The future

2020, Here we Come!

  • Survey Staff, Parents, & Community

    Survey Staff, Parents, & Community

  • School Development Team

    School Development Team

    WUSD commences a school development team to design a school of choice to open in 2014-2015.
  • School of Choice Vision

    School of Choice Vision

    WUSD and School Development Team decide to develop the school of choice as a dependent charter school with a project based learning focus and encompassing the district's independent study/virtual program. The school will open with a K-4 configuration, rolling up a grade level a year and eventually building out to a comprehensive K-12 program.
  • Research PBL Models

    School Development Team members visit exemplar schools implementating Project Based Learning.
  • Pilot Blended K Program

    Pilot Blended K Program

    Kindergartners enrolled in the virtual academy have the option of attending two days a week for enrichment at the brick and mortar campus.
  • Pilot new LMS for Virtual Academy

    Pilot new LMS for Virtual Academy

  • School Opens to grades K-4

    School Opens to grades K-4

  • Implement BYOD

    Implement BYOD

  • Blended Learning-Hybrid Option

    Blended Learning-Hybrid Option

    Students attending the Virtual Academy at all grade levels have the option of attending the brick and mortar campus two days a week for project based learning.
  • Open 5th grade

    Open 5th grade

  • Goal: 1:1 Technology

    Goal: 1:1 Technology

  • Open 6th Grade

    Open 6th Grade

  • Open 7th Grade

    Open 7th Grade

  • Open 8th Grade

    Open 8th Grade

  • Open with 9th & 10th Grades

  • 21st Century Learning Environment

    21st Century Learning Environment

    Blended learning, flipped classrooms, 1:1 technology, and daily application of the Four Cs - collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication, are the norm in our 21st century learning environment. Students find solutions to real world challenges through interdisciplinary, hands-on projects in partnership with the industry in our local community.