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Summer Camp in Hawaii Now Enrolling!

Aloha!

We’re excited to share an incredible learning opportunity for summer break!

Students who will be entering 7th-12th grade in the fall of 2020 are invited to travel to the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kaua’i this summer for Camp Kahili! There are four weeks available to campers, and you can opt to stay for one, two, three…or all four weeks!

  • June 21-27

  • June 28-July 4

  • July 5-11

  • July 12-18

Community. Culture. Adventure. 

Three simple words that drive the mission of Camp Kahili. Campers will have a unique opportunity not only to learn about and experience the rich culture of Kaua’i but to give back through a variety of community service projects during their time at camp.

During your Camp Kahili getaway, you’ll have opportunities for multicultural learning, adventure, and service through a multitude of activities, such as the following:

  • Hike Kaua’i Mountain

  • Zipline

  • Learn to Hula

  • Beach Cleanup

  • Attend a Traditional Hawaiian Luau

  • And Many More!

What Does Tuition Include? 

  • Round-trip airfare from LAX to Kaua’i

  • Room & board at camp

  • Culture: Campers will discover the unique and diverse culture of Hawaii and the island of Kaua’i through hands-on learning experiences taught by local educators.

  • Community: An important part of Camp Kahili’s mission is to give back to the island through a variety of service-based projects. Each camper will return home with 10-15 hours of certified community service hours signed off by Camp Kahili directors.

  • Adventure: In addition to learning about Hawaiian culture and giving back through community service projects, students will participate in a number of activities and excursions, including beach days, surfing and standup paddleboarding, ziplining, tubing, hiking, and more!

  • A deposit of $400 will secure your spot!

Special iLEAD Network Learner Discount! 

If you are part of our iLEAD network family, we are happy to extend a $500 discount per session to you! (This includes all iLEAD schools and programs, including iLEAD Antelope Valley!) In addition to this discount, you can save even more by taking advantage of our Early Bird Discount of $250 if you register and pay for your session by March 15…for a total of $750 in savings! To take advantage of this opportunity, please use the following discount code when asked on the camper application: iLEADlearner2020. (Please note that this code is case-sensitive.)

SPACE IS LIMITED, so please click here to learn all about Camp Kahili and register today!

If you have any questions, please email info@campkahili.org.

We’re looking forward to learning together in paradise!

P.S. Interested in being a camp counselor, facilitator, or volunteer? Click here!

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Important Notes: Breakfast and Lunch at iLEAD AV

Menu: Please see here for the current menu. Note: no lunch on Fridays. 

Breakfast Schedule: Breakfast is served from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. only.

Packed Lunch Guidelines: Parents, please send your learners with a lunch that does not need to be warmed up. We are unable to warm or heat up food or give hot water to the learners. This is a safety issue, and we appreciate your cooperation. Although we understand you’re very busy, being asked to warm lunches prevents the Care Team from supporting all the learners and the lunch area. Please send non-heated items to school for lunch. Soup can be heated at home and stored in a thermos. Thank you for your understanding.

Free & Reduced Meal Applications: Please submit your free/reduced lunch application to the front office as soon as possible. Lunch balances must remain under $20 this school year. Please make payments in the front office.

Prices: Learners who do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals must pay $3 for lunch and $2 for breakfast.

Pay for Lunches Online: iLEAD AV has partnered with My MealTime, a fast, secure online service for making credit or debit card deposits and monitoring your learner’s lunch account. Download the mobile app!

Health and Wellness Policy: Our learners are active and exerting energy outside, so they need nutritious refreshments, such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and as much water as possible. We’d like to share with you our Health and Wellness Policy as a helpful reference and to support you and your learner in making good food choices for nourishing the body and mind.

A Reminder about Food Deliveries: Parents, please inform your learners they are not to order food from Postmates, Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, or any other delivery service to the school. Parents can bring in lunches to the front office and we will call the learner up to the office to pick up their lunch.

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A Few Reminders…

Late Sign-In Procedure

All learners must be signed in after 9:00 a.m. There are no drop-offs. Please come in to the front office and sign in the book at the front desk.

Valet

Many of you may have noticed that we changed valet pickup at the gate. Parents, we will now have you present your valet card at the valet gate to one of our Care Team members sitting there. Your valet card will be verified and your learner’s facilitator will be called from the radio to have them walked to the valet gate.

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Website

Check out the iLEAD AV website for a calendar of important dates.

Welcome Packets

Please turn in welcome packets as soon as possible so we can update our records.

Pay for Extended Care Online

Parents are now able to pay online for extended care. There is a fee for online payments through MealTime.

Get your iLEAD AV T-shirt!

New iLEAD AV T-shirts are for sale in the office. They are perfect for Spirit Days and field study trips! Sizes S-XL are $10, and sizes 2XL-4XL are $15.

Safety Guidelines for Heelys, Skateboards, Bikes

Heelys brand shoes can be worn, but for everyone’s safety, please remove the wheels for school. General safety guidelines also include no skateboards or bicycles being ridden on campus; they must be carried and walked. Thank you for your understanding and support!

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Our Goals

Our planning and preparation are consistent with our three Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) goals. We’re looking forward to sharing how we’re meeting each goal throughout the school year, and we’ve listed the goals below:

Goal 1: Provide optimal conditions of learning through providing basic services, implementation of California State Standards, and access to an academic and educational program.

Goal 2: Provide all learners with a rigorous, creative, and broad curriculum to maximize academic achievement and college and career readiness.

Goal 3: Generate active engagement between parents/families and the school and connections with the community to promote learner achievement and communication among all stakeholders.

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iLEAD AV Highlights of the Week

1st Graders Explore Sound Waves

Ms. Basty and Ms. Mel’s 1st grade classes are working on their next POL on sound waves. They are creating musical instruments, including drums, trumpets, and guitars, to teach and entertain an audience with sounds. We can’t wait to see the finished projects!

6th Graders Explore Storytelling

Mr. White’s 6th grade class of learners each read the story of “The Three Little Pigs” from a variety of different authors. They then took the story and turned it into a plot diagram that helped them understand the components of a story and how it is written.

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Exploring iLEAD Antelope Valley Culture: Habit 6 of the 7 Habits

Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of articles on the pillars of iLEAD Antelope Valley’s educational philosophy and approach. 

Whether in the classroom, the workplace, relationships, or life in general, learning to compromise can be an important and helpful tool. However, what if there were a way to even further enrich and strengthen our communication and interactions?

That’s what’s behind Habit #6: Synergize.

Synergy brings into focus the old adage that “two heads are better than one.” Instead of merely striking a compromise, synergy allows us to creatively collaborate with others and find new solutions to problems. The essence of synergy is to value and respect our differences, build on strengths, and compensate for weaknesses.

In iLEAD Antelope Valley culture, when learners are incorporating this habit into their lives, they’re learning to work in groups and building and reinforcing a mind-set that says, “I get along well with others — even people who are different from me.” That lays the foundation to a long-lasting collaborative approach to life in a multicultural and interdependent world. 

There are a couple of helpful steps to know if you’re in synergy:

  • You have a change of heart.
  • You feel new energy and excitement.
  • You see things in a new way.
  • You feel that the relationship has transformed.
  • You end up with an idea or a result that’s better than what either of you started with.

One of the most important keys to synergizing is learning to trust, and that trust is built through communication. 

Take, for example, these three levels of communication and the associated levels of trust: 

  • Defensive communication comes out of low-trust situations. It’s characterized by defensiveness, protectiveness, and legalistic language that prepares for the eventuality that things may go wrong, and that people may become resentful. Such communication isn’t effective and produces only win/lose or lose/lose outcomes.
  • Respectful communication is characterized by honesty, authenticity, and respect that produces a low form of win/win, a compromise where one plus one equals one-and-a-half.
  • Synergistic communication means that one plus one may equal 8, 16, or even 1,600. The situation produced is better than any originally proposed.

When we learn to see our individual differences as strengths instead of weaknesses, we are well on our way to learning to synergize. 

Join us next week as we explore the seventh and final habit: Sharpen the Saw.

For more information on the 7 Habits and other leadership resources, click here to visit the FranklinCovey website.