WorldWide Independent Distance Education of America

Classroom Solutions

Flexible, easy-to-use tools to promote standards-based teaching & assessment, along with student learning reports

The Classroom Solutions system promotes positive teaching methods and multi-level accountability to achieve truly meaningful student success.This system is great for any school, but especially for those struggling to meet No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements. NCLB has forced many schools to re-evaluate and shed outdated conventions and adopt more innovative methods — administratively and educationally.

Includes

• Integrates curriculum mapping tools to streamline planning & reporting
• Promotes standards-based teaching & assessment
• Easily tracks student mastery of specific education standards
• Monitor student performance by class or individual
• Identifies struggling students for early intervention
• Adapts to any teacher's lesson planning style
• Allows variable assessment formats & file uploads
• Ability to carry-over curriculum maps & assessments from year to year
• Tracks individual student performance from one grade level to the next
• Flexible for handling non-traditional student learning
• Supports cooperative & collaborative teaching strategies

For more information, including Video Demos, please visit our product site, Classroom Solutions.

Home Education Solutions

Effectively incorporate students schooled in a home environment through distance education using our BrightWays model

For years, homeschooling families have opted out of the conventional public school system for a variety of reasons. But the growing trend to homeschool means that school districts will continue to lose necessary funding for maintaining facilities and staff. Many families don't follow any structured guidance for teaching state standards. In fact, homeschooling parents often tell us they worry most about not teaching everything they should be, leaving gaps in their children's education and in their readiness to succeed in real-world expectations, like college entrance exams and accredited high school transcripts and diplomas.

Depending on a state's laws, school districts can partner with WW IDEA to implement our BrightWays model. This package provides the structure, software, and support to successfully run a distance education program or to establish a "stand-alone" charter school to enroll the homeschooling families into a district-run, home-based program.

Benefits

• Increased student enrollment provides a boost in school district funding.
• Certified Teachers can participate in the alternative education program, helping to keep good teachers employed within the district
• Standardized test scores often improve with home-based students, raising the school district's average testing scores overall
• Invigorating, innovative training for teachers in proven methods that increase student achievement and make standards-guided education meaningful
• Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) for all home-based students, which create learning environments most beneficial to each student's needs
• For distance education programs, little or no additional funding is needed for facility maintenance or consumable supplies. For charter schools, only a small staff is needed to run administrative services
• Students meet all state requirements for following education standards, showing progress through assessment, meeting attendance goals, etc.

Transition Solutions

To better track & support students in a transitional environment

Students who live in tough family situations, or who have trouble coping with conventional classroom settings, often fall in and out of the school in which they originally enrolled. Following an at-risk student's situation and academic progress is usually difficult and time-consuming.

WW IDEA software and teacher support not only makes following these individuals easy, but it also includes additional components to help each student succeed overall.

Benefits

• Streamline student tracking
• Easily share vital student information with others, like counselors, teachers, etc., who are involved
• Reduce student dropout rates by meeting their unique needs
• Invigorating, innovative training for teachers in proven methods that increase student achievement and make standards-guided education meaningful
• Prescriptive Individual Learning Plans for each student, which creates a learning environment most beneficial to his or her particular needs
• Developmental Asset Building & Tracking
• Learning opportunities while students are in the "transition" period, minimizing learning gaps and increasing the likelihood the student will return to complete their education rather than leave school completely

WorldWide IDEA Private Academy

The freedom you want and the support you deserve

Our Private Academy support parents educating their children at home. We provide a network of experienced homeschoolers and certified teachers, along with Web-based tools and learning standards to make organizing and tracking your children's education easier and more effective.

This supportive network of people and services helps ensure that your children's home-based education is enriching, customized, comprehensive, and fully accredited. Plus, we understand that the importance of having the freedom to use your educational materials choices and teach your way.

For more information about this program and enrollment options, please visit the WorldWide IDEA Private Academy website.

Idita-Read Student Activity

Help motivate your students to read

This six-week activity runs annually during parts of February and March. This is a great reading event for homeschool families, groups and associations to participate in as a team. Students will mush through a virtual field trip on the Iditarod Trail, reading books to drive their mileage!

For more information, please visit our Idita-Read website.

Solutions For Homeschool

Hand-picked supplementary resources

We find and share exceptional links to some of the best free educational resources available on the Web. Unlike many other "link" sites, ours aims for including mostly non-commercial resources. Resources are categorized by grade levels and also include some Cool Tools for both parents and students.

Get started with these resources at Solutions For Homeschool.