Eric Lehmann and Rick Nettesheim from eAchieve Academy in Waukesha, WI presenting their case study of an online Virtual Charter School and its improvement plan for the past 8 years.

1. Taking an Online Charter
School to the Next Level
8 Years Of Improvement

2. Vision
Using Today’s Technology
To Educate Tomorrow’s Leaders

3. Mission
eAchieve Academy provides a quality
education for a wide variety of students by
offering alternate solutions to traditional
schooling utilizing current Internet
technologies and proven teaching practices
implemented by a team of professionals.

4. Background
•School District of Waukes ha, Wisconsin
•Desire for Distance Learning Option
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Declining District E nrollment ue to p D O en Enrollment
•Virtual School Solved Both Issues
•"4th" High School in the Waukesha - 100% Virtual
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Initially Partnered w/ Logistics Vendor

5. Teacher Relationship
•Union Involvement
•Contract & Compensation
•Teacher Assignments
•Shared Decision Making with Admin istration
•Teacher Ownership o f Classes

6. Historical - Enrollment

7. Historical - Achievement

8. Current Achievement Stats

9. Current Achievement Stats
3, 4, 5 on AP
Tests
80.77%
Graduates
822

10. Timeline of School Improvement
2004 - Launch of Program 2008 - Revise Advisory Program
- Pyramid of Interventions
2005 - Intranet
2009 - Added Middle School
- Weeding the Garden
2006 - Enrollment Growth and
movement to Full Time staff
2010 - Tight Teacher Expectations
- PLC Formalization
2007 - SIP Goals & Plan
- Learning Targets
- Mission & Vision
- Advisory Program
2011 - Prep for Logistics Take Over
- Teacher Leaders
- District wide PLC's
- Common Assessment
- Course Development

11. Intranet
•Internally Developed Tool
•Pace Charts
•Communication Log
•Progress Reports
•Socialization Tools

12. SIP Goals & Plan
•Whole Staff Involvement
•80% Course Completion Goal
•Establish Mission & Vision
•Create Advisory Program

13. Advisory Program
•Go To Person
•Focus on Relationship
•Academic Monitoring

14. Pyramid of Interventions
•Advisors Establish Relationship from Day 1
•Struggling Students Contacted By Advisor
•Pre-Ultimatum Letter
•Ultimatum Letter

15. Tight Teacher Expectations
•Complete Staff Buy-In
• Weekly eSessions
•Common Course Elements
•Response Time
•PLC Participation - School and District
•Follow Up w/ Struggling Students

16. Course Development
•Departments determined content resources/vendors
•Individual Teachers created specific classes in Summer of 2012 (w/stipend)
•"Movement" to create common district assessments (3 Traditional High/Middle Schools)
•Departments worked to develop common rubrics.
•Work in Progress

17. Prep for Logistics Take Over
•LMS -B lackboard 9
•Email - Google
•Marketing
•Computers

18. Our Curricular Vendors
•Holt / McDougal •ALEKS Math
•Pearson •NROC & Hippocampus
•Glencoe / McGraw-Hill
•EMC
•Phet
•Cengage
•Goodheart-Wilcox
•Odysseyware
•Bedford/Freeman/Worth •RosettaStone
•Khan
Achieve3000

19. Our Logistics Vendors
•Milwaukee PC
•BlackBoard
•Google
•Our Own District IT

20. The Future
•Cognitive & Emotional Engagement
•Tracking Math & Reading Progress
•Tighter Alignment w/ CCSS & College Readiness
•Integration of eAchieve and SDW
•Constant Course Improvement/Development
•Anticipating Population & Enrollment Trends

21. 6 Pillars of Improvement
•Student Achievement
•Online Instruction
•Curriculum
•Assessment
•Math Achievement
•Community / Communication / Recognition

22. Thanks....
Eric Lehmann Rick Nettesheim
262 364 9274 262 970 1074
elehmann@waukesha.k12.wi.us RNettesh@waukesha.k12.wi.us