Global Student Network (GSN) now offers more online K-12 standards-based courses to schools then any other curriculum provider worldwide. Nearly a decade ago, GSN started with one online curriculum. Today, after listening to the “wants and needs” of it’s students and families, it offers four of the very best world-renown curriculum programs in the world, all under one roof with more to come.
In 2012, GSN significantly enhanced our menu of curriculum and learning management systems, quality and quantity of online courses, and academic assessment systems. Our goal is, as it always has been, to bring Virtual Learning equity to small and medium sized schools and school districts, and to the homeschool community. Our Curriculum Menu includes:
Global Courseware
The Global Courseware are online innovative, research-based curriculum for K-12 in Reading, Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, Writing, and Social Sciences. The courseware features integrated assessment and automated reporting tools that are aligned to all state and national academic standards.
- Over 150 online courses for grades K-12
- Over 5,5000 lessons
- Over 200,000 content pages of research and objective-based problem-solving courseware
- Assessment, alignment, and curriculum management tools
- Over 75 titles with Lexile and Quantile measures, matched to appropriate lesson content
Honors and Advance Placement: 39 Online Honors and Advanced Placement courses from Apex Learning in Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and World Languages. High-school homeschoolers can enroll in all honors courses.
Odysseyware: Complete online courses from Odysseyware including 23 online high school Career & Technical Education courses in three strands:
- Business Management and Administration
- Health Science
- Hospitality and Tourism
Rosetta Stone: An engaging, award-winning second-language program. Correlates to state and national standards. Choose from 26 languages.
Over the next several posts, I’ll discuss the strengths of each of these excellent curriculum choices. Our commitment of providing equity for access to research-based, effective, economical, and engaging online curriculum, led us to select these curriculum platforms as the best of the best virtual learning tools available in K-12 education.