Customer Training Sessions

If you're new to K12, this seminar will help you get acclimated to the K12 Online Learning School (OLS). We'll give you tips and teach you tricks for preparing learning schedules, reviewing lesson lists, checking attendance, and more. We'll also be there to answer your questions. Veteran K12 parents lead these seminars, so remember, you’re never alone with K12. We’re always here to offer support and insight to help your family along its education journey.

Please remember that all seminar times are based on Eastern Daylight Time. No pre-registration is required to attend any of these events.

Great Start: Managing It All
Friday, December 12, 2008
1:00 p.m

Friday, December 19, 2008
1:00 p.m.

Friday, January 9, 2009
1:00 p.m.

Friday, January 23, 2009
1:00 p.m.

Friday, February 13, 2009
1:00 p.m.

To access a Great Start: Managing It All seminar, please click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/43xg76 . You can log in up to 30 minutes prior to the scheduled seminar start time.

K¹² is pleased to offer a number of varied and educational online seminars on topics of interest to our customers. Each presentation is lead by a K¹² parent, K¹² staff member, or guest presenter. Please review the list to see which seminar interests you. Each will be recorded and accessible within the Community Chest Archives.

Sessions below are geared toward existing K¹² families:

January

Session: Purposeful Schooling Part One: Remembering Why You’re on the Journey
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/purposefulschoolinglive

Schooling your own at home with K¹² can be the most rewarding decision you will make, but there will also be days when you take one look in the mirror and wonder, “What was I thinking!” Our goal in this session is (to try) to help you uncover and define your anchor–your main reason or reasons for choosing this option over all the others–so that when the storms come in the form of a bad day, a well-intentioned but unsupportive friend or family member, or an uncooperative child, you will have the resolve to stay your course. This is part one in a two-part series. In session two we’ll get specific with goal setting strategies!


Session: Are you Balanced? Learn How To Balance
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 8:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/6zoanu
Join Darlene Lund, a former K12 parent and national speaker, sharing keys to creating and having balance in your life. As a certified Life Coach For Women, Ms. Lund will share suggestions, tips, and ideas on creating a life of balance among children, home and family. These tips will be something all parents can use in daily life.


Session: Purposeful Schooling Part Two: Establishing Realistic Student and Family Goals
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/purposefulschooling2live

Someday a grown person will walk out your front door... Who do you want that person to be? For better or worse, the decisions and goals you make or don’t make now will help to shape the individual who goes forth from your home. Each of your children has gifts and special interests that can be nurtured with focused goals. Part two in the Purposeful Schooling Series will equip you with the tools you need to uncover your destination and clearly define short and long term goals for your students and family. Remember, if you aim at nothing, you’re sure to hit it every time!


Session: Mastery Not Activity
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/5enjkm

As you progress through the K¹² curriculum, do you worry that you are simply doing an activity versus mastering the objective? Join veteran K¹² parents who will share how-to tips on focusing on the big picture and objectives versus activities to fill time.


Session: Using K¹² With Multiple Children
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 4:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/5dr2f9

How do other K¹² families teach more than one child and keep their sanity? Or how do other families teach one child and manage younger children not yet ready for school? Join veteran K¹² parents as they share tips on how to make K¹² work for teaching (and managing) more than one child.


Session: K¹² Spotlight On! Author, Julia DeVillers
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/K12SpotlightOn

What's it like to be an author? Author Julia DeVillers will share her experiences in her first-ever virtual school visit for students, learning coaches and teachers. Whether your students love to write or find it a challenge, Julia will share her own love of books, and challenges in the writing process as well.

As an author, Julia puts to use what students are learning in K¹² Language Arts such as word choice, grammar, and learning about literary elements like plot, imagery and similes. To kids, this can seem at times to be drudgery. As authors, these basics are what help us make sense of and craft our work. Julia will share how, like you, she goes through the writing process: brainstorming ideas, prewriting, organizing, editing, revising. Revising. Editing again. And finally, what it's like having a finished piece of writing that makes her proud.

Julia will share samples of her own writing from her own school years. She'll show what her books look like in different stages, from first ideas to first drafts, pages covered in red pen edits from her editor to the final pages of a real live book. Julia will share what's it like to have a book turned into a Disney Channel TV movie and share a sneak peek of an upcoming book coauthored with her twin (Jennifer Roy, author of Yellow Star ).


Session: Helping High School Students to Succeed: Secrets of Effective Mentoring
Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Access: http://tinyurl.com/HSMentoringLive

Learn the secrets of being an effective mentor to your K¹² high school student! In this session you’ll learn how to:
• Monitor and log daily attendance
• Figure out (and edit) your student’s usernames and passwords
• Keep in touch with school staff through k-mail
• Monitor when your student is “skipping” their virtual class
• Know exactly how well your child is doing on assignments, tests and quizzes
• Identify missing assignments–and which ones they should do first
• Identify exactly how much time students spend in a course–and where in the course they have been
• Learn just what it is that your student is learning with Unit Mentor Guides

Join us to learn the simple techniques you can use to help your K¹² high school student achieve success in online learning!