On Thursday January 13th, the members of Team Synergy met to skype with professional picture book author and illustrator Nancy Carlson of Minnesota. Nancy spent approximately 20 minutes discussing her artistic process, drafting, and the challenges she faces in composing her books....

Students have returned this week rested, relaxed, and ready to throw themselves into their work. Some of the highlights of the next several weeks include: midterms in Algebra and Foreign Language, an intensive study of the picture book genre including working with some professional authors and...

Students, teachers, and staff are back into the groove this week on Team Synergy. This week will see persuasive essays on the role of social media in school, debates on whether schools kill creativity (thank you, Sir Ken Robinson and TED), a "Revolutionary" research project, phases of matter, math...

Left your social studies homework at school? Never got a copy? No problem! As of today, there is a copy of each of the chapter questions students in all three groups should have completed thus far on Ms. Palombo's homepage. Just click and print!

Thank you to the parents and students who joined us for our Open House last night. We hope you got a chance to learn a bit from us and the students about what is happening in 8th grade on team Synergy and where we will be headed this year. Below, please find copies of the Synergy-at-a-Glance and...

The BRMS Open House will take place on the evening of Wednesday September 22nd. We will give a presentation in the team space between 7:00-7:30 that evening, and then EXP and foreign language teachers will be available from 7:30-8:00. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible!

Students on Team Synergy have been busy, busy, busy during this shortened week. Academic classes began in full force this week, sports practices are in full swing (there is even a Cross Country meet at Essex this afternoon), and other extracurricular activities are quickly filling our...

I know this is high on the students' list of items to check out, but our homework link has been added! Using the navigation bar to the left, click on "Academics" and then on the link for "Homework." This schedule will be updated daily, so check back often. Thanks. 

Our focus on the second day of school was continuing to coalesce as a team and improve the connections within our new community. This morning began with a whole team discussion of the BRMS school-wide contract which is focused on the acronym C.A.R.E.S (Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility,...

What a great first day of school. This morning we spent the first four hours together as a team. We played teambuilding games like "Captain's Coming" and "Chase the Bacon." Ms. Windhausen, Ms. Palombo, Ms. Sisson and Mr. Baroody did an "object share" to introduce themselves to the students....