Director's Blog for June 17, 2010

21st Century Summer Learners and Leaders:

NCVPS is proud to announce another record breaking summer. With over 10,000 enrollments, we have worked very hard since our last e-letter and vidcast to help school districts solve problems and fill gaps for North Carolina students. While our summer enrollment period is now closed, we are continuing to ramp up for fall and year long enrollment, and we have many exciting programs ahead for the Fall of 2010 including modular learning, our occupational course of study pilots, and our mobile learning integration in our courses.

However, this week's eletter and subsequent vidcast focuses on using this summer to become a blended learner and leader. 5 steps are provided for superintendents, central office staff, principals, and distance learning advisors to really hone blended learning skills to build capacity for blended learning in North Carolina School districts.

Step 1: Enroll in an Online Course, Module, and/or Feed

The reason NCVPS built our World Is Open Book Study : http://sites.google.com/site/ncvpsgolive/book-study-world-is-open is so you would not have to. Take some time to go through the modules themselves. Have your staff do so? Set the items as a summer agenda at your leadership cabinet meetings and discuss how an open world is impacting your school district.

LOCK Session: District Planning with NCVPS

Hope Johnston, the distance learning coordinator from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, shares the district's planning strategies for implementing NCVPS courses.