Standing out among Online High Schools in PA: Program Overview
PA Distance is one of the leading online high schools in PA, offering students a rigorous academic experience through our blended learning environment. Our students engage in 5.5 hours of school per day, including both synchronous (live) and asynchronous (independent) learning activities. Let’s take a closer look at how this blended approach benefits high school students.
About Our Virtual High School in Pennsylvania: How It Works
PA Distance's virtual high school in Pennsylvania incorporates synchronous live learning sessions and asynchronous learning opportunities, providing students with a balanced educational experience.
Live Learning
Each synchronous Live Learning Session with their teachers is 60 minutes long and encompasses 2-3 hours of their day, depending on their class schedule.
Independent Lessons
Students are assigned independent asynchronous lessons, lasting 30-60 minutes each day, for about 5 hours per school week in each subject.
Mr. Charles Mort, High School Principal
“At PA Distance, high school students engage in flexible, real-world learning that goes beyond the classroom—preparing them for college, careers, and life, wherever they are.”
Educational Programs
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enVision Mathematics
This highly-rated product aligns directly with PA Core Math standards, challenges students to think critically about math concepts, and personalizes math for students.
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Edmentum Courseware: Plato
A curriculum product that enables daily mastery assessments, allowing for frequent evaluation and adjustment of student learning plans, ensuring continuous progress.
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Code HS
Code HS is an online teaching platform that supplements the Live Learning Sessions that go along with the Computer Science elective courses that PA Distance now offers high school students. Code HS is made to supplement and enrich the lessons for each class.
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Glencoe Health
Glencoe Health provides students with age-appropriate content that aligns with national and state health and safety standards. Glencoe Health is a research-based program that focuses on developing students' knowledge and skills during critical periods of development.
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StudySync ELA
StudySync is an ELA education curriculum for grades 6–12. StudySync is designed to captivate through selections of culturally diverse literature, elevate instruction tailored to specific learning needs, and provide flexibility to create the ideal classroom experience for students.
Graduation
To celebrate the end of students’ high school education and honor their hard work, PA Distance hosts a yearly in-person graduation ceremony in Harrisburg, PA. During this event, seniors and their families celebrate with their teachers and classmates while receiving a high school diploma in their caps and gowns.
Student support should extend to education and beyond.
With the help of our interventionists, counselors, teachers, and student support staff, we can meet each student where they are and help them grow.
To ensure every child has the tools they need to be successful, our PA online high school utilizes a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to support students academically, behaviorally, and socially.
Delivery of standards-based instruction and differentiated learning opportunities to meet the needs of students
Collection and analysis of multiple data points to support informed decisions regarding curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Implementation of a tiered system of support to differentiate programmatic interventions for all students
Student Support
Office Hours:
Students have the opportunity to meet with any of their teachers for additional help on their daily assignments. At 3:00 p.m. every day, students can meet with their teachers virtually via a video call, phone call, or chat.
Career & Work:
We require all of our students to go through our career education and work program to prepare them for life after graduation from our online high school in Pennsylvania. Requirements vary by grade level.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports:
PA Distance utilizes Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) to provide a behavioral support system to high school students. PBIS is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. It is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all students by developing research-based, school-wide, and classroom behavior support systems. High school students are given monthly projects to show their progress in exhibiting what PA Distance calls our Core Four, which is made up of four behaviors we believe students need to succeed in life and school. These include organization, self-advocacy, working independently, and attending school.
Have more questions about our online high school in PA? Please contact us today.