Off Campus Options
Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) Spring 2025
Assigned Periods
- Period 1 or 7 (Issaquah High, Liberty High and Skyline High)
- Credit Recovery: Period 7 only
- If students are taking 2 online classes, they can stack them: Period 1 & 2 or Period 6 & 7
- Period 4 (Gibson Ek)
**Students may not be on campus during their assigned class period (s), except at Gibson Ek. Students and families are required to provide transportation in the morning and/or afternoon.**
Course Information
- Accelerate teacher assigned to student
- ISD Mentor assigned to student
- Coursework remote
- No live streaming
- Self-directed
- Module Unit and Final Tests in person
- Students are required to attend one of the required zoom orientations for January 29 course start date
- Monday, January 27 at 11am (no school for students)
- Tuesday, January 28 at 4pm
- Wednesday, January 29 at 8:30am
- Students are required to attend one of the required zoom orientations for the February 26 course start date:
- Monday, February 24 at 6pm
- Tuesday, February 25 at 4pm
- Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30am
- Students who are unable to attend one of the student orientation sessions will be dropped from online learning.
- Required Weekly Check-ins*
- Required Monthly Progress Reviews**
Course Start & End Date
- 1st Start Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- End Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
- 2nd Start Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- End Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
Credit Recovery
- Students taking an ISD Online Learning course for credit recovery as an off campus (ALE) student will be required to:
- Have a Zoom meeting with the Online Learning Coordinator to review program expectations by the first week of the course start date.
- Set up a weekly in person support session with the Online Learning Coordinator, which will begin the week of January 27.
*Required Weekly Check-ins (WAC 392-550-025(2))
- Students communicate each week with their Online Learning Mentor via email, Zoom, Canvas, phone or in person.
- Students/families receive an email/Canvas message/phone call reminder if we haven't heard from the student during the course of the week.
- Students may be placed at the District Admin office if they are unable to complete their weekly check-ins. District transportation not provided.
- Failure to complete more than three (3) weekly check-ins over the course of the semester and/or miss two (2) consecutive weekly check-ins will be ineligible for future enrollment in the program.
**Required Monthly Progress Review (WAC 392-550-025(3))
- Student’s grade to date must be a 60% or higher to earn Satisfactory.
- Students are notified if they are Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory by email on specific dates.
- Parent/guardian, counselor, Accelerate teacher and OL Coordinator will be cc'd on email.
- Students are required to reply to email (this also counts as the student’s weekly check-in).
- Students who earn Unsatisfactory #1 will:
- Schedule a one (1) hour support session with their mentor once a week.
- Support sessions will take place via Zoom or in person.
- Attendance will be taken.
- Students who earn Unsatisfactory #2 (consecutively) will:
- Be placed ‘on campus’ at the District Admin Building once a week for a two (2) hour session to work on their course with ISD Online Learning mentor Department.
- Attendance will be taken.
- District transportation not provided.
- Students who earn Unsatisfactory #3 (consecutively) will:
- Be placed ‘on campus' at the District Admin Building twice a week for a two (2) hour session to work on their course with Online Learning Department.
- Attendance will be taken.
- District transportation not provided.
- Students who earn Unsatisfactory #1 will:
- Monthly Progress Review Dates:
- 1/29 Start Date: 2/24, 3/24, 4/28, 5/27
- 2/26 Start Date: 3/24, 4/28, 5/27
Drop Policy
- Up until Day 5: Student may drop with no grade penalty
- Day 6-20: Student will receive a W on transcript
- Day 21 or after: Student will receive a F on transcript
Final Grade
- Students will earn a letter grade for their course (A-F), unless they are taking an Independent Study course (Pass/Fail).
- Final course grade will be placed on the student's high school transcript.
Fee
- No fee
- Students are required to complete an Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) Student Participation Agreement by due date.
Proctored Testing
- Please visit our Testing page to learn more. Testing for Spring 2025 will look very similar to Fall 2024 testing.
Home-Based Instruction vs ALE Program
In accordance with the Alternative Learning Experience Implementation Standards, reference WAC 392-550, prior to enrollment, parent(s) or guardian shall be provided with documentation attesting to the understanding of the difference between Home-Based Instruction (homeschooling) and enrollment in a public school Alternative Learning Experience (ALE). Please read the Summary Description to learn more.
Important Note: If a student fails an Online course, consistently fails to follow off campus (ALE) Online Learning participation requirements, and/or consistently fails to follow Online Learning policies they will be unable to enroll in future online courses with ISD Online Learning.
Family Pay: Spring 2025
Assigned Periods
- Period 7 (Gibson Ek)
- Period 8 (Issaquah High, Liberty High and Skyline High)
Course Information
- Accelerate teacher assigned to student
- ISD mentor assigned to student
- Coursework remote
- No live streaming
- Self-directed
- Module Unit and Final Tests in person
- Students are required to attend one of the required zoom orientations for the January 29 course start date
- Monday, January 27 at 11am (no school for students)
- Tuesday, January 28 at 4pm
- Wednesday, January 29 at 8:30am
- Students are required to attend one of the required zoom orientations for the February 26 course start date:
- Monday, February 24 at 6pm
- Tuesday, February 25 at 4pm
- Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30am
- Students who are unable to attend one of the student orientation sessions will be dropped from online learning.
- Weekly progress reports sent out by ISD mentor
Course Start & End Date
- 1st Start Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- End Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
- 2nd Start Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- End Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
Drop Policy
- Up until Day 5: Student may drop with no grade penalty
- Day 6-20: Student will receive a W on transcript
- Day 21 or after: Student will receive a F on transcript
Final Grade
- Students will earn a letter grade for their course (A-F), unless they are taking an Independent Study course (Pass/Fail).
- Final course grade will be placed on the student's high school transcript.
Fee
- $425/course
- Scholarships Available
Textbook Fee
- Regular, Honors and Credit Recovery courses will not have a required textbook to be purchased.
- The majority of the AP courses will have a textbook that will be required for the course. It is the student's responsibility to purchase and/or rent the correct textbook for their online course (s). Please visit the AP Textbook Required List to learn more.
- Scholarships Available.
Refund Policy**
- Before start of course: Drop with refund minus processing fee ($385).
- Day 1 - Day 14: Drop with partial refund ($285)
- Day 15 and Beyond: No refund
**Days include weekends and holidays.**
Requirements & Expectations
- Submit work each week following your course schedule.
- Complete required Student Orientation
Proctored Testing
- Please visit our Testing page to learn more. Testing for Spring 2025 will look very similar to Fall 2024 testing.
Important Note: If a student fails an Online course and/or consistently fails to follow Online Learning policies they will be unable to enroll in future online courses with ISD Online Learning.