| Abbotsford Virtual School | |
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| 33952 Pine Street Abbotsford, British Columbia, V2S 2P3, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School number | 3499101 |
| School board | School District 34 Abbotsford |
| Superintendent | Mr. Kevin Godden |
| Principal | Mr. Brad Hutchinson |
| Vice principal | Mrs. Mary Stobbe |
| Staff | 25 |
| School type | Public Distributed Learning |
| Grades | K-12, Adult |
| Colours | blue and green |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Enrolment | 1750 (for 2008-2009) (1 May 2009) |
| Homepage | http://www.avs34.com |
Abbotsford Virtual School (abbreviated as AVS)[1] is a Distributed Learning school, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, that provides collaborative educational programs for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students and any BC resident wanting to complete courses to graduate. All adults can take courses at AVS for free and courses can lead to an Adult Graduation! Abbotsford Virtual School offers Virtual courses, as well as "any pace, any place" courses. Virtual courses are teacher-paced, semester-based courses which operate like a regular high school course but delivered through the Internet. Teachers and students remain connected through the semester via e-mail, text message, Skype, and ElluminateLive.
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Abbotsford Virtual School is an amalgamation of three Abbotsford School District school programs: W. J. Mouat Virtual School, Rick Hansen eSchool and Abbotsford Electronic School. In 2001-2002, Des McKay (retired Superintendent and former Principal of W. J. Mouat) and Rob Comeau (current Principal, W. J. Mouat) lead a school-based initiative with several teachers at W. J. Mouat Secondary School[2] to teach courses in an online environment. Three courses were created: Principles of Mathematics 11, Chemistry 11 and CAPP 11/12. The success of these courses allowed for expansion to 17 courses by 2004-2005. Student success rate for completion was in the 90% plus range. Rick Hansen Secondary School developed several online courses in a different format obtaining high success rates as well. Abbotsford Electronic School spawned from home-based learner programs in Abbotsford to a thriving multidimensional home-learner support school. Nearly 300 students were enrolled by 2005-2006. Principal Don Martyn of the Abbotsford Electronic School helped to amalgamate the three programs into Abbotsford Virtual School that was poised to deliver all things virtual.
Abbotsford Virtual School is located at 33952 Pine Street, near the historic centre of Abbotsford, on the site formerly known as Philip Sheffield Elementary School. Mr. Brad Hutchinson is the current Principal. The school has 4 full-time teachers dealing with home-educated learners and 22 online teachers. Some of the online teachers are part-time, having a face-to-face teaching assignment in one of the School District #34 (Abbotsford) high schools.
Abbotsford Virtual School offers many unique programs. Spanish and Punjabi languages courses are available online. Journalism 11 and 12 courses introduce students to authentic online ezine and newspaper publishing media and is taught by a practicing free-lance journalist. Our Animation and Game Design programs are offered by industry experts. In addition, Abbotsford Virtual School has a number of computer courses (Information and Communications Technology or ICT) that are dual credit with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).
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