Imagine Kissimmee Charter Academy
March 11th, 2019 Newsletter
How to Survive Spring Break at Home
No plans for a family vacation this spring? No worries. Here are five strategies for surviving school-free days at home with the kids this Spring Break and having a fun, memorable time together without venturing far from home.
- Do Good.
- Pretend you are somewhere else.
- Create special family time together.
- Catch up with old friends and build relationships with new ones.
- Take advantage of daylight savings time.
Read more of this great article by Lynn Perkins, CEO & Co-Founder, UrbanSitter
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Regional Celebration
Data and Desserts
Tech Connection
Dear Parents,
Keeping students safer on their school-provided devices is of paramount importance to Imagine Kissimmee Charter Academy. In that regard, we would like to make you aware of a recent step our team has taken to monitor school-issued accounts. Bark for Schools is a powerful new monitoring service we are utilizing to help us better protect students both at school and at home.
When schools give students access to laptops and google accounts, an incredible world of learning opportunities open up — as well as potential dangers. Bark helps us monitor all of the content our students are creating, sharing, and sending through school-issued accounts. This helps us to detect potentially dangerous situations that students may be facing both in and out of school, including cyberbullying, threats of violence, predatory advances, sexual content, and suicidal ideation.
In the near future, you will receive an invitation to create an account for the Bark for Schools Family Alerts Dashboard. You'll receive alerts if issues are detected when your child is using his/her school gmail. account, such as in searches or documents.Bark provides all of the above for free as part of their give back program and is available to all K-12 schools and districts in the U.S.
You can also enable Bark’s product for families, which monitors texts, email, YouTube and more than 24 social media platforms for potential safety concerns on your student’s personal accounts. In 2018, Bark detected 1.2 million instances of cyberbullying, 140,000+ communications discussing self-harm or suicidal ideation, nearly 100 student conversations with sexual predators, and 51 potential acts of violence in schools.
If you would like more information, please contact us. Thank you for helping us to keep our students safe online and in real life.
Best Wishes,
Josh Van Tassel
Student Engagement Coach
Ross Paterson
Bark Chief Customer Officer
Dates to Remember
Thursday, March 14th - CiCi's Night
Thursday, March 14th - Spring Pictures
Friday, March 15th - End of 3rd Quarter
Friday, March 15th - K-5th Grade Field Day
Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd - Spring Break
Monday, March 25th - No School/Student Holiday
Thursday, March 28th - Report Cards
Wednesday, March 27th - History Fair
Thursday, March 28th - SAC Meeting - 5:00PM
Thursday, March 28th - SAB Meeting - 6:00PM
Friday, March 29th - Beauty and the Beast - 7:00PM
Saturday, March 30th - Beauty and the Beast - 2:00PM & 7:00PM
Monday, April 1st - Culvers Night
Tuesday, April 2nd - PTO Meeting - 6:00PM
Thursday, April 4th - STEM Night
*Bold items are volunteer opportunities.
IMAGINE KISSIMMEE CHARTER ACADEMY
Website: http://www.imaginekca.org
Location: 2850 Bill Beck Boulevard, Kissimmee, FL, USA
Phone: (407)847-1400
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Imagine-Kissimmee-Charter-Academy