Meeting Students Where and When They Need It—A District-Wide Approach to Online Learning

Students are not solely in the classroom anymore. Many are juggling careers, extracurricular activities, or even family life. Addressing the needs of individual students in a lightning-fast world—where multi-tasking is the norm—is critical to their success. Bend-La Pine school district in Oregon is doing just that. Having served 1,400 students annually for the past two years, and hundreds annually before that, and boasting an average pass-rate for original credit courses of 91% each year, Bend-La Pine has fine-tuned their online learning programs to meet the many and varied needs of students across the district, including:

• How to use online learning to help balance student schedules

• How to monitoring student progress carefully to stay on track

• How to involve parents to keep them aware of their child’s achievement or problem areas

• Lessons learned from launching a Virtual School Program

Presenter:

Tres Tyvand, online program plus coordinator, Bend-La Pine schools


Moderator:

Elizabeth Clor, director of marketing, K12, Inc.