100+ Calls Club
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:
Elementary School:
Julie Preast (113 calls made)
Shannon Drewniak (174 calls made)
Shashanah Allen (104 calls made)
Maryrose Paterson (126 calls made)
Karen Bartlett (130 calls made)
Middle School:
David Valley (134 calls made)
ISAZ:
Melissa Wheeler (138 calls made)
Karla Stark (112 calls made)
Hilary Huntley (131 calls made)
Bailey Uphaus (191 calls made)
Danielle Plesher (221 calls made)
Meredith Bragg (111 calls made)
5+ Phone hours club
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:
Julie Preast (10:40 hours spent on calls)
Maryrose Paterson (5:18 hours spent on calls)
Karen Bartlett (7:08 hours spent on calls)
Middle School:
David Valley (6:30 hours spent on calls)
Melissa Adelson (5:17 hours spent on calls)
AZVA High School:
Tracy Wright (7:27 hours spent on calls)
Patti Van Voorst (6:54 hours spent on calls)
ISAZ:
Melissa Wheeler: (5:54 hours spent on calls)
Hilary Huntley (5:45 hours spent on calls)
Shannon Rivera (7:12 hours spent on calls)
Danielle Plesher (7:37 hours spent on calls)
Did you know?
Did you know:
The following advisors have made connections to 100% of their students/families within the first 5 days of their school start date:
- Jeffery DeMatte,
- Jenni Wodrich,
- Krystal Loa,
- Shashanah Allen,
- Marina Jacques,
- Matthew Beck,
- Melissa Adelson,
- Patti Fan Voorst
Did you know:
The following advisors have had 95% or more of their students login within 3 days of their
school start date:
- Jeffery DeMatte,
- Jenni Wodrich,
- Kimberly Ellsworth,
- Krystal Loa,
- Shashanah Allen,
- Crystal Beach,
- Deanne Lialios,
- Kelly Pope,
- Marina Jacques,
- Melissa Adelson,
- Autumn Litz,
- Patti Van Voorst,
- Peggy Rothman-Freeman,
- Rachel Bullock
Did you know:
From 8/12 to 8/18 both schools have logged a total of 8,876 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 FINDING a WAY to help them with these connections.
Did you know:
From 8/12-8/19 we have had over 2081 page views to our District Web site with over 609 new users to the site during that week. The top ten pages this week on the site include; school community, middle school, special services, blended learning, family resources, and attendance Please do keep sharing this resource with your families and bookmark it as well http://bit.ly/2yFispt.
In the Spotlight: Daisha Oshiro
Daisha has over 18 years of experience in education and has spent the last six years here at Arizona Virtual Academy. She has worked in the special education department and also with the Family Academic Support Team during that six year period of time. Daisha is passionate about helping our families understand the rigors of online schooling. She is the Community Engagement Specialist for school year 2019-2020, and is looking forward to helping families directly as they get READY to connect, are SET for Success, and GROW in our online school.
As the Community Engagement Specialist, Daisha is hosting ZOOM Welcome Sessions to families that have an enrollment approved date and a school start date in the future. These virtual ZOOM Welcome Sessions help our families understand our school culture and expectations for our online public school students. They also provide practical tips and tools for our families as they learn to navigate our platforms. These ZOOM Welcome sessions are a type of schoolwide orientation that have proven beneficial to many floundering families not quite sure where to start or what to do next. In addition to these weekly Welcome Sessions, Daisha will provide monthly LC workshops at Blended Learning Centers, that will include key topics for our new and returning families. She will be working with learning coaches as they complete their certification in our learning coach university and will be providing the ability for our families to grow in connection with others in our school through parent mentors, parent volunteers, and more!
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
Elizabeth Hall
Student Support Administrator
LC University: http://bit.ly/2T61kmb
District Website: 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.
Email: elhall@k12.com
Phone: 480-626-1068
