Our school-wide Multicultural Feast will be on Friday, November 22. Please stop by the office or give us a call to reserve your dish/item. Share food from your culture with us! Volunteers are also needed to help serve the learners. Questions? Please call 661-494-7442 or email holly.vasconez@ileadav.org.
Are you curious about The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? We embrace and apply them daily at iLEAD AV. Based on the book by Stephen Covey, the habits are enduring because they empower and inspire. The habits transform lives because they’re based on proven universal principles, such as integrity, justice, honesty, and human dignity.
7 Habits training is now available to you at no cost! This is a value of several thousand dollars! Learn the habits and become more effective in your home, business, and interactions with others.
We will be finished before our Fall Break. This is a commitment of time that will be wisely spent.
Please contact kim.lengning@ileadlancaster.org to reserve your place. Questions? Feel free to ask.
Friday, 11/4: Abby Candles Fundraiser continues
Wednesday, 11/6: Kona Ice Fill Party, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, 11/7: iSupport Collab, 9:30-10:30 a.m., repeat collab from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Monday, 11/11: No School, Veterans Day
Tuesday, 11/12: ELAC Parent Meeting, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Friday, 11/15: Kona Ice Day, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 11/20: School picture retakes
Friday, 11/22: School-wide Multicultural Feast, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Monday – Friday, 11/25-29: Fall Break
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.
Dear iLEAD AV families,
Please take time to review our valet process for drop-off and pick-up.
Pickup is from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Learners who have not been retrieved by 4:00 p.m. will go to Extended Care, and accounts will be billed at $3 per hour per learner.
The owner of the shopping center asked all parents and staff to stop parking there and posted signs warning us that cars would be towed, so that is no longer an option.
We are using our lot on 22nd Street West for valet before and after school. The lot is very large. As a result, we no longer have valet in front of the school.
To access the lot, please turn right on K-4 from 20th Street West. You will pass Miller Elementary School, drive right around the bend, and make a right into our lot. At the start of the day, your learner will be greeted and escorted onto campus. At the end of the day, your learner will be summoned and escorted to your car. Please be sure to post your valet card on the dashboard daily. Once your learner is safely in your car, you will exit the lot and make a right, which will take you to Avenue K. We will have cones, signs, and iLEAD team members on standby to support you and the learners.
In the mornings, the valet lot will open at 8:00 a.m. In the afternoon, it will open at 3:00 p.m. for dismissal. If you are walking your learner to class in the morning, we will have a parking area in the lot just for you.
Menu: Please see below 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 Guideline: 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.
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 $1.90 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.
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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!
Join your iLEAD family and friends for this ALL-iLEAD-SCHOOLS event. Lace up your running shoes and join us Sunday, November 3, at 1:00 p.m. at the Universal City Metro Plaza for the annual iLEAD Amazing Race. There you will begin your Los Angeles adventure via the Metro Red Line on a photo scavenger hunt with your team.
Registration closes TODAY, Monday, October 28.
You don’t want to miss this fun adventure with your iLEAD family.
Register today! Click here for the required permission slip and more details.
To all the families and friends who came to the iLEAD AV Fall Festival, thank you! The learners had fun creating and decorating all the booths, signs, and activities for the event. With your participation, we were able to raise money for the learners’ upcoming field studies!
Thank you to all who came out to support us at Lancaster’s BOOlvd Halloween and Harvest Festival. Many of our families came by the iLEAD booth to say hello.
Many of you may have noticed 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 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.
At iLEAD AV, we use Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as a guidepost for social-emotional development and building a lifelong love for learning. Our learners have been focusing on the second habit: beginning with the end in mind. Here’s what that means: By knowing where you want to end up, you’ll have a better idea of how to get there. If you want to accomplish tasks in your day, start with a to-do list so you know what steps to take. Set goals. Knowing where you want to be will help you figure out how to get there.
Our first graders had a plan when they showed the phases and states of matter, solids, liquids, and gases through experiments. They made lists and organized materials to identify the state of each material used.
Once the plan was set, they were able to implement the experiments and have fun watching the experiments unfold.
Here the learners are experimenting with Mentos and cola to see how the mints will react when mixed with the liquid to create gas.
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.
iLEAD Antelope Valley, a free public charter school in Lancaster, California, is part of iLEAD Schools, a network of charter schools throughout California, the Midwest, Colorado, and Hawaii. iLEAD empowers learners to become conscientious, compassionate, and responsible citizens of the world and inspires them to become creative thinkers and leaders with a lifelong love of learning.
Thursday, October 31: Costume Parade, 9:30 a.m. on the field
Saturday, November 2: Día de los Muertos Boothing Event, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Monday, November 11: No School – Veterans Day
Tuesday, November 12: ELAC Parent Meeting
Friday, November 22: Multicultural Feast
November 25 – 29: Fall Break
