Seat Time Waiver Update

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Seat Time Waiver Update

• Upper Peninsula Educational Technology and
  Business Conference
• Munising High School
• May 1, 2009
• Barb Fardell, MDE
• fardellb_at_michigan.gov

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Podcast

• Superintendent Mike Flanagans Podcasts

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STW - Intention

• Keep students in school
• Bring students back into the system
• Provide more options for students
• Encourage innovation

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STW Unintended Benefits

• Move toward distance learning
• Assists when a highly qualified teacher is not
  available
• Reduces overcrowding
• Pandemic? No problem!

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STW Guiding Questions

• Describe the program(s) that will be put into
  place as a result of the waiver.
• Describe the student support(s) and teacher
  contact hours that will be provided in the
  proposed program.
• Identify the topic and specific Administrative
  Rule or specific reference in the pupil
  Accounting Manual for which a waiver is being
  sought.
• Describe why the waiver is necessary to stimulate
  improved pupil performance.

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STW Guiding Questions

• Describe who and explain how all interested
  parties were notified and involved in the process
  to seek the waiver, e.g. teachers, parents,
  students, community, others. Please include
  information about the local school boards
  support of the waiver.
• Describe the number of students who will be
  participating in the new program(s) and the
  selection process.

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STW Guiding Questions

• Describe the evaluation process and data measures
  used to demonstrate that the waiver is
  stimulating improved pupil performance. Describe
  the process used to ensure continued support for
  the waiver from the various stakeholders.
• If the program(s) put in place as a result of the
  waiver required additional funding in the form of
  a grant, describe how the new program(s) will be
  sustained when the grant is no longer available.

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Do I REALLY Need a Waiver?

• Consider the needs of your students
• How will a waiver help?
• What could I do now, while waiting for a waiver?

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Things You Can Do Now!

• Allow any high school student to take one or two
  online courses at any self-scheduled time and
  place.
• Allow any high school student to take all of
  his/her courses online at school with up to two
  of them from home.

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Things You Can Do Now..cont.

• Allow any high school student to dual enroll for
  all but one high school course and the high
  school course may be an online course.
• Allow any high school student to take one or two
  independent study courses per semester.

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Things You Can Do Now..cont.

• Allow any high school student to take up to half
  of his/her courses as work-based learning.
• Build project based learning courses for any high
  school content.
• Create and use performance assessments to award
  secondary credits.

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CAUTION!

• Remember documentation is required and a
  conversation with your pupil accounting auditors
  will be helpful (very helpful!!!)

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Online Content Waiver or No Waiver!

• Free Algebra I course contact
  helpdesk_at_geneseeisd.org
• Hippocampus
• Alison
• MIT Open Courseware
• Site with variety of online courses
• iTunes U K-12

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Dont have an LMS?

• Contact Beverly Knox-Pipes at Genesee ISD for
  info on a Blackboard site for your students
• bknoxpip_at_geneseeisd.org