Innovation Insider

• Important Dates

• Hexter Highlights

• Celebrating Students

• Staff Spotlight

• Family Testimonials

• YouthTruth Survey

• Spotlight on School Safety

• February 19: No School - President's Day

• March 1: No School - School Improvement Day

• March 6: Hex 4 Exhibition, 5:00-6:00PM

• March 6: Prospective Student Open House, 6:00-7:00PM

• March 8: No School - Grading Day

Kindness Week Spirit Week: The IA Leadership Class will be putting on a spirit week to celebrate Kindness Week in February! Keep an eye out for posters around the school and posts on social media to find what the daily themes will be!

President’s Day: The school district will be closed on Monday, February 19th for President’s Day.

Thank you to our Leadership Class for putting on IA’s very first dance! We had a great turnout and it was a total hit among the students! This was a great project for the Leadership students who worked on it every step of the way from planning and budgeting to setting up all the decorations. It was a fantastic way to help build up our IA community.

We celebrated the end of Hex 3 with another amazing Exhibition. Students got to put all of their hard work on display for family and community members to see. The projects included workout plans from the PE and math class, assorted collision experiments and papers on conspiracy theories from the physics and English class, and the continuation of the bus makeover project in our CTE and fine arts class. You won’t want to miss our next Exhibition on March 6th!

We asked families at our Hex 3 Exhibition to tell us about their experience with IA so far. Here's what some of them had to say:

• “My student has never been interested in school. She is excited to talk about what is going on. She is highly interested and is more motivated about her future.”
• “You have changed my daughter’s outlook on school and life!”
• “The best thing is the openness and teaching practical life skills. Thank you!”

In the Medford School District, a culture of feedback (and really listening!) is one of our most valued strategies to improve outcomes for your student(s). If we don’t know how we’re doing, how can we improve?!

Stay tuned for a survey called YouthTruth. In February, we will be asking for about 20 minutes of your time to complete the online survey that will help us improve school for your student(s). We have asked YouthTruth – a nonprofit organization that supports hundreds of schools and districts across the county – to conduct an anonymous survey on our behalf.

Students will be given class time to complete the survey on February 1st and 2nd. We encourage families to complete the family survey at home between February 1st and 16th. For more information, visit https://youthtruthsurvey.org/ and keep an eye out for more emails from the school.

Safety and Security is a shared value in the Medford School District. This month our school participated in an Earthquake Drill and a Fire Drill. Students practiced evacuating safely.

If you see or hear anything about school threats, weapons, violence, bullying, drugs, self-harm, or have other school safety suspicions, report it!

CALL OR TEXT 844-4-SAFE-OR (844-472-3367)

EMAIL tip@safeoregon.com

ONLINE safeoregon.com

Email: innovationacademy@medford.k12.or.us
Location: 1321 Center Drive, Medford, OR, USA
Phone: 541-842-3669