What is K20alt all about?

An Interactive Community

K20alt provides a haven of truly authentic lessons set in an easy to navigate, user friendly, and Interactive Community. In addition to searching K20alt resources, you can actually influence other users’ online experience by commenting on lessons, suggesting improvements, and rating lessons on a five star scale.

Perhaps the most exciting facet of the K20alt Interactive Community is the Teacher Collaboration room that provides professionals with a place to collaborate with colleagues across the country. Educators can utilize shared documents or presentations, chats, polls, websites and more! And, like everything in K20alt, it is for members only, and it’s free!

Authentic Lessons for Teachers

There are plenty of places on the Internet to find lessons, but at K20alt educators can actually find solid, authentic lessons ready for the classroom. K20alt develops lessons that offer an authentic structure based on theory, best practices, and experiences in the classroom. Many of the lessons found at K20alt have been done in a classroom with at-risk students, and nearly a third of the lessons are accompanied by videos that walk teachers through each step of the lesson. Teachers will discover questioning techniques, formative assessment strategies, and lessons that directly correlate to Oklahoma PASS objectives and Teacher Competencies.

Professional Development &
Teacher of Record Mentoring Program

Content Specific Professional Development

The K20alt lessons serve not only as a great resource to be used in the classroom, but they can actually be used to aid alternative educators in acquiring content specific professional development. This PD can be used as a way to satisfy district PD requirements and can be used to aid alternative educators who are not Highly Qualified in building their HOUSSE in a specific content area.

Teacher of Record Mentoring Program

K20alt has developed an exciting and innovative program called the “Teacher of Record Mentoring Program,” or ToRMP. K20alt content specialists can serve as teacher of record for educators who are not Highly Qualified in areas that they have been asked to teach. K20alt will serve as teacher of record in exchange for the teacher’s participation in an online professional learning community and the completion of authentic lessons provided on the website.

Available for Support

For questions about our programs and services, including professional development and the Teacher of Record Mentoring Program, contact us by phone at: 405-325-5513 or email us at: k20alt@ou.edu.