Online High School Students Hard at Work

The new Digital Center for Advanced Learning is part of the High School and offers students the option to do their coursework online. DCAL students can work at their own pace during our five-hour sessions and many are completing their coursework in a shorter time than at a traditional school.

As the Lead Teacher, I monitor student progress and keep the focus on individual achievement of their personal academic goals in preparing for graduation and college.

The software is engaging and demands focus and concentration. Students have many assessment opportunities for each lesson. There is a pre-test, study, practice, and a mastery test. They must achieve mastery before moving on to the next lesson.



Each student has a laptop and uses Word to take notes, write essays and reports, and they save their work on a flash drive to collect into a portfolio.


Students mentor each other on the subjects in which they excel. A little coaching makes Algebra I go a bit easier!

DCAL Open House

Mrs. Terri Romo, Director of Special Projects is the administrator of DCAL, and here welcomes families to the open house.

Board members, including Millicent Kasun, joined interested students and parents to celebrate the grand opening of BUSD's new Digital Center for Advanced Learning.

New Position

I have a new position at Bisbee Unified Schools this year! I am now the Lead Teacher for the Digital Center for Advanced Learning, an online High School program. Students in grades 9-12 can come to DCAL to begin, continue, catch up or complete the credits they need, working at their own pace.

We have two new laptop labs and use A+ Learning systems software for our course delivery. We have 19 students!

Lowell Lab Uprgrades!

We are starting the New Year off in a big way at LJHS. New Dell computers and new software will enable students to make the most of the technology to prepare for their future in the 21st century.

PB&J

The PB&J Experiment!

The 7th Grade Tech class learned about the kind of detail and specificity needed to program a computer by writing the directions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They soon learned that "put the jelly on the bread" was not going to work. We followed the first set of directions exactly and that is what happened!

The class went back to work to give very clear directions and went from 3-4 steps to 28! We got the bread, jelly and peanut butter open, the slices laid out, and so on. This was a lot of fun and we ate it all!

New Year at BUSD!

Lowell Junior High School Tech Classes

The 7th Grade curriculum includes keyboarding, CyberSmart lessons, Word and PowerPoint, as well as videos and hands-on projects about microprocessors from Intel.

This Quarter the 8th Graders learned to use Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and graphs and chose from a number of topics to survey people. There was a contest to see which set of partners got the most respondents to their survey. THE WINNERS, with 380 were the two girls shown here who chose as their prize giant chocolate bars!

Hands-on Switches and Circuits!

Technology students in the Junior High General Technology class had the opportunity build real circuits and attach switches to learn about the on/off, ones and zeros that are the basic foundation code behind computers. They used a kit provided as part of the Intel curriculum we have been using in class this Quarter. They view a video each week and then practice what they have learned.

Fall Issue of the PROWL

Yearbook/Desktop Publishing Students

The Fall issue of the PROWL Newspaper was just issued at the end of 1st Quarter and everyone did a fine job of word processing their articles, taking untold numbers of photos, photo editing in photoshop, and finally putting it all together in Publisher.