The Power Ranger Press
2/22/2021
The Power Ranger Press
Hello!
The sun is finally out! After the last couple of weeks we've had, I hope it stays that way for us for a while. As you continue to work in your courses, please ensure you don't forget to complete the MOY (Middle of the Year) Star360 assessments. All students, new and returning, are required to complete the reading and math assessments. There is more information below.
In February, the ISOK Student Support Team will be leading the Passion First Mindset. We'll be celebrating and acknowledging African-American History Month, National School Counseling Week, Career and Technical Education Month, Random Acts of Kindness Week, and many more Awareness Days.
Each week you'll find news, information, action items, and fun from the ISOK Student Support Team! Please read carefully and enjoy this issue of The Power Ranger Press!
Thanks,
Ginger Allison
ISOK Student Support Program Manager
American School Counselor Association Awareness Days: February 2021
ISOK Weekly Announcement:
Black History Month Presentation
Civil Rights in Oklahoma
She is best known for her leadership role in the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-in movement, as she, her young son and daughter, and numerous young members of the NAACP Youth Council successfully conducted carefully planned nonviolent sit-in protests of downtown drugstore lunch-counters, which overturned their policies of segregation. The Clara Luper Corridor is a streetscape and civic beautification project from the Oklahoma Capitol area east to northeast Oklahoma City. In 1972, Clara Luper was a Oklahoma candidate for election to the United States Senate. When asked by the press if she, a black woman, could represent white people, she responded: “Of course, I can represent white people, black people, red people, yellow people, brown people, and polka dot people. You see, I have lived long enough to know that people are people.”
Luper continued desegregating hundreds of establishments in Oklahoma and was active on the national level during the 1960s movements.
ISOK Student Support Team
ISOK Student Support Program Manager
Ginger Allison, giallison@insightok.org
Engagement Specialists
Shereta Sweet, shsweet@insigtok.org
Mona Earnest, mearnest@insightok.org
Megan Moser, mmoser@insightok.org
Bo McIlvoy, bmcilvoy@insightok.org
Student Resource Coordinator
Brittany Eck, beck@insightok.org
Career Counselors
Jason Deskin, jadeskin@insightok.org
Abi McCalister, amccalister@insightok.org
Academic Counselors
Alexandra Orton, aorton@insightok.org
Anelicia Brimacomb, abrimacomb@insightok.org
Counselor Changes:
Hello Students,
We want to let you know that there were some changes in the Academic Counseling department last week. Mrs. Kay Walck has left ISOK. Her last day was Thursday, February 11. Mrs. Orton and Mrs. Brimacomb will be supporting her students until that position is filled. If Mrs. Walck was your counselor and you have any questions or concerns about your schedule or graduation plan, please reach out to them (emails below). The new counselor will reach out to introduce him/herself when they come on board.
Alexandra Orton, aorton@insightok.org
Anelicia Brimacomb, abrimacomb@insightok.org
Strong Start Requirements!
- Strong Start Connection Call with CFA
- Attend Strong Start Live Orientation Session
- Strong Start Online Learning Course
- Strong Start Star 360 Reading Growth Assessment
- Strong Start Star 360 Math Growth Assessment
You will learn more about how to complete these tasks in orientation.
Required Assessments for ALL Students
Complete January Start360 Assessments
All students in 9th-12th grades will take Star360 assessments this year for math and reading. These will be taken in August, January, and May. Additionally, all students will be taking a USA Test Prep assessment in October and March to ensure students are meeting their grade level standards and to simulate state testing. These assessments are required and help our teachers target instruction to meet students’ needs and ensure growth. It is important that students complete these assessments on their own, without assistance from learning coaches or other sources.
Your teachers will also send out information to complete Star360 assessments, but students may begin now to complete them.
· Log in website: https://global-zone08.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/7139830
• Username: Your Student ID (ex: 123456)
• Password: Your first name in lowercase and last 3 numbers of your Student ID (ex: phillip456)
• Everyone will take a Star Reading test and a Star Math test (do not take Early Literacy).
• Honest efforts rewarded – Do your best (how much time you take on it is monitored), complete it, and receive points upon completion.
If you get kicked out and it asks for a Monitor Password, that password is: admin
New Student Support Activities:
This Week's Student Support Schedule:
ISOK Support Groups
Student Needs Assessment Survey
The ISOK Student Support Team has created a survey to identify students' needs. This information is completely confidential and will be strictly used for screening purposes only, so that we can offer community resource connections, one on one and small group support and better serve your students. Please complete the survey by following the link below.
Student Resources
of all the programs and platforms ISOK students utilize.
Future of School has established a scholarship program to assist current high school seniors who have completed a minimum of five (5) blended or online courses during their last two years of high school and plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs. The 2021 Student Scholarship portal is up and running, accepting applications through March 16. Please use this link for application submissions.
Applicants of Future of School Scholarship Program must:
Be high school seniors (U.S. Citizens) who have completed a minimum of five (5) *blended or **online courses during their last two years of high school and who demonstrate academic achievement or improvement as a direct result of their enrollment in the blended/online learning curriculum.
*The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns: (1) at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; (2) at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; (3) and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
**Online Course – All course activity is done online; there are no required face-to-face sessions within the course and no requirements for on-campus activity. Purely online courses totally eliminate geography as a factor in the relationship between the student and the institution. They consist entirely of online elements that facilitate the three critical student interactions: with content, the instructor, and other students.Plan to enroll in full-time undergraduate study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year.
To be eligible, applicants must have been enrolled in a previously-established online or blended curriculum prior to January 2020, not as a result of distance or hybrid learning due to COVID-19. It important to clarify that this program was not designed to support crisis schooling/remote learning environments.
As part of your application, you must upload the following documents:
A current, complete transcript of grades. Grade reports are not accepted. Unofficial or online transcripts must display student name, school name, grades and credit hours for each course and term in which each course was taken.
A completed Certification Form. (Plan ahead, this form needs to be completed by a school counselor or principal and then uploaded with your application to be able to submit.)
Also as part of your application, one online recommendation form must be submitted on your behalf no later than March 19, 2021 3:00 pm. The recommender should be someone from your high school or college (teacher, counselor, administrator, etc).
Your application is not complete unless all required documents are submitted electronically.
Stride in Spanish
DID YOU KNOW?
Stride has a Spanish version of their website:
Stride has a Spanish version of the Parent Portal:
https://es.k12.com/sdk12parentportal/dforce/portal_sitelogin
Tutoring Available Now!
We are excited to announce our school’s new Tutoring Initiative! ISOK will offer personalized academic tutoring based on your child’s needs with an emphasis in the subjects of English Language Arts (Reading/Writing) and Mathematics.
At this time, our new tutoring program will be completely virtual through an online service called TutorMe. Through this program, your child will be able to access a tutor at any time of the day to work on any subject. While the emphasis will be in math and reading, tutors for all subjects are available. The tutor will work with your child’s curriculum to help them improve their grades and gain confidence. The focus of tutoring is to equip your child with different methods of learning so they can have life-long skills in how to best solve problems for assignments, homework and projects.
Tutoring Sign-Up Link
Learning Coach Action Items
Ginger L Allison, M.Ed
Email: giallison@insightok.org
Website: isokvirtual.net
Location: 1156 South Douglas Boulevard, Midwest City, OK, USA
Phone: 405-835-2133 3241
Facebook: facebook.com/InsightOklahoma