Carrie Watkins Articles

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Your Dual Credit Program Doesn’t Have To End After Graduation

​Society puts a lot of pressure on students to know what they want to do when they graduate high school. Instead of realizing that they can take a few months or a year to explore themselves and their interests, many students feel that they need to run down one path or...

In-Person, Hybrid, or Online: How Asynchronous Courses Work For Every Delivery Model

High school administrators know how to be flexible. It seems like each week presents a new opportunity to think differently about a situation. Traditionally, dual credit has not enabled schools to be very flexible. The credit-granting institution has to make the...

How To Give All Students Access to College-Level Learning

What is more important in deciding if a student is college-ready: their prior test scores or their motivation? According to this article in the Journal of Developmental Education, students who were considered “not college-ready” were enrolled in college-level courses...

The Best Dual Credit Courses To Take By Grade

Courses through TEL are college-level, so most of our dual-credit courses are a good fit for the final years of high school and the first years of college. Students can scaffold new topics onto material they learned earlier in high school, such as taking Algebra I and...