COLUMBUS, Ind. — Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. has created a new position to oversee online instruction.
BCSC school board members have approved the position of K-12 virtual pathway director.
Following the approval on Monday, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Teresa Heiny announced that the role would be filled by Josh Giebel, who is a counselor at Columbus Signature Academy New Tech.
Giebel’s new position will involve “keeping track of students” and whether or not they’re staying “caught up with where they should be along the pathway,” Heiny said.
“We have teachers that will teach those courses, but this is like the principal over the whole K-12 pathway,” she said. “So it’s the monitoring, it’s helping with assessment. We still have to give these kids the state test. … Just everything a principal does.”
Many people have been involved in organizing virtual instruction throughout the 2020-21 school year, said Superintendent Jim Roberts.
“Coming out of spring break, at least by our current count, we’ll have approximately 1,500 students still participating in an eLearning option during quarter four,” he said. At one point, the school corporation had nearly 3,200 students online, he said.
About 300 students, including both elementary and secondary, might choose to enroll in a virtual option next year, he said. Based on possible enrollment, the state may require BCSC to recognize the virtual pathway as a “new school” within the school corporation.
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