Virtual Learning Option

Important Update:

2nd Semester Commitment Form for current VLO families
is now closed for new submissions.
All those who did not complete the form by the published deadline
will remain in VLO through the second semester.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lakota responded with the creation of the Virtual Learning Option for district families. In the Virtual Learning Option, or VLO, students learn 100% online with Lakota teacher support.

“We know that some of our families have concerns about having their child return to school in the fall,” said Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction Keith Koehne. “The Lakota Virtual Learning Option will give our families the opportunity to continue their education with Lakota curriculum from home.” Students enrolled in the virtual program will also have a dedicated Lakota teacher to check in with and ask questions.

On this page, there are resources linked below for VLO families, information guides to answer many general questions, support for technology, and more.

To contact the VLO team, email us at vlo@lakotaonline.com.

Please share your suggestions with us. We would like to hear feedback from families on areas for improvement. This could be your ideas on how work could be shared, technical issues you seem to face with specific learning tools, or general tips that have made learning go more smoothly in your household.
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Project Helps VLO Second Graders Learn More than Economics

01/22/2021

To culminate their recent Economics unit, Lakota VLO students banded together to learn some real-life lessons about needs and wants.

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Lunch and Learn Series Connects ECS Parents, Offers Support

12/13/2020

How can parents stay connected and receive support in these difficult times? “It is definitely difficult not having adults in the school building this year to help build community and connectedness,” said Jen Gillum, counselor at Wyandot Early Childhood School. “The Lunch and Learn Series is helping to bridge that gap.”

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Heritage Debuts StoryWalksⓇ for In-Person and VLO Families

12/01/2020

What can in-person and virtual learning students do to experience the same thing? This is the question that Heritage Early Childhood School Assistant Principal Natalie Jimenez asked herself. The answer? StoryWalksⓇ.

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First Semester Exams Canceled for High School Students

12/01/2020

End of semester exams for students in grades 9-12 have been cancelled for the first semester this school year. Grades for the first and second quarters will be weighted equally at 50% to determine first semester grades.

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Media Design & Communications Project Connects VLO Students

11/27/2020

Hundreds of K-2 virtual learners are having some fall and winter fun, thanks to some Hopewell and Liberty junior high VLO students. Students in Moriah Walker’s Media Design & Communications class recently took on a project to create activity books full of coloring pages, word searches and math puzzles for younger VLO students at Hopewell and Wyandot early childhood schools.

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Fall VLO Celebrations Build Community

11/13/2020

“It was an optional Zoom session, but 90% of my children came to the party dressed in their costumes. What I thought might be a half hour turned into 50 minutes of fun and laughter – talking – sharing – just enjoying being together,” said Wyandot ECS first grade teacher Abigail Detcher.

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