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2024 Rising Knights HBCU College Tour
by: Regina Hendrix
This unique tour strives to stimulate interest among select students in attending one of the public or privately supported HBCUs. This year, we will visit eight colleges: Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, Tuskegee University, and Fort Valley State University. The project's long-term objective is to develop ways and means to ensure that qualified BMHS high school students become familiar with the historic mission of Black Colleges and Universities and their broad range of high-quality educational programs and academic fields. Another objective is to identify students who would especially benefit from the stimulating and supportive learning environments so characteristic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, while comprising only three percent of the nation's 3,688 institutions of higher learning, are responsible for producing approximately 23 percent of all bachelor's degrees. Over 50 percent of African Americans who graduate from HBCUs go on to graduate or professional schools. HBCUs contribute to the continuing rise of black intellectuals, professionals, and creative artists, which is evident throughout American society. HBCUs graduate over 50 percent of African-American professionals, 50 percent of African American public school teachers, and 70 percent of African American dentists. HBCUs also award more than one in three of the degrees held by African Americans in natural sciences. By participating in this fundraiser, you will be helping approximately 30 young people in their pursuit of higher education! Our students will receive an enhanced awareness of the academic programs, entrance requirements, career opportunities, social and emotional support mechanisms, and financial resources offered by HBCUs. In addition, our own Knightingales Step Team will be performing! The trip will also include time when the youth will be able to see the most popular sites and attractions in the area and participate in a community service project.
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Beloit Memorial Jazz Orchestra is NYC Bound! Essentially Ellington Finalist 2024
by: Chris Behrens
WE DID IT AGAIN! The Beloit Memorial Jazz Orchestra has been selected as one of only fifteen bands to participate in the 29th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival in New York City, May, 2024. REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY! It is an honor to return to New York and represent Beloit and our school district. It is also an opportunity to increase our knowledge of jazz history with site visits and tours, perform on the Jazz at Lincoln Center stage, and experience the Big Apple. WE NEED YOUR HELP! This is a special opportunity for us to travel to the East Coast and compete with the best, but it is also very expensive to fly and house students, chaperones, teachers, and their instruments for five days in Manhattan. We have to raise $56,000 in the next six weeks to fund this trip… HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP : 1. Make a donation on this website! 2. Come hear us play and donate at our special event: Details coming soon on our Facebook Page BMHS Jazz Band or check back here! We are proud to represent Beloit and we are grateful for your support!
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Scotland Fringe Festival
by: Greg Wallendal
The Beloit Memorial High School Theatre has once again been invited to perform at the largest theatre festival in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We will prepare and perform a showpiece at the Fringe in August 2024, just as we did in 2010, 2013, and 2016. Fringe is a two-week trip in which we stay two nights in London for sightseeing and theatre in the West End, followed by ten nights in Edinburgh to explore and perform at the Fringe Festival. Please donate to help our students gain this powerful, unforgettable lifetime experience.
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship 2023-2024
by: Jennifer Paepke
The School District of Beloit is proud to continue our Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program to provide scholarships to minority students who decide to pursue careers in education. These new teachers will return to Beloit and our community of learners to begin their career. This year, we look forward to awarding a second scholarship to a current staff member in a support role who would like to complete their bachelor's degree, and begin teaching in the district! We are proud to announce that our we have our first teacher hired this year as a scholarship recipient now working at Todd Elementary! You help to support the journey of students becoming teachers! With extensive national debate about Closing the Achievement Gap in education, we believe having a quality diverse workforce is a key component to address this issue. However, in too many schools throughout our nation, school districts continue to struggle with educating a very diverse student population with a less-than-diverse workforce. According to the School District of Beloit's 2022-2023 Staffing, Recruitment & Retention (Diversity) Report (dated November 2022) there were 27 Black / African American, 3 Native American / Alaskan, 7 Asian, and 39 Hispanic / Latinx professional educators out of a total of 459 professional educators within the entire school district. In essence, there were 76 minority professional educators out a total of 459, which is 16.56%. This is an improvement over time, yet not reflective of our current student population of 68.06% minority students. The School District of Beloit believes that such a disparity is unacceptable and has taken action steps to address this issue. The School District of Beloit not only values diversity, but also believes our workforce should be reflective of the students and community it proudly serves. Additionally, the School District of Beloit believes that it is important that students see and possibly, have the opportunity to be taught by a teacher who looks like them within their educational experience. Therefore, in an effort to ensure a mix of diversity in our professional teaching workforce, the School District of Beloit launched the Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program. The goal of this scholarship is to encourage minorities to pursue teaching as a career and return back to teach in Beloit. Your support of the Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program not only helps our students, but the community as well. Diversity helps our students to be more globally competitive. Michael Lee, a diversity consultant said, "Diversity in the workplace increased creativity, increased productivity, promoted new attitudes, enhanced new language skills, expanded global understanding, and helped develop new processes and new solutions to difficult problems". Mary McCleod Bethune once said, "The growth or destruction of a nation begins in the homes of its people". Beloit is our home. An investment in our students is an investment in our future. Therefore, we ask that you support the Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program. A small investment today will yield great returns for our Beloit school district, community, and businesses tomorrow.
Beloit School District
Beloit, WI