The Connection
Connecting you to the School District of Indian River County
Welcome to The Connection!
Welcome to The Connection, our new weekly newsletter connecting you to important news, events, and activities happening in the School District of Indian River County. This newsletter will highlight events throughout all grade levels and include district news. We are looking forward to your input in The Connection and hope that you will submit important news and information to be considered for publishing. Please email socialmedia@indianriverschools.org to submit potential highlights.
Have a safe and fun summer break! Students return on August 12, 2019!
SDIRC Summer Food Program
Mobile Cafe Route
South County Route
Central County Route
North County Route
Summer Food Program School Sites and Meal Schedule
School Accountability Report
SDIRC Celebrates FSA and EOC Test Scores, School Grades, and District Grade
vaccine information for incoming 7th grade students
Lion's club freedom festival parade
SDIRC Physical Plant Employee Goes Above and Beyond
This is a great example of the dedicated staff we have in Physical Plant, many of who often go above and beyond to serve our community. Great work, Tam!
Indian River Mall School Supply Drive and Street Market
Administration Building participates in active shooter training
step into kindergarten
STEP into Kindergarten is in action at Osceola and Liberty Magnet schools. STEP into Kindergarten promotes readiness for school success and a positive transition into Kindergarten.
Throughout the six-week summer transition enrichment program, students will make new friends, and become familiar with kindergarten skills, routines, and expectations. STEP into Kindergarten allows students to develop relationships with other children and teachers - many of whom they will meet again in August at their home school.
Children in STEP into Kindergarten are engaging in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) activities. For example, our teachers are using Classic Fairy Tales with hands-on STEAM and literacy activities that children love! As children read the stories, animate the puppets, answer questions and complete each STEAM challenge, they build critical language and literacy skills, boost creative expression, master early engineering concepts and much more! These STEAM activities are integrating multiple subject areas—including literacy, creative expression (art, music, and dramatic play) and social-emotional development.
The STEP into Kindergarten program prepares both students and families for Kindergarten success in our school district. Thank you, to the Education Foundation and all community partners for making the STEP into Kindergarten program possible, and welcome to our district, future Kindergartners!
Veteran of the Month: Nicole Haagenson
Nicole Haagenson is an Air Force and Florida Air National Guard Veteran who served from 2001 to 2009. She is currently the Director of IT Enterprise Project Managment for Orchid Insurance, a small business headquartered in Vero Beach. Nicole has lived in Vero Beach since 2009 with her fiance Cari Haagenson, an Indian River County Firefighter, and their 5 children. Her oldest two, Kelsey and Alyssa, have finished their first year in college at the University of Alabama and Santa Fe college in Gainesville, respectively. Her younger children Rylee, Kaidin, and Piper attend Imagine of South Vero and will be going into 8th, 6th, and 2nd grades.
Nicole has a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Florida in Computer and Information Science and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Central Florida.
Nicole has been an active member of the Veteran community, leading an effort to clean and repair Veteran grave sites in Indian River County. She is also on the Board and the Secretary for the Next Generation Veterans of Indian River County. These are Veterans who have served during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She is active in raising fund for the "Words from War" monument that will be built near Veterans Memorial Island in Vero Beach, which is a tribute to those that have served after August 4, 1990.
SAVE the date for the 4th annual RT Star's Back to School Party
Dads Take You Child to School Day...SAVE THE DATE!
We encourage all of our schools to participate by planning a unique and meaningful event for fathers and students. Dads Take Your Child to School Day highlights father and male role model engagement and provides a platform for schools to inform fathers and male community members about resources available and ways to support children in our schools throughout the year.
We will post more information regarding individual school events/schedules as the date approaches!
Introducing our NEW SDIRC Mobile App!
Introducing our new SDIRC mobile app, designed to enable parents, staff, students, and the community to stay informed and up-to-date on important issues, information, and activities underway within our school district. The free app, which proudly displays the SDIRC logo, provides the most used resources from our website directly on your mobile device; including, lunch menus, maps, event calendars, social media updates, school contact information, and notifications from the school(s) of your choice!
Download for Apple iOS at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sdirc/id1451344822?mt=8
Download for Android at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.relianceco.cma.SDIRC
fortifyFL security app
We are pleased to announce that the FortifyFL app is LIVE. Now, any student, educator, parent, or member of the public can report school safety concerns directly to law enforcement and school administrators anonymously and easily through the FortifyFL app or www.getfortifyfl.com. The app, which is available for download on Apple and Android mobile devices, is critical to ensuring all Florida schools are safe environments where students and educators can experience and share the joy of learning without fear. We hope that you will become familiar with this tool and help us spread the word about it with our students and their families. Please note that the official app’s logo will look exactly as it does in the graphic above.
support education with a fresh, new look!
The Support Education specialty tag has a fresh new look! For the first time in 25 years, the tag has undergone a total makeover.
Since its introduction in 1994, more than $13 million has been raised through the collaborative efforts of the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF) and local education foundation members across the state.
While the look has changed, one thing remains the same – when Florida residents purchase or renew their Support Education specialty tag, $20 goes directly back to support education programs in the county where the tag was purchased or renewed. Funds support programs like classroom innovation, education enrichment programs, supporting and recognizing teachers, extra help and mentoring for at-risk students, school supplies, and school scholarships.
Visit www.LicenseToLearnFL.com to learn more, purchase, or trade in your current Support Education tag today!
The scholarships are worth $500 each and can be used for reimbursement for the following:
*Tuition and fees for part-time tutoring provided by a person who holds a valid Florida educator’s certificate, a baccalaureate or graduate degree in the subject, an adjunct teaching certificate, or has demonstrated mastery of the subject area knowledge.
*Fees for summer education programs designed to improve reading or literacy skills.
*Fees for after-school education programs designed to improve reading or literacy skills.
*Instructional materials and curriculum related to reading or literacy.
Click to apply: https://www.stepupforstudents.org/for-parents/reading-scholarship/how-the-scholarship-works/
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