Middle Grades: Founders News

Congratulations on the end of a great Quarter 1.  We successfully founded a school!  In our first two months of school, we have exceeded our enrollment and attendance goals, with 124 students attaining 97% attendance.

Progress reports have been mailed home or handed out at student lead conferences. You will notice that we don’t assign As, Bs, or Cs at Impact Academy Middle Grades. Instead, you will see numbers 0-4.  For each class, you see a “Progress” score, and a “Standards” score. Below the “Progress” score for each class you see the college ready skills that will help your child access their agency. Below the “Standards” score for each class, you see the academic skills and knowledge connected to that subject area.

At the start of the year, our students went through a design thinking process as a community to brainstorm, combine, synthesize, and vote on their own community agreements. Their final product is at the left, with student illustrations.

One of the highlights of Impact Academy is proudly watching your student present on Exhibition night. In PBL-Humanities, students have been following the presidential election and developing their own political parties and platforms. On exhibition night, Thursday November 17^th at 6pm, 100% of our scholars will present to 100% of our families. Students must dress formally, and will receive an Exhibition clothing requirements hand-out in November.

We are excited to announce that Impact Middle grades is the first Envision school where our students each have their own Chromebook. Students keep their Chromebooks in their backpacks during the day. They can log in and spend 30 minutes or more on each of the programs below in order to build their reading and math skills. Impact Academy has paid for you to have access to these programs at school and at home, so please take advantage of this resource.

Online Math Program: www.thelearningodyssey.com

Online Reading Program: www.readingplus.com

Online Library: www.myon.com

Please remember our school dress code has a no red, no blue policy.  In order to ensure the safety of all of our students 100% of the time, please ensure your child is not wearing solid red or blue at school.  (This includes blue Warriors jerseys.  If you do want to support the Warriors, please purchase warriors gear in any of the other colors.)  I appreciate your trust and partnership as we ensure an academic and safe environment for all of our scholars.

We have won over $3000 in Donors Choose grants this year! This means students have new calculators, math manipulates, basketball hoops, ping pong tables, soccer balls, board games, and more to make school even better. If you’d like to contribute to a teacher’s project, please visit Donorschoose.com and search for Impact Academy. Thank you for your support!

Do you know someone who would like to join our 7^th or 9^th grade class next year? Please encourage them to apply online at www.es-impact.org. Or, attend an Info Session on November 1, December 6, or Jan 10 from 6-7:30 here at IA.

 Please join us each month when we have our Spartan Family Association Meetings in our community room. At our last meeting, over 50 Spartan family members learned about our online learning programs, our grading system, and even helped install backpack hooks, build a ping pong table, and repair ball chairs. Thank you to our amazing families! Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday November 9^th from 6-7:30.

Remember to remind your student every day: “If you work hard, you can go to a 4 year college!”