In the Virtual Program of LAUSD, as a student of this institution, you will take courses with an online instructor which is provided by Edgenuity. So, each school site needs to provide an onsite staff member to be able to serve as a mentor to students and also to coordinate support efforts with the Edgenuity teacher.
Talking about Edgenuity at Los Angeles Unified School District, you may have a lot of questions about this program and here, we have the answers to your questions about LAUSD Edgenuity.
What Is the Edgenuity Instruction Model?
According to the Edgenuity Supervising Mentor Handbook from LAUSD, all students who take part in LAUSD’s Virtual Program will be provided a Highly Qualified teacher by Edgenuity. The teacher meets CA state certification requirements for the area that he or she teaches and the teacher. Students who registered in core courses will be able to access on demand tutoring by Edgenuity Concept Coaches.
Here are the Edgenuity teachers will do.
- Teachers will monitor course activity and attendance. They will also build communication with students, parents and onsite mentors regarding any issues.
- Teachers will provide remediation and enrichment to students.
- Teachers will grade activities and give feedback.
- Teachers will offer ongoing progress updates to students, families and mentors.
- Teachers will intervene when students miss course milestones.
- Teachers will coordinate and communicate with onsite mentors on a regular basis.
- Edgenuity also offers access to on demand tutor named Concept Coaches and it is to help students who need immediate help in core courses.
And here are the Edgenuity Concept Coaches will do.
- They will provide on-demand tutoring support.
- They will deliver coaching through live chat and interactive whiteboard.
- They are available from Monday to Saturday at 4 am to 8 pm Pacific time.
What Are The Things Communicated by The Edgenuity Teachers to LAUSD Mentors?
In the first email which is delivered to students and mentors, contact information and virtual office hours and the web link will be received. Teachers will communicate the things about these:
- Improvement and outstanding work of the students
- The issues regarding course attendance
- The issues regarding coursepacing
- The concerns regarding course progress
- The concerns regarding academic integrity
- Academic intervention plans for students with challenges
- Other things which may be helpful for mentors to know such as challenges at home, unexpected travel, etc.
How Is The Edgenuity’s Intervention Process?
Students and caring adults are provided by Edgenuity’s intervention process with gradually escalating communications and work strategies acros three main areas including attendance, mastery and pacing. With each Tier, the teacher communications network expands and the strategies which are used will change. Here are some typical communication paths and strategies which are used.
- Email student and guardian outlining concern. Tools and options are provided for improving performance. The examples can be seen below.
- Invite to the teacher’s live session office hours, request a phone meeting
- Provide information on support tools such as enotes, concept coaches, Close Reader and attendance log.
- Students will be provided with the suggested daily time to be able to spend working on their course.
- Call the student and guardian to outline their concerns. Tools and options are provided for improving performance. Here are the examples.
- Invite to the teacher’s live session office hours, request a phone meeting
- Provide information on support tools such as enotes, concept coaches, Close Reader and attendance log.
- Students will be provided with the suggested daily time to be able to spend working on their course.
- Email student, guardian, and mentor which outlines concern and prior intervention steps taken. Repeat performance concerns and steps to take to correct performance.
- Contact the school mentor directly through email, phone to discuss the performance and plan intervention of the student.
From the explanation below, you are able to see the triggers for the different intervention tiers.
- Attendance Intervention Tiers
- In the Tier 1: 3 days since student start date and no logins.
- In the Tier 2: 5 days since student start date and no logins.
- In the Tier 3: 10 days since student start date and no logins.
- Recommended drop: 14 days since student start date and no logins or communications about special circumstances.
- Teacher emails to indicate communications with students will resume when they can begin working in the course. Note that the studebt is not officially dropped until the supervising mentor or Instructional Technology Specialist gives authorization to the action.
- Mastery Intervention Tiers
- In the Tier 1: >10% complete, Overall Grade below 70%
- In the Tier 2: >15% complete Overall Grade below 70% and the Tier 1 intervention already took place
- In the Tier 3: >20% complete Overall Grade below 70% and the Tier 2 intervention already took place
- In the Tier 4: >25% complete Overall Grade below 70% and the Tier 3 intervention already took place
- De-escalation: It happens if a student raises their grade to 70% or higher and maintains their good grade for two weeks, so the teacher may be able to remove the tier alert.
- Pacing Intervention Tiers
- In the Tier 1: More than 10% behind
- In the Tier2: More than 15% behind and the pacing Tier 1 intervention already took place
- In the Tier3: More than 20% behind and the pacing Tier 2 intervention already took place
- Tier3 Follow-up:More than 25% behind pace and the pacing Improvement Plan is in place
- Descalation: In case a student gets back on pace and maintains their good pacing for two weeks, the teacher may be able to remove the tier alert.
The information is based on the Edgenuity Supervising Mentor Handbook at LAUSD.
How to Access the Assessment Questions and Answers?
If you want to access the assessment questions and answers, you are able to do that by following the steps below.
- First, you have to choose View Course Structure under the More button.
- After that, you need to find the lesson to be able to view the assessment answers. And then, click on Quiz Answers.
- You will be able to find all the assessment questions related to the lesson in the pop up window. If you want to see the question and answer, the thing to do is to choose a question number.
