Digital Learning Department

Website: www.EVonlinelearning.org
Email: hopec@evsd.org
Phone: 509-241-5001
Fax: 509-755-3503

School District: East Valley, Spokane

Grades Served: K-12

OSPI Approval

Approved as an Online School Program from the 2011-12 through the 2014-15 school year.

Access

Overview

EV Online Learning is a K-12 public school opportunity that supports student learning through quality courses which are aligned to state standards and are taught by highly qualified teachers. Our K-5 program uses a combination of humor and animation as our students learn. Research shows the combination of humor and animation supports the retention of information. Parents are strongly encouraged to be involved with their child’s education. In order to support parent involvement we give our parents access to their student’s grades. In addition, parents can monitor the assignment their child is working on in order to support the progression of their child’s work. Parents have access to a toolkit that provides additional resources to augment or re-teach concepts. Our 6-8 students may choose between two program options in order to better personalize learning.
Our High School Level students find the flexibility of the program to be very supportive. We offer standard courses, courses that are modified for struggling learners, credit retrieval and AP courses. Students are allowed to enroll in one to two courses at a time, complete these on a timeline that allows them to enroll in another one or two. Each student is given an online teacher for each course in addition to a mentor who checks in with the student at minimum once a week. Before the semester is up students have enrolled in and has typically completed 6 or more courses. Our students receive an East Valley (Spokane) Diploma and transcript and are welcome to walk through the graduation ceremony with all of the East Valley (Spokane) graduates.

Course Offerings

K-8 Offers all the core courses such as Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and some arts appreciation.

The 9-12 program offers Advanced Placement courses, which prepare students for the College Board Exams. We also offer the Standard courses in the core areas of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies as well as a host of elective courses such as computer basics, digital photography, etc.
We also offer Foundations courses, which chunks out the standard course learnings a little more and we have credit recovery courses.

Students

EV Online Learning: K-12

Students enroll in EV Online Learning for a variety of reasons. We have a population of students who have health issues and are unable to attend a traditional school for this reason. We also have professional athletes who practice for hours on their sport and attend our online program in the evenings. We also have a population of students whose families wanted to be more active in the education of their children, and we have some students who, for a variety of reasons, just have not found success in the traditional school but are successful learning online.

The EV Online Learning students’ learning is provided by highly qualified teachers and the students have mentors who connect with them regularly either through elluminate “homeroom” sessions or through email, phone conversations, etc.

Instructional Model

EV Online Learning believes students need a balance of face to face as well as asynchronous learning opportunities. Students are able to access weekly assignments and work through them in a flexible timeline. Students are required to log on to one of two elluminate sessions offered on a weekly basis to meet with a mentor. The sessions are given in a manner that offers choice on time. Students also have a mentor who emails, calls and interacts with students on a chatboard.
Students also have elluminate sessions with instructional staff as well as chatboard, email and phone conversation opportunities. These are required as part of the grading system.

Curriculum Alignments

During Professional Development/Professional Learning Committee release time, the teachers and leadership of EV Online Learning align the curriculum to Washington State Standards. We are now looking at the Common Core Standards to determine the course alignment to these standards.

Accreditation

Washington Academy of Arts and Technology and EV Online Learning are accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission. The final accreditation process and approval both on the State Level as well as the National Level occurred during the 2010-2011 school year.

Instructor Certification

All instructors assigned to students in EV Online Learning are Washington State Certified and are highly qualified to teach the course content and/or grade level.

AP Audit

All AP courses are offered through Aventa Learning and have been approved by the College Board.

Courseware Platform

EV Online Learning uses the Blackboard platform that Aventa uses for grades 9-12. Students do login to Elluminate sessions for mentor meetings. Student reports are ran directly off the Blackboard platform.

Grades K-8 students use the Compass Learning platform directly provided by Compass. Students do login to Elluminate sessions for mentor meetings. The student reports are ran directly off the Compass platform.

Student Performance and Demographics

Teacher-to-student ratio: 1:35

Course completion rate: 91%

Course pass rate: 86%

Student Satisfaction Survey

Average Student Satisfaction:
4.2 (53 responses)

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