When the College Board announced the new AP® Precalculus course, our Academic Program staff took a close look at the course materials. We polled our consortium schools to find out where AP® Precalculus might fit into their math sequence, and what their thoughts were about offering the course on their own campus.

As students complete their course selections for the next school year, they’re imagining the perfect schedule. Every year, academic advisors hear students say, “I just wish we had this course.” Educators know every school’s course catalog is limited, and no one school can be all things to all students.

Every Academic Leader has two things in common: the to-do list is long, and there’s not enough time in the day to cross everything off. Academic Leaders are tasked with increasingly complex jobs with an expanding set of responsibilities, and that means they have to know more, do more, and be more efficient than ever before.

As a One Schoolhouse instructor, Jackie appreciates the personalized learning approach that shapes each student's individual learning process. Jackie shares, “One of the many things One Schoolhouse focuses on is the actual learning process of each student. Through goals, reflection, discussion, and interaction with me and their peers, my online students take ownership and develop a strong awareness of their own learning.”  

Access to Calculus is not a reflection of students’ ability to complete higher-level math courses. Often, it’s a reflection of the middle school students attended. That’s because in order to take Calculus in the senior year, students need to have completed Algebra I before starting high school.