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Be Part of our Yearbook!
This year, we are collecting pictures for an inaugural edition of the Kiel Virtual Schools yearbook!
We will feature partner students together with their district peers, events, learning adventures, and more! We would love to include artwork, student writing, and any other ideas your students may have.
If you have a student you think would be interested in working on the yearbook, please have them fill out this form: Yearbook Staff Interest Form We are looking for students with a knack or interest in graphic design, editing, writing, and photography.
Submit your school photo
Please share with us your favorite picture of yourself for our yearbook! It can be a headshot, outdoors, with a pet-- but must be school appropriate. Be creative! Include something unique about yourself-- your talents, interests, favorite places, etc.
Please upload in this form: Yearbook Student Profile picture
Note: pictures can be a max of 10 MB in size. Image formats (JPG, PNG) are preferred.
Future Field trips and Meet ups!
December: Cook & Create!
Join us at Kiel High School's Culinary and Art labs and partner with our HS students to create a gift-worthy art piece and something yummy for the holidays! (date TBD)
February 13 2026 -- EAA Adventure and X PLanes! (grades 3-12-- separate groups for activities)
Building your own plane, learning about aviation, and touring the airport that for one week each year is the busiest in the world!
Other ideas we are working on:
Winter:
Snowshoe/ski/hikes & cocoa/cider
Museum/indoor garden visits
Global virtual marathon
Spring:
Ropes Course
Musical EXtravaganza/ battle of the bands at Kiel PAC
Cook and Create-- Mother's Day edition!
If you have any ideas, please share with Sarah Scovell Muraski sscovellmuraski@kiel.k12.wi.us
Progress Reports-- each Monday morning!
It is just about mid-term for term 1 for our quarterly high school students; nearly so for those in trimesters, and 1/4 of the way for those on semesters and in BTLVA. This is a great time to sit down with your students and check in on their progress. Do they need more help? Do they need more challenges?
We encourage you to help your student self-advocate for whatever they need -- all of our teachers are happy to help, meet with students 1:1, and provide solutions. Especially if this is the first time they've experienced online learning, we want to help!
Are your students skipping the learning and skipping to the homework?
This also sometimes can lead to students wanting to google answers to questions. While Google can sometimes provide answers, the students aren't really learning or understanding the concepts.
One way to support students to minimize frustration is to have them always click on the "ACTIVITIES" and go to the modules, versus going to the "To Do" list, which ONLY lists assignments. Imagine taking a math quiz without having had any direction! Or understanding a period in history never having read, watched a video or done an interactive debate about it.
Please note the pictures and captions below!
Any questions? Have your student reach out to their teachers-- all of them can help!
The to-do list -- don't rely on this!
This is what is at the top under the welcome picture when they click into their courses. IF they click on the "To DOList" -- this is ONLY the assignments
Click on ACTIVITIES instead! (Or scroll down)
This will show where each module section is; items with the same name are often the lesson, followed by the assignment.
Navigating through the lesson
Once you get to the lesson, click the arrows at the TOP of the page, (Top right) to go through each page of the lesson. In this example you see Pages 1-9, with < and > buttons to advance or go back.
If you are stuck on a question in the assessment, this is a good place to look for the answer!
Checking the Time Spent
Have your student navigate to the "grades" section by clicking the three lines "menu" on the top right.
Click on Activity
This gives you a breakdown of how much time is spent on the lessons and assessments. If you are seeing "8s," this means they spent 8 seconds on that page.
Checking grades
Ultimately, this is also where you can check grades by clicking the GRADES on the far left. It will show when it was turned in on the right.
A black rectangle means it was turned in, but not graded yet.
If you see a circular arrow, this means the teacher has set a "redo" and the student can submit again.
If you see a conversation square, this symbol means your teacher has left feedback you can click on. Make sure you look at your feedback!
WELCOME!
We are so excited to have you in our program this year! We've had many students join us, and many return -- so welcome and welcome back!
This newsletter will have information for both Kiel District enrolled students and Partner District students. If something is only pertinent to your group, it will come in an email or from your home district directly. All students are welcome to participate in activities offered in BTLVA and Kiel eSchool per their appropriate ages.
This first week of school our office is inundated with enrollments, course change requests, IT trouble shooting, etc. and it may take us a bit longer to get back to you. We appreciate your patience so much! Our school continues to grow as we serve not only our own students, but 26 other school districts state wide. We are still accepting applications for alternate open enrollment; if you know someone who is considering virtual learning, please have them call our office at (920) 894-5169.
Reminders:
Please make sure you can access your Guardian Account in Genius! This is a great way to keep track of your student's progress.
In that account, make sure that the email that is listed is correct. If you never received an email with your account log in, please email Sandy Sickinger, our registrar, right away. ssickinger@kiel.k12.wi.us
You will receive a progress report every Monday morning before 9 AM. This is comprehensive, and includes both the current grade and the pace. NOTE: your student might have a good grade, but if they are behind pace, incomplete assignments become zero at the end of the semester. Attendance is determined using both pacing and passing, so zeroes will not be added until the end of the term.
Students can use the "What If" tool in their gradebook to see what their grade would be with certain scores at any time during the semester.
For students who are more independent in their school work, we recommend having at least a weekly (and preferably a few times a week) check with your student and have them show you where they are, what they are studying, and how their grades are progressing.
If you have any questions about time spent in courses, passing grades, pacing or cannot access your guardian account, please let us know right away!
