{"id":12103,"date":"2024-02-07T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:02:18","slug":"the-shift-towards-non-traditional-education-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/resources\/the-shift-towards-non-traditional-education-models\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shift Towards Non-Traditional Education Models"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Shift Towards Non-Traditional Education Models<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>ascascascas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was writing this article in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, \u201cnon-traditional\u201d schooling would reference alternatives to public schools like Montessori education, charter schools, or Expeditionary Learning programs.\u00a0 All three represent both the historical trend to offer variety in the way schooling happen and, through their growth, the normalizing of projects once labeled as \u201cnon-traditional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, the current educational landscape has its equivalents to the aforementioned options. \u00a0Although still often labeled as \u201cnon-traditional\u201d these three models, homeschooling, virtual learning, and micro-schools, have attracted a significant number of learners and educators to their format.\u00a0 As you work with school systems, I encourage you to inquire about each model\u2019s popularity and how they are impacting funding, enrollment, and policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12111\" style=\"width:369px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-Slide-1-copy-1-4-2048x1072.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To that end, the summaries below share experiences I have had with each non-traditional setting in my school district.\u00a0 Combined with some national data, sections are meant to help develop your understating, formulate inquiries, and refine strategies with traditional and non-traditional schools you work with now or in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Home schooling<\/strong> allows<em> parents to teach their children at home instead of sending them to a schoo<\/em>l. This approach has become the fastest-growing non-traditional approach to education in the United States. In 2019, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nhes\/homeschooling.asp\">The National Center for Education Statistics\u2019<\/a> last official federal estimate reported that there were 1.5 million children being home-schooled in the nation. &nbsp;My district\u2019s experience with home-schooling supports the national trend.&nbsp; Remote learning during the two years of the COVID pandemic accelerated the trend, which had been regulated mostly to elementary and middle school, to our high schools.&nbsp; It is important to know that home schooled students are eligible to partake in student activities and sports as well as special education support..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Virtual Learning: <\/strong>Due to the development and proliferation of digital technologies, virtual education has become a normalized form of teaching and learning. &nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoiceweek.com\/guide-to-online-school\/\">National School Choice Week 2021 report (updated in January 2024)<\/a> outlines each state\u2019s virtual learning program.&nbsp; The district I work for is large enough to have its own, internal Online Campus.&nbsp; This program offers online courses for high school students in every content area including Health and Physical Education, World Languages, and Art. Additionally, students engage in two other virtual learning experiences.&nbsp; The first, also supported by my district, provides credit recovery opportunities through a contracted third party.&nbsp; In additional to remediation, home bound (not home schooled) students also utilize this service.&nbsp; Secondly, students tap into state funded virtual learning for credit advancement during the summer. Unlike our Online Campus, students pay for course work that provides credit advancement.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Micro Schools <\/strong>are\u00a0small, private institutions that meet in commercial venues, nonprofit space, private residences, and religious affiliated buildings. Located in Las Vegas since 2022, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microschoolingcenter.org\/\">The National Microschooling Center<\/a>\u2019s website reports that 30 states have micro schools operating in them schools serving between 1 \u2013 2 million learners. Unlike the first two non-traditional models above, \u201cmicro-schools\u201d are less popular in my district.\u00a0 However, during the pandemic, a few emerged dedicated to students in grades K-8.\u00a0 One possible variable impacting the dearth of this model is the number of services my district provides to families. \u00a0As a county system (as opposed to a city or town model) services are provided with greater frequency and equity across a lager geography.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the state where I live, Virginia, all three of these \u201cnon-traditional\u201d approaches to schools exist in varying forms and with different models across the state.\u00a0 Working in a field that promotes the value of personalized learning and laments \u201cone way for everyone\u201d in education, this is not surprising. In turn, you and your organization should continue to work within the complexities that come with varied educational formats and expect that soon these approaches, like their earlier counterparts, will be commonplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8874 smush-dimensions lazyload\" style=\"--smush-image-width: 1024px; --smush-image-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;width:324px;height:324px\" width=\"1024\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Written by:&nbsp;<\/strong>Craig Perrier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Educational Thought Leader and Practitioner<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig&nbsp;is the High School Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax, VA. He also is an online adjunct professor of education for Framingham State University and the teacher certification program, Educate VA. Previously, he taught at American Schools in Brazil for six years and for six years in public schools in Massachusetts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interested in learning more about the education market, or looking to contribute?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/contact\/\">We want to hear from you!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shift Towards Non-Traditional Education Models ascascascas If I was writing this article in the 20th century, \u201cnon-traditional\u201d schooling would reference alternatives to public schools like Montessori education, charter schools, or Expeditionary Learning programs.\u00a0 All three represent both the historical trend to offer variety in the way schooling happen and, through their growth, the normalizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2526,2160,1574,5],"tags":[2618,2635,2641],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-blog-post","category-educator_perspective","category-education-sales-and-marketing-resources","tag-craig-perrier","tag-emerging-trends-in-education","tag-non-traditional-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile-ed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}