August 20th 4:307:30 pm

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• August 20th 430-730 pm
• Grantsburg High School Auditorium
• 480 East James AvenueGrantsburg, WI 54840
• August 21st 430-730 pm
• Superior Best Western
• 415 Hammond Avenue
• Superior WI 54880
• August 22nd 430-730 pm
• Green Bay Public Library (lower level)
• 515 Pine Street
• Green Bay, WI 54301
• August 23rd 430-730 pm
• Wausau- Marathon County Public Library (3rd
  floor)(Wausau Room)
• 300 1st Street
• Wausau, WI 54403

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• August 27th 430-730 pm
• Milwaukee Public Library
• 814 W Wisconsin Ave
• Milwaukee, WI 53233
• August 28th 500-800 pm
• Beloit Public Library
• 409 Pleasant Street
• Beloit, WI 53511
• August 29th 430-730 pm
• Madison Public Library
• 2707 E Washington Avenue
• Madison, WI 53717
• August 30th 430-730 pm
• LaCrosse Public Library Side B of Auditorium
• 800 Main Street

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Welcome

• Thank you for choosing Insight School of
  Wisconsin
• We are a school of CHOICE
• First Class of Insight School Wisconsin
• You are a PIONEER
• Commitment, Determination, and Drive

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Educational Philosophy

• ISWis mission is to serve students whose needs
  are not being well-met in a traditional high
  school setting. Insight Schools is devoted to
  making quality public education accessible for
  all high-school-age students. Insight School of
  Wisconsin will provide online education
  alternatives for thousands of high-school-age
  students in Wisconsin who, for reasons that are
  as unique as the students themselves, do not
  attend school or may benefit from a
  non-traditional school setting.

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About ISWi

• Partnered with Grantsburg School District
• Charter School Governed by the State of WI
• Innovative and Progressive

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As a student you will benefit from

• Choices. Choose courses covering core subjects
  and requirements, plus electives such as foreign
  languages, technology, and businesswe also offer
  advanced placement and honors courses.
• Tools. School issued laptop computer with
  wireless card, a printer, a stipend for Internet
  service, and all course materials youll need for
  independent study, for as long as you are an
  Insight student.
• Guidance. Interact with iMentors and certified
  teachers who focus their time on teaching,
  mentoring, and engaging with students, primarily
  on a one-to-one basis.

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Advantages for Students

• Will receive a high school diploma like any
  traditional high school
• You will meet all state requirements for
  graduation and post high school education
• 130 courses to choose from
• emphasizes active learning, or applying
  concepts rather than simply retaining
  information. You can study on your own time
• You have flexibility in your education
• You will be able to learn and gain an education
  in a positive environment where you feel
  comfortable

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Advantages Insight Provides

• Knowledgeable/Experienced Support System
• Alternative and Flexible Education
• Broad and Challenging Curriculum
• Pathway/Tools for to Success
• High School Diploma
• Lifelong knowledge and skills
• Connection with University of Phoenix (online
  university)
• Outstanding Educational Experience

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What We Need From You

• A High Level of Commitment
• Patience and Understanding of our Newness
• As we implement new processes to make our
  complete education experience more beneficial to
  our Students and Families
• Feedback
• Communication
• High Level of Effort

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ISWI Principal Billy Beesley

• Proud to be the Principal of ISWI
• Background
• Online Educational Experience
• Our Team of Administrators Vision (next)

Please raise your hand at any time during the
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What Brings Student Success?

• Commitment (To yourself your future)
• Hard Work (Online learning is challenging)
• Determination (When the going gets tough, the
  tough gets going!)
• Weekly Study Expectations (Six Credits)
• 30 hours per week (Easy Hard to Understand
  Courses)
• 6 hours per day (alternatives chunking)

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Ways to Succeed that WORK!!

• 1 is Organization
• Build Folders Folders Folders
• CASE Put everything relevant into your folders
• Good Notes (Using MSFT Word)
• Questions Prepare to ask teachers, online Tutors

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Organization is your Best Friend

• Develop a routine
• Have schedules and reminders visible each and
  every day where you will see them!
• Use some sort of assignment notebook
• MSFT Word Excel
• Daily Planner (Paper or Electronic)
• Apex eCollege

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Understand Your Learning Style

• 2 Time Management
• A schedule that works for YOU
• Study in a quiet place the same place each day
• Private but yet public
• What time of day are you able to focus the best?
• What type of environment conditions do you
  learn best in? (Jeter)

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Set Goals and Benchmarks

• Set Short Term Goals Long Term Goals that you
  are able to or want to accomplish
• Set Benchmarks (mini goals) for each goal
• Give yourself rewards for accomplishing your
  goals in a successful manner
• Be sure to be REALISTIC

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Attendance

• Attendance must be documented and tracked to meet
  State and Federal requirements and reporting
• We believe attendance directly correlates with
  the level of success obtainable for each student

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Attendance

• Two types of ISWI Attendance
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Elluminate Synchronous Sessions Asynchronous
  Recordings

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Attendance Reporting

• Insights State reporting requirements will be
  reported as days since last login.
• Attendance Guidelines used for Absentees
• Attendance Policy
• Calls from your Student Advisor after 3 missed
  days
• Warning letters, e-mails generated weekly for
• 3-10 days with no login
• 11-15 days with no login
• 16-19 days with no login (Certified letter sent)
• 20 days with no login (withdrawn from school)

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Attendance Recap

• No login or communication of any sort for 3
  consecutive days or more will be considered an
  unexcused absentee
• If a student receives 20 days of consecutive
  unexcused absences this will be considered a
  sufficient indicator of lack of progress and the
  student may be withdrawn from Insight School of
  WI and sent back to their home school district

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Educational Leave

• Educational Leave
• Up to 5 days
• Pre-approved by the Principal
• Insight School of Wisconsin is a school of
  choice that requires a commitment to excellence!
  Attendance is a crucial component to the success
  of each student!

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Grading Policy

• Grading policies are established by individual
  instructors and are in compliance with State and
  School guidelines.
• Grading information and other course-specific
  information are provided online within each
  course.

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Assignment Late Policy

• Teachers shall have initial authority to grant
  exceptions on an individual basis. Completed
  according to schedule No penalty
• Completed between 1 7 calendar days late No
  penalty, if previous arrangements made with the
  teacher.
• Completed between 8 14 calendar days late 75
  of earned points
• Over 14 calendar days late Zero credit unless
  previous arrangements have been made with the
  teacher.
• The Principal is the first level of appeal.

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Turn-it-in.com

• Turn it in is a software application that ISWI
  uses to guarantee the originality of a students
  work.
• Gettysburg Address example
• Plagiarism checks and teacher and parent
  notifications.

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Weekly Progress Reports

• Student will receive a progress report via
• Email
• Standard USPS mail

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Parent/Guardian Roles

• Support to organize their students to study
• Support to develop student time management
• Oversight on completion of course work
• Catch your student before they fall behind
• Communicate with the School, Teachers, iMentors,
  and Academic Counselor

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ISWI Teaching Staff

• 27 Teachers and 5 iMentors (170 applicants)
• Average of over 11 years of teaching experience
• 2/3 have advanced degrees of Masters, Double
  Masters and Specialist, several close to Ph.D.
• Some teachers had extensive online teaching
  experience
• The best from around the Nation

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Insight Opportunities

• Academic Letters
• Clubs Groups
• Face to Face Events
• Yearbook
• Student Council
• Forum/Discussion Board

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Clubs Groups
ISWI Clubs Offered include Academic Decathlon,
Animal, Art, Book, Chess, Dance, FBLA, Foreign
Music, French, Journalism, NASA, Newspaper,
Parenting, Pen pal, Pep, Photography, Spanish,
Stock Market Club, Student Council, Wisconsin
Pride, Yearbook More. Do you have ideas for a
club?
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Please Review the ISWI Student/Parent Handbook
Key Components
Student Online Safety Security
Code of Ethics Behavior
Expectation of Course Work Study
School Involvement in Clubs Groups
Social Interactions Among All Students Staff
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Principals Office Hours

• Students and Parents will be able to reach Mr.
  Beesley Monday through Fridays (most days) from
  1000-1100 AM in my virtual office through
  Elluminate.
• Phone calls to Principals Office 715-463-3753
• Specific Email to be announced

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• Questions?

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Tech Check

• Laptop and Power Cable
• Printer and Power Cable
• Microphone/Headset
• USB cable and Phone/Modem Cable
• Laptop Case
• 1-866-800-0027 will provide you with 24 hour
  technical support

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Online Orientation

• Overview of online learning
• Mandatory
• Located in eCollege
• .25 credit
• Will be facilitated by your iMentor

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Webmail
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Webmail Contd
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Document Management

• Creating a folder

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Document Management Contd

• After selecting to create a folder, the system
  will want you to name your new folder.
• Type a new name here and press enter

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Document Management Contd

• If you miss out on naming your folder, or decide
  you want to change the name, you can Right-Click
  on the folder and select Rename.

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Document Management Contd

• Notice what I have done above. Inside of My
  Documents, Ive created a folder called My
  Courses. Inside of My Courses Ive set up a
  folder for each class that I am taking. That way,
  I can save my work separately for each class, and
  stay better organized.

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Document Management Contd

• Inside the World History folder, notice how
  neatly things are arranged. Staying organized is
  a key skill for success in online school!

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LMS SIS

• Student Information Systems
• Power School
• Learning Management Systems
• eCollege
• Apex
• Digital Learning Commons (DLC)

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Power School

• Power School holds all of our school information
  
• your grades
• transcripts
• teachers comments
• contact information
• Power School is tracked and documented
• Make sure to login in several times a week or
  you will be counted as Absent.

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Power School Login

• To login to PowerSchool, first open the Go To
  Class link from your desktop.
• Next, choose your school from the page that
  loads.

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Power School Contd

• You will be taken to the PowerSchool login page.
• Use the PowerSchool Username/Password from your
  Password Sheet which you received in the mail. If
  you have a password, but it is not working,
  please call your school and press 1 for technical
  support.
• Wisconsin [phone]

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Power School Contd

• Once you have logged in to the system, you will
  see your start page, along with links running
  across the top of the page.

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Parent Login
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Power School Contd

• Select Grades and Attendance to see final grades
  for a course, along with e-mail links to contact
  your teachers. If you have any absences recorded,
  they will show up here.

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Power School Contd

• Select Grade History to see your up-to-date
  grades. This will change each week as new weekly
  grade reports are produced. Use Grade History to
  see an up-to-date look at your grade in a class.

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Power School Contd

• The School Bulletin item will give you important
  information about school happenings check here
  often!

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eCollege

• After logging into PowerSchool select Go to
  eCollege from your Resources page and use the
  same login for eCollege.

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eCollege Contd

• After logging on, click the Academics PSH tab
  across the top of your screen. Additionally, from
  this Home PSH tab, you can see important
  school-wide announcements.

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eCollege Contd

• On the Academics PSH tab, your courses will be
  located in the Fall 2007 term.
• If the Fall 2007 term is collapsed, press the
  plus arrow () to expand it. Notice how the
  Training term is minimized in the picture below.

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eCollege Contd

• After clicking to open a course, you will see a
  left-hand navigation bar available, as well as a
  main area to the right which holds course
  contents. Additionally, along the top of the
  screen you will see other tools such as the
  Gradebook and Dropbox, where you go to turn in
  written assignments.

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eCollege Contd
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Apex

• After logging into PowerSchool select Go to Apex
  from your Resources page.
• Enter your Apex username and password then click
  Go to Class. This information is found on your
  Password Sheet. After entering your login
  information, click Login Now.

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Apex Contd

• The first time you login to Apex, you will get a
  pop-up window which contains Apexs own
  Orientation. You can close this for right now,
  and return to this orientation later on.
• You will then be taken to the main page.

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Apex Contd

• Selecting a course will pop-open a new window.
  Inside sits your course material, along with a
  left-hand navigation bar.

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Apex Contd

• The left-hand navigation bar expands
• Each unit has sub-units attached.

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Apex Contd

• Also contained in many units will be assignments,
  handouts and other attachments available via
  links on the far right side of the page.
• Also notice in the top-right hand corner, there
  is a small fax-machine icon. This is used to
  print a cover-sheet, which can be used to fax
  your assignments in to your teacher.

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Digital Learning Commons (DLC)

• Digitial Learning Commons
• Online educational based resource
• Used for
• Researching
• Building Projects
• Storing data, portfolios, folders, etc
• Online Library
• Used ONLY for educational purposes
• (Will learn more about the DLC in your online
  orientation)

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Smart Thinking

• 1.  From the resources page in Power School click
  on Smart Thinking or go to www.smartthinking.com
  and enter your password from your password sheet.

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Smart Thinking Contd

• This will take you to your personal homepage
  where you can
• Connect with an e-structor NOW!
• Schedule a personal session (48 hours)
• Submit your writing
• Submit a question

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Elluminate

• Elluminate Live! is a world-class, real-time
  training, demonstration collaboration environment
  
• Used for real-time, remote teaching, training,
  meeting, and much more.
• Engages Participants with the ability to talk
  over the Internet (with full duplex audio),
• Chat online, share video, whiteboards, multimedia
  files and applications-all in one

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Computer Insurance

• Covered for all occurrences EXCEPT
• Fire
• Theft
• Contact your personal Insurance company
• May be able to fall under your Home/Renter policy

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Forms

• WKCE Sophomore sign up
• FERPA
• Handbook Confirmation Form
• Statement of Income Form
• Parent Sign Up Sheet

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Internet Reimbursement

• Only families/students who meet the guidelines
  for the Federal Free and Reduced Priced Meal
  program may receive their Internet Service
  Reimbursement on a monthly basis by providing
  their monthly bill.
• Copies of your Internet Service Provider bills
  can be mailed, faxed or scanned and e-mailed as
  follows
• E-Fax [phone]
• Mail
• Insight Schools
• Attn Accounts Payable
• 309 SW 6th Ave Ste 820
• Portland, OR 97204
• Scan and e-mailed to
• andrewa_at_insightschools.net

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Student Services
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Student Services

• Structure
• Student Planning
• Responsive Services and Crisis Intervention
• Guidance Curriculum
• System and Student Academic Support

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Student Services

• Philosophy
• Preventive in design
• Developmental in nature
• Integrated with academics
• Systematic and intentional
• Comprehensive in scope, including
• Personal domain
• Social domain
• Academic domain

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Student Services

• Help students grow socially
• Help students to develop relationship skills
• Assist in conflict resolution
• Train students to make effective choices
• Improve student decision making skills
• Developing pupil self knowledge

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Student Services

• Career and Educational Planning
• Help students set and reach academic goals
• Assist students to develop a positive attitude
  toward school
• Make an education plan in collaboration with
  student
• Help each person recognize and use their personal
  strengths

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Student Services

• Career and Educational Planning Cont
• Guide students in creating a professional
  portfolio
• Collaborate with students and their families to
  create a post high school plan that fits their
  abilities and interests
• Plan and implement WKCE, ACT, and other testing
• Acts as an intermediary and resource for
  communicating with higher education and arranging
  visits
• Aids families in financial planning for post high
  school education (I.E. federal assistance forms)

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Student Services

• Virtual Conferences
• 9th grade (All Year)
• High school planning and how it relates to future
  plans
• 10th grade (All Year)
• Continue tracking student progress and how it
  relates to future plans
• 11th grade (Spring)
• Post high school planning
• 12th grade (Fall)
• Final plans and implementation

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Student Services

• Student Advocacy
• Collaborate with families, students, teachers,
  and administration to best address student needs

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Student Services

• Student Services Is Here to Serve All Students.

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Student Services

• Questions?
• Comments?

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• Cassidy Bettendorf,
• Academic CounselorInsight Schools of Wisconsin
• 463 E. State Rd 70
• Grantsburg, WI 54840
• 715-463-3759
• cassidyb_at_insightschools.net

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