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NCVPS Evaluation
Kevin Oliver, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology
NC State University
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Overview
• Friday Institute has received annual contracts from DPI to assist with the evaluation of the North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS)
• recurring surveys of stakeholder groups (i.e., students, teachers, distance learning advisors, and high school principals)
• also, focused studies of NCVPS pilot initiatives:– efforts to design and develop course modules for
elementary-middle school
– student success courses to transition 8th graders
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Focus of Recommendations
• while some recommendations from the evaluation are tied to NCVPS-directed activities (i.e., improving course content, offering new professional development), many recommendations are tied to activities needed at the district and school level:– promoting NCVPS, setting e-learning goals,
ensuring appropriate technology is available, screening and orienting students, ensuring security without barriers to innovation, etc.
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NCVPS Work with Pilot Districts
• since the success of virtual schooling is largely dependent on the leadership and support of districts and schools, NCVPS has a program in place to prepare pilot districts to successfully implement virtual schooling
• currently working with its second wave of pilot districts (Jan 09-Dec 09); first wave of pilot districts complete (Jan 08-Dec 08)
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Pilot Districts to Date
Jan 08 - Dec 08 Jan 09 - Dec 09
Catawba CountyCumberland CountyDuplin CountyIredell-Statesville CountyLincoln CountyOnslow CountyPender CountyVance County Wake CountyWatauga County
Alamance-Burlington CountyColumbus CountyEdgecombe CountyFranklin CountyGuilford-CountyMitchell CountyMontgomery CountyScotland County
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Overview: Five Purposes for Pilots
• leverage strategic district and school teams for strategic planning
• plan student support services• plan registration and enrollment strategies• plan promotion and marketing strategies• leverage statewide e-professional learning
communities (eLC) for building e-learning best practices
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Pilot Activity: Teaming
• districts create strategic teams for planning, including superintendents, principals, technology directors, and a designated distance learning advisor for the district
• schools create strategic teams for planning, including principals, counselors, computer lab facilitators, media coordinators, testing coordinators, and a designated distance learning advisor for the school
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Pilot Activity: Strategic Planning
• districts and schools create strategic plans embedded in improvement plans
• define instructional needs and barriers• set e-learning goals• define plans for marketing NCVPS/LEO• define strategies for student support• define technology solutions
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Pilot Activity: Marketing, Enrollment
• plan strategies to ensure students and parents are aware of NCVPS opportunities: virtual open houses, student orientations, Web sites, phone messages
• link Web sites to NCVPS• set enrollment targets
by mutual definition with NCVPSfor credit recovery, Learn andEarn Online (LEO), AP/Honors
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Pilot Activity: Resourcing
• helping districts and schools plan their budgets to accommodate textbooks, materials, and technology (labs/laptops) students will need in order to access NCVPS courses
• helping schools plan to ensure students with individualized education plans (IEPs) have the software or technology needed to access NCVPS courses
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Pilot Activity: Infrastructure
• meeting network requirements• ensuring security, while
minimizing problems createdby firewalls in terms of blockingcourse material
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Pilot Activity: Coordinating
• school-level distance learning advisors advisors (DLAs) and counselors screening students for academic qualifications
• school-level DLAs scheduling students for courses, providing for orientation to tools
• DLAs and counselors learning to support student needs, regularly checking progress
• coordinating AP exams
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NCVPS Support for Pilot Activities
• provide leadership training around strategic planning through Blackboard course
• provide DLA training in supporting students through Blackboard course
• provide pilot districts with 3-4 person regional response team to facilitate the development of a student support model
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NCVPS Support for Pilot Activities
• use of synchronous collaboration tools such as Wimba and Pronto for bi-monthly e-learning collaboration– sharing what works and what
doesn't work– progress reporting– book studies– Web 2.0 modeling
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Your Turn: Other Barriers
• in your break out groups, take a few minutes to discuss the pilot work shared here
• which of the pilot activities are most critical to support virtual schooling at the district and school levels?
• have you experienced or heard of other barriers to virtual schooling that a pilot initiative might help to offset?
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Resources
• see session wiki for the following resources:• presentation on NCVPS pilot initiative
http://tinyurl.com/mdgo3c• copy of the memorandum of agreement
between pilots and NCVPS, defining roles• pilot application information from fall '08 and
contact information for Don Lourcey, Pilot Initiative Director