Virtual Learning Solutions

Empower Your Gifted Students and Students with Special Needs to Succeed

Is your district struggling to meet the needs of special populations? We can help. At Pearson Virtual Schools, we know that students with unique learning requirements can thrive in a virtual environment. Pearson has decades of demonstrated success in supporting the individualized needs of special populations in education, including those with IEPs and 504 plans – as well as gifted students.

Pearson provides students with Individualized Education Plans, a personalized academic experience tailored to their individual learning styles. Here’s how Pearson’s virtual education model enables special populations students to achieve success:

• Learning is a personalized experience, with the ability to provide a customized curriculum designed to meet each student’s individual needs.
• Highly qualified teachers prioritize communication and offer phone calls, WebMails, and one-on-one drop-in sessions as needed.
• A virtual environment removes the anxieties and distractions of a typical classroom so students can focus on learning.
• While parental involvement may be limited in-classroom, parents of students with special needs can be hands-on with their child’s education in a virtual setting.
• Pearson provides gifted students with a robust honors and AP course catalog and self-paced learning, which are often limited in a brick-and-mortar school.
• Pearson’s experienced special populations team partners with districts for frequent communication and collaboration to ensure each special populations student thrives.
  

Credit Recovery That Is Flexible, Affordable, and Convenient 

Allowing students to retake courses required for graduation when their previous attempts have been unsuccessful is critical not only for improving your district's overall graduation rate, but more importantly, for helping your students secure better opportunities for their futures. Failure to complete high school is directly correlated with reduced employment opportunities, relegation to low-skill and low-paying positions, and diminished intergeneration upward mobility.

Programs designed to make up missed credits offered through your district can ensure students not only complete their high school requirements, but also provide the opportunity to avoid a delay to a student's graduation.

While the benefits of credit recovery are evident, school leaders face the challenge of meeting these needs in their districts, which is no small challenge. Best practices show that simply offering a credit make-up program will help to bolster overall graduation rates, but not all programs are created equal. When and how the recovery of credits is offered can create opportunity gaps among students. Creating a program that supports meaningful student success involves a flexible and convenient solution while maintaining the quality of the curriculum and student support.

Through Pearson District Partnerships, you can tailor a solution for credit recovery that meets the needs of your district’s students, giving them every opportunity to overcome setbacks and succeed. With prescriptive credit recovery courses, you can:

• Provide a personalized learning path for every student that fits any learning style.
• Save teachers time with a system that automatically assigns content based on objectives yet to be mastered during the pre-assessment.
• Realize return on instruction by re-engaging dropouts and increasing graduation rates.
• Get students excited about learning with interactive and engaging courses where they control the time, place, and pace in a virtual high school setting.
• Help students make up credits and graduate on time with their peers.

Standards-Based Prescriptive Courses

Use tried-and-true online courses to help get high-school students back on track. Pearson offers proven virtual high school online courses at various levels. These courses are designed to support student mastery of essential objectives and recovery of required credits based on personalized results of a pre-test.

Learning Supported by Pearson Connexus

Support your students in the recovery of their lost credits with a combination of the best features of a learning management system and practical communications tools for a rich, vibrant virtual high school classroom experience that allows students, parents, and teachers to collaborate successfully 24 hours a day from any Internet connection. Leverage teacher features like assessment tools, automatic grading, and reporting to make managing students easy and ensure students stay on track with a student dashboard that summarizes courses, progress, to-dos, activities, and teacher announcements.

Pearson District Partnerships can support your efforts to ensure that all students in your district have every opportunity to overcome barriers to graduation and their future success. Our team can work with you to tailor a flexible online program that creates opportunities for underserved or struggling students in your district to recover the credit they need to graduate. Pearson programs follow best practices offering high-quality, well-structured curriculum with flexible pacing, ample feedback, assistance as needed, and teaching adapted to a student's learning style.

Student Athlete Education Can Start with Flexible Online Options

Online learning can be ideal for student athletes whose training and competition schedules are demanding.  Virtual education offers a flexible way to learn from anywhere, anytime – whether at the rink before practice or in another state for a tournament. Students who compete at the professional or elite level find online learning to be a suitable option for maintaining their education alongside their athletic pursuits. 

Pearson offers a wide selection of quality, standards-based, and state-aligned courses for student athlete education. Through a partnership with Pearson your district can offer student athletes: 

• A variety of engaging K-12 courses that are aligned to national and state standards. High school core courses are NCAA approved* for athletes planning to participate in their sport at the college level.   
• Flexible schedules, allowing students to manage their coursework around their training and competition schedules. With online education, athletes can access class materials and complete assignments when it's most convenient for them.
• Anywhere, anytime learning enables athletes to access educational resources wherever they have an internet connection. Students can access course materials from the gym, hotel, field, car or team bus to ensure they maintain academic progress despite their athletic schedule.
• Ability to progress through coursework at their own pace. This flexibility is especially helpful for athletes who may need to take breaks or reduce their course load during intense training seasons.
• Time savings and reduced stress by eliminating the need to commute to a physical campus.
• A large variety of course choices and scheduling that allows student athletes to select classes that align with their interests and training commitments.
• An individualized learning experience allows students to focus on their strengths and address their weaknesses more effectively.
• Valuable time management skills can be beneficial in a student’s athletic career as well as in other aspects of life.
• More time for rest and recovery time, which is crucial for optimal athletic performance and injury prevention.
• An opportunity to pursue degrees and careers that align with student’s interests, athletes a plan beyond their athletic careers.

*Courses are NCAA approved when taught by Pearson teachers.

Online Elementary School Can Offer Customized Learning Options for Your Students

A traditional in-person elementary school classroom setting may only be suitable for some students. Some children need flexibility, benefit from a more customized learning experience, or have health or safety concerns that a traditional educational model cannot overcome. A partnership with Pearson Virtual Schools offers districts the opportunity to provide elementary students and their families with a flexible virtual elementary school choice that can address their unique needs.

With a wide range of engaging content for elementary students, Pearson offers quality, standards-based, and state-aligned core and elective courses – including world languages, art, physical education, music, and technology. With Pearson-supported online elementary school programs, your district can offer:

• Flexibility for students with busy schedules or unique learning needs, allowing students to learn at their own pace and at a time that best meets their needs.
• Personalized learning with curriculum tailored to each student's abilities and learning style. Virtual elementary school programs offer the opportunity for students who struggle to take the extra time needed to master a subject while allowing advanced students to progress faster.
• An alternative for children when in-person schooling may pose health risks.
• Greater inclusivity for students with disabilities or health issues that may make attending traditional school difficult.
• Opportunities for parents seeking more involvement in their child’s education.
• A variety of curriculum choices with access to specialized courses or subjects that may not be available in the traditional setting allowing students to explore their interests and talents.