“Apex Learning really helps us engage students who struggle in a traditional classroom setting. I call them modern learners. They are students with short attention spans. They want to be engaged in learning instead of just waiting for everything to come their way. Apex Learning reaches the students who want to move at their own pace.”

   — Bob Hahn
    

Curriculum That Better Fits Student Needs

The experience of learning in a traditional classroom is not successful for every student. They grow impatient with the one-size-fits-all pace — especially in today’s abbreviated, text-message world — and struggle to keep up academically.

Cherokee County School District high schools are gaining a better understanding of how to connect with these students. The district, Georgia's eighth largest in a community 40 miles north of Atlanta, has implemented new programs across its eight high schools, relying on modern, relevant digital curriculum to grab and hold student attention. As a result district graduation rates have increased by nearly 2 percent, currently standing at 82.1 percent for the 2011-012 school year.

Using Technology to Individually Engage Students

Cherokee's six comprehensive high schools offer Apex Learning online courses for credit recovery in computer labs during regular class periods throughout the day. Effort is made for students to be grouped by subject area with certified in-field teachers to facilitate learning.

Students receive one-on-one attention as they work through their online courses in class, and they are able to access their courses outside school from any computer with Internet access. Combined with the ability to print out practice and study sheets for "paper-and-pencil" students, the versatility of online delivery of multimedia content has made Apex Learning digital curriculum particularly effective.