Tag Archives: Antelope Valley Charter School

Back to School Night: September 5

Please plan to join us Thursday, September 5, from 5:00 to 6:30 for Back to School Night. This event will help you know what to expect throughout the year, what project-based learning looks like, the various types of assessments we use, school culture, and much more. It is a very informative evening where valuable information will be given. We look forward to seeing you there!

iLEAD AV Back to School Night

Activate Your ParentSquare Account

iLEAD Antelope Valley Exploration uses ParentSquare for school-to-home communications. Here’s what you can do with ParentSquare:

  • Receive messages from the school via email, text, or app notification. (Download the iOS App or Android App.)
  • Choose to receive information as it comes or all at once with a daily digest at 6 PM.
  • Communicate in your preferred language.
  • Direct message facilitators and staff.
  • Sign forms and permission slips, sign up for events or to volunteer, and more all from your desktop or mobile device.

If you haven’t yet done so, please see below for instructions to activate your account.

Activate Your ParentSquare Account

iLEAD Antelope Valley Studio uses ParentSquare for school-to-home communications. Here’s what you can do with ParentSquare:

  • Receive messages from the school via email, text, or app notification. (Download the iOS App or Android App.)
  • Choose to receive information as it comes or all at once with a daily digest at 6 PM.
  • Communicate in your preferred language.
  • Direct message facilitators and staff.
  • Sign forms and permission slips, sign up for events or to volunteer, and more all from your desktop or mobile device.

If you haven’t yet done so, please see below for instructions to activate your account.

2024-25 School Year Weekly Schedule

The following is our weekly workshop and synchronous instruction schedule.

Tuesdays: Art Workshops

  • First Session: 9:30 – 11:30 AM
  • Second Session: 12:00 – 2:00 PM (will begin after Labor Day)

Thursdays: Enrichment Workshops

  • First Session: 9:00 – 11:00 AM
  • Second Session: 12:00 – 2:00 PM (will begin after Labor Day)

Synchronous Instruction via Zoom

  • Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (Educational Facilitators will send their schedules before school begins)

iLEAD Antelope Valley Studio Family Guidebook

Dear iLEAD Antelope Valley Studio Families,

As we welcome you to the 2024-2025 school year, we would like to provide you with our Family Guidebook resource and annual notifications. We provide this guidebook as a way to work in partnership, to support learners and families to understand the rights that you have at our school. It is also a place to outline our expectations, policies, procedures, and practices for the school year and for learners and families. The guidebook can be accessed online at https://ileadav.org/ilead-antelope-valley-family-guidebook. Please reach out to the school office if you would like a printed copy.

We look forward to a great school year!

iLEAD AV Exploration (Home Study) Family Guidebook

Dear iLEAD AV Exploration (Home Study) Families,

As we welcome you to the 2024-2025 school year, we would like to provide you with our Family Guidebook resource and annual notifications. We provide this guidebook as a way to work in partnership, to support learners and families to understand the rights that you have at our school. It is also a place to outline our expectations, policies, procedures, and practices for the school year and for learners and families. The guidebook can be accessed online at https://ileadav.org/ilead-antelope-valley-exploration-family-guidebook. Please reach out to the school office if you would like a printed copy.

We look forward to a great school year!

DreamUp to Space Experiment Design Challenge Mission 24-25

Calling all iLEAD microgravity scientists! If you could send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS), what would you send?

Learners 4th grade and up will have the opportunity to learn about the ISS, microgravity, and scientific experimentation while preparing an experiment proposal that could end up being launched to the ISS! Finalists’ proposals will be submitted to a panel of assessors with one experiment being selected for launch.

Register here to receive project materials, office hour check-in dates, and submission details.

Project launches on September 3 with proposals due on October 4.

Want to see prior teams who sent an experiment to space? See videos here!

Contact shawna.melville@ileadcalifornia.org with any questions.

Upcoming Events

iLEAD AV Studio

  • Mon., 9/2: Labor Day – No School
  • Thur., 9/5: Picture Day
  • Thur., 9/5: Back to School Night, 5-7 PM

Click here for the school year calendar.

iLEAD AV Exploration (Home Study)

  • Mon., 9/2: Labor Day – No School
  • Wed., 9/4: Vision & Hearing Screening for K, 2nd, 5th and 8th grades
  • Mon., 9/9-13: MAP Testing Week
  • Fri., 9/13: End of LP 1: Work Samples Due & Activity Logs Signed by 3 PM
  • Tue., 9/17: Workshops Begin

Click here for the school year calendar.

Back to School Night: September 5

Please plan to join us Thursday, September 5, from 5:00 to 6:30 for Back to School Night. This event will help you know what to expect throughout the year, what project-based learning looks like, the various types of assessments we use, school culture, and much more. It is a very informative evening where valuable information will be given. We look forward to seeing you there!

iLEAD AV Back to School Night