This year we took a new approach to the TAPPS Academic Team. Under the new leadership of Mrs. Brooks and Mr. Roquemore, students were invited to participate based upon 4 different criteria: teacher recommendations, test scores, academic achievement, and student interest. Pictured below are our students who attended the welcome reception, as well as […]

As part of college emphasis month, Celia Tucker, our college guidance counselor, is meeting with parents by grade level to help them help their students start preparing for college today. Brook Hill parents met around the Brook Hill kitchen table (we call it the Lecture Hall) and had coffee and conversation about college. We talked […]

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic Counselor: Questions, answers, laughter, more questions, laughter, more answers; “Oh, no, I have to write an essay for my college application?”; writers block; personal stories; “I have to write 2 essays for my college application?”; remembering activities from 9th grade, 10th grade and junior year (and having to […]