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NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 4 Chorus Concert
December 13 winter Holiday Meal Volunteer or Contribute
December 17-19 Final Exams
December 20 – January 4 Winter Break
Safety Survey
The student members of the BHS Safety Committee have drafted a student survey to get student input on safety at BHS. Please take the survey for your voice to be heard.
Community Meeting
Who : School Safety Committee (students and parents encouraged to come!!
Why : To get input from the community on their safety concerns for BHS
How/Where : Meeting in school library
When : Tuesday December 2nd, starts @ 4:30pm
Contact Ms. Fischberg anniejaefischberg@berkeley.net Ms. Tesch cassandratesch@berkeley.net Ms. Marshall jenellmarshal@berkeley.net
Blood Drive with the Red Cross Club!
*The American Red Cross staff will be conducting the drive*
Where: BHS Community Theater Lobby
When: December 17th, 2025 (1st day of finals) 12-5 pm
Eligibility:
– 16+ (16 needs parental consent form -email sharmilashaik@students.berkeley.net , 17+ does not)
– Meets weight requirements for height (email sharmilashaik@students.berkeley.net )
– YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW YOUR BLOOD TYPE
How to sign up:
– Come to CCC on Mondays or Wednesdays after school and find Sharmila Shaik. She will make sure you are eligible and help you sign up
OR
Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. Be the change. Give blood.
@berkeleyhigh.redcross
2026 Prom Theme Survey & Senior Pizza Party
Hey Jackets! We’re so excited for this upcoming prom especially since it will be taking place at the San Francisco Galleria! But before we get started planning we wanna know, how do you want to experience prom? So filling out this survey will help us out a great deal. Thanks! Survey closes on December 5th at 4pm! Also Senior Pizza Party in the CCC on December 1,2025 during lunch! We wanna celebrate all of your hard work completing college apps! Please contact Corina Blanton or Leah Green to any questions.
Survey link:
Contact corinablanton@students.berkeley.net leahgreen@students.berkeley.net
@scp_corina.leah26
MILLION $ DANCE TEAM FUNDRAISER
Purchase your MDT t-shirt and support our dedicated student dance team as they prepare for their spring 2026 production! Your generous contributions will directly fund essential production costs like costumes and the necessary rehearsal rental space.
To coordinate pickup of your t-shirt order, please email Ms. Shorty @ tanziamucker@berkeley.net
Local orders only please
Follow MDT and get performance updates on @Milliondollardanceteam
🌟 Don’t Miss Out! 🌟
Agnes Scott College Rep Visit
📅 Date: Tuesday, December 2nd
⏰ Time: 2nd Period
🎓 Who: Juniors & Seniors
📍 Where: CCC D-221
✨ Why come?
Learn about scholarships, programs, and campus life at Agnes Scott
Get insider tips on admissions
Ask your questions directly to the rep
RSVP NOW! 👉 Scan the QR code on the flyer to secure your seat.
Submitted by joannedumbrigue@berkeley.net
📢 Attention Students! Don’t miss the Occupational Therapy Presentation on Thursday, December 4, 2025, during 2nd period at the CCC
You’ll learn:
🔎 What Occupational Therapy is
👥 Who OTs and OTAs work with
🎲 Fun interactive games and activities
🎓 How to get into OT & OTA school
💵 The difference in salary and roles
✨ Come join us to explore how OTs and OTAs help people live their best lives!
Please RSVP by scanning the QR Code
Contact joannedumbrigue@berkeley.net
PARTICIPATE in the 2025 winter HOLIDAY MEAL
I’m so glad you asked! these are the donation bins we got from alameda county food bank so we can start collecting items for the holiday meal event. Items such as…
winter coat, unused hygiene items, and food items. We need non-perishables canned goods, beans, or soups, legumes, thats what we want.
CHECK OUT THE BHS LEADERSHIP WEBSITE TO VOLUNTEER or CONTRIBUTE
these bins will be available right by the main office entrance from now until about a month when the winter holiday meal event happens meaning you can come by any time
thank you jackets.
Contact brookstrotmore@students.berkeley.net
Yearbook Info
Purchase a Yearbook
BHS Seniors! We are almost out of yearbooks, which means this is your last chance to order! We will NOT be able to ensure you get a yearbook if you don’t order BEFORE the end of the semester. To order a yearbook at the normal price ($95), you can order online following this link: https://www.yearbookordercenter.com/jobSearch/displayHome entering the code 16356. If you qualify for free and reduced lunch, you can buy the yearbook in person for only $55 in Ms. Marini’s room: A2.
The yearbook is extending the date to pick your senior portrait to December 16th to accommodate the most recent round of senior portraits at BHS. Please make sure you log onto Prestige and select the pose you want for the yearbook before this date. If you do not select a pose, the Yearbook Editors will choose one for you.
If you haven’t taken a portrait and still want to, you will need to make an appointment with Prestige at the Hayward Office before the deadline and ask to select your pose “In Camera” which means at the shoot, in order for us to receive it in time. If you take a portrait between now and December 16th with Prestige, I encourage you to email me directly at amandamarini@berkeley.net to let me know, so I can make sure Prestige sends us your portrait.
Call 1-877-825-7922 (Monday–Friday, 9 AM–4 PM). You will most likely need to book an appointment at their Hayward office.
Submit your senior quote for the yearbook!
Submit those senior quotes by November 19th to get a chance to win a free yearbook! Seniors that have already submitted are entered in the raffle twice, and seniors who have already bought a yearbook will be compensated if they win.
Email any questions to bhsyearbook@berkeley.net
@berkeleyearbook
Berkeley Community Scholars
We are excited to share that the Berkeley Community Scholars (BCS) High Hopes Scholarship application will open on December 1st and closes February 26th. Thanks to your support last year, we granted 16 scholarships to Berkeley High seniors, 7 scholarships to Berkeley High graduates at Berkeley City College, and 7 scholarships to students transferring from Community College to a Bachelor’s Degree institution.
See flyer here for more information
Info Sessions in the College and Career Center:
- Wed. December 10: 2:35-3:33pm 6th period
- Wed., January 14, 10:43-11:41am 3rd period
- Wed., February 4, 3:30-4:37pm 7th period at the Computer Lab
- Thur., February 26, 3:30-4:37pm 7th period
BCS offers two programs to help students earn a bachelor’s degree:
1. Bachelor’s Degree High Hopes Scholarship Program:
- For Berkeley public high school grads entering a 4-year college in Fall 2026.
- Receive up to $16,000 in installments over four years.
2. Community College High Hopes Scholarship Program:
- For Berkeley grads starting at community college on the path to a bachelor’s degree.
- Receive up to $8,000 in installments over two years.
- Transfer successfully to a 4-year university and apply for an additional $8,000.
**Both programs offer 1×1 advising, networking opportunities, and career readiness.
Contact emily@berkeleyscholars.org
Coro’s Exploring Leadership Program is a transformative summer program that trains high school students to become active citizens and assume leadership roles in their communities. Through a set of Coro modules, the program increases Youth Fellows’ abilities in critical thinking and goal setting, building the skills to become effective facilitators and collaborators for community change.
Exploring Leadership welcomes applications from students who are 9th, 10th, or 11th graders in the 2025-2026 school year. The 2026 program will run from June 22rd – July 30th, 2026; Monday – Friday, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM in downtown San Francisco.
Here is the link to apply! Priority deadline is December 12, 2025. Final deadline is January 9, 2026.
Contact hderuff@coronorcal.org
IMPORTANT PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Apply as a columnist for the Jacket!
Contact sydneylehrer@students.berkeley.net
claratjen@students.berkeley.net
The Jacket is accepting applications for Columnists and the Video Team!
Students of all experience levels are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by 7PM on December 19th.
Click here to apply or learn more about these roles: https://berkeleyhighjacket.com/apply
Contact laylacao@students.berkeley.net
@bhsjacket
BHS ATHLETICS
Register for 2025-26 Sports
Athletes must be cleared to participate – Deadline to be cleared for first day is:
8/11 at 9AM! (those that register after that will miss day 1)
Uncleared athletes can stay and watch but can’t participate
Go to berkeleyhighathletics.org and follow the links to Athlete Registration. There are helpful FAQs, tutorials, and links to forms, local clinics that perform sports physicals, optional summer workout opportunities, and much more.
There is also an online store open all year round.
Support your Yellow Jackets!
For Upcoming Games Check out the full BHS Athletics Schedule
Follow on X & Instagram @bhsjacketsports
Contact Athletic Director athleticdirector@berkeley.net
Go Jackets!
BHS LEGACY HOODIE
Purchase Here @ online BHS Student Store
Sizes S – 3XL
Don’t Leave Your Legacy Behind
Contact johnvillavicencio@berkeley.net
Quick Links
Need a Replacement Student ID? October 20 is the next on-campus photo day.
Need a Locker? Visit C-210 during lunch or after school.
Welcome Back Assembly 25 & What Every Ninth Grader Should Know
OFF-CAMPUS LUNCH GUIDE Click here for some tasty Off Campus Lunch ideas.
BHS All Class Reunion Facebook page (non-BUSD)
Order a 2025-26 Yearbook Click here Contact amandamarini@berkeley.net
Make a BHS Health Center Appt. Click here
Complete a Free & Reduced Lunch Application secure.ezmealapp.com contact saraleon@berkeley.net
Click here for the daily lunch menu
Club Registration Register a BHS Student Club for 2025-26
BHS Athletics Berkeleyhighathletics.org
Class of 2026 Senior Info Senior Info, Dates & Resources
About
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.
Useful Links
Contact Info
Berkeley High ASB Leadership
1980 Allston Way, Berkeley CA United States 94704
johnvillavicencio@berkeley.net
510.644.8990
Go Jackets!
Notification of Non-Discrimination Policy
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