Today's blog announces that online exams are now available for our new English 9 and English 10 courses.  Both paper-based courses debuted in recent months and are nice additions to our impressive list of high school correspondence courses.  In these times, however, we know that students might prefer to do their exams online, and so we are happy to make online exams available.  Our goal is to have online exams available for all of our correspondence courses, and we are working hard to get there, though it may be impossible for us to offer online exams in some subject areas such as math.  Another goal is to have matching online high school courses for our high school correspondence courses and matching online middle school courses for our middle school correspondence courses.  This process takes time, but, again, we are working hard to get there.  Keep checking this blog for updates and please know how much we appreciate having you as our student! 

Today's blog has information about our updated online learning page.  As some of you were aware, our Online Student Center has been down the past two weekends.  This is an unfortunate situation, and a group of webmasters and American School staff worked to fix the situation as quickly as possible.  We know that many of you go to the Online Student Center and then access your courses or exams from there, so we wanted to give you other ways to access your courses and exams should the Online Student Center be under maintenance in the future.  The newly-updated online learning page has step-by-step instructions for you to access online high school courses and online middle school courses without going to the Online Student Center.  We are working to develop a way for you to access your online exams in middle school or high school correspondence courses without having to go to the Online Student Center, but that is in development at this time.  We hope to move the Online Student Center to a more secure server as soon as this weekend, but in the meantime, please visit our online learning page if you cannot get into the Online Student Center.  We appreciate your patience and cooperation and enjoy having you as our student.

Pi Day was Saturday, March 14, and Chicago's classical music station celebrated by launching a new series called Math in Music.  We offer several math courses and a music course among our online high school courses, high school correspondence courses, online middle school courses and middle school correspondence courses, and this series sounds like a good opportunity to see how the two are linked together.  We try to include elements of multiple courses within a single course.  For example, our science courses ask students to have certain math skills.  We also advocate writing across the curriculum, which means that in many courses students are asked to write essays or paragraphs explaining what they have learned.  Doing this allows us to form well-rounded students who are ready for college or the workforce.  Join them and enroll with us today!

Today's blog is about our current response to concerns caused by the coronavirus.  At this time, it is business as usual for American School.  We have a generous sick policy that encourages employees to stay home when they do not feel well.  For our employees who are in the building, we remind them of good hygiene practices on a continuous basis.  We care about our employees' health, and we care about our students' health as well.  Our online middle school courses, middle school correspondence courses, online high school courses and high school correspondence courses can be done at your own pace.  If you're sick, you don't have to worry about falling behind because you're working in a classroom of one and can set your own schedule.  We do ask, however, that any exams on paper that you send to us not be soiled.  If we do receive a soiled exam, we will likely send it back to you, which will delay the grading process.  As a company we have several convention appearances scheduled this spring, and those remain as scheduled at this time.  Should anything change regarding the coronavirus, we will write an additional blog.  In the meantime, please accept our best wishes for your health and our appreciation for allowing us to serve you. 

Today's blog is a reminder to move your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed Saturday night.  Daylight Saving Time begins early Sunday morning, which means you'll lose an hour of sleep this weekend, but the sun will be out later.  Losing an hour of time won't hurt our students too much because they work when and where it is convenient for them.  Some work on online middle school courses, middle school correspondence courses, online high school courses and high school correspondence courses on a regular basis.  Others take longer breaks in between units or courses.  Whatever schedule works best for you is fine with us.  Enroll today and give yourself the flexibility of working whenever and wherever it is convenient for you.  You'll be glad you did!