August 2009 HTA Newsletter

Congratulations, you have begun the school year. Now that you have started with the OLS/LMS curricu-

lums, there is much to do, learn and use. To help you through this process remember your seven habits:

1. Homeroom Planning (Keep Attendance, Plan your day)

2. Know your tools (OLS/LMS)

3. Know your students learning style

4. Know your limits

5. Use your partnerships (Teachers, staff, HTA ohana)

6. Use the Learning Center (Register for your classes)

7. Be Creative!

In addition to all these sources, communications will have a LIVE Elluminate schedule for OLS/LMS specific

questions. This schedule will come out on August 15 with all the other Elluminate schedules.

To access powerspeaK12, families must first login to the OLS with a student account user name and password. To create a student account, parents must:

1. Login to the OLS with the learning coach user name and password. 2. Select My Account in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

3. On the My Account page, parents are able to create a student account by selecting the blue Edit button in the Student Accounts box. 4. Once the student user name and password has been created, parents will want to navigate back to the OLS Home page and select New Log-In for a new login screen to appear. Once the new screen appears, the family will be able to enter the student user name and password that will take them to the student view of the OLS were they will be able to access the world language course. Once logged into the OLS via the student account, students/families will then want to select power-speaK12 on the side of the screen to access their world language if enrolled in a world language

Congratulations!!!!

INS IDE TH IS

I S SUE :

Box Tops 2

Kauai Sports News 2

HTA-PTSA 3

Google Calendars 5

Oahu Interactive

Open House

6

New Website 8

Accessing powerspeaK12

HTA

SCHOOL NEWS A U G U S T 2 0 0 9 S Y 0 9 / 1 0 - 1

P A G E 2

Fun Fact: A car traveling

100 mph

would take

more than 29

million years

to reach the

nearest star.

Kauai HTA Sports News

Box Tops For Education

Kauai News

Here's a way to earn money for our school, with the products you might already buy and have in your homes-- There are three ways to earn $ for HTA using Box Tops for Education. 1. Clip from products you use at home (go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com/AllAboutBoxTops/products.aspx to see the variety of products) and bring in ziploc back with your last name to collection box in front office. There will be MONTHLY worksheets printed to glue box tops onto- take one home and turn in to PTSA mailbox (will be there before the Learning Center courses start). Their site has cou-pons also so you can save $ on the products that will make $ for the school!

2. Sign up online at boxtops4education.com and designate HTA (zip: 96797) as your school for other chances to win credits. Log in and participate in contests like The Big Clip (going on now) where they give away $25,000-$50,000 worth of box tops!

3. Go to boxtops4education.com and log-in before shopping at Barnes & Noble (Reading Room), or other online stores (Marketplace- lots of options) where a % will be credited to HTA for your purchase.

Let's see how much we can raise during the school year!

Seven HTA students will be representing Kauai at Hawaii

State Junior Lifeguard Championship, Saturday, August 8th

at Ala Moana Beach Park. Almost a third of Kauai's team are

HTA students! GO HTA STUDENTS!!!!

"You teach best what you

most need to learn."

-- Richard David Bach

H T A S C H O O L N E W S

Scantron testing August 5th - all Kauai Students: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - session 1 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm - session 2 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm - session 3

Testing will be conducted at the Kauai Learning center Princeville Center (upstairs) suite G204

Mr. Piontek will be having a meeting with the new students to let them know a little more on what to expect with their new adventure with HTA. We will also be taking pictures for their stu-

dent ID cards, as well as taking their scantron assessments. Please Contact McKenna Marich, HTA Office Manager, for scheduling. Either by email, or call (808) 676-5444.

Aug 5th, Wednesday Kauai Scantron Testing Aug 11th, Tuesday Face to face meeting with Kauai Teachers Aug 18th, Tuesday Learning Centers Classes begin in Kauai

A schedule of Elluminate Electives, specifically targeting the neighbor island students (Oahu student are encour-aged to enroll as space permits), will be sent out Thurs-day, Aug. 13th.

HTA-PTSA NEWS

P A G E 3 S Y 0 9 / 1 0 - 1

Mahalo to all who helped the PTSA have a wonderful start to the new school year. We had 47 people become members of the PTSA during orientation week. You can still become a member. There are applications at the LC. Please fill one out and ask McKenna to put it in the PTSA mailbox. Membership fee is $15 for adults/ $10 for students. Over 200 people attended the Back to School Beach Bash at Bellows. The Bash was a success thanks to Carmen Perkins, Jeff Piontek, Libra Forde and of course all of our guests. Due to some wonderful dishes at our Beach Bash, an HTA Cookbook was suggested. We will have more information about that in the next Blast. Please start gathering your favorite recipes!!

Our curriculum provider is making it possible for the 9th Grade Hawaiian History Course to

appear on your child’s 9th grade course list. The online course will be supported by Mrs.

Erin Smith at the Learning Center. She will be providing you with more details regarding

this class over the next few weeks. Materials for the course will be sent from our curricu-

lum provider.

11th Graders who need Hawaiian History: The course will be added this week to a few 11th grade students who

will need the course in order to graduate.

If you have any questions about the addition of this course to your student’s course list, please contact

Regina Leonardi via e-mail [email protected]

We are looking forward to

an exciting year of community

building and support!

We hope you will consider join-

ing us!

Website:

http://htaptsa.googlepages.com

Email:

[email protected]

PTSA Raffle Winners

Raychel Peters Student Planner Henera Hildrecrooks Weekly/Monthly Planner Cicely Andrade Post It Weekly Planner

Congratulations to the win-ners! Mahalo for your sup-

port!

You are cordially

invited to join the

HTA Parent

Teacher Student

Association

Membership fees:

$15 adults

$10 students

LMS and Hawaiian Studies

Join YOUR PTSA

P A G E 4

DID YOUR

PARTICIPATE IN

THE HTA

SUMMER

READING?

Don't forget to

bring in your

HTA Summer

Reading log to

Mckenna and

receive

a prize!

GOOGLE CALENDAR INFO Most Teachers/Staff Have a Google Calendar. Here are the Links to those with a Google calendar (copy the

entire link):

HTA Master: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=t1g5bqtb5k3beond390fkkrias%40g

roup.calendar.google.com&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800"

height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Kim Au: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kimberleyjau%40gmail.com&ctz=P

acific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0"

scrolling="no"></iframe>

Celeste Faumui: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cfaumui%40hawaiitechacademy.or

g&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600"

frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Erin Smith: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=slrun4rh9ogbi8oqmdv86tsj8k%40g



Jozette Linhart: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=jozette.linhart%40gmail.com&ct

z=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600"

frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

McKenna Marich: <iframe

src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gtsu6q38kpak5kfqaprhok7tdg%40g



Ana Matsumoto: <iframesrc="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=r8fqk0fkqm0ofolnv5snakd n2k%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Charisse Steele: <iframesrc="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=charisse.steele%40gmail .com&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Dennis Imoto: <iframesrc="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=n02rvhhl01ah76hml9l45kj ruc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lilia Tollefsen: <iframesrc="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=63h1d271pekoiv8e1q2t1pn hvs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Sarada Wright: <iframesrc="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=saradawright%40gmail.co m&ctz=Pacific/Honolulu" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>


Homeroom Lists:

HR: Wright K/1: Faumui 2/3: Steele 4: Adler 5: Au 6: Matsumoto 7: Smith 8: Gasda 9: Carvalho 10: Imoto

Please use the

Google calendar to

schedule your

Face to Face

Meeting

Please sign-up for F2F conferences with your child's HR

teacher.

F2F conferences will be held over the next two weeks and

can be found on their

individual Google Calendars.

You should have received these from your HR

teachers, and they will also be listed on the HTA Ohana

website (www.htaohana.org).

Schedule of Events

• August 3—first day for OLS/

LMS

• August 3-14— First Face-to-

Face conferences with teachers

• August 6—Trip To Italy; Mrs.

Au’s Ellumnate @7:00pm.

• August 13— Oahu Interactive

Open House; 12-3

• August 15—History Day Kick

Off; Chaminade University; 10-

2:30pm

• August 17—Learning Center

Classes begin

FACE TO FACE Meetings (f2f)

AUGUST 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31

P A G E 5

OAHU Learning Center Schedule

Schedule has been distributed. Please start registering for classes. Oahu LC classes start August 17.

Elluminate Schedules

will be available 8/15 and classes will

start 8/17. These are a open to ALL HTA Students!!!

P A G E 6

Fun Fact:

If you add up

the numbers 1

-100

consecutively

(1+2+3+4+5

etc) the total

is 5050.

Oahu Student Mentors Needed

Materials Link...

Oahu Interactive Open House Come to HTA for more than just the run-of-the-mill open

house. This event will be interactive!

Come work with 2nd year students to get your OLS/LMS,

LC and general HTA questions answered, Participate in Art,

Dance, Creative Academy, Digital Photo, Science, and

Japanese activities, just to name a few! Learn what the LC

can do for you! See you then!

Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009

Time: 12-3

The access the Materials Link: Go to our hawaiitechnologyacademy.org Click on Customer Service (Top right corner area of the screen Click on "Materials List" Click on "Virtual Academy" Click on k-8 or HS Click on Hawaii Technology Academy Sort by Subject Click on the appropriate grade level and viola!

Second year HTA MS/HS Students, we need your help! On

Thursday, Aug 13th from 12Thursday, Aug 13th from 12Thursday, Aug 13th from 12Thursday, Aug 13th from 12----3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm we will have a new student

mentoring time. We need you to come and help We need you to come and help We need you to come and help We need you to come and help the new students

individually by answering their questions about how to organize

themselves, navigate the LMS, OLS, and other HTA programs,

etc.

If you would like to help out please email our PTSA student rep. If you would like to help out please email our PTSA student rep. If you would like to help out please email our PTSA student rep. If you would like to help out please email our PTSA student rep.

[email protected] by August 10, [email protected] by August 10, [email protected] by August 10, [email protected] by August 10, 2009


Keep your students moving and do not stress about PE. We will have more specifics on a PE schedule by the 17th of August.

Literacy Corner

P A G E 7

Welcome to Hawaii Tech-nology Academy. My name is Jozette Linhart and I will be the Literacy Specialist, working with

kindergarten through fifth graders. I have 13 years ex-perience in teaching and have taught various grades as well as focusing on liter-acy.

I am very excited to be working with you and your child here at HTA. My goal is to provide an enriching learning envi-

ronment in which your child and I can grow to-gether.

The Literacy program for 2009-2010 school year will include; Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing.

Once again, wel-come to HTA. We have a rewarding and educational year ahead us!

Ms. Linhart

[email protected]

321-501-5805

Mrs. Au is organizing the First HTA International Trip to Italy, If

you like to travel find out more information through the

Thursday, August 6 at 7:00pm Eluminate.

Go To:

URL: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?

sid=559&password=M.873493085DEFA1667E60A5484935C2

Is your K-8 child enrolled in a world language course? Accessing the

course is simple. 1. Log into the OLS via the student account 2. Select PowerSpeak12 on the (right) side of the screen to access the course. (It should be listed under "My Info".)

General Help/Support for Elementary and Middle School Courses Call or email powerspeaK12 at 1.800.596.0910

[email protected]

World Language for k-8

Like to Travel?

The goal of phonics

instruction is to teach

students the most

common sound-spelling

relationships so that

they can decode, or

sound out, words. This

decoding ability is a

crucial element in

reading success.

Instruction will focus

on: phonemic

awareness, decoding,

spelling, and fluency

There are eight communication forums available to each HTA Ohana.

These eight forums are considered the "Eight Keys to getting in on the

Know".

1. Direct email contact (School, Teachers, Communications)

2. Log-in website (www.hawaiitechacademy.org)

3. Information Archive Website (www.HTAOhana.org)

4. FRIDAY BLAST

5. Monthly Newsletters

6. Homeroom Teachers Google Calendars

7. Elluminate Rooms with Homeroom Teachers

8. Facebook

Your HTA Ohana should be familiar with all of these keys. HTA Ohana's have eight opportunities to gathering

information. You can choose all or some of these forums as your virtual information tools.

HAVE YOU MOVED!!!!

MOVING!!!!

CHANGED EMAIL ADDRESS!!!

Give your new email to

[email protected]

Please remember to change your

information with

Hawaii Technology Academy.

LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD

We would like to thank our local school

board for all the hard work they have put

forth on behalf of Hawaii Technology Acad-

emy.

Next open meeting scheduled for:

August 10, 2009 at 12:00

Location is LC

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR

CONTACT INFORMATION!

Eight Keys to Information at HTA

OUR GOAL IS 100% VIRTUAL

CONTACT

Can’t Find Information on Your Email Try our Information Archive Website:

Http://www.HTAohana.org

K12 introduces a 24-hour customer

support helpline:

1-866-512-2273

STUDY ISLANDSTUDY ISLANDSTUDY ISLANDSTUDY ISLAND

Study Island will not be available to students until sometime after August 17th, For now, HTA families should disregard any daily ref-erence to Study Is-land. Your access code will be provided to you in a few

weeks. For now, focus primarily on the core

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