Earn Credit Now

Using online courses for Credit Recovery and Senior Rescue students

Today’s Agenda

• Webinar Participation

• InnovatED Overview

• Credit Recovery Trends & Research

• “Earn Credit Now” Program – Brian Rose

OPERATING HISTORY

• Educational Services Group of Pinnacle Education Headquartered in Tempe, AZ

Founded in 1995

Alternative education programs for at-risk students

• 100,000 students served over 15 years 5 full-time, face-to-face high schools

1 full-time/supplemental statewide online school

National partnerships with public & private schools

• Proven online instructional practices & technology-delivered solutions

AdvancED Regulatory Status

5 Sites fully accredited

Pinnacle International High School fully accredited

Pinnacle Virtual High School designated as “Performing Plus” under AZ Learns.

THE ONLINE MOVEMENT

The survey says…

• 45 of 50 states have online programs

• Virtual schools grow 45% per year

• 57% of schools provide access to online learning for students

• 4 million college students are enrolled in fully online courses

US DOE Report on Online Learning

• Students taking all or part of a course online perform better

• Blended instruction is better than face-to-face or online only

• Online learning can be enhanced by giving students more control

ONLINE LEARNING & CREDIT RECOVERY

What is “credit recovery”?

Credit recovery programs are typically part of the alternative education offering in a school or district, designed to allow students to “recover” course credits from classes they have missed or failed.

Credit Recovery Facts

• “Off Track” students are 3.5 times more likely to drop out than “On Track” students

• More than 75% of students who fail a single class in 9th

grade have an overall GPA of less than 2.0

• The graduation rate for students failing two classes drops to 68% compared to 86% for those with no failures

Data from Early Warning Systems that Support Students At Risk of Dropping Out of High School – The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, Research Brief 2008.

Urban Data Examples…

• More than 50% of Chicago freshmen fail a course

• More than 40% miss more than a month of school in the freshman year

Data from Freshman Year: The Make-it or Break-it Year, The Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, Fall 2007

Texas Trends

• Houston ISD

6,127 students enrolled in online credit recovery courses

9,774 total online courses consumed year-to-date

• Dallas ISD and Austin ISD report serving 4,000 each in online credit recovery courses

Data from Can Credit Recovery Courses Cut Dropout Rates?, The Texas Tribune, Tuesday, November 9, 2010

General Data Trends and Needs

General Trends per 1,0009th-12th Grade Students

Credit Recovery 30% 300

Homebound 4% 40

Pregnant Teens 6.5% 65

Schedule Conflicts/Other 10% 100

Projected Need per 1,000 505

Delivery & Support Models

• Full course vs. Diagnostic/prescriptive

• Before/After School Labs

• School day assignments to computer labs

• Blended models – 1x per week check-ins

• Schools-within-schools

• Alternative schools

• Fully independent online course

EarnCreditNow

An Online Credit Recovery Pilot Program

Alternative School

Summer School

Program

Professional Development

& Learning Communities

ELL & Special Needs

Credit Recovery

Pregnancy Program

Adult School

Classroom Supplements

One Solution; Many Uses

InnovatED Services

• District branded online learning solution

• Instructional & academic support

• Professional development & faculty support

• Professional learning community development & facilitation

• Technology integration & implementation

• Curriculum design & development

• Social media consultation & implementation

EarnCreditNow

• Goal – Enable District to “pilot” an online learning solution while meeting credit recovery needs of their students.

• How it Works? 12 week program - 20 students / .5 credit courses

Instructional & student support

Onsite training & student orientation

Student performance reporting & transcripting

Cost = $6000

Customizations to pilot as needed

• Post-Pilot Implementations

Thank You!

Brian Rose

VP of Sales

503-952-6916

brose@innovat-ed.com

www.innovat-ed.com