The Paw Print

Welcome back to everyone's favorite newsletter, The Paw Print! The Paw Print is so glad that everyone has made it back safely! It has been sooo cold and Georgia folk do NOT know how to drive on ice! What was Mother Nature thinking?! Icy roads or not, Burke County kids get excited when the temperature drops because that means SNOW SELFIES and maybe, just maybe, getting out of school! So we hope that all of your sweaters are zipped up tight and ready to tackle a week of even more cold weather! BRRRRRRR!

The Paw Print hopes that our students' resolutions are to work harder than ever and keep those grades zooming through the roof! As always, Stay #BearBuilt!

The Paw Print can be viewed every 2nd and 4th Wednesday. The newsletter features sports updates, events in the community, and fun activities for the family... so stay tuned!

We wish our Burke County High School Beta Club students good luck as they make their way to Savannah to compete at the State Beta Convention! Those who win at the state level will be eligible to represent Burke County at the National Beta Club Convention this summer!

We are so proud of our Burke County Middle School Boys Basketball Team for working so hard to represent our county at the regional level! Way to show the Coastal Empire how hard Cubs really bite!

The team brought home the gold in a 51-18 win to earn the title of Coastal Empire Region Champions. The boys played hard and finished the season with a 14-1 record.

Pictured are, from left, Kameron Lee, Banks Knight, Braylen Bellamy, Sean Vandiver, La’Quinton Morgan, Coach Bobby Burum, Jayden Lambert, Quay Lovette, Javien White, Omarion Cobb, Kendrick Carter, Talon Heath, Denzel Myers, Darrien Tullis, De’Cori Fleming, Rashard Carter, and Coach Breontrae Derricotte.

The Georgia School Board Association recognizes school systems annually for their standards of effective governance and exemplary leadership. Burke County Public Schools has been awarded with 'exemplary placement,' the highest level of recognition.

One of Burke County Public School's parent volunteers has been chosen by Superintendent Richard Woods to represent Burke County as a member of his Parent Advisory Council. As a member of the council, Miettunen is responsible for providing input on the decisions and policies placed on a statewide-level to ultimately increase student achievement and parent engagement.

Congratulations to BCHS teacher Beth Suggs and freshman, Tristian Hatcher, for being named 180 Teacher and Student of the Quarter. The 180 Award recognizes teachers and students who show engagement and tenacity through our usage reports, consistency, and perseverance in using the program as designed. Throughout the nation, 34 educators and 30 students have earned the 180 Award this quarter.

As part of this honor, they will both be invited to the virtual HMH 180 Awards, along with other educators and students from around the US who have made exceptional progress at the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

Congratulations to Burke County High School's J'Dynn Allen for being invited to pursue her track passion at an even larger level. Allen was granted a full-ride four-year track scholarship because of her extensive athletic and academic achievements. Burke County is so glad that J'Dynn is getting the opportunity to CHASE her dreams, literally!

A local partnership will empower students with simulated experience in the electrical industry. During their January Board meeting, the Burke County Board of Education approved the implementation of an outdoor learning and training center to be located behind the practice football field.

Charged with excitement, CTAE Director Sean Middleton said the simulated lab will provide students with a strong foundation and help create a pipeline that potentially could lead to internships and/or scholarships. The lab will enable students to develop their interest and talent in a field that offers employment opportunities locally. Click on the photo to find out more!

Recently, Blakeney Elementary School welcomed parents to come read to their students’ classes as a part of their Parent Engagement Month Festivities. Students were happy to see familiar faces and hear a good story or two!

The calendar below is the calendar that won the district-wide calendar vote! Here is the official academic calendar of the 2022-2023 school year! Need a printable version? Just click on the calendar!

To better accommodate school district stakeholders, the Burke County Board of Education has set its 2022 regular monthly meetings for the third Tuesday of each month at 5:00 p.m., a week later than its previous meeting time of the second Tuesday in the month. The meetings will remain being held at the Burke County Board of Education Central Office, 789 Burke Veterans Parkway, Waynesboro, GA.

The Agenda is accessible through Simbli. To locate Simbli, go to any of our Burke County Public Schools websites and select Simbli/Meetings in the top left corner of the page. Then, select Meetings, where the agenda will be posted each month.

On the day of the Board meeting, which is the 3rd Tuesday of each month, a link to watch a

live-stream of the meeting is posted on the homepage of our district website under "Recent News."

If you miss the meeting live stream, the recording is posted on our Burke County Public Schools, GA YouTube Channel the following day.

The Word of the Day is Intemperate! Intemperate is a verb that means having extreme conditions or having a lack of emotional control. Like Martin Luther King, Jr. you should be intemperate when expressing something you are passionate about.

We challenge you all to use this word as many times as you can this week, extra points if you use it in the right context, EVEN MORE points if you have to explain to somebody what it means!

January 26 commemorates National Peanut Brittle Day, National Spouses Day, National Green Juice Day, and Australia Day. Burke County families can celebrate this day by cooking home up some homemade peanut brittle with their crush and washing it all down with their favorite spinach and carrot smoothie- because everybody knows that eating something healthy directly after eating something unhealthy cancels out the unhealthy food! As the final course of the meal, they can make a little shrimp on the barbie with their favorite mates! G'day, Burke County!

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which was celebrated on January 17, The Paw Print would like for you all to take 8 minutes and 54 seconds out of your day to watch the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. as told by all of your favorite characters on Sesame Street! The video can be accessed by clicking the image to the right!

We are proud to unveil our newest endeavor to impact our community! Burke County Public Schools is Bringing Educators and Stakeholders Together by recognizing Burke’s B.E.S.T.!

Here at BCPS, our families, students, faculty and staff, and community partners are our richest resources, and we want them to be acknowledged as such! We want to increase the number of opportunities to recognize and celebrate all stakeholders. Explore our website to see what's new. Be on the lookout for more information about Burke’s B.E.S.T!

Our district app is intended as an on-the-go information source for parents & families. With the BC App, all information is brought together and delivered to one platform.

One feature of the app is that those without social media can access the district’s social media posts via the News section of the app. Additional features include access to breakfast & lunch menus, individual school calendars, push notifications, sports scores, one-click email to staff via the Directory section, and much more!

Public Information Officer

Burke County Public Schools

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Jada Curd, BCHS Junior

Work-Based Learning

Email: ajnunnally@burke.k12.ga.us
Website: www.burkeschools.org
Location: 789 Burke Veterans Pkwy, Waynesboro, GA, United States
Phone: (706) 554-5101
Facebook: facebook.com/BurkeCountySchools
Twitter: @BCPS_Bears