Newsletter

Flight Plan: Week of April 7th, 2022

Important Dates

April 19th Board Meeting

April 30th Spring Celebration and Auction Tickets On Sale Now!

Coffee Talk with the Directors March 16th, 30th, April 4th, 13th, and 20th from 9:00-9:45

May 2nd Class Pictures

Calendar

Whole School Community is back!

A long standing tradition here at Anser has returned! Whole School Community (WSC) is a Core Practice of EL Education schools across the country. These weekly meetings are a time for students to make their learning visible to their peers, to celebrate good character and to discuss school wide topics. Imagine yourself as a young person standing up in front of your peers to share what you have learned! Anser alumni tell us that taking part in Whole School Community, is one of the most powerful experiences they have had during all of their K-12 schooling. It builds confidence in public speaking, requires students to collaborate as they develop their presentations, and gives them a voice in shared leadership as students lead the development of their presentation. With some modifications to support safer gathering, Becky’s Crew stepped up to lead our first Whole School Community meeting in two years. We couldn’t be prouder!

Trust Walks

Nicole's 4/5 crew participated in a "trust walk" this past week. While some students took on the responsibility of leading, other students took the emotional risk of being led while their eyes were closed. Deep and innovative learning takes risk! Building trust in a Crew creates the conditions for students to feel more confident to take academic risks, and to acknowledge that we all need the support of others to succeed. Nicole's crew discussed the importance of trusting one another, and how connecting with someone you might not know very well builds a stronger Crew! Here are some reflections from her students:

"Fear and being nervous - it can hold you back. Stop thinking of what could happen, and just do it."

"I felt nervous about someone I wasn’t close to guide me. It made me trust more."

Spring Celebration 101

We are just under a month away from this year's Spring Celebration and we are very excited to party with you all! As we near this year's event, we wanted to share our Spring Celebration 101. We know this year's event looks different to some, and is entirely new to others, so we want to give you all the details we can!

Check out the Spring Celebration 101 here.

Family Council needs you!

Anser’s Family Council supports the education program of the school, develops a strong family community and serves as conduit between parents and the school administration for communicating parental ideas and concerns. Family Council supports the school with the Back to School Picnic, parent/family social events, provides feedback on policies and procedures brought to the committee, and supports volunteerism within the school. Family Council meets one time per month, August-May, with occasional additional meetings for subcommittees. Elections will be held to add new Family Council members in May. If you would be interested in learning more about serving on Family Council, please reach out to Family Council President Dave Nelson at vandalfan@gmail.com.

Transportation Update

At its March 15^th meeting, the Anser Community Board voted to start an independent transportation program. This vote came after a second year of receiving no bids from local transportation companies to provide the service. Anser staff have secured two buses and are building the necessary processes to begin providing transportation in the fall. More details about routing and a survey to understand the transportation needs of our families will be sent in the next month. Anser families can help us get this program off to a good start by contributing to the Fill-A Need at the Anser Spring Celebration. All funds raised in this year’s Fill-A-Need will be used to support the startup of the Transportation program, and to pay for using the buses for Fieldwork and Adventure next school year. If you, or anyone you know has a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and would be interested in learning more about being a bus driver for Anser, please contact Anser’s Site Manager, Steve Womack at swomack@ansercharterschool.org

Free Webinar!

FREE Parenting Webinar on Thurs 3/31 and 4/7 from the Healthy Foundations organization.

For more information check out this flyer below:

https://www.healthyfoundations.co/free-webinar.html

Learning Celebrations

Listed below are the currently scheduled Celebrations of Learning/Exhibition Nights. This list will continue to be updated as the remaining crews schedule!

Kindergarten: May 3rd

1st Grade: May 12th

2/3: April 21st at Municipal Park

6th: May 19th

JH: May 25th

COVID-19 Info

Anser is committed to providing timely and transparent information to our community regarding Covid-19. You can find links to recent communications, data on Covid cases within the school and in the larger community using the links below. As always we are here to answer your questions. If you need additional information please email Anser’s Health Screener at healthscreener@ansercharterschool.org

US Covid-19 County Community Levels

Breakfast and Lunch Calendar

Lunch Calendar is back!

Helpful Quick Links

COVID Page

Responsive Return Plan

Staff Contact Info

Governance

Health Screener- Sara Jepson healthscreener@ansercharterschool.org

Homeless Student Liaison- Hillard McMorris- hmcmorris@ansercharterschool.org

Foster Student Liaison- Siler McCraw- smccraw@ansercharterschool.org

Looking for help, but don’t know who to ask? info@ansercharterschool.org

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