Transcript TDEC Report

Griggs International Academy
0 Chosen by the NAD to facilitate and coordinate DE
across the division
0 Will review and monitor DE programs though the
NAD and local unions will approve them
0 Will ensure each student receives a quality education
with spiritual, social and emotional components
Consortium of Adventist
Distance Education—CADE
0 Protocol to add any full time grades 5-12 via
distance education
0 Approval to enter portal by NAD/TDEC –
application via website
0 Go through NAD approved vendors on portal
CADE Application Process
School admin files application/local board/conference K-12 – signed by
local board and conference K-12
a.
send application to NAD/TDEC on or before July 1 one year before
opening
b. if approved (response within 30 days)
c.
Griggs University & International Academy
2. Local school board—if approved then step 3
3. Conference K-12—if approved then step 4
4. UBOE –works with Griggs to approve
5. UBOE –fall meeting—annual approval
6. UDOEC, as enabled by NAD K-12 meeting in December
7. NADOE final approval
0 Union Office would carry-out the follow through, for example, with
junior academies
0 Current sites would be grandfathered in
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CADE Approval for DE Portal
0 NAD Evaluation—in good standing
0 Regional Accreditation (Middle States, Advanced ED)
0 Certified teachers
0 Union curriculum/administration council course
approval
0 Instructors are employees of their respective
programs
0 Course of excellence vetted through peer review
0 Technology described but not evaluated
Adventist Distance
Education—ADE
0 Vendors
0 British Columbia and Alberta – only available within
provinces
0 Griggs University & International Academy
0 FLA
0 AAA
0 others ONLY with approval via the vetting process
0 Individual classes
0 Credit Recovery
0 Gifted
0 Dual Credit
ADE Vetting Process
0 Any class from an approved vendor is automatically approved
0 Teachers who want to teach/create a DE class outside of a
particular school must be affiliated with a school already inside
the portal
0 Any courses taught (site to site) within a conference through DE
must be evaluated using the online rubric with a report of the
program made to the local union office of education.
0 Once courses leave the conference they must get NAD approval
through the vendor vetting process
0 For the addition of any full DE grades 5-12, application must be
made using the same template used for senior academy status
Portal Vendor Approval
NAD Evaluation—in good standing with AAA
Regional accreditation—in good standing
All teachers Adventist and certified
Union curriculum/administration council course approval—union
curriculum audit and yearly change form
0 Rubric driven vendor evaluation
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Instructional design
Communication/interaction/collaboration
Student assessment/evaluation
Learners’ support/resources
0 Griggs, AAA and Forest Lake DL are grandfathered in to be preferred vendors
0 Any classes offered independently, outside from a full program, must be
evaluated by the rubric
0 Vendors approved to provide full curriculum must be SDA
0 Curriculum must be owned by the delivering organization
OETC Consortium Store
0 Preferred vendor
0 Volume prices
0 Group for Pacific Union with TDEC member as the
purchasing agent
0 Conferences can be own group
0 Membership $300/year paid by TDEC
Visions—Technology in
Education
0 http://www.toolsforteachers.com
0 NAD Teacher Convention gift of one choice from 15
books, a coupon in the goodie bag, or a free e-book
0 Currently selling e-books for 80% of print book cost
0 NAD Convention
0 Booth in the exhibit hall
0 Presentations
0 Technology resources, Tammy Worcester
0 Secondary math presenter
0 Dan Wyric and Joe Haverland will recommend Vision
books complementing the ByDesign science
curriculum
Data Rollup
0 Must and will be done correctly
0 A large percentage of existing data is corrupt
0 Teacher and student info is being cleaned-up
0 ID number interface is being revised for easier use
0 There is a need to educate all users about the philosophy
and the process
0 Directors meet with superintendents and academy
principals
0 Superintendents and academy principals will
disseminate within the conference
iNOW, Renweb, and Others
0 Voted to recommend to the directors to end support
of Hunter by July 2014
0 Continue support and use of Small School Minder
0 Schools may want to consider Renweb
0 Data rollup protocols have been setup
0 Are anxious for SDA schools
0 PowerSchool is another option
0 Voted to start conversation
0 Data rollup