One91 Virtual Academy Newsletter

6th grader Olivia Hill: Liv is a responsible, respectful and kind hearted student who volunteers in our class discussions daily. She strives for perfection in all of her classes and is a wonderful role model and leader.

7th grade Osman Osman For math, he always comes to class on-time, with his camera on, and is ready to learn. He is happy and respectful to everyone in class. I really appreciate his participation and he asks thoughtful questions. I can always count on him to be following directions. He thoughtfully reflects on feedback that is given to him. He is a delightful student to have in class.

8th grade Layla Glassen. She always attends class on-time and is ready to be active and engaged. She responds both verbally and in the chat, and tries her best to help classmates and provide clarification. I can always count on her participation. She tries problems on her own, and isn't afraid to make mistakes and learn. It is a pleasure to have her in class.

9th Grade: Hamdi Abdikeni - Hamdi is a true self-starter, someone who exemplifies the value of "autonomy." She completes her work to a high standard of excellence, revising where necessary, and participates in our asynchronous advisory community more than most.

10th Grade: Jasmine Stern - Jasmine is always so positive and kind! She meets with her teachers regularly during their office hours to ask questions or get clarification on an assignment. She is highly motivated and a terrific addition to her classes.

11th Grade: Basit Arogundade - Basit chooses Virtual Academy because it is the best environment for him to learn. Basit is on top of his work and makes office hours appointments for help when he needs it.

Anwar Hassan - Anwar is a student who works really hard on his school work, and always turns in quality work. He is kind to his peers and responds thoughtfully and respectfully in their discussion posts. He is a kind, driven, young man and it has been a pleasure to see him grow over the years into the amazing person he is today.

12th Grade: Yahir Sanchez-Ruis - Yahir is a really special young man with a big heart. Yahir is an incredibly hard worker who puts time, effort, and passion into his work, while also working hard to take care of his younger sister at home. Yahir exemplifies what makes the VA a great place to work! He takes initiative to plan for his future by meeting with his teachers to help with his college essays and to practice for college entrance exams.

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.

CONFERENCES ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

**Virtual Academy Middle School students, if you have Mosey, Aviles, Glansman, Goff, Hermes, Pieper or Thompson please sign up here. Conferences for these teachers will be a group conference. Conferences are virtual only. Sign ups close 10/13.

https://myconferencetime.com/vistaview/

Teachers whose home school is not VA:

ERMS Conference link Opens 9/26 and closes 10/10.

CONFERENCES ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

**Virtual Academy High School students, if you have Aviles, Christian, Dayvis, Eiler, Hermes, Hill, Johnson, Laurent, Lumby, Munson, Parkin, Pieper, Thompson or Westby please sign up here. Conferences for these teachers will be a group conference. Conferences are virtual only. Sign ups open close 10/13.

https://myconferencetime.com/vistaview/

BHS home teacher use this link: https://www.myconferencetime.com/bhs/

*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.

GREEN APPLE DAY earn up to 4 service hours for helping clean up the BHS landscape. Volunteering is from 2:40-3:20 and we will meet in the E Commons, near door 18. Gloves and bags are provided, but feel free to bring your own gloves.

Tutoring Center Now Open! Seeking tutors for the tutoring center on Tuesday 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.

Volleyball Twin Cities Challenge This huge Varsity/JV tournament is expecting 1500 people with over 40 teams participating. Please sign up and be willing to help. Must be 18 to work ticket admissions, you gain free entry to the tournament and lots of concession spots available!! SIGN UP NOW

Savage Halloween Bash Join us for a fun volunteer opportunity for students. The City of Savage Parks & Recreation Department Halloween Bash will take place on Saturday, October 19 from 5 pm-8 pm. Volunteers would be needed from 4:30 pm until 8:30pm. It is held inside the Savage Sports Center Dome at 13450 Dakota Avenue. The volunteers would be helping us run fun activity stations for children that come to the event with their families. Our last Halloween Bash we had over 800 kids attend

Camp Enterprise Sponsored by Minnesota and Wisconsin Rotary Clubs This is an amazing opportunity for students to explore the world of business and entrepreneurism. The Burnsville Breakfast Rotary Club is willing to sponsor two students from BHS to participate in the Camp. Thus, all that it will cost you is your time, energy and interest!

The Camp takes place Thursday – Saturday Oct 31-Nov. 2 at Camp Courage located in Maple Lake MN. Juniors and Seniors from Minnesota and Western Wisconsin High Schools will dive into and explore the free enterprise system by listening to a variety of speakers but most significantly be assigned to a team to present (based on a case study) to role play young entrepreneurs making a 30 minute pitch to an investment committee of venture capitalists to fund the launch of your team’s business.

For more information, please look at the attached link for information about Camp Enterprise.

If you are interested in this opportunity, are a high school Junior or Senior, and can attend the event Oct. 31-Nov. 2 please contact Ms. Jackson Floback!. Names and contact information for those interested will be collected by Ms. Jackson Floback (cfloback@isd191.org) until Wednesday Oct. 9th *Volunteer hours are also available for participation.

Blazette Dance Invitational The Blazette Dance Invite is Saturday, November 16th from approx 9:30-4. Each volunteer will receive a ticket for a free slice of pizza and a bottle of water! I have attached the sign-up link.

Dancer Gift Runner ( 3 - shifts available)

Judge Runner ( 6 - shifts available)

Water Station ( 6 - spots available) This is a great one to do with a buddy, they literally just fill water glasses all day :-)

Childcare at Nicollet Middle School Help is needed for childcare for youth k-5 for a parent seminar on Oct. 22, Jan. 14, and Feb. 18. Please select the date of your choice to sign up.

BrainPower in a BackPack in Main Cafeteria After School

BrainPower in a BackPack is offered as a volunteer opportunity each Thursday after school 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 or Tuesday after school in C100. 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

Food Resources Data VerificationHUNGER FREE AMERICA is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit group working to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all Americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

Hunger Free America needs your help creating the most current database of food resources. The crowd-sourced information will be freely available to all who might need assistance and will help the national USDA Hunger Hotline provide the most current information to callers.

Event description:

• This is an entirely virtual event that can be done on your own schedule.

• Complete the registration form on the Hunger Free America website and they will contact you with details to get started.

• Call food pantries and soup kitchens to verify and update existing data in our National Database.

• This is an ongoing need that you can continue to work on for as much time as you'd like.

• If you have any questions about this event please reach out to volunteer@hungerfreeamerica.org

Volunteers should be reasonably comfortable with web based tools, have access to a laptop/computer & stable internet.

Friendship Bracelet for People Experiencing Food Insecurity Broadway Community sets an abundant table, believing that everyone deserves justice, dignity, health, and wholeness. Over the last 40 years, they have served thousands of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty.

Make a friendship bracelet to brighten someone's day and give them a constant reminder that they are not alone. Include a short note wishing them well and sign it with your name and hometown (ie. Ellie from New Lenox, IL).

Here are a few videos tutorials on making friendship bracelets:

Candy stripe - youtu.be/dTZ58HliYLs

Chevron - youtu.be/nNOioNDsg2s

Mail the completed bracelet and note to:

Broadway Community

601 West 114th Street

New York, NY 10025

Multiple National Service Project Ideas and Resources InnerView has many volunteer projects that are fun and on a national stage that you can do from the comfort of your own home. Check out these ideas and more.

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

Registration is still open for fall enrichment activities and clubs through Community Education. Go to https://communityed.isd191.org/ to learn more.

VIDEO: See how chess club through Community Education is sparking strategic thinking and fostering a sense of community for District 191 students.

Election Day coming up Tuesday, Nov. 5

If you are a District 191 resident, renewal of the district’s technology levy will appear on your ballot Tuesday, Nov. 5.

The technology levy provides about $4.6 million per year to support classroom technology, learning devices (Chromebooks) and programs (Schoology and SeeSaw), technology safety and security systems and technology support staff.

Because it’s a renewal of an existing levy, there will be no tax increase if it’s approved.

You must be 18 years old on Election Day and a resident of District 191 to vote. Early voting can be done by mail or in person. Visit mnvotes.org to learn more about how to vote and to find your polling location.

To view a sample ballot and find other information on the technology levy, visit isd191.org/referendum.

Technology Levy Renewal VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKiOLlQqleE&t=3s

October

14 Materials Pick up

14-16 Parent Teacher Conferences, NO SCHOOL

17-18 MEA, NO SCHOOL

29-School Picture Retakes at Vista View

November

28-29 Thanksgiving Break-NO SCHOOL

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

HERE

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