SREBState Virtual Schools

The Georgian Terrace Hotel

Atlanta, GA

April 26 & 27, 2007

Working together to provide quality, accountable and scalable state virtual schools.

Breakfast, 7:00 – 8:00 a.m., meeting begins 8:15 a.m.

  • Welcome and IntroductionsBill Thomas

SREB Director

Educational Technology

  • Greetings from the AT&T FoundationCathy Friese
    Grant Manager AT&T Foundation
  • Quality online teaching
  • Online is not the issueTom Carroll President

National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

  • SREB Standards for Quality Online TeachingBill Thomas
  • Adoption and use
  • Alignment with online teacher training
  • Funding State Virtual Schools: Jamie Sachs

Moving from legislative allotment Human Resources and Testing Administrator

Georgia Virtual School

Julie Young

President & CEO

Florida Virtual School

George Latimer

Chief Financial Officer

Florida Virtual School

  • Quality Online Courses:Liz Glowa
  • Algebra Collaborative Course Development moduleSREB Consultant
  • Multi-state collaboration: what is requiredSusan Patrick

President, NACOL

  • SREB Standards for Quality Online CoursesBill Thomas
  • Adding creditability
  • Linking to course evaluation

Luncheon 12:00 – 1:00 p.m

  • Identifying, evaluating, contracting and working withPam Hoppe

third-party providersCoordinator

West Virginia Virtual School

Liz Glowa

  • Helping meet student academic needs:Pam Birtolo

Improving student success ratesChief Learning Officer

Florida Virtual School

  • SREB-SCORE: Status and next stepsDonna Miller
  • RepositoriesSREB Consultant
  • Evaluation of learning objects
  • Training of faculty and teachersMatt Christian

SREB Consultant

  • What are the issues and topics that are obstacles toLinda Pittenger

quality, accountability and scalability?Director

Kentucky Virtual High School

Reception – 6:00 p.m., Dinner – 7:00 p.m.

Friday, April 27, 2007, Breakfast, 7:00 – 8:00 a.m.

  • NACOL: Moving forwardSusan Patrick
  • Linking State Virtual Schools to middle & high school reformJamey Fitzpatrick

and state economic developmentPresident

Michigan Virtual University

  • AP Courses: status and issuesCathy Cheely
  • Needed AP coursesE-Learning Coordinator

Virginia’s Virtual Advanced Placement (AP) School

  • College Board AP auditJennifer Whiting

Chief Academic Officer

Florida Virtual School

  • Virtual labs: an updateTom Matts

Director, AP Course Audit

College Board

  • Online learning research: what is it telling us?Cathy Cavanaugh

Associate Professor
University of NorthFlorida

  • 2007 SREBState Virtual Schools ReportJune Weis

SREB Research Associate

  • Action agenda: next steps – what are the key items we need on Bill Thomas

our collective “To-Do” list?

  • Governance issues
  • Scalability to address middle and high school reform and state economic development
  • Training and supporting online teachers
  • Funding policies
  • Linking to the business community in support of 21st century skills
  • eLMS and repositories including Open Source
  • Technical support for online teachers
  • Student registration systems
  • Multi-state Collaborative Content Development Initiative
  • Technical resources for state virtual schools
  • Data warehousing

End of Meeting: Luncheon 12:30 p.m.