Superintendents:
October and November are great months to take a step back as we all look at budgets, emerging innovation, Race to the Top, and competing priorities within our districts and schools. In an effort to support your work in a “blended” fashion this fall and into your Spring 2010 calendar year, I would like to inform you of several services and solutions NCVPS and Learn and Earn Online now offer for your district at no charge. They are as follows:
1.) Strategic Planning for “Blended” Learning – Our staff knows how to integrate 1:1, virtual learning, face to face best practice, technology planning for Web 2.0, and leadership training into an approach that maximizes student outcomes and propels your district as a national leader in blended learning. Before you purchase your next software package and/or decide on how you will spend funds from external sources, let us help you with retreats, deployment planning, and/or beta processes by inviting us in to meet with your School Board, Executive Cabinet, and/or principals to collaborate on the learning pathway for what your district or school can look like in the next five years.
2.) Central Office Distance Learning Advisor Training – Our phenomenal growth is due in no small part to lessons learned over the past few years in our district and school pilots and with great consultation from our advisory board as well as feedback from many of you. This spring, we are going to really focus on distance learning advisors at the district level, as together, we will shatter the 20,000 student benchmark this spring. In an effort to support you better, I am asking that each Superintendent establish a clear line of site authority position with a Central Office Distance Learning Advisor Contact by November 1, 2009. Please see the leadership challenge here: www.ncvps.org on our video cast, and respond directly to bsetser@dpi.state.nc.us to let me know who your point of contact will be for our train the trainer model in your district.
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