• Tips for creating a homeschool vision and good habits that will make for an effective school year.
• Tips for identifying individual student goals and planning those into your year.
• Tips for creating an effective daily, weekly, and monthly schedule.
• Tips for understanding the tools in their curriculum box and using that to plan an awesome year.

Technology Talk Part 2

• Discover how Google Calendar can work for you
• Stay organized with Google Drive and move into a paperless world
• Tips and tricks to manage life and stay organized with life's busy schedule and important documents.

Please join us for the next webinar in the RVA Mentor Series "Using Mindfulness to Develop Resiliency When Life Falls Apart." Our speaker, Pam Beron is on staff with the RVA as a Middle School Special Education Teacher. She has special training on this topic and has experienced her own season of life falling apart. You won't want to miss this!

• Become more aware of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions as well as your surroundings.
• Train your brain to respond to a situation in a way you choose, rather than with a default response.
• Bring more ease and gentleness into your daily life.
• Use apps and websites to cultivate your own mindfulness practice to build resiliency.

Please join us for the as our speakers Becky Born, Alison Reilly, and Kari Logterman present "It's Okay to Make Mistakes:

The Importance of a Growth Mindset." You will what a growth mindset is, the importance of having one in education, and motivational tools/strategies for home mentors to use to encourage students to have a growth mindset. In this webinar where you will learn:

• What is a fixed versus a Growth Mindset?
• The importance of having a Growth Mindset in education.
• Motivational tools and strategies for home mentors to use to encourage students to have a growth mindset.

Please join us as Karla Svedarsky presents this relevant topic. Anxiety has likely touched your life or the life of someone you care about. Karla has a story of hope and healing and plans on presenting the following pertinent information:

• What is anxiety and how to recognize it?
• Skills to help manage and overcome test anxiety.
• Skills to cope with generalized and social anxiety.
• Skills to deal with feeling alone and/or misunderstood.
• Signs you may want to seek help and where to go for help..

Please join us as Kathy Alexandar, the RVA Director of Pupil Services/ RVA High School Counselor and Taryn Reardon, RVA High School Counselor present: "Making the Most of the High School Years." You can look forward to learn the following as you enjoy this webinar presentation.

• An understanding of the RVA graduation requirements.
• What classes your student(s) can take in high school that will create opportunities after high school graduation
• What needs to be done during high school to be ready for college or a career after graduation.

Shari Culver, an RVA Grade PK -- Grade 5 Elementary School teacher has put together this informative recording about the early stages of writing development that generally occur between the ages of two and eight. In this recording, Shari explains:

• How young children move through a series of stages as they are learning to write.
• What those stages are and how the stages reflect a child’s growing knowledge of the conventions of print.
• How home mentors can support their child’s writing development and how to encourage them at every stage.

In this webinar, Josh Duwe offers it's viewers an opportunity to process during these unprecedented times of worldwide pandemic as well as discover new directions in becoming. Topics discussed will guide one to:

• Renew a sense of awareness for the opportunities within adversity.
• Develop a new sense of purpose and mission going forward.
• Tune in to your own personal GPS.
• Set a tone for the weeks and months ahead.
• Discover new ways to personally grow.