1. The Dual Credit Pilot

2. Angela Clark TxVSN Central Operations Director aclark@hcde-texas.org Sara Baltunis TxVSN Course Review Consultant sara.baltunis@region10.org

3. Texas Education Agency Administering Authority TEC § 30A.052. The commissioner shall: (1) employ a limited number of administrative employees in connection with the network TxVSN Advisory Council TEC § 30A.051 To the extent practicable, the commissioner shall solicit advice from school districts concerning: the administration of the state virtual school network and adoption of rules… ICF International / Wexford Institute Independent Evaluator of the TxVSN Texas Virtual School Network Region 10 ESC Harris County Department of Education TEC § 30A.052. (2)(c) contract with a regional education service center for the service center to operate the network. TEC §30A.102 requires electronic courses submitted by a provider school district or school to be offered through the network to be reviewed. Central Operations and Course Review functions consolidated effective September 1, 2010 TxVSN Approved Professional Development Providers Education Development Center, Inc. ESC Region 1 ESC Region 4 ESC Region 11 ESC Region 16 Harris County Dept. of Education Texas A&M University CDLR University of Houston Clear Lake PBS TeacherLine of Texas LincoTower, LLC And more coming… TEC §30A.111 Instructors must successfully complete the appropriate professional development course before teaching an electronic course offered through network.

4. Course Receivers Districts or Open Enrollment Charter Schools Catalog, Registration, Finance, Help Desk Course Providers Districts, Open Enrollment Charter Schools, Education Service Centers, Higher Education Institutions Have online instructors and courses Have students with academic needs Grant credit for the course delivered by provider High School Alief ISD Amarillo ISD ESC Region 6 ESC Region 12 Mansfield ISD Mineral Wells ISD Pasadena ISD Plano ISD Spring Branch ISD SUPERNet (District Collaborative) Texas Virtual School (ESC Collaborative) Dual Credit Lamar University University of Texas Arlington Howard College St Philips of Alamo Colleges TSTC - Harlingen

5. Definitions and Processes

6. Instruction and content are delivered primarily over the Internet A student and teacher are in different locations for a majority of the student’s instructional period Most instructional activities take place in an online environment The online instructional activities are integral to the academic program Extensive communication between a student and a teacher and among students is emphasized A student is not required to be located on the physical premises of a school district or open- enrollment charter school

7. High School CoursesHigher Ed Pilot Alignment with  iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses  Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Instructor–Led Equivalent in instructional rigor and scope to a course that is provided in a traditional classroom setting Also alignment with:  iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses  Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Instructor–Led Equivalent in instructional rigor and scope to a course that is provided in a traditional classroom setting Some content may be indirectly covered Dual credit means dual enrollment process  TxVSN and Higher Education

8. Course Submission (RFQ Process for Dual Credit Courses) Trained Reviewers Conduct Review Review Reports Created from Review Data Texas Education Agency (TEA) Approves Reports Course Provider Makes Required Modifications to Course Modifications Checked and Course is Approved for TxVSN Catalog

9. Based on the Texas Education Code Chapter 30A TxVSN Courses Must: Be 100% Aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Meet or exceed the iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses This includes high levels of interaction, variety of assignments, variety of assessments, a match to Bloom’s Taxonomy, design, resources, and 21 st Century Skills, etc.

11. The Virtual College of Texas Universities Dual Credit Course Review Processes Reporting

13. Dual Credit Review Process Processes Reporting Alignment issues Semester Alignments Directly vs. Indirectly taught Modifications Differences: High School VS College RFQ Online = F2F misnomer

14. “The good news is that we brought dual credit to district that have never had it before. The bad news is that we brought dual credit to districts that have never had it before….” Paula Nichols – Lamar University

15. “Green Districts” The learning curve Selection of students Monitoring students Dual Enrollment TxVSN Enrollment Dual Credit Provider Enrollment Articulation Agreement? What Articulation Agreement? HB 2480

16. As of 11-12-2010

17. TxVSN Enrollments by Semester

18. TxVSN Enrollments by District Size – Fall 2010

19. TxVSN Enrollments by District Size – Spring 2011

20. TxVSN Systems Development HB 3646 ‣ Introduced much needed state funding! ‣ Changes to current system The VCT Model Similar, but opposite ‣ Re-training districts (provider/receiver flip flop) ‣ Modification of TxVSN system (course catalog) ‣ Provider confusion

21. TxVSN Dual Credit - The Next Phase

22. Why? Organization of submissions Speeding up the process Timeline for modifications Spring RFQ Released from Region 10 on February 1 st Check Region 10 “News” website for a look at the older RFQ process and documents

23. Training sessions Receiver District Roles (SC, mentor, students) ‣ Webinars ‣ Conferences Help Desk, Help Desk, Help Desk Getting the word out TxVSN.org List serve User news blasts Systems messages VCT - TxVSN modifications Preliminary discussions, suggestions for change

27. http://www.txvsn.org/StudentSuccessStories.aspx

29. TxVSN Barbara Smith, Project Director Angela Clark, Operations Director Brent Bakken, Course Review Manager Debbie Vincent, Course Review Consultant Sara Baltunis, Course Review Consultant Matthew Cushing, Course Review Consultant Laura Hodges, Counselor / Outreach Help Desk ‣ 1.866.938.9876 ‣ txvsncentral@txvsn.org txvsncentral@txvsn.org ‣ TxVSN Listserv: See link under Important Info at www.txvsn.orgImportant Info Course Review – txvsncoursereview@txvsn.orgtxvsncoursereview@txvsn.org