Bremen High School students took a deep dive into real-world money management at JA Finance Park! With the help of 25 business & community volunteers, 169 Personal Finance students built budgets, made financial decisions, and gained valuable life skills. #BremenBraves
Read more here: https://bremen.bhsd228.com/o/bhs/article/2055769
🎉 Congratulations to Bremen High School & Oak Forest High School for earning the prestigious 2025 DECA Gold Certification in Retail & Food Operations! 🏆 Their dedication & entrepreneurial spirit have placed them among the top-performing schools in Illinois.
Read more here: https://www.bhsd228.com/article/2050269
March 1st! Be sure to swing by!
📚✨ Hillcrest High School’s first-ever Lit Fest was a huge success! 🎉 Juniors and seniors had the incredible opportunity to meet YA author Michelle Falkoff, hear about her journey as a writer, and even get their books signed! 🖊️📖
Students also enjoyed fun activities and awesome giveaways, making it a day to remember. Huge thanks to Michelle Falkoff for inspiring our future storytellers! 💙
Read more about the experience by visiting our website: https://hillcrest.bhsd228.com/o/hhs/article/2030904
#HillcrestLitFest #MichelleFalkoff #ReadWriteInspire #StudentSuccess
🎨✨ Huge congratulations to Bremen and Hillcrest students for showcasing their incredible talents at the Black Creativity Exhibition! Selected from over 1,300 entries, their artwork shines alongside professional artists at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. 🎭👏 #BlackCreativity #StudentArtists #FutureOfArt
🎬 BDTV 228 Wins Big! 🏆
We’re proud to announce that Unpredicted won Outstanding Cinematic Achievement at the 2025 Student Silent Film Festival! 🎥
Read more information about the film and the process students went through to bring it to life by heading to our website! Link: https://www.bhsd228.com/article/2023591
Bremen High School District 228 is thrilled to welcome our beloved senior citizens to our Annual Senior Citizen’s Breakfast! 🥞☕
Join us for a delicious meal, great company, and wonderful entertainment provided by our talented students. This special event will take place at all four of our district schools—we can't wait to celebrate with you!
📅 Date: March 19, 2025
📍 Locations: Bremen, Tinley Park, Hillcrest, and Oak Forest High Schools
Read more on our website: https://www.bhsd228.com/article/2011555
Come enjoy a morning of good food and even better company! RSVP today (RSVP by March 4th) 💙✨ #D228 #SeniorCitizensBreakfast #CommunityMatters
Support D228 Operation Snowball by visiting Chipotle in Tinley Park tonight!
Tanya Wiseman, senior at Oak Forest High School, is a leader with a compassionate heart. She is not only a student leader, but a driving force behind the "Leading with Heart" initiative at Oak Forest High School.
Read more about this fantastic Bengal by heading to our website: https://tinyurl.com/2zydn2z2
IMPORTANT: With the expected low temperatures tomorrow we will be moving to an e-Learning format for Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. Consult your email for more information about attendance and the format for this school day. Regarding after school activities, your coach or sponsor will communicate with each group the specifics of that group.
- Your student needs to complete the Attendance Google Form by 10 a.m. in order to be considered "present" for school.
- Your student should refer to his/her Google Classrooms and complete all assignments posted by the teacher.
- Classroom teachers are available to assist your student between the hours of 12 pm and 2 pm. Help can be provided via Google Classroom, Voice, Meet and/or email.
All D228 buildings are closed today.
Bremen Sophomore Art Student Jamie Garcia has earned an Honorable mention at the 2024-2025 University of St. Francis High School Art Exhibition and Competition, for her piece Cavity.
The USF Art Department stated, “This is a remarkable accomplishment, especially considering the over 300 entries in the exhibition this year. Your piece stood out to the judges for its unique creativity and powerful artistic vision. It left a lasting impression and clearly demonstrates your talent and dedication.”
We are so proud!
Did you check your mailbox this week? We sent our annual District Scoop your way!
BHSD228 Families and Students,
On Tuesday afternoon, our Student Information System vendor PowerSchool notified our District that we may be among the many PowerSchool clients worldwide whose data may have been accessed during a cybersecurity incident. On Wednesday at 2PM, we attended a detailed PowerSchool debrief about the data breach.
While PowerSchool is responsible for this incident and its impact, Bremen High School District 228 is committed to protecting our student, staff and family data and is committed to communicating with transparency about this incident. We are providing the information we currently have and as more specific information becomes available we will share it.
What happened?
According to PowerSchool, someone used a compromised PowerSchool credential to access an internal PowerSchool system that is intended for supporting their clients through a maintenance connection to individual district PowerSchool systems. When PowerSchool became aware of the incident on December 28, 2024, they notified law enforcement, locked down the system, and engaged the services of CrowdStrike (a cybersecurity company that develops software to help companies detect and prevent cyberattacks) and Cyber Steward (a professional advisor with experience in negotiating with threat actors).
What data could have been accessed?
District 228 has not received specific details about the extent in which D228 faculty and student information was accessed and they have assured us that further analysis of our particular situation will be shared in the weeks ahead. Information accessed may include demographic and contact information, including names, addresses, and phone numbers as well as some limited health information for some students. District 228 does not collect or retain student or staff SSNs in PowerSchool and to our knowledge, no financial information was included in the data breach.
PowerSchool states that they have received “reasonable assurances from the threat actor that the data has been deleted and that no additional copies exist. We do not anticipate the data being shared or made public, and we believe it has been deleted without any further replication or dissemination. We have a video confirming deletion and are actively searching the dark web to confirm.”
What happens next?
PowerSchool has stated that the incident is contained, and they have no evidence of malware or continued unauthorized activity in the PowerSchool environment. They are not experiencing, nor expect to experience, any operational disruption and they continue to provide services as normal to school districts.
Although PowerSchool has assured us that the risk of data dissemination or misuse is low, we remain vigilant and are leveraging all available resources to thoroughly assess the situation and strengthen the protection of our systems.
Communication and Transparency
District 228 personnel will continue to work with our PowerSchool representative and we will share relevant information as it becomes available to us.
District 228's Operation Snowball is having a fundraiser at Portillos in Tinley Park on January 16th from 5-8pm! Save the date! Details can be seen below.
Happy New Year! We hope you have a great 2025!
From all of us here in Bremen High School District 228, have a wonderful winter break! See you back here in 2025!
Congratulations to our semester 1 keepers of the light! Our keepers of the light go above and beyond in their school/community. We had a wonderful evening recognizing and celebrating all of their hard work!
Our Bremen Excel students put on a wonderful holiday performance for district staff last week! About 50 students put in hours of hard work, filled with fun and laughter to prepare choreography for the big day! Bonus: Santa stopped by to say hello!
Check out the final days of school schedule for semester 1 below!
