Flexible Learning Programs
Whether your school is looking to offset teacher shortages or offer more course choice, or your students need more flexibility in when and where they take their courses, establishing a virtual program can help you support more students and meet your school’s needs. Edgenuity is proud to work with schools and districts across the country to implement a variety of virtual programs for students in grades 6–12.
Roles and Responsibilities for a Successful Partnership
Edgenuity Instructional Services has partnered with schools and districts across the nation to provide virtual instruction. The following factors commonly help foster successful implementations.
Your virtual curriculum provider should offer:
- Virtual instructors who provide personalized learning and communicate regularly with administrators and students.
- Coaches who motivate and provide on-demand tutoring.
- A team of professionals to help manage your virtual program.
- Engaging, rigorous curriculum and interactive learning tools.
- Real-time data to inform instruction, remediation, and communication.
- Opportunities for additional resources, professional development workshops, and job-embedded coaching.
- A marketing toolkit to help promote your virtual program to students and parents.
In turn, the school or district should:
- Identify academic goals in order to establish appropriate policies: Which students should enroll? Those seeking honors courses? Those on medical leave? Those trying to recover credits?
- Establish appropriate expectations, such as program length, attendance policies, grading scale, etc.
- Determine evaluation metrics to measure the success of the program.
- Identify mentors who will partner with the virtual instructors to ensure success.
- Provide orientation and training opportunities for mentors and students.
- Work with the virtual instructors to monitor data and implement change as needed.
