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3. “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” -John Dewey Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15

4. The Capital Area Online Learning Association (CAOLA™) believes in offering a technology rich future for tomorrow’s graduates. Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15

5. “Roughly one in six students enrolled in higher education — about 3.2 million people — took at least one online course last fall, a sharp increase defying predictions that online learning growth is leveling off.”(Pope, Justin 2006) Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15

6. Key Objectives : • Address unmet needs of students by increasing available options for learning content • Increase available options to meet various learning modalities • Create relevance by connecting required learning to real-world applications • Increase available options for credit recovery, interventions and alternative education Engage, Achieve, Succeed - Options for every learner

7. Flexible Learning Options • Full Time Cyber Option • Single Course Options • Option For Half Day Vo-Tech Students • Flexible For Students With Jobs • Credit Recovery • Learning Support Students • Hybrid Opportunities • Summer School • Advanced Placement • Unique Foreign Language Courses The program is completely customizable to support each school district’s needs.

8. Align with PA state standards and graduation requirements Offer new options to address different learning styles and student needs. Ensure that students are academically on track and motivated Increase student engagement through multimedia rich lessons. Courses that are: standards-aligned, challenging, engaging, self-paced.

9. SAT Prep Chinese Latin AP Macroeconomics Genetics AP Physics Stem Cells Chemical Engineering Biotechnology AP Chemistry CAOLA™ students have the unique opportunity totake courses not traditionally offered

10. Add in your own school logo! The student homepage gives students quick and easy access to a variety of functions

11. Preview Of Lesson Each part has 3 units, broken down into 15 lessons, each lesson has 4 pages. Podcast Discovery Learning Movies Each course has consistent lesson structure and built in support.

12. Parents/legal guardians have quick and easy access to their children's progress. They also can easily view school and course announcements as well as email their children and online teachers.

13. With an easy click they can quickly see their children’s grades and progress.

14. Students are assigned Mentors who can easily monitor student progress.

15. Site administrators have a variety of reports that are instantly accessible. Custom reports can also be created based on client need.

16. “We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past” -Ian Jukes, Educator and Futurist.

17. “[CAOLA™] allows me to work whenever I please and I am able to take courses that either are not offered at my school or I have been unable to take due to scheduling problems.” -Madeline Seefeldt, Camp Hill Student- “The CAOLA™ program has helped our students to access courses that they typically would not be able to take, whether it be due to limited offerings or scheduling conflicts. For example, this year one of our students was able to take a Chinese I course.  Financially, it doesn't make sense for our district to hire a teacher for this, but this option gave our student a valuable experience in a language that she was interested in learning.” Kevin RobertsDirector of Curriculum and CAOLA™ site Coordinator Big Spring School District

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19. CAOLA™ IS: acollaborativeeffort by the school districtsand intermediate unit to allow options for every learner. locally managed and governed by the school districts and intermediate unit. The unified association creates a powerful leverage when working with Edisonlearning. able to offer Advanced Placement courses, Middle School courses, and complete customizationfor individual school districtsdue to membership power. CAOLA™ is exclusively an online learning program and offers complete attention to members’ needs and interests.

20. CAOLA™ is a turnkey operation . We have the solution for your management, technology and back office needs . CAOLA™ provides the wrap around services required of a successful online solution, without additional hidden fees.

21. Our Vision: Engage, Achieve, Succeed: Options For Every Learner. • CAOLA™ is a multi-vendor solution. We seek only the best curriculum and services for our members. We will work with you to ensure that your districts needs are being met, regardless of the curriculum company used. • Build your own content, use your own teachers. • CAOLA™ can be used to meetyour online learning needs. • CAOLA™ has leverage WHY JOIN CAOLA™?

22. State-of-the-art curriculum designed to be engaging, fun and target multiple learning styles Choose from a wide variety of courses and electives designed to allow students to pursue their academic interests and develop a path for success after high school CAOLA combines the resources of several integrated learning systems including EdisonLearning, APEX, and Aventa. • Credit Recovery • Advanced Placement • Summer School • PSSA & SAT • Electives • World Languages Curriculum

23. Each eCourse contains 180 individual lessons (45 lessons per 9 week part). Every lesson focuses on one or two standards based objectives that are clear and attainable. Full-year courses consist of 4 parts, each containing 3 units of 15 lessons each. Assessments are given at the end of each lesson, unit and part. 1 Year 1 Semester Course Structure

24. Biology • Calculus AB • Chemistry • English Language and Composition • French Language • Macroeconomics • Microeconomics • Physics B • Psychology • Spanish Language • Statistics • US Government and Politics • US History • AP courses are provided by Apex Learning, but are accessed through the CAOLA™ interface for single sign-on convenience. • AP courses have been reviewed and approved by the College Board Advanced Placement

25. eCourses

26. Summer School

27. CAOLA™ is cost effective in a time when all school districts must be budget conscious. • Students attending Cyber Charter schools cost on average $8,500 or more. CAOLA™ full time cyber students cost the district $4,850. • One example: A current CAOLA ™ member district has paid $40, 850 in membership and course fees this year. In return, this school has students enrolled in28 different courses,taught by highly qualified/certified teachers, without adding any additional staff members. • In its first year of operation, CAOLA™has grown to216 students, enrolled in 74 different courses, representing 16 school districts and 3 intermediate units. Fiscal Sensibility and Stability

28. Membership fee

29. E-Courses =eCourses are a set of online courses which can be utilized as summer school courses, supplemental courses during the regular academic year, and as credit recovery courses.

30. Credit Recovery

31. eAcademy= Full Time online program

32. The Hybrid Classroom provides eCourses for use in a classroom setting. It is intended to be used by students with individual accounts, in a computer-lab-like environment while being supervised by a teacher or staff. Our Hybrid Classroom Lite can be used as a classroom resource for a teacher, in which case a single teacher user account can be used to display the eCourses content in a classroom via projector or other shared means. Hybrid Model for ECourses: a new innovation exclusively through CAOLA ™

33. Pricing for Hybrid Model

34. Please feel free to visit the CAOLA™ website to learn more about the program. http://caola.caiu.org Learn more about CAOLA™ Holly Brzycki Supervisor of Online Learning Capital Area Intermediate Unit, 717-735-8400 x 8105 hbrzycki@caiu.org