
Student Support Services
August 2019- Week two is ON!
Learning Coach University -- PLEASE promote this to your families
Our schools are very excited to present this online class to help prepare our families for the rigors of schooling in an online public school. This is a program that families will be able to come back and reference throughout the school year, and can access this course on a computer or with mobile devices.
A family can access this course through our district website OR you can share the link below with families. This is a GREAT resource for new families and they should be encouraged to complete and get their certification. This is also a GREAT refresher for your returning families- they should also get their certification. Advisors will be notified when families have completed this as well. This is another tool to help our families get connected with our school and excited to engage.
If you have questions on this program or need further information contact Daisha Oshiro at daoshiro@k12.com.
Learning Coach University: http://bit.ly/2T61kmb
District Website
As we help our families Find a Way this year, we want to try and support them as needed. Included below is a link to the district website. The goal and intention of this site is to provide a 'one-stop' area to provide information to your families and to share with them.
Some of the trends we are seeing initially, is that families are coming to this site- and returning, so PLEASE keep sharing this helpful resource. From 8/6 to 8/12 we have had over 1400 page views on this site over the past week and we want to keep that trend going. Please do keep sharing this resource with your families and bookmark it as well http://bit.ly/2yFispt.
If you see information that needs updating or have suggestions to add to this site please use this INTERNAL link below for updates and suggestions to the site.
Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning
by: Sara Rimm-Kaufman, PhD, and Lia Sandilos, PhD, University of Virginia
Improving students' relationships with teachers has important, positive and long-lasting implications for both students' academic and social development. Solely improving students' relationships with their teachers will not produce gains in achievement. However, those students who have close, positive and supportive relationships with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.
Picture a student who feels a strong personal connection to her teacher, talks with her teacher frequently, and receives more constructive guidance and praise rather than just criticism from her teacher. The student is likely to trust her teacher more, show more engagement in learning, behave better in class and achieve at higher levels academically. Positive teacher-student relationships draw students into the process of learning and promote their desire to learn (assuming that the content material of the class is engaging, age-appropriate and well matched to the student's skills).
(full article featured here: https://www.apa.org/education/k12/relationships)
Did you know??
Did you know:
From 8/5 to 8/10 both schools have logged a total of 9,058 notes that show connections and attempted connections with our students and families. Let that sink in and simmer! YOU ALL are making a difference in your connections, your connection attempts, face to face sessions, pulse check follow up. THANK you for helping our families make a connection to the school they choose to attend. THANK you for FINDING a WAY to help them with these connections.
Did you know:
From 8/5 to 8/10 we have had 230 students attend face to face sessions at welcome back to school events. We have had over 175 learning coaches attend zoom welcome sessions. We have had 24 learning coaches that have completed fully the certification process in our Learning Coach University. AND... we are not done. Be sure you review Blended Learning center calendars on the district website for weekly events that ALL families can attend.
Did you know:
As of Monday, August 12th both schools (according to that Strong Start Dashboard) have had a total of 3898 student/family connections made, 3804 student/LC orientations attended, and a 1049 IOL/OLL courses completed.
Remember if a family reaches out to YOU, your role is to FIND A WAY to be the solution for a family. If you don't have the answer, let the family know you will help them figure it out, OR send them to their main point of contact their advisors. TOGETHER we are making a difference.
Student Support Services
The Student Support Services team is a school support program focused on improving student engagement by fostering students’ academic, social, behavioral, and emotional skills through relationship-based interventions developed in tandem with students, learning coaches, Advisors, Counselors and teachers.
"According to the Search Institute’s comprehensive body of social science research, connections that they dub “developmental relationships” are core to healthy development... With greater access to such connections, students show higher levels of engagement, attain better grades, report higher aspirations, and participate more frequently in college-preparatory activities. And although a single, strong, positive relationship can deliver on these benefits, the benefits increase the more developmental relationships at a students’ disposal."
The Student Support Services Team will provide holistic student support through a Student-Centered Approach, Universal Supports, and a Streamlined process.
Within the Student Support Services team are staff to provide a family the connection to our school that is needed for them to succeed. Our mission is for all students to make one year of academic growth and together, as a team we all need to FIND A WAY for our students to have this success. Positions within this team include: