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What School Could Be Book Club Begins Tuesday!
What School Could Be Book Club Begins Tuesday!
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BVA will follow Indian Hill Schools' Inclement Weather Plans
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Meeting Dates & Times (sign up here!)
7PM Feb 2nd | Feb 16th | Mar 2nd | Mar 16th
What School Could Be - Ted Dintersmith
What School Could Be - Ted Dintersmith
Every wonder why schools are organized the way that they are? What factors actually impact the success of schools? Could schools be more responsive, relevant, appropriately challenging, and supportive of every single learner if we worked together to reimagine them? Monica Gibson, IH teacher and parent will be joining me to lead discussion with our BVA Community on the book What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith. We will use the ideas in this book to consider what the Indian Hill and Brave Virtual Academy could look like in the future. We hope you'll join us!
Indian Hill Gets Global
Indian Hill Gets Global
A special thank you to our parents, teachers, and students for celebrating Global Cultural Celebration Week January 25-29. One of the many highlights included the map of videos created by our IH families to share about their countries of origin and cultural connection. Click on the map to learn more!
Visit this link https://flipgrid.com/6456a929 to learn about some countries and cultures with special meaning to our IHPS kids! Global Cultural week was a great way to celebrate those connections!
learning@ihbva
learning@ihbva
Online Learning & Teaching Practices
Online Learning & Teaching Practices
Each week, Brave Virtual Academy teachers and I discuss our core principles at the heart of BVA.
- Personalization: providing unique learning pathways for individual students
- Agency: giving learners opportunities to participate in key decisions in their learning experience
- Authentic Audience: giving learners the opportunity to create for a real audience both locally and globally
- Connectivity: giving learners opportunities to experience learning in collaboration with peers and experts locally and globally
- Creativity: providing learners individual and collaborative opportunities to make things that matter while building skills for their future.
Scholarship is a key component that is embedded in all classrooms at Indian Hill. This week, we'll be highlighting the scholarship of our first-grade students. Students in Mrs. Miller's and Mrs. Sweeney's classes have been hard at work learning about countries and continents and the scholarship skills needed to research and present work.
BVA first graders explored the land features, climate, cultural elements, animals, and plants of their selected country or continent. The work embedded learning from geography and writing standards, offered students age-appropriate choice and agency, and helped them to develop presentation skills.
After gathering their facts, students created museum exhibits to highlight the best of what they learned and to share with others. In this way, students are contributing to the greater learning community by sharing their work with an audience outside of themselves and their classrooms. First graders had their second-grade peers and their parents in the palm of their hands this week as they showed off their work and their learning. Thank you to all of you who were able to join us for the event.
Connected learners know how to find experts and trusted resources to deepen their understanding of complex ideas. Engaging with an authentic audience serves to introduce learners to the greater community of scholarship and learning as well as provide meaning to the work they do.
How Can You Support Your Scholars At Home?
How Can You Support Your Scholars At Home?
Below are some resources that talk about habits and attitudes linked to scholarship. Take time to talk with your child about the strategies they use in working on assignments. When it seems like a good fit, share your pondering of ideas, curiosity, or exploration of multiple perspectives "out loud" with your child. Many of the thoughts patterns we have developed are still new to our children and they can benefit from adults "thinking out loud" with them.
habits-of-a-scholar.pdfQuestionstoPromoteScholarlyDispositions.pdfFrom: Cash & Heacox, Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics, 2019, Free Spirit Press.
Are Snow days a thing of the past?
Are Snow days a thing of the past?
Mr. Koennecke has announced that if IH schools are on a delay or school is canceled due to inclement weather, BVA will also be on a delayed schedule or canceled. If there were to be an extended need for schools to be closed, we would continue with our BVA daily virtual learning schedule. Any delays or cancellations will be reported to local news outlets as well as through the IH emergency phone notification system.
Dinner Table Talk - Share this article with your child and ask what they think about keeping or eliminating snow days.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
NO SCHOOL
February 12th - Early Release Day
February 15th - President's Day
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
We have virtual clubs and activities available for learners? And more to come soon!
Middle School - Student Arrow - Watch Our Student Announcements to Learn More
MS Virtual Clubs - Future Cities | Power of the Pen | Latin Club | Math Counts
High School - 20-21 Activities Handbook;
Bring 2 Change, Courageous Conversations, Fragments, French Club, Partner's Club, Red Cross Club, Competitive Writing Team, & Writing Club are All BVA Friendly
Braves Beat - Keep Up with HS Happenings!
BVA Community Town Hall Meetings
BVA Community Town Hall Meetings
You can see all of our resources and recordings here.
We'll be back with more meetings next semester!
In the meantime, check out our
Didn't get your child's school photo taken this year? You can send in a photo of your child to your child's building yearbook leader
PS - Lauren Girdler
ES - Andrea Thomas
MS - Nicole Zistler
HS - Julie Pfeiffer
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