weeks focus on Personal Fitness training healthy competition Sports from volleyball to hockey to basketball so we give a certain amount of different activities each student to participate in what's the start but I want to thank you for joining this decides Google me if you need to contact me maybe when I take a picture of the screen and these are all the teachers had to pee apartment thank you that being said we'll go straight into one of the Math teachers at Beacon High School this is my fish and my 22nd during the day or so I've been teaching I guess quite a long time Beacon is unique because we are not a region school we Arkansas Consortium School Oliver soon to come to Beacon take a diagnostic they said that in the end of eighth grade or in the summer to place within either a algebra class or a geometry class in his line is going to share the slides that we have think she's sharing or sharing the slides hopefully it's not miss Heller are you able to share for me so the students will take a diagnostic their place our algebra is different it is not the same as Regents based algebra the Gilmore in that's one of our teachers do not use calculators so the students have time to explore and prepare for the Project based assessment that's their graduation requirement and in the math department we take vpvr students take it in Algebra 2 so there is time as a student's work through algebra geometry and algebra two to prepare they go in their ready to do this they prepare their GPA for teachers it's a project at the students work alone I'd there I'm teachers within the department that there that there you I'm working with and I have two students I believe for work here Adam and Jonah we're going to talk about their experience and now I'm Adam I'm a senior see everybody here bypass was I started freshman year and Algebra 1 and now as a senior I'm taking AP calc and statistics so you can offers the the electives for seniors which is satistics architecture and economics the reason that you would take one of these in addition to or instead of kalker pre-calc AP calc because they really help you prepare for college and some kids don't want to take house so it's it's great that you have the option to take these electives that are really helpful and really give you real-world experiences that you want to get in the other Mass so yeah I took pre-calc in the summer this past summer and that was because junior year because of the path I ended up taking Algebra 2 and the only way that you could get into calkin AP calc is taking that summer class but once you take that class it's very easy to take whatever Matthew want is a senior yeah that's my experience Jonah yeah I guess so big at Beacon Rising seniors have an option to take a pre calculus class over the summer to prepare themselves for calculus in senior year so it's one Mount month course over the summer is very regretful about trigonometry rational functions limits but others but it offers students to take calculus for AP Calculus and Senior year so when you enter in senior year for senior year you have an option to do a placement test either going into calculus or going into AP Calculus so you're taking this AP basically an AP test and you either get into calculus or if you count the pending on I'm how the greater score your test so I also started an outdoor one of my freshman year during covid-19 alum in AP Calculus because I did the summer pre-calc over why did pre-calc during the summer and then I took a placement test before my senior year and then now I'm in AP Calculus The Mask years is rigorous again no no Regents so we do Project based assessments where students get up Raj then they work on it and format so yeah great thank you so that is now to summarize the color of the College counseling at the Beacon School I've been here for 16 years there are four College counselors at Beacon and we believe in making sure that each student finds the best fit for them we get to know you and help you see which college fits you as opposed to helping you fit into a specific what I supposed to college wants junior year each student needs one-on-one with their college counselor we help you create a balanced list of likely and Target and we also have over 250 College wraps that come every year to Beacon we have a weekly bulletin that goes out with scholarships and summer programs with you know other types of black community service things like that any opportunities that come across our place we also use Naviance which is a software program to help students apply to college and help us connect the students and help them to kind of see different information about we have tons of workshops in the evenings on financial aid College admissions different workshops everything from like essays to interview we also have workshops in advisories Junior and Senior year helping students with the application process senior year we have family meetings with every single family we push into classes or application procedures we also have boot camps for applying to CUNY and Sunni and doing financial aid and of course help our students celebrate when they get accepted over 99% of our students graduate on time 95 for one of our students attend four-year colleges and over 50% of our students end up going out of state for college because they can't afford it which is pretty rare for a public school I was trying to show you a list of all of the schools are students are accepted but I will hopefully I'll be able to just put them on our website so that you can see it and our Beacon College office website is Beacon College office.
Beacon High is a community secondary school
For many students the school's dynamics are liberating. However, there are students, especially freshmen, who become overwhelmed. Some can't find their niche among Beacon's many students and activities. Others struggle with what one parent described as "college-level expectations with assignments that require more maturity than most 14-year-olds have," such as "trace the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire using primary source materials and taking into account the importance of syncretism."
we provide our individual to a student's needs but really A four goals that are really outlining ink on their IP and also the types of special types of programs and support that we offer a 3 we offer a special education teacher support services or because that's when they're simply extra classes throughout the week led by especially special education teacher that are dedicated to getting IP goals and supporting each executive functioning skills another one we have I see to your integrated co-teaching which is essentially general education classes taught jointly by special education teacher and the content teacher on our third one is a special classes that glasses that are cops owned by special education teachers in a non general education environment so part of our commitment to equity and inclusion as ensuring that all students feel like they're going to keep their personal academic goals and is supported Garmin radar Advocates welcomed and courage so it in the recent nearest Beacon has brought his approach special education by providing opportunities for students with the eyepiece received additional academic intervention and support their classes students with IEPs formed the IP genuine and in an effort to provide us space outside the classroom to voice our opinions and concerns we as a special education department have included in Mass for their feedback into him the information a support services so yeah in the past I'm coming in the last two years where it's actually been a meeting and practice the actual student leaders have hosted and IP Eastern Union where we synergistically were with staff to help students at the at from all levels kind of like a top-down method but it's been a lot easier on students have heard voice is a lot better recently but yeah call me just finish this and I want a quote by our sister location Chief you she was talking before they probably recognize her but she said supporting students with IEPs can only happen successfully partnership between parents and students parents are the experts on who's our child our children are what the children need overarching theme with the special agent Special Education Department is disorder three-way partnership between students teachers and pans kind of all discussion all the stuffy stuff together at around able enough to reflect over I can see now thank you Aaron and babe you just heard from our students I wanted to let you know a little bit about the guidance team at Beacon and Tails a beacon has 6 guidance counselors and three social workers including a rapport nater and collaboration is integral to the work that we do because I operate with advises teachers students and parents to support us students behaviorally emotionally socially and academically and one of the things that our guidance counselors try to strive when we first introduced ourselves to a new students new prospective students we tell them that it regardless of who your guidance counselor is go to any adult that you feel most comfortable with because if you come to anyone I will make sure that you get the support that you need and dad has helped us students go to anyone in the building because we try to provide a supportive environment it regard weather Rowlett and students are also encouraged to build your confidence and competence by encouraging them to occupy leadership roles and they do so in different ways we have students here who are part of the big sister program and these are students who are seniors and they take on the role of welcoming incoming freshman and stay with them during the course of the first year at Beacon and disappoint them in a b tree and use me and also outside of advisory we also have students who started a club called we can collaborate mine which is a club that supports students emotional well-being students felt the need to start this club because it helped to stigmatize mental health and is supposed to dance in Kenya building and there many many other clubs that are students will speak to you later and I I forgot to mention that we have to guidance counselors to support students with IP and later on a student to speak to other clubs that get part of that support student leadership and a sense of belonging at the weekend thank you so now we're talkin about Arts begin I'm going to pass that to mr.
intro to say the closing remarks to get important information to prospective Beacon Nights two families I understand that the process of selecting the proper fit the right choice for your child is a difficult one I have two sons one in college and one going into middle school so the process of finding the right School.
Beacon has a relaxed vibe and in many ways feels more like a small college than a high school. Bulletin boards display signs for clubs and social causes; teachers don't shy away from discussing sensitive or political topics in class. Students also have full run of the place when they're not in a class. They socialize and do work in the hallways and are welcome to eat lunch in staff offices and open classrooms as well as the expansive cafeteria. If they really want to concentrate on work, they head to the library.