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Let's All Stay Safe!
Let's All Stay Safe!
If your child will be coming into the building for club meetings, photos, testing, or other reasons, please send them in with a completed health check form.
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!
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 10th, November 19th, and December 1st.
Please contact us if you would like financial assistance in purchasing the book in order to participate in our book study.
We still love and plan to read and discuss What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith and will start that work during third quarter.
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.
As a part of connectivity, BVA teachers are exploring ways to connect our learners with our community through local and global experts. This week, we're wondering if you're interested in sharing your expertise with our learners. You could serve as a "mystery reader", lead a discussion in your area of expertise that ties to one of our content standards, or share about your career path, inspiring our learners to learn more about the options ahead of them.
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.
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.
This Week's Enrichment Resources
Each week I'll post resources that offer extension and enrichment opportunities for our BVA learners.
This Week's Theme - GET OUTSIDE!
"There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes."
It may seem counterintuitive after freezing temps last night to suggest that now is the time for getting out of the house, but if there was a year to brave the elements, this one is it! If you haven't already embraced nature walks as a family, this post by Melissa Lennig offers some ideas on where to begin and what to do. Jamie Neef suggests playing games while on hikes and walks to pass the time and call attention to the environment. I would just like to say, you have not earned your true outdoor nerd badge if you haven't experienced the joys of geocaching (yup, I'm bringing it back!). I'm not sure which part is more fun, hiding the treasure or finding a new one.
We can't wait to hear about your and your children's outdoor adventures! Be sure to share a photo with us @BraveVirtual!
Q2 High School BVA Updates
Q2 High School BVA Updates
Thank you for working with us to define opportunities for improvement for our HS Brave Virtual Academy Program. Your HS Faculty and Administration have been hard at work to reflect on parent and student feedback in order to make improvements in HS BVA. Read more about our changes here.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
NO SCHOOL
Early Release Day - Friday, November 13th
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!
Primary School - Crystal Clear Science Club
Elementary School - 5th Grade Stock Market Game
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!
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 10th
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. If our face to face learners shift to a different schedule (Plan B), we may be able to offer testing on different dates. Stay tuned!
Please print and fill out this form before bringing your child to school for testing.
1st & 2nd Grade BVA CogAT Testing - November 23rd & 24th
4th Grade CogAT Testing - November 23rd
6th & 7th Grade MAP Testing - November 23rd
Reserve your spot for MAP testing at IHMS
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