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3-25-2020
Dear CCA families,
We hope you are well and want to reach out to you regarding our plan going forward during the COVID19 shutdown. Please read over this information carefully.
eLearning Schedule: The school board has devised an educational strategy for the next several weeks of the mandated shut down. Cornerstone will be doing eLearning five days a week (except for Good Friday on April 10th) starting on March 30th until the shutdown is over (tentatively on May 1st). The staff, along with the school board, desire to keep our students on a more normal schedule that will keep them in a learning routine.
Staff Availability: Since the Governor has mandated everyone stay home, face to face office hours are not permitted currently for public or private schools. To offset this inconvenience, our staff have all set up Remind accounts and will be available for questions Monday-Friday from 9-3 pm. Simply text your request to your student's teacher through their Remind account. If your message is sent after 3 pm, it may not be answered until the next business morning. If you have a more complicated question that cannot be answered via text or email, you may request a video meeting with your teacher through Zoom. There is more information about Zoom on the main page of our website (www.ccabrazil.org).
Educational Videos: Our staff will be sending out links to instructional videos they have recorded or recommend for your students to watch. The video links will be sent directly to the parents through the Remind application. Our goal of these videos is to cover all new concepts for language, phonics, and mathematics. We plan to further review any new concepts in these subjects once we resume regular school days.
Tuition: Since we do not receive state or government funding, we depend on our parents to pay their tuition on time. While we understand the current model of learning is not ideal for our students, our team is still working very hard to provide quality education. Therefore, it is imperative for everyone to continue to pay their tuition on time so that we can continue to pay our staff. If you are behind for March, please mail in your payment ASAP to PO Box185, Brazil, Indiana.
Packets: We will be dropping off a two-week packet on Friday, March 27th starting at 10:00 am (for March 30-April 9th eLearning days). We plan to drop the packets off on your porch to avoid direct person to person contact. If you have not turned in your student's work for the week of March 16-20th, please leave their completed packet on your porch, and we will pick it up as we drop off your new packet.
Grades: All tests and quizzes may be taken open-book, and will be graded. Homework assignments will be graded with leniency. There will be no spelling tests at this time, but spelling homework assignments may be given to help students keep up with their spelling/vocabulary skills.
Closing: Please don't hesitate to reach out to our staff with any questions you may have. We know that despite our best efforts, we can not cover everything in the packets that we would be covering in the classroom, but please know that we are trying very hard to keep all of our students on track. We appreciate you for working with us during this difficult time. We miss seeing our students and are praying for you and your families daily.
Sincerely,
Linda Somheil, Principal
Cornerstone Christian Academy
Dear CCA families,
We hope you are well and want to reach out to you regarding our plan going forward during the COVID19 shutdown. Please read over this information carefully.
eLearning Schedule: The school board has devised an educational strategy for the next several weeks of the mandated shut down. Cornerstone will be doing eLearning five days a week (except for Good Friday on April 10th) starting on March 30th until the shutdown is over (tentatively on May 1st). The staff, along with the school board, desire to keep our students on a more normal schedule that will keep them in a learning routine.
Staff Availability: Since the Governor has mandated everyone stay home, face to face office hours are not permitted currently for public or private schools. To offset this inconvenience, our staff have all set up Remind accounts and will be available for questions Monday-Friday from 9-3 pm. Simply text your request to your student's teacher through their Remind account. If your message is sent after 3 pm, it may not be answered until the next business morning. If you have a more complicated question that cannot be answered via text or email, you may request a video meeting with your teacher through Zoom. There is more information about Zoom on the main page of our website (www.ccabrazil.org).
Educational Videos: Our staff will be sending out links to instructional videos they have recorded or recommend for your students to watch. The video links will be sent directly to the parents through the Remind application. Our goal of these videos is to cover all new concepts for language, phonics, and mathematics. We plan to further review any new concepts in these subjects once we resume regular school days.
Tuition: Since we do not receive state or government funding, we depend on our parents to pay their tuition on time. While we understand the current model of learning is not ideal for our students, our team is still working very hard to provide quality education. Therefore, it is imperative for everyone to continue to pay their tuition on time so that we can continue to pay our staff. If you are behind for March, please mail in your payment ASAP to PO Box185, Brazil, Indiana.
Packets: We will be dropping off a two-week packet on Friday, March 27th starting at 10:00 am (for March 30-April 9th eLearning days). We plan to drop the packets off on your porch to avoid direct person to person contact. If you have not turned in your student's work for the week of March 16-20th, please leave their completed packet on your porch, and we will pick it up as we drop off your new packet.
Grades: All tests and quizzes may be taken open-book, and will be graded. Homework assignments will be graded with leniency. There will be no spelling tests at this time, but spelling homework assignments may be given to help students keep up with their spelling/vocabulary skills.
Closing: Please don't hesitate to reach out to our staff with any questions you may have. We know that despite our best efforts, we can not cover everything in the packets that we would be covering in the classroom, but please know that we are trying very hard to keep all of our students on track. We appreciate you for working with us during this difficult time. We miss seeing our students and are praying for you and your families daily.
Sincerely,
Linda Somheil, Principal
Cornerstone Christian Academy
Upcoming Dates
March 23th-27th: Spring Break (No School)
March 30th-April 30: E-Learning days (Monday-Friday) Staff office hours 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
April 10th: Good Friday (No E-Learning)
March 30th-April 30: E-Learning days (Monday-Friday) Staff office hours 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
April 10th: Good Friday (No E-Learning)
Registration packets with registration fee may be mailed to Cornerstone at PO Box 185, Brazil IN 47834