Apply to join The Buzz, The Jacket’s Podcast, and get class credit! We cover stories about Berkeley High culture and events, and the Berkeley community as a whole. Some of our favorite stories this year have been about: Rally Day, relationships and dating in high school, and a community group that awards small acts of kindness.
We are looking for applicants to join a fun team of audio storytellers who want to put together a bi-monthly podcast. Learn to come up with story ideas, interview, draft scripts and edit audio.
We are also looking for a dedicated audio editor with previous experience with Soundtrap or another editing platform/sound engineering. We’re thinking someone with an affinity for mixing music would be great.
The Jacket is exited to announce that we are opening up applications for the business team and web team. You don’t have to have any experience to apply. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due Friday, May 10th. Please consider applying!
Last week, Berkeley High’s 75 swimmers and divers were triumphant at League Championships. The Girls team won their THIRD STRAIGHT championship and it wasn’t even close. The Boys continued a three-year climb, coming within 1 point of 2nd place. Divers Scarlett Nykamp & Lucien Geltman-Lamb were each League Champions. Charlotte Livermore won 2 individual events and was on a school-record-setting relay with Lily Schultz, Samishka Chitnis, and Abril Esqueda. High point boys included Yair Sas, Connor Levi-Lang, Jaymul Barot & Torben Wihlbiller. Their coaches said it was the most comprehensive team performance they’d ever witnessed: 75% of the team’s 150 swims were all-time personal bests. More than 20 swimmers & divers will head to North Coast Sections later this week.
BHS Diving has NCS on may 1st in concord. Liam, Lucien, Scarlett, and Maya will be competing.
Do you need help with your orientation and/or SIR deposits or any other college related expenses? The first 50 students who qualify will receive a $750 check in their name.
You’ll need to have your SAI (Student Aid Index) number handy from the FAFSA/CADAA. The application will take no more than 3 minutes! Please don’t wait, the form will stop accepting responses after May 3rd.
Our Monologues shows this weekend!! Friday 7pm and Saturday 3pm and 7pm, in the Little Theater! Tickets are $5 and Friday is pay what you can. You can also pay cash at the door!
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Latine Graduation Ceremony
May 29
Seniors! If you are interested in participating in the Latine Graduation Ceremony please make sure to stop by Ms. Dueñas classroom in C106 on Wednesday May 1st After School! We will be handing out the Latine Graduation Save the Date invitations!
If in the 2024-25 school year you will be a SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR or SENIOR and wish to work with the incoming freshman class, consider applying to become an ORIENTATION DAY LEADER.
The time to preorder your 2024 yearbook is coming to a close… buy your book online for $85 before May 11. After May 11, books will only be sold for $100 cash or check. ONLY 300 books left!!!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
Every Friday night from 5-9pm, YAP (Young Adult Project) offers a fun, safe space to hang out
with you and your friends. Come play basketball, video games, watch movies, eat snacks and
food or just hang out with your friends.
Teen Family Camping Trip:
The Teens Family Camping Trip is a once in a life time opportunity to see a side of the City of
Berkeley that not everyone gets an opportunity to see. Located in the mountains close to
Yosemite, we bring teens and their families up to Berkeley Family Tuolumne camp to get away
from the city life and enjoy a fun and relaxing time out in nature. We take families on fun hikes,
allow the teens to swim and fish and bring everyone together for meals and smores around the
campfire.
Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip:
Time to put down the phones and tables, TV remotes and video game controllers (only for one
weekend) because in August, we also have the Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip. This is an amazing
opportunity for teens to get away from home for a weekend, see the Lovely South side of Lake
Tahoe, and get to see a different side of what the City of Berkeley has to offer.
Reach out to
Joaquim Lee 510-981-6674 or by email: jolee@berkeleyca.gov if you have any questions.
Contact Joaquim Lee Assistant Recreation Coordinator
BHS JAZZ SALSA NIGHT IS BACK AGAIN!
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
Quick Links
Need a Replacement Student ID? January 22 is the next on-campus photo day.
Need a Locker? Visit C210 during lunch or after school.
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Latine Graduation Ceremony
May 29
Seniors! If you are interested in participating in the Latine Graduation Ceremony please make sure to stop by Ms. Dueñas classroom in C106 on Wednesday May 1st After School! We will be handing out the Latine Graduation Save the Date invitations!
Our Monologues shows this weekend!! Friday 7pm and Saturday 3pm and 7pm, in the Little Theater! Tickets are $5 and Friday is pay what you can. You can also pay cash at the door!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
If in the 2024-25 school year you will be a SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR or SENIOR and wish to work with the incoming freshman class, consider applying to become an ORIENTATION DAY LEADER.
The time to preorder your 2024 yearbook is coming to a close… buy your book online for $85 before May 11. After May 11, books will only be sold for $100 cash or check. ONLY 300 books left!!!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
Every Friday night from 5-9pm, YAP (Young Adult Project) offers a fun, safe space to hang out
with you and your friends. Come play basketball, video games, watch movies, eat snacks and
food or just hang out with your friends.
Teen Family Camping Trip:
The Teens Family Camping Trip is a once in a life time opportunity to see a side of the City of
Berkeley that not everyone gets an opportunity to see. Located in the mountains close to
Yosemite, we bring teens and their families up to Berkeley Family Tuolumne camp to get away
from the city life and enjoy a fun and relaxing time out in nature. We take families on fun hikes,
allow the teens to swim and fish and bring everyone together for meals and smores around the
campfire.
Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip:
Time to put down the phones and tables, TV remotes and video game controllers (only for one
weekend) because in August, we also have the Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip. This is an amazing
opportunity for teens to get away from home for a weekend, see the Lovely South side of Lake
Tahoe, and get to see a different side of what the City of Berkeley has to offer.
Reach out to
Joaquim Lee 510-981-6674 or by email: jolee@berkeleyca.gov if you have any questions.
Contact Joaquim Lee Assistant Recreation Coordinator
BHS JAZZ SALSA NIGHT IS BACK AGAIN!
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
The time to preorder your 2024 yearbook is coming to a close… buy your book online for $85 before May 11. After May 11, books will only be sold for $100 cash or check. ONLY 300 books left!!!
Sunday (April 28), the legendary 924 Gilman will be hosting all-ages karaoke from 7 to 11pm. The host, Dana Morrigan, is a longtime Bay Area karaoke jockey who has an absolutely MASSIVE song lineup. (Check it out here.)
Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony
Berkeley High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Red Ceremony: Last Names A-K 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Gold Ceremony: Last Names L-Z 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
*You can wear a red or gold cap & gown to either ceremony.
Guest entrance at Milvia Street & Durant Avenue opens up one hour before each ceremony
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Dance Production Spring Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27 @ 7pm
Please get tickets ahead of time through eventbrite.
This show is great for all ages → share with friends and family! These shows will sell out — get your tickets today!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Also!! This is your reminder to fill out those asb appointed position apps- I highly recommend for anyone wanting to try out a leadership role, or anyone passionate about a cause you see could be helped at BHS, you could be that change!
Thanks so much Jackets, and I’ll see you all soon ~•~
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
If in the 2024-25 school year you will be a SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR or SENIOR and wish to work with the incoming freshman class, consider applying to become an ORIENTATION DAY LEADER.
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Play Like a Girl+
Sunday, April 28 from 1-3 pm
Piedmont High School
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
The time to preorder your 2024 yearbook is coming to a close… buy your book online for $85 before May 11. After May 11, books will only be sold for $100 cash or check. ONLY 300 books left!!!
Registration for LGBTQ+ Literature is still open until this Wednesday, April 24th. Without more students the class will be canceled, so please sign up, and spread word to your friends! You don’t have to be queer.
Sunday (April 28), the legendary 924 Gilman will be hosting all-ages karaoke from 7 to 11pm. The host, Dana Morrigan, is a longtime Bay Area karaoke jockey who has an absolutely MASSIVE song lineup. (Check it out here.)
Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony
Berkeley High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Red Ceremony: Last Names A-K 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Gold Ceremony: Last Names L-Z 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
*You can wear a red or gold cap & gown to either ceremony.
Guest entrance at Milvia Street & Durant Avenue opens up one hour before each ceremony
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Dance Production Spring Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27 @ 7pm
Please get tickets ahead of time through eventbrite.
This show is great for all ages → share with friends and family! These shows will sell out — get your tickets today!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Also!! This is your reminder to fill out those asb appointed position apps- I highly recommend for anyone wanting to try out a leadership role, or anyone passionate about a cause you see could be helped at BHS, you could be that change!
Thanks so much Jackets, and I’ll see you all soon ~•~
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
Every Friday night from 5-9pm, YAP (Young Adult Project) offers a fun, safe space to hang out
with you and your friends. Come play basketball, video games, watch movies, eat snacks and
food or just hang out with your friends.
Teen Family Camping Trip:
The Teens Family Camping Trip is a once in a life time opportunity to see a side of the City of
Berkeley that not everyone gets an opportunity to see. Located in the mountains close to
Yosemite, we bring teens and their families up to Berkeley Family Tuolumne camp to get away
from the city life and enjoy a fun and relaxing time out in nature. We take families on fun hikes,
allow the teens to swim and fish and bring everyone together for meals and smores around the
campfire.
Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip:
Time to put down the phones and tables, TV remotes and video game controllers (only for one
weekend) because in August, we also have the Teen Echo Lake Camping Trip. This is an amazing
opportunity for teens to get away from home for a weekend, see the Lovely South side of Lake
Tahoe, and get to see a different side of what the City of Berkeley has to offer.
Reach out to
Joaquim Lee 510-981-6674 or by email: jolee@berkeleyca.gov if you have any questions.
Contact Joaquim Lee Assistant Recreation Coordinator
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
BHS JAZZ SALSA NIGHT IS BACK AGAIN!
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Play Like a Girl+
Sunday, April 28 from 1-3 pm
Piedmont High School
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
JOIN BHS LEADERSHIP for 2024-2025
Anyone interested in an appointed position needs to fill out an application by April 23rd at midnight.
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
Hosted by the Sunrise Movement at Sproul Plaza, there will be speakers, youth activists and protest art! It’s on Earth Day (Monday April 22) at 4-7 pm. Show up!!!
Come support student artists and musicians at Spats Bar this coming Monday, April 22nd, from 5 to 8PM. Bring your parents and friends to come view art and listen to music made by our amazingly skilled artists of AHA. The address for Spats is 1974 Shattuck Ave. Or right next to the McDonalds on shattuck. BE THERE!!
Registration for LGBTQ+ Literature is still open until this Wednesday, April 24th. Without more students the class will be canceled, so please sign up, and spread word to your friends! You don’t have to be queer.
Sunday (April 28), the legendary 924 Gilman will be hosting all-ages karaoke from 7 to 11pm. The host, Dana Morrigan, is a longtime Bay Area karaoke jockey who has an absolutely MASSIVE song lineup. (Check it out here.)
Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony
Berkeley High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Red Ceremony: Last Names A-K 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Gold Ceremony: Last Names L-Z 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
*You can wear a red or gold cap & gown to either ceremony.
Guest entrance at Milvia Street & Durant Avenue opens up one hour before each ceremony
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Dance Production Spring Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27 @ 7pm
Please get tickets ahead of time through eventbrite.
This show is great for all ages → share with friends and family! These shows will sell out — get your tickets today!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Also!! This is your reminder to fill out those asb appointed position apps- I highly recommend for anyone wanting to try out a leadership role, or anyone passionate about a cause you see could be helped at BHS, you could be that change!
Thanks so much Jackets, and I’ll see you all soon ~•~
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Play Like a Girl+
Sunday, April 28 from 1-3 pm
Piedmont High School
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
JOIN BHS LEADERSHIP for 2024-2025
Anyone interested in an appointed position needs to fill out an application by April 23rd at midnight.
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
2023-2024 ASB Leadership
One big, red & goldfamily!
BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT BULLETIN
Ki’Donyae B., Melody C., Amaya H., Chiefs of Publicity
Hosted by the Sunrise Movement at Sproul Plaza, there will be speakers, youth activists and protest art! It’s on Earth Day (Monday April 22) at 4-7 pm. Show up!!!
Come support student artists and musicians at Spats Bar this coming Monday, April 22nd, from 5 to 8PM. Bring your parents and friends to come view art and listen to music made by our amazingly skilled artists of AHA. The address for Spats is 1974 Shattuck Ave. Or right next to the McDonalds on shattuck. BE THERE!!
Registration for LGBTQ+ Literature is still open until this Wednesday, April 24th. Without more students the class will be canceled, so please sign up, and spread word to your friends! You don’t have to be queer.
Sunday (April 28), the legendary 924 Gilman will be hosting all-ages karaoke from 7 to 11pm. The host, Dana Morrigan, is a longtime Bay Area karaoke jockey who has an absolutely MASSIVE song lineup. (Check it out here.)
Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony
Berkeley High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Red Ceremony: Last Names A-K 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Gold Ceremony: Last Names L-Z 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
*You can wear a red or gold cap & gown to either ceremony.
Guest entrance at Milvia Street & Durant Avenue opens up one hour before each ceremony
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Dance Production Spring Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27 @ 7pm
Please get tickets ahead of time through eventbrite.
This show is great for all ages → share with friends and family! These shows will sell out — get your tickets today!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Also!! This is your reminder to fill out those asb appointed position apps- I highly recommend for anyone wanting to try out a leadership role, or anyone passionate about a cause you see could be helped at BHS, you could be that change!
Thanks so much Jackets, and I’ll see you all soon ~•~
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Play Like a Girl+
Sunday, April 28 from 1-3 pm
Piedmont High School
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
JOIN BHS LEADERSHIP for 2024-2025
Anyone interested in an appointed position needs to fill out an application by April 23rd at midnight.
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
2023-2024 ASB Leadership
One big, red & goldfamily!
BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT BULLETIN
Ki’Donyae B., Melody C., Amaya H., Chiefs of Publicity
Hosted by the Sunrise Movement at Sproul Plaza, there will be speakers, youth activists and protest art! It’s on Earth Day (Monday April 22) at 4-7 pm. Show up!!!
Come support student artists and musicians at Spats Bar this coming Monday, April 22nd, from 5 to 8PM. Bring your parents and friends to come view art and listen to music made by our amazingly skilled artists of AHA. The address for Spats is 1974 Shattuck Ave. Or right next to the McDonalds on shattuck. BE THERE!!
Registration for LGBTQ+ Literature is still open until this Wednesday, April 24th. Without more students the class will be canceled, so please sign up, and spread word to your friends! You don’t have to be queer.
Sunday (April 28), the legendary 924 Gilman will be hosting all-ages karaoke from 7 to 11pm. The host, Dana Morrigan, is a longtime Bay Area karaoke jockey who has an absolutely MASSIVE song lineup. (Check it out here.)
Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony
Berkeley High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Red Ceremony: Last Names A-K 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Gold Ceremony: Last Names L-Z 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
*You can wear a red or gold cap & gown to either ceremony.
Guest entrance at Milvia Street & Durant Avenue opens up one hour before each ceremony
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Dance Production Spring Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27 @ 7pm
Please get tickets ahead of time through eventbrite.
This show is great for all ages → share with friends and family! These shows will sell out — get your tickets today!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Also!! This is your reminder to fill out those asb appointed position apps- I highly recommend for anyone wanting to try out a leadership role, or anyone passionate about a cause you see could be helped at BHS, you could be that change!
Thanks so much Jackets, and I’ll see you all soon ~•~
Hey everyone! We created a guide of all the places to have lunch around Berkeley High. It’s organized by price, distance, wait time, and has lots of other information (ex: student discounts!) so you can more easily decide where to go for off-campus lunch.
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Play Like a Girl+
Sunday, April 28 from 1-3 pm
Piedmont High School
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
JOIN BHS LEADERSHIP for 2024-2025
Anyone interested in an appointed position needs to fill out an application by April 23rd at midnight.
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 3 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
The Men’s Lacrosse team senior night will be TODAY, Friday (4/19), at the Jacket Stadium.
JV at 5:30pm
Varsity at 7:15pm
Our Monologues
Come see Our Monologues May 3 at 7pm and May 4 at 3pm and 7pm.
Hosted by the Sunrise Movement at Sproul Plaza, there will be speakers, youth activists and protest art! It’s on Earth Day (Monday April 22) at 4-7 pm. Show up!!!
Come support student artists and musicians at Spats Bar this coming Monday, April 22nd, from 5 to 8PM. Bring your parents and friends to come view art and listen to music made by our amazingly skilled artists of AHA. The address for Spats is 1974 Shattuck Ave. Or right next to the McDonalds on shattuck. BE THERE!!
Beyond the Cut 2024 – The BHS Film Exhibition will occur on Tuesday April 30th at 6pm at Freight and Salvage. The event features films from Art of Video, Advanced Video, and IB Film Year 1 and 2. We will screen work from over 40 BHS filmmakers. Doors open at 5:30. The event is free!
The class of 2027 leadership team wants to let you know that we will be hosting a cakewalk at the carnival this year!!! And we need your help! We are in need of cake donations, contact us via instagram @class_of_2027_leadership, using this link, or finding us in person!
The Berkeley High Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature course is fundraising for future AAPI Lit class field trips, guest speaker honorariums, and course materials, like new class sets of books by AAPI authors and artists. If you are interested in supporting the class while receiving some awesome gear, please consider purchasing a shirt and/or a hoodie!
Berkeley high PTSA ran the Black History Month art contest and here are the 3 winners:
Gisela Cediel,
Da’Shame Hosley and
Bibirye & Nakuna Kiggundu.
Big congratulations to them!
@ptsa.bhs
UPCOMING CULTURAL EVENTS
APIC NIGHT MARKET
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 from 6 – 8 PM
WILLARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
BUSD ETHNIC STUDIES SHOWCASE
TUESDAY, MAY 7 from 5 – 7 pm
ROSA PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit
Join the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit and 11 high school environmental clubs, including Nueva, Marin Academy, Lincoln, St. Ignatius, Summit Shasta, Lick-Wilmerding, Alameda and more for a fun day of climate education, crafting, and celebration. Our hands-on educational and art-making booths will leverage the creative arts to center environmental literacy & climate resilience.
We will host a variety of activities, including art and music, while centering the role of intersectional environmentalism in the fight for an equitable future. Join us for an arts and crafts activity to learn about sustainable and indigenous art! Come stop by to take climate action and build lasting peer connections, while sharing lunch, snacks, & desserts and celebrating our beautiful outdoor space in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park! 🌱✊
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Transgender Rights Fundraiser
Transgender rights are under an unprecedented attack in America. The republican party has made Trans American’s it’s new target in its ongoing war on rights in America, something that you can help prevent.
This Fundraiser is led by Berkeley High students, Isaac, Malachi and Oliver due to the pressing danger created by this threat, primarily the right’s newfound legal strategy targeting transgender therapists. These therapists are being targeted by multi-million dollar organizations, and simply can’t afford to fight for their rights without outside help. The Transgender Law Center is that exact help, and the organization we’re fundraising for. Without this support, many therapists are being put out of the business, often in areas where they are the only licensed professionals in miles. It is this urgent cause which demands action, and what we hope we can count on your support for. So if you can afford it, please pitch in for those who cannot. We are going to be hosting a fundraising table on 04/19/2024 during lunch for students who want to support the cause.
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
Seniors: once you’ve committed, add your college to the map at findmy.bhs.sh There, you can connect with fellow classmates, and see where the class of 2024 will be next year! Questions? Reach out through the website.
Hi everyone! We are the Berkeley High Wellness Center interns. This is a reminder that the Wellness Center is open for students! We are open every school day but 2nd period, and are located on the first floor of the H building in H104. The Wellness Center is a great place to recharge, chill out, or take a break when you need throughout the school day. To visit, just ask your teacher for a pass and you’ll be able to spend 10 minutes of class time in the Wellness Center. There are coloring activities, fidget toys, board games, quiet corners and comfy couches/seats to relax in!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
Casting Call
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
If you are high spirited, have lots of energy or love pumping up others? If you are a cheerleader, dancer, a gymnast or have any tumbling skills? If you don’t but you just want to be apart of an upbeat enthusiastic team,
then we want to see you at
Berkeley High Cheerleading Tryouts
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024-25 school year with our cheer program and we want you to be a part!
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
We will share graduation updates via student email, BHS e-tree, the BHS website, this section of the senior information page among other means.
Tickets It is assumed that all graduating students will attend the ceremony. All graduating students from BHS, BIS & BTA will receive six (6) tickets for graduation. Please complete the RSVP form by May 1st *form opens late March.
Every person attending, regardless of age, must have a ticket for entrance.
Ticket Distribution We will distribute six (6) tickets to all graduating students after the June 4 grad meeting. An alternative pick up time will be announced closer to graduation. All outstanding debts must be cleared before tickets can be distributed.
Graduation Performers & Speakers We will recruit student speakers or student performers that represent the heart and spirit of the Class of 2024. Please submit a video clip of your audition speech or performance by May 1st.
Contact Mr. V with any questions.
Draft BSEP budget
This Wednesday, the SSC will have its second reading of the draft BSEP budget for the 2024-2025 school year. We would love to hear your opinions about this budget and any feedback you would want to share about it. Please fill out the following survey:
Each year, landowners in Berkeley pay a parcel tax. This parcel tax is collected into a fund known as the Berkeley Schools Excellence Program, also known as BSEP. This fund provides additional funding for the school and allows for the funding of many programs, staff, and equipment that improve student outcomes. Each year, Berkeley High School receives about $1.1 million from BSEP. The administration, after soliciting staff input, puts together a budget. It is then up to the School Site Council (SSC) to solicit the feedback of their constituents, provide recommendations to the administration, and ultimately approve the budget.
Why should you care?
BSEP money funds many programs here at Berkeley High School. From the CCC to the wellness center to the library to the African Diaspora dance program, BSEP money makes it possible for our school to have access to these resources. Since you have a say about how this money can be spent, your voice should be heard foremost during this BSEP budget process.
Join the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit and 11 high school environmental clubs, including Nueva, Marin Academy, Lincoln, St. Ignatius, Summit Shasta, Lick-Wilmerding, Alameda and more for a fun day of climate education, crafting, and celebration. Our hands-on educational and art-making booths will leverage the creative arts to center environmental literacy & climate resilience.
We will host a variety of activities, including art and music, while centering the role of intersectional environmentalism in the fight for an equitable future. Join us for an arts and crafts activity to learn about sustainable and indigenous art! Come stop by to take climate action and build lasting peer connections, while sharing lunch, snacks, & desserts and celebrating our beautiful outdoor space in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park! 🌱✊
Calling ALL seniors! Have you submitted your FAFSA or CADAA yet?
One of these financial aid applications is required in order to receive money to help pay for college expenses. FAFSA is for students with a social security number and CADAA is for students without a social security number. The deadline to submit BOTH has been extended to May 2nd.
Have questions? Don’t know where to start? Or just need a space to work on it? Ms. Martinez, EAOP College Adviser, is holding FAFSA and CADAA support every Tuesday until May 2nd during 2nd period in the College and Career Center.
You can also make an appointment with them to discuss financial aid one-on-one by emailing them at mayamartinez@partner.berkeley.net.
Thanks!
@eaopdcacbhs
Transgender Rights Fundraiser
Transgender rights are under an unprecedented attack in America. The republican party has made Trans American’s it’s new target in its ongoing war on rights in America, something that you can help prevent.
This Fundraiser is led by Berkeley High students, Isaac, Malachi and Oliver due to the pressing danger created by this threat, primarily the right’s newfound legal strategy targeting transgender therapists. These therapists are being targeted by multi-million dollar organizations, and simply can’t afford to fight for their rights without outside help. The Transgender Law Center is that exact help, and the organization we’re fundraising for. Without this support, many therapists are being put out of the business, often in areas where they are the only licensed professionals in miles. It is this urgent cause which demands action, and what we hope we can count on your support for. So if you can afford it, please pitch in for those who cannot. We are going to be hosting a fundraising table on 04/19/2024 during lunch for students who want to support the cause.
The Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event is less than two weeks away! This free event is aimed at getting girls ages 2-18 into the game and keeping them playing!
Seniors: once you’ve committed, add your college to the map at findmy.bhs.sh There, you can connect with fellow classmates, and see where the class of 2024 will be next year! Questions? Reach out through the website.
Hi everyone! We are the Berkeley High Wellness Center interns. This is a reminder that the Wellness Center is open for students! We are open every school day but 2nd period, and are located on the first floor of the H building in H104. The Wellness Center is a great place to recharge, chill out, or take a break when you need throughout the school day. To visit, just ask your teacher for a pass and you’ll be able to spend 10 minutes of class time in the Wellness Center. There are coloring activities, fidget toys, board games, quiet corners and comfy couches/seats to relax in!
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
Casting Call
Actors wanted!! Juniors and seniors if you or someone you know is interested in acting in a student made film please email pablo.dlv07@ gmail.com for further information on filming dates, casting, what the film is about ect. We will be filming on weekends in May.
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Read below if you still need to order a cap and gown
Graduation orders can be placed at any time online, by phone or by mail. Achievers Inc. handles orders for just the cap and gown as well as rings, announcements, grad swag and even graduation packages. Cap & gowns are traditionally worn at an in-person graduation. Consider using a cap & gown for senior portraits, graduation pictures, at home celebrations as well as any of graduation activities to be confirmed in the spring.
If you are high spirited, have lots of energy or love pumping up others? If you are a cheerleader, dancer, a gymnast or have any tumbling skills? If you don’t but you just want to be apart of an upbeat enthusiastic team,
then we want to see you at
Berkeley High Cheerleading Tryouts
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024-25 school year with our cheer program and we want you to be a part!
Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation with Sunrise Movement student leaders about her new collection of essays, Not Too Late, on April 18th from 6-8 pm at the BCC auditorium.
From the publisher: “As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.”
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
Join the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit and 11 high school environmental clubs, including Nueva, Marin Academy, Lincoln, St. Ignatius, Summit Shasta, Lick-Wilmerding, Alameda and more for a fun day of climate education, crafting, and celebration. Our hands-on educational and art-making booths will leverage the creative arts to center environmental literacy & climate resilience.
We will host a variety of activities, including art and music, while centering the role of intersectional environmentalism in the fight for an equitable future. Join us for an arts and crafts activity to learn about sustainable and indigenous art! Come stop by to take climate action and build lasting peer connections, while sharing lunch, snacks, & desserts and celebrating our beautiful outdoor space in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park! 🌱✊
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
Period Product Drive
This is a drive to collect menstrual products for students who need them in school. We know that they often get damaged and destroyed in the bathrooms so we want to put them in classrooms to ensure everyone has access.
Read below if you still need to order a cap and gown
Graduation orders can be placed at any time online, by phone or by mail. Achievers Inc. handles orders for just the cap and gown as well as rings, announcements, grad swag and even graduation packages. Cap & gowns are traditionally worn at an in-person graduation. Consider using a cap & gown for senior portraits, graduation pictures, at home celebrations as well as any of graduation activities to be confirmed in the spring.
If you are high spirited, have lots of energy or love pumping up others? If you are a cheerleader, dancer, a gymnast or have any tumbling skills? If you don’t but you just want to be apart of an upbeat enthusiastic team,
then we want to see you at
Berkeley High Cheerleading Tryouts
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024-25 school year with our cheer program and we want you to be a part!
Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation with Sunrise Movement student leaders about her new collection of essays, Not Too Late, on April 18th from 6-8 pm at the BCC auditorium.
From the publisher: “As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.”
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
This Friday, April 12th, is national Day of Silence!
Day of Silence is a day of protest held nationwide annually by GLESEN in which people refrain from speaking for a day. Whether unable to come out, unable to be with the ones they loved, or physically silenced through violence like Nex Benedict, queer people everywhere have historically been unable to share their voices. Join us in a day of solidarity by staying silent this Friday, and break the silence with us after school. Also, come by and pick up a notebook Friday at 8 am on the senior steps, and let’s bring attention to queer rights everywhere!
The swim team senior night will occur on Friday the 12th at 4:00pm at the BHS pool.
Come hear the BHS Chorus perform!
Please come to Berkeley High Chorus concert on Friday, April 12th at 7pm for a fun night of music and creativity! Our Seniors will be singing solos as a send-off so come support them! We will be accompanied by the amazing BHS Jazz program.
Berkeley High Poetry Slam is TONIGHT!
SLAM Poetry is having a showcase on Friday April 12th at 5:30! This is in the BHS library and is a FREE event. If you’re hungry there will be a fundraising bake sale.
The Jacket is excited to announce that we are opening up applications for copy team, layout team, and visual editors. We are a completely student run newspaper that publishes biweekly. Applications are due April 5th, reach out to josephinemorasky@students.berkeley.net or ysabelchu@students.berkeley.net with any questions regarding applications. Please consider applying and follow our instagram @bhsjacket for more information!
@bhsjacket
Cap & Gown Orders
Achievers will distribute all cap & gown orders
TUESDAY, APRIL 16 during lunch
Donahue Gym
Read below if you still need to order a cap and gown
Graduation orders can be placed at any time online, by phone or by mail. Achievers Inc. handles orders for just the cap and gown as well as rings, announcements, grad swag and even graduation packages. Cap & gowns are traditionally worn at an in-person graduation. Consider using a cap & gown for senior portraits, graduation pictures, at home celebrations as well as any of graduation activities to be confirmed in the spring.
Mail: Achievers Inc., 877 Commercial Street, San Jose, CA 95112
IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY SHARED ANNOUNCEMENTS
Manny Lane-Scott 2024 memoir
Attention all students and staff! We’re thrilled to announce Manny Lane-Scott’s latest project: his very own Memoir! Get ready for a captivating journey through Manny’s experiences in BHS theater productions, packed with humor, heart, insecurities, and invaluable insights into teenage life. Check it out in the link in the bulletin below for more details!
If you are high spirited, have lots of energy or love pumping up others? If you are a cheerleader, dancer, a gymnast or have any tumbling skills? If you don’t but you just want to be apart of an upbeat enthusiastic team,
then we want to see you at
Berkeley High Cheerleading Tryouts
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024-25 school year with our cheer program and we want you to be a part!
Looking for a way to celebrate Earth Month? Join us after school on Friday April 12, from 3:30-6pm for a BHS Garden work day. We will be working to improve the BHS garden space and plant spring/summer crops. No prior gardening experience necessary! Students and staff are invited to attend. We will meet at the garden by the H building. We hope to see you there!
Submitted by Ellen McClure, Climate Literacy Teacher on Special Assignment, ellenmcclure@berkeley.net
FASHION SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!
Fashion Show is Friday April 19th from 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation with Sunrise Movement student leaders about her new collection of essays, Not Too Late, on April 18th from 6-8 pm at the BCC auditorium.
From the publisher: “As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.”
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
This Friday, April 12th, is national Day of Silence!
Day of Silence is a day of protest held nationwide annually by GLESEN in which people refrain from speaking for a day. Whether unable to come out, unable to be with the ones they loved, or physically silenced through violence like Nex Benedict, queer people everywhere have historically been unable to share their voices. Join us in a day of solidarity by staying silent this Friday, and break the silence with us after school. Also, come by and pick up a notebook Friday at 8 am on the senior steps, and let’s bring attention to queer rights everywhere!
Attention all students and staff! We’re thrilled to announce Manny Lane-Scott’s latest project: his very own Memoir! Get ready for a captivating journey through Manny’s experiences in BHS theater productions, packed with humor, heart, insecurities, and invaluable insights into teenage life. Check it out in the link in the bulletin below for more details!
If you are high spirited, have lots of energy or love pumping up others? If you are a cheerleader, dancer, a gymnast or have any tumbling skills? If you don’t but you just want to be apart of an upbeat enthusiastic team,
then we want to see you at
Berkeley High Cheerleading Tryouts
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024-25 school year with our cheer program and we want you to be a part!
Looking for a way to celebrate Earth Month? Join us after school on Friday April 12, from 3:30-6pm for a BHS Garden work day. We will be working to improve the BHS garden space and plant spring/summer crops. No prior gardening experience necessary! Students and staff are invited to attend. We will meet at the garden by the H building. We hope to see you there!
Submitted by Ellen McClure, Climate Literacy Teacher on Special Assignment, ellenmcclure@berkeley.net
Audition Workshops for Dance Production
Sophomores and Juniors:
Audition Workshops for Dance Production start this week. Come to the MGym at Lunch and/or the Dance Studio after school. Sign up for more info here. Dancers of all kinds WELCOME!
Hey Berkeley High! Your slam club is hosting a showcase on Friday, April 12th. We are featuring a lineup of students and special guests Terry Taplin and Gabriel Cortez. There’s also a bake sale component, so arrive with room for dessert!
WHERE: BHS library
WHEN: Friday, april 12th @5:30 PM
TO ATTEND: just fill out a short form, which you can find via QR code. These are posted on our instagram @slamberkeleyhigh as well as posters all around school. You can also go to slamberkeleyhigh.carrd.co to reserve your ticket!
Local author Carolina Ixta will be joining us to share about her debut YA novel,Shut Up This is Seriouson Thursday, April 11th during 3rd period in the library.
“For fans of Elizabeth Acevedo & Erika Sanchez or readers who love homegrown stories”
If you’re interested in coming, please stop by the library for a permission slip!
Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation with Sunrise Movement student leaders about her new collection of essays, Not Too Late, on April 18th from 6-8 pm at the BCC auditorium.
From the publisher: “As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.”
We had so much fun last year we decided to make Salsa Night a tradition. Come on down to BHS on Friday May 10th. FREE Dance lesson 5:30-6:30 followed by lots of dancing and amazing music until 9:00 pm. There will be food trucks and lots of yummy treats for sale. FREE Admission – bring your friends and families and have a joyous time with us. 😊🎉❤️🔥
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net