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TIME TO RE-ENROLL!
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RE-ENROLLING IS quite easy. Just follow the steps in the newsletter below and you'll be all set for the 08/09 school year. As always, give us a call if you have any questions.
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GRADE
REPORTING
TIME!
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Our goal is
to provide flexibility
with accountability
for all teachers
of HomeLife Academy.
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The TARGET dates
for grade reporting are
JAN 15TH
&
JUNE 15TH
of
each school year.
These are target
dates in order to
accommodate the
many different
teaching schedules.
MORE REMINDERS WILL BE SENT CLOSER TO TIME.
You will find some helpful information by CLICKING HERE
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THE CASE AGAINST HIGH STAKES TESTING
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The materials selected for this page make the case against relying on
test scores to make critical educational decisions about students or
schools - or what is called high stakes testing. Common examples
include retaining a child in grade or withholding a students
high-school diploma solely on the basis their score on a test, or
relying on test scores to determine whether a teacher or school should
be sanctioned or rewarded.
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Greetings!
...Wrapping up the year and getting ready for some summer fun I hope. We're doing the same here in the office with one exception - summer is our busiest time of the year! This newsletter marks the new year for us.
Please read important instructions below on
beginning the new year with us.
As always, it is our delight to serve you and your family.
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HLA Continues to Grow!
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Celebrating five years and giving credit to God!
We pray HomeLife Academy will do it's part to help you toward this goal over the next five years as you discover and develop those God-given gifts in your children.
In Christ, david
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New School Year!
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RE-ENROLL WITH A FEW SIMPLE CLICKS...
**If you pre-registered for 08/09 you will not
receive the reminder on May 16th and following.**
May
16th marks the beginning of the new academic school year, 2008/2009!! Keep in
mind this "new beginning" refers to the new administrative year, not
necessarily your new teaching year. You may still finish the
previous school year. Take the time you need! And you may begin the 08/09 anytime as well, provide you "attend" at least 180 days in the course of the year.
In order to start re-enrollment the following steps are taken.
We set your file to "inactive"
in order to allow you to re-enroll for the new school year after you update your student's educational plan and grade levels. Now, this
"inactive" status is NOT a "withdrawn" status. We use the "inactive"
status for administrative purposes.
However, church-related law does
require every family to re-enroll each new school year in order to
satisfy the compulsory attendance laws. HLA must report all names and
addresses of students who do not re-enrolled each year.
Please login to your account after May 16th and follow the instructions to "re-enroll" for the new year.
Don't forget to update your student's educational plan and grade levels. Once you click "re-enroll" you will be prompted to select a payment
option. If you pay online with a credit/debit card you will immediately
receive a Confirmation of Enrollment and a Teacher Verification through
email. Your family status will be changed back to "Active." If you select to pay by check or money order your account goes to "Pending Payment" status. NOTE: It does not change to Active until payment is received. Once again, you may begin and end your "teaching" year at any time but we continue to encourage you to think of education as ongoing where we building into our children a "Heart for Learning."
We're
happy to announce that the enrollment fees remain the same this year.
You may choose to mail payment or pay with credit card after you click
"re-enroll."
NOTES:
- You DO NOT have to have final grades submitted in order to re-enroll now.
- You
DO NOT have to have your educational plan all picked out for the new
year in order to re-enroll now. (Because you are an approved HLA
teacher we trust you to choose good books during the summer.) You may
login later to submit your new ed plan if you would like.
Again,
thank you so much for allowing us to serve you and your family! We pray
that the Father of our hearts will be glorified in our families and in
the upcoming school year.
The next reminder to Re-enroll will come on May 16th.
**If you pre-registered for 08/09 you will not
receive the reminder on May 16th and following.**
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The SCHOOL of ROTE MEMORY...
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Excerpt from A Heart for Learning,
by David Parkerson
"rote (rot) noun 1. A memorizing process using
routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension:
learn by rote. 2. Mechanical routine."
I still remember when I first learned about rote memory,
our shortest-term capacity for storing bits of info. It was in Mrs. Harwell's
9th grade biology class. "There are three types of memory,"
she would tell us. "Long term is forever. Short term is for months
or years. But rote memory is only for days. ' In one ear and out the other.'
That's rote memory." This was just the ammo I needed! I could not
wait to get home that day with proof, proof that all this data I was being
forced to swallow was useless because I would soon forget most of it.
Surely my parents would recognize the futility of it all and dismiss school
from my life.
On the bus, I thought of all those tests that I had
taken, and all that remained to take; tests on capitals and significant
dates, elements and parts of speech. I thought of how it was all routine
and repetition, often without full attention or comprehension in order
to accomplish one goal, pass the test so I could keep everyone happy.
"Who cares if I know it forever or even for a few years? It's the
test on Friday that counts for or against me." I pled my case to
the highest court in the house, but there was no reduction in my sentence.
I had to go back to the old grindstone the very next day, back to memorizing
the definitions of those words in bold, because that was what "learning"
was all about.
That was before my parents became home educators. Soon
my brother would be rescued from a downward spiral. Born with a learning
disability (so the label read) the one-size-fits-all school of rote memory
did not work. He was nearly suicidal...at twelve! As my parents ventured
into the world of home education, I watched Tyler take part in a whole
new (or old?) way to learn: The Suction Principle.
Click here to read more...
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We hope you enjoyed this first edition of
~ HOME LIFE NEWS ~ If you have questions or suggestions for future newsletters please email us. May the Lord bless you in the riches of his wonderful love.
Sincerely,
David Parkerson
Home Life News is a monthly newsletter resource provided to all HLA
teachers. HomeLifeAcademy offers parents the freedom to choose their
own books and custom design a learner-centered educational plan to meet
the interests and needs of each individual student. From Kindergarten
to graduation, HLA provides record keeping, transcript, counseling,
resource links, college placement and more, allowing parents to do what
they do best, lead their children into a life-long love for learning!
http://www.homelifeacademy.com
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