Your Students Deserve Options for Completing their Education

PLATO®Courses provide a whole-course solution for granting credit in

an online learning environment. Self-paced, semester-long courses allow

students to rapidly complete courses, recover credits, or earn credit to

open up schedules for electives and progress toward graduation.

Credit Recovery and Acceleration

Nationwide, 32 percent of freshmen will not graduate within four years

and receive their high school diploma with their class. By offering credit

recovery, acceleration and remediation programs using PLATO

Courses, Span the Gap will offer the opportunity for improved

graduation rates, providing brighter futures for students.

PLATO Courses provide rigorous, engaging instructional content for

credit recovery programs to help achieve dramatic increases in

recovered credits and graduation rates.

First-time Course Credit

Students are choosing online learning in record numbers for many reasons—

access to more curriculum choices, increased flexibility and

convenience, and accelerated learning. PLATO Courses deliver

interactive, standards-based curriculum with real-world examples and

reports that show students are on task, mastering content, and

progressing toward course completion.

The Span the Gap Difference:

In order to be successful in a Credit Recovery or Subject Mastery

Program the research suggests high risk students need a supportive,

individualized program that provides academic scaffolding, individual

guidance and skilled intervention by appropriately trained professionals.  [1]

CARIS, Credit Acceleration, Recovery and Intervention Services,  

has been specifically designed to provide such a program

through…

• Scaffolded PLATO Learning online system for Credit Acceleration and Recovery
• Content mastery learning to improve academic outcomes
• Targeted professional intervention services to improve academic and behavioral functions
• Connecting students to existing community and family support organizations

• Providing supplementary individual or group instruction in areas of weakness to scaffold the skills and learning needed to reach individual educational goals
• Providing individual reports on student attendance and academic progress
• Providing parent communication services
• Providing daily follow-up on student absences
• Planning for behavioral or attendance concerns

[1]  (Campuzano, 2009)

Campuzano, D. A. (2009). Institute of Education Sciences. Washington D.C.: Mathematics Policy Research and What Works Clearinghouse.

For more information, please contact us.

Rigorous and customizable

PLATO Courses are aligned to national standards with available state standards coverage reports which include the Commonwealth of Virginia SOLs.

PLATO Courses can easily be customized to local standards and pacing guides, allowing for additions or re-sequencing of course content.

Online course content, combined with off-line and web-based activities, provides comprehensive, rigorous curriculum.

Rigorous Instructional Content
Technology-driven, standards-based instructional content, coupled with offline activities and Internet resources, provide a rigorous curriculum delivered online to students for anytime, anywhere access. Available courses include:

• Language Arts
  • English 7 A/B
  • English 8 A/B
  • English 9 A/B
  • English 10 A/B
  • English 11 A/B
  • English 12 A/B
• Mathematics
  • Pre-Algebra A/B
  • Algebra 1 A/B
  • Algebra 2 A/B
  • Geometry A/B
  • Consumer Mathematics
• Science
  • Biology A/B
  • Chemistry A/B
  • Physical Science A/B
  • Life Science A/B
• Social Studies
  • Basic American History 1 A/B
  • Basic American History 2 A/B
  • American History 1 A/B
  • American History 2 A/B
  • World History A/B 
  • Geography A/B
  • Civics A/B
  • U.S. Government A/B
  • Economics A/B
• Electives
  • Health
  • Art History and Appreciation
  • Computer Applications and Technology
• AP* Editions
  • Biology—New!
  • Chemistry—Coming Soon!
  • Calculus A/B—New!
  • English Literature and Composition—New!
  • US History—Coming Soon!
• Skill Review and Reteaching for Reading, Language Arts and Math is also available.