How we are meeting the requirements

Our middle school building is going to "bring your own device" this year and will be providing either tablets or phones to those students without a personal device.  This will open up lots of opportunities for teachers to incorporate online learning experiences into their curriculum.  There are some barriers to this, however.  Time to allow for teachers to learn how to effectively use the technology is  a huge one. This summer, I am also enrolled in a class offered by our district (ALONG WITH A FEW OF OUR GREENVILLE TLA COHORT!) to learn some of the basics that the district provided tablets can do. We will have some time to play with apps and google docs and the like.  There is a small percentage of our staff attending this training though, so unless the rest of our staff is really good at learning tech things on their own, I would bet that the true usefulness of the BYOD program will be slow to realize building wide.  Our district has participated in offering E2020 courses for both middle and high school students who struggle academically or behaviorally in the traditional classroom.  To my knowledge, these are not required by all students to take.  I do not know what the high school requires of the students to meet the online learning requirement.