1. A Different Day or Going GPS in Public Education State Superintendent June Atkinson

3. Elementary School High School Middle School College and Career Ready

4. Personalize Customize

5. National Voluntary Standards Destination

6. Analyzing

7. Legend: 100% - 95% Yellow 94% - 90%Blue 89% - 85%Green 84% - 80%Red 2008-09 Graduation Rates by LEA

8. Western Region Highest LEA Graduation Rate Clay County – 87.6% Polk County – 82.1% Yancey County – 80.6%

9. Northwest Region Highest LEA Graduation Rate Elkin City – 88.2% Catawba County – 83.8% Mount Airy City Schools – 81.8% Avery County Schools – 81.0%

10. Top Two Schools by 9 th Grade Cohort Size – 100-199 Hendersonville High (W) – 96.4% Henderson County Murphy High (W) – 87.8% Cherokee County Mount Airy High (NW) – 81.8% Mount Airy City East Wilkes High (NW) – 81.5% Wilkes County

11. Top Two Schools by 9 th Grade Cohort Size – 200-299 Fred T. Foard High (NW) – 89.4% Catawba County West Henderson High (W) – 89.1% Henderson County North Buncombe High (W) – 87.9% Buncombe County Hibriten High (NW) – 76.7% Caldwell County

12. Top Two Schools by 9 th Grade Cohort Size – 300-399 St. Stephens High (NW) – 89.3% Catawba County A.C. Reynolds High (W) – 82.7% Buncombe County Hickory High (NW) – 81.1% Hickory City Enka High (W) – 76.3% Buncombe County

13. Top Two Schools by 9 th Grade * Cohort Size – 400-499 Lake Norman High (NW) – 92.8% Iredell County West Forsyth High (NW) – 86.9% Forsyth County McDowell High (W) - 75.4% McDowell County *no other school this cohort size in W

14. Top Two Schools by 9 th Grade* Cohort Size – 500+ Davie County High (NW) – 71.9% Davie County *No other schools in W and NW had 500+ cohort size

15. Graduation Rate Benchmark

16. R ace T o T he T op

17. Re-calculating Formative and Benchmark Assessments

18. Multi-delivery

19. Cloud computing 24/7/7 learning Diagnostic software Virtual learning Social networks Second life Multi-user virtual environment (MUVEs)

21. School Gathering place Instructor Learning coach Desk Anywhere, anytime 180 days, Variable, 1000 hours individualized Face to face Virtual

22. Personalized Education for Each Student Technology

23. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt

24. Why We Must Work Together

25. Going GPS in Public Education Raleigh