Dear IACS Community,
On Tuesday afternoon we emailed a “Hawk Extra” that included a survey about the hybrid model described in our reopening plan which was published this summer. As of Friday afternoon, we received close to 500 responses. Thank you!
We have learned so much about teaching and learning in the COVID era, not only at IACS but at other schools. In the survey, you have described what you most appreciate about our current work as well as what you’d like to see in a hybrid model. Moreover, we are grateful to read stories about your non-IACS children attending other schools, not to mention some first hand experiences from the educators in our parent community. Your feedback was pretty resounding that what has been most helpful about our Remote Plus program was the number of synchronous opportunities to keep student learning moving forward. As a school that has always valued the revision process, we too will commit to thinking about how to revise our planning to better capture the feedback. Please stay tuned for future communications about updates we’ll be making to our hybrid model.
On a related note, we continue to monitor the “traffic light map” that is updated by the state every Wednesday night. The following images show how our region has changed over the past month
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Farm-to-School News
We are very excited about the newest addition to our campus – the Farm-to-School greenhouse. While we still have some work to do, we are looking forward to having this great space for students and staff to start growing food for our meals program and classrooms! This is a project that farm to school intern alumni Hannah George, Mer McMcauley, and Bridget McAndrews worked hard to make happen last year and it is finally coming to fruition!
A huge thanks to Student Government, Vision for Innovation Academy (VIA) and families participating in the High Mowing Organic Seeds fundraiser for their financial support. And, a shout-out to the IACS facilities team for the work to put it together!
We are also happy school-grown veggies are starting to be incorporated into the weekly food kits being distributed to IACS families! Each Wednesday our current interns, Daniella Chavez and Chloe Kefauver, harvest and package radishes, lettuce, carrots, pac chio, spinach, etc. for our community along with a newsletter with recipes and storage suggestions.
Last, but not least, thank you to Joel Friedlander for donating several fruit trees to the school. Planted north of the high school parking lot, these trees will be a great part of the school for years to come.
If you have any questions, comments, or are interested in supporting this work please contact our Farm to School team at farm2school@innovationcharter.org. You can also follow our interns instagram at iacs_farm2school and see an overview of our program here.
Back to School Night – Virtual Edition, Oct. 8th 6pm
Parents/Guardians please join us on Thursday Night for a Virtual Back to School Night. A schedule with links to your child’s virtual class meetings will be sent to you Thursday morning. This is an opportunity to meet each of your student’s teachers and learn about the classes they are enrolled in. Each class will meet for approximately 10 minutes.
There will be a few minutes at the end of each presentation to ask general class questions. If you have specific questions regarding your child, please email the teacher to set up a separate time to discuss. Staff email addresses can be found on our website.
Chemistry Take-Home Kits
With the help of her two sons & Mr. Sciolla, Ms. Derival put together take-home kits for all of her chemistry students so they would be able to complete labs at home. Thanks also go to Heather Landis and Crystal McKiel for their help coordinating the pickup of the kits. Science Rocks!
Innovation Academy Charter School