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Accessibility

Access to BAIS applications from off the network

How to Use ASL Interpretation in Zoom

How to add captions to a video

How to enable Chrome to download reports from Aspen

How to request captions and transcripts for videos from 3Play Media

Joining Zoom from your browser or a Chromebook

Do I have a virus or malware on my computer?

Getting Started with Microsoft Office 365

How to access EdPlan

How to change your last name and BPS email address

How to create or re-enable a Sponsored Account

How to enable/disable a Sponsored Account

How to login (or reset your password) for the DESE Security Portal

How to request access to PeopleSoft

I Am Getting "You Have Successfully Logged Out" Message When Signing into Peoplesoft Financials.

Installing Office 365

New Employee Guide

Staff Passwords: How to reset/change

What is the BPS Acceptable Use Policy?

Athletics Registration Workflow

Athletics Registration Workflow - Athletic Administrators

Athletic Filters

Athletics Program - District View

How Students are Enrolled in the Athletics Program

How to Manually Enroll Students in the Athletics Program

How to Remove Students from Athletic Sections

How to Schedule Students into Athletic Sections

How to Update Physical Exam Information for Athletics - Nurses

How to Update Student Athletic Information - Program Tab

How to Update Student Athletic Information - Student Tab

How to view Student Sports Registration Information - Coaches

How to view and print student Athletic Program records

How to "Push" Daily Attendance to all Classes

How to Add Attendance for One or More Students for Multiple-Dates

How to Automatically Create Journal Entries by Running Attendance Letters

How to Change Attendance Records

How to Change Daily Attendance Preferences to Period

How to Edit Daily Attendance (Teacher)

How to Make Constructively Present or any other Attendance Input Buttons Available to Your School

How to Mark Attendance Complete (to enable the daily call)

How to Reassign Calendar Days in Aspen

How to Reconcile Daily and Class Attendance

How to Run Attendance History for a Specific Code

How to Run Class Attendance Post Verification Report

How to Run Daily Attendance Post Verification

How to Take Attendance in the Daily Office in School View (For Attendance Managers)

How to Take Class Attendance (Teachers)

How to Take Daily Attendance in Aspen (Teachers)

How to Update Student Calendars to Make Students In-Session for Attendance Input

How to add a Tardy and Dismissal for a Student in Aspen

How to run the Perfect Attendance Report in Aspen

How to update Withdrawal Codes for DNR Students

How to use the Principal's Attendance Report in Aspen

Managing Attendance Intervention Plans

Overview of Attendance Intervention Plans in Aspen (video)

Recommending an Attendance Plan for Court

Communicating Through Aspen

How to Create and Send Administrator Notifications (Computer & Mobile)

How to Download and Activate the Follett Notifications App (Mobile)

Using the CK Editor - Announcements, Emails, Banners

Hearing Notification and Suspension Letters

How to Add a Student Conduct Incident (For Conduct Managers)

How to Assign Students to Administrators for Conduct Referrals

How to Enter Emergency Conduct Removal

How to Generate a Conduct Letter in Aspen

How to Run Student Journal and Conduct Reports

How to Submit a Conduct Referral - For Teachers

How to Submit a Conduct Referral in Aspen (For Teachers)

End-of-Year Processes

End Of Year Rollover Information/FAQ

How to Enter Student Homerooms After the End-of-Year Rollover

How to Enter a Student's Next Year Homeroom in School View

How to Promote or Retain Non-Senior Students

How to Set Promotion Status for Seniors

Technology Returns for Transferring & Departing Employees

Linking Siblings on Registrations

Family Portal

How do I create a parent/family portal account in Aspen?

How to Find the Password Verification Code in a Family Aspen Account.

How to Generate Parent Letters with Security Code

How to Navigate the Parent Portal (In English and other Languages)

How to Publish Reports to the Parent and Student Portal

How to See your Child's TerraNova Score on Family Portal

How to Update Contact Portal Login with email address

How to see Your Child's GPA - Family Portal View

Parent Passwords: How to Reset a Parent Portal Account/Password (For School Staff)

Parent Passwords: How to Reset your SIS Family Portal Account Password

Elementary/Standards Based Specific

How to Post K0-K2 Grades in Aspen

How to Post Remote Learning K0-K2 Grades

What are the Reporting Standards for My Class?

What is the Rating Scale for My Class?

Middle and High School Specific

How to Enter Teacher Course Recommendations for the Next School Year

How to Post Term 4 and Final Grades

Quick Reference Cards

Advanced Gradebook Quick Reference Card

Beginning of the Year Gradebook Checklist

Gradebook Basics

Teacher Class Groups and Pages

Creating Special Codes in your Gradebook

Example 0-4 Grade Scale

How the Final Grade is Calculated

How to Attach Your Own Grade Scale to Sections or Assignments

How to Auto Calculate and Post Grades in the Gradebook

How to Create Your Own Grade Scale

How to Create a Grading Column with Assignment Averages

How to Fix Expanding Columns Issue in Chrome

How to add a Class Announcement with Zoom Link

How to add resources to a gradebook assignment

How to create and post a Class Announcement - Staff View

How to use the Google Classroom Gradebook Sync to Aspen

Locking Scores in your Gradebook

Setting up your Gradebook Preferences

Teacher Gradebook PowerPoint

Grades Management

Grade Point Average (GPA)

GPA Frequently Asked Questions

How to see Student GPAs from the Student Tab

How to view an Individual Student's Grade Point Average (GPA)

What are the different types of GPAs and GPA Reports?

What are the point values of a grade?

Grade Scales

Alternate Pass/Fail Grade Scale

Assignment Pass/Fail Grade Scale

BPS Final Grade Scale

BPS Grade Scales

BPS Standard 1-5 Grade Scale

BPS Standard A-F Grade Scale

BPS Standard Kindergarten Grade Scale

What is the MFG Grade?

Where are the Grade Scales in Aspen?

Work-Based Learning Grade Scale

Report Cards

How to Print a Report Card for One Student

How to Run Report Cards in Aspen

Transcripts

How to Change an Elementary Transcript Record

How to Enter Transfer-in Transcript Records

How to Enter and Post Elementary Grades in Aspen

How to Find Missing Final Grades

How to Run Qualification Lists (Honor Roll, D&Fs, Eligibility Lists)

How to See a List of Failing Students in One or More Terms

How to Update the Gradebooks with the Transcript Grades

How to run a merge drop/add transcript records

Grading Manager

How to Calculate Averages - Final Grades

How to Calculate Credits - Populate Credit on Transcript Records

How to Correct MFG and Empty Transcript Records (School View)

How to Find NC Grades for Past Years

How to Post Grades for the Entire School

How to Re-Open Grading Window

How to See Students Grades by Class and Grade Level

How to Update the Grade Cover Term Map and Reassign Calendar Dates for Attendance Input

How to find Specific or Missing Term Grades - District View

How to find Specific or Missing Term Grades - School View

How to run the Grade Post Verification Report in Aspen

How to view MFG and Empty Transcript Records - District View

School Preferences - Grade Category

Student Records Requests

Graduation Requirements

How to Run Report to Check MCAS Status

Absence Letter (Nudge Attendance Letter) Report and sending through School Messenger

How to Run The Official Student Transcript Report

How to Run the Class Office Period Attendance Report

How to setup and run the Out of District Official School Transcript report

Top 10 Aspen Reports for Principals and School Administrators

Career and Vocational/Technical Education (CVTE)

Aspen Tables and Fields with CVTE Data

How to See District Level CVTE Courses

How to see School Course Sections of CVTE Courses

How to see Students Scheduled into CVTE Sections

How to see schools with CVTE courses

Committing Your Schedule

Committing the Master Schedule

How to Commit a Schedule

Daily/Walk-in Scheduling

Counselor Fundamentals and Daily/Walk-In Scheduling

How to Schedule a New Student in Aspen (Grades K0-5)

How to Schedule a New Student or Make Changes to a Student's Current Schedule (Grades 6-12)

Dual Enrollment

Dual Enrollment Partners

How to Schedule Dual Enrollment

Group/Homeroom Scheduling

Change a Student's Homeroom and Reschedule into New Sections

Create and Assign Platoon Codes for Elementary Scheduling

Elementary Group Scheduling: Multi Grade Homerooms or Mix Grade Classes

How to Run Group Scheduling based on Platoon

Schedule Build

How to Copy the Course Catalog to the Build Year

How to Copy the Courses In Use to the Build Year Course Catalog

How to Create a Scenario or Copy the Current Year Schedule to the Build View

How to Enter Next Year School to be Able to See Returning Students in the Build View

How to create a Clever Sync Block

Patterns and Pattern Sets

School Courses

Course Attributes

How to add a Course to Your School Course Catalog

How to Add a Teacher to Multiple Course Sections

How to Change Course Section Details

How to Create a New Course Section

How to Remove a Co-Teacher from a Class in Aspen

How to Transfer Students From one Section to Another and Keep the Grades

How to change a Primary Teacher in Aspen

Restore Deleted Section

Student Course Requests

How to Find Unscheduled Student Course Requests

CTE Data Analytic for DOE 35, 43, 44

How to Add A Schedule to a Middle School or ESL Class to Allow Class Attendance Input

How to Add Schedule to a Class

How to Balance Sections by Student Cohort Code

How to Create Platoon Codes

How to Create a Report for Students Registered in Online Courses Only

How to add a Co-Teacher to a Class

How to add a Student Secondary School Association

Quick Status Alert and Bell Schedules

STRIVE Program set up and Schedule

State and Federal Reporting

State Reporting

Creating an Import file for EPIMS Staff WA07 Role and WA08 Import

Locating EPIMS Reports 02

Run Individual Staff Reports

Update MEPID characteristics

Using EPIMS Template

Using Pando for EPIMS

Graduation Rate Reports and Dropout Data Summary Report in Security Portal

DH Appendices

How to input Early College and Innovation Pathway participation in Aspen for SIMS

Accessing Services only Students in At Home School

Adding Future Capacity, Proposed Fields

Home Learning Tips for Students & Families

How to Accept a New Student to Your School in Aspen

How to Add an Internship Program in Aspen

How to Assign Locker Numbers to One or More Students

How to Change Student Cell Phone Numbers in Aspen

How to Create a Fieldset and Generate a Spreadsheet or Report

How to Enter a Single Student Journal Entry

How to Filter for a Specific Cohort of Students

How to Generate a Parent Email List

How to Run the Student Sibling Report

How to See Next Year Student Assignments, Incoming Students, and Wait List Totals

How to Update ESL Minutes, Instruction Type and Teacher in Aspen

How to Update Parent Emails and Phone Numbers

How to Upload Individual student Photos

How to Upload Student Photos into Aspen

How to Upload a Document in Aspen

How to View Low Income or Food Status (For Principals Only)

How to Withdraw or Discharge a Student in Aspen

How to add Journal Entries for one or more Students

How to add an alert on the student record

How to enter in Student Next Homeroom in School view from the Student top tab

How to search for a Student by Address

How to search for a student by name or ID number

How to see Detailed Information about Pending Students Assigned to your School

How to update data sharing opt-outs in Aspen

How to view students who have opted out of the media release

How to view the change history for a record

Methods to enter in Student Next Year Homeroom

School Leader Guide: Spring 2021 Cohort + Learning Models

Student Portal

How Can Students View their Report Card/Progress Report Grades in the Student Portal

How to Change Student Passwords in Clever

How to Register for Athletics - Student View

How to view your Grade Point Average (GPA)

Summer School

Dropping a Student(s) from a Summer School Class Section

How Can Students see their Summer School Schedule in Aspen

How Teachers can see their Summer Classes in the Gradebook

How teachers can see their Summer School Schedule in Aspen

How to Access your Summer School

How to Add Your Current School Staff to your Summer School

How to Add a Schedule to a Summer Class to Allow Attendance Input

How to Create Summer School ESY Classes and Add Students and Teachers For Attendance Input

How to Create a New Summer Program in Aspen (Central Office Staff Only)

How to Enroll a Student in a Summer Program in the BPS View (BPS Central Office Summer Staff Only)

How to Enter and Post Summer School Grades on the School View (For Site Coordinators)

How to Import School Mint Students Into Summer Programs in Aspen (For Central Office Staff Only)

How to Import Students Into Summer Programs (For Central Office staff Only)

How to Remove Students from Summer School

How to See a Summer School Program Capacity

How to See the Student list for your Summer Program from your Summer School

How to Select a School in the School View in Aspen

How to Take Summer School Attendance (For credit bearing non-5th Quarter programs)

How to Take Summer School Attendance on the Daily Office in School View

How to Update the Details of an Existing Summer Program (Central Office Staff Only)

How to View Registered Summer School Students from your Current School

How to View Summer School Grades

How to View your Summer Students from the Student top-tab in your Summer School

How to add Courses to Summer Programs to Allow School Staff to Enroll Students (BPS Central Office Summer Staff Only)

How to view Summer School Grades on Transcripts

How to Register a Student to a Summer Credit Recovery Program

Summer School Registration 2023

How to Import Locker Number and Lock Combinations

How to Import MEPIDs

Are my Grades Posted?

Transportation

Aspen Transportation Reports

How to Assign T-Pass to a Student

How to Run the Alpha List Report or Student Directory with AM and PM bus

How to Create an Aspen Announcment

What are Aspen Widgets?

Creating a Snapshot

How to Add My Classes to my Pages tab

How to Add Parent Gender in Aspen

How to Add a Page to the Pages tab

How to Add the Tasks Widget to Your Home Page

How to Change Your Default View in Aspen

How to Create or Edit a Field Set

How to Remove Staff from your Roster

How to Switch to the School View

How to Use Mass Update to Quickly Make Data Changes

How to use Modify List to Quickly Make Data Changes

Query By Grade Level and ELD Level

Troubleshooting Aspen-Google Classroom Sync Issues

Withdrawal Code Guidance

Assessments

How to See Assessment Scores for Multiple Students

How to access Panorama Student Success

How to configure your Chromebook for the WIDA/Access test

How to view an individual student's assessment scores

MAP Troubleshooting

MCAS 2.0 Test Coordinators Handbook

Communication

PermissionClick

How to add users to PermissionClick

How to edit a parent's email address in permissionclick, how to remind parents to fill out a form in permissionclick.

How to restart or reset a parent submission in PermissionClick

How to submit a form on behalf of the parent in PermissionClick

How to use permissionclick for a field trip, managing covid consents in permissionclick.

SchoolMessenger

Creating a New Self-Service Document in School Messenger

How do I get started with School Messenger?

How to Email Students with School Messenger

How to Enable/Modify Absence/Tardy Broadcast in School Messenger

How to Send Report Cards or Progress Reports through School Messenger

How to Send a Text Message in School Messenger

How to use the Safe Mode Templates in SchoolMessenger

How to view contact information by phone or email in School Messenger

School Messenger Absent\Tardy Calls

Fixing hanging in video chat apps like Zoom and Hangouts

How do I get started with Google Meet?

How do I get started with Zoom?

How to Add Authentication Exceptions in Zoom

How to Help Students Who Are Unable to Join Zoom Meetings with User Authentication

How to Live Stream Using Zoom

How to Run a Successful Video Conference

How to Set Up Zoom Meetings as a Sub

How to Set Up and Use Spoken Language Interpretation in Zoom

How to Use Zoom AI Companion

How to enable live transcript CC in Zoom

Recommended Zoom Settings for Security

Zoom Basic vs. Zoom Edu Pro: What are the Differences?

Zoom Instructions for Students

Zoom Meeting Pro vs. Zoom Webinar: What Are the Differences?

Access your BPS phone voice message system

Blocking or Unblocking a Phone Number in School Messenger

Creating a Twitter Account

How do I send or receive a fax?

How to Setup your BPS Email (on a mobile device)

How to View a Contact’s Call Record in School Messenger

How to access the Custodial Asbestos Awareness Training

How to maintain student privacy online

Set call forwarding on a BPS Phone

Tweet Deck Tutorial for Twitter Chats

Zoom vs. Google Meet: When Should I Use Each Tool?

How to enable Airtame with MacOSX Catalina

Setup and Placement of Airtame 2

Chromebooks

Access 4 All Chromebook Initiative

Access 4 All Chromebook Repair Process

Common Chromebook Issues & Quick Fixes

Disperse Collected Devices from a Group

Running Reports on TDT Asset (One2One)

Sample Workflow for Distributing Student Chromebooks

TDT Asset Collection and Deployment Process

TDT-Asset (formerly One2One) Helpdocs Hub

TDT-Asset (formerly One2One) Navigation

Understanding Incidents in TDT-Asset (formerly One2One Manager)

What are some free/low cost internet options?

Connecting a Chromebook or Android to BpsStaff/Student

Create an Incident in TDT-Asset (formerly One2One Manager)

Getting Chromebook IP address and WiFi MAC address

How Do I Update the Chrome OS Version on a Chromebook?

How do I configure Chromebooks that I received from Donor's Choose?

How do I take a screenshot of my Chromebook screen?

How to Block Youtube on your Child's Chromebook

How to Factory Reset a BPS Chromebook

How to Install a Printer on a Chromebook

How to use Kiosk Apps (aka locked browsers) on Chromebooks

Tips for keeping student devices clean

What does it mean when a Chromebook is "end of support"?

BPS Wireless Phones

T-Mobile Project 10Million

"MacOS Could not be installed on your computer" screen after start up

5 Tips to Improve Macbook Performance

How do I install GarageBand or iMovie?

How to Connect a Mac to BpsStaff/Student

How to Install the Tap Card (Follow You) Printers on your Mac

How to back-up your data on a Mac

How to convert a PDF into a Word document

How to downgrade your Airtame app on your Mac

How to enable screen recording in macOS

How to receive an L4L (Teacher Macbook)

How to redact information on a PDF without Adobe Acrobat

How to remove Malware from your Macbook

Managing Loaner Macs

Mirrored vs. Extended Display Settings

My Mac won't let me install a program.

Staff Passwords: How to sync with your Macbook

How to Connect a PC to BpsStaff/Student

How to Install a FollowYou Printer on a PC

Polycom Studio

How to Pair the Polycom Studio Remote

How to fix a blinking yellow light on the Polycom Studio

Polycom Studio Camera Setup

How to Activate a New iPad

How to find a web address for an iPad App/IOS Request form

My wireless keeps disconnecting or changing networks!

e-Waste & Technology Recycling Guidance

Digital Citizenship & Cyber Security

How Does the BPS Filter work?

How does the "Document Sensitivity" label work in Google Drive?

How to stay SAFE when shopping online

Internet Safety Resources

Phishing/Spam emails

Adding/subscribing to another Google Calendar

Google Classroom Interactive YouTube Questions

Google Classroom Practice Sets

How does the Google Classroom roster sync work?

How to remove Extensions from Chrome

Reset Google Chrome Settings

How to View Immunization Records

How to upload documents in Aspen (For Nurses and Paras)

Learning Apps

Clever - New Features for Fall 2022

Digital Whiteboard Tools

Getting Started with Google Classroom (Teachers)

How do I use Bookshare?

How to Access Reading Horizons

How to Run a Google Classroom Student List as a Teacher

How to Run a Google Classroom Student List as an Admin

How to Upload your Google Classroom List to your Drive to open it in Google Sheets

How to access & use Nearpod

How to access Activate Learning

How to access Adobe Express

How to access Albert.io

How to access Canva

How to access Clever

How to access Clever at Home

How to access CommonLit

How to access DBQ Online

How to access Defined Learning

How to access EVERFI

How to access EdOptions Academy

How to access Edmentum Courseware

How to access Exact Path

How to access Gale & Nat Geo Kids

How to access Goalbook

How to access Google Classroom (Students)

How to access Illuminate

How to access Imagine Learning

How to access Learning Ally

How to access Legends of Learning

How to access Lexia

How to access McGraw Hill products

How to access Mystery Science

How to access Naviance

How to access Open eBooks

How to access Read&Write for Google Chrome & OrbitNote (PDF Reader)

How to access ST Math

How to access Savvas Realize

How to access Seesaw

How to access Sora by Overdrive

How to access StudySync

How to access Sworkit

How to access TalkingPoints

How to access ThinkLink

How to access Tumblebooks

How to access Vista

How to access n2y

How to access the BPS Lending Library (myTurn)

How to customize the Clever portal on my Teacher page

How to install Android apps on a Chromebook

How to troubleshoot "Offline" status in Seesaw

How to unblock Flash Player in Chrome

I am a co-teacher and I do not see my students in Clever.

I have a student missing from my class in Clever

My students cannot login to an app in Clever

Problems accessing Youtube for parent and teachers?

What are Clever badges and how do they work?

What is a Clever School Tech Lead and what can they do?

When I log in to Clever, I get an "Uh oh!" (sad robot) error message.

Miscellaneous

DataChecker

SIS ODS Check Every Hour

Can I show a Movie in my Classroom?

Editing Ticket Fields in Kace via email

Guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence in BPS

Online Courses

How to access BPSLearns in D2L Brightspace

How to access the Conflict of Interest Law Training

How to access the Inclusive Education Asynchronous Courses in BPSLearns

How to access the Special Education courses in BPSLearns

How to get started with GoGuardian for Teachers

How to Add a New Staff Member to Your School in Aspen

How to Create a Course in Vector

How to sign up for PD in Vector Solutions

How to submit vaccine proof to the City of Boston

How to use the PingID App with AccessBoston

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Work from Home (WFH) Tips

• ​Communication
• ​PermissionClick
• The first step is to open Permission Click and click Start New Form

• Select the template that you want to use. For this example, we'll create a field trip permission slip.

• Enter a name for this form. For example, Museum of Science Field Trip

• Enter some basic information about the trip. This will be the first thing that parents see when they open the form.

• Scroll down and enter the Name of the location.

• Enter the Address of the field trip

• Scroll down and enter the name of the field trip Coordinator.

• Scroll down and enter the field trip date and the start & end time. This does not have to be exact - it is just to give parents an idea of how long the field trip will last.

• Scroll down and click Questions about Each Child or Parent if you would like to ask for additional information. This is where you can ask what students will be bringing for lunch, ask for chaperones, or ask if there are specific medical concerns.

• Click Message to Respondents to leave a closing message after parents have filled out the form.

• Scroll down and customize the text for the Yes/No section.

• Edit the form settings as needed. The default settings are recommended but feel free to adjust the settings.

• If you enter your Event Dates in this section, parents will receive an automated reminder email the day before the field trip.

• You can also choose to cut off responses on a certain date if want to set a deadline.

• Toggle this button to send a reminder email.

• Click Publish when you're ready to move on to the next step.

• Now that the form is ready, we'll need to decide how to send it to familes.

• The Share this form area gives you a link that you can send out to families. For example, you can copy this link into a TalkingPoints or SchoolMessenger message.

• Alternatively, you can use the Recipients Manager to automatically fill in your roster of students.

• Click Schools and select your school to include all students.

• PermissionClick will automatically add all students to your form.

• It will take approximately 15 minutes to add all students and then a banner will appear at the top with a button to email the form.

• We recommend using either the Shared link OR the Recipients Manager, not both. This may cause duplicate students if a parent fills out the form twice.

• That's it! As parents fill out the form, the numbers will change at the top and you'll see the students listed at the bottom with their permission.

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Give Your Students a Dynamic Learning Experience - for Free!

This school year, USS Constitution Museum is offering Massachusetts public schools an incredible opportunity: free field trips!

Give your students an exciting and memorable experience in Boston at our nation’s oldest commissioned ship, USS Constitution , and our award-winning, hands-on Museum. This means:

• FREE on-site programs for MA schools
• FREE virtual programs for MA schools

The Details

• Facilitated Field Trips
• Self-Guided Field Trip
• Virtual Field Trips

Facilitated field trips are available from September through June, Mondays – Fridays 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

To request a school program, complete the Request Form at the bottom of the page. At this time, simultaneous programs are not possible due to space limitations.

Elementary School Programs

A Sailor’s Life for Me?

  Discover if the sailor’s life is for you in this interactive program. Through engaging activities, students will learn about the tasks and teamwork required of early U.S. Navy sailors. Short on time but still want a facilitated experience? This is a great option.

 Grade 3 and up | 10-30 people │ 30 minutes + Self-Guided Exploration │Required Chaperone Ratio 1:10

Ship Design Challenge

USS Constitution was built for speed and strength, and her unique design and American materials helped make her a national symbol. Learn from this example in our galleries and on board the Ship with a U.S. Navy sailor, then complete a STEM challenge: can you construct and race the fastest and strongest ship using household materials?

Grades 3-5│10-30 students│2.5 hours│Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6 

Join the Crew

Learn about life at sea on USS Constitution first-hand! From recruitment to daily activities to battle, students will follow a typical day of a eight year-old Ship’s boy in 1812, and compare that to life in the US Navy today. This program is co-facilitated by a US Navy sailor on board USS Constitution .

Grades 3-5│10-30 students│2 hours│Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6 

Middle School Programs

 All Ages |10-30 people │ 30 minutes + Self-Guided Exploration | Required Chaperone Ratio 1:10

Grades 6-8│10-30 students│2.5 hours│Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6 

Learn about life at sea on USS Constitution first-hand! From recruitment to daily activities to battle, students will follow a typical day of a teenage midshipman in 1812, and compare that to life in the US Navy today. This program is co-facilitated by a US Navy sailor on board USS Constitution .

Grades 6-8│10-30 students│2 hours│Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6 

Active Citizens

What does it mean to serve your community, and your country? Examine the rewards and challenges of active citizenry through the lens of military service then & now. Compare the lives of an 1812 sailor and a current US Navy crewmember through primary sources, a live interview, and hands-on activities on board USS Constitution.

Grades 6-8│10-30 students│2.5 hours│Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6  

High School Programs

Grades 9-12│10-30 students│2 hours | Required Chaperone Ratio 1:6 

Self-guided field trips are available:

September through May:  Mondays – Fridays 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

May & June: Monday – Fridays 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

To request a self-guided field trip, complete the Request Form at the bottom of the page.

Self-Guided Visit

Don’t just learn about history, experience it! Your group can independently explore two floors of interactive, hands-on exhibits. Self-guided activities like scavenger hunts and quests are available to focus student learning. Students and their chaperones are encouraged to visit USS Constitution after exploring the museum.

All Ages │ 60 minutes recommended Chaperone Ratio 1:10

Please note: the ship USS Constitution is separate from the Museum and operated by the United States Navy. It can be visited during operating hours on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be aware that visitors must pass through a security inspection and show federal or state photo identification, such as a driver’s license or passport, before embarking on USS  Constitution . Visitors under the age of 18 do not require a photo identification card.

Virtual programs are available Mondays – Fridays from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

To request a virtual program, complete the Request Form at the bottom of the page.

Virtually visit USS Constitution in Boston MA, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. In this field trip, you’ll walk the decks of this historic ship with a U.S. Navy sailor and learn about life at sea during the War of 1812 first-hand! From chores , to food, to sails and battle, this interactive field trip will keep your students engaged in games and demos.

Grades K-12 │ Maximum 40 students │ 60 Minutes | Zoom Meeting

Day in the Life of a Ship’s Boy

Experience “Old Ironsides” from the perspective of the youngest 1812 crew member, a ship’s boy! This 360 virtual tour, facilitated by a Museum educator, will have students exploring every corner of the Ship, from the powder magazine in the depths of the hull to the fighting tops, one hundred feet above the top deck. As students navigate the virtual tour platform, pop-up boxes with historical artifacts, videos of today’s U.S. Navy crew, and games bring the spaces to life. An on-demand, self-guided version of this virtual tour will be available soon.

Grades 3-5 │ Maximum 40 students │ 60 Minutes │Zoom Meeting

Day in the Life of a Midshipman

This 360 virtual tour, facilitated by a Museum educator, follows a day in the life of an 1812 midshipman: a teenage officer in training. Students will navigate through every deck of the Ship in this virtual tour, encountering pop-up boxes with historical artifacts, videos of today’s U.S. Navy crew, and games along the way. An on-demand, self-guided version of this virtual tour will be available soon.

Grades 6-12 │ Maximum 40 students │ 60 Minutes │ Zoom Meeting

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To schedule a free trip to the Museum, please fill out the Request Form below. Once you submit the form, our Education Coordinator will reach out to confirm availability, finalize the reservation and provide information on bus invoicing.

• Reservations must be made at least two weeks in advance for Museum-only programs, and 30 days in advance for Ship programs.

• Programs are available Monday – Friday between 10:00am and 5:00pm EST.

Questions? Contact our Education Coordinator by phone at 617-426-1812 x146 or email [email protected] for assistance.

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School and Group Field Trips

Since its founding by teachers over a century ago, Boston Children’s Museum has been a leading destination for memorable field trips and outside-the-classroom learning. In these challenging times, we are working hard to continue supporting our learning communities.

In-Museum Group Visits The Museum welcomes self-guided visits for schools, learning pods, community groups, afterschool programs, camps and childcare centers. Please contact our Groups Coordinator at  [email protected]

The Japanese House  (School-year only) Group visits to the Japanese House are considered on a case-by-case basis. If you are interested in scheduling a visit to the Japanese House, please contact us at  [email protected]

Balls and Tracks (in Person)  (School-year only)

Loop-de-loops, hills, tunnels, and more! There are many exciting parts to roller coasters and lots of things engineers have to keep in mind when designing them. Through trial and error and using their keen observation skills, students will work in teams to engineer a roller coaster track for a marble. This program is designed for 1st-5th grade and lasts about 45-55 minutes.

Money Matters: Earthquake Engineering (In Person)  (School-year only)

Can you design a building to withstand an earthquake? Students will engage in financial literacy and engineering as they carefully spend their budget on materials to design an earthquake resistant structure. They will test their design on a shake table. This program is designed for 2nd-5th grade and lasts about 60 minutes. 

Thanks to generous support from Citizens Bank, the Money Matters: Earthquake Engineering program can be facilitated free of charge for many schools. Within the interest form, you can indicate whether you would like your class to be considered for a sponsored visit. 

Money Matters Virtual Museum Experience  (School-year only) What are the businesses in our community? How do we and our neighbors make and spend money? Students will get the chance to explore these financial literacy concepts through role play, creating their own small businesses, and making shopping choices.

This program is broken into four parts, including two virtual visits from the Museum educator.

• Part 1 (teacher-facilitated): Students will be introduced to the idea of a small business through a storybook. The storybook will be provided by the Museum, but facilitated by the teacher.
• Part 2 (Museum-facilitated):  A Museum staff member will virtually guest star (about 45 minutes) in the class to facilitate a discussion about businesses the students are familiar with and guide students in thinking about what small business they want to create.
• Part 3 (teacher-facilitated):  The teacher will help students pick their businesses. Then, students will complete small business plans, make signs to promote their businesses, and make fake money to use in the following part of the program.
• Part 4 (teacher-facilitated):  Students will sell from and shop at the businesses they created.

Thanks to generous support from Citizens Bank, Virtual Money Matters Experiences program can be facilitated free of charge for many schools. Within the interest form, you can indicate whether you would like your class to be considered for a sponsored visit.

Check back here soon for additional information about more virtual museum experiences.

  In-Museum and Virtual Group Visits

Since its founding by teachers over a century ago, Boston Children’s Museum has been a leading destination for memorable field trips and outside-the-classroom learning. In these challenging times, we are working hard to continue supporting our learning communities. The Museum welcomes self-guided visits for schools, learning pods, community groups, afterschool programs, camps and childcare centers. 

The Japanese House In-person group visits to the Japanese House are considered on a case-by-case basis. 

Balls and Tracks (in Person)

Money Matters: Earthquake Engineering (In Person)

Money Matters Virtual Museum Experience What are the businesses in our community? How do we and our neighbors make and spend money? Students will get the chance to explore these financial literacy concepts through role play, creating their own small businesses, and making shopping choices. This program is designed for 1st-5th grade. 

This program is broken into four parts, including a virtual visit from a Museum educator.

• Part 1: Students will be introduced to the idea of a small business through a storybook. The storybook will be provided by the Museum, but facilitated by the teacher.
• Part 2: A Museum staff member will virtually guest star (about 45 minutes) in the class to facilitate a discussion about businesses the students are familiar with and guide students in thinking about what small business they want to create.
• Part 3: The teacher will help students pick their businesses. Then, students will complete small business plans, make signs to promote their businesses, and make fake money to use in the following part of the program.
• Part 4: Students will sell from and shop at the businesses they created. 

Thanks to generous support from Citizens Bank, Virtual Money Matters Experiences program can be facilitated free of charge for many schools. Within the interest form, you can indicate whether you would like your class to be considered for a sponsored visit. 

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Boston Bowl is where Boston comes to bowl! We provide a safe, clean & fun environment for all ages to bowl candlepin & tenpin, play state of the art arcade games & billiards.

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Boston Harbor City Cruises offers memorable dinner and lunch cruises showcasing the Boston skyline and famous landmarks like Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, USS Constitution, and the Seaport District. Ideal for school and youth group events.

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Discover historic Boston slice by delicious slice! Boston Pizza Tours serves up fun and educational food tours, exploring the city’s oldest neighborhoods. Along the way, enjoy slices from Boston’s very best pizzerias.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Join Samuel Adams and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in protest of King George’s unjust taxes at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Explore via virtual tours and the research library.

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From Memorial Day through mid-August, Boston University opens its residence halls, allowing groups to utilize campus facilities for overnight stays, on-campus dining, and a range of educational activities.

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Carousel Family Fun Center of Whitman offers a safe, clean, colorful, fun, and friendly environment. We offer roller skating, music, videos, Pattino’s Pisa Pizza, Treasure Chest redemption shops, and arcade games!

Jay Gee’s Ice Cream & Fun Center

A seasonal family entertainment center, Jay Gee’s Ice Cream & Fun Center features a go-kart track, bumper cars, bumper boats, batting cages, 18 hole mini golf and arcade with the newest and most innovative games. Also a dining room for groups.

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The magnificent setting of the Massachusetts State House has housed state government for over two centuries has become an outstanding museum reflecting the history of Massachusetts since colonial times.

Patriots Hall of Fame Presented by RTX

The Patriots Hall of Fame presented by RTX  is a modern, interactive museum experience that honors the greatest New England Patriots of all time. Virtual resources include online educational activities.

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Salem Historical Tours provide a wide range of historical and paranormal tours, covering Salem’s 400 years of history. Learn for yourself why we’re the most respected tour.

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Field trips to the Salem Witch Museum gives groups a dynamic look at the history of the Salem witch trials of 1692. Take a virtual tour of the Salem witchcraft trial sites.

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Field trips during the regular school day and Overnight within the State of Massachusetts

If your child takes medications at school those medications will be sent with a nurse or designated responsible adult as noted on the school  medication administration form .

If your child has a special health care issue the school nurse will determine if field trip staff can be instructed in the care of your child. The school nurse will be responsible for that training. If the school nurse determines that your child requires the care of a registered nurse, coverage will be provided. 

Overnight Out of State Field Trips

Registered nurses are licensed by the Board of Registration in Nursing in the state in which they practice. There is no national registration for registered nurses. For this reason the Norwood school nurses cannot delegate your child's nursing care or medication to field trip staff when students travel overnight outside of Massachusetts. 

If your child has a special health care issue you should speak with the field trip staff about the care your child might require on the trip, or the possibility that you might accompany your child on the trip.

If your child will require medication on their trip please read and complete the  out of state field trip medication administration form  and return it to the staff person in charge of the field trip.

Out of the Country Field Trips

Again, registered nurses are licensed by the Board of Registration in Nursing in the state in which they practice. There is no international registration for registered nurses. For this reason the Norwood school nurses cannot delegate your child's nursing care or medication to field trip staff when students travel overnight outside of the United States. 

It it is the policy of the Norwood Public Schools that if your child is mature enough to travel out of the United States on a field trip they are capable of being responsible for their own health care needs and medications. This policy also conforms to the United States Department of State and TSA regulations for taking medical equipment and/or medications out of or into the United States.

If your child has a special health care issue or will require medications while overseas please read and complete the  out of country medication administration form  and return it to the staff person in charge of the trip.

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8 Field Trip and School Permission Forms to Make Your Life Easier

Because who has time to reinvent the wheel?

While some schools may be lucky enough to have transitioned to electronic permission slips, many are still relying on the same photocopies that they’ve had for years. Thankfully, we’ve got some spiffy new school permission forms templates to help you retire your old forms without too much heavy lifting.

1. Class Party or Project

When you’re planning a class party or project, this template is a great start. You can use it as is to address any concerns about allergies or adjust it to collect other information, like supply donations or even available volunteers.

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2. School Dances

There comes a time in each student’s life when they’re presented with the opportunity to get down and funky with a group of their peers. At that time, it falls on many an adult to help students manage responsibilities and expectations. This permission slip helps do just that with student, guest, and guardian signatures, and much more.

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3. Movies and Other Media

With all of the digital learning resources available nowadays, you may think permission slips for these tools are no longer necessary. As mindful as you may be in making your selections, you still might want to solicit specific approval for certain content. This quick and easy form is the way to do it.

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Speaking of potentially sensitive content, sex ed likely requires permission, no matter what it’s called, what grade it’s for, or what class it’ll be in. In addition to documenting approval, this form provides information parents and guardians are sure to find useful before their student participates in any discussions.

5. Extracurricular Transportation

Kids today have an amazing number of options available when it comes to extracurricular activities—and just as many when it comes to getting to and from them. Coaches, leaders, and other staff will love having this form at the ready to get transportation permissions on file in record time.

6. Field Trip Lite

This is a great field trip permission slip without all the fuss. Just enter the facts and send it on its way.

7. Field Trip Plus

For those who sleep a little more easily at night when they have a bit of legalese covering their backsides, the additions in this two-pager may be the better choice. Plus, the added room in the layout gives you plenty of space to load up on trip details, if that’s more your style.

8. Overnight Field Trip

Fair warning: This one has a lot of fine print! But what else would you expect to counter the increasing liability that comes with an overnight field trip?

What school permission forms templates should we add to this list? Let us know in the comments and we’ll create more templates!

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Appropriate resources existing in the community will be utilized by schools in planning and conducting the instructional program. Certain resources can be brought into the classroom to enrich the curriculum while others are best visited on field trips.

An instructional field trip is a planned visit outside the school taken by students, under the supervision of a teacher or other school official, to enrich and extend the classroom instructional program. Field trips should provide a link between the school and the community and assist the school staff in relating the ideas and theories of the classroom to practical applications. Field trips for instructional purposes are encouraged by the Arlington Public Schools with due consideration for budget limitations.

An extracurricular field trip is a planned visit outside the school taken by students, under the supervision of a teacher or other school official, in support of academic/athletic teams, performing groups, or other extracurricular activities.

An exceptional field trip is an instructional or extracurricular field trip which involves unusual circumstances.

The Director of Administrative Services is responsible for providing appropriate field trip opportunities and guidelines. The principal or supervisor is responsible for giving administrative direction to staff members who plan and supervise field trips and other uses of community resources.

Reference: ASD 20-4.01