Virtual Academy Gr. 6-12 Newsletter

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Please fill out this CONFERENCE SIGN UP FORM to sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences. Conferences are March 5-7, 2025. Sign Ups close March 4 at 1:00PM.

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 is planning to participate in the 2025 Minnesota Student Survey. The survey is an anonymous statewide school-based survey conducted to gain insights into the world of students and their experiences. Taken in grades 5, 8, 9, and 11, students respond to questions about how well school is going, future plans, out-of-school activities, physical and mental health, relationships, substance use and more. High school students are asked about sexual behavior. This useful information about their thoughts and behaviors helps communities and schools develop effective programs and provide better services.

School districts, local public health agencies and community nonprofits use local data to plan programs and to obtain grant funding. State agencies use the results to monitor trends, to assess the extent of disparities among population groups, to obtain federal and state funding and to assist local communities and schools. For more information about the MN Student Survey, visit the Minnesota Department of Education website.

The survey is voluntary and anonymous. To prevent individuals or families from being identified, students do not provide their names, student identification, or other personally identifying information. Parents are able to preview the survey and may choose not to have their child participate. The survey can be viewed by request at the District Office by contacting Brandon Lowe, Data & Assessment Coordinator at blowe@isd191.org.

The survey will take place on March 17-21. Contact your child’s school no later than March 7 if you do not want your child to participate in this activity.

Opt-Out Form

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When your Chrome device is no longer working correctly and you have worked through troubleshooting items like clearing cache, signing out of your device, and performing a restart, performing a PowerWash may help.

A Powerwash will remove anything that is not the Chrome Operating System. NOTE: All information stored locally on the device will be erased. This will not affect information stored in the Google Cloud applications.

When beginning this process, you may see the option to select “Restart”. Please continue by selecting the “Restart” button and the next screen will prompt you to select “PowerWash”.

1. Press CTRL + ALT + Shift + r keys simultaneously

2. Select Powerwash

3. Confirm Powerwash - press Continue

4. Select Let’s Go at the welcome screen

5. Connect to your available network

6. Accept and Continue to Google terms of service

7. Select Done at the “Enterprise enrollment complete” window

8. Sign in to your Chromebook.

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A newsletter was sent to all VA Senior school emails with a link to order caps and gowns. Parents, please remind students to fill the form out by February 28.

*Please Read all options carefully, many new opportunities*

Service to our community is an amazing way to give back, and it’s also a unique opportunity for earning a service learning credit. Please go to the Youth Service- Community Volunteering Website for more information *Be sure to visit my.innerview.org for all updated opportunities.

*Please note, if you sign up to volunteer, people are counting on you, you must communicate with the supervising person if you are not able to attend at least 24 hours in advance.

Feed My Starving Children Event FMSC is hosting a food packing event Feb. 3rd - Feb. 8th at Shepherd of the Lake Church in Prior Lake. Registration, dates and times throughout the week can be found at: http://southmetromobilepack.org/

Family Fun Night @ Diamondhead Education Center on Friday January 24th from 4:45p-8p helpt is needed with various family fun events. Use the following link to sign up and receive 10 hours of service.

Vista View Family Movie Night and Book Fair Our Book Fair will run during spring conferences, which are March 5-7th. Support from 4:30-7:30pm on the 5th and 6thb if interested, please contact Mrs. Dunbar at ndunbar@isd191.org

Robotics Volunteering Opportunities We are hosting the State Robotics tournament February 14-16 We are in need of volunteers. 2024-2025 Sign Ups: FTC State Championship Feb 14 & 15

Tutoring Center Now Open! Seeking tutors for the tutoring center on MONDAYS and or WEDNESDAYS from 2:40-3:20.

2 hours of service are provided for each session. Interested students, please select the following link to sign up or contact Ms. Jackson Floback for more information.

PALS Elementary AfterSchool Program Help is needed at both Edward Neill and Harriet Bishop Elementary Schools for their PALS afterschool program. For more information and or to sign up, please contact Allison Jordan at ajordan@isd191.org. MUST BE RELIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE!

Tutoring During the School Day Are you an upperclassmen with a study hall that would like to volunteer to help younger students? Please use the following link to sign up today for tutoring during the school day. You will earn 2 hours of time for your participation each day you tutor.

Childcare at Nicollet Middle School Help is needed for childcare for youth k-5 for a parent seminar on Feb. 18. Please select the link to sign up today.

Special Olympics Volunteer Opportunity Coming up on the 22nd of February is the South Metro Polar Plunge in Burnsville! The Polar Plunges are the biggest fundraisers of the year. All the funds raised provide year-round training and services to thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities across the state. We need lots of help to set up these events and take them down. Set up and tear down volunteers play a crucial role in the event's success. Sat, Feb 22, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM -- Set-Up Assistant To sign up for a volunteer shift follow this link: South Metro Polar Plunge-Burnsville

BrainPower in a BackPack in Main Cafeteria After School

BrainPower in a BackPack is offered as a volunteer opportunity each Thursday afterschool from 2:36-3:20. 1 hour of service is given for participation. Please join us and help provide food support to students and their families as BrainPower gets ready for the weekly Thursday food pack for 750 students across the district.

To register, use your my.innerview.org account

WHAT IS BRAINPOWER

www.tinyurl.com/brainpower191

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The Free Book Buggie. Each Saturday will be the Free Book Buggie book sort event from 10a-12p. This event asks volunteers to count book donations, sort donated books by reading level and category, and load books into buggy for upcoming events. *Free T-Shirt available in Ms. Jackson Floback’s office

Gideon Pond Multiple Opportunities There are many opportunities available for Gideon Pond Elementary. Please be aware that you must have your own transportation and the times you volunteer cannot be when you have classes in session.

National Volunteer Opportunities Interested in volunteering on a national level, log into your my.innerview.org application and select the “Opportunities folder” and “National” link to find a list of volunteer opportunities that you can do from the comfort of your own home.

DOCUMENTING SERVICE & SETTING UP YOUR ACCOUNT IN INNERVIEW: For information on how to register for the InnerView Hours Documentation system or how to input hours please select this link.

InnerView How To Video

Questions, please contact cfloback@isd191.org

February

17 NO SCHOOL

21 Supply pick up (if instructed by teacher)

27-March 1 Class Acts

March

5-7 Conferences- NO SCHOOL

28 Early release, students dismissed 2.5 hours early

31 Supply pick up (if instructed by teacher)

31- April 4 Spring Break- NO SCHOOL

Need Chromebook help? You can contact Technical Support by submitting an online request

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or by phone 952-707-2758.

One91 Virtual Academy is a school in District 191 with 100 percent online instruction. Curriculum is designed and taught by District 191 staff.

Email: 191va-secondary@isd191.org
Website: https://virtualacademy.isd191.org
Location: 13109 County Road 5, Burnsville, MN, USA
Phone: (952)707-2900

Middle School: 7:50am-2:30pm

High School: Asynchronous

Attendance line: (952)707-2904

Main number: (952)707-2900

Technology support: (952)707-2758