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Highline Virtual Academy presents enrollment and learning models; students describe blended and self-directed pathways
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School leaders and three students described Highline Virtual Academy's enrollment growth, student supports, and three learning pathways during a board presentation; principal cited improvements in belonging and academic supports.
Highline Virtual Academy (HVA) leaders presented an overview of the school’s enrollment, instructional models and student supports at the Highline School District board meeting. Principal Amy Carlson and school staff highlighted enrollment trends, program pathways and social-emotional supports; three students described their experiences in the academy’s blended, self-directed and independent models.
Carlson said HVA serves a diverse student body and supports the district’s strategic goals to know “every student by name, strength and need.” Counselor Kishana Russell reported the school serves 249 students districtwide, with 53 in the independent model; since the start of the school year 74 students have enrolled, Carlson said. Russell gave demographic figures the school is tracking: 45% of HVA…
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