BCAM Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School you all of the amazing facts about the way Earth works. For college, I left my home state to attend Beloit College in Wisconsin where I studied geology. For my senior thesis, I had the opportunity to travel to Tanzania, Africa to conduct research on the rocks of Serengeti National Park. They are some of the oldest rocks on Earth, formed about 2.7 billion years ago! During my five-month visit, I was able to learn a lot about the culture and a little bit of the language. In college, I enjoyed the small size of my classes, the enthusiasm of the students and the engaging lessons. College offered so many opportunities for me! This experience showed me that I wanted to stay in the classroom, but this time as a teacher, and help students create opportunities for themselves. After college, I joined the New York City Teaching Fellows Program and have taught science in the city for the last five years. I have three BIG goals for my 9th grade science students. I want you to be able to: • • •
observe the world around you, question what you see and draw conclusions you can apply to the real world work together with a team of students to engage in problems and find solutions explain how earth has changed over its lifetime and how different earth systems are connected
Simone Wilson, Office Associate My name is Simone Wilson and I was born and raised in New York City. During the earlier years of my life I lived in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn. By the time I was able to go to school I was living in Queens, where I continued to for most of my life up until recently. Queens was also where I completed most of my schooling. For grades 1-6 I attended a private school, Bethel Learning Center. For Junior High school I went to I.S. 231.Then I attended and graduated from Nazareth Regional High School in the Canarsie section of
Brooklyn. I have been working since I was 14 years old. The first couple of jobs I had were summer jobs. I have experienced some very interesting work environments—as a counselor at a summer camp in the Bronx, as a stylist at a hair salon, as a file clerk at St. Johns University, as a sales associate at Target, as a security guard, as a counselor at a counseling center, as a receptionist and switchboard operator, and so on. Recently I have taken a position as an Office Assistant here at BCAM. I am very excited to be performing multiple duties beyond the office. Besides working in the office, I will be working closely with the Administrative Director, Principal, and Assistant Principal. I will also be collaborating in Ms. Herbes’ Advisory Fam, assisting in lunch duty, participating in community-building activities with the students, and I will carry out numerous assignments given to me as needs arise. Now that I will be working at BCAM, I have a few goals that I would like to set for the school year: • First, to facilitate the smooth and efficient operations of the BCAM office. • Second, to do all I can to help make BCAM a positive environment for the students and faculty. • Third, is to be flexible with my duties so that I can help out with whatever is needed as situations arise.
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