Craig Blackburn

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Craig Blackburn Kelly Wade
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• A comprehensive suite of online tools and
  resources developed and hosted through a
  collaborative partnership of the county offices
  of education that comprise Region 5.
• Licensed content and locally developed content
  for K-12 Student Learners and Professional
  Learners.
• Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz
  counties will leverage their buying power to
  offer services as a cost lower than districts can
  purchase independently.

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OZone Suite of Services

• MY EdZone
• An education portal providing single sign-on to
  the best free research tools and curriculum
  resources
• MY moodle
• Free hosted service for teachers to use to
  organize class content
• enhance face-to-face, blended and fully online
  classes with online components integrated in the
  course
• eClass PRO
• Licensed professional development courses
  (Teachscape)
• eClass
• K-12 online courses aligned with California
  standards available for districts to deliver and
  transcript locally.
• Credit Readiness Foundations
• Credit Recovery Credit Recovery
• Credit Accrual Core Courses Electives
• Credit Advancement AP Courses

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eClass K-12 Online Courses

• Fully online and blended delivery
• Provides educational equity for all students
• Provides 21st Century Skills and exposure to new
  models of learning
• Primary focus on helping students make up credits
  to meet graduation requirements
• Meet graduation deadlines
• Prepare students for state exams
• Get dropout students back in school
• Over 200 students taking summer school online

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Online Courses

• Foundations courses are designed for first time
  credit to support students who are lacking basic
  skills.
• Credit Recovery courses are designed for students
  who have previously taken but not earned credit
  towards graduation.
• Core Courses are full courses for credit accrual.
• Advance Placement courses meet AP requirements.

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Implementation Models

• Utilize district/program teachers
• Traditional classroom model
• Teacher meets with students daily face to face
• Independent study model
• Teacher meets students at regular intervals, face
  to face and/or online
• Remote Learning model
• Teacher never meets students face to face
• Hybrid/Blended model
• Any combination of the above

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eClass Middle School

• The National Middle School Association states
  that one of the characteristics of successful
  middle schools is a relevant, challenging,
  integrative, and exploratory curriculum that
  caters the unique needs of young adolescent
  students in the following ways
• Interdisciplinary connections Courses draw upon
  other subject areas for cross-subject learning.
  For example, a math lesson on probability
  illustrates an example using the chance of rain
  to integrate science concepts.
• Using assessment for learning Courses
  incorporate a research project or web quest to
  develop students content-area knowledge and 21st
  century skills, while also enabling the teacher
  to assess student understanding of the subject
  and the research process.

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eClass Foundations

• Foundations courses are designed for first time
  credit.
• The assumption in the course design is that the
  target students are (a) struggling more
  academically, (b) reading below read level,
  and/or (c) ELL population.
• Reading level has been adjusted and ELL
  components, such as screen readers and vocab
  lessons, have been incorporated throughout the
  class.

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eClass Credit Recovery

• Credit Recovery courses are designed for students
  who have previously taken but not earned credit
  towards graduation
• Students can take pre-topic quizzes to test out
  of content and post-topic quizzes to ensure
  learning
• Students can focus on earning credit based on
  competency of the standards for a course
• no textbooks are required
• self-paced
• auditory components ELL components

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eClass High School Core Electives

• adaptive release teachers set mastery level for
  release of next content
• multimedia tutorials using Flash technology which
  include audio, text and video components
• activities include drag and drop/matching, labs,
  journals, written assignments, individual and
  group projects,formative assessments, objective
  tests and written exams, self-check mastery
• avatars present dialogues and tutorials
• A-G aligned
• Locally transcripted

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What do we know about Online Learners?
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Online Learners

• May need help sustaining participation
• May need help navigating their first online
  course
• May need encouragement communicating with their
  teacher

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What do we know about Online Teachers?
It is about the teacher, not the technology.
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Online Learning

• Personalized learning pathways
• Allowing students individualized attention
  support
• Opportunities and options to all students
• Meets the needs of diverse students from
  struggling to gifted
• More than half of the school districts in the
  U.S. offer online courses
• Online learning access is growing 30 annually
• K-12 programs are built on the body of knowledge,
  skills and practices developed by universities,
  trade schools and industry.

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Online Learning Ensuring every student has access
to the best education available regardless of
geography, space or time.
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Contact

• Kelly Wade
• Region 5 O.zone Coordinator
• kelly_wade_at_sccoe.org
• Resources
• Implementation
• LEA Aligned Online Strategic Plan

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Leading California in Online Remote Learning