Max homeschool experience webinar with performance series update

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New Family Orientation

Your Personal Guide to the Enrollment Process

Copyright 2009 Bridgeway Academy

Areas Covered

• Congratulations on a great decision your new journey begins• Getting started with the Bridgeway family• Completing the admissions process• Meet your professionally trained academic

advisor• Navigating through your welcome packet• Understanding placement tests & how they

help you• Parent’s responsibility to assure success• What to expect from your advisor• Choosing the very best curriculum possible• Question and Answer

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Can I really do a good job teaching my Child?

• You don’t have to be an expert at homeschooling.

• You’ve been a teacher since the day your child was born.

• Homeschooling is a shared adventure if you find the right homeschooling curriculum provider with proven and tailored curriculums.

• Spending time with your child takes more than talk.

• Expose kids to activities, people, places and ideas to stir their imaginations.

• Take trips, look at art, gaze at stars and play games.

• Planning, creative and solving activities involve making choices which instill decision-making skills.

• Dig deeper into topics that your child is passionate about and take the time to firm up concepts that need review and repetition.

• Move forward when they master the material.• Freedom to teach in a style that excites and

motivates your child• Ability to adjust based on your child’s needs 3

Completing the Enrollment Process

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Financial & Academic Commitment Form

Outlines your rights and responsibilities

as a Bridgeway homeschooling

parent.

This form must be filled out by all

families regardless of payment plan.

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Meet The Team

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The entire staff of Bridgeway Academy welcomes you !


Your Welcome Email

• Contains 3 attachments

• Welcome Letter from our School Director

• Parent Handbook• Scholarship

Application for Missionary and Military families 7


Meet your Principal!Attachment #1

Jessica Parnell was a high school English teacher and director of gifted education before coming to Bridgeway. She brings with her a passion for homeschooling that developed both out of experience as a student and as a Pennsylvania Homeschool Evaluator.

It is her mission and the mission of Bridgeway Academy to help every homeschooler succeed--not just academically but also in life.

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Parent HandbookAttachment #2

The Parent Handbook is emailed with your intital enrollment.

Current copy can be found on the Bridgeway Member’s Site

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Scholarship ApplicationsAttachment #3

Scholarship Applications are available for active Missionary and Military families

Scholarships are given as refunds on tuition

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Final Steps

• Before your student is assigned to an advisor you must:

Finalize your payment information This includes returning the Installment

Contract Agreement if making monthly payments or the Payment Authorization Form if making two payments

Completing the student survey This provides us with important information

about your student

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Your Advisor is Here to Facilitate the Home Education Process for the

Parent

• Your guidance counselor, an encourager, and a resource to turn to for tips and ideas

• Your academic resource, able to keep parents and students on track with accurate records

• Your personal expert, providing analysis of student placement testing and learning styles, and customization of homeschooling curriculum packages

• Your supportive assistant, aiding with curriculum decisions and encouragement throughout the school year

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Your Welcome Email

• Your Welcome email from your advisor includes three Attachments:• Proctoring the

Placement Test• Homeschool Legal

Advantage Membership Information

• School Calendar13


Your Welcome EmailLearning Style Assessment

• This assessment will give you and your advisor insight into your student’s learning style and help your advisor select the best curriculum!

• You will receive a customized report detailing your students learning style.

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Learning Style Assessment Report

• This report will also give your advisor a better understanding of how you learn, as well as provide insight into ways to better improve your learning experience. They will be able to use this report to suggest the best curriculum options to complement your learning style.

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Placement Tests: Reading Readiness Test

• Kindergarten students are mailed a Reading Readiness Test and do not have to take the Math, English or Spelling tests.

• Admissions Dept. will mail the Kindergarten placement test to you

• Parent administers test to student

• Parent grades test• Parent mails test back to your

advisor with the rest of the completed forms

• Advisor will review the test to determine which program is best suited for the student 16


Placement tests for Pre K thru Grade 9

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Placement Tests

• One of the most common concerns of parents is whether or not their children have truly progressed in any given school year. How do you know for sure that your children are moving forward as they should?

• How can you track whether they are gaining additional academic skills each year?

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Placement Tests

• With Bridgeway Academy, tracking progress is easy!

Our new Performance Series testing allows us to not only give you a clear picture of where your student is today, but also to measure progress throughout the school year.

• This series of testing will track your child's progress in math, reading and language arts

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Placement Test

• The Performance Series test is delivered online and can be accessed from any computer.

• Performance Series provides students with tests tailored to their proficiencies in reading, math, language arts.

• The online test adjusts automatically to each student’s ability level, generating more difficult questions if the student is answering correctly and easier ones if the student is answering incorrectly.

• Students do not spend unnecessary time on test items that are much too difficult or too simple, leading to less time testing.

• The result is a valid and reliable “scaled score” that can be used to measure academic growth just as a yardstick is used to measure a child’s growth in height.

• Personalized mini study guides can be generated on an individual basis to help students strengthen areas of weakness identified by the test.

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Proctoring the Placement Test

• You will receive a welcome email from your advisor– this will contain the site ID, student ID, and student password needed for testing.

• Make sure that students are working alone on the test, without assistance or coaching, to allow valid results.

• Students can stop and start the test as many times as necessary (bathroom breaks, fatigue, attention span, etc) within a two-week period.

• Student data can be accessed by Bridgeway Academy only when a student finishes his/ her test completely.

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Proctoring the Placement Test

• When completely finished with the test, a congratulatory message appears on screen. If your student tries to go too fast through the test, the test may “spoil.” If this occurs, you will see the message, “Your test has ended.” Otherwise, when your student completes the test, they will see the message “Congratulations, you have completed the test.”

• Make sure all students—especially higher-performing students—understand the different test questions and lengths, and that they are expected to get some questions wrong.

• IMPORTANT: You must allow pop-ups in your web browser in order for the test to work properly.

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Placement Tests: Computer Requirements

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Windows Macintosh Hardware/Platform Requirements • Windows 2000, XP • Pentium III 500 MHz or higher* • 256 MB of RAM* • Color display: minimum 256 • Resolution: minimum 800 x 600 Browser Requirements • Internet Explorer 6, 7 • Firefox 3

Hardware/Platform Requirements • OS 10.2 – 10.5.7 • 500 MHz or Greater G3, G4, G5 * • 256 MB of RAM* • Color display: minimum 256 • Resolution: minimum 800 x 600 OSX Browser Requirements • Apple Safari 3x • Firefox 3 to 3.5

Internet Connection Internet Requirements Recommendations

• Full T1 or better Internet connection (1.5 Mbs/sec or higher) • Ports 80 and 443 open for access to the Internet • All software associated with this product requires an Internet connection

Computer Requirements


Placement Tests: Accessing the Test

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Accessing the Test Use Firefox or Internet Explorer to access this website: www.edperformance.com Click on Student Login to access the test.

http://www.edperformance.com/

http://www.edperformance.com/


Placement Tests: Accessing the Test

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Enter the Site ID:

59-8045-6297

(You must enter the dashes) and click Next.


Placement Tests: Select Test

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Select Reading, Language Arts or Math and click Next. When you have finished one subject area test, you will be returned to this screen to select the next subject area.


Placement Tests: Enter Your Student ID

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Enter your Bridgeway Academy Student ID and click Next. This is printed on the front of your “Proctoring the Placement” test email you received with your Welcome Packet.


Placement Tests: Verify Your Name

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Verify your name. Click Yes if your name is correct. If your name is not correct, click No and call your advisor at Bridgeway Academy to verify your student ID.


Placement Tests: Password

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Enter your first name (all lowercase) as your student password and click Next. The test directions are now displayed:


Placement Tests: Test Instructions

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Placement Tests: Testing Script

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Before your student begins, the test, read the Testing Script to the student. Answer any questions your student may have and then have the student click “Begin Test”

When all three tests are complete, your advisor will analyze the results and use the results to recommend curriculum for your student.


Course Selection Form

• Link to the Course Selection form for high school students is sent in the advisors welcome email.

• This form communicates information to your advisor if you or your student already knows courses that you are interested in taking.

• This is also a good place to communicate future plans and goals

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Academic Paper Work

The second email you will receive from your advisor has several attachments.• The Getting Started

Checklist• Student Record Release• PA Affidavit• Transfer of Home Educated

Courses• Vocabulary Placement Test• Spelling Placement Test

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Placement Tests:Spelling / Vocabulary Test:

WPAK 02 a & b

• 2 Different Tests :• SOT Test • WW Test

• Only for students in grades 1-9.

• Read the instructions on both and decide which would best suit your student’s needs.

• Do not take both tests – only one is needed.

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Comparison of the 2 Spelling Tests

SOT Spelling Test

• Biblical Curriculum• Repetition & Review• Words and meanings

are introduced by themes or families

WW Vocabulary Test

• Non-Biblical Curriculum

• Higher order thinking vocabulary

• Words are introduced in sequential order

• Contextual use emphasized

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Student Record Release Form

• Form submitted to your child’s PREVIOUS school.

• Submission of this form is required and top priority for Grades 9 -12.

• For grades 6-8, academic records are required only if the student earned any high school credits.

• For grades 1-5, academic records are not required. Parents may send in a copy of report cards and/or achievement testing results.

• No curriculum can be sent until the previous school’s records (or placement tests for younger students) are reviewed by your advisor.

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Transfer of Home Educated Courses

If your student was previously homeschooled

and completed high school level courses,

please fill out this form.

This is for students who do not have official transcripts from a previous school.

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Importance of High School Transcripts

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• Allows credit from other schools to be transferred to Bridgeway Academy

• Original signed and sealed transcripts are required

• To speed up enrollment process, advisors can initially work with an unoffical transcript provided by the parent or the school

• Grades earned in previous schools are not included in the Bridgeway Academy GPA


PA Affidavit

• Only for Pennsylvania students• Make sure you print

the correct form for your child’s grade level

• California families can submit their affidavits online

• Arizona students have an option of utilizing an affidavit

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Summary: Completing the Enrollment Process

For grades 2-10 administer the placement tests.

For Kindergarten – 1st grade, the reading readiness test needs to be completed and returned by mail.

Have your student take the Learning Style Assessment

Complete the Curriculum Preference Form Submit your student’s transcript from

previous schools (High School credits only)

Meet with your advisor Review your curriculum suggestion letter

and Projection Course of Study (high school)

Approve Curriculum40



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Copy of official (sealed and unopened) transcript from previous school for grades

10-12 or students who have earned any 9th grade credits. Schools may also send

the official transcript directly to us.

Schools may also fax a copy of the transcript 41



(continued)Ways to return information:

1. Scan and email packet to your advisor2. Fax paperwork (Note: Do not fax

placement testing) Fax #: 610-266-78173. You can email the paper placement testing4. Mail Packet to:

Bridgeway Academy

334 2nd St.Catasauqua, PA 18032

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What to Expect From Your Advisor - Elementary

• Sends an email when your placements and forms have been received.• Provides parent with an estimated time on

when they will receive preliminary course recommendations

• Placement tests and paperwork are reviewed in the order received.

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What to Expect From Your Advisor – Elementary (contined)

• Contacts parent to go over curriculum choices via email and/or phone.

• Discusses why choices were made.• Listens to feedback.• Makes any necessary changes to choices.• Verifies approval of course schedule.

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What to Expect from your advisor – High School

• Review transcript and credits earned.• Prepare Projected Course of Study for

Graduation for course of study student desires (from questionnaire, enrollment form and/or conversation with family).

• Email Projected Course of study to family along with letter explaining decisions that need to be made.

• Call family within 72 hours to review projection.

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What to expect from your advisor – High School

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• Discuss course selection with family and ask them to sign and return Projection if they agree via email, fax, or mail.

• For High School Seniors – send SENIOR Packet with curriculum.

• For High School Sophomores/Juniors –information on the PSAT/ACT/SAT with curriculum.

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What Do I Do While I’m Waiting for My Books?

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• Login in to the Bridgeway Academy Member’s site to access the resources there.

• Go to: www.bridgewaymembers.com

• Review the Member’s Site

• Read the Parent Handbook

• Visit www.khanacademy.com and have your student work on some Math or English Review

• Grades 5-12, register on the online testing site and review information posted

http://www.khanacademy.com/

http://www.khanacademy.com/


Online Resources

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Enter your

username and

password.


Online Resources

• The Bridgeway Academy Members site includes many online resources including:

• Free Electives in Health• High School forms• Book Report information• Bridgeway Contest info• Standardized Test Prep• Reference Tools• Log in and explore!

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Register in HLA

As a Bridgeway family, you are eligible for a free one-year membership to Homeschool Legal Advantage!

• Homeschool Legal Advantage offers free legal assistance with all of your homeschool needs.

• Additionally, HLA is offering to provide every new member with legal help drawing up a will!

• Attached to the welcome email from your advisor and included with your curriculum shipment, you will find a brochure with more information about Homeschool Legal Advantage, as well as instructions for registering for your free one-year membership.

• HLA membership is by family, so even if you have enrolled more than one student, you only need to register one time.

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Enrichments Kit

• There will be days when you or your

elementary students aren’t up to speed and you need educational activities that your kids can do independently while you recover.

• Enrichments Kits are designed to keep your homeschooler engaged and enjoying higher order problem solving while also having a great time passing the hours.

• This picture shows the variety of items that we use to fill various grade level bags. You don’t get it all but you get a great age or grade level variety!

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Enrichments Kit (Cont’d)

Many families enjoy the Enrichments Kits as an alternative to their core curriculum . The Critical Thinking materials and art supplies are a great way to sneak in a school day – even on a weekend!

Best of all, with the Enrichments kit activity kit, can be Personalized to your child’s interests . Your homeschooler will never even know he is learning!

Enrichment Kits each contain up to 3 fun and engaging workbooks, art materials & a variety of fun in a great Bridgeway Backpack These are available for purchase for $69.00.

Ask your advisor for details. They make great Gifts!

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Bridgeway Spirit Wear

• We are proud to announce that you can now purchase hoodies, back packs, tote bags and vinyl clings with the Bridgeway Logo!

• You will receive an order form via email

• Just fill it out and mail or fax it back to us

• Your box of school spirit will be on its way to you shortly!

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We want to help !

• What to call for:

• If you want to upgrade your curriculum package and also if any contact information is incorrect.

• When to call: M-F 9-5 Eastern Time

• Because the phones get busy and we strive to provide excellent customer service, your advisor will return your call within 1-2 business days.

• What to email for:• Just email your questions to your advisor and

you will get all of your questions answered in one organized easy to understand email!

• What a time saver for you !

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“Education is the great engine to personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that the child of a farm worker can become the president of a great nation.”

Nelson Mandela55

Thank you for taking the time to participate in today’s

webinar!

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334 Second StreetCatasauqua, PA 18032

(610)266-9016

www.bridgewayacademy.com

Email: [email protected]

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