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Meet The Community: Tiffany Higgins

Submitted by Stephanie Hoaglund on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:46am

‘Meet the K¹² Community’ is a regular blog series introducing students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Meet our summer intern, Tiffany Higgins. A 2009 graduate of the Idaho Virtual Academy—K12’s very first graduating high school class—she has just completed her sophomore year at Brigham Young University – Idaho in Rexburg. 

Meeting and hearing from experienced K12 students and their families can make all the difference when parents are considering online education options for their children.  We are very fortunate that during the school year, Tiffany is a part our local community team, where she meets and shares her experience with families wanting to find out about the K12 high school program.  We are beyond thrilled that Tiffany has temporarily relocated to Northern Virginia to join our team as a social media & online community intern for the summer.

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K¹² Appreciates Our Military Members and Their Families - Including a Giveaway

Submitted by Stephanie Hoaglund on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:01pm

Thursday, April 28, 2011 was the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. 58 K12 employees’ kids, ranging from grades 1 through 12, participated in fun activities, listened to speakers and worked together for a group service leadership project.  This year’s theme was appreciation for our military members and their families to coincide with April as the Month of the Military Child.

The Month of the Military Child is “set aside to honor and celebrate the significance and resilience of military children and youth. Military families face many unique challenges and many times their children experience frequent moves, new schools, new friends, long deployments, and much more. Through all of these challenging experiences, military children learn to be flexible and adaptable. Whether they know it or not, they contribute to unit readiness and mission success for their military parents. They develop character and courage, and make sacrifices daily.”

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7 Educational Android Phone Apps For Your Kids

Submitted by Scott Holm on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 12:26pm

Recently, my colleague Ben Graff wrote a blog post about the various mobile apps his team here at K¹² has created for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems.

While our team is hard at work creating more apps for all of our K¹² families, there is no shortage of great educational apps from other developers around the world.

Since I’m an Android user, I’m sharing my favorite educational Android apps here today. If you have an Android phone and access to Google’s Android Market, you may want to check out some of these apps for your children.

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Georgia Cyber Academy Family Group Helps Storm Victims

Submitted by Stephanie Hoaglund on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 12:24pm

Parents looking into online education options often ask about socialization and community. Going to school online doesn’t mean opportunities to make real connections disappear. In fact, it can broaden the ways families meet, connect and support one another.

When I talk to families interested in online education options, I often share real life examples of our families coming together and forming real connections. This story from one of our partner schools, Georgia Cyber Academy (GCA), is a great example of the many ways online school communities can come together.

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E-Readers and the Weight of Words

Submitted by Kimberly Spencer on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 11:58am

This image was adapted from work by juhansonin on FlickrI was watching a group of children jump out of a school bus yesterday and was taken by the size of some of the backpacks they were lugging on their tiny frames. We’ve commented about this at home as each school year, the number of required books and the size of the books seem to increase. I don’t know how many times my husband has expressed his concern that the kids are actually going to hurt their backs by regularly carrying such a large weight.

Of course, each day, there are numerous articles and blogs written about incorporating technology into our 21st century classrooms and moving from the traditional brick and mortar, paper and pencil models that for so long have dominated the educational landscape. With this exciting revolution, there is also going to be less of a need for students to actually tote huge texts each day. The Edutopia site has recently posted two very interesting blogs about paperless schools and the movement to transform learning.

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