VLAC Family News
August 11, 2023
Upcoming Dates
August 17: Required Family Orientation 6PM Virtual
August 22: Technology begins shipping to homes
August 24: Required Family Orientation 6PM Virtual
August 28: VLAC Teaching Staff returns to work
August 31: Required Family Orientation 6PM Virtual
September 4: Labor Day
September 5: School Begins
September 8: Last Day for Grades 6-12 to make schedule changes
September 13: Curriculum materials ship to homes
All dates for the school year are updated on our website under "Current Families"
Start to the School Year
We are very excited about several updates to the program that will help ensure students are successful as virtual learners:
- Required Family Orientations: choose and register for required family orientations by visiting our "Current Families" portion of the website. Need only attend one session.
- Teacher Welcome Letters and Phone Calls: are sent and take place August 31 and Sept 1
- Required teacher led morning meetings with student success tips: Weeks of Sept 5 and 11th
- Student Learning Inventory for Grades 6-12 to help you choose between Imagine and Lincoln
- Clever single sign on for all VLAC websites, curriculum vendors and assessment applications
Updates to Technology
Data security becomes ever more important in this day and age. Oakland Schools continues to implement measures to increase data security. One of these measures is that student passwords are only available for parents to view in parent portal. VLAC staff will no longer be able to see student passwords. Student passwords will not change during a students' enrollment in the program. See below for directions on how to view your student passwords.
Curriculum Choices 23-24
- K-5 students Lincoln Learning with elective choices including Lincoln and Defined courses
- 6-12 Imagine and Lincoln Learning: please see the chart below for an overview of differences between the curriculums.
Grades 6-12 Scheduling
- Student Learning Profile: demonstrates tools available from Imagine and Lincoln to help you choose which curriculum best works for you.
- Course Guide: describes courses available for you to take.
- Coming Soon: VLAC Counseling Team! Pending Board approval we will add two experienced counselors who will be available to schedule meetings or correspond via email and text to assist students in scheduling.
- Schedule only Semester one courses at this time.
- Course schedules may be updated anytime before September 5th. Once course selections are made it takes 24 hours during a business day for the courses to show up in your Imagine or Lincoln course dashboards. Adjustments to courses selections must be complete by Sept 8th after which time no changes may be made to semester one courses.
- Directions for adding Course Requests in MISTAR can be found on our website under Current Families and below.
Contact the VLAC Team
Andrea Becker VLAC Lead Instructor 248-209-2079
Tina Bennett: VLAC Project Assistant 248-209-2071
Mary Kotcher: VLAC Office Assistant 248-209-2071
Kristi McAllister: VLAC Special Populations Consultant 28-410-2202
Technology Support: 248-209-2060
Email: info@vlac.org
Website: https://virtuallearningacademyconsortium.org
Location: 2111 Pontiac Lake Road, Waterford Township, MI, USA
Phone: 248-209-2071
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VLAConsortium/
Twitter: @VLAConsortium