Community Open House

This is your invitation to come to the

Telesis Community Open House on

April 3rd, 2014

5:00-8:00

Tax Credit Letter

Dear Arizona Residents,

As the year draws to an end, I’m thinking about what I always think about: our students. 

After more than 40 years working in education, from teaching in local district schools to opening and teaching in a private school, to converting the private school to a charter school when the Charter School Movement first began, I’m convinced the most powerful tool we have to prepare more kids for college, career, and life is the small school that controls the class size and offers individualized educational opportunities to all students such as Telesis Preparatory Academy.

Telesis has been educating students in Lake Havasu City since 1991 and we have a genuine and sincere interest in making it the best school it can be. Students have been asking for a gymnasium on our campus for many, many years. The process has been long and hard, but the final steps were achieved last week. Telesis Preparatory Academy will break ground on the new gymnasium on Wednesday, January 8^th, 2014. Since I know how passionate you are about helping our students succeed and the extracurricular activities that they all deserve to have, some which will take place right in our very own new gymnasium, I wanted to ask for your help. 

It takes parents, teachers, administrators, all of us coming together, to create the kind of school our children deserve.

We have only five days left this year. Your $400 (if you are married and file jointly or $200 if you file as a single) will help us to continue to offer extracurricular activities in the only non-profit charter school in Havasu. One that has been “home-grown” to fit the needs of our students with a philosophy of planned progress inherent in our very name, Telesis.  

Please make a tax credit donation to Telesis Preparatory Academy now by completing the form at the link below with your check for the amount you choose and dropping it in our drop box or mailing it to 2598 Starlite Lane Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g03mmg7cvf7utu9/TaxCreditForm_2013.pdf

I have taken that brave step to start a charter school in our community and have worked hard to bring a gymnasium to our campus for students whose families have chosen Telesis Preparatory Academy as the educational choice best suited for their children. Therefore, we need to be ready to support their every ambition that we possibly can and that includes extracurricular activities.

For 22 years, Telesis Preparatory Academy has been a part of the fabric of the educational community in Lake Havasu City, so we look to you the residents of our city and our state to help with this endeavor to provide extracurricular activities of all kinds for our students.

Telesis Preparatory Academy gives parents, students and teachers the freedom to find creative, innovative ways to respond to students’ unique needs. But to continue providing this kind of support for extracurricular activities for students who will soon have a brand new gymnasium we can all be proud of, we need your help right away.

Please help us before midnight, December 31. Our students will be grateful for the extracurricular activities they love that round out their quality education at Telesis and, in some cases, keeps them in school, but we need you to act now with a tax-credit contribution before the year ends.

Let’s make 2013 the year the tax credit contributions supported our school’s extracurricular activities like no other year; the year the effort which has literally taken years and years to secure the funding for our new gymnasium has finally become reality. Please contribute to the Telesis Tax Credit Program today.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g03mmg7cvf7utu9/TaxCreditForm_2013.pdf

Thank you, 

Sandra K. Breece, Ed.D.

Superintendent, Principal  & Founder

Telesis Center for Learning, Inc.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2013

The graduating Class of 2013 graced us with several “Telesis Firsts” such as the first class to graduate with ALL graduates planning to continue their education and the first class to receive so many scholarships totaling $135, 575. They made us proud!

National School Choice Week

As we wrap up National School Choice Week 2013, I couldn't be prouder of our students, our staff, and our school. So many accomplishments, I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll just list them here in random order.

• We have a contender for the County Spelling Bee - Intermediate Student Jensen Clark 
• We had a total of 45 Perfect Attendance students for our 100th Day of Attendance and recognized them in front of the entire student body at our Got Choice assembly on the 100th day. Telesis never encourages students to come to school ill, but we certainly want to recognize students who do manage to get there every day. Attendance is the key to your child's success!
• I have been horored with the nomination by the Telesis staff, or Telesis Team as I like to call them, for the first ever Living Magazine's 2013 Woman of the Year. The amazing surprise is that I got it! I am humbly grateful for the amazing people that make up the great staff at Telesis. All are dedicating their lives to doing positive things for kids.
• We are on track to add a long-awaited gymnasium to our campus, plus four additional classrooms. Construction to start soon!
• Early Elementary teachers jumped right in to exercise the Telesis Philosophy of individualization and our motto "Challenge without Frustration" by rearranging student placement so that students can have the best opportunities to learn. That's what Telesis is all about!
• Our anonymous donors for our Palm Springs Get-Away have offered their luxury vacation home once again to allow a great fundraising opportunity, so one lucky ticket-purchaser will get a 3-day stay of your choice in this beautiful, recently remodeled home in Palm Springs. Drawing to be held March 14th and you don't have to be present to win. Only 250 tickets will be sold. Get yours today!
• Our first semester performing arts class performed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a production with lots of dialog, at the GraceArtsLive Theatre and Grace Ann, our drama teacher, and Jason Fallis, our vocal teacher, and I couldn't have been prouder how they rose to the occasion to make a spectacular evening for the audience to enjoy and appreciate their hard work and last-minute burst of confidence. Congrtulations to the cast!
• Telesis teachers and I initiated a new narrative process which was more challenging than anticipated, but we've pulled through it and narratives are soon ready to go out to patient parents who are waiting to know how their children performed during first semester in all classes and subject areas.
• Last, but not least, National School Choice Week was wonderful with our kickoff assembly including guest speaker Dr. Marv Lamer, Arizona’s Associate Superintendent of Highly Effective Schools, sharing memories of how Telesis has grown from 9 students 21 years ago to the current enrollment approaching 500 today. All our students whose families chose a quality education at Telesis! Every student received a tiger arm band which states, "I Choose Telesis." The Telesis Cheerleading Squad and Tiger Mascot prepared a Got Choice Cheer at my request at the very last minute and performed it for all of us at the assembly. Thank you as it added pizzazz to what was already an exciting day to kickoff an exciting week. After the assembly every student tied a gold ribbon to the fence to spell out TELESIS to indicate their choice for a quality education.

I guess I could go on and on, but you already know the quality education available at Telesis because you have probably chosen Telesis for your children and if not, please plan to come to our March 14th Community Open House, Book Fair, and Science Fair to learn more of this great opportunity for all Lake Havasu City students, completely tuition FREE.

Community Open House & Book Fair

Telesis will open their doors and roll out the welcome mat to parents and community members at the Community Open House and Scholastic Book Fair on December 4th. Starting at 5:00 and concluding at 7:00, those in attendance can visit classrooms and meet teachers, as well as browse and purchase books in our library. Hint: Books make excellent Christmas gifts. Additional information will also be available such as the tax credit program which is separate from other schools in the community. Telesis Clubs of all kinds will be sharing their enthusiasm and club goals, in addition to offering special opportunities to support their individual fundraisers.

Mark your calendars now so you can join us at Telesis on the evening of December 4, 2012 for our Community Open House and Scholastic Book Fair and an evening of fun to learn what Telesis is all about. Feel free to bring not only family and friends, but interested members of the community as well. We are proud of our school and it shows! We have a story to tell and we want to tell it!

Join the Share Your Story Challenge . . . Tell your Story!!

TELL US YOUR STORY! Tell us why you think Telesis is the school for you and your son or daughter. Post your story on our Facebook page or on our Twitter page. Tell us why you like Telesis. You chose Telesis, so please tell us why Telesis is a Blast! A Telesis Prize is waiting to be awarded to you for your story.

Pinocchio, Performing Arts Production

Telesis Performing Arts Class presents Pinocchio on January 13-14-15. Tickets available now! Call 855-8661 to order yours in advance.

Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening

You are cordially

Invited to

The Official Ribbon Cutting

&

Grand Opening

For the new facilities

At

Telesis Preparatory Academy

2598 Starlite Lane

Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

December 15^th, 2011

Ribbon Cutting: 12 noon

Grand Opening: 6:00 PM

Honored Guests for the Evening:

Rebecca Gau

Director of the Governor’s Office of Education Innovation

Dr. Marvin Lamer

Associate Superintendent of Highly Effective Schools

Ground Breaking

You are cordially invited

To attend the

Official Ground Breaking

For Telesis Preparatory Academy’s

Main Campus Addition

On

Tuesday, June 28^th, 2011

1:00 PM

2598 Starlite Lane

Immediately followed by a

“Lemonade  Toast”

Patience is the word!

Patience is the character trait for the summer as we patiently await word on our appraisal so we may commence with construction of our new facility.

Concert Fundraiser - an Educational Opportunity

GraceArtsLive has invited Telesis Intermediate Students to partner with the cast of Broadway's Best performers Eric Kunze and Gina De Luca, former students of Telesis Performing Arts teacher Grace Ann Etcheberria-Jacobs. On March 25, 26, and 27 and again on April 1, 2, and 3, students will join Eric on stage to sing along with him for the audience to enjoy. Forty plus students are in rehearsal now to be prepared for their special weekend, half of which will perform in March and the other half in April. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for children 17 and under, allowing Telesis students and staff to earn a portion of the proceeds for the Telesis Expansion Project. Purchase a voucher from a Telesis Team Member or student to exchange for the performance date of your choice. Don't wait too long as all six shows promise to be sold out and tickets must be distributed by March 23. Call for vouchers by leaving a message at 855-8661 Ext. 10.

D.A.R.E. Graduation

Telesis Second-Year Intermediate students (traditional 5th graders) were beaming as they ascended the stage at the Aquatic Center upon their graduation on Friday from the city-wide D.A.R.E. program. LHC Police Officers proudly shook their hands and provided them with cake and a pool party afterwards.

Aaron Lyon and Katrina Boleratzky

D.A.R.E. Essay Contest Winners from Telesis

Congratulations to 2003 Telesis Graduate Anthony Rizos!

Anthony Rizos graduated from Telesis Preparatory Academy in 2003 and went on to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He has now graduated from MIT with not one but two degrees, his Bachelors and his Masters. We at Telesis Preparatory Academy are very proud of him and wish him much future success.

National Honor Society Induction 2010

Congratulations to the new Telesis National Honor Society inductees and National Junior Honor Society inductees! They are: Tyler Fallis, Dylan Pearson, Yamini Koyye, Brianna Hollandsworth, Victoria Wymer, Paytne Hinger, and Margarita Vasquez inducted into the Telesis National Honor Society and Joseph Dewey, Jordan Gigler, and Ethan Moore inducted into the Telesis National Junior Honor Society. We at Telesis join your family and friends in the pride we share of your accomplishment.

Perfect Attendance for First Semester

Thirty-nine students were presented with a 100 Days Certificate for achieving perfect attendance during first semester on the 100th day of the school year. They also received a certificate of another kind: a free meal at the Golden Corral. Each of these students has a chance at a trip for four to Sea World if they maintain their perfect attendance record through second semester. The Sea World drawing will take place at the Awards Ceremonies during the last week of the school year. A drawing will be held for lower level classes and one deserving student with perfect attendance for the entire year will win four tickets to Sea World. Another set of four tickets to Sea World will be given to the student with perfect attendance who is drawn from the fish bowl of all Junior Academy and Academy students with perfect attendance for the entire school year.

National Honor Society Fundraising

The Telesis National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society have launched fundraising efforts to raise money specifically for new computers on our campus. They recently held a car wash and earned more than $700 allowing Telesis to order two more computer towers. Next, they plan to sell packaged coffee with a coffee catalog called Smart Bean which offers specialty coffees of all kinds, including chai tea and even a superb brownie mix. The proceeds will be shared with the Telesis Booster Club with half of the proceeds going for the Athletic Dept. and half for more computers. We need everyone to help make this fundraiser the biggest and best ever. Watch for the catalogs and lend your support in one of two ways: help sell the coffee to your family and friends as it will make excellent gifts to all the coffee-drinkers on any Christmas list and/or purchase the coffee for yourself and enjoy.

Telesis Receives K-12 Accreditation from NCA

Telesis Preparatory Academy, a public tuition-free K-12 school, recently received dual-accreditation. Telesis has been fully accredited, but now boasts dual-accreditation from North Central Accreditation (NCA) agency, under its new parent company AdvancED, the largest accreditation agency in the world. For more than a year, Telesis Team Leaders, Tom Dornton, Amy Hanon, and Doug Lawslo gathered documented proof of the school’s advancements and credentialed improvements. Members of the NCA agency visited the school for their culminating review on May 5th. Official notice of the full K-12 accreditation came on July 1st. Achieving this accreditation status makes Telesis Preparatory Academy the only school in Lake Havasu City to have accreditation for grades K-8, as well as, the more commonly earned accreditation of grades 9-12 from North Central. For more information about Telesis Preparatory Academy see the school’s website at www.telesis-academy.org.

NHS & NJHS Induction Process

The Telesis National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society are busy planning their spring induction ceremony. Membership in both organizations is by invitation only by our Faculty Council. They will be looking at all students who first meet the required 3.0 or better GPA (grade point average). Then letters of interest are sent to those students who qualify in their GPA. The students are asked to identify their school activities and community involvement. Once this information is received by the Faculty Council, a final decision will be made on each student’s entry qualifications. If a student qualifies under these two conditions, they are formally invited into the organization and join at a special induction ceremony. Incentives for members include a lapel pin, a special recognition on their diplomas, and wearing honor cords at graduation.

The Telesis National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society 2009 Induction Ceremony will be held at 7:00 PM at the Knights of Columbus Hall on April 27th. Please plan to come to support these students in their quest for academic excellence.

100th Day Recognition for PERFECT ATTENDANCE

Telesis will celebrate the 100th Day of attendance on February 2nd. All students with perfect attendance for the first 100 days will be honored in a special ceremony in which they will be presented with a certificate of recognition and a special surprise that I cannot reveal until after the ceremony. Parents of those students with perfect attendance during the first 100 days of school are cordially invited to the ceremony to take place on Monday, February 2, 9:30 AM. Our hope is that we can again recognize these same students at the end of the school year at our awards assemblies for PERFECT ATTENDANCE all year long!

Character is What You Do When No One is Watching

This is the most refreshing sports story I have ever read. Whatever your sport of choice and passion, this story should be read by you. It happened to occur in the sport of golf, but is applicable to every sport and, even more importantly, to every aspect of life. It has been said that character is what you do when no one is watching. Please go to this website and read the article about the recent decision of golfer J.P.Hayes, then click on the LISTEN link on the website in the box with J.P.'s photograph to hear a radio broadcast where radio personalities compare J.P.'s decision to other sports and practices of integrity and honesty.

Click on this link for article: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3712372