Virtual Orientation!
Your Family Liaisons shared an overview of the school's resources and have also provided you with the slides with live links.
You can view the Virtual Orientation HERE.
You can view the presentation slides HERE.
Questions? Reach out to your Family Liaisons:
Audrey Everson audrey.everson@missionvistaacademy.org (951) 541-4809
Andrea Hart andrea.hart@missionvistaacademy.org (951) 378-6144
The Beginner’s QUICK Guide to Homeschooling:
YOU BELONG HERE!
Get acquainted with homeschooling lingo.
Discover your child’s learning style and your homeschooling style.
Research homeschooling models and methodologies.
Find your support network, co-op, homeschool tribe, community…
Get to know where you live.
Set homeschooling goals!
Plan around babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Create YOUR homeschool, not Sally’s or Suzie’s!
Enjoy this time with your children!
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Learning Period Meeting Your HST (HomeSchool Teacher) will meet with you and your student(s) approximately once per month or every 20 days. These meetings are a time to get to know each other and share the work and progress students are making throughout the school year. HSTs are there to answer questions, address concerns, and offer support. This will be a time where student work samples will be collected as well. | Student WorkStudent work samples are required for each learning period to represent what your child has been working on and to verify monthly attendance. Please plan to share your student's body of work at each meeting. TK-8th Grade: Your HST will select one work sample from either Math, Reading, Science, or Social Studies each Learning Period. High School: Your HST will collect one work sample from each course your student is currently enrolled in, including electives. | Attendance You will log into the Parent Portal and claim attendance for each learning period. Final attendance with signature and date is due on the last day of the learning period. Thank you for making every effort to complete your attendance on time! Your teacher will be sending you your parent portal login information. |
Learning Period Meeting
Student Work
Student work samples are required for each learning period to represent what your child has been working on and to verify monthly attendance. Please plan to share your student's body of work at each meeting.
TK-8th Grade: Your HST will select one work sample from either Math, Reading, Science, or Social Studies each Learning Period.
High School: Your HST will collect one work sample from each course your student is currently enrolled in, including electives.
Attendance
Final attendance with signature and date is due on the last day of the learning period. Thank you for making every effort to complete your attendance on time! Your teacher will be sending you your parent portal login information.
Please note our Field Trip policy
✦ All field trips require a family chaperone to attend; no student drop offs allowed.
✦ Registration for all field trips is completed online.
✦ When attending one of our HST-led field trips, families can book one free chaperone ticket per four enrolled Mission Vista Academy students. When making a booking for your family, please be sure to book the free chaperone, so that we can have an accurate number of attendees.
✦ Additional adults and siblings can be paid for out of pocket when registering online.
✦ If your family decides to use an approved field trip vendor, student tickets can be purchased using planning amounts for enrolled MVA students, but chaperones need to pay out of pocket; chaperone tickets will not be paid for these trips.
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STAR360 This assessment is taken in the fall, winter, and spring from your home computer. It is for MVA and parent purposes. The STAR 360 results are accessible only by Mission Vista Academy and used for WASC and authorizing districts in grade level spans to demonstrate growth. Results do not go on to your child's next school. We ask all students to participate in it to show our homeschool programs are working. | CAASPP This is taken every spring at one of our appointed locations. All public schools are required to give this assessment to their students in grades 3-8 and 11 and/or 12. This test provides information to the state for the CA Dashboard. Information is reported at the school level in grade level spans and subgroups, not at the individual student level. Individual results are mailed to the family and you can choose whether to share them with your student. While state testing is a snapshot of one moment in time, this information can be used by the parent and homeschool teacher as ONE piece of information to assess what has been mastered that year. We appreciate your participation in state testing in the spring as it has a big impact on charter renewal and our CA Dashboard. MVA wants to continue to provide amazing programs and resources to our homeschool families and this is one way you can help us do that! | Physical Fitness TestStudents in grades 5, 7, and 9 participate in the Physical Fitness Test in the spring. This assesses a few aspects of physical fitness. We meet at a local park and do a few short activities. Most students find this an enjoyable experience! PFT Video Links: |
STAR360
CAASPP
Individual results are mailed to the family and you can choose whether to share them with your student. While state testing is a snapshot of one moment in time, this information can be used by the parent and homeschool teacher as ONE piece of information to assess what has been mastered that year.
We appreciate your participation in state testing in the spring as it has a big impact on charter renewal and our CA Dashboard. MVA wants to continue to provide amazing programs and resources to our homeschool families and this is one way you can help us do that!
Physical Fitness Test
Students in grades 5, 7, and 9 participate in the Physical Fitness Test in the spring. This assesses a few aspects of physical fitness. We meet at a local park and do a few short activities. Most students find this an enjoyable experience!
PFT Video Links:
