The Bexley High School TORCH gave page-one coverage to the district’s initiative to reduce waste, supported by BEF’s John and JoAnn Rohyans Sustainability Endowment (more…)
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CHECKPOINTS on middle school STEM classroom
This article appeared in the Bexley Board of Education publication Checkpoints for our Community, Vol. II, 2014-2015: (more…)
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BRAVO! 2015 Committee Gears Up
Our volunteer BRAVO! committee, chaired for the second year by ace organizer Julie Cohen, met recently to get the ball rolling for yet another fantastic BEF fundraiser. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for an evening of food, auction and raffle fun on Saturday, March 7, at St. Charles Prep! If you would like to Read More
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Bexley picks James McBride as Featured Author
James McBride ”” winner of the 2013 National Book Award in fiction for The Good Lord Bird ”” will be the featured author next year for the Bexley Community Book Club. McBride, also a jazz saxophonist, will take part in a literary conversation and perform with his quintet, the Good Lord Bird Band, at 7:30”‰p.m. Read More
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Bexley Education Foundation names grant recipients
The Bexley Education Foundation’s Board of Governors recently approved $69,679 in grants to Bexley City Schools, bringing the foundation’s total classroom grant funding awarded this academic year to $132,478.
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Author shares how reality shapes writing
Even though the weather outside was dull with gray skies and rain blanketing the area, the mood inside Bexley High School’s Dargusch Black Box Theatre on Wednesday, April 30, was electric.
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Featherstone is Bexley’s 2014 Educator of the Year
Friday, April 11, was just another ordinary day in Michael Featherstone’s class at Bexley High School — or at least as ordinary as things get in a class where the teacher is known for making history come alive through games, impersonations and lively discussions from his days abroad. But last Friday, as he stepped out Read More
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Scholar shares stories of women in Holocaust
“There was cruelty on every single level,” Myrna Goldenberg, professor emerita from Montgomery College in Rockville, Md., told students at Bexley High School as she spoke of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Children’s art becomes big part of BRAVO! fundraiser
Armed with paintbrushes and canvasses, pencils and paper, and dominoes and socks, young students in Bexley dove into their own unique art projects last week that they hope will earn some cash for the Bexley Education Foundation. “The children’s art is always the highlight of the event,” said Julie Cohen, co-chairwoman of this year’s event.
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Lessner relates how leaders grow into role during program kick-off
When local entrepreneur Elizabeth Lessner — who also calls herself a civic-minded gal — was in high school, she never sat up front. She rarely raised her hand. She admitted that if she were in the same Bexley High School audience she addressed Friday, Jan. 10, during the school’s Leadership Bexley Kick-Off, she would likely Read More
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