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Let's All Stay Safe!
Let's All Stay Safe!
We're shifting from paper health care checks to Pick Up Patrol. Stay tuned for directions on registration and use. If your child will be coming into the building for club meetings, photos, testing, or other reasons, we ask you to use Pick Up Patrol to report that they are healthy before interaction with other students.
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.
Mrs. Roark shares this week about the MS English Department's practice of teaching students to recognize the "signposts" of a story. Teaching students to think about their thinking builds awareness of and agency over their learning - it makes what is normally invisible, visible.
"Signposts are a metacognitive strategy from the book Notice and Note, published by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst in 2013. Metacognition, in simple terms, means that someone is aware of and understands the process of their thinking.
Teachers utilize signposts as a way for the reader to recognize that school based reading should not be approached in the same way as pleasure or independent reading. After students are explicitly taught the various signposts for fiction and nonfiction, the next step is for them to stop or pause, take notice of said signpost and identify it, and note how it may be important to comprehension of the text.
This strategy really enhances the ability to think critically, which transcends to all language based subjects, or language based problems in every subject!"
One of our #MSBVA students, Ardisha Thawrani, got so excited by this strategy that she listed the signposts she noticed for ALL of the Harry Potter books (original canon, of course). Interested in what she has to say about the other books? Click here.
This Week's Enrichment Resources
Each week I'll post resources that offer extension and enrichment opportunities for our BVA learners.
This week is a remix! Here is a link to all of the resources we've posted this year.
BVA Community Book Club
BVA Community Book Club
Looking for ideas with how to support your BVA learner at home? From Corwin: "The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents: How to Support Your Child′s Academic, Social, and Emotional Development in Any Setting - This essential guide will arm you with the tools and insight to:
Create an environment conducive to learning, establish routines, and most importantly, take care of yourself and your child
Maximize the time you spend supporting learning by focusing on what is proven to work best in education
Help your child develop the cognitive attitudes and habits that foster creativity, critical thinking, and increased responsibility for their learning
Support the development of your child’s social and emotional learning skills, including the ability to navigate social interactions, build friendships, and regulate emotions at a time when they have never been more important to have, and more challenging to maintain
The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents outlines supportive strategies for navigating virtual environments to ensure effective and impactful learning that aligns the needs and expectations of teachers, parents, and students alike."
Our introductory meeting was October 28th. Join us for future meetings on November 19th, and December 1st.
See the video from our first session and from November 10th.
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
Come to the IHPS Literacy Nights!
Come to the IHPS Literacy Nights!
Check your email to access the IHPS Literacy Night links to meet an author, engage in fun family activities, shop in the virtual Holiday Market and visit the Scholastic Book Fair!
Please join us promptly at 6:30 each night for a live Zoom call featuring new local author, Alexis Wintrob (November 18th), and nationally renowned authors, Loren Long (November 17th) and Will Hillenbrand (November 19th).
Tuesday, November 17th--Loren Long
Wednesday, November 18th--Alexis Wintrob
Thursday, November 19th--Will Hillenbrand
We hope to see you there!
NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Break - Nov 23rd - 27th
Early Release Day - December 11th
Winter Recess - December 21st - January 1st
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
BVA Community Book Club!
Picture Days - Check Your Child's School Newsletter
ES - 11/23; Retakes 12/11 -
Sign-up for 3rd and 5th graders
4th graders will get photos taken before testing.
If you prefer, 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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BVA Community Book Club Next Meetings:
November 19th
December 1st
Click here to access recording from 10/28
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PS Literacy Nights & Book Fair Nov. 17-19
Save the date!
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Upcoming Testing
Standardized testing can only be offered in-person. Testing is optional.
Students will not miss out on placement opportunities due to opting out of testing. Testing offers a chance for teachers to have benchmarks of students' cognitive level or content understanding. We recognize that offering testing during Thanksgiving Break is not ideal, but these are the only days in the current calendar when we can provide a socially distanced environment for BVA learners to participate.
Please register and report student wellness through Pick Up Patrol before your child comes into the building.
10th & 11th Grade Practice ACT - November 18th
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1st & 2nd Grade BVA CogAT Testing
November 23rd & 24th
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4th Grade BVA CogAT Testing - November 23rd
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6th & 7th Grade MAP Testing - November 23rd
Reserve your spot for MAP testing at IHMS
Outside resources shared through this newsletter are meant to be informational, and are not officially endorsed by Indian Hill Schools.
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