Student Support Services

Why does a failure seem to stick in our minds so much longer than a success? According to social psychologist Alison Ledgerwood, our perception of the world tends to lean negative, and reframing how we communicate could be the key to unlocking a more positive outlook. In this sharp talk, Ledgerwood shares a simple trick for kicking negative thinking to the curb so we can start focusing on the upside

Make sure your learning coaches know about this GREAT event today. They can attend LIVE at their nearest Blended Learning location or in our West Valley district office as we work with learning coaches on important topics. The SAME program will be offered virtually tomorrow through our zoom webinar!

Each month we will feature a different topic and will encourage a collaborative environment for learning coaches to share their tips and tricks, ask questions and join in our community.

All sessions will run from 1-2 with time for discussion and conversation following.

Go to our National and Local Learning Coach Programming page for all the details:

https://sites.google.com/view/k12-az-student/home/learning-coaches

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

As part of the Find a Way program you will see featured in this newsletter advisors that have made 100+ calls during the past week. These advisors have gone above and beyond and have stretched the amount of calls typically made in a given week. Congrats this week go out to:

ISAZ:

Hilary Huntley (130 calls made)

Bailey Uphaus (136 calls made)

Danielle Plesher (182 calls made)

Janeen Belden (100 calls made)

Melissa Wheeler (195 calls made)

Amy Hepker (159 calls made)

As part of the Find a Way program you will see featured in this newsletter advisors that have connect with their families on the phone for 5 or more hours the past week. These advisors have gone above and beyond and have stretched the amount of time we typically see for phone calls. This is important as the number of calls made. Congrats this week go out to:

Elementary School:

Karen Bartlett (5:42:35 hours spent on calls)

Heather Ovalle (7:38:50 hours spent on calls)

AZVA Middle School:

Alison Hurley (9:00:03 hours spent on calls)

Crystal Beach (5:53:13 hours spent on calls)

AZVA High School:

Patti Van Voorst (8:33:21 hours spent on calls)

ISAZ:

Janeen Belden (6:34:04 hours spent on calls)

Danielle Plesher (7:54:37 hours spent on calls)

Melissa Wheeler (5:140:37 hours spent on calls)

Shannon Rivera (6:12:29 hours spent on calls)

Amy Hepker (5:23:21 hours spent on calls)

Meredith Bragg (5:58:30 hours spent on calls)

Did you know:

The student support advisors last week entered 2275 Contact attempts and Enduring connection call notes last week. Alison Hurley from AZVA Middle School entered the most notes with 140 total notes and 115 Enduring Connection call notes. THANKS to all our advisors for all they are doing to attempt connections with our families. Each of you makes a difference every day for our schools, and MOST importantly for our students.

Did you know:

So far this year we have had 1055 users use the Bitly link to compete our new Learning Coach University. Please do keep sharing this resource with newly enrolled families and families struggling with our online platforms. http://bit.ly/2T61kmb

Did you know:

From September 1st - September 24th our District website has had 3535 page views to our District Web site with over 1083 users to the site, 31.9% are returning visitors and 68.1% are new visitors to the site. Since we opened the site in August we have had 9,615 page views with a total of 2616 users to the site. The top ten pages so far this month include; Home page, Blended Learning home page, Blended Learning -Chandler location, Attendance and Truancy, School community, Learning Coaches home page, Blended Learning-Phoenix location, Blended Learning-Tucson Location and AZVA Middle School home page.

Please do keep sharing this resource with your families and bookmark it as well http://bit.ly/2yFispt.

At this time, we will be using a slight different path to request support for your students . PLEASE be sure you listen to this recording below and be sure you contact your advisor so they can make these intervention requests for students. It is important that the advisor is circled into this intervention so they are aware a request has been made, so best practice is to have the advisor submit the intervention request.

The link to request support is: http://bit.ly/2zbZpmL

Requests for intervention support can be made for:

• Social Emotional concerns
• Learning Coach Support
• Attendance support
• Academic and Engagement escalations (TIER 3 Department administration escalations)

August #1: https://www.smore.com/wqk6f-student-support-services

August #2: https://www.smore.com/0mkf2-student-support-services

August #3: https://www.smore.com/qbm5c-student-support-services

August #4: https://www.smore.com/xsyqv

September #1: https://www.smore.com/j9vfu

September #2: https://www.smore.com/4m3ky

September #3: https://www.smore.com/fak2m

Student Support Administrator

LC University: http://bit.ly/2T61kmb

District Website: http://bit.ly/2yFispt

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Email: elhall@k12.com
Phone: 480-626-1068