Like choosing a brick and mortar school, selecting the best online high school program for your student is important. But exploring virtual options can also be overwhelming. Technology eliminates geographical barriers, significantly expanding educational options. Let's take a step back and look at the features the best online high school programs should offer.
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Top 10 Reasons to Get a Library Card
A summer spent in the library is a bookworm's paradise. But you don't to be an avid reader to enjoy the benefits libraries offer. Access to boundless entertainment resources, news sources, specialty classes, and more are free to library card holders in many communities.
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Activities: To Quit or Not to Quit
Involving your distance learner in community activities is a great way for them to meet new friends and develop new skills and hobbies. But your heart may sink if, after months of investing time and money in recreational activities, your student utters the phrase, "I want to quit."
There are no concrete rules when it comes to quitting. Some argue that continued participation teaches commitment, while others argue letting students quit helps them identify their true interests. The decision should ultimately depend on the individual student and situation.
To encourage your student to give an activity a fair chance, you can create a home environment that supports your learner's activities. Here are some suggestions from music professors and coaches about involving your student in activities, embracing the activities at home, and confronting the desire to quit.
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Policy and Course Changes for a New School Year
As we look forward to a new school year at Ignite Christian Academy, there are a few changes and improvements that ICA is excited to offer students and families. The changes include both course offerings and policy updates. [Read more…]
ICA Summer Reading Challenge
Reading is a great way to promote literacy, imagination, and learning. It can bring students to new worlds and open doors to places that one can only read about. Reading also helps students learn new facts and develop a passion for life-long learning.
Though reading is a fun, educational activity, summer is a busy time of year full of different activities that can pull students away from reading. With many students starting school soon, Ignite Christian Academy teachers would like to encourage elementary students to get a step up on education with our summer reading challenge.
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ICA Junior Studies Ballet in New York City
With flexible schedules, distance learning academies like Ignite Christian Academy allow students to pursue ambitious dreams as they obtain an education. This summer, junior Jessye Trefny is making progress toward her dream as she studies ballet at Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in New York City.
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Ignite Christian Academy Introduces Honors Courses
Rock Rapids, IA (July 10, 2013) – Ignite Christian Academy is pleased to introduce two new honors courses for Ignitia and Switched-On Schoolhouse for the 2013-2014 academic year.
The honors courses, English IV Honors and U.S. History Honors, are designed for high school juniors and seniors who wish to challenge themselves academically.
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Enhance Distance Learning with Virtual Field Trips
A popular time of year for vacations, summer can also be a great time to take distance learners on field trips. Even if school is out for the summer, that doesn't mean learning has to cease. Yet hurdles such as time, budget, proximity, and more can prevent distance learning families from making the trek to some valuable educational destinations.
When physical travel isn't a possibility, virtual field trips can help your distance learner experience far-off places in a fun, interactive way. Online resources provide low-cost, often free, opportunities for your student, or even your whole family, to study a wide range of topics that are tied to locations around the world.
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Top 10 Summer School Courses at ICA
School is probably the last thing on a student's mind during summer vacation. But it's important for students to know that summer school isn't just for those who want or need a higher grade in a required course.
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Ignite Christian Academy Introduces Education Coordinators
Dear Parents,
Each spring, Ignite Christian Academy leaders take time to reflect on the previous year and evaluate the quality of what we offer, both academically and operationally. These meetings sometimes result in change. This year, along with a few small changes, comes one change that will directly affect every family within the academy.
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