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2010 Graduation Ceremony
Wednesday June
9, 2010 – Red Oak Academy showcased its new video classroom operating
system last Saturday. It was most appropriate that the first
public use was to host ROA's 2010 graduation ceremony. The
Keynote speaker was Mrs. Heather Fisher, Red Oak Academy Foreign
Language and Hig School English professor. Mrs. Fisher and Mr.
McCollum, Director of Education can be seen here conductiong the
graduation proceedings.
Congratulations to the Red Oak Academy graduationg class of 2010!
Click Here to View the Prerecorded Red Oak
Academy 2010 Online Graduation Ceremony.
2010 Graduates Begin Early
Acceptances
Wednesday April
7, 2010 –
Red Oak Academy is honored
to announce the first of its 2010 graduates' acceptance to the colleges
and universities of their choices.
Lorenda Ziazikova of Clifton, NJ has received
official notice of her acceptance to Boston
College. Congratulations Lorenda! She becomes the 427th
Red Oak Academy student to be accepted by a major university since 1997.
Watch this space for more information on our 2010 student acceptance to
colleges and universities around the world.
Red Oak Announces Switch
to Ring Central
Monday November 16, 2009 –
Due to the demise of AT&T's Callvantage VOIP services, Red Oak
Academy is pleased to announce a transition to RingCentral's new virtual
phone system. Effective today, ROA voice lines will be
changed to the numbers listed at the bottom of this page and on the
CONTACT
US page. It is hoped that a smooth transition to the new
system will occur.
2009 Graduates Begin College Acceptance
Wednesday June 3, 2009 –
Red Oak Academy is pleased to announce some of the many schools where
class of 2009 graduates will continue their studies. Nick Costa has been
accepted as a student at The Art Institute of Ohio – Cincinnati. He will
begin his study in graphic arts in July 2009. Brian Whitt is enrolled in
the scholars program (honors program) at Roanoke College in Salem,
Virginia. Mo Aiello is going on to attend classes at the Drexel
University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Watch this space for further update on ROA grads.
Red Oak
Academy Announces 2009 Graduates
Thursday May 21, 2009 -
Red Oak Academy announces 18 graduating seniors for 2009. For
the first time ever, a live Graduation Ceremony will be held on the
Campus of the University of Dallas. A reception and the annual
school dance will follow the awarding of diplomas.
Red Oak Initiates Free
Computer Program for Needy Students
Monday August 18,
2008 - Every year increasing numbers of Red Oak Students have been
forced to drop out due to crashed computers. Rising to the
call from several of its families this summer, Red Oak Academy has
launched a campaign to acquire refurbished computers from
contributing businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area...
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Red Oak Kicks Off New Year with New Learner System
Monday July 28, 2008
- Despite being the only Internet homeschooling program with live
video classes and a full cadre of K12 video instructors, Red Oak
Academy will, later this week, unveil a revolutionary new
Learner Management System (LMS) that provides students, teachers and
parents with unparalleled ...
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Red Oak Students Break ACT National Average
Friday June 13, 2008
-
For the sixth year in a
row, Red Oak Academy Juniors and Seniors shattered their own record
scores from previous years on the ACT college entrance exams. All
Red Oak students submitting to the ACT scored at least in the top
25% nationally with three students scoring 28, 32 and 34,
respectively...
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2008 Red Oak Graduates Announced
Friday April 25, 2008 -
Red Oak
Academy will be honoring its
2008 graduates
in a closed online graduation
ceremony on Friday May 23, 2008. Guest may contact the ROA
Central office for guest access to the proceedings...
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2007 Red Oak Grad Scores High in
Grades and Gold at MWSU
Thursday April 24, 2008 - The Missouri Western
State University women’s golf team finished its spring season
winning the Bearcat Spring Classic shooting a 361 in the one day
event. 2007 Red Oak Academy graduate Lexi Webb was the medalist of
the classic shooting an 82 (40-42)....
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ROA Begins Worlds First Live Video Classrooms
for Grades 7-12
Tuesday September 4,
2007 - Red Oak Academy began webcasting the world's first full
complement of course offerings for Grades 7-12 kicking off the
2007-2008 Academic year with a bang. Using state-of-the-art video
webcasting technology, Red Oak Academy became the only live K-12
home school service available anywhere...
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Virginia Family Chooses Red Oak Academy to Combat School Bullying
Thursday February 22, 2007 - Red Oak Academy
student Brian Whitt was featured on Virginia's WVEC television news
last night ...
more>>
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Red Oak Academy Announces Innovative Early Childhood Home Schooling
Program
Monday January 22, 2007 - ROA Board of
Directors have voted unanimously to begin providing a reading and
math curriculum package for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten
classes with an emphasis on phonics based on the Orton-Gillingham
approach to the linguistic teaching of language...
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Addressing the Academic Needs of Students with Learning Differences, Red Oak Academy provides instruction for those who have been diagnosed with one or several of the following disabilities in grades 9-12:
Additionally, Using Computer-based and Synchronous Internet Instruction, Red Oak Academy is equipped to provide instruction for gifted and regular education students in the following areas:
Students may attend daily classes online or work independently. Attendance is documented electronically from student logins. Video classes are stored and may be viewed at anytime from the Red Oak Academy multicast server website.
Written Assignments are submitted by e-mail or fax and receive individualized attention from each of the Red Oak Academy instructors. Using this feedback, the student prepares the next assignment. At the end of the course, the student takes a final exam. Exams are monitored by parents at home and by school staff on the Red Oak campus. Grades and transcripts are then generated.