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Virtual Learning: What types of supports enable successful student-driven learning?
Learning virtually can create opportunities for students to work flexibly, self-direct, and access the personalized resources they need. However, learning independently online can also pose a host of new challenges. Educators can proactively address...
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: How can I engage families remotely to connect, collaborate, and support them as partners for students?
Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students' ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measuring Unfinished Learning: A Guide for Schools and Systems to Understand and Measure Student Progress
This insight investigates how education leaders can take an asset-based approach to measuring student learning, offering concrete processes and methodology to examine learner growth during times of disruption to student learning.
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What classroom practices can be implemented to address unfinished learning?
At the classroom level, to address unfinished learning, educators need to implement strategies that accelerate individual learners’ growth and progress, adapt to their differences, and build on their academic, social, and physical strengths. This...
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What system conditions are needed to address unfinished learning?
Although long-term, systemic inequities ultimately need to be addressed, unfinished learning presents an immediate challenge. In the short term, schools and districts can organize their current systems around learner-centered principles and...
Examples From The Field
The Forest School Online
The Forest School Online is a small, independent, tuition-based virtual school connected to The Forest School in Fayetteville, GA.
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Map Academy
Map Academy is an alternative public high school in MA that offers students a different path to graduation than traditional high schools.
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Gem Prep Online
Gem Prep Online is a free, virtual K-12 public charter school serving Idaho students with a focus on both academic preparation and the development of essential competencies.
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My Tech High
My Tech High is a personalized virtual program, administered by K-12 public schools across ten states. Students in the program are full-time public school students and can take all of their courses through the My Tech High platform tuition-free.
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ASU Prep Digital
ASU Prep Digital is a virtual, public K-12 charter school that is part of the Arizona State University Preparatory Academy.
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Laurel Springs School
Laurel Springs School is a private, tuition-based online school for K-12 students. The school attracts students from across the U.S. and the world, with a focus on learners whose schedules and needs may not align with traditional seat-time...
