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Mayfair High School Wrestling
At the March Board Meeting, the Board of Education recognized five students from Mayfair High School's Wrestling Team. Congratulations to Marie Saldana, Gabriel Santos and Turner Yanagisawa for earning Suburban Valley Conference Champion in their weight division. Isaiah Cruz and Kayden Cartee also earned Suburban Valley Conference Champion and they also earned CIF Southern Section Northern Division in their weight divisions.
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Somerset High School’s College & Career Fair
Somerset High School held their College & Career Fair this week. Students got to learn about a variety of career and college opportunities. Thank you to everyone that participated and helped our students build their futures!
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Mayfair High School’s Abilities Awareness Assembly
Mayfair High School was excited to welcome back their Abilities Awareness Assembly this week. This assembly is an educational experience through which Mayfair delivers a powerful message of equality, tolerance and understanding. Staff and students helped educate on a variety of disabilities while focusing on individual strengths and abilities. This was Mayfair’s 14th year sharing student’s stories and talents with this amazing assembly.
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Welcome to Phillip Sanchez - New Assistant Principal
Phillip Sanchez joins the Bellflower Unified School District as the new Assistant Principal of Washington Elementary School. He has over 25 years’ experience as an educator and instructional leader. He began his career as a special education aide and most recently he served as an English Language Arts Instructional Coach of an elementary school. Mr. Sanchez retired from the military as a Major with 27 years of service. He is an alumni of UC Irvine, UCLA, CSUDH and is a firm believer that all students can succeed and graduate from college. Mr. Sanchez is completing his final year in a doctorate in education program at CSULB. It is his mission to provide a safe learning environment for every student. Mr. Sanchez is excited to join Washington Elementary School and is looking forward to a productive year.
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Read Across America Day
Schools across the district celebrated Read Across America Day on Thursday, March 2nd. Thank you to all our guest readers for their involvement in the education of our students.
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PAPER Tutoring Available for TK-12th Grades
BUSD has continued its partnership with Paper Tutoring (PAPER) for this year in order to provide virtual tutoring for students in Transitional Kindergarten through twelfth grades. PAPER is a secure, online tutoring service that provides students with unlimited, 24/7 academic support. Whether a student needs assistance with homework, is studying for a test, or needs someone to read and make suggestions to their essays, there will always be experts available online to assist them in over 200 subjects and more than 4 languages. PAPER tutors have been trained to conduct expert, academic support in a secure, chat-based platform. Students can also use voice notes to communicate with the tutor by clicking the microphone icon in the chat bar. Using this feature, they can explain their questions and problems verbally. They can also listen back at a playback speed of their choice. All tutoring sessions are transcribed and can be viewed in the student's PAPER account. PAPER tutors are committed to helping students learn, so they do not just give students answers, but rather interact with them in an encouraging tone to lead them to finding the answer themselves. This is a free service, so our students are encouraged to use it as much as they need, whenever they need. To access the service, students can login to their Clever accounts and click on the PAPER icon.
