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Over 1,000 Rural Wyoming Students Earn Virtual High School Diploma

January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and the Wyoming eAcademy of Virtual Education (WeAVE) today announced plans to grow a successful program that has already helped more than 1,000 rural students earn their high school diplomas online. WeAVE uses the Pearson LearningStudio platform and has renewed its contract with Pearson eCollege for another 3 years.

The Wyoming eAcademy of Virtual Education is a non-profit charter school operated by Fort Washakie Charter High School and is the pioneer of virtual education in Wyoming. Located on the Wind River Indian Reservation, WeAVE serves both local Native American high school students and students enrolled in other districts across the state. WeAVE is the state’s only online course provider that allows students to take individual courses through their local school district free of charge.

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New year, new school? Virtual schools ease transition

January 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Educators say many families switching their kids’ schools mid-year are turning to virtual schools like Connections Academy, for a variety of reasons.

First, more families than ever have embraced virtual education in general: Some 2 million American K-12 students now get some or all of their education virtually, according to research firm Ambient Insight. Second, the format of virtual schools eases a student’s adjustment period – and physical transitions for both student and family. Finally, family finances sometimes come into play. Virtual public schools – like all public schools – are tuition free and virtual private schools like National Connections Academy cost a fraction of traditional “bricks and mortar” private schools. Yet they deliver the academic rigor and highly personalized educations that are hallmarks of independent schools. So families with children enrolled in traditional private schools who are struggling to meet hefty tuition obligations often find they can save significant money and still get an independent school-caliber education.

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The future of Wyoming’s education system

December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In those cases, partnering with high schools in neighboring districts should be considered, Scott said. State law allows students to attend schools outside their district.

Stock said the advent of “virtual schools,” in which students can take classes online, can combat the problem of small schools not offering diverse course loads.

Cozart agreed that LCSD1, which has about 12,000 more students, has more sports and extracurricular programs than his district.

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Race for top school position is competitive

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The superintendent would work with the local school board to redirect how it is spending its money to make improvements, he said.

Massie said he wants more choices in schooling, such as more charter schools and expanded virtual education courses.

“But I’m adamant in believing that local districts and their boards are in the best position to determine what that balance should be,” he said.

Hill said she’s open to anything that can help students, be it vouchers, charters schools, home schools or more virtual education.

“We need to make certain we have every option available to them,” she said. “I’m about parental choice, parental choice, parental choice.”

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Online schools grow for all grades

October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With the growing demand for online education for grades kindergarten through high school, Natrona County School District No. 1 (NCSD) virtual coordinator Tanya Sisneros’ job has doubled. That job includes evaluating students, making recommendations and monitoring progress of NCSD students enrolled in online courses through Wyoming’s online schools. The district currently is looking into the possibility of opening an online school in Natrona County, according to Sisneros.

Due to the influx of online students, she has gone from partntime to full-time employment.

Sisneros now knows 60 full-time online students from kindergarten through high school living in Natrona County. In addition, 49 high school students in the county take part-time classes online for high school credit.

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Midwest teacher named NCSD Teacher of the Year

October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

“She really puts a lot of her time and dedication into helping students learn their way,” student Jake Harvey said. He’s taken two of her science classes and she currently coaches him and others in online classes through Wyoming e-Academy for Virtual Education (WeAVE).

“She understands day-to-day turmoil with how things go in high school,” he added, and “changed my outlook of my future.” The senior decided he wants to become a pyrotechnician as a direct result of chemistry class.

“She really got me motivated,” Harvey said, “to step forward and actually take the steps and measures necessary to make that a possibility.”

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21st Century Education

October 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Monthly networking opportunities are provided through events and outings to keep the entire school community in contact.

“All the teachers tell me they find that the contact with students and parents is much more intimate than in a regular classroom, because every time they work with the teacher, it is one-on-one,” Larsen said.

While specializing in individualized learning, as an online public school, the Campbell County Virtual School provides structure, administrative support, oversight, accountability and state testing required of all public schools.

The school claims to combine “the best of home-based education with the support and accountability of a regular public school.”

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Education candidates debate over teachers

October 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The candidates agreed that parents should have different educational options from home schooling to charter schools to virtual classrooms. But they disagreed on whether to allow parents to use vouchers and allow public money to pay for enrollment at private schools.

Massie said vouchers undermine the public school system.

“It will cost the state a great deal more money to support vouchers as well as a public school system,” he added. “When they receive that voucher, along with that comes an extraordinary amount of reporting and standardized testing. We need to reduce both of those for the state to let teachers teach in our public classrooms.”

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Virtual School Challenges

October 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Many students in district one choose to go the traditional route of taking classes in a classroom with their peers and teacher, but for over 150 students, it’s virtual schools that fit best in their lifestyle due to any number of circumstances.

At Monday’s school board meeting they discussed what the future might look like for these schools.

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K12 Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Results

September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ron Packard, Chief Executive Officer of K12 Inc., stated, “We are quite pleased with our record results for fiscal year 2010. I am proud of the many accomplishments of our students, teachers and employees. Over 1,000 students graduated this year from virtual schools using the K(12) curriculum. This past year we began serving students in four new states: Alaska, Oklahoma, Virginia and Wyoming. We will be adding schools and reaching students in two new states this Fall, Massachusetts and Michigan. On the product development front, we completed the development of our new elementary school math curriculum as well as six new courses for our high school students. In addition, we are launching a new Online School platform this year that is adaptive, intuitive and web-based; that provides access to our online lessons, lesson planning and scheduling, and facilitates our progress tracking, assisting both parents and teachers.”

Mr. Packard added, “I am also excited about our partnership with Middlebury College, Middlebury Interactive Languages. The first online language courses from this venture, beginner French and Spanish for high school students, will be available in pilot programs this Fall. In addition, we are making progress with the integration of our acquisition of KC Distance Learning and we look forward to serving more states, schools, school districts and students with their online curriculum.”

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