The Clio School District is reaching out to at-risk -students with the launch an all virtual classroom.

Administrators are searching for students to sign up for the program who meet the criteria.

Classes anytime anywhere and its all internet based, it’s called the Clio Global Academy.

“The student is called a researcher and they get an I Mac computer, a desk top I Mac, and a digital camera those are there tools they use them at home,” said Beth Rayl, Asst. Supt Curriculum & Instruction, Clio School District.

With the click of a mouse, high school students will be able to learn traditional lessons in a non traditional fashion.

Through grant money awarded by the government, the Clio School District, is one of four districts in Michigan, offering tuition-free cyber learning classes.

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You can learn how to invest your money wisely.

You can have kids your age from across the country critique the short stories you’ve written.

And you can earn credits doing it.

Nashoba Tech is a member of Virtual High School, a Maynard-based, nonprofit collaborative of more than 400 schools across the country and world that uses online education to expand learning opportunities for students and teachers.

Virtual High School, or VHS, is a way to expand students’ horizons beyond the curriculum offered in the school.

Courses are taught online, with an instructor providing lessons and one-on-one guidance through the Internet. Students are required to log on at least once a week and receive feedback from the instructor and from other students across the world through online chat boards.

VHS instructors are supposed to be available online several times throughout the course of the day in case some student, somewhere, needs assistance.

According to Carol Heidenrich, Nashoba Tech’s director of technology, “We wanted to offer more electives, but being a smaller school, we can’t hire teachers” to teach classes that only a few students may want to take.

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Yet through a “Virtual High School” program run in Mission, Gilleard is one of nine high school students that take advantage of an expanded curriculum on the Internet.

“One of the things you want to do is broaden the horizons for students with different educational experiences and the sky is the limit,” St. Ignatius Superintendent Gerry Nolan said. “Not too many kids in Montana are taking oceanography.”

Ranging from Latin to Constitutional law, the classes offered are wide-ranging and varied, giving students options far beyond what the St. Ignatius school district can offer.

“We do a really good job of what we do,” Nolan said. “We have great teachers, we have really fine courses, and all this does is expand opportunities which I think is what every school tries to do.”
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