MTDA Connect Credit Recovery Program

MCEL 2011 in Great Falls, MTRyan Schrenk, Ed. D.

Montana Digital Academy

About MTDA About MTDA Connect Interview with a Facilitator Connect CR – Lessons Learned Connect vs. Original Support Tutorial Tour New Initiatives Questions or Requests for Seeing

anything?

Summary for Today

MTDA Connect – Brief History

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MTDA Connect – Brief History

• Montana• 630 miles x 255

miles• 147,000 square

miles• 1 million people• Hundreds of Schools• MTDA=border to

boarder

• MTDA Started in 2009• Classes – Fall 2009• Ryan hired – Dec. 2010• Connect Launch – Feb

2011

How Our Digital Program Works

Students enroll

through the local district

and NOT directly with

MTDA

Local schools retain large amount of

local control

All teachers are

employed through

public school districts and not directly from MTDA

Teachers subject to

local bargaining

unit and local expectations

Unique Relationships and Partners(broad support) :-)

MEA-MFT

Montana School Boards

Association

School Administrato

rs of Montana

Montana Rural

Education Association

Montana University

System

Serve K12 Students in Montana through Public Schools Governing Board Director (CEO) Curriculum Director (Vice CEO) Montana licensed teachers Core subjects, dual credit enrichment

MTDA Founded in 2009 Legislature

Montana’s Statewide Digital Academy Serve over 170 Districts Original Credit Fall 2010 Schools wanted flexible alternative Piloted Connect Credit Recovery/Hired Ryan

December Full roll-out Feb 2011 (Handout of Course Titles)

Piloting Middle School Language Sampler this Fall 4 Staff Members

About MTDA

PLATO PLE + MTDA Staff + Local Facilitator + Coach MTDA Technical Support School Assigns Credit/Decides when credit is

recovered MTDA works closely with company to make it better Enrollments

Fall 2010 - 62 Spring 2011 - 496 Summer 2011 – 678 Fall 2011 (as of 10/11/11) – 900 (final numbers in

January)

Connect Model

Q and A from an MTDA Site Facilitator 8 mins. (recorded by Jason/edited by Ryan using Video

Pad) Tell us about MTDA Connect at your high school. What inspired your school to be the first to get involved? What is the most prevalent benefit? What should we change? How is the academic area coach model working? How has online credit recovery changed your school’s

approach to CR? Do you see the program growing in the future? Do you have plans for tracking students who take part?

Facilitator Input

Video Cut Out To Allow Upload to Slideshare

Misuse of MTDA Original/True CR Model was needed

Coach + Local Facilitation + MTDA Staff team is critical

Communication needed for student success Locking Mastery Tests after 2 tries Unit and Semester Post-tests locked by

coaches Estimating License Needs is Challenging Integration with SIS is needed and critical

Connect Model Lessons Learned

Branded as Connect Credit Recovery Program Created Scalable/Consistent Setup of Classes

Example: Spring 2011 Algebra 1A Big Sky Hired Coaches Opened Registration February 1, 2011

Used manual enrollment process Emailed attachments/processed by hand Individual and group orientations

New Initiative – Configure and Customize PLE

Connect and Original Credit

Connect Original Credit

Uses PLATO Learning Environment (PLE)

Uses Moodle LMS

Grades not passed back into Genius

Grades are passed back to Genius

Curricular Area Coaches, facilitators and MTDA Staff

MTDA Teacher and MTDA Staff

Facilitator logs into PLATO for tracking info

Facilitator stays in Genius for tracking info

Communication within Plato Messaging System or personal e-mail

Communication in Moodle or using MTDA e-mail.

Tutorials to Show Logging In Tracking Account Logins Tracking Curriculum Progress Unlocking Tests Printing Grade Reports

Support/Tutorial Page

Discussed Plan/Started in August Integrated GeniusSIS and PLATO

Student accounts, enrollments and classes Demo

Can Enroll a student in Genius/show in PLE! Questions?

New Initiative 1 – Integration Project

Applying our lessons learned from the past year

Students need support from our Connect Team

Enhanced Upfront Preparation Entrance Counseling Form (First Look Today) Input?

Ongoing Support will Continue…more focused on staff Coach contact info and monthly meetings Facilitator orientation and as-needed support

New Initiative 2 – Student Retention

New Website Layout Fall 2011 http://montanadigitalacademy.org

SSO - GeniusSIS, Moodle and PLATO Learning Environment School, parent and student portals

Wikispaces tutorials http://montanadigitalacademy.wikispaces.com/

Gotomeeting for virtual meetings Archives of gotowebinars on website http://montanadigitalacademy.org/schools

Ringcentral for fax-to-Email service Customized number (855-406-MTDA)

Technology Used and Resources for Coaches and Facilitators

Can do live demo or screen shots and respond to audience questions with information

Can show SSO to PLE Choose your own adventure…

Questions or Requests for Demo

Ryan Schrenk ryan.schrenk@montanadigitalacademy.org http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org Twitter: ryanschrenk Skype: ryan.schrenk Presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/rschrenk

Contact Info