What's New This Year

 

The passing of Assembly Bill No. 130 forced many changes on Visions, very quickly. The bill was passed this July, and ALL California charter schools that offer "Independent Study" are required to be compliant on the first day of school. It was written in response to the COVID challenges faced by public school students, and it is not sensitive to our particular model, but we still have to comply.

Most of the changes will not impact you negatively. There are only two that you need to be aware of at the start of school.

• Attendance: You must now log your attendance DAILY. You should have gotten a communication from Visions with more information about this. If you have any questions, please reach out to me.
• Religious Curriculum: If you are using religious curriculum, be careful not to use it for work samples or mention it on the semester plan. The only real change this year is that Visions is not allowed to take attendance for any work done in religious curriculum. If you are planning on using primarily religious curriculum for your student, we will work together to figure this out. 

Synchronous Instruction and Live Interaction opportunities.  
Your student IS NOT required to attend the Synchronous Instruction or Live Interaction opportunities.  

Synchronous Instruction

ALL VISIONS teachers will be providing online synchronous instruction as follows:

• Grades TK-3: 30 minutes of instruction every day
• Grades 4-8: 30 minutes of instruction once per week
• Grades 9-12: 60 minutes of instruction once per week

My synchronous instruction schedule will be:

• Grades TK-3: Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 10:30
• Grades 4-8: Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:00
• Grades 9-12: Thursday from 10:30 to 11:30

Classes will be via Zoom and students will be required to log into the class using their Visions email account. Directions on how to do that are here. If you are interested in having your student attend synchronous instruction during LP1, please email me so I can know who is coming and plan accordingly. Thank you!

Daily Live Interaction

This is being provide by Teachers on Special Assignment. Click here for more information on the 4th-8th grade offerings.