ROLO

South Eastern School District

ROLO-Rams Online Learning Opportunities

October 15, 2015

Team Members

A.Bickford, K. Smith,, A. Moose, Z. Fake, K. Hardenbrook, R. Boyntoyan, P. Faulkner, D. Absher, J. Marburger, J. Terch, S. Coleman, J. Bowman, Jon Horton

We are excited to present to you our newly named cyber academy ROLO!  

Rams Online Learning Opportunities will allow the flexibility to serve many students and their unique needs under one umbrella name.  It will also allow us to market the product to all of our students across buildings.  Students who attend cyber schools outside of ROLO are billed at a per-pupil cost between $10,000 and $22,000 per student.  

Offering opportunities early, before students leave, could save the district and allowing students to graduate from Kennard Dale, through ROLO, could save students.  A real Win-Win!

KD

• Development of customized course by a KD teacher this year  
• Using for ELL student support
• 53 students taking at least 1 course (17 full time)   
• 2 students taking Chinese with an outside teacher

         

SEMS/SEIS

• 7 students currently taking full time cyber classes.
• Using multiple vendors and vendor teachers
• CAOLA training and support

              

   

Elementary K-4

• Currently 2 full-time cyber students from Stewartstown Elementary
• Both students using Accelerate Education with vendor teachers
• Learning curve with parents

 

What Students Are Saying

• Challenging work
• Flexibility to finish on-time or early
• Ability to take extra credits
• Work/life balance assistance

What Parents Are Saying

• Greater respect for teachers
• Thanking the district for flexibility
• Appreciative of choices

Goals

• Develop a state-of-the art SESD cyber program that fosters relationships with district staff and programs, that provides options for all types of learners, that includes mental health supports.
• FT and or blended options will be available for our students, and the learning programs will be customized to individual student needs.   
• Expand course offerings for traditional brick and mortar students. (AP courses at KD, and some unique languages and other options for which we do not have certified staff)
• Provide digital content for brick and mortar courses (Accelerate Ed’s Ideal Learning Library to provide content for science in 6th grade at SEIS and for some content at Delta)
• Opportunities for Keystone Remediation courses that are diagnostic
• Summer Classes for Credit Recovery
• Attract younger students to our program before they leave
• Bring back our students in other cyber schools
• District handbook
• Future Recommendation to District Administration

Future Plans

• Connect our curriculum to make transition seamless
• Expose more students to this learning style (Accelerate Education Ideal Learning Library)
• Recommend best product and attempt to make it our own
• Review successes and failures and continue exploring what is best for our students

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JJ Janikis    September 15, 2015 11:21

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Equine Therapy

South Eastern School District

Equine Therapy

October 21, 2015

I had the opportunity to visit with our SEMS students who are participating in equine therapy at http://equiteam.org/ in Dallastown once a week for an hour.  

It was truly a remarkable experience.  The word of the session was “FOCUS”.  The students began the session by compiling a list on a white board of phrases and thoughts about focus.  Words and phrases like “mindfulness” and “attention”, time of the day, “early but not too early...I need to wake up first” and my personal favorite, “I have more focus when we are doing something I care about and can use later”.  The students also worked as a team on a task with specific instructions.  Sitting there in an observer role I noticed students focus on the task, supportive of each other, attention to the horses, their environment and the other students.  The best part of the session for me was when the students debriefed the activity together.  One student pointed out that the horses are no longer “acting up” or “Playing”.  Another student quickly said, “We are not paying attention to them so they probably got bored.”  What a great teachable moment for these students who are at times attention seeking themselves in class.  Using the animals to explain a social situation that many students struggle with was fantastic.  The session ended with some individual reflection by students.  Again, I was amazed by the level of participation.  All students were writing and thinking about what they just participated in, and I am sure they can’t wait to come back next week.  The program is scheduled to run for 2 more weeks and our hope is for it to continue in the spring and beyond.  

What Students Are Saying

• Fun, it’s a lot of fun!
• I love animals and being outside, I guess we learn stuff, too!
• I like it.

What Teachers Are Saying

• Real-life connections to behavioral concerns
• Authentic
• Seeing a difference between the students behavior at the beginning of the year to now
• Promotes students to work together and experience adventures they may not have otherwise had.

Connected Educators Month Tic-Tac-Toe

Tic-Tac-Toe

Connected Educators Month 2015

South Eastern School District

Name:________________	Name:_______________	Date Completed:_________
Get on twitter and register your Twitter account on this    Google Doc http://goo.gl/forms/VMx2I9fwTJ	Join Voxer and find a Voxer group that fits what you are looking to learn	Create a personal or class Blog. Share class blogs with #sesdinquiry
Explore the Connected Educator Month Tool Kit	Find one other person to play Tic-Tac-Toe with you and thank them on Twitter or with a personal note.	Participate in a Twitter Chat
Share a story about your classroom. Pictures, blog, glogster, to show off a new student learning. If you tweet it use #sesdinquiry	Discuss a Book or professional article with someone you do not physically see everyday	Explore and try one new tool for you to gain professional development (Twitter, Voxer, Google+, Pinterest) and tweet about it. Make sure you use #sesdinquiry
Let’s play Tic-Tac-Toe!  Complete one block and challenge a friend to complete another until you collaboratively fill the board.  For some of you this will be easy, for others it will take some practice and for others a helping hand will be necessary. I hope that many of you try to do some of these activities or other activities that you think fit the themes of Connected Educators Month. For those that need external motivation, Dr. Kaufmann has agreed that any teacher or teacher pair who completes the Tic Tac Toe board will be entered into drawing for a free class period.  As always please contact me if you need any assistance terchj@sesd.k12.pa.us or @joeterch on twitter.
We want to see you on Twitter.  Please use the hashtag #sesdinquiry when tweeting about SESD or things that are happening in your classroom.  Information about teachers and their classrooms are on social media already, use this opportunity to share what you want others to read about SESD and your classroom.

Connected Educator Month Tic-Tac-Toe 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kt2PfBpZXQigzqiCo2Anknlwc62UJiIB1aGB_astCx8/pub