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Welcome to 2nd Quarter!
Welcome to 2nd Quarter!
New learning adventures and experiences await!
BVA Community Town Hall Meetings
10/27 7-8pm - Elementary School - Mrs. Buell and Mrs. Kellett will join to talk about mental wellness for our learners and then opening the floor for questions and discussion.
Please RSVP here
Check email for Zoom LinkMissed a Meeting? No problem! Catch up here!
BVA Community Book Club
BVA Community Book Club
We've found an even better book! We're pushing back the start date of our BVA Community Book Club to second quarter because we found a book that will help you with your learners at home and bridge the gap between home and school. 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 first meeting will be 7:30pm on October 28th.
Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
The link is in your inbox!
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.
Did you get a chance to see any of our posts about #GlobalMakerDay from last week? Creativity is at the heart of what we embed into our learning experiences for students in #IHBVA. Either through whole-school events or classroom projects, we want our learners to build their fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration as they approach problems and opportunities to explore. We believe creativity can be nurtured and taught and that as Dr. Duckworth's article mentioned in last week's post, what looks like natural talent from the outsider perspective is more likely a result of hard work and practice - from passion and grit.
This Week's Enrichment Resources
Each week I'll post resources that offer extension and enrichment opportunities for our BVA learners.
This week's focus is writing! We're on the cusp of November - National Novel Writing Month. National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. NaNoWriMo is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people of all ages write early and write often.
There are a range of resources online for writers of all ages to be found here.
Power of the Pen is our competitive creative writing team and creative writing club available for middle schoolers. We meet online on Wednesdays at 3:30pm.
Contact Mr. Millard at the High School if you'd like to learn more about the creative writing extracurriculars there.
We can't wait to see what your child writes! Be sure to share a synopsis 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
Parent Teacher Conferences - Friday, October 30th
Early Release Day - Friday, November 13th
Thanksgiving Break - Nov 23rd - 27th
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
MS - 10/28 3pm-4pm - Sign Up Here
HS RETAKES - 10/29 - 9am - 11am in MP Room
ES - 11/23; Retakes 12/11 -
Stay tuned for sign-ups
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BVA Community Book Club Starts October 28th
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All Schools - Parent Teacher Conferences
After school - 8pm - Thursday, October 29th &
During the Day - Friday, October 30th
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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 but 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!
1st & 2nd Grade BVA CogAT Testing - November 23rd & 24th
4th Grade CogAT Testing - November 23rd
6th & 7th Grade MAP Testing - November 23rd & 24th
Outside resources shared through this newsletter are meant to be informational, and are not officially endorsed by Indian Hill Schools.
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