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Last
updated: January 5, 2010
Fall 2009
& Spring 2010 Academy classes and 2009-10 registrationSCHEDULE
A listing of
possible CARPOOL OPTIONS
will be available at The Academy office desk during
operating business hours when classes start in the
fall. Due to limitations in volunteer staff time and
availability (this list is being revised on a daily
basis between now the start of classes), carpool options cannot be provided via
phone or email prior to the start of classes after Labor
Day upon final compilation of all families on the YEAH Academy
roster. Thank you.
Parents
interested in finding carpool options should check
with the Site Manager on duty in the YEAH Academy
office to
look at the list. The list cannot leave the
YEAH office area.
Parents
are responsible for providing their own paper, for
writing down possible options and for contacting
those options independently on their own.
All
families enrolled at The Academy for Fall 2009 will
be included in the initial list; if a family wishes
their name and address not to be available for
carpool potential, they are responsible to talk to
Cher in person at The Academy and have
their name crossed off the list.
The YEAH
Academy and its staff and board members bear no
responsibility for connections made via this
listing, but only offers it as a service that has
been requested by our members.
Families
are encouraged to be creative and think
"outside of the box" regarding carpool
options. e.g. a family might not be exactly in your
neighborhood, but you could arrange to meet at an
easily accessible, safe, common spot such as a fast
food restaurant, etc.
Families
are encouraged to observe caution and be aware of
all aspects of carpooling, including who will be the
driver of the carpool, if an adult will be in the
car or if teen-agers will be primary drivers.
A
Display MAP of the immediate Roseville area with listings of some of
the potential spots and services our families might want
to utilize while their students are in class is now available
in the hall outside the YEAH Academy office during YEAH
Academy business hours.
This
list includes areas to shop and eat
This
list includes libraries, parks and playgrounds etc. where
parents can continue the home education of their
children while others are in class.
This
display map
is for parents who want to continue to home educate
their other children while siblings are in Academy
classes.
This
display map
is for teens who drive
themselves to The Academy and have permission to go
off site while not enrolled in a class.
We
welcome additions to this posting with some spot you
think might be of interest to others. Please see the
Site Manager on duty.
NOTE:
Regretfully, the Roseville
Library (near Rosedale, on Hamline and Co Rd B) is
CLOSED for this year for renovation.
Check the map board for information on its easily
accessible, excellent, temporary location. Please let us know if you have discovered
other good
alternative and we can share this information with
others.
OPEN HOUSE
for The YEAH Academy PSEO classes for 2010-11
When?
Tuesday,
March TBD, 2010: 6:30-8:30 PM
Where?
Bethany Baptist Church, 2025 Skillman Avenue
West, Roseville, MN 55113 (site of The Academy
classes).
Who?
Please
check PSEO at YEAH
link for updates. NOTE that the deadline for North
Central University applications is July 1, 2009. Go to www.northcentral.edu/pseo
for application forms. Contact Anna Spickelmier, NCU
admissions counselor, if you have questions amspicke@northcentral.edu
about the NCU process.
Why?
Attending
the PSEO Open House is a good way to prepare for the year, to help
make sure that a class is a good fit for your
student. You can meet the adjunct professors, NCU
representatives and view the texts and syllabi for the PSEO
courses.
What?
PSEO OPEN HOUSE
TIMELINE BELOW
6:30-7:00
PM: Orientation & Information Sessions with YEAH and
NCU representatives speaking.
7:00-8:30
PM: Open house to meet staff and instructors
YEAH and YEAH Academy
membership forms and payment is available online at www.ouryeah.org.
FYI:
Registration for non-PSEO students for fall 2010 classes will begin AFTER the
July TBD Open
House for current YEAH and YEAH Academy members who have renewed
their YEAH Academy memberships for next year. Annual
family memberships run from August 1st - July 31st.
Siblings of PSEO
students must wait until July TBD to register for their
courses.
Bethany
Church is on the
east side of Cleveland Ave, south of 35W and Hwy 36. Enter the
north church parking lot off of Cleveland and use either
of the North entrances into the church.
OPEN HOUSE
for The YEAH Academy classes for 2009-10
When?
Tuesday,
July TBD<,2010: 6:00-9:00 PM
Where?
Bethany Baptist Church, 2025 Skillman Avenue
West, Roseville, MN 55113 (site of The Academy
classes).
Who?
This Open House is
for parents and eligible students in 5th-12th grades.
All parents and
students interested in taking classes at The Academy during
2010-2011 Academic year are encouraged to attend this Open
House.
Eligible students are
encouraged to attend with their parents so that they can visit
with potential tutors and preview the curriculum as
well. The evening will be too crowded and intense for
small children, toddlers and infants, so we discourage
bringing them with. There is no room for
strollers.
Why?
Attending
the Open House is a good way to prepare for the year, to help
make sure that a class is a good fit for your child
and your family. With the information you have
gleaned at the Open House, we encourage you to go home and talk to your spouse
and child, pray about it, sleep on it and then
current YEAH Academy members may register online on July TBD -
the day after the Open House (or August 1 for new YEAH Academy members).
What?
OPEN HOUSE
TIMELINE BELOW
6:00-6:30
PM & 8:45-9:00:
Orientation:
6:00-6:30
Q & A Information
Sessions: 6:00-6:30 and 8:45-9:00
Attendance
is recommended for both new attendees and returning
families. Updated information will be presented
at these meetings.
6:30-9:00
PM: Course & Tutor Information: The Academy
Tutors will be available to talk to you in the upper
level, answer any questions you might have about their
class, display the curriculum that will be used in their
course. This is helpful in determining if a class and its
curriculum is a good fit for your child and your
family
6:30-9:00
PM: Registration & Membership Information: The Academy
Site Managers will be available to serve as advisors
to help answer questions you may have about the
registration process, filling out the forms. YEAH and YEAH Academy
membership forms and payment is available online at www.ouryeah.org.
Class registration is available online as of July
22, 2009. Check this site for details closer to the
date.
9:00
PM Tuesday: With
the information you have gleaned at the Open House, we
encourage you to go home and
talk to your spouse
talk
to your student
pray about it,
sleep on it
and get ready
to register online the next day!
FYI:
Registration for fall 2010 classes will begin AFTER the Open
House for current YEAH and YEAH Academy members who have renewed
their YEAH Academy memberships for next year. Annual
family memberships run from August 1st - July 31st.
Bethany
Church is on the
east side of Cleveland Ave, south of 35W and Hwy 36. Enter the
north church parking lot off of Cleveland and use either
of the North entrances into the church.
Each YEAH member has a member
code that reflects their current and past membership level.
Where?
A code # is located on the address label of
your current fuchsia catalog, after your name.
What?
"Y" = YEAH member;
"A"
=
Academy member for current or this past year;
"R"
= Renewing
member or "N"=New member for
current year;
"--" = NEW:
if you have an "R", this space reflects your
history with YEAH. It is the year of your first year
of YEAH membership: i.e. "05" = 200508.
If your membership lapsed for one or more years, this #
will reflect when your last rejoined YEAH.
"0X"
= indicates the first year of your YEAH
membership. (FYI: Lapsed years of memberships cause your
membership to start from Base Zero)
"09"
at the end = memberships for the year 2009-2010.
"10"at
the end = memberships for the year 2010-110.
How
does my code affect my registration for Academy
classes?
Priority
registration is given for
longevity with YEAH; older students have priority over younger students; and those who
have met Academy course sequence prerequisites will
also have priority within The Academy categories.
When?
Important
registration data below
Any codes with "10" at
the end may register for Fall 2010 classes.
Families
must be YEAH Academy members to register for The Academy
classes.
Updated
information for 2010-2011 classes will be posted here as
available.
Why?
To make sure that a class is a good fit for
your child and your family, we encourage families to
come to the Open House, visit with the tutors and
examine their curriculum; go home and talk to your
spouse and child, pray about it, sleep on it and
then put it in the mail. See
list above for texts to be provided by the student.
REGISTRATION
SCHEDULE
for Fall 2010 YEAH Academy classes for Middle, Junior &
Senior High School (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
classes) is not available at this time.
Registration
sequence, procedure and policy, click here
March, 2010 (date TBD)
OPEN HOUSE for YEAH
2010-2011 PSEO classes (see details above)
June, 2010 (date TBD)
Registration begins
for all PSEO courses through YEAH and NCU as well as
NWC tutorials.
PSEO students may also
register for all other YEAH Academy courses at this
time
All non-PSEO students
(including siblings of PSEO students) must wait
until July (after the Open House) to register for The Academy
courses.
July TBD, 2010
OPEN HOUSE for The
Academy 2010-2011 classes (see details above)
July TBD, 2010 (day
after the Open House)
YEAH and YEAH Academy
annual memberships run from August 1 - July 31 and
must be renewed annually.
Registration begins
for The Academy 2010-2011 classes for current
2009-2010
YEAH & YEAH Academy members. Families must renew
memberships at the YEAH Academy ($45.00) level for
2010-11 before they can register for Academy
classes.
1st priority will
be given
to 2009-2010 YEAH Academy members
2nd priority given
to 2009-2010 YEAH members
Everyone must have
renewed their YEAH Academy membership for 2010-2011.
Priority within
memberships includes
details such as, but not exclusive to: YEAH Academy
enrollment for 2009-2010; history and longevity of
YEAH membership; age/grade of student;
pre-requisites set by tutor are met, siblings
already enrolled in PSEO @ YEAH courses, etc.
August 1, 2010
2010-2011 NEW YEAH &
YEAH Academy membership registrations begin for fall
2010.
All YEAH and YEAH
Academy memberships received after June 30 (between
July 1st - July 31st) will become active on August
1, 2010 and will be available for Academy class
registration on August 1, 2010.
Fall
2010:
Classes begin on
September 7 (T), 8 (W) and 13 (M)
Classes end December
14 (T), 15 (W) and 20 (M)
NOTE: Monday PSEO
courses will meet for Class One on Friday, September 10,
2010 at their regularly scheduled times.
Spring
2011:
Classes begin on January 17
(M), 18 (T) and 19 (W)
Classes end on April 25
(M), 26 (T) and 27 (W)
Families
must be
a YEAH Academy member to register for classes at The
Academy. See www.ouryeah.org
and link to membership for details.
Fall
Schedule available on Website
Click
herefor complete 2010-2011 class
schedule as it becomes available later in spring, 2010.
Subject to additions & revisions at any time.
NOTE:
Families must be YEAH Academy members to enroll in The
Academy classes
LEVEL ONE: YEAH ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP
Cost: $45.00 annual fee per
family. Memberships run from
August 1st - July 31st and must be renewed annually. Checks payable or
online payment to
YEAH Academy.
YEAH Academy Membership
allows members to enroll in classes at The Academy, per space available.
(NOTE: All families must have a YEAH Academy membership to enroll students
in The Academy classes; there is NO additional Academy registration
fee.) Memberships received between July 1-31 are applied to the
following year and activated on August 1.
YEAH Academy members have 1st
priority registration for all The Academy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday classes (after July Open House for the upcoming year).
YEAH Academy members are give
1st priority consideration for YEAH Commencement Ceremony for graduating
seniors.
YEAH Academy members are
given 1st priority registration and YEAH member-discounted rates for all Workshops.
YEAH Academy members are
given 1st priority registration and YEAH member-discounted rates for YEAH
events including Ski Days, PLAN testing, College Fair, etc.
YEAH Academy members have
personal on-site family folders at The Academy for up to date YEAH
communication.
YEAH Academy families receive
the annual YEAH catalog mailed directly to their home.
YEAH Academy families receive
regular YEAH Email correspondence with updates on YEAH events and other
homeschool opportunities.
LEVEL TWO: YEAH
sustaining MEMBERSHIP
YEAH families receive regular
YEAH Email correspondence with updates on YEAH events and other homeschool
opportunities.
Cost: $15.00 annual fee per
family. Memberships run from
August 1st - July 31st and must be renewed annually. (This $15.00 is
included in the YEAH Academy membership fee and does not need to be
included.) Memberships received between July 1-31 are applied to the
following year.
YEAH Membership is a
sustaining membership in YEAH even if the family does not participate in The
Academy classes. YEAH members may upgrade to a YEAH Academy membership
at any time during the fiscal year for an additional fee of $30.00.
YEAH members have 2nd
priority registration for all The Academy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday classes (after July Open House for the upcoming year)
Families must upgrade to a YEAH Academy membership (additional $30.00 due)
to register for The Academy Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday classes.
YEAH members are given 2nd
priority consideration for YEAH Commencement Ceremony for graduating seniors
(after YEAH Academy members).
YEAH members are given 2nd
priority registration and YEAH member-discounted rates for Thursday classes
and all Workshops.
YEAH members are given 2nd
priority registration and YEAH member-discounted rates for YEAH events
including Ski Days, PLAN testing, College Fair, etc.
YEAH families receive the
annual YEAH catalog mailed directly to their home.
WHY Join YEAH?
YEAH membership entitles your
family to receive discounted rates for workshops, events and registration
(typical savings of $2.00 to $15.00 person for workshops, PLAN testing, skiing and
other events.)
YEAH Academy membership provides
priority status for registration for courses at The Academy and may make the
difference if a student is able to enroll in a desired class.
Continuous YEAH
membership (without lapses) accumulate and "count" when it matters
for participation in member-only events such as YEAH Commencement Ceremony
and placement in high-demand Academy courses.
YEAH membership fees cover
expenses for services enjoyed by all: website management; sponsorship of
events; workshops; college fairs; testing services; etc. services that are
open to and enjoyed by all home educators.
YEAH membership ensures that
YEAH's high quality services will continue to be available to the home
school community now and into the future.
Why should
you maintain your membership in YEAH?
If
you answer YES to one of the following statements, the
following information is for you!
Our
family situation has changed and we do not plan to take
Academy courses this year.
Our
family is not sure what our future plans are regarding the
education of our family; we may or may not continue to
home educate.
Our
youngest is taking full time PSEO.
We'd
like to keep our options open for graduations
opportunities, but are not sure what we'll do when that
time comes.
We
plan to take Academy classes next year, but not this year.
We
might like to attend the homeschool college fair in
January.
We
might like to go skiing with YEAH at Trollhaugen this
winter.
We
might be interested in taking some adult education
workshops to help us home educate through high school and
beyond
We
are supportive of the service YEAH offers the homeschool
community and would like to see it continue into the
future.
Read on:
1)
For you . . . keeping your membership updated will
allow you priority registration and could make a difference
when you least expect it. This could include occasions
such as several years from now when your child decides he/she
would like to graduate with YEAH and your
on-and-off-and-only-used-as-needed-membership history put her
at the bottom of the wait list (unfortunately, that time will
come all too soon!). Or, for example, she did not get
into a class you really wanted her to take because your
registration was held up due to seniority issues and a history
of lapsed memberships. Both of these scenarios occur more
often then I would like to think.
2)
For you . . . the $15.00 annual family sustaining
membership can easily be recouped if you only attend a couple
of adult education workshops (there is a savings of
$10.00/couple/workshop for YEAH members who attend the
workshops) or decide to take the family skiing with YEAH
($2.00 savings per person for YEAH members).
3)
For you . . . by keeping your family updated in our
data base, when you do decide to enroll in classes again, it
can easily be switched on and updated. You will not have
to start over from scratch as you would have to as a First
Time User. This can save you a lot of time and should be well
worth the $15.00 investment now.
4)
For the entire homeschool community and for YEAH . . .
in the larger picture your membership helps support the
efforts of YEAH now and in the future as we strive to come
along side of home educating parents homeschool their teens.
YEAH as an organization is a lot more than just classes at The
Academy. It offers services to the entire homeschool
community such as sponsorship of the Homeschool College Fair,
adult education workshops, PLAN testing services, and
development of new programs such as our recent PSEO
partnership with NCU, etc. which benefit everyone both now and
in the future. Membership fees go towards the continuing
management of things such as the three websites, product
development to keep on the cutting edge of technology and
services for our members, etc. to help insure that if and when
you do decide to utilize YEAH’s services, the organization
will still be alive and well -- and will continue to be there
for you.
Thank you for the opportunity to continue to serve you as you
home educate your children.
PSEO
College at YEAH update for 2009-2010:
February, 2009, YEAH began actively working with a local community
college toward a program for YEAH to offer their college
classes taught on site at YEAH Academy
with PSEO courses taught by YEAH tutors who
would be hired as adjunct
professors. We were in the final
stages, when in mid-April, it quickly became
apparent that YEAH and the community college
had different
agendas, and both of us must remain true to
our standards and goals. There was an
obvious conflict of philosophies and
objectives between the two organizations.
Our core values are irrefutable.
Therefore, YEAH discontinued all discussion, plans and
proceedings regarding a partnership for
this program.
God
immediately opened the door for YEAH to work with North
Central University, a Christian school in downtown
Minneapolis. This program was confirmed and unanimously
approved on April 30, 2009. Details about this
partnership and program are on the PSEO
at YEAH link.
PSEO
Open House was held on June 16, 2009.
Representatives from NCU as well as the YEAH adjunct
professors of PSEO courses were present to provide
information and answer questions.
This notice is to clarify rumors
that have circulated regarding the future of YEAH and
The Academy. If you have questions, direct them
personally to the Executive Director of YEAH and The
Academy at YEAH@mtn.org.
Thanks.
The Academy classes plan to remain on the current track through the
foreseeable future at its present location in
Roseville.
YEAH and The Academy are not starting any satellite classes at any other church or location - nor are we discussing such plans with any individuals or groups.
YEAH plans to remain on its current course - which includes plans for
continued YEAH Commencement Ceremonies.
Options for the future growth of YEAH and The Academy
are being actively explored and will be posted on this website and the YEAH website
www.ouryeah.org when things are more definite. This
includes the option of pursuing a larger location
site to accommodate our growth.
PSEO classes offered on site at Bethany and taught by
qualified Academy tutors who are also adjunct
professors through North Central University! (Fall 2009)
Updates
will be posted on the Home Page of both websites as
needed for schedule changes and closures due to bad weather
or church funerals
POLICY for Schedule
changes:
SNOW DAYS or BAD
WEATHER
CHURCH FUNERALS
Please exercise safety and
caution in traveling.
WHEN are
decision made regarding schedule changes?
Updates for cancellations or schedule changes for The YEAH Academy
at Bethany Church are determined by The Academy
Administrators
They will be posted on both the YEAH and
The Academy websites by 11:00 PM the night prior to the
Snow Day
Email messages will be sent to all Academy
families.
Typically, schedules are changed/modified rather
than for classes to be cancelled.
Families are to make decisions
based on the ultimate safety of their students and
drivers
HOW are
decisions determined regarding schedule changes?
Because our students come from a hundred mile radius in
every direction, weather and roads can be dangerous is
some areas and perfectly safe in others.
Families are urged to make decisions
based on the ultimate safety of their students and
drivers.
Tutors will understand if they cannot attend or
are late due to weather related delays.
Website or Email
postings are not possible during the day due to lack
access to internet connections at the church,
Parents, please be available
if your students contact you with an altered afternoon
schedule should weather turn.
SAFETY FIRST
The safety of our students and their families should
take top priority. Please consider this when
deciding whether to travel in hazardous
conditions.
Our families drive to The Academy
classes from a radius of 1.5 hours in any
direction. Depending on the tracking of any storm,
it will obviously affect some students more than
others.
If weather looks questionable, please
check the websites and your Email for updates before
heading out.
CHURCH FUNERALS
Schedule
changes for Church Funerals which
conflict with YEAH use of the facility will be posted
on both YEAH websites as soon as they are known
Email
messages will be sent to all Academy members.
Check your Email
routinely prior to coming for classes.
