Communications / News

Our Benzie Central Bowling teams head to The Pines in Cadillac, tomorrow, January 17.

8:30 AM

Go Huskies!

Come on out and support our Benzie Central Bowling teams this afternoon at Incredible Mo's.

  1:30 PM

Mark your calendars...

The Middle School play, Murder on the Menu, will take place on Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17.

7:00 PM Showtime

Students/Seniors - $5.00

Adults - $10.00

Come on out and and support our talented drama students.

Newly Certified National Board-Certified Educators recognized at this evenings Board of Education meeting.

We are incredibly proud to recognize Michaela and Asa as Benzie Central’s FIRST two National Board Certified Teachers which is the highest level of professional certification for teachers with about 3% of educations nationwide receiving this distinction.

Teachers earning this certification must meet rigorous standards through completion of a portfolio, video lessons, reflections, and testing.

This process took over 2 years and they were provided coaching support through TeachMichigan.

Michaela MacGirr – Homestead Hills Elementary
Asa Kelly – Betsie Valley Elementary

Benzie Central has 3 other educators working through this program currently so we hope to see more National Board Certified educators in the coming years.

Teacher of the Week - Mr. Bo Stewart - 

Mr. Stewart is one of our amazing high school teachers, teaching Spanish I, II, and III. 

He is also an advisor for our High School Travel Program.

Q: Do you collect anything?

A: Not officially, but my house is chock full of books.

Q: What is the top item on your bucket list?

A: I would love to write a book eventually! Beyond that, I want to visit all seven continents (three more to go), see every national park in the United States, and hike the Tour du Mont Blanc, South West Coast Path, and Kumano Kodo.

Q: What is your favorite holiday?

A: I would have to say Christmas, but Thanksgiving and Halloween are close behind.

Q: What skill would you like to learn?

A: I am incredibly uncoordinated, but I would love to learn to surf someday.

Q: What is one thing that instantly makes your day better?

A: Seeing my students happy/growing/progressing/succeeding

Q: Snack of choice?

A: Dried mango or good milk chocolate

Q: What is one thing you cannot go one day without?

A: Cup of herbal tea, either first thing in the morning or right before bed (or both)

Q: What did you do as a teenager that makes you cringe today?

A: There are so many plausible answers to this question. A short period of time during which I had blue colored contacts comes immediately to mind.

Q: What would your warning label say?

A: Warning: If not stopped, will talk to you about books for hours.

Q: What is your useless talent?

A: With close to 100 % accuracy, I can name the current congressional delegations of every state.

Q: Who is your hero?

A: The countless people in history, known and unknown to us, who have had the courage to do the right thing, despite the uncertainty of the consequences and how much easier it would have been to maintain the status quo or do nothing.

Q: Best concert you have attended?

A: Avicii, back when I was a freshman in college in 2011

Q: What movie can you quote by heart?

A: Fargo! "There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that?"

Q: Favorite quote?

A: The final line of my favorite book, Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These: "Climbing the street towards his own front door, with the barefoot girl and the box of shoes, his fear more than outweighed every other feeling but in his foolish heart he not only hoped but legitimately believed that they would manage."

Q: Describe yourself in 3 words:

A: Teacher, adventurer, reader

Q: What made you want to become a teacher?

A:The quick version is that I was an unfulfilled, unhappy corporate lawyer who finally had the courage to leave practice for something that my intuition told me would be work that would fulfill me: teaching high schoolers. It turned out tot be the best major decision I have ever made.