Under new restrictions issued Sunday evening by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the VLA building will be CLOSED from November 18 until December 8. All VLA students are expected to log in and work from home during this three-week break. Use this opportunity to make some GREAT PROGRESS in your classes. Staff will be online to assist students in their coursework Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:00pm and all seven days of the week from 6:00 to 9:00pm. If any students need assistance with technology or need a technology device (either computer or internet), please stop in the building on Tuesday this week, November 17. Staff will be in the building from 8:00am to 2:00pm to assist you. Please stay healthy and well. The VLA staff is here (online) if you need anything! We are only a text, chat, zoom, email, or phone call away.
Attendance
Although we are not requiring on-site attendance, the state is requiring all students to log into their courses and MAKE PROGRESS in those courses. This will be considered online attendance. In addition, all students are required for the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year to have a two-way course specific conversation with a VLA staff member TWICE A WEEK. Students can connect with VLA staff for these two-way conversations via text, phone call, email, Google Chat, Google Classroom, & Edgenuity. Students are able to log into their courses 24/7. Students have access to VLA staff Monday-Friday from 8:00-4:00pm and 6:00-9:00pm, as well as Saturdays and Sundays from 6:00-9:00pm, and the VLA building is open to students Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 9:00-1:00pm.
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Virtual Learning Academy of St Clair County
Virtual Learning Academy (VLA) is a public school academy chartered by the St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA). VLA is a fully accredited, alternative, online high school, offering its graduates a state-certified high school diploma. All curriculum is aligned to the state of Michigan curriculum standards. Online learning gives students flexibility. They can work in their courses at their own pace, anyplace, anytime.
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(810) 364-1362
Did you know?
More than 400 students have earned a high school diploma through the Virtual Learning Academy since 2009!
COVID-19 Extended Learning Plan
This plan does not replace the District's COVID-19 Preparedness & Response Plan. It is an additional plan that includes new assurances and sections on educational goals, instructional delivery, grading, and equitable access. Here is the link to VLA's Extended Learning Plan that was approved by our authorizing body, St. Clair County RESA, on September 28, 2020.
COVID-19 Preparedness & Response Plan
Per the State of Michigan Department of Education, Each school district—traditional, public school academy (PSA), nonpublic, and intermediate school district (ISD)—that educates pre-K-12 studentsshall submit a single completed assurance document and preparedness plan to its local board in time for approval by August 15,or seven days before the first day of school, whichever comes first.This document, when completed, serves as a single assurance document and preparedness plan.Each school district—traditional, public school academy (PSA), nonpublic, and intermediate school district (ISD)—that educates pre-K-12 studentsshall submit a single completed assurance document and preparedness plan to its local board in time for approval by August 15,or seven days before the first day of school, whichever comes first.This document, when completed, serves as a single assurance document and preparedness plan.all school districts must submit a single completed assurance document and preparedness plan to their local school board in time for its approval by August 15, 2020. Here is the link to VLA's Preparedness & Response Plan that was board approved on August 12, 2020. We based this closely off of the MI Safe Schools: Michigan's 2020-2021 Return to School Roadmap.
Continuity of Learning Response Plan
As a result of COVID-19 and the closing of school buildings for the 2019-2020 school year, all Michigan school districts must submit a Continuity of Learning and COVID-19 Response Plan (“Plan”) in order to continue to receive state aid for operations. Although schools are closed and not providing in-person instruction, teaching and learning must continue. Here is the link to VLA's Continuity of Learning Response Plan.