Welcome and Happy Holidays, Committee Members!

1. Welcome and Happy Holidays, Committee Members! iNACOL Southeastern Regional Committee Webinar December 13, 2012 Co-Chair Debi Crabtree

2. Updates! Allison Powell iNACOL VP, State and District ServicesApowell@inacol.org

3. Updates! • Friendly reminder: please complete • iNACOL’s Research Agenda Survey • http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/59M6TZD • Upcoming Webinars in January - http://www.inacol.org/events/ • The new! Research in Review – Jan. 15 • Competency Works webinars – series of 6 starts on January 31, Number 2 on Feb. 1 • Leadership and Teacher Talk webinars

4. Updates! • Some interesting reading – VISCED, our international friends completed two year research about international virtual schools. http://virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/outcome/handbook

5. New Learning Models Work Online and blended learning models are at an early stage, and many important questions require further research and development. Answering these questions will require that stakeholders across the field share an ambitious vision of online and blended learning’s potential, understand where the field is today relative to that potential, and innovate rapidly in collaboration with one another on critical open questions.

6. As part of iNACOL’s Strategic Plan, we want to: Create the conditions required to develop a broader set of effective blended and online learning models by: • Building a compelling vision of the field’s potential and the suite of learning models, courses, and curriculum necessary to build college- and career-readiness for all students • Conducting research to understand the field’s progress relative to the vision and identify the key gaps in knowledge and practices that remain • Disseminating what is known (e.g., Promising Practices) via website, reports, webinars, conference presentations, and other iNACOL networks • Building commitment among funders and providers to channel their innovation efforts toward addressing key gaps so that the field can more rapidly achieve the destination we seek

7. iNACOL’s Goals for New Learning Models: • Develop a vision and belief statements for the field of K-12 online and blended learning • Create a roadmap and resources for implementing and supporting new learning models • Share promising practices and success stories from the field

8. iNACOL has put together our vision of potential of new learning models which include: • Transformative • Student-centered • Personalized • Allow flexibility and student to move at own pacing • Enable student agency • Use technology to accelerate learning • Increase equity and access • Improve the quality of education • Result in student higher achievement • Outcomes include understanding and application of knowledge, skills and dispositions through demonstration of deeper learning and evidence toward college and career-ready, world-class standards

9. What are “non-negotiable” principles that programs should adhere to? • Equity • High levels of rigor for all students • . • . • . • . • .

10. Where would you say the field is at today in regards to new learning models? • Beginning • Only a few models that support the vision

11. What types of things keep you up at night?

12. What needs to happen in the field to realize this vision?

13. What role does iNACOL need to lead?

14. Thank you!!! Share additional thoughts and ideas at: http://newlearningmodels.wikispaces.com/home

15. Wishes You and Yours • Happy Holidays from iNACOL!

16. Next meeting! January 10, 2012 11 AM Eastern featuring Sam Brooks Virtual Learning Coordinator, Putnam County Schools Principal, Putnam County Virtual School Cookeville, Tennessee