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Thanksgiving Break! Save the date November 25-29

Family Gingerbread House Competition!! Bring your pre-decorated gingerbread house to school on December 17th &19th. Neutral judges will be judging and awarding family prizes. * Please only one entry per family.

Winter Celebration Party Littleton is December 17, 2024 Conifer is December 19, 2024 We will have a regular school schedule. We will serve pizza like always or you can bring your lunch. We will have FUN stations like crafts, a photo opportunity with a GIANT penguin, and fun winter activities. Bring some spending cash because you will also have a chance to shop at the Entrepreneurship Classes Holiday Market.

Concurrent Enrollment Informational Meeting Interested in learning more about your student taking college classes while in high school? Join us for an after-school meeting at 3:30 pm on Dec 10th in Littleton or Dec 12th in Conifer for an introduction to Concurrent Enrollment. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers for individual needs. Please email Mrs. Bidwell with any questions prior to the meetings, (Megan.Bidwell@jeffcoschools.us)

Holiday Market Littleton is December 17, 2024 Conifer is December 19, 2024 11:30 am - 1:00 pm During the lunch period, the Entrepreneurship classes will be hosting a Holiday Market. This is where they will be selling their handcrafted goods and services. Bring some cash to spend because you will have a chance to shop. Families are welcome to come between 11:30 and 1:00 pm and support our student's businesses

SNOW DAY ALERT: Friday, November 8, 2024 will be a snow day for all JA and Summit Academy campuses. All childcare programs, after-school activities, and meetings scheduled will be canceled and all facilities will be closed. Please note: We follow Jeffco Public Schools for weather related closures. Stay safe and warm!

Littleton October 29th and Conifer October 31st. Happy Halloween!! Halloween occurs on a school day this year and we are celebrating with a dress-up day. Costumes can not be scary, please no masks, and no weapons as props of any kind. We will have a regular school day with no party and no candy. Dressing up is OPTIONAL.

REMINDER Tomorrow... Parent Equip Seminar: October 15, 8:20 am or 2:20 pm. Littleton Campus, Rm 114. Join us for doughnuts, hot drinks, and discussion. Optional: Bring your device we will be discussing Google Classroom.

Hey families! Our latest quarterly community newsletter just dropped- check it out! https://jeffersonacademyesco.edurooms.com/engage/jefferson-academy-charter-schools/newsletters/ja-fall-2024-newsletter

Hello SAS Families, Thank you for sending us your wonderful students. Today was a great start to the school year! Please make sure to check for your guardian emails so you can monitor your student's Google Classrooms. If class changes are needed at this point, you must get the approval of both teachers and Pricinpal Taussig before submitting a Change Request Form in Praxi. Reminders: Here is a link to the informational slides from the Family Meeting held on Launch Day. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qqDwLeU-EDyWtkVdmIpkLtJAxqv5bWVYWe4jcnSBSps/edit?usp=sharing Be on the lookout for sign-ups for Field Day, forms are coming later this week. Thanks for being a part of the SAS community!

Class Addition in Conifer 4th Period Grades 6-8 Conifer Conifer Families, Exciting news! We are adding a class to the schedule for this upcoming year. Poetry and Watercolor class with Ms. Nadon for 6th-8th graders in Conifer. You will not find this class in the catalog, but it will be in Praxi. If you would like to take this class instead of your original choice please fill out the Schedule Change Request Form in Praxi.

Teachers and staff gathered last week to prepare in anticipation for this upcoming school year. We are excited to see you all on Launch Days next week.

Board of Directors Monthly Meeting Notice Jefferson Academy will hold the next Board of Directors meeting on: Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 at 5:15pm* via Zoom and in-person at The Summit Academy Westminster: 7575 West 103rd Avenue, Suite 100, Westminster, CO 80021 *Please note: there will be an Executive Session at 5:15pm. This is closed to the public. The general meeting will begin at 6pm as usual. August 20th BOD meeting agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8INFJ4ToZTUJpeuu2xdxGitIDbrv5dy/edit#heading=h.1fob9te Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2873863978?pwd=ZmlUUVd5dXpwNGcwcGNFVnBPd1RaQT09 Details can be found here: www.jajags.com/page/board-of-directors

We want to give a huge shoutout to the following business for sponsoring or donating to our 2nd Annual All Organization Staff Kick-Off Event! Yesterday close to 300 staff from all of our campuses gathered to get the new school year started with inspiration and celebration. 🥳 These incredible companies donated goods or services in support of our educators! From sponsoring the coffee bar and delicious bundt cakes, to filling goodie bags with discounts and offers, and donating larger prizes for a raffle- our staff felt so appreciated and supported! 🥰 Please take a moment to support these businesses by checking out their websites (we will be listing their information on our Support JA page soon).

August 7, 2024 Dear JA & Summit families and staff, Welcome back! Staff have started returning to various campuses this week and our facilities teams are putting their final touches on the long list of summer projects. I hope everyone is excited to start the new school year and looking forward to all the adventures we will have together. I wanted to take a minute to give you a peek behind the curtain of a challenge that we are experiencing. Due to the many campuses and wide variety of programs we offer, about a year ago the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) asked JA and Jeffco to make some changes to our school codes in order to better align with CDE’s needs. This process was planned and started before school let out last year. Last week during the final migration of school codes, which included moving the data and access for students and staff, there was a glitch in the system resulting in staff and student data disconnecting from each other at every location except JA Elementary and JA 9th - 12th graders… the only groups who were not being moved. JA Secondary families staff: - All JA 7th & 8th grades schedules, rosters, and subsequent fee data was lost ON the day registration started. - The roll over also caused high school GPA’s to include 7th & 8th grade classes leading Infinite Campus showing incorrect data. - Many teachers lost access to their student information in Infinite Campus. - Secondary staff is working hard to rebuild schedules for all 7th & 8th grade students. Once those are re-created, school fees will be regenerated and families will be able see and pay their student fees. We expect fees to be back in place on Monday. Summit families and staff: - Students schedules that were generated on Summit Westminster and Summit South software outside of Infinite Campus were not impacted. - Some families will have limited access to their Infinite Campus data for the next couple of days. - Some teachers lost access to student rosters in Infinite Campus and others did not. - Teachers who do not have access to their rosters should let your administrator, or their designee, know. We have spent the last 4 days working hand in hand with the district to identify and rectify the system logic behind this disconnect. Please know that NO historical student data was lost and this was not a data breach. Rather, it was a system glitch that did not link students and staff to their correct campus resulting in a loss of access and the dropping of schedules and class rosters. An exciting piece of news is that last week all three JA campuses launched their new Communication Platform and Websites! If you type in jajags.com you will see the new JA PK-12 website. Under the Campus link, you will be able to reach all 3 campus based websites. Jeffco is still in the process of migrating links to our new websites. If you have saved links in your browser, you will need to delete the old and save the new links, which are: elementary.jajags.com, secondary.jajags.com, coalcreekcanyon.jajags.com. Our new Summit Academy websites will be launching in the coming weeks. As a reminder, this communication platform update came about due to the information the Board and administration received on our staff and family surveys. Thank you for your patience. Little did we know that we were “front loading” our challenges this year which should make for smooth sailing the rest of the year! Sincerely, Tim Matlick Executive Director direct line 720.432.4040 tmatlick@jajags.com

Exciting news! All JA & Summit campuses will have a new website soon! We can't wait for you to see it! Stay tuned...