A'L'E' Students dont have to be 21 to utilize online learning tools for ontime graduation

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A.L.E.Students dont have to be 21 to utilize
online learning tools for on-time graduation
WERA Spring Conference 2007 Making the Grade
Presenters Kathy Seltzer, Mark Ryder Teachers,
Everett Public Schools
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On-Time Graduation

• Sometimes it takes many people working together
  in a variety of different ways to help a student
• succeed and achieve goals.

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Internet 2.3 Million last year High School Grad
requirement Fastest growing pop? K-2
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As of July 2005, 21 states and 9 of all public
schools had online learning programs.
Enrollment in K12 online learning is expected to
double in the next year to over 1 million
students.
On April 20, 2006, Michigan Governor signed into
law legislation that will REQUIRE high school
students to pass an online class as a graduation
requirement.
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Genesis of OnlineHS

• Six years ago.
• Over 350 students were leaving the Everett Public
  Schools and taking courses from BYU
• 96 per semester credit cheap
• Wide variety of subject offerings
• Counselors and schools were promoting the program
  and had representatives visiting/recruiting on
  campuses

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Online Learning in Washington

• 1995 Evergreen Internet Academy
• 1996 Federal Ways Internet Academy
• 2002 Everetts OnlineHS
• 2004 Spokane Virtual
• 2005 Insight Schools (private/school co-op)
• 2006 Washington Virtual Academy

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OnlineHS Then to Now
Early years Fee-based Recovery 12 courses 3
teachers/part time Everett students only

• Middle years
• Any student- inside outside district
• 30 courses
• 9 teachers/part time
• Serving other districts

• Now
• Any student district
• 30 courses
• Consolidated teaching staff
• Full-time OnlineHS students
• WASL Prep with COE

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OnlineHS Course Offerings 
Science  Biology A  Biology B     Social
Studies  World History A  World History B
 US History A  US History B  Washington
State History  Government    Health
Fitness  Health  LifeTime Fitness A (PE 1)
 LifeTime Fitness B (PE 2)    NEW WASL PREP
w/COE  Math  Reading  Writing

• English
• 9A Reading Writing
• 9B For Students BY Students
• 10A What is Freedom?
• 10B What is Leadership?
• 11A Essentials of Argument
• 11B History Culture
• 12A Diversity in American Lit.    
• Math
•  Algebra 1A
•  Algebra 1B
•  Geometry A
•  Geometry B
•  Algebra 2 w/Trig A
•  Algebra 2 w/Trig B
•  Pre-Calculus A
•  Pre-Calculus B    

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OnlineHS Enrollment

• OnlineHS is offered through the Everett Schools.
  
• Five (5) courses are considered full-time.
• Full-time students are expected to spend a
  minimum of twenty-five hours per week on their
  coursework.
• Students attending OnlineHS as their only school
  may enroll in up to five courses with no tuition
  fee.
• Students may be enrolled at OnlineHS and a
  resident building school with no tuition fee
  charged, as long as the combined number of
  courses between OnlineHS and a resident building
  school does not exceed six classes.
• Students who are enrolled full-time in a resident
  building school, or other educational program,
  are required to pay tuition unless inter-district
  shared FTE agreement.

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FTE- INTERDISTRICT AGREEMENT

• Each district should have school board policy
  that governs choice and inter-district
  agreements.
• Districts can share a student through an
  inter-district shared FTE agreement as long as
  the student is not counted for more than 1.0 FTE.
• Students who are enrolled in a Private school
  will be charged a tuition fee for course(s)
  taken, unless the course(s) selected are not
  offered at your school.
• If applicable, OnlineHS tuition fee is 200.00
  for each one semester (.5 credit) course.
• Tuition fees are nonrefundable.
• Students are required to inform OnlineHS of all
  courses taken at other educational facilities.

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Why this option for students?

• Students On-Time Graduation
• District Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)
• Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL)
  OnlineHS WASL prep courses w/ COE
• Washington state students may enroll full-time
  for free.
• Courses are available 24/7 from any
  Internet-connected computer.
• Content is rich, rigorous and engaging.
• All courses are taught by WA State certified,
  Highly Qualified and experienced online
  instructors.
• Contact infoE-mail OnlineHS_at_EverettSD.orgFAX
  425-385-5102

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How are we doing?
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ONLINE LEARNINGIS NOTFOREVERYBODY
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Are you ready for OnlineHS?
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Requirements
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Personal Requirements

• Self-Motivated
• Organized
• Task Oriented
• Good Communicator.

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Technical Requirements

• Computer w/Color Monitor, 40 MB HD, 64 MB RAM,
  CD-ROM
• PC with Pentium processor Windows 98 or newer
• Macintosh with PowerPC processor and System X
• Internet connection
• 56K modem (minimum)
• DSL, cable, etc better experience
• Web Browser
• Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later version
• Netscape (Navigator) 6.1 or later version
• Others (Firefox, Opera, Lynx, etc)- not supported
  

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Required Skills

• Comfortable competent using a computer.
• Able to use productivity tools (word processing,
  spreadsheets, etc)
• Experienced Internet user. Can navigate
  comfortably and search the Internet successfully.
• Responsible communicator.

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ACCESS
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How? Where? When?

• ANY online computer in the world
• NO special software required needed to access
• Accessible through most every web browser.
• 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Students must have an Internet connected computer
  at home.

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Inside your course
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Important Course Toolbar

• ANNOUNCEMENTS check for class, scheduling
  information
• GO TO CLASS THIS is your course. This is the
  content and material.
• YOUR TEACHER
• ASSIGNMENTS This is where you DO your class
  work.
• Course Info. course overview outline, policies
  procedures
• COMMUNICATION Links to announcements, email,
  discussion boards
• DISCUSSION BOARD Social Area for online
  learning. Asynchronous Discussion
• TOOLS (6) View Grade book
• EXTERNAL LINKS

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GO To Class
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Go To Class ?
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Course Assignments
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Course Assignments
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Course Assignment

• Inside the assignment area
• This is where you turn-in an assignment
• 1. Work OFF-line first A. Compose your
  work in WORD or a word processor.
  B. Save it on YOUR home computer C. Copy
  it.
• Copy your work into the online box/field.
• Click submit to send to your teacher.

These items are graded by hand, by your
instructor.You can expect that they will be
corrected, scored, graded and recorded in your
Grade Book within 3 school days.
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Our Teachers

• OnlineHS is NOT Computer aided instruction.
• All teachers are
• WA Certificated Everett Public Schools Staff
• Highly Qualified Subject area experts
• Trained specifically in online learning
• Interact with them.

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Attributes of an Online Teacher

• Subject matter expert
• Interested in student success in an alternative
  method
• Excellent communicator
• Able to build rapport connect with individuals
• Comfortable using technology
• Responds to email w/in 24 hours
• Posts announcements weekly
• Corrects/Scores enters grades for on-time
  assignments within 3 school days
• Maintains an active presence in the Discussion
  areas

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COMMUNICATION
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Communication

• Electronic
• An Online class means online tools
• That tool is messaging or email
• NOT phone
• NOT drop-in

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Internal Email Messaging
Everett hosted courses only at this time
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WHAT TO EXPECT with Online Learning
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What to Expect What will students do?

• Log-in to site daily http//www.OnlineHS.net
• Check announcements messages.
• Access current unit.
• Instructional sound lessons
• Instruction, practice, evaluate
• Complete assignments.
• Communicate with your teacher using messages or
  email
  

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What to Expect Work

• Some classes require a lot of reading and
  writing.
• Before starting, see what needs to be done and
  plan accordingly.
• Online Learning EXPECTS and REQUIRES students to
  work independently.

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What to Expect Grades Credits

• Standards, resubmission, retakes
• When successfully completed, students will earn
  0.5 credit for each course completed.
• Transcript will reflect regular Everett School
  District course code corresponding to course.

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Local Curriculum for Success

• Built on important skills as measured by WASL
• Reading strands targets
• Mathematics strands targets
• Expository Persuasive writing
• Classroom based assessments
• Formative
• Summative
• Highest quality alignment with state standards

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BE REALISTIC

• Does the family have time for the STUDENT to
  dedicate to online learning?
• Can the home computer be tied-up by the STUDENT?
• Is the STUDENT committed to working diligently
  every day.
• Can the STUDENT meet the demands of a 90 hour
  course in 45 days?

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IS ONLINE LEARNINGFOR YOU?
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Off We Go!
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Demo Disk

• Course sampling demonstration

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Questions..?
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• Thank you!