Backbone Communications

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Dr. Harold Vietti, Superintendent eScholar Academy, California Online learning is growing rapidly across the United States, responding in part to the needs of these millennial students, as more and more learners and educators become familiar with the benefits of learning unconstrained by geography and time. Students are finding increased opportunity, flexibility, and convenience; teachers are discovering a new way to reach [...]

Originally posted by the Arizona Charter Schools Association Virtual charter schools in Arizona are public schools. Legislation allowing for the creation of charter schools was passed in 1994 by the Arizona Legislature with the purpose of providing “a learning environment that will improve student achievement.” The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools is the primary regulatory authority [...]

Sen. Rich Crandall: But we are on the cutting edge. And Ted I’ve got to say it’s nice to talk about something other than recalls and redistricting. This topic right here literally moves the needle. What we find is that your kids take 180 days to learn, my kids take 180 days to learn; that’s not true and that’s exactly how state policy is. Everybody has to sit in their chair for the same amount of time. Using technology, you take the best of a brick and mortar school and the best of online digital and blend them together.