Elementary Online Learning

<p><em>Elementary Online Learning</em> offers school- and district-level leaders and administrators a field-tested approach to developing formal and interdisciplinary online education in-house and from scratch for grades K-5. While it is possible today to purchase off-the-shelf online platforms from for-profit companies many elementary schools have the option of creating their own programs curricula and instructional strategies that are deliberately tailored to the strengths and needs of their own communities. This book provides practical and effective approaches to cohesive data-driven program design synchronous and asynchronous teaching professional development family partnerships and much more. Each chapter is full of research-based ideas recommendations and prompts that will help schools yield online education that is interdisciplinary socially just and student-driven.</p>