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Friday, May 3, 2013 eInstruction, a global education software and technology company, announced today the integration of Insight 360™ with Illuminate Data & Assessment Management System™ (DnA) to provide educators with a simple, easy, and seamless way to upload rosters, assessments, and results. This new integration with Insight 360 enables educators to access dynamic student [...]

The best way to ensure that all of your students develop effective reading skills is to implement what researchers have found to be the most effective approach: explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory reading instruction. The only problem: Teachers are rarely trained how to provide this type of instruction. For Grades K-3 Reading Horizons Discovery helps K-3 [...]

Explore the benefits of the Favorites feature Your Favorites right at your fingertipUse your Insight 360TM classroom instruction system to its full potential. With your Mobi 360TM mobile interactive whiteboard or Insight 360 Teacher app for iPad® you can use the Favorites feature to launch websites, files, or software applications, all at the touch of a finger. [...]

Date Webinar Title Facilitator Recording Slides 2/12 Homebound Education and Alternative Learning Kim Spencer webinar Presentation Slides Guide to Implementing Homebound 2/14 Using Online Learning to Meet More Students’ Needs Across Your District Renae Abboud webinar Presentation Slides 2/19 A Class by Themselves: Online Teachers and Their Professional Development Heather ArmstrongDonna Clapp webinar Presentation Slides [...]

AP® Exam Reviews K12 is pleased to introduce a series of new AP Exam Reviews to help students prepare for their AP exams. These reviews are subject-specific modules that allow students to target the exact content and question types they need to review and practice to prepare for the AP Exam. The K12 AP Exam [...]

We are pleased to provide you with a free trial of Insight 360 Premium Edition and the Insight 360 Web Access add-on, in a single download. Try this free version of Insight 360 and discover how our fully integrated classroom instruction system easily brings together instruction, content, and assessment. Whether your school uses mobile interactive [...]

This summer, put your students on course for success. Presenting Summer School Online from Aventa Learning by K¹² Do your students need to catch up? Get ahead? Explore languages or electives? Whether you’re looking for online courses to augment your existing Summer School, or need an experienced resource to help run your program, Aventa can [...]

Join us for a Webinar on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 You are invited to attend our webinar featuring Mike DePalma, K¹² Product Management Director, and Kellie James, K¹² Product Marketing Director, on Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. EST. They will discuss how you can personalize courses to differentiate learning with content and learning tools [...]

Join us for an upcoming webinar! Wednesday, January 23rd at 2:00 pm EST “Best Practices in Online Learning “Borrowed” From the Brick and Mortar Classroom As more and more districts are adopting blended and full-time virtual learning, the classroom experience is changing. But we shouldn’t leave behind the valuable lessons learned in traditional brick and mortar instruction. While [...]

The following schedule of events are currently being finalized with cooperation from multiple schools, current administrators and the CES Facility. Backbone Communications has recently been approved by the CES Cooperative Educational Services: MESC Managed Multimedia MESC 12L-1003 Classroom Courseware, Software and Supplemental Products/2013-013 208-036 BCOMM Managed Multimedia Classroom Courseware, Software and Supplemental Products Backbone Communication’s [...]

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 4:00-5:00 p.m. EST   – - In this webinar, you will learn how active engagement can be achieved for every child – in the classroom, or at home. You will understand how formal education – or informal education – can squash a child’s gifts. But most importantly, you will learn how [...]

Read about a K–12 online school program that went from 59 students to 339 in one year; a high-mobility district that drove its graduation rate up 20 percentage points in a year; a credit recovery program with a 90+% passing rate; a program that meets the needs of students who live hours away from school [...]

Join us for a Webinar on November 27, 2012 It started as a plan to address the needs of the large community of home-schooled students in Washington County, Utah. But it quickly expanded to a state-wide school with extra focus on under-performing students. Today, Washington Online School serves a large population of students who were [...]

The research is crystal clear! Recent surveys reveal that 90% of college students regularly view online video. So why not infuse video content into your teacher preparation courses? Your students are ready. Are you? This is your opportunity to really engage your students. We work closely with your curriculum team and professors to recommend video content to supplement required readings and [...]

We are excited to announce our winner, Cheryl Hogan, from Center for Educational Excellence!

Addressing the individual needs of a growing student population is a challenge to educators everywhere. The A+nyWhere Learning System® (A+LS™) by K12 is a courseware program that provides core curriculum content and assessment tools to match skill levels of all students, whether on a developmental, remedial, or enhanced learning track. No other prescriptive learning system [...]

READ ENTIRE RELEASE – click here K12 Inc. Names the 2012 Transformation Award Winners for Innovative Use of Online Learning Herndon, Va., October 31, 2012 — K12 Inc., the nation’s leading provider of proprietary curricula and online education programs for students in pre-kindergarten through high school, today announced the winners of its 2012 Transformation Award, [...]

A FEW YEARS AGO, Captain Emmanuel Joseph decided to learn Arabic before his deployment to Iraq. “At first it was easy,” he told me. At his base in the U.S., he explains, “we had native speakers teaching us basic things like greetings; imperatives like stop, go, walk; and some numbers and nouns. It was very much survival-level.” In Iraq, [...]

PEAK12—Personalize, Engage, and Achieve with K12 As the adoption of online learning grows, K12 recognized that districts needed more than just great curricula and support services to be successful. They also needed a streamlined way to customize and deliver the right content to their students, utilize the most flexible solutions to fit their needs and budget, provide a single [...]

Join us for an upcoming webinar! Monday, November 5th at 2:00 pm EST “From Fringes to Mainstream: Taking a District-wide Approach to Online Learning” Many districts begin their online learning implementations by addressing a specific need and student population. Typically, this need is credit recovery, and online learning is a cost-effective solution to help students get back [...]