Edementum for Students with IEP (FCPS)

[Anonymous]

DC is approved for homebound services following hospitalization (mental health). The homebound teacher called to set up the orientation call for next week. Teacher seemed unaware of the IEP and said that the program is independent study, the student calls or emails the homebound teacher if the student has a question or is stuck. DC has a learning disability and executive functioning deficits, and this method of virtual learning seems even worse that during COVID.

Would appreciate feedback from those who've been there done that and how they navigated the Edmentum experience for students with an IEP.

[Anonymous]

We are in the same boat, and was shocked to learn it was just online modules. :/. Our teacher hasn't reached out yet, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in the same boat, and was shocked to learn it was just online modules. :/. Our teacher hasn't reached out yet, though.

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I should add, my kid has a 504, and I guess I will have them ask about the accommodations so thanks for that reminder. Not sure how assessments run, in addition to due dates, etc.

gl OP.

[Anonymous]

We are stuck in this hell. School has acknowledged that asynchronous learning is not an option but has given us no other options and my kid needs to transition to something that works. All we hear is “it takes time” but we’ve started this process the week before school started.

Good luck OP. All I keep thinking is how is this legal?!

[Anonymous]

Our ADHD 504 kid took an Edmentum course this summer. The student EF burden was unreasonable. Our kid was taking the course by choice, but they had a terrible experience.

Our kid's course was broken down into modules, with mastery tests at the end of each one. The modules did not contain videos so working through them was less like COVID online learning (live instruction or videos posted), and more like reading a textbook that contained a quiz at the end of each chapter, with the answers posted for the student to check.

There was a rough pacing guide offered, but I often disagreed with it plus the difficulty of the content varied, so time management and pacing was hard for our kid to do.

Our kid's course had a teacher who was warm and responsive, and it still took too long to resolve questions. It takes a very organized, proactive and confident student to email the teacher every time they get stuck, and to know what question to ask. Half the time our kid was stuck, it was due to having moved too quickly through the material (typical for ADHD, and Edmentum has some guardrails built in for this, but not enough) and several times, it was due to errors in the course materials.

If I were you, I'd ask the homebound teacher for multiple daily regular check-ins (video, not email). Hope this helps.