StrongMind, a company that offers a Digital Promise-certified digital curriculum, with social and emotional learning and other educational tools for virtual and hybrid learning, said in a news release that the partnership with CAOLA will make StrongMind an option for more than 10,000 K-12 students the association serves annually. The release described the StrongMind curriculum as equitable, personalized and designed to prepare K-12 students for success in the 21st century.
StrongMind’s courses include an assortment of media, interactive activities, student assessments, project-based learning and opportunities to collaborate with teachers and other students. The news release said schools can use their own teachers if they want, in which case StrongMind will provide them with professional development. However, StrongMind also has its own bench of teachers who can oversee the courses, or a participating school could opt for a combination thereof.
According to CAOLA’s website, students using the platform who remain enrolled in their local school district will still earn a degree from their local high school. The courses the association provides are all customized to the student and intended to give them the technological skills to succeed in today’s workforce, the website says. The curriculum can be full-time online, or single courses on-site or remote. It also offers career electives leading to certifications, summer school and credit recovery, among other options.
“Adding StrongMind to the CAOLA consortium allows us to give our customers additional choices in the K-12 curriculum,” CAOLA Supervisor of Online Learning Holly Brzycki said in a public statement.
For StrongMind, this is the latest of several partnerships in recent years, having worked last year with iLearn Collaborative to provide professional development to schools and districts, and with Valor Academy for customizable tuition-free classes.
