Our teachers will be providing training for parents to learn about the K12 Online School (OLS) and how to navigate within the OLS as each school year begins . All are encouraged to attend. 

Most of these sessions are done at the beginning of each school year but periodically another one will be added as a bonus.

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Is time always running out? Is your day ending and you “just didn’t have enough time?” Could you use some help to “get it all done”?  Join us to get ideas, tips, and suggestions on how to help your day go more smoothly.

Making Learning Fun with Kathy Erickson & Annett Eiting

Are your children bored?  Are you frustrated with their lack of enthusiasm?  Please join us and learn some great ways to enhance learning using fun activities and games while teaching.

Do you need ideas to help you with a terrible 2, thrilling 3, or fantastic 4 while you're schooling another child? Come join us for ideas and helps. 

If your child is taking a foreign language and it is all “foreign” to you, then come join us. We will be learning more about the foreign language lessons and how to make the best of these exploratory courses. Join us to learn more about navigating in the PowerSpeak courses.  Click here for HANDOUTS

Whether you have 2 kids or 5, come get some ideas on how to make K12 work in your busy household. 

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Reading Strategies and More!: For Parents of K-4th Graders with Tara Criddle & Michelle Droge

We will discuss strategies for making reading fun, motivating reluctant readers, and improving your child's reading comprehension. We'll look at the Fab Four: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing to help build reading comprehension. Come learn more about these strategies and how you can easily incorporate them into your child's reading time.  Click here for HANDOUTS

Understanding Your Child's Test Results with Carolyn Black & Annette Pond

You have just received your child's test results - can't read Greek - let us help! Join us to go over the results and what they really mean to you and your student.

Come and learn what is available for students and parents on our website.  See all the support pages and information and learn some shortcuts to make your search for help easier.  HANDOUT

Wondering about socialization and your child? Looking for ideas to keep your child involved? Want ways to meet other homeschool families? Come and learn and share as we explore socialization for homeschool families.

Six Traits of Writing with Meagan Johnston

Please join me for some ideas and tips with writing. Students and parents are welcome.  Each month will have a 2-part class that will focus on a different writing trait. 

Please click here to go to the session information on the students' page.

We're all in this together!  Come gather great tips on how to meet other Washington Online parents and get involved in your local WOSU groups.

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In this session we will be going over the information in, "The Tough Kid Parent Book". The information in this book will help you to manage "tough" behaviors step-by-step positively and confidently. 

This series will include 6 sessions (one each month). 

1-Chapter One: "What does a Tough Kid look like?"
2-Chapter Two: "More Positive Stuff" 
3-Chapter Three: "Getting your Child to Mind without Losing Yours" 
4-Chapter Four: "Making it Even Better: Public Places, Time Jammed Situations, etc..."
5-Chapter Five: "Making the Home-School Connection"
6-Chapter Six: "Solutions to Common Tough Kid Problems"

If you have the basic OLS mastered and would like to dig into the OLS and unearth other fun and useful features in the K12 system, join us for this advanced class.

All About Utah Writes: 5th & 8th Graders & their Parents with Julie Baggaley

5th and 8th Graders will be taking an online writing test this year.  These tests will use the Utah Write system (www.utahwrite.com).  If you are a 5th or 8th grader or the parent of one, please join us! You will learn how to use this system to improve writing and be prepared for test day!

This course is for PARENTS & STUDENTS.

Love & Logic with Heidi Higgins & Deslynn Mecham

This class will give you tips and tricks on how to get the most from your WOSU online schooling experience: how to customize lessons; when enough is enough; how to help the hard-to-motivate child; how to keep everything organized with more than one child.  

Heidi has used K12 materials for all grades and Deslynn Mecham is a Love & Logic instructor for IDVA. 

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NLP: NeuroLinguistic Programming with Gloria Kelly

According to Wikipedia, “the basic assumption of NLP is that internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language consist of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and possibly olfactory and gustatory representations that are engaged when people think about problems, tasks, or activities, or engage in them”. Join Mrs. Gloria Kelly to discover how NLP techniques can assist you as you work with your children to learn:

• spelling retention
• math facts
• lists of information
• so much more

Nervous about the upcoming CRTs?  Parents and students are invited to join Carolyn Black and Annette Pond to calm your fears and prepare for these tests.  CLICK HERE TO ATTEND THE RECORDED SESSION

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