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Parent Resources

Message from Our Parent Coordinator

My name is Ms. De Los Santos. I am the Parent Coordinator at Bushwick Leaders High School. I am extremely excited to work with you all and excited to see what this year has in store. We encourage all parents to be actively involved in their children’s education. We strongly believe that the key to a student’s academic success is a parent or guardian who is an active school community member. I look forward to working with each you this coming year and encourage you to take a moment to attend a workshop or an event. You are a valuable member of our school community whose support we need to help every single student achieve academic excellence.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions for workshops, events or activities. Everyone school community member is welcomed to participate, and all ideas are valued. I can be reached at (718-366-7120, ext 1551) Monday through Friday from 7:30am to 3:30pm. Thank you.

Communication Tools

The following is a list of applications that we use for sharing important information with our school community (parents, staff, students) and the public.

KinVolved

Link
There is no website or application for parents or students to use. We add phone number to the application on our end and you receive text messages with announcements in real time.
Audience
Parents and students
Purpose
KinVolved is our primary means of communicating directly with parents. We sometimes use KinVolved to also share information with students. KinVolved is not public facing, meaning that the audience is only members of our school community.

Instagram

Link
https://www.instagram.com/bushwickleadershs/
Audience
Students, parents, school staff and the public
Purpose
We use our Instagram page to build school spirit and showcase our school climate and culture. Since Instagram is very visual we do this by sharing photos and short videos (or stories). Photos that are shared on our Instagram are pushed to our school website here: https://bushwickleadershs.com/gallery/.

Twitter

Link
https://twitter.com/leadershs
Audience
Students, parents, school staff and the public
Purpose
Purpose
We use our Twitter page to share important announcements in real time with students, parents, school staff and the public. Announcements that are shared on Twitter are pushed to our school website here: https://bushwickleadershs.com/announcements/.

School Website

Link
https://bushwickleadershs.com/
Audience
Students, parents, school staff and the public
Purpose
We use school website to share key information about our school with all school community members including students, parents and school staff. This includes information about our academic programs, a list of staff members, contact information and useful resources.

Emergency Contact Information/Digital Blue card

It is extremely important that parents/guardians share the most current emergency contact information for their child with our school. Emergencies do happen and being able to immediately contact a parent/guardian in such an event is critical. For this reason we ask that you share and update your child’s emergency contact information using our digital blue card system here: http://mybluecard.org/. The digital blue card makes it much easier to keep your child’s contact information up to date. Directions for creating a digital blue card are shared here. If you need more assistance setting up your child’s digital blue card please reach out to our Parent Coordinator, Melissa De Los Santos.

Enrollment

If your child needs to be enrolled in a high school in any of the five boroughs, please complete and submit the form below to set up an appointment with the family welcome center.
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enrollment-help/family-welcome-centers

Parent Engagement

There are a variety of ways for parents to get involved in their child’s academic experience at Bushwick Leaders high School including parent-teacher conferences, Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meetings and School Leadership Team (SLT) meetings. Participating in these meetings/conferences along with other events that we hold throughout the year will not only help your child succeed academically but will also help us improve our school community. Your voice matters so we highly encourage you to get involved. For more information about parent-teacher conferences, PTA and SLT, see below.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-teacher conferences are held throughout the year and a great way for parents to engage with our school community. During parent-teacher conferences parents/guardians have an opportunity to speak with teachers and other school staff members about their child’s academic progress. Please refer to our school calendar on our website for the dates of parent-teacher conferences for the school year. More information about parent-teacher conferences will be shared with parents/guardians using KinVolved.

PTA

The PTA is a group of individuals that help advocate for young adults and parents. PTA links families to important school and community information. PTA hosts fun, education clubs, programs, and events for our families. We meet once a month. Please refer to our school calendar on our website for the dates of parent-teacher conferences for the school year. For more information about PTA please see here:
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/get-involved/families/parent-associations.

SLT

The School Leadership Team (SLT) is a group of people who develop educational policies for their school. They also make sure there are resources to support those policies. Please refer to our school calendar on our website for the dates of parent-teacher conferences for the school year. For more information about PTA please see here: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/get-involved/families/school-leadership-team.

School Policies

For information about the school policies listed below please visit our School Policies page on our website here.

  • Dress Code
  • Attendance Policy
  • Grading Policy
  • Policy on the Use of Electronic Devices

Who to Contact for More Assistance

School Secretary (Tanya Pacheco)

  • Face to Face Letter
  • Changes to Student Records
  • Please update your child’s record on mybluecard.org. Please note: A utility bill will be needed for address changes. For any custodian changes, please contact the school to submit required documentation.
  • Transcript Request (for alumni)
  • If you need to request an official transcript, please email Ms. Pacheco at tpacheco@schools.nyc.gov with your name, date of birth, year you graduated BLHS and email/address to where you would like your transcript mailed.

Parent Coordinator (Melissa De Los Santos)

Guidance Team (Kevin Santos, Marlene Pacheco, James Grant, Giselle Ramirez)

  • Student Counseling
  • Crisis Intervention