Parents and Families of the Mentor Schools,
Middle school and high school parents, you may remember the white emergency cards that would come home at the beginning of each school year to be completed. Having more than one child meant you had to fill out multiple cards with the same information. This is no longer our practice in the Mentor Schools. Our Student Information System, Infinite Campus, has allowed us to save you time by not filling in the same information year after year. We do, however, still need to make sure the information we have is current for each child in the district. As of this past Friday, August 30th, we still have 1,659 students who need to have their annual updates completed by their parents. We are asking all families to have this complete by September 13th . Please follow the steps below to complete the annual update:
  1. Go to the Mentor Schools website and click on Parent Portal.
  2. This takes you to Infinite Campus. Click on Campus Parent and sign in.
  3. Once in the Parent Portal, clicking on the three bars in the left corner opens a menu. Click on this and then More at the bottom of the menu.
  4. Scroll down and at the bottom click on Annual Update. You can now select your child to complete the update.
If you need any help with any of these steps, please contact the Help Desk at 440-974-5274 or email OLRHelp@mentorschools.org
Technology Used to Support Learning
This section of our monthly newsletter will be used to highlight the various programs our students can access to support learning. Last month we discussed the G Suite programs. This month, we focus on literacy . Whether we are working on the building blocks to reading or checking to make sure students understand what they are reading, we have a program that can support literacy development. Please remember that all of these programs can be easily accessed through Clever .
At the elementary level, all students have access to Lexia. Recognizing that all students are reading at different levels, Lexia allows our students to work on specific skills they each need to develop their reading skills.
In our middle schools our students use Achieve 3000. Achieve provides non-fiction texts at students' reading level. These high interest articles allow students to develop reading and writing skills at their current level.
Newsela is used in our high school, as well as in grades 3-5, to continue our students' literacy development. Similar to Achieve, Newsela uses high interest non-fiction articles to develop literacy skills at each students' current level.
Parent Access for Schoology (Grades 6-12)
Now is a great time to set-up your Schoolgy Parent account. You can have updates sent directly to your email by setting up notifications in Schoology. Parent / Guardian Schoology accounts are automatically created if the following criteria is met:
  • You have a Primary email address in Infinite Campus.
  • You have a Parent Portal account - Username may only contain letters, numbers, periods, dashes, and underscores.
  • You must be the students guardian.
How to Login to  Schoology
  • The Parent Schoology link is located under the parents tab on mentorschools.net
  • Username - Primary email address as listed in Infinite Campus.  
  • Select forgot password to setup your account password.