We are really excited to welcome back Jessica Bartucci to our Brookwood Family. Last year, Bartucci long term subbed for three of our teachers in our district and this year she has accepted the position to be on our 4/5 Team where she did two long term substitute positions in! Here is some more information on Bartucci.
Bartucci grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where she studied Elementary Education with a minor in Mathematics. Bartucci has always wanted to be a teacher since 5th grade. She loves to learn and loves to help others find joy in learning. In Bartucci's free time, she enjoys rock climbing, kayaking, being outside, reading, cooking, and being with family and friends. Bartucci was a long-term substitute last year in both Brookwood's middle school and elementary school. Bartucci is so excited to join the Brookwood family as a 4th/5th-grade teacher and is looking forward to getting to know everyone and be involved in the Genoa City Community!
Welcome to your forever family, Jessica Bartucci!
Our next new staff member we are excited to introduce to you all to the Brookwood Family is Candi Oteman who is going to be our 6th grade Special Education Educator. Here is some more information about Oteman.
Oteman has 9 of 17.5 years experience in the 6th grade special education classroom.
Lake Geneva is where she calls home and is extremely proud of her three adult children. She also loves food and football. GO PACK GO!
Oteman is looking forward to being a part of the school community. She hopes that everyone has a terrific start to their school year and can't wait to see everyone in the building.
Welcome to the Brookwood Family, Candi Oteman!
Mustangs, help us welcome our new school psychologist Ellen Carpenter who will be working at both of our buildings and is working 40% of her time with Williams Bay. Here is more information about Carpenter:
She is originally from Michigan's Upper Peninsula and majored in psychology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and got her masters in Educational Psychology from UW-Madison. In between those degrees she's worked as an Americorps VISTA for the Madison Metropolitan School District as a family liaison, participated in fundraising and advocacy for affordable housing while cycling across the country with Bike and Build, and served as an education volunteer in the Peace Corps in Indonesia. Now Carpenter has geared up for the move to the Lake Geneva area along with her two Indonesian-born cats. As far as her interests go, she likes to stay active with running, ultimate frisbee, cycling, hiking, and yoga. She also likes to dabble in art, board games, potlucks, house plants, and cooking.
Carpenter is very much looking forward to getting to know the teams at both Genoa City and Williams Bay, as she'll be splitting her time as a school psychologist intern between these two wonderful districts. She had spent a day visiting Brookwood and was very charmed and impressed with how welcoming and helpful everyone was. She can't wait to meet everyone and get started on this new adventure!
Welcome, Ellen Carpenter, to the Brookwood Family!!
Please help us welcome to our Brookwood Family....Kelly Cassaday!! We are SO excited that Cassaday will be joining our 1st grade team!! Here is a little more about Kelly....if you have a chance at Open House...stop by and say, "Hi!"
Cassaday is SO excited to be starting her 8th year of teaching at Brookwood Elementary School! She grew up in the west suburbs of IL with her loving parents and 4 siblings. They became a foster family when she was in middle school and had the privilege of adopting 4 children. She graduated from UW-Whitewater with a teaching degree from birth through 6th grade. She has a wonderful husband and 2 beautiful daughters. Cassaday also has two energetic black labs and a 1 year old hedgehog. She loves watching her daughters swim during practice, so she became a swim official for their swim club! Cassady really enjoys spending time outside and doing things like hiking, camping, swimming, and even sledding! Above all she loves to spend as much time as possible with her family. Cassaday cannot wait to start this school year, meet her students and families, and grow more as an educator with her first grade friends!
Please help us welcome Kelly Cassaday to our Brookwood Family!!
Please see the following Mustang Message from our Superintendent Kellie Bohn: https://youtu.be/CZt0znMMFtc
Our District theme this year is "HELPING ALL CHILDREN GROW INTO GREATNESS." We are looking forward as a staff to fine-tuning our ability to support ALL of our kids as they develop academically, socially, and emotionally. And, there is sure to be a lot of FUN in the process! We plan to use this, our Mustang Minute, as the main vehicle to showcase all of the great things happening in our schools and as a way to deliver to you important information. You can expect to receive this newsletter weekly once the school year commences.
Here's to making the MOST of the rest of your summer, Mustangs! We seriously can't WAIT to see you!
Mr. Braden & Mrs. Franz
This week’s Mustang Minute: https://www.smore.com/fm29w
Ready, set, GLOW! Our BFO is excited to bring the Brookwood Glow Run/Walk back! Event to be held at BMS on Friday, October 1st. Registration at 6:30pm with Run/Walk starting at 7pm. $5 per person or $10 per family.
Today and tomorrow are our final two days of our free summer lunch program…let’s see if we can blow our lunch team away by getting as many free lunches passed out as possible!!! Thank you for all those that have been picking up meals!! We are so happy that Brookwood was a point of pick up this past summer and it’s because of your continued support we can do this!!!
Summer Bash was nothing less than a BLAST!! We hope you had a great time. Thank you to ALL those that came out to join in on the fun...that volunteered...and everything else that was a part of this event. OUR BFO ROCKS!! Thank you to Piña Mexican Eats (https://www.facebook.com/Pi%C3%B1a-Mexican-Eats-320816878606139/) and Kona Ice of Kenosha (https://www.facebook.com/KonaIceOfKenosha) for being a part of our event!
TODAY! End of summer bash from 4pm-7pm at BMS. Don’t forget about the Taco Truck (cash only) and Kona Ice Truck! We can’t wait to see you.
Don’t forget to get your free breakfast/lunch bundle at our middle school today. The lunch ladies are here until noon! This is our last week of our free summer meal program —so we hope you’ll blow these ladies out of the water these next few days with how many meals they’ll be passing out.
On-site registration starts in less than an hour at our middle school and runs until 7pm. For those of you wanting to take school pictures, Ed Clark Photography will be here as well. We ask you please use the link below to pre-order your portraits prior to coming on-site. Click the link below.
https://AccessMyEvent.com/53H9K6
Still looking for a before school and/or after school care for your child? What about wrap around care for those in our half day 4k program? or an opportunity to have your littles experience preschool for a few days a week at Brookwood?! Check out this amazing partnership we have with our local YMCA that is hosted at our elementary school!! Check out these fliers for more information.
We hope to see you at the middle school today for either registration and school pictures or the summer bash...or better yet...BOTH events!!
BES & BMS Online Registration is ready for YOU!!
Returning families, please go to the following link to register your child(ren): https://tinyurl.com/2w73bvem
NEW families to our District, please go to the following link and create a new account: https://ecollect.accelaschool.com/GenoaCityJ2
Please make sure you register your child via a desktop or laptop device.
Questions regarding e-registration should be directed to Carey Denecke in the Middle School Office 262-279-1053, email carey.denecke@gcj2.k12.wi.us or Jayme Wisneski in the Elementary School Office 262-279-6496, email jayme.wisneski@gcj2.k12.wi.us.
September Lunch Menus!
*Repost of an Updated Post with Guidelines in Spanish*
Please see the following Mustang Message from our Superintendent Kellie Bohn: https://youtu.be/LJ9TQi6_gww
COVID Guidelines 8/16/21 in English: https://tinyurl.com/jbh559pt
Directrices de COVID--8/16/21 en Espanol: https://tinyurl.com/3rc6b8dd
We are so excited to share with you our new and “new” staff members! We have a mix of new new staff, long term substitutes from last year joining us officially, and student teachers that are excited for this new school year. We love adding to our Brookwood Family!! Get ready for their staff features coming out soon!!
Yesterday, they spent the day on site learning about our district, buildings, and the amazingness of being a Mustang. 💙
Please see the following Mustang Message from our Superintendent Kellie Bohn: https://youtu.be/LJ9TQi6_gww
COVID Guidelines 8/16/21: https://tinyurl.com/jbh559pt
*ALL inquiries, questions, and/or applications must be directed and submitted to Kellie Bohn at the District Office at Brookwood Middle School (1020 Hunter's Ridge / Genoa City, WI 53128) 262-279-1053 X1108 -Kellie.Bohn@gcj2.k12.wi.us
The Genoa City Jt. 2 School District is an equal opportunity employer and organization who fully and actively supports equal access for all people, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information or testing and sexual orientation.
Don't forget...school pictures will be taken tomorrow at our registration event at BMS from 11am-7pm.
For those of you wanting to take school pictures, Ed Clark Photography will be at the middle school during our Registration Day to take pictures. If you are unable to make it, there will be an opportunity when school starts to get pictures taken as well. If you would like to take pictures tomorrow (the 18th), please use the link below to pre-order your portraits:
https://AccessMyEvent.com/53H9K6