Success at BHSEC 📚
Yes, there will be significantly more homework than you may have had before. But there are a lot of different ways to manage.
• Start as you mean to go on. Keep backpacks organized from the beginning of the year with a filing system and use the school planner to track workload and deadlines.
• Do homework throughout the day, utilizing any spare class time. Even use your commuting time. If you score a free period or need help during lunch, go use the Center for Learning And Writing, or CLAW, which is staffed through the entire school day with peer tutors and advisors.
• Seriously, don’t slack off on your homework. It will remain manageable if you don’t let it backlog.
• Learn how to outline a paper. This tool alleviates the misery and creates structure so you can keep to the rubric, making space for your own voice to shine through. Competent writing is an expectation from Day One.
• Ask for help. It can be really hard for new BHSEC students to feel okay talking to their teachers about not being able to complete work (for whatever reason). But you will find that everyone is super understanding and willing to make accommodations. The biggest stress is to get over the anxiety around asking. Attending CLAW is great practice.
• When your teachers offer feedback on report cards, make sure to incorporate that advice. BardM teachers are amazing and always willing to hold regular conferences to make you a stronger student and more successful in their course. They are trying to prepare you for what comes next.
• Finally, make friends and ask upperclassmen for advice! Writing and Thinking workshops at the start of the new school year are mixed grades and an awesome way to hear about older kids’ experiences. If you’re worried about it now, chances are somebody else used to be.
