In their quirky videos, PLB highlights several reasons to check it out – one of which is that “teachers are too busy to NOT use Professional Learning Board!” Here’s a quick peak:

Online courses range from dealing with bullying to teaching English language learners. Most of the courses can be taken as self-study, allowing teachers or schools to engage in PD at their own pace. Other slightly pricier courses are facilitated by a member of the PLB team. The most expensive plans allow teachers to get Graduate Credit for completion. Though more expensive than self-initiated study, getting college credits may be well worth the money for maintaining teaching and renewing credentials.

According to PLB’s “promise,” all courses are specifically designed to align with the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards Core Propositions and state professional development standards. This is a huge plus when trying to ascertain your National Board credentials or fitting in PD in the already chock full school schedule.

If you’re looking for a way to make PD more meaningful and customizable, check out PLB, and think about bringing your school’s professional development online! If you know of any other great PD resources, please share them in the comments below so we can get the discussion going.
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Take a peek into classrooms

In the new classrooms tab on the admin dashboard, quickly search by teacher, subject, class name, or other criteria to pull up classrooms for which you’d like to view details. When you click on the course, you’ll see a whole host of information about the class, including number of students, grade level, and school session. By clicking on the filter icon to the right of any details, you can pull up related classes and information, like all the classes taught by that teacher or all the courses under a give subject.

Copy or create new classes for teachers

Create new classes with just a few clicks. You only have to enter in the basic course info, and it will land conveniently on the designated teachers’ dashboard. Be sure to send teachers a note to let them know they can get started adding students to the class (don’t forget that you can do this indirectly for them), create seating charts, and get moving with grading and planning!

You can even copy whole classes for your staff! Just like within the teacher accounts, when you copy this class, you always have the option to change various attributes, like grading session and course title. One spiffy new option is the ability to assign the class to other teachers!

But I wanted more!

We have wonderful feedback from all our admins and teachers out there who want more administrative functionality. Initially, LearnBoost launched our stand-alone classroom teacher suite to empower classroom teachers with free and amazing tech. This is a fairly new take on education technology, which typically moves down a more hierarchical funnel – like contracting at the district level, then down to admins, down to teachers, and finally down to students. We wanted to do something that worked a bit more ground up to make our tools really useful to the teachers who actually use it on a daily basis!

We’ve been working nonstop on fantastic admin enhancements since we released the admin accounts a few months ago. With the Classrooms tab we are moving forward with the technical foundation to build even more robust functionality for our school admins. Keep sharing your feedback, and keep expecting awesome tools from the LearnBoost team. Oh yeah, all of LearnBoost is still entirely free!
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How not to ruin your teaching career

All teachers make many mistakes. Some of these mistakes will be insignificant: a poorly worded question on a quiz, a misplaced teacher’s edition, a misspelled word on a handout. While this is an unavoidable part of the stresses of our daily jobs, other mistakes are serious ones that can jeopardize your career.

Just like the small mistakes, these serious ones may seem not very important at the time, but never doubt that they can cause irrevocable harm. Follow these suggestions to avoid the possibility of ruining your career:

1. Don’t allow small problems to become large ones.

2. Don’t ever, ever touch a student in any way that could possibly be misconstrued.

3. Don’t overlook serious student problems such as substance abuse, suicide threats, or any type of harassment. Take them all seriously.

4. Don’t ever leave your students unsupervised—even briefly. Be especially alert when supervising students engaged in a strenuous activity, too.

5. Don’t give students free time where they have nothing to do. This inevitably results in various versions of disasters.

6. Don’t refuse to honor school and district rules, procedures, or policies even if you don’t agree with them. Talk with your administrators when you have serious concerns, but continue to honor the guidelines. Everyone wins when we are consistent.

7. Don’t ever agree “not to tell” when a student tells you confidential information. You may be required to report it to an administrator or counselor.

8. Don’t allow a student to leave campus with an adult who is not legally authorized to take the child.

9. Don’t break the laws regarding confidentiality and privacy of student information.

10. Don’t call in sick when you are not. You should take care to always present yourself as an ethical professional.—even in something as small as brief absence from school.

How to be a successful educator

Julia’s tips are not for the light of heart. Every day teachers face challenges that push and pull them to make really difficult choices, but following the guidelines above will ensure that you get off on the right track. Of course, if you’re interested in keeping your job AND being an incredibly successful teacher (definitely not the same thing), then stick around and catch more of Julia’s advice in her upcoming posts!

More About the Author

Julia Thompson received her B.A. in English from Virginia Tech and has been a teacher in the public schools of Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina for more than thirty years. She has taught a wide variety of courses including freshman composition at Virginia Tech and all of the secondary English grades (7-12). Her students have been diverse in ethnic groups as well as in age, ranging from remedial seventh graders to adults. Currently, she teaches English in Fairfax County, Virginia as well as being an active speaker and consultant. She is also the author of several books for teachers: Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher, The First-Year Teacher’s Survival Guide, The First-Year Teacher’s Checklist, and The First-Year Teachers’ Survival Guide Professional Development Kit (a DVD series) In addition, Julia maintains a website for educators, a blog, and offers advice on Twitter at @TeacherAdvice.

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Here are a few changes that affect the grade reports for parents and students and the individual reports in the Reporting section for teachers.

Weighted average displays

Even if teachers weight grades, students and parents won’t see the weighted averages in their online accounts anymore. In chatting with our users, we realized that this was more confusing than it was helpful, so we cleaned things up a bit to make sure info was relevant and easy-to-understand. Note: weights still appear in teacher accounts to support teachers in generating the right scores.

Class average

We turned off the class average feature for parents and students. Though helpful in motivating some students, this was similarly confusing. Plus, in classrooms that didn’t focus as heavily on competition, teachers felt that this was highlighting competition instead of individual success. We want students to feel fantastic about their accomplishments, not bogged down if they weren’t caught up to their peers! Note: averages still appear in teacher accounts to help gauge student progress.

Points/Total Points

We added a “raw score” column to both the individual reports in the teacher accounts as well as the grade reports in parent and student accounts. This way, everyone can see at a glance how many points they scored out of the total, in addition to the percentage.

Nice little note

Because so many teachers love being able to add in qualitative info, attendance, discipline, and other non-standard grades in before they hand out final grades, we made it clearer for parents and students that teachers will share final grades at the end of the grading session with a note in the grade report.

As always, the LearnBoost team is only an email away if you have questions about the changes! We’re all ears when it comes to making LearnBoost the best (free) suite of tools for educators and families, so reach out and share the sweet ways in which you use (or would like to use) LearnBoost antime!

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1. Integrate your Google Calendars

We just released our seamless Google Calendar sync last week. It’s a huge enhancement over the old manual import. With just a few clicks, you can integrate your calendars and manage work, school, and life in the same place. With full Google Calendar sync, backwards planning and long-term lesson planning is even easier. Take a look at Meredith’s post on how to use LearnBoost for long-term lesson planning if you’re interested in getting more out of the Google Calendar sync, and be sure to read the new feature blog post as well as the added instructions for setting up the sync in our Help Center.

2. Copy whole classes

Need to set up classes for the next quarter, semester, trimester, or grading session? The copy class feature allows you to duplicate whole classes. That means you never have to re-enter the same class roster, seating chart, gradebook settings, parent and student access, and even assignments as you gear up for the new session. Here’s a more in depth overview from our Help Center.

3. Copy assignments to other classes

Teach several periods of the same class? Easily copy assignments to as many other classes as you’d like! Here’s the full feature blog post as well as extra support from the Help Center.

4. Write and share comments on progress

Teaching and learning can’t always be captured in a letter grade or percentage, so we incorporated a flexible comments feature to allow teachers to write anecdotal notes on student progress. Teachers can opt to share comments with parents and students in LearnBoost, so everyone gets a wonderful view of holistic student achievement. Check out the Help Center if you want to see the comments feature in action!

5. Create and share multimedia lesson plans

From day one, LearnBoost has facilitated the creation of beautiful, comprehensive lesson plans. You can now embed and stream unlimited media from within your free LearnBoost lesson plans. And, to top it off, teachers can share their lesson plans directly with colleagues, students, and parents or share them to their broader personal learning networks!

Have an Edublogs account? You’re one step ahead. We have a wonderful partnership with Edublogs so you can share your lesson plans right to your teacher blog from within LearnBoost!

As always, we have helpful tutorial videos and instructions on getting started with both media embedding and lesson plan sharing in our Help Center.

6. Display points scored instead of percentages in the gradebook

When we first launched LearnBoost, assignment scores automatically converted to percentages. After getting user feedback, we iterated on this feature to make it more useful (thanks for the feedback!). For teachers who prefer to display “raw scores” or the numeral inputs, we now support raw score display. Check it out in the Help Center!

7. Multi-language support

Our users around the world have been translating LearnBoost, and we’re thrilled to have rolled out support for 11 languages so far! Here’s a link to the master language blog post which will guide you through each language release. Want to switch the language on your account? Here’s a video to help you get started.

8. Several ways to add students and get classes set up!

We applaud the meticulous teacher who prefers to enter each student manually, but in case you’re not one of them, we made adding students much easier. Import existing LearnBoost classes, individual students, or .CSV files.

Here’s a quick peak at all the ways to add students in our Help Center. We even have step-by-step technical help for creating, uploading, and exporting .CSV files in the Technical Questions section!

9. Upgrade for free from Teacher to Admin

We started with stand-alone teacher accounts, but we’ve come along way. If you’ve been using a teacher account but want to share LearnBoost with other teachers at your school, manage school-wide settings, and import local learning standards, feel free to upgrade to an admin account. Admins enjoy all the perks of the teacher accounts with extra privileges, so take a look at how to upgrade today.

10. Sort and color-code assignments

User feedback inspired several helpful features within the gradebook, including sorting and color-coding options for assignments. Sort by date, type, or alphabetically and add colors to assignment types to gain more insights with just a glance while in the gradebook tab. For detailed help with sorting or color-coding, take a stroll through the Help Center.

Most importantly, you never need to worry

That’s because you’ve got our fantastic, do-everything Community Manager, Meredith Ely, as your resource and point of contact in setting up LearnBoost. From rolling out LearnBoost at your school (and saving your school thousands of dollars a year) to getting LearnBoost set up within a classroom, Meredith just about always has an answer for your questions. Of course, our help center is quite comprehensive and we suggest going there first to address a frequently asked question, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for there you can always email the team directly at support@learnboost.com or give feedback right from within LearnBoost.

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Today, we’re announcing another hot new feature, Google Calendar sync! The calendar integration is a little bit different for our teachers, admins, Google Apps schools, parents, and students, so read on to find out how you can sync your Google Calendars with LearnBoost‘s gradebook, lesson planning, attendance, and reporting tools.

Syncing Google Calendars with LearnBoost

If you’re a teacher at a Google Apps for Education school, skip this and take notice of the next section. For all our admins, non Google-Apps teachers, parents, and students you can integrate your Google Calendars with a few easy steps. Once you’re in your calendar, just click Settings then “Google Integration.” You’ll be guided through the integration process with some helpful pop-up windows, and within minutes, you’ll see all of your Google Calendars in LearnBoost. Simply hide any that you don’t want displayed! Here’s a quick video to get you started:

For more info and step-by-step instructions on how to integrate your Google Calendars, don’t forget to check out our Help Center.

Teachers at Google Apps for Education Schools

If an administrator at your school has added LearnBoost through the Google Apps Marketplace (i.e. if you have a Google account and can find LearnBoost in the Universal Navigation Bar), then teachers’ Google Calendars will automatically sync with their LearnBoost calendar! Once teachers sign in, LearnBoost will fetch Google Calendars. If something doesn’t look quite right, just refresh the sync and LearnBoost will pull up the most current Google Calendars. At the moment, we’ve disabled Google Apps Admin calendar sync due to a few techie things that have to do with the way permissions are set, but we’re working hard to make sure that Google Apps admins can integrate their Google Calendars as well!

Extra details

We’ve taken steps to ensure the most secure, streamlined integration, and thus we’ve gone ahead and perfected the one-way sync. For this reason, you’ll notice that all Google Calendar events in LearnBoost are “read-only,” but they’ll still pull through and display on your dashboard and help you keep organized!

Within LearnBoost, teachers can share class calendars with parents and students. If you’d like to share Google Calendars with parents and students, we recommend you send them the XML share code from your Google Calendars settings. Since Google Calendars aren’t affiliated with classes in LearnBoost, they won’t be shared.

If you have any questions, always feel free to send them to the LearnBoost team at support@learnboost.com, and we’ll be sure to help you get the most out of the new Google Calendar sync feature!

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What’s new with the LearnBoost lesson plans?

When you create or edit a lesson plan in LearnBoost, you’ll see a new option to add a Media (URLs) section to your lesson plan. To add media like videos, charts, maps, or news clippings, just check the box beside “Media (URLs)” in the lesson plan editor. Next, click the Add Link button and paste in the direct link to whatever you’d like to stream or display within your plan.

Show me how embedding works

Here’s a quick video to guide you through the process:

Take a gander at this sample plan with a sweet video embedded so teachers and the students, parents, and colleagues with whom they share plans can stream media without opening a new window: Quadratic Equation Example Lesson Plan.

Why LearnBoost supports media embedding

One thing the LearnBoost team really loves is the ability to iterate on user feedback to build a more fantastic product every day. We received a handful of requests for richer embedding features within LearnBoost, and ultimately this led to our WYSIWYG rich lesson plan editor implementation. Beyond actual feedback, we noticed something really interesting when we released our free lesson plan sharing feature: many of our teachers share lesson plans with students and embed assignments or instructional keypoints in the shared plan. Thus, we wanted to make sure teachers had all the tools they needed not only to share plans with students but also to share content for all the teachers out there using LearnBoost lesson plans to administer assignments. We love seeing shared lesson planning in action, and we’re excited to see more videos with embedded media!

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Another trend that is tipping education on its head is reverse mentoring. Not yet as popular in the education technology world, reverse mentoring is quietly infiltrating the classroom and proving out its potential as an amazing instructional and learning tool. After chatting with ed-tech guru, Andrew Coy, on his work as a high school technology teacher the role reverse mentoring has had in transforming his classroom, we wanted to share some tips with you!

What is reverse mentoring?

Reverse mentoring is a concept borne of the information age. As youth grow up as “digital natives,” they are equipped with techie fluency that their older colleagues (in the work place) or teachers (in the school environment) lack. Reverse mentoring asks the younger, technologically savvier youngsters to tutor or support the older generation in learning how to leverage social media, blogs, email, cloud-based services, and other tools that we now have at our disposal.

Though technology can streamline administrative classroom tasks and promote real inter- and intra-school collaboration, teachers who haven’t had the luxury of spending time with online gradebooks, lesson planning sites, chat forums, social networks, or other online communication platforms might find the leap overwhelming. The majority of students, on the other hand, would feel minimally nervous about signing up for a new app and giving it a test drive. Reverse mentoring allows students to strengthen their planning, presentation, and speaking skills and lets them apply their knowledge in a super practical way. Plus, it saves school administrators the hassle and cost of finding appropriate trainings on tech integration. Win-win!

Why reverse mentoring is truly transformative

Baltimore’s Newt Fowler got an inside look at how technology teacher, Andrew Coy, integrates reverse mentoring at Digital Harbor High in Baltimore. One of the stand-out points from his write-up in the Editor’s Eye was the students’ intent on showing teachers how technology can meaningfully impact their work.

“These students focused entirely on how technology could improve the teaching experience both for the teacher and the student – they knew their customer (the teachers) and the end users (the students), and their entire effort that afternoon was ensuring that practical uses of the software and on line resources were understood.”

Leveraging students’ strengths to deepen the impact of instructional technology is an amazing way to engage the entire school in forward-thinking, progressive action. Furthermore, think about the broader implications. Not only are students validated and challenged throughout the process, but also your school staff is equipped far better to incorporate technology throughout their work. Yep, that means more opportunities for Skype calls with other schools, online professional development, class blogs, and flipped classrooms!

How does reverse mentoring work in schools?

Within a school, several factors must come together to realize reverse mentoring. From his experiences observing the initiative at Digital Harbor High, Fowler pinpointed key criteria for successful reverse mentoring:

• A committed principal
• A technology teacher in that school to facilitate the program
• A group of teachers ready to use technology in a transformative manner in their classrooms
• Talented students to serve as the mentors

Without these supports and human capital resources, reverse mentoring becomes more difficult. Remember, we can’t expect tech-adverse teachers to hop onto a webinar to learn more about feeling comfortable online! That being said, reverse mentoring holds students and teachers to high expectations and asks all participants to view technology from different perspectives. If you have questions or comments, we’d love to hear them below!

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The e-textbook landscape

Steve Jobs believed that technology alone was not enough, that “it’s the marriage of [technology] with the humanities and the liberal arts that distinguishes Apple.” The humanities have been engrained in Apple’s identity and in its mission, and have played an integral role in its success.

Despite this philosophy, Apple’s involvement in education has been minimal, until last week, when it launched iBooks 2. Its implications sparked much debate in the blogosphere over Apple’s place in the classroom — and for that matter — technology’s place in the classroom altogether.

However, Apple is not the first to tackle digital textbooks. Companies like Inkling, Chegg, and Kno are already creating interactive, cost-efficient smartbooks. But take one look at the list of available titles on these companies’ websites and notice they are predominantly college-level courses. Digital textbooks are perfectly suitable for college, saving the average student significant money and backache. Plus (and this is critical), these students have already made it to college.

What’s different about Apple’s approach?

The difference is Apple’s explicit intention to penetrate the K-12 curriculum. It is unsettling to think that a technology company worth more than Greece could control the resources we use and influence the content we see (and how we see it) in the K-12 classroom, a very different place than higher education. Apple’s digital textbooks plan to disrupt the K-12 education space, but at a young age, disrupting class will only get you sent straight to the principal’s office.

As a former teacher, I fully endorse technology in the K-12 classroom. There’s no doubt that technology can help change education at every level, just as it has for so many other industries. It allows for a rapid and fluid exchange of global ideas. It provides tools and services that assist over-worked teachers and struggling students. It solves problems. I believe from the adoption of these types of products, education benefits.

Practical uses for technology in the classroom

For example, technology allows for adaptive learning in K-12. DreamBox Learning, recently raising $11 million (that’s $28.2M to date!), individually-tailors instructions to a math learning tool. Organizations like Khan Academy and companies like Knewton and allow students to learn at their own pace. Kids can pause, rewind, and practice at home and use valuable classroom time to ask questions. From a teacher’s perspective, isn’t it a little outdated to expect 30 different children, with a variety of different learning styles, to learn the exact same material in the exact same way?

Technology can also serve as an aid to teachers, freeing up more of their time and connecting with students and parents beyond the classroom. LearnBoost provides a free online gradebook, lesson planning resources, reporting tools and more to improve everyday classroom life. A huge problem in education is the communication cutoff at home. Services like LearnBoost and Edmodo also allow for better communication between teachers and students through a social network for schools. SchoolLoop informs parents of upcoming tests, deadlines and student progress online and via automated voice recordings available in over 20 languages.

An additional advantage is interactivity. Foremost, it allows for hands-on demonstrations that may be otherwise impossible due to lack of resources. Late Nite Labs allows for teachers and students to conduct science experiments in a virtual lab without the expensive chemicals and materials required. Want to demonstrate combustion? Go right ahead! Secondly, interactivity means gamification. Kids can receive digitized incentives and can have fun learning. I used Starfall to help my ESL students to learn basic phonics. Now there are products like Smarty Education and companies like MotionMath which creates learning games for mobile.

Shortcomings of iBooks and e-textbooks

Yet gamification is tricky. In the classroom, games should be used to reinforce what students have learned or provide a fun, interactive demonstration of how a concept can be applied. Otherwise, I worry the line between learning and playing is blurred and the concepts lose value if the kids “don’t even realize they are learning,” often the point of such educational games.

And let’s be honest, to most young, malleable minds, the iPad is a fancy toy! I refuse to believe that a digital textbook demands an equal amount of attention as its paper predecessors. Interactive textbooks require internet connectivity. When we crack (I mean tap?) open a text, are students as compelled to digest and interpret material for themselves if it’s linked to answers and analysis available online? The teenage girl inside me would have found a way to chat her friend already, regardless of the internet limitations the school has set.

The use of iBooks textbooks means iPads could completely replace our existing textbooks and classroom tools, and that Apple will get to dictate which books are available. Now just anyone can write a textbook (hooray!), but that means a textbook can be written by just anybody (yikes!). Unlike the aforementioned services and products, I do not see how a major problem is solved with the use of this technology. Because in K-12 education, the problem is good teachers.

In my opinion, iBooks does not help good teachers teach. Ultimately, I believe it represents a loss of control. Good teachers will lose the control of their materials and of their students. While technology can inspire and provide creativity in the classroom, does iBooks really give good teachers any more flexibility and creative control than before? Does it engage students in the material or only in the platform?

The hardware and the software are expensive and it will drive a wedge between schools who can afford it and those who can’t. Furthermore, the wealthier students, teachers and schools are now locked in to Apple products. You must create a book on an Apple computer, must open it on an Apple iPad, and you’ll probably want an iPhone too. Apple is leaving us no choice!

Apple and Education: the bottom line

Apple makes a pretty penny, but iBooks solves nothing. The “drill and kill” test culture needs reform and K-12 classrooms need better teachers. When we go to a restaurant and see a family having dinner, all of their children’s heads turned downwards as they thumb the iPhones and iPads in their laps, we shake our heads and think “ what lousy parents.” In my opinion, it’s a lousy teacher that expects our educational paradigm to change based on a flashy new Apple product.

Really interesting points, and of course some controversy from our guest poster, Suzanne, today. We’d love to hear your thoughts below in the comments! As always, the LearnBoost blog is a place to share and discuss real change in education.

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The “state” of education technology

Technology is something that many educators steered clear of for a long time. While schools always had computer class, where students were taught to use the computer and the internet, there was little integration of computers into the traditional classroom. Teaching was always done with books and on the white board or chalkboard. This seemed easier to handle, both for teachers and students. However, times have changed and so has technology. Many schools have taken the idea of teaching on the computer and created online schools for students who prefer an alternative to the traditional learning environment.

What does online schooling look like?

The Laurel Springs School is one of the most famous examples of an online school that has really excelled. They have an excellent, critic approved curriculum that teaches students just as well, if not better, than traditional schools. The school is ideal for students who have flexible schedules or are always traveling, such as performers, artists or athletes.

Online schools are just as competitive and rigorous as regular K-12 schools. They have the same high level of teaching standards, college preparatory classes, Advanced Placement courses, Honors programs and excellent college placement records. In fact, some studies have shown that online education programs may be more effective in teaching students, especially during their early years of education.

What about social skills and student-teacher relationships?

It may seem strange that a school that is based online could compete with a regular school. Education experts have historically stressed the importance of interpersonal contact during a child’s development. Unfortunately, when students go to public schools across the country they are just one of many. There are usually 30 or 40 students in each classroom and thousands of students in every school. This means that getting personalized attention is difficult. Teachers cannot focus on each student as they are there to teach the group. That is where online education differs. Through online education students can have a better relationship with their teachers, counselors and peers. Students get assignments that are individually graded and attention is paid to their unique circumstances and learning styles. It is the equivalent of having a private school in your own room.

Opportunities for individualization

Another advantage of an online education is that each student can move at their own pace. Often times in a classroom, the pace is dictated by what the teacher wants or what the majority of students are comfortable with. There are always those students who lag behind and also those who want more of a challenge. By learning online, the students who lag behind would simply have an education program that is tailored specifically for them. They would go through the material slower and have a much better chance of grasping information. Similarly, students who need more of a challenge would move at a quicker pace in online education, allowing them to learn more in a shorter span of time.

Online education’s greatest benefit is the flexibility it allows students to have. We are at an age where children are growing up faster than ever. Many athletes and performance artists go into their respective fields at a much younger age, which means that their education suffers. It is hard to have a music or acting career and go to high school at the same time. The same goes for being a professional athlete. Online education allows these students to continue their education on a flexible schedule. That way they can get their high school diploma while not having to worry about giving up their other pursuits.

K-12 Education’s future: online schools?

There are many online education schools, such as Laurel Springs, that are now fully accredited by the WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges). All of these developments show that technology is something education must continue to embrace. More and more students will turn to online schools for their K-12 education as their reputations continue to increase.

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