Sunday, July 12, 2009

DLA E-Lert for July 10, 2009

NCVPS Handbooks

Follow the links below:

DLA Quick Reference Guides

Student-Parent Handbook


Registration System Outage and Upgrade

The Registration System will be unavailable from July 2nd at 5pm through July 17th at 5pm. The system will be closed for maintenance and a software upgrade. During this time no adds, drops, or data access will be available.

Please stay tuned for announcements concerning training on the new system.
Healthful Living Permission Forms

DLAs, students you have enrolled in NCVPS's Healthful Living Course need to have their parent's permission as the course contains "Human Sexual Content." Completing this form is a requirement of DPI. Although you have registered your student(s) for the summer course, s/he (they) will not be put into the summer course until you have submitted the Parental Permission form. You can fax this form to 919-513-2557 or you can photocopy the form to Robert Belton at rbelton@dpi.state.nc.us. See the DLA Spa for more details.


Please, make sure if you email the form to the parents of the students whom you have enrolled that they are aware that you have emailed them the form. This past semester the emailed form to the parent went into the parent's spam of her email account. It was by accident that this situation was discovered.


Fewer Courses from Outside Providers

AP Mico/Macro Economics (FLVS) and all German Courses (Ok State University) are the only courses outside of the NCVPS Catalogue for which NCVPS will asume payment. Students and/or schools which register for courses outside of these are responsible for tutition fees and will deal with the provider directly.


Projected EOC/VoCAT Scores

Teachers will be reporting projected EOCs and VoCATs scores in the Progress Report being sent out on July 17th. The scale for the projected score is 1-5 (1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D, 5=F.) Please share the projected scores with the staff who would benefit from receiving this specific information.


SAT Prep

We have discovered that middle school students have been enrolled in SAT Prep and we want to make sure these students have the prerequisite skills to be successful. SAT Prep is a course designed to help prepare students for the SAT test. Only students who are enrolled in or who have completed the following courses should enroll in this high school-level course: Algebra I, Geometry, English I. Please make sure all student meet these specific requirements before enrolling them in SAT Prep.


Culture Café

The Culture Cafe is a new social and educational setting that brings together current, former and future NCVPS world language students in an online environment in order to immerse them in the culture of online world languages. Former students can stay connected to the language they have learned, current students will get to practice the language and future students can gain a sneak peak at our robust world language courses. Look at our upcoming sessions at (http://tinyurl.com/ncvpsculturecafe).


Middle School Students

FYI: There is legislation being presented that only high school students can take NCVPS courses. Currently, a middle school student can take the first 3 years of a World Language; can take Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, and AFM; can take Earth/Environmental Science, Physical Science, and Biology; and now can take Civics and Economics, World History and US History. LEAs are using NCVPS to differentiate instruction for their AIG (Academically Intellectual Gifted) Students. If the legislation that only high school students can take NCVPS courses pass, then these AIG students will not be able to take NCVPS courses. Please ask the LEAs to contact their Legislators to voice their dissent to this legislation.


NCVPS Student Video Contest

Stay tuned but the winners have been chosen and will be announced very soon. Thank you for all of your submissions.

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