Los Angeles County Office of Education
Center for Distance & Online Learning

The Center for Distance and Online Learning (CDOL) provides educators, support staff, counselors, school mental health professionals, students, families, and non-profit agencies with a unique combination of technology-enhanced Collective Impact Implementation services via in-person, hybrid, and online learning opportunities.

LACOE's Center for Distance and Online Learning


Through Art, Lives Change

How does CDOL partner with educators to change lives using the arts?

Watch our video or read the transcript to find out!


LACOE CDOL Podcast Series

What's Your Story?

Season 1 Episode 1:
What's Your Story? Collective Impact

Welcome to CDOL's new podcast series! This episode highlights how CDOL utilizes Collective Impact Implementation Model framework in supporting the creative and innovative work of its many grant projects. Get the inside scoop and listen now!

Featuring:
Dotti Ysais, CDOL Project Director III
Preetom Bhattacharya, CDOL Coordinator III

scale up 2.0

Los Angeles County Office of Education's, Center for Distance and Online Unit (CDOL) SCALE UP! 2.0 Project is an opportunity for districts to support grades TK-12 educators, students, parents and the community with interdisciplinary approaches and instructional materials.

Learn More About SCALE UP! 2.0

teal

Technology Enhanced Arts Learning

The TEAL project offers quality professional development in K-6 arts integration education to Los Angeles County school districts, charter networks and institutions of higher Education using the blended learning model.

Learn More About TEAL

ecela

The Engage California! English Learners through the Arts (ECELA) Project provides research and evidence-based professional development and family literacy programs that integrate arts in the content areas, with strategies that increase literacy for English Learners (ELs) and support Social Emotional Learning.

Learn More About ECELA

Visual and Performing Arts

Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) provides support to districts and schools in delivering systematic, sustainable, standards-based Arts & STEAM education and curriculum. The Arts encompass all arts disciplines including dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts in grades TK-12.

Learn More About VAPA

Poetry Out Loud

An annual recitation of classical poetry by high school students in grades 9-12.

Qualified contestants compete at an annual event hosted virtually by the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

Learn More About Poetry Out Loud

promising learners

The Promising Learners Project (PLP), supports school districts in creating positive learning experiences through a multi-tiered system of support using social-emotional learning and the arts.

Learn More About PLP

sport

The Suicide Prevention Ongoing Resiliency Training (SPORT) project provides training, support, and resources to implement a sustainable system to deliver suicide prevention, intervention, postvention, and social emotional learning content to school leaders.

Learn More About SPORT

Creative AWARE Project

The Creative AWARE Project proposes to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services by leveraging collaborative partnerships at the state, county, and local regional level.

Learn More About Creative AWARE

teachstar*

The TeachStar* Online Academy (TOA) 500 series courses are collaborative, online professional development courses that are Common Core aligned for English-Lanugage Arts and Mathematics. Our courses are moderated by experienced educators, and tailored to fit your busy schedule with on demand 24/7 access to participate from any location with internet connection.

Learn More About TeachStar* Online Academy

Directing Change

Elevate student voice and leadership. Get inspired. Get involved. Through our long-standing partnership between LACOE's Center for Distance and Online Learning (CDOL) unit and the Directing Change program, students in Los Angeles County can receive targeted support to participate in Directing Change's categories that uplift student voice and build student leadership around topics related to social justice and health topics (Ages 12 and up), mental wellbeing (middle school), and suicide prevention.

Visit the Directing Change Site

COVID-19 LACOE Curriculum & Instructional Services Open Educational Resources

The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Curriculum & Instructional Services-Center for Distance and Online Learning recognizes the support districts and schools need with this priority. Below are no-cost Open Educational Resources for teachers and administrators to access and adapt in online learning environments.

Access Our Open Educational Resources

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