Taking an Online Charter School to the Next Level

8 Years Of Improvement

VisionUsing Today’s Technology

To Educate Tomorrow’s Leaders

MissioneAchieve Academy provides a quality

education for a wide variety of students by offering alternate solutions to traditional

schooling utilizing current Internet technologies and proven teaching practices

implemented by a team of professionals.

Background•School District of Waukesha, Wisconsin

•Desire for Distance Learning Option

•Declining District Enrollment Due to Open Enrollment

•Virtual School Solved Both Issues

•"4th" High School in the Waukesha - 100% Virtual

•Initially Partnered w/ Logistics Vendor

•Always Retained Instructional Control

Teacher Relationship

•Union Involvement

•Contract & Compensation

•Teacher Assignments

•Shared Decision Making with Admin istration

•Teacher Ownership of Classes

Historical - Enrollment

Historical - Achievement

Current Achievement Stats

Current Achievement Stats3, 4, 5 on AP

Tests80.77%

Graduates822

Timeline of School Improvement2004 - Launch of Program

2005 - Intranet

2006 - Enrollment Growth and movement to Full Time staff

2007 - SIP Goals & Plan - Mission & Vision - Advisory Program

2008 - Revise Advisory Program - Pyramid of Interventions

2009 - Added Middle School - Weeding the Garden

2010 - Tight Teacher Expectations - PLC Formalization - Learning Targets

2011 - Prep for Logistics Take Over - Teacher Leaders - District wide PLC's - Common Assessment - Course Development

Intranet•Internally Developed Tool

•Pace Charts

•Communication Log

•Progress Reports

•Socialization Tools

SIP Goals & Plan

•Whole Staff Involvement

•80% Course Completion Goal

•Establish Mission & Vision

•Create Advisory Program

Advisory Program

•Go To Person

•Focus on Relationship

•Academic Monitoring

Pyramid of Interventions•Advisors Establish Relationship from Day 1

•Struggling Students Contacted By Advisor

•Pre-Ultimatum Letter

•Ultimatum Letter

•Enrollment Termination

Tight Teacher Expectations•Complete Staff Buy-In

• Weekly eSessions

•Common Course Elements

•Response Time

•PLC Participation - School and District

•Follow Up w/ Struggling Students

Course Development•Departments determined content resources/vendors

•Individual Teachers created specific classes in Summer of 2012 (w/stipend)

•"Movement" to create common district assessments (3 Traditional High/Middle Schools)

•Departments worked to develop common rubrics.

•Work in Progress

Prep for Logistics Take Over

•LMS - Blackboard 9

•Email - Google

•Marketing

•Computers

Our Curricular Vendors

•Holt / McDougal

•Pearson

•Glencoe / McGraw-Hill

•EMC

•Cengage

•Goodheart-Wilcox

•Bedford/Freeman/Worth

•ALEKS Math

•NROC & Hippocampus

•Phet

•Odysseyware

•RosettaStone

•Khan

•Achieve3000

•Carone Fitness

•e2020 (Giant Campus)

•Open High School of Utah

Our Logistics Vendors

•Milwaukee PC

•BlackBoard

•Google

•Our Own District IT

The Future

•Cognitive & Emotional Engagement

•Tracking Math & Reading Progress

•Tighter Alignment w/ CCSS & College Readiness

•Integration of eAchieve and SDW

•Constant Course Improvement/Development

•Anticipating Population & Enrollment Trends

6 Pillars of Improvement

•Student Achievement

•Online Instruction

•Curriculum

•Assessment

•Math Achievement

•Community / Communication / Recognition

Thanks....

Eric Lehmann

262 364 9274

elehmann@waukesha.k12.wi.us

Rick Nettesheim

262 970 1074

RNettesh@waukesha.k12.wi.us