Virtual Learning Academy Consortium (VLAC) features the two curriculums that are both high-quality, research-based, standards-aligned programs of study designed to prepare your child for success in school and in life. Our curriculums support distance learning 

To provide your child a challenging and integrated educational experience with emphasis on communication, critical thinking and problem-solving. Instruction is sequenced in manageable steps, reinforced by multimedia experiences to engage children with different learning styles. Both the curriculum and its presentation is refined and updated every year, to take advantage of new search, new technology and new ways to help your child succeed.

Calvert 

Calvert’s curriculum builds creative problem solving and other lifelong skills needed to thrive in today’s fast-changing world. Trusted for over a century, Calvert is known for its academic rigor and engaging approach that improves student performance. 

• A cohesive, intuitive framework for active, project-based learning guides instruction and allows students to absorb subject matter and apply it in vibrant, expressive ways.

• Curation from trusted experts ensures content is best of breed and current. It also saves educators valuable time. That said, Calvert also gives you an option to add or change content with ease.

• An engaging digital experience filled with features that support instruction every step of the way. Calvert also has an option for printed materials that reinforce K-8 learning.

• Research-based, accredited and trusted by hundreds of schools and students in 90 countries

Learn more at  Calvert from the following links:

A Day in the Life of a K-5 Student

Performance and Progress Monitoring

Suggested Daily Schedule

What You Will Find in Your Course

Overview of Calvert’s Project Based Curriculum

 

Lincoln Empowered 

Lincoln Empowered offers standards-based courses that make it possible for schools to meet the needs of students who want to learn in subject areas that otherwise would not be available to them. Lincoln Empowered courses give students multiple ways to engage with, understand, and demonstrate mastery of the course content.

• Dynamic & Engaging Online Activities -Students establish their own learning paths with the Lincoln Empowered’s instructional videos that inspire, motivate, and prepare students to learn, and online manipulatives like simulations and games that gauge students understanding.

• Intuitive Design- Students feel comfortable and confident as they engage with the Lincoln Empowered course content. Every course is created from the same research-based instructional principles and learning design with the goal to make the technology disappear, and enable students to focus solely on course content.

Learn more at  Lincoln from the following links:

Learn more about Lincoln

Lincoln Empowered Student  Home Page

Inside Lincoln courses: Learning objects in Lincoln?  

Inside Lincoln courses: What is a teach it?

Inside Lincoln courses: Getting started with Lincoln?

 

Notice: course content is subject to change. Core academic courses ( ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) include kits with print books for most grades. All books are also available online.