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7th Grade Hearing & Vision Screening This Week
7th Grade Hearing & Vision Screening This Week
#HSBVA Students - You should have access to all of your eLearning courses for third quarter. Please contact your Liaison if you have any questions. Directions and support for using eLearning platforms can be found here.
#HSBVA Students - You should have access to all of your eLearning courses for third quarter. Please contact your Liaison if you have any questions. Directions and support for using eLearning platforms can be found here.
What is a BVA Rockstar?
What is a BVA Rockstar?
In the IHMS Brave Virtual Academy, we give a shoutout each quarter to celebrate the growth, hard work, and success of our learners. This quarter, the students named in this video knocked it out of the park! We appreciate the role that parents play to support their learners in their success. Primary and Elementary school students are highlighted each month through our EduHeroes program.
Want to know more about how to support your child at home? Consider joining our Distance Learning Playbook for Parents Book Study starting in February! More details below.
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 fourth-grade students. Across programs, teachers are working to ensure that curriculum standards and key educational experiences are common for learners in brick and mortar spaces as well as in virtual classrooms. All fourth graders have been hard at work learning about endangered animals and the scholarship skills needed to research and publish work.
Fourth-graders explored the characteristics, diet, causes of endangerment, and solutions to their specific species' plight. They created websites to organize and publish the information they learned. In this way, students are contributing to the greater learning community by sharing their work with an audience outside of themselves and their classrooms. "The process focused on research and writing paragraphs that follow specific nonfiction text structures. These paragraphs were then supported with student selected text features to add understanding and interest to the site" reports BVA fourth-grade teacher, Kelly Vaughan.
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.
Congratulations to these BVA students' whose work was recognized as exemplary of the scholarship habits we want to build in our learners.
Noah Kagan tells us about the problems facing mountain gorillas.
Owin Abeysinghe published his site about whale sharks.
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.
BVA Community Book Club
BVA Community Book Club
Thanks to those of you who joined us in reading The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents by Wiseman, Fischer, Frey, and Hattie. The content sparked some great ideas and conversation. The most valuable part was the discussion with one another about what was working and not working with our children at home.
In February and March, we plan to run another session for The Distance Learning Playbook based on feedback from our first group. We'll also jump into a new book club for What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith.
What School Could Be
Meeting Dates & Times (sign up here!)
7PM Feb 2nd | Feb 16th | Mar 2nd | Mar 16th
The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents
Meeting Dates & Times (sign up here!)
7PM Feb 10th | Feb 24th | March 10th | March 31st
Please contact us if you would like financial assistance in purchasing the book in order to participate in our book study.
Interested in serving as an expert in our classrooms?
Interested in serving as an expert in our classrooms?
Fill out this form and we'll match you up with the right content and grade level.
Fill out this form and we'll match you up with the right content and grade level.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
NO SCHOOL
January 29th - Early Release Day
February 12th - Early Release Day
February 15th - President's Day
Hearing & Vision Screening This Week
Hearing & Vision Screening This Week
7th Grade & New MS Students
Wednesday through Friday this week, we are running hearing and vision screenings for seventh graders and middle school students new to the district. Stay tuned for an email inviting you to sign your child up for their hearing and vision screening.
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
Picture Days
Picture Days
MS Picture Retakes on Tuesday at 9 am
The Middle School is hosting picture retakes on Tuesday. Any IH BVA student is welcome to get their school photo taken between 9 am and 10 am. To ensure everyone's health and safety, sign up for a specific time slot, fill out the Pickup Patrol health screening, and make sure your child wears a mask when entering the building. Students coming for photos should report to the Middle School Main Office and we will make sure they get where they need to go! Sign Up Here
Check Your Child's School Newsletter
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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