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Meet the 22-23 Student Council! - Part 3
Meet the 22-23 Student Council! - Part 3

Welcome to Part 3! If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this article to see the links to the first and second parts where we meet The StuCo Coordinator, The Leadership Team, The Outreach Team, and The Communications Team!

Student Council is a big group of students and mentors all working together for the good of NorthStar. As such, there are quite a few people and roles to explain. In Part 3 of this article, I’ll be talking about The Representative Team.

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👤NSA People, 🧑‍🚀NSA Culture, 🔗Companion ArticlesEIC NSA2022-2023, December 2022 Publication
Meet the 22-23 Student Council! - Part 1
Meet the 22-23 Student Council! - Part 1

NorthStar Academy’s Student Council (also known as StuCo) is behind every event on our beautiful online campus. However, StuCo often works in the background, behind the Wizard-of-Oz-esq curtain.

Student Council is a big group of students and mentors all working together for the good of NorthStar. As such, there are quite a few people and roles to explain. In Part 1 of this article, I’ll be talking about the Leadership Team.

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Popular, 👤NSA People, 🧑‍🚀NSA Culture, 🔗Companion ArticlesEIC NSA2022-2023, October 2022 Publication
NorthStar’s Founding Story according to an NSA Veteran
NorthStar’s Founding Story according to an NSA Veteran

NorthStar has been around for 25 years. For over two decades, NorthStar has been giving kids a strong foundation of education. Back in the day if you were a missionary and moved overseas, there were not many options. A lot of people had to send their kids to boarding schools. Children had to live apart from their families while they attended school. There was a problem, and one man saw a solution.

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🔎Informational, 👤NSA People, 🧑‍🚀NSA CultureEIC NSA2022-2023, October 2022 Publication
Bridging the Gap - Mrs. V
Bridging the Gap - Mrs. V

Mrs. Velasquez, or Mrs. V as most call her, is a curriculum writer for NorthStar and the Student Council advisor for this year. That means she’s not only a leader for the school, but she’s in charge of leading the student leaders! And, if teaching young, tender, and sometimes timid students how to rise up and become leaders isn’t hard enough, she has to do it completely online, across many countries around the globe.

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Popular, 👤NSA People, 🗣️AdviceEIC NSA2021-2022, April 2022 Issue
Dear Freshman, (pt.2)
Dear Freshman, (pt.2)

As I was working on piecing this article together, it kept getting bigger and bigger. The longer I read over Kate, Caleb, Regan, Sarah Grace, and Rhianna’s words, the more I realized that I wanted to be able to share all of it. Everything they have said are things that I needed to be told four years ago, and I couldn’t bring myself to cut half of it out. So, without further ado, here is part 2 of the article:

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👤NSA People, 🗣️Advice, 🔗Companion ArticlesEIC NSA2021-2022, April 2022 Issue
A Story to Tell
A Story to Tell

The best stories come from a need. When you back that need with passion, diligence, and personal experience, you just might find something worth sharing. We all could find a story about our personal experience that we could talk about, but not many have the diligence to write, illustrate, and publish such a story into a book. Regan had such a story to share. Using her talents in writing and drawing to publish a children’s book about China—a place she calls home—Regan used her unique experiences to shed new light on a misunderstood country.

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Popular, 👤NSA PeopleEIC NSA2021-2022, February 2022 Issue
Little Dreamers
Little Dreamers

There have been various articles written by the Navigator staff about middle school and high school kids who attend NorthStar Academy. However, there seemed to be a lack of information about the elementary students at NSA. There may be fewer elementary students active on Microsoft Teams than students in other grades, I do believe that these fourth, fifth, and sixth graders need a bit of representation in the Navigator too. So, without further ado, let us take a little peek into the lives of Elijah, Sarah, Haesol, and Allen!

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Popular, 🧑‍🚀NSA Culture, 👤NSA PeopleEIC NSA2021-2022, February 2022 Issue
Going the Extra Mile - Mrs. Arnaud
Going the Extra Mile - Mrs. Arnaud

The impact that teachers can have on their students' lives is sometimes overlooked. Our teachers are the people who support us in our growth and learning, and a teacher that cares is memorable. Of course, here at NSA, we are lucky to have remarkable teachers like Mrs. Arnaud. In addition to working at NSA, Mrs. Arnaud works for the Florida Department of Corrections as a special education teacher at a prison.

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👤NSA PeopleEIC NSA2021-2022, December 2021 Issue
Life as President of StuCo
Life as President of StuCo

What would it be like as president of StuCo? How would one run a body of students like StuCo? What does one do as president? As every question has an answer, these have a multitude of answers. As of the 2021-22 school year, we here at NSA have a great StuCo leader, or, is it Stucco? StuCo is short for Student Council, which is the body of students here at NSA who not only put out a newsletter monthly, lead youth groups, and such, but also create, plan, and host many of the events you see around NSA. But back to the question, and as every good question has an answer, Caleb, the president of StuCo, said: “Well… Stucco is wall texturing, isn’t it? So I’m gonna have to go with StuCo on this one.” StuCo it is then.

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Popular, 👤NSA PeopleEIC NSADecember 2021 Issue, 2021-2022
Coming Full Circle- Mrs. Clark’s Student to Teacher Story
Coming Full Circle- Mrs. Clark’s Student to Teacher Story

Everyone has a story, and Mrs. Kathrine Clark’s is quite unique. Though she is now a middle school and high school history teacher, she was once a student at NorthStar Academy! As a child, Mrs. Clark lived as a missionary kid with her parents in Chad, Africa. She went to NorthStar Academy for her junior and senior year and graduated in 2013. When she attended, the school was quite different than it was today. Students downloaded their lessons in PDF format and worked offline. When they were done, they emailed their work to their teacher and the teacher graded it. However in the later part of Mrs. Clark’s time at NSA, lessons were switched over to an LMS system called Brainhoney, a precursor to Buzz.

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👤NSA PeopleEIC NSA2021-2022, December 2021 Issue
A Light in Our Lives
A Light in Our Lives

What is it that makes the Christian environment so magnetic and attractive? In my years at NorthStar Academy, I have found that the answer to this lies in the heart of the school itself: its teachers and management. The encouragement from the teachers and their daily efforts to intertwine Christianity into their lessons truly reflects the love of Christ. This is a reflection that I had not taken the time to think about before I had the opportunity to interview one of NSA’s newest teachers, Mr. Ayub. Mr. Ayub’s story and how he came to be a part of the NSA staff reflects his deep appreciation and sentiment for the unique love of Christ present in this school.

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✝️Spiritual Life, 👤NSA PeopleEIC NSAOctober 2021 Issue, 2021-2022
A Special Thank You For A Special Teacher
A Special Thank You For A Special Teacher

The 2020-21 school year was full of uncertainty and adventure for many brick-and-mortar students around the globe. With so much still going on in the world, teachers, students, and staff alike found themselves still learning how to adjust to an online learning environment. Here at NorthStar Academy, students continued to relish in their own personal academic successes. This success is largely due to the teachers -- whose patience and dedication inspires their students, no matter the situation. One of these teachers is the Navigator’s own faculty advisor: Mrs. April Meyer.

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👤NSA People, 🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
A Day in the Life: Off-Screen
A Day in the Life: Off-Screen

A day in life looks different for every single person, and that could not be truer than it is here at NSA. Every student is different and holds a unique place in the diverse and very special student body we have. To demonstrate the sheer uniqueness of the students here at NSA, one student from each section of NSA’s student body: two high schoolers, a middle schooler, and an elementary student, were asked questions about what they feel their place is at NSA as well as general inquiries about their daily life.

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👤NSA People, 🧑‍🚀NSA CultureEIC NSAApril 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
Teaching In-Between Two Worlds
Teaching In-Between Two Worlds

In my last article, “One Student Two experiences,” I learned about a student’s perspective of both high school and middle school, as Elizabeth is in BOTH 8th and 9th grades at once! This article is going to focus on the teacher’s perspective of teaching students in both middle school and high school. Give it up for Mrs. Anderson!

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👤NSA PeopleEIC NSA2020-2021, April 2021 Issue
One Student, Two Perspectives
One Student, Two Perspectives

Northstar Academy houses many students of all different grade levels. Some students have been with NSA since they were in elementary school, and others have only experienced the high school or middle school version of Northstar. Today I’m going to be telling you the story of an NSAer who is experiencing both middle school at NSA and high school… at the same time!

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👤NSA PeopleEIC NSAApril 2021 Issue, 2020-2021