Partner with VLACS to Expand Learning Opportunities at Your School
VLACS partners with local schools to offer flexible, personalized, and competency-based education options that complement traditional classroom learning. With year-round open enrollment and free tuition for New Hampshire K-12 students, we can help your school provide additional learning experiences tailored to students’ unique needs, interests, and talents.
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Connect with our School Partnerships team during one of our upcoming live webinars.
Benefits of Partnering with VLACS
Our school partners are able to provide opportunities for success
Offer More Courses
Expand your course catalog with access to 400+ VLACS courses, including dual credit and advanced placement options, over 160 project-based learning modules, and a variety of experiential learning opportunities, including many STEM and STEAM-based options.
Help Students Succeed in Competency-Based Learning Programs
Offer students the opportunity to master competencies with a wider range of learning options that best suit their needs, interests, and challenges.
Provide Learning Alternatives
Help more students succeed by allowing them to choose to master competencies through courses, projects, and experiences such as internships, service learning, independent study, and more.
Full Support from VLACS
With a hub of learning resources to a team of administrators, support staff, counselors, and technical helpdesk specialists, VLACS ensures all partners are supported.
Meet Individual Needs & Interests
Students engage with learning at their own pace, on a schedule that meets their unique needs and allows them to balance extracurricular passions, work schedules, and more.
Create Learning Cohorts
Sometimes learning together is better! Partners can form cohorts of students with similar interests, learning styles and/or paces, and provide structured support so they can complete coursework during their academic day.
Give Students New Ways to Catch Up and Recover Competencies
For students who need extra time and support to master competencies they missed the first time around, VLACS is the ideal option with self-paced learning and the chance to keep trying until it clicks — so failure isn’t an option.
Access to Student Progress
By partnering with VLACS, you’ll have full access to student accounts on our information system so that your team can stay current on student progress.
What’s Included in Our Partnership
Full Support from VLACS
Our team of administrators, support staff, counselors, and technical helpdesk specialists are available to help ensure partnership success.
Ongoing Program Training
Our flexible, online learning program training is scheduled as needed throughout the year to keep you up to speed.
Check out our page for educators to find upcoming webinars for schools.
Competency or Credit Recovery
Support students who need additional credits for grade advancement or graduation.
Access to Student Progress
You’ll have full access to student accounts on our information system so that your team can stay current on student progress.
Support for Student Cohorts
Form cohorts of students with similar interests and learning styles to provide structured support. We assist schools that enroll multiple students in the same offering.
Access to Over 400 Courses
From core academics to technology, world language, and early college options, expand your school’s programming with VLACS’ extensive course offerings.
Extended Learning Opportunities & Mentorship
Offer students job shadow and micro-internship opportunities with over 300 VLACS pre-approved mentors they can work with during these experiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do VLACS courses cost?
VLACS elementary, middle, and high school courses are free for New Hampshire residents. Out-of-state or international tuition is $1,162.33 per credit or $581.16 for half credit, with a $20 non-refundable registration fee. Additional fees apply for college courses.
When does enrollment start?
Enrollment at VLACS is always open. Students can apply for full-time or part-time status. Full-time applicants should attend an open house or contact [email protected], while part-time students can start by enrolling directly.
Is VLACS accredited?
VLACS is a state-approved charter school in New Hampshire, authorized to award high school diplomas and academic credits. Our programming and services meet the NH Board of Education’s standards, with regular reports and a five-year charter renewal process.
How is the coursework structured?
Students begin with a Welcome Meeting involving the instructor and a parent or guardian. Lessons, assignments, and grades are accessed through a secure online course management system. There are no live classes; instead, students and instructors communicate through various methods such as monthly meetings and discussion-based assessments.
How do students communicate with teachers?
Students communicate with teachers through welcome calls, monthly check-ins, discussion-based assessments, and progress reports. The system is designed to ensure consistent and supportive interaction.
What technology do students need?
Students need a laptop or desktop capable of running Windows or Macintosh operating systems and reliable internet access. VLACS provides laptop and internet assistance to qualifying New Hampshire residents.
What types of courses or learning opportunities are available?
VLACS offers a wide range of learning opportunities, including traditional coursework, competency-based learning, project-based learning, and career and technical education. Students can also participate in experiences, projects, early college programs, and interest-based learning.
Yes, VLACS accommodates students with IEPs. Part-time students can receive IEP services from their local school, while full-time students receive support directly from VLACS.
What is a parent’s role at VLACS?
Parents are encouraged to stay actively involved in their child’s education, especially for younger students. This includes participating in welcome calls, monthly meetings, and monitoring progress through the VLACS student information system.
Can my child continue to attend traditional school?
Yes, part-time VLACS students can remain enrolled in their local school or be homeschooled while taking VLACS courses.
What is the typical timetable for a course?
Students can progress at their own pace, but a traditional timetable is about 36 weeks for a 1-credit course and 18 weeks for a 0.5-credit course.
Real people. Real stories.
[VLACS] has been an invaluable resource for us to be able to provide an alternative for our students should they need a core course that may be full or unavailable due to scheduling. Our students can also take advantage of a wide variety of elective courses that we are not able to offer here.
[My teacher] was so nice. She was always super interested in what I was doing.
It is a joy working with students and helping them reach their overall potential. Watching a student grow and figure out who they are meant to be and what they are meant to do, is the true reason why I love what I do.
For me, VLACS is the freedom to be my own person. Every one of the teachers, faculty, and staff I have interacted with during my time here have encouraged me to be nothing but the best and most authentic version of myself. I’ve truly never enjoyed education as much as I have with VLACS.
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