[BHS etree] BUSD: School Board Updates

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Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us

School board Udates:

The BUSD Board of Education has Proclaimed Tuesday Nov 25, 2008, Joaquin
Rivera Day in the Berkeley Schools.

The Board presented a Resolution honoring outgoing
Board member Joaquin J. Rivera (Consent Item 1.1-C).
Each board member shared individual comments of
their experiences with three time Board President
Rivera in his 12 years on the Board. The Board has
Proclaimed Tuesday November 25th, 2008 as Joaquin
J. Rivera Day in the Berkeley Schools.

3.1-I  2020 Vision and Academic Plan
The Board received report on the 2020 Vision for Berkeley's Children and
Youth. The 2020 Vision was proposed by United in Action (UIA)* and
affirmed by a Joint Resolution by the Board of Education and the Berkeley
City Council in June of 2008  *UIA is a group of community members and
organizations who developed the idea for the 2020 Vision and proposed it
to the School Board and City Council. **

3.2-I  Berkeley High School Grant
The Board received a report on Berkeley High School's Smaller Learning
Communities Grant. The grant supports the continuing efforts at BHS to
personalize the high school by adding one new small school, creating an
Advisory Program for all students and modifying the schedule to provide
more opportunities for students and to accommodate the Advisory Program. **

** Complete information about these items  is available for review in the
November 19, 2008 Board packet, located in the Board Meeting section of
the BUSD
website: [ http://in the Board Meeting section of the BUSD website:
www.berkeley.k12.ca.us ]www.berkeley.k12.ca.us
Schedule of Upcoming Board of Education Meetings
December 10, 2008 – Organizational Meeting (2009 meeting schedule will be
established at this meeting)

All Board packets are available electronically for review in all five
branches of the Berkeley Public Library, and are available on the BUSD
website: [ http://www.berkeley.k12.ca.us ]www.berkeley.k12.ca.us and hard
copies are available for review in the office of the Superintendent.
All Board meetings are broadcast live on Berkeley
Community Media Cable Channel 33 re-broadcasted
On channel 33 the following Thursday morning at 9AM
and on Sunday November 22, 2008 at 2PM.
Further schedule information can be found at BCM’s
website: [ http://www.betv.org ]www.betv.org (Note: Channel 33 is currently
broadcasting over 200 hours of BUSD activities andevents every month.)
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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320 Cell: 510-472-3811
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180