{"id":1095,"date":"2019-04-05T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?page_id=1095"},"modified":"2019-04-05T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:17:54","slug":"alternate-methods-of-instruction-ami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/alternate-methods-of-instruction-ami\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Methods of Instruction (AMI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, the Arkansas Legislature passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\/assembly\/2017\/2017R\/Acts\/Act862.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ACT 862 (opens in a new tab)\">ACT 862<\/a> (2017) that allowed school districts to develop <strong>Alternate Methods of Instruction<\/strong> plans which could be used on days when the superintendent closed school due to exceptional or emergency circumstances &#8230; such as inclement weather, a contagious disease outbreak, or a major utility outage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Arkansas Department of Education has an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AMI page (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansased.gov\/divisions\/learning-services\/alternative-methods-of-instruction\" target=\"_blank\">AMI page<\/a> on their website that gives a full description of this program. It also features an AMI <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Guidance Document (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansased.gov\/public\/userfiles\/Learning_Services\/Alternative_Methods_of_Instruction\/2018_AMI_Guidance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Guidance Document<\/a>, a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GVKl1AT3Wkswx1PThDgPJWgLLEzeAi27xV0FnwV5lr4\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Schools with Approved AMI Plans (opens in a new tab)\">Schools with Approved AMI Plans<\/a>, and <strong>five sample plans<\/strong> to serve as examples of how an AMI program can positively impact teaching and learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: When I was the JDS Curriculum Administrator, my team wrote the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Jasper School District plan (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansased.gov\/public\/userfiles\/Learning_Services\/Alternative_Methods_of_Instruction\/AMI_Plan_Jasper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper School District AMI Plan<\/a> (sample), so feel free to use any portion of this document that applies to your school. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Arkansas Legislature passed ACT 862 (2017) that allowed school districts to develop Alternate Methods of Instruction plans which could be used on days when the superintendent closed school due to exceptional or emergency circumstances &#8230; such as inclement weather, a contagious disease outbreak, or a major utility outage. The Arkansas Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}