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.
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! What's Next for BARTA in 2019-20?Fall Executive Board Meeting
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Our teachers and community members are working hard to pass the referendum with the primary goal of improving teacher retention. More than two-thirds of the funds raised will go to teacher salary increases to reward experience. Indiana is lagging behind surrounding states in average teacher salary, is 39th in teacher retention, and 51st in teacher salary growth (including Washington D.C.). Indiana has given communities one way to increase revenue: a referendum. We hope our community will agree that a strong public school system is vital to a continued vibrant, thriving community. We need your help to make sure our students have the best teachers possible. Here are ways you can help:
The public question for your vote on the May 5, 2020 ballot will read: “For the eight (8) calendar years immediately following the holding of the referendum, shall Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation impose a property tax rate that does not exceed fifteen and six tenths cents ($0.1560) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation and that is in addition to all other property taxes imposed by the School Corporation for the purpose of increasing compensation for teachers and support staff and maintaining student safety?” Please vote and approve the Referendum! lEARN MORE ABOUT BARTA.
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Updated March 2020
