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K12 Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Results

September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ron Packard, Chief Executive Officer of K12 Inc., stated, “We are quite pleased with our record results for fiscal year 2010. I am proud of the many accomplishments of our students, teachers and employees. Over 1,000 students graduated this year from virtual schools using the K(12) curriculum. This past year we began serving students in four new states: Alaska, Oklahoma, Virginia and Wyoming. We will be adding schools and reaching students in two new states this Fall, Massachusetts and Michigan. On the product development front, we completed the development of our new elementary school math curriculum as well as six new courses for our high school students. In addition, we are launching a new Online School platform this year that is adaptive, intuitive and web-based; that provides access to our online lessons, lesson planning and scheduling, and facilitates our progress tracking, assisting both parents and teachers.”

Mr. Packard added, “I am also excited about our partnership with Middlebury College, Middlebury Interactive Languages. The first online language courses from this venture, beginner French and Spanish for high school students, will be available in pilot programs this Fall. In addition, we are making progress with the integration of our acquisition of KC Distance Learning and we look forward to serving more states, schools, school districts and students with their online curriculum.”

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North Slope educators plan Inupiaq curriculum

August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

About 50 educators and school administrators met for a weeklong in-service Aug. 2 to 6 to set the groundwork for how Inupiaq education will be incorporated into North Slope Borough School District classrooms.

“Our elders have told us that we need to document their knowledge. But not just that, we need to find ways of imparting their knowledge through the schools,” said Jana Harcharek, director of Inupiaq education with the district.

To help do that, the district brought up consultant Jay McTighe, who specializes in the field of curriculum mapping and alignment and co-authored several books on the topic.

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11 North Slope and Northwest Arctic schools pass federal test

August 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Eleven schools in the North Slope and Northwest Arctic Borough school districts met educational targets set by No Child Left Behind for the 2009-2010 school year, while 12 did not, education officials said in the state’s annual progress report.

As in 2008-2009, six schools in the North Slope School District met the standards and five did not. In the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, five schools met the target, an increase over the four that did the year before, and seven did not.

That’s a cause for celebration, said Northwest Arctic School District Superintendant Norman Eck.

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Profile: Career in education comes from own time in school

July 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ford Slack says education kept her life together, both while she was teaching and being taught.

“For me, every student that I can help them see a way to get through, whether it’s their G.E.D., or high school completion, I want to do that,” she said, “so they don’t have the same sort of climb that I did.”

To that end, Delta/Greely schools runs what it calls a “cyberschool” – a statewide correspondence charter school of about 450 students.

Ford Slack says it employs certified Alaska teachers, many of them out of Delta.

“We tend to work with students that have dropped out two and three times to try and transition them and get them through high school,” she said.

So when she gets to Sitka High School, Ford Slack says she wants to help teachers integrate technology into curriculum. Some of us might remember taking a computer class in school. But Ford Slack says technology is not a specific class or a credit anymore. She says it’s something that needs to be part of all education.

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