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We are so excited that you are starting school with us!

This newsletter includes step by step guide to getting set up and ready to start school with us.

You will also find answers to frequently asked questions & a contact list.

Please read this thoroughly and bookmark it so you can re-read it when needed.

Before we begin - a few important updates:

- Expect to hear details from your student's Homeroom teacher.

- All student's are responsible for online lessons and online classes beginning on their first day with us. You will be emailed a first week schedule from your student's homeroom teacher called a "WOW or Week of Welcome"

Continue to read below on your next steps to getting started with Lone Star Online Academy.

Mascot: Tex

Colors: Red, Blue, Gold

Campus: Primary (K-2), Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)

Opened: October 2021 in partnership with Roscoe Collegiate Independent School District (RCISD) and is subject to the rules and regulations of the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Vision: Learning Success Opportunities for ALL!

Mission: We will ensure highly effective instruction for ALL students, Learning Coaches, and staff members to achieve success at LSOA and beyond.

Click "download" below to open each one.

Contact the LSOA Registrar with questions or concerns about your students records, change of address, change of Legal Guardian, and other enrollment & withdraw needs.

Prepare to attend Orientation for Learning Coaches

• Learning Coach Orientation will be held after your student's start date to hear important school policies and important expectations of the first few weeks of school and expectations for the school year.
• Learning Coaches have vital daily duties that are essential to your student's success so it is highly recommended that you attend.

Prepare student(s) to attend Student Orientation Week

• Your student will receive their own orientation during their first week of school for their first 3 days.
• It will be in the online classroom.
• This will be a time for them to learn how to use the online lessons, the online classroom, and hear online classroom expectations and requirements, and take a beginning of the year benchmark.

Below are some example schedules of a student's week online learning with LSOA.
These are examples and not exact copy of your student's day to day schedule for the year.

LSOA and Stride K12 Texas schools use a "browser" based online school. This means all a student needs is a laptop or desktop computer with access to Google Chrome or Firefox to begin. Students do not need to wait for the printer or their materials to arrive to begin school.

First day of school must haves in 3 easy steps:

1. Laptop or Desktop with cam and microphone/headphones with mic
2. Google Chrome internet browser: details below
3. Their Student Log in Information created by you, the Learning Coach: instructions below

Instructions in 3 steps below

🔸LSOA students do not automatically receive a laptop.

🔸Laptops are approved based on economic need.

🔸All laptop approvals or denials are sent to the email you provided during enrollment. Always check your spam and junk folders for these emails.

• If your student has been confirmed as receiving services from Special Education, your student will automatically qualify for a computer and this will be shipped automatically.
  

Check on your student's laptop approval status here: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Track-Shipping-Status-Materials-Computer-Equipment

🔸Denied a computer during enrollment? Apply for a laptop with LSOA with the blue button below.

• Fill out 1 request per student enrolled with LSOA
• Use the Monthly income when prompted

Approved for Laptop - Laptop has Shipped

• 🚩Someone must be home to accept the laptop to the shipping address you provided.
• 🚩Use the tracking number provided daily in order to be sure you have someone 18 years old or older at home when it arrives to provide a signature.
• Laptops will not be left without a signature and are subject to be returned to sender if repeated attempts have no one home to provide a signature.
• Laptop was returned to sender? https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Materials-or-Computer-Returned-to-Sender

Check that your laptop or desktop has:

• A webcam
• A microphone
• Working speakers
• Working mouse
• Working keyboard

If you qualified for a laptop, a printer will also be approved and shipped.

• Printer will come with 1 black ink cartridge and no paper.
• Printer paper and extra ink will be purchased by the Learning Coaches
• Printers are not required to start school.

Laptop denied

• Email LSOA Community Engagement Specialists so we can provide assistance.
• All students need to have a back-up device plan in case of device issues or delay in laptop shipping. It is rare that attendance will be excused for missing devices. The back up device plan can be viewed here: https://secure.smore.com/n/m9rhq

Students need a laptop or computer that can use Google Chrome, have a internet connection, camera, and microphone. Phones, Tablets, Chromebooks, and similar devices are not recommended for daily use. They might work as a back up plan in an unplanned issue but not for regular or daily use.

School issued laptops should come with the recommended browsers. If the device you are using does not have Google Chrome, check out the links below to get started:

• Download Chrome or Edge here: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Recommended-Browsers *Note: The online classroom will not work in Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer
• Find online school compatible devices and internet browser details here: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/K12-Computer-Technical-Requirements

Internet is required and not provide by the school. Need affordable internet? For more information and to check if you qualify go to www.getinternet.gov

Back-Up device & internet plan:

🚩All students need to have a back-up device & internet plan in case of device or internet issues. It is rare that attendance will be excused for missing devices, device issues, or internet issues. The back up device plan can be viewed here: https://secure.smore.com/n/m9rhq

You must create two accounts:

1. First your Learning Coach account
2. Then student(s) account.

Immediately save both account log in information some where safe and easy to remember.

Instructions are below

Step 1: You will need your Registration ID issued to you by Stride K12 via the email.

You will have received the email from Registration@k12.com with a "Registration ID". Please check your junk folder for this email as well. 🚩Cant find your Registration ID? Call or email your student's Registrar from the contact list above to retrieve it.

Step 2: First create the Learning Coach (LC) account: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/OLS-Account-Learning-Coach-Account-Set-Up 🚩Note: Please use an email that you check regularly. LSOA messages will come to your email that you used to create this account.

Step 3 (the most important step): Set up the Students account:

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Student-OLS-Account-Set-Up

🚩🚩Every single student needs a Student Account. A Student's daily attendance will not be counted without this account. A Student will use their own individual log in for the computer and online school to count the student's attendance.

Student's cannot complete classes or lessons in the LC account. They will be counted absent this way.

Step 4: Get familiar with the online school both for the LC Account and the Student account by checking out our online school handbooks here:

Grades K-5: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/OLS-K-5-Parent-Resource-Guide

Grades 6-8: https://stride.widen.net/s/kwwnxhbfzt/omhs-parent-resource-guide

Step 5: Bookmark the login website https://login-learn.k12.com/#login

• Used for student to log in so they can attend class and turn in work
• Used for Learning Coaches to log in and access their Learning Coach Account

🧭Please update the time zone to Central Standard Time to match the school time zone and become familiar with school email accounts.

Update the time zone in both accounts:

• Central Standard Time: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/How-to-Update-the-Time-Zone-in-the-Online-School-and-on-Your-Computer

🚩Still need assistance? Call 866-512-2273 and dial 2 for Customer Care with the Online School

School Email:

• Download Office 365 information: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/How-to-Download-Office-365-For-Personal-Devices-School-Email-for-Students

LSOA will ship specific course materials to your shipping address provided. This is a list of school supplies LSOA will not ship and we recommend you have handy for your student's use for practice and note taking during classes and lessons.

Note:

• Students do not need the shipped materials on day 1 of school
• Students do not need the printer to start on day 1 of school
• These materials may become necessary several days into school or into week 2 of school. Do not stress if the materials will arrive a little later than your students first day of school.
• Necessary materials to start school is a laptop with cam and microphone, internet, and their username and password you created for them

LSOA Students receive online course lessons, online quizzes/assessments, and some materials shipped to the shipping address you provided for use offline.

• There will be materials that will be returned at the end of the year
• There will be some materials that you can keep
• We recommend that you flatten and keep the boxes you received the materials in and use them to box up materials you are returning at the end of the year. New boxes for returns will not be provided.
• Keep the laptop box too
• There are 4 types of materials
• Return: Required to return this item at end of the year, do not write in it
• Return if unused: You can open and use these. Only return unopened materials.
• Do Not Return: Keep these materials
• No Materials: These are the online and virtual materials loaded into your students online school
• To find out more: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Did-I-Receive-All-My-Materials

Here’s how you can check material shipping status, if you don’t receive by your first day, it’s ok & perfectly normal, you might not receive until the end of first week. For the first week all you need is computer, internet, learning coach and student.

• Most materials are left on the doorstep
• Some deliveries may return to sender if no one is home depending on location
• Materials are shipped with UPS
• Someone must be home to sign for the laptops. No laptops will be left without a signature.
• To find out more: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Materials-or-Computer-Returned-to-Sender

24-25 SY School Notifications: You will receive a text message--- do not be alarmed, this is our new school notification system. Here is a copy of the message so you are prepared – please do not opt out to stay informed this school year.

"You're registered for SchoolMessenger notifications. Reply STOP to cancel, HELP 4 help. Msg & data rates may apply Message freq varies."

*Note: You may join or see other LSOA Facebook groups. LSOA Staff will only participate in the above linked FB and Instagram pages.

Before your student's first day, you will begin to receive emails and phone calls from your student's teacher and counselor.

It is important you answer the call or reply to the emails for the best support before your student's first day.

These calls will include details on your students first day and week as well as an opportunity for you to ask questions. You will not want to miss out on this first communication!

Dear Parents & Learning Coaches,

Texas has funding based on need for additional academic support in schools. We need your help

to make sure all of our students are fully prepared for academic success by completing Federal

Income Forms in order to receive these funds.

There are three important reasons to fill out this form:

1. Interventionists: The state funds will be used to hire and train certified intervention teachers to

work with your student(s) in filling any previous learning gaps and to prepare them for their

current and future academic success.

2. Graduation Coaches: The state funds will be used to hire graduation coaches to help students

who are behind to cross the finish line and develop post high school goals.

3. Teacher Training: We want to provide more in-depth training for our entire staff in order to

best serve our students.

Please take a few minutes to fill out this form when emailed to you so that we can qualify for

additional state funding that will directly impact your student. Thank you for your continued

support of our school.

Sincerely,

Chaille Hymes

LSOA Executive Director

• You have received an email from "DocuSign" with the LSOA Family Income Form.
• Watch the video below for more details & Information

Questions about your student's special programs from previous school or looking for a new referral should be directed to your student's homeroom teacher or student's assigned counselor.

Tech Help Site: https://www.help.k12.com/s/

• This website has many frequently asked questions and videos.
• You can also submit tech support requests online as well as find the tech support phone number

Learn more about the online school:

• Online school Parent Guide for K- 5: https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/OLS-K-5-Parent-Resource-Guide (Español incluido)
• Online school Parent Guide for 6-7: https://stride.widen.net/s/kwwnxhbfzt/omhs-parent-resource-guide (Español incluido)

Contests/Competitions/Clubs:

• https://www.smore.com/kfeyb-k12-national-clubs
  
• Contests & Competitions are offered by Stride K12 National