Fenway High School developed the 4 C’s from the categories that surfaced in their College, Career, and Life Readiness Competencies. The competencies outline what students should learn, the description and rationale for those competencies, and which classes they can be mastered across grade levels.
Fenway High School developed their Vision of a Graduate based on an internally designed framework known as RAMP UP skills. This vision of a graduate helps students make growth across their four main competencies, known as the 4 C’s: critical thinking and problem solving, content mastery, communicating effectively, civic engagement, and critical consciousness – for students to identify how to emanate and achieve Fenway’s vision of a graduate.
This readiness matrix from Montana Digital Academy (MTDA) is used by site facilitators, counselors, and administrators to evaluate and discuss how prepared a potential online student is to participate in virtual learning, and the supports the student might need to succeed.
My Tech High created an Informational video to share with families that describes the options for students to earn early college credit while still in high school.
Gem Prep Online offers this detailed planner for students to map out their courses over their six years (grades 7-12) at the school. This planner also displays the tracks high school students will need to take in order to complete either 18 college credits or an Associate degree by the time they complete high school.
Students at The Forest School and The Forest School Online engage in quests – real-world challenges around a specific theme that students explore deeply and produce work to showcase at an exhibition. This blog post shares some examples of quests that students worked on across grade levels during January and February 2022.
These examples from Taos Academy demonstrate how different students with unique needs can craft a weekly schedule that best supports their individual learning style as well as personal circumstances.
Families and students can use this interactive tool from My Tech High to build a sample personalized schedule.
This video shares a glimpse into how a student at ASU Prep Digital uses the flexibility that the school offers to plan out coursework based on her personal schedule, which also includes daily music practice/lessons.
The course pace chart from ASU Prep Digital provides estimated time and deadlines for students to complete specific lessons and assignments in a course. The virtual school allows students to work at their own pace and complete assignments asynchronously, and this pace chart provides a roadmap to assist students with time management over a semester.
