2008 Annual Report

Colorado Multi District

Online Programs

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 2008 Annual Report
of (Name of the Online Program)

™ 6.01 Pursuant to section 22.30.7-109(1) (a) and (d), the Authorizer of an Online Program shall submit
an annual report on or before December 1st of each year… (Permanent Rules for the Administration,
Certification and Oversight of Colorado Online Programs 3/6/08)

1. The report shall provide information on the activities and results of operations and shall comply with
reporting requirements outlined in SB07-215.

2. The information for this report shall come from the 2007-2008 school year unless otherwise
indicated. For new programs beginning operations in the 2008-2009 school year, this
information shall come from the first semester of operations in 2008. It is understood that for
new programs, there will not yet be previous year data to report, but all other areas of the report
should be addressed. Do not leave anything blank. If there is no previous year data, indicate this by
inserting “NA.”

Enter all information in the text boxes below.

I. Name of the authorizing district, contact name, phone number and e-mail address

II. Name of the Online Program, contact name, phone number and e-mail address

III. Current Student Accountability Report data for the Online Program as reported by the Colorado
Department of Education.

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IV. Current CSAP data for the Online Program as reported by the Colorado Department of Education.

V. Write the Program Mission and / or Vision Statement

VI. Registration data: Your October count data is shown below. Please indicate in the “Current
Number” box your current student enrollment number. Then give your final student count for the
2007-2008 school year

October 2008 Reported Current number 2007-2008 End of Year Count

number

VII. How many of your students are from districts other than the authorizing district?

VIII. How many different school districts are represented in your 2008-2009 student population?

IX. At the elementary level, how many courses constitute a “full schedule” at each grade level?

Grade Level Number of Courses

Kindergarten
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth

X. What makes up the core elementary curriculum? What other elementary courses are offered?

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 XI. At the secondary level, how many courses do you offer and in how many different courses do
you have students enrolled?

XII. How many new courses were added to your curriculum and how many courses were removed
from your curriculum during the 2007-2008 school year? Briefly tell why specific courses were
removed from or added to the curriculum.

XIII. Describe the process by which you evaluate, review, or update courses and describe the
timeline used for the process. (How often do you refresh your courses and what is the procedure
for doing so?)

XIV. Is your curriculum developed “in-house” or do you contract with a third party provider? If it is
developed “in-house”, describe the development process (who, how, with what support?). If it is
developed by a third party, please give the name of the provider / developer of the curriculum.

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 XV. What is the course completion rate for your secondary students? Using the guidelines below,
enter the appropriate numbers in the space provided.

Guidelines from Permanent Rules for the Administration, Certification and Oversight
of Colorado Online Programs 3/6/08)

2.04 “Course Completion Requirements,” for the purposes of transcript recording and
statistical enrollment reporting, means the student completion of a course based on meeting
the Authorizer’s approved academic content work and testing requirements.

2.04.1 The course may be counted as having been completed when academic content
work, as based upon authorizer accreditation curriculum standards, has been completed.

2.04.2 Any student counted as an enrollment for the October 1st count date must be
included in the course completion rate data.

2.04.3 For calculation purposes, any student who leaves the course within the first 25%
of said course shall not be counted.

2.04.4 Mastery or passing a course is not a requirement of course completion, but

mastery levels should be consistent with the Authorizer.

Students
Student Students
withdrawn
Enrollment who have Completion Rate reported as a
Course during the
on October finished percentage
first 25% of
1st the course
course
Example:
100 5 85 (100 -5=95 85÷95 = 89.4%) 89.47%
Language Arts
Language Arts

Mathematics

Science

Social Sciences
Business and
Technology
World
Languages
Other electives

XVI. What is the ratio of adults (not to be construed to mean only a licensed teacher) to students in
the Online Program? This number should not include maintenance or purely administrative
staff.

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XVII. The number of online teachers employed by the Online Program who satisfy the requirements
specified for a highly qualified Teacher (as such requirements are described in the federal “No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001”, 20 U.S.C. § 6301 et seq.) as retrieved by the Unit of Online
Learning, is shown below. If there have been changes to this number, enter that number in the
space provided.

Number of HQ
Online Program Decrease Increase New Total
Teachers

XVIII. What is the ratio of Teachers, as meeting the definition below, to students in the Online
Program?

“Teacher” means any person who holds a Teacher’s license issued pursuant to the
provisions of article 60.5 of Title 22, CRS and who is employed to instruct, direct, or supervise
the instructional program, “Teacher” includes those persons employed by a charter school as
a Teacher pursuant to a waiver granted to the charter school by the State Board pursuant to
§ 22-30.5-105(3), C.R.S., or who are employed by a school district as a Teacher pursuant to
a waiver granted to a school district pursuant to § 22-2-117, C.R.S.

XIX. How many students in the Online Program are classified as “at risk’ according to the School
Finance definition below?

Eligibility for free lunch pursuant to the National School Lunch Act was determined to be the
best proxy for the presence of at-risk youth; therefore, a district’s at-risk count represents the
number of students eligible for free lunch.

XX. Describe the strategies used by the Online Program to help students stay on track to complete
their online courses successfully, including outreach efforts and technical support.

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 XXI. Describe any future program initiatives that will contribute to increased success in certain
populations or the entire student enrollment and give a timeline for implementation.

XXII. In the text block below, enter the annual budget of the Online Program, which shall account for all
state funding received by the Online Program, in accordance with existing budgetary reporting
requirements consistent with its authorizer or school district.

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XXIII. Describe how the Online Program has satisfied the Quality Standards established by the Rules
for Online Learning.

1. The Online Program involves representatives of the Online Program’s community, as

well as staff, in a collaborative process to develop and communicate the Online
Program's vision, mission, goals and results, in a manner appropriate to the online
model for that program. The Online Program provides leadership, governance, and
structure to support this vision and these supports are used by all staff to guide the
decision-making.

2. The adopted curriculum of the Online Program is aligned with the Colorado Model
Content Standards, assessment frameworks, and is consistent with grade level
expectations. Assessment results are used by staff to obtain information on student
learning, monitor student progress, support other academic plans, identify achievement
and curricular gaps, and to refine instruction.

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3. The Online Program has, or has a plan and timeline in place to accomplish, the
technological infrastructure capable of meeting the needs of students and staff, and of
supporting teaching and learning. The Online Program uses a variety of technology tools
and has a user-friendly interface. The Online Program meets industry accepted
accessibility standards for interoperability and appropriate access for learners with
special needs. Technological support structures and programs are in place to reduce
barriers to learning for all students.

4. The Online Program has, and implements, a technology plan that includes (but is not
limited to) documentation that all students and Parents know and understand acceptable
use of the internet in accordance with all federal and state statutes. When providing
direct services (for example, ISP, computer equipment or “at location”) to students, the
Online Program will use filtering software to prevent access to inappropriate materials.

5. Online Programs must comply with all statutory requirements, including the existing
budgetary reporting procedures under state law, as well as being consistent with the
format required by the authorizing entity. Budgets and accounting records must be
transparent, open to the public, and demonstrate support of student academic
achievement.

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6. Instructional strategies and learning are designed to promote individual student
academic growth, mastery of content standards, and individual growth toward
performance expectations at grade level consistent with other models. Instructional
strategies are informed by analysis of on-going assessment results for individual
students.

7. The Online Program’s teachers use ongoing, research based formative and summative
assessments to measure student academic performance. Students have varied
opportunities to demonstrate mastery of skills, show academic progress, and receive
meaningful feedback on their learning.

8. An online school has a policy regarding course completion.

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9. An Online Program follows policies for tracking attendance, participation, and truancy.
The policy includes documentation of teacher / student interaction.

10. The Online Program has a policy, and the infrastructure to store, retrieve, analyze and
report, required student, teacher, financial, and other required data collections.

11. The Online Program has a policy providing guidance counseling services as appropriate
to grade level and student need.

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12. The Online Program has a policy guiding interactive school/home communication about
student and program progress, program governance, and program accountability that is
relevant, regular, and available in native language where reasonable.

13. Instructional strategies, practices, and content address various learning needs and
styles. The Online Program uses a body of evidence to identify advanced or under-
performing students. Support structures and programs, including but not limited to Title I,
English as a Second Language, Special Education, and Gifted and Talented, are
integrated into the school’s instructional program to promote and support student
learning. The Online Program demonstrates evidence of collaboration with the
Department.

14. The Online Program evaluates the degree to which it achieves the goals and objectives
for student learning. There is a systematic process for collecting, disaggregating,
managing, and analyzing data that enables the Online Program’s leadership, teachers,
Parents, students, community members and other stakeholders to determine areas of
strength and challenge. The data collected are analyzed using a systems approach, and
the analysis includes the use of the Student Accountability Report (SAR) and other state
accountability reports.

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