Learn about online high schools in Montana
The Montana Digital Academy this year will offer free Internet classes to help kids make up classes, get ahead or take courses not offered at some schools.
Butte High students under the policy can take one class per semester during their junior year and two per semester as seniors. The board will review the course offerings each year to approve them.
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Nation Garza used to make pancakes in the morning before school. He would wake up early, whip up some batter and relax with his breakfast before leaving the house.
Those days are over.
This year, the Polson High School senior wakes up at 5:45 a.m., takes a fast shower, eats a bowl of cereal and heads to school for his “Early Bird” math class. He then goes to seven more classes and works his way through the advanced placement biology course he’s taking online through the Montana Digital Academy.
“I’m trying to take as much science as I physically can to prepare myself for majoring in biology in college,” Garza said.
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MISSOULA — Somewhere in Montana on Sept. 7, a rural student will fire up a computer and start learning Chinese from a teacher he or she has never met.
That’s the day the Montana Digital Academy launches for the 500 students and 64 teachers who have signed on to meet in virtual classrooms.
“That’s what’s so cool,” said Missoula Education Association president Dave Severson. “We will see someone teaching half-time at a building, with the rest of the time teaching kids across the state.”
Severson was among a roomful of state education leaders who gathered Aug. 26 at the University of Montana to launch the academy, which keeps its home at UM. The Digital Academy is a state-funded online school they believe is a precursor to the future of education.
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Butte school trustees have approved a policy that limits the number of online classes students can take while still attending Butte High School.
Beginning this fall, the Montana Digital Academy is offering free Internet classes to help students make up classes, work ahead or take courses not offered at some schools.
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The Montana Digital Academy is a new state program that offers free online classes. According to its website, the online courses will allow students more course choices, a chance to retake classes, and an opportunity to gain credits.
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The Montana Digital Academy is offering online courses to all high school students in Montana for the 2010-2011 school year. Approved during the 2009 legislature, House Bill 459 aims to make distance learning opportunities available to all school age children in the state of Montana.
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The Montana Digital Academy will change how some area students take their classes, as the future of some classes has now gone online.
Susan Quinn, associate principal at CMR High School, noted, “Some people really are hesitant to say what they’re thinking right when something is happening in a classroom. But yet, when they can read a comment and really formulate their answers and feel like they’ve articulated it well, they’re much more interested in participating.”
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On Tuesday night, the Great Falls Public School district helped students log on to a whole new world of educational possibilities by introducing them to the Montana Digital Academy.
The program starts up in the fall and will offer 45 online courses for high school students across the state.
In an informational meeting on Tuesday, high school sophomore Jared Smith said that he’s excited about the virtual classes.
Smith said, “I wanted to do online school so I could have a more flexible schedule to work around, and because I’m in a band, so it’d be nice to do…some of my classes, show up early for band practice…that’d be pretty cool.”
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Starting this fall, high school students in Bozeman and around the state can take free online classes for credit from the state’s new Montana Digital Academy.
Bozeman High School students will be able to take online classes that aren’t already offered at the school, like oceanography, Principal Rob Watson told the Bozeman School Board on Monday night.
Students who fail a class needed for graduation, like math, will be able to retake the class online to earn credits. That will be especially set up to make it convenient for students in the Bridger alternative program to recapture lost credits, Watson said.
However, Bozeman High won’t let students take online classes for credit because they don’t like a particular teacher or they just want to have their afternoons free, Watson said. But if students can’t take on-campus classes because of scheduling problems, they could apply to take the class online, he said.
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