Purpose  To show CAL online courses  To share the implementation plan  To share future plans

“The question is no longer if the Internet can be used to transform learning in new and powerful ways. The Commission has found that it can. It is time we collectively move the power of the Internet for learning from promise to practice.” “The question is no longer if the Internet can be used to transform learning in new and powerful ways. The Commission has found that it can. It is time we collectively move the power of the Internet for learning from promise to practice.” --The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Report of the Web Based Commission to The President and the Congress of the United States. December, Web Commission Report to Congress (Dec. 2000)

Internet Background Statistics-Internet The Internet had more users in its first five years than the telephone did in its first thirty outnumbers regular mail by nearly ten to one The web is still doubling in size… every 90 days A new web page appears every 4 minutes

Business Background Statistics-Business Technology-based training will increase more than four fold over the next five years IDC, 1999, US IT Education and Training Revenues % of large organizations are implementing some form of on-line learning this year. Fortune Online, May 24, 1999

Children Background Statistics-Children By the year 2002, 45 million children online Oct 24, FIND/SVP Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S. High school students today are first generation to grow up on the Internet Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it

CUSD Superintendent Walt Buster September 2000 District Report: “One of the things CUSD is doing to prepare for the future are ‘Virtual Classrooms’ – CUSD teachers are in the process of designing curriculum for a virtual classroom where students can take courses on the Web...”“One of the things CUSD is doing to prepare for the future are ‘Virtual Classrooms’ – CUSD teachers are in the process of designing curriculum for a virtual classroom where students can take courses on the Web...”

Why online courses? What they will do:What they will do:  Increase flexibility for pacing, scheduling, and teacher accessibility  Choice for students  Individualization for students  Disenfranchised students  Different learning styles  Lack of intimidation in online environment What they will do:What they will do:  Increase flexibility for pacing, scheduling, and teacher accessibility  Choice for students  Individualization for students  Disenfranchised students  Different learning styles  Lack of intimidation in online environment

Why online courses? What they will do:What they will do:  Erase time constraints  Increase technological literacy  Create another way to deliver instruction  Connect to business world  Expand and enhance high school offerings

Long Range Impact of Online Courses  What they may eventually do:  Change the look of a high school  What they won’t do:  Won’t save money in the short term  Won’t replace teachers

Background Research  CUSD staff have been researching online learning since October  Learned about various online courses around country – some for students as young as first grade  CUSD staff collectively discovered Florida Online High School

Why Florida Online HS courses?  They are quality online courses  They are multi-dimensional  They are web based  They are engaging and interesting for students

Florida Online High School  In existence for 4 years  Have 50 online courses for 3500 students throughout Florida  Taught by best teachers in Florida  Never see students face-to-face  Funded by State of Florida - $15 million  Student success – AP Testing results and student and parent surveys

Delivery  Primarily asynchronous  (students do content any time)  Synchronous capability  (online at same time- i.e. chat room)  Communication teacher to student via , phone and web

Integrated lessons

CUSD Teachers Trained in Florida  Verified that course content is solid and meets Clovis and California standards “The content of these courses is every bit as dynamic, exciting, and rigorous as any of our face to face Clovis courses.”  One teacher comment: “The content of these courses is every bit as dynamic, exciting, and rigorous as any of our face to face Clovis courses.”

Clovis Anytime Learning  Algebra I  Biology  English 9  AP Government and Economics* Summer school and school year Summer school and school year 4 Courses for CAL Online *Fall only