Newsletter Archive

What’s inside: 

• Club M mentors make lasting impact on the next generation

• NHS project brings warmth, comfort to sick kids

• What seniors and parents should know about FAFSA, scholarships

• Warm breakfast, a la carte return to the lunch room

• Under pressure: Students build chest plates to learn force reduction

What’s inside: 

• Grayhounds give back ahead of holidays

• BHS launches cosmetology class

• Eighth-graders explore careers

• 50 years of ‘Fruitcake’

What’s inside: 

• BHS dazzles in growing drama program

• Board takes next step in auditorium project

• Student input shapes new school lunch options

• BHS to offer new health science class

• Veteran teachers team up with new educators for success

What’s inside:

• Ed Stone decks the halls with ghouls and goblins

• 2024 BHS graduate publishes her first book

• Read the winning entries for this year’s scary story writing contest

• Tunisian Teen adapts to life in Iowa

• Meet the foreign exchange students studying at BHS this year

• BCSD boosts facility safety measures

What’s inside: 

• Bracewell swells with purple pride on Alumni Night — written by BHS alum Anikka Cook

• Who is Geane Cleland, and why was she the grand marshal of this year’s Homecoming parade?

• How a social services specialist is helping to build a culture of contagious positivity and empowerment at Aldo and beyond

• Voters make auditorium expansion possible

• PiECES recognized for positive impact

• 8th-graders GEAR UP for college readiness

• Meet Sibyl McIntire, BCSD’s new grant coordinator

• What to know about upcoming traffic flow changes at BHS

• Prepare to be scared: Entries are being accepted for BCSD’s second annual scary story writing contest

• Brett Grimshaw joins Bracewell Wall of Famers

What’s inside: 

• High schoolers try hand at teaching at summer school

• A message from Superintendent Robert Scott

• What to know about the Sept. 10 special election and the proposed auditorium expansion

• BHS graduates reflect on growth and perseverance

• The many hats of Laci Johnson

• What a $1M grant means for afterschool programming

• iIJAG one of four programs in the state to receive donation

• Vida Long digs into new position

• Curriculum director nominated for administrator award

• Racing with Ray Raker

What’s inside:

• Paraeducators take fast track to teach

• Meet BCSD’s Purple Pathway grads

• Ed Stone student finds family with the fire department

• Public Safety CTE pathway to expand

• SESA donates soccer goals to pre-K-4 buildings

• Bring Change to Mind to host 3rd annual walk to fight suicide

What’s inside:

• DreamCatchers grant last wish

• VIBE teacher produces 1st film

• iJAG builds leadership, employability skills

• Watkins to lead Aldo Leopold Intermediate School

• Clark named new principal of Edward Stone Middle School

• Meet North Hill’s incoming principal

• New principal named for Corse Early Childhood Center

What’s inside:

• Black History Museum grows

• Adventure on the court

• BHS welcomes community to ribbon cutting event

• Myers to retire from 35-year career in education

• Marting named new principal of BHS

• Students become detectives with criminal profile project

What’s inside:

• CTE programs bridge skills gaps

• BHS senior is rescue ready

• Class of 2029 GEARs UP for the future

• Webb named head football coach

• BHS Drama Department announces spring play

What’s inside:

• BHS girls basketball team closes out 2023 with the Iowa Hawkeyes

• How a pre-winter break cookie tradition came to be at BHS

• 6th-graders to perform with SIESTA Cadet Honors Orchestra

• BHS students compete in state carpentry and electrical challenge

What’s inside: 

• Girls wrestling team opens new doors for student athletes

• Volunteer makes impact, finds family at Black Hawk Elementary School

• BHS senior prepares for D.C.

• New school board members sworn in

• GEAR UP Iowa grant to benefit 7th grade cohort

What’s inside:

• DON’T QUIT Fitness Center opens at Aldo Leopold Intermediate School

• Meet the candidates running for Burlington School Board

• BHS students compete in stock market challenge

• More than 130 compete in 1st annual creative writing contest

What’s inside: 

• K-4 STEM takes flight

• New names added to Bracewell Wall of Honor

• 2023 Homecoming Court

• How to enter the Scary Story Writing Contest

What’s inside:

• BCSD summer programs offer new experiences to Burlington students

• BCSD, Greater Burlington Partnership partner to bring Mark Perna to Des Moines County

• What’s new this year at BCSD

• Burlington students to eat for free regardless of household income

What’s inside: 

• Victory for the class of ’23

• School’s out for Buckman

• Dragon Boats: 33 years of a BHS tradition

• Same faces, new places: Who’s going where for the 2023-24 school year

• BCSD to offer summer food service program

• Aldo Leopold Intermediate School wins $100K fitness center

What’s inside: 

• No one walks alone: Community turns up for 2nd annual Walk to Fight Suicide

• Phase II of Burlington High School’s $35M renovation project begins

• Green Iowa Americorps empowers student with sustainability projects

• Where there’s a need, there’s a Leo

• Test driving OpenSciEd

What’s inside:

• Dogs on the job

• Bring Change to Mind Club 1st of its kind in Iowa

• 100 years of National Honor Society at BHS

• Thinking classroom is a ‘game-changer’

• BCSD conference takes proactive approach to combat homelessness

• Vititoe tapped as assistant director of curriculum

What’s inside:

• The making of Aldo’s Black History Museum

• Scandal, strategy abound in student primaries

• Food workers serve up trust in the cafeteria

• What to know about the ISASP

• National Honor Society chapter turns 100

• Penny Wars to raise scholarship money for former Grimes student

What’s inside: 

• BCSD bus drivers offer consistency and friendly faces to riders

• From mentee to mentor: A generational effect takes shape at Club M