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.

Why I Love Extra-Curriculars

With recent announcements of the success of Future Cities (Luke Bergstrom, Myles Chen, Nolan Horton, Arpad Lallement, & Aaron Scott) and Math Counts teams (Lillian, Liu, Rohit & Rahul Raman, Arjun Velayutham qualify for State), among many other great accomplishments of our Indian Hill Students this year, I am reminded of the role extra-curricular opportunities can play in shaping student interests and avocations. I believe that the power of student choice, a strong adult advocate, and a flexible approach toward a focused goal are all factors that make extracurriculars great avenues for student learning. I've included a couple of resources to help you think about the role outside of school explorations might play for your child, especially as spring tends to be the season of readiness for something fresh and new!

Women's History Month

I consider the calendar connection to specific groups of people as an invitation to learn more about cultures I may be a member of and those I am outside of. As both a student and a teacher, I often learned or heard about the same people held up as exemplars - Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhardt, & Susan B. Anthony, for example. It might be time for us to go a little deeper and to learn about pioneers and leaders who perhaps we've yet to meet. Maybe we can connect with people representative of our own interests (first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Aretha Franklin) or of times and situations we aspire to better understand (Vandana Shiva, Margaret Chung, or Yaa Asantewaa). In any case, consider inviting your family to learn something new this month about the accomplishments of women and their role in developing our shared history.

Students on School Grounds

As the weather becomes nicer, hopefully we'll all feel more motivated to get outside! Just a reminder that students may not be on school grounds unless they are participating in an activity with Indian Hill faculty or coaches. We would love for our BVA students to join face to face building teams and clubs, if that fits with your family's health considerations. If participating in face to face activities is not a good fit, consider taking advantage of Stephan Field, Camp Denison Memorial Park or the other natural park spaces in our area!

NO SCHOOL

March 8th - District Calamity Day - Teacher Vaccine Recovery

March 15th - District Calamity Day - Teacher Vaccine Recovery

March 19th - Teacher Professional Learning Day

March 22nd - March 29th - Spring Recess

Indian Hill School District Master Calendar