IDVA Mission - Building a community of engaged learners.

The mission of the Student Support Services Department is to engage the student and family system by providing individualized support to empower holistic growth.

• Increase/maintain attendance (class connect + daily plan completion).

• We will be intentional in our collaborative work with school community members to address students' academic needs.
• We will proactively identify and support students' individual needs and accomplishments.

If you have kudos to share about you or a colleague, send them to Alex.

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Jenny sent this email about Mark: "... I have been working with him over the last few years to improve the SAT experience for our students. Mark is behind the change to allowing virtual schools to use vouchers and testing sites and this has worked well for most of our students. However, there are more challenges with the SAT graduation requirement as we no longer have the ACCUPLACER test and not all SAT testing sites offer testing accommodations. Mark has been working closely with Eddie from the College Board and sharing our challenges. I also worked with Mark to schedule a meeting with the SDE today to express concerns. Mark did a wonderful job of communicating our challenges as a virtual school and offered out a few wonderful suggestions. While we understand that this process will take time, I do want to share that Mark continues to speak up and push for changes to support our students."

WOW! GREAT JOB, MARK!

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Andrea Wells called me to share that Andre has a "positive attitude", good "humor", and is a "good person to work with."

WAY TO GO, ANDRE!

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A family shared that they speak to Andre often and "He's great."

WAY TO GO, AGAIN, ANDRE!

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Lisa received this email from a teacher: "Thanks for sending this info out early. Its nice to know what we are doing tomorrow. Also, love the idea of assigning us all lanes to help get everyone socializing while we are there. Looking forward to tomorrow’s outing"

GREAT ORGANIZATION, LISA!

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A weekly Google Slides (Google version of PowerPoint) will have our weekly Ungame question. All you need to do is add a text box to the presentation and answer the question. Take a look at the picture next to this text for more instructions.

Departmental and school updates will go here when/as needed

1. Send Tree at least one 2-way communication approach you've have found successful - Due to Tree by 11/13
2. Please consider the following questions, being prepared with thoughtful answers, about our current orientation process: (1) What feedback have you received from learning coaches or students about our current orientation program? (2) What feedback do you have about supporting LCs and students through the orientation program? What are the challenges? What could be improved? (3) What are the essentials that we want LCs and students to know/understand when they begin school? (4) If you could start with a clean slate, what would you want orientation to look like?
3. For Advisors: Please consider the following questions, being prepared with thoughtful answers: (1) How are families responding when you call them regarding red boxes?

   (2) About how many do you end up calling each time – after you sort through who may not need to be called due to excused absences or other circumstances? (3) Is there anything that is not working? (4) Have you been able to contact any who have yellow boxes?
   

4. For PLCs: Bring relevant data to review as you'll have time to work in your groups.
   
5. For those who have already taken Youth Mental Health First Aid in the past: bring your handbook.
   

K12 updates will go here when/as needed

This section will be used for reoccurring/repeated info from previous weeks that may be needed for later reference.

Fill out this survey (bookmark it for future use) for TVS phone, email, or in-state address changes.

Be sure to fill out the survey completely. To make the correct changes, Leigh Ann needs to know whose addresses and phone numbers need to be changed (e.g. which parent or both or is it the LC; whose phone # and is it the home or cell). She also needs to know the student first and last name along with their student ID# and if they have siblings.

Week of 11/4-11/8: https://www.smore.com/zk2hw

Week of 10/28-11/1: https://www.smore.com/6j8sf

Week of 10/21-10/25: https://www.smore.com/k4e65

Week of 10/14-10/18: https://www.smore.com/4td19

Week of 10/4-10/11: https://www.smore.com/x7ey3

Week of 9/30-10/1: https://www.smore.com/4aq9u

Week of 9/23-9/27: https://www.smore.com/mgdvy

Week of 9/16-9/20: https://www.smore.com/3y6vp

Week of 9/9-9/13: https://www.smore.com/q06cw

Week of 9/2-9/6: https://www.smore.com/hn68e

Start of School Year: https://www.smore.com/pfv2n

FYI: after much discussion, we will not be using the K12 Grad Plan Tool. PowerSchool, the program where we keep official transcripts, has a Grad Plan Tool option that we will be using so as not to duplicate work. At this point, Kristi Korfanta-Harris, as part of her new role, is getting trained on this process and will set up training for our staff.

More to come.