Welcome, parents & caregivers.

Get information and resources to help support your Live teaching student.

What is Elevate K-12?

The Elevate K-12 program is a remarkable LIVE teaching solution that connects highly qualified online teachers from across the United States to students in a whole-class instruction setting.

Elevate helps schools guarantee that a certified, experienced teacher will always be in the classroom, even if they can’t find someone to hire in person.

Through Elevate, your child will receive engaging instruction from a passionate, certified teacher who is dedicated to their success.

Bringing remarkable live teaching into classrooms since 2014

600+

Districts Served

2,000+

Schools Served

350,000+

Students Taught

How Live teaching works

Live Teaching enables schools to provide engaging, synchronous instruction taught by certified teachers streamed directly into classrooms.

A Live class acts, looks, and feels like every other classroom.

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Our remarkable teachers

We only hire teachers who meet our high standards, then provide ample training and onboarding so they stay remarkable.

With an average of 13 years of teaching experience, our teachers are passionate, dedicated educators.

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A typical class

A LIVE classroom is outfitted with a projector, mic, camera, speakers, and laptops, with the LIVE teacher and lesson displayed at the front of class. This setup allows students to engage with their teachers and lesson material naturally.

A district-provided paraprofessional, or Classroom Coach as we call them, provides on-the-ground support and classroom supervision.

Students enter the classroom and are greeted by their LIVE teacher. Then they complete a warm-up activity before jumping into the day’s lesson. When the bell rings, students wrap up and head to their next class.

Lessons utilize digital engagement tools like polls, chats, and interactive whiteboards. LIVE teachers frequently check for understanding to monitor student progress and comprehension.

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Elevate K-12 launched LIVE teaching in 2014 as the only solution to your teacher shortage that preserves and even enhances the sense of community and levels of engagement you’d expect to find in a traditional classroom environment.

Unlike remote learning, students participate in LIVE classes together, in your school’s classrooms, on your school’s bell schedule. LIVE lesson are structured to cultivate community in LIVE classrooms, incorporating collaborative group work and peer-to-peer learning. And our LIVE teachers benefit from a fully supported instructional model, with lesson plans and professional development modules built to take the guesswork out of teaching LIVE.

Districts provide a paraprofessional, known as Classroom Coaches, who works hand-in-hand with our LIVE teachers to offer on-the-ground support. Many of our partner districts use paraprofessionals, long-term substitutes, international teachers, or other staff members to serve as classroom coaches.

Yes! LIVE classes are full of in-flight checks for understanding, as well as benchmark graded assessments to make sure students stay on track with their peers. In one district, students who took 10th-grade Biology in an Elevate LIVE classroom achieved the same outcomes as students in a traditional in-person classroom taught by one of the district’s best teachers.

We know that in any given general education classroom, there are likely students with disabilities who have an IEP or 504 plan participating in an inclusive setting. While our LIVE Teachers don’t formally get involved in administering or monitoring IEPs/504s, we take several steps to make each LIVE class accessible to diverse student needs:

use assessment data and checks for understanding to differentiate instruction;
incorporate accessibility features into the Elevate LIVE Classroom to provide a supportive and cohesive digital experience;
leverage inclusive and SEL-centric strategies to foster a safe and respectful learning environment, and more.

Your staff can work with the Classroom Coach and LIVE Teacher to capture the data you need to inform your students’ IEPs and 504s.

We offer districts the choice to integrate Elevate with the digital curriculum already used at their school or to use our in-house developed, research-backed content.

Your school will provide details on how to access grades, but typically grades will be available in the gradebook platform used by your school or in OTUS and the Elevate Student LMS.

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