Bartholomew County Teachers
Association Makes a Difference
BARTA Dictionary Project
For seventeen years BARTA has participated in the annual dictionary project that presents dictionaries to every third grader in Bartholomew Consolidated and Flat Rock School Corporations. During previous years, BARTA members have gone out to visit all third grade classrooms to distribute the dictionaries. We have also discussed with the students basic dictionary skills, and showed how they can be used as classroom resource.
This year, because of COVID, we have developed a virtual presentation on YOUTUBE featuring Janet Baldwin who reviews many of those valuable dictionary skills. The link to her presentation is https://youtu.be/TjOle1e666A
Pennies from Heaven
During each BARTA meeting, a donation, Pennies from Heaven, is taken from our retired teachers to give to Bartholomew County organizations that serve youth. This year BARTA contributed $200 to BCSC Food Service, Flat Rock Hawcreek Food Service and United Way of Bartholomew County. We hope our three $200 donations will help with their efforts to benefit local children and adults in their everyday lives to put food on their tables and help replenish nutritional needs. As former teachers, we appreciate all they are doing to help children survive and succeed in the world in which they live
BCSC Backpack Program
Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Executive Board answered a call to help with school supplies for this coming year. Backpacks are prepared with essential supplies to help students start the year on a positive note. The Executive Bd agreed to use $300 from our treasury to help with the student supply effort. On top of that decision, the Executive Board took the challenge to match the $300 with individual contributions from Board members. That challenge resulted in a total of $650 being sent to BCSC to help with school supplies during this difficult time.
For seventeen years BARTA has participated in the annual dictionary project that presents dictionaries to every third grader in Bartholomew Consolidated and Flat Rock School Corporations. During previous years, BARTA members have gone out to visit all third grade classrooms to distribute the dictionaries. We have also discussed with the students basic dictionary skills, and showed how they can be used as classroom resource.
This year, because of COVID, we have developed a virtual presentation on YOUTUBE featuring Janet Baldwin who reviews many of those valuable dictionary skills. The link to her presentation is https://youtu.be/TjOle1e666A
Pennies from Heaven
During each BARTA meeting, a donation, Pennies from Heaven, is taken from our retired teachers to give to Bartholomew County organizations that serve youth. This year BARTA contributed $200 to BCSC Food Service, Flat Rock Hawcreek Food Service and United Way of Bartholomew County. We hope our three $200 donations will help with their efforts to benefit local children and adults in their everyday lives to put food on their tables and help replenish nutritional needs. As former teachers, we appreciate all they are doing to help children survive and succeed in the world in which they live
BCSC Backpack Program
Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Executive Board answered a call to help with school supplies for this coming year. Backpacks are prepared with essential supplies to help students start the year on a positive note. The Executive Bd agreed to use $300 from our treasury to help with the student supply effort. On top of that decision, the Executive Board took the challenge to match the $300 with individual contributions from Board members. That challenge resulted in a total of $650 being sent to BCSC to help with school supplies during this difficult time.
VOLUNTEERING...IT'S IN THE BLOOD OF BARTA.
Dedicated to our community and its schools, our members donated more than 30,000 hours to our community in 2019. We donated 8,039.5 hours serving youth and 26,152 hours serving the general public, for a total of 34,191 hours of service.
BARTA members donated over $869,000 worth of volunteer time to our community last year, according to an Independent Sector, a coalition that publishes research for nonprofits, set the 2019 value of each volunteer hour at $25.43.
BARTA members donated over $869,000 worth of volunteer time to our community last year, according to an Independent Sector, a coalition that publishes research for nonprofits, set the 2019 value of each volunteer hour at $25.43.
The following BARTA members volunteered 400 or more hours during the 2019 calendar year. Congratulations for your tireless service to children and the community!
Cheryl Zuckschwerdt-Ellsbury Peggy Wampler Shirley A.Lyster Joe Nicholson Fran Simmermaker Sally Scrogham Janice Montgomery Connie Daugherty Kim Stover Janet Baldwin Lynne Fleming
We are pleased to announce that Shirley Lyster is the 2019 Bartholomew County Retired Teacher of the Year. Shirley taught 52 years at Columbus and Columbus North High Schools. In addition, Shirley was Department Chairperson for 33 of those years. Miss Lyster retired in 2004, but she continues to use her amazing talents to teach others even today. She has led students at the post-secondary level after her retirement by teaching at Ivy Tech, IUPUI and Mill Race Center where she has offered many classes called Partners in Education. Her volunteer hours are spent preparing for the classes that she teaches. She spends hours reading, researching, studying and preparing for the classes that she teaches. She knew that if she expected her students, both high school and adult, to appreciate literature that she would need to be prepared to give them questions and discussion topics that they would have to address.
Miss Lyster uses a broad teaching expertise to instruct students through a wide range of media and literary genre. She features outstanding pieces of literature to her class and even compares and contrasts a movie that is related to the literature. She has even taught a study of Spoon River Anthology which features a collection of epitaphs from characters in Spoon River Cemetery. Then she works with her students as they write their own wonderful free verse poems about their relatives and acquaintances. Since her retirement, Miss Lyster has discussed more than forty books with her students. One of the feature pieces of literature that she notes is The Odyssey of Homer which addresses the seven major themes of literature. She continues to emphasize that she enjoys the personal and professional growth through her experiences with others. We are proud to present the 2019 BARTA retired educator of the year! Protect Yourself from COVID - 19
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BARTA Meeting Dates
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Updated November 2020
