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Competing for the Virtual Student

July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Clovis Unified School District (CA) first considered creating a full-time online school about four years ago. Clovis Unified is known as a high-performing district, but it was losing 200 to 400 students a year. In a district with a total enrollment of nearly 38,000, those numbers don’t seem so bad, but officials realized only about half of those students were dropouts; the rest were opt-outs.

“What we saw in those statistics was that our students have real alternatives to what our traditional schools have to offer,” says Rob Darrow, principal of the district’s two-year-old virtual charter school. “Most K-12 school districts know that they’re losing kids who are going to other programs to get their needs met, and they know that they’re going to have to offer some kind of online program to meet those needs if they’re going to survive.”

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Oaks Christian School Hires First Online School Director of Spiritual Life

June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 06, 2011 – Westlake Village, CA – Oaks Christian Online School (OCO) is proud to announce the hiring of its first Spiritual Life Advisor, Jeff Locke, MA, MS, Associate Pastor/Educator. Mr. Locke is a long-time, well respected educator who most recently has been serving as Associate Pastor, Christ Church, San Francisco.

During his tenure at Christ Church, Mr. Locke has had the responsibilities of preaching, pastoral counseling, leading worship, and authoring a devotional blog. Prior to pastoring at Christ Church, Mr. Locke was a Pastoral Intern at Grace Church, San Diego, California and Sovereign Grace City Church, in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, Mr. Locke has nearly ten years teaching experience beginning in the public schools of New York, where he was selected toTeach for America Service Corps from a highly competitive applicant pool nationwide; he served as an advisor for college bound students and earned recognition as an exemplary educator by the NYC Department of education. Most recently, Mr. Locke has been teaching English online, interacting with students through Elluminate, eClassroom and Blackboard.

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Online school to enroll 100 new students

May 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Student registration and enrollment has begun for Northern California’s new tuition-free, online school for grades kindergarten through 12th Lost Coast Virtual Academy.

Only 100 student openings are available from Tehama County and the following counties Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Lake, Glen and Sonoma.

Leggett Valley Unified School District offers this personalized, high-quality educational opportunity to students in all surrounding counties, regardless of geographic location.

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Knightsen school district rejects proposed regional online school

April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The online school would have been funded by the state at the same level as conventional public schools, and there would be no cost to students, each of whom would have received a free laptop. Students from seven counties, including Contra Costa, could transfer to the school without the permission of their school district, company executive vice president Terry Gogerty said.

The Knightsen district, which consists of Knightsen Elementary School, had sole power to approve or reject the proposal, and would have been paid by the online school to oversee the financial and academic documents that publicly funded charter schools must submit to the state. The amount the district stood to gain would depend on the number of enrolled students.

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How Do You Say ‘Here’ in a Virtual Classroom?

March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Sixteen-year-old Abdi Buul might log in to his chemistry class while sitting at his aunt’s pizzeria off University Avenue. Or he might stop in to see a teacher in Old Town to ask about geometry.

“You’re not under a schedule. I don’t have to go at 8 and come out at 4,” said Buul, who enrolled in iHigh Virtual Academy, an online school in the San Diego Unified School District. “I’ll do my assignments whenever I feel like it.”

Buul is getting his high school degree like any teen. But he is also testing out a new way of educating kids — taking classes online — that clashes with the way that schools traditionally count students and get paid by the state. In California, schools usually get funded by keeping track of who shows up to school, something one official dubbed “butts in seats.” If kids are in classrooms, schools get the money.

But if kids are learning online, it gets more complex. Schools must either slog through extensive paperwork to prove kids are putting in enough time — through an independent study system designed long before online learning — or keep kids in regular classes for most of the day before cutting them loose to go online.

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JSerra launches online education program

February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

San Juan Capistrano-based JSerra Catholic High School is adding a new online curriculum to its current offerings, becoming the first Catholic high school in Orange County to offer such a Web-based educational program, according to the institution.

Heading up the program will be Jonathan Horowitz, who has served for the past three and a half years as principal of Capistrano Connections Academy, an online school serving 1,600 students in five counties.

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Education Centers Brings about a Revolution in the Concept of Online Education

October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With technology integrating in our life in a big manner, it became inevitable that it would soon revolutionize education as well. At EducationCenters.com, everyone gets to see exactly how simple it is to earn a professional degree of their own. This is a highly intuitive website that is dedicated to spearhead the cause of online education. The listing of schools is quite comprehensive and has pretty much everything that one could ever want. One can research in great details about the online school that they are interested in and see how it compares to other schools across the board.

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San Francisco Flex Academy to Open Downtown This Fall

August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The school will offer both onsite classroom instruction with highly qualified, credentialed teachers and state-of-the-art online learning provided by K12 Inc., America’s largest provider of online school programs for students in kindergarten through high school. There is no tuition to attend this public charter school.

SF FLEX will incorporate an innovative hybrid learning model that uses a combination of traditional classroom instruction and online learning. Every student is given a customized learning plan. Students will have greater freedom to progress through their individual learning plan at their own pace and receive quality instruction, support, and individual attention from highly skilled teachers. SF Flex provides engaging and personalized learning that is designed to maximize each student’s full potential—an education that fits the individual student, not the masses—so kids of all backgrounds and aptitudes can thrive in high school and beyond.

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Family with 13 children use online school for education

August 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The big, yellow school bus does not stop at the Van Ness home in Hacienda Heights, even though the family has 13 children.

Elizabeth Van Ness, 17, never stepped foot in school. But she recently graduated valedictorian of her high school class.

Her older sister, Heidi, also graduated online from the Insight School of California – Los Angeles. And her 15-year-old brother, Paul, is a junior at the online school.

Their home in Hacienda Heights has become their high school, as well as an elementary school for two younger brothers homeschooled by mom Maureen.

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