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Alberta Distance Learning Centre Presentation
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Target Success
Board Presentation October 13, 2010
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Mission (Purpose) Statement • “Alberta Distance Learning Centre is an innovative learning community, supporting students, teachers, parents, and partners by providing high-‐quality teaching and learning at a distance.”
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Vision Statement • “Alberta Distance Learning Centre is a flexible, student-‐centred school where students realize potential, achieve success, and develop skills for life-‐long learning. “
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Motto
• “Success for Every Student”
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Alberta Distance Learning Centre New Staff 2009-‐2010
• Kristen Temple – Calgary Student Support • Amy Green – Edmonton Student Support • Melissa Martel – Student Support • Marjorie Malenfant -‐Team Teaching Support • Joy Barton -‐Finance Support • Yvonne Harris -‐Exams Clerk • Debbie Mottus -‐Digital Design Unit • Natasha Wierenga-‐Grades 1 & 2 • Heather McMillan–Barrhead Grades 3 & 6 • Vanessa Mathison-‐Barrhead Language Arts 7 & 8, Phys Ed 7 & 8 • Derrick Toporowski-‐Senior High Science • Elizabeth Siemens-‐Senior High Math • Allan Hope-‐Senior High Math
Welcome Back • Vickie Anderson • Cassie Hucik • Florence Olber • Stacy Harper
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156 Staff Members Administrative Assistants -‐ 6 AISI Team Leaders -‐ 2 ADLC Student Support -‐ 29 ADLC Teachers -‐ 51 ADLC Student Counselor -‐ 1 Digital Design Unit -‐ 7 Distribution -‐ 5 Technical Support – 16 Franco Federation Staff – 5 VV Administrative Assistant – 1 VV Student Counselor – 1 VV Student Support – 5 VV Teachers -‐ 10
Team Leaders Council 4 Principals 3 Associate Principals 6 Coordinators 1 Associate Coordinator 1 Technology Lead 1 Business Manager 1 Director
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ADLC Organization Chart
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ADLC Programs Home Education
• Parents choosing home education have the primary responsibility for managing, delivering, and supervising their children’s courses of study.
Education from Home • ADLC has the primary responsibility for managing, delivering, and supervising the student’s’ courses of study. Students receive their education program through ADLC using the Alberta Program of Studies and facilitated by parents and/or guardians. Assessment and recording of marks is the responsibility of ADLC teachers.
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Blended Education • Recognizing and respecting parental and/or student choice, ADLC supports the blending of aspects in Home Education and Education from Home.
Personalized Learning • Each personalized program plan is designed by the teacher in
consultation with the parents and/or school jurisdiction.
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Why ADLC? • Programming is available to remediate conflicts that arise that are not resolvable within the school environment. (For example, resolution of interpersonal conflicts).
• Enhancing the scope of local course offerings. • Providing subject-‐area expertise and teacher support which might be limited in a local school.
• Providing support and programming for classes where multiple levels of the same course (such as Math 10-‐3 Math 10-‐C) are used to balance class sizes.
• Programming stability for mobile students.
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ADLC supports local distributed learning programming including the following:
• local online schools • outreach programs • regular classroom teachers addressing differentiated learning needs
• schools preparing students for post-‐secondary and industry online individualized learning requirements
• subject-‐ area expertise and teacher support • effective strategies, resources, and tools for multi-‐levelled, combined classrooms
• program stability for transient students
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78 of 91 Parkland Grads
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August 31, 2010 Sept 1, 2009
Sept 30, 2011
Enrollments
Completions
Year Round Open Entry – Open Exit
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Successful Completions Sr. High -‐ All Programs
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Alberta Distance Learning Centre Team Teaching 2009-‐2010
Team Teaching Completion 92% Non-‐submitters 27% Sr High Students Enrolled 13,367 Increase in Enrolment 25% Jr. High Courses Enrolled 1,539 Increase in Enrolment 15% Sr. High Credits 51,536 Schools Served 297
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Vista-‐Virtual -‐ Senior High
2009-‐2010
Successful Completions 63% Non-‐submitters 35% Senior High Courses Enrolled 3,250 Senior High Credits Enrolled 13,238
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Vista Virtual School
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Vista-‐Virtual Independents 2009-‐2010
Successful Completions 61% Non-‐submitters 36% Senior High Courses Enrolled 3,959 Senior High Credits Enrolled 17,652
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ALL ADLC Stats 2009-‐2010
• New Sr. High Course Enrolments 40,750
• New Sr. High Enrolment credits 154,468 (approximately an 18% increase)
• Elementary/Junior High Courses 5148 • 3646 FTE (Funded)
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ADLC Funded Students
2009-‐2010 Elementary Students (1-‐3) 159 Elementary Students (4-‐6) 1,045 Junior High Students (7-‐9) 1,719 Senior High Students (10-‐12) 21,165 Carry Over (23% From 2009) 4,994 Total 29,082
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All ADLC Students Served
2009-‐2010 Elementary Students (1-‐3) 160 Elementary Students (4-‐6) 1066 Junior High Students (7-‐9) 1799 Senior High Students (10-‐12) 23,854 Carry Over (23% From 2009) 5523 Total 32,402
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Diploma Results
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 65.9% 63.8%
Acceptable 92.9% 89.6%
Excellence 17.4% 11.5%
Number of Writers 155 10,639
Applied Math 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 70.6% 70.4%
Acceptable 93.5% 93.0%
Excellence 30.7% 31.6%
Number of Writers 261 22,346
Biology 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 70.2% 70.6%
Acceptable 92.7% 91.0%
Excellence 26.8% 33.4%
Number of Writers 82 18,934
Chemistry 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 67.5% 67.8%
Acceptable 94.7% 96.6%
Excellence 13.2% 15.3%
Number of Writers 281 29,150
ELA 30-‐1
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 67.7% 64.7%
Acceptable 97.3% 95.8%
Excellence 12.8% 6.2%
Number of Writers 187 14,314
ELA 30-‐2
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 67.0% 68.9%
Acceptable 92.4% 91.5%
Excellence 19.0% 26.6%
Number of Writers 105 10,361
Physics 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 63.3% 71.0%
Acceptable 87.2% 92.6%
Excellence 15.6% 33.2%
Number of Writers 320 22,918
Pure Math 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 68.4% 67.4%
Acceptable 93.3% 92.2%
Excellence 29.8% 20.8%
Number of Writers 104 4,941
Science 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 62.5% 69.3%
Acceptable 85.7% 97.3%
Excellence 14.3% 21.1%
Number of Writers 21 23,484
Social 30
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Standard ADLC Province
Average 62.8% 64.7%
Acceptable 94.1% 94.4%
Excellence 0.0% 9.1%
Number of Writers 17 14,904
Social 33
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Student successful completion rates by department (Contracted Services and
Team Teaching) Department Course Completion
2008-‐2009 Course Completion
2009-‐2010
Math 67% 69%
Science 78% 79%
ELA 58% 66%
SS 75% 89%
Second Languages 68% 65%
CTS/Other 89% 89%
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Percentage of High School students who register but do not submit any lessons
(Non submitters) Department Non Submission
Rate 2008-‐2009
Non Submission Rate
2009-‐2010
Math 29% 28%
Science 26% 25%
ELA 36% 34%
SS 28% 26%
Second Languages 41% 34%
CTS/Other 25% 23%
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Percentage of students, parents, and partner jurisdictions who are satisfied with
ADLC teacher assistance in starting courses.
I am satisfied with ADLC teacher assistance…
2008-‐2009 2009-‐2010
Student 97% 93%
Parent 88% 100%
Partner Jurisdiction 88% 94%
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Percentage of students, parents, and partner jurisdictions satisfied with
learning materials provided by ADLC. I am satisfied with ADLC learning materials…
2008-‐2009 2009-‐2010
Student 97% 99%
Parent 89% 100%
Partner Jurisdiction 92% 99%
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Satisfaction of students, parents, and ADLC teachers with assistance provided to ADLC students by
community schools 2008-‐2009 2009-‐2010
Students 93% 96%
Parents 80% 96%
ADLC Teachers 52% 60%
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DL Environment -‐ Senior High
• 80% of students in Sr. High are in a brick and mortar school.
• 20% of students take courses independent of brick and mortar.
DL Environment -‐ Elementary/Junior High • 80% are home schooled or schooled from home • 20% are in a brick and mortar school.
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Francophone Program Enrolment
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Registrations by Office
Barrhead 50% (processing majority of web reg)
Calgary 22% Edmonton 18% Lethbridge 11%
Total Registrations – 45,898 (2009-‐2010)
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AISI Cycle 4 – Fanning the Spark STRATEGIES
Build effective learning relationships between ADLC staff and students and partner school DE facilitators
Redesign introductory sections and first assessments of ADLC courses to “hook” students to begin
Provide effective organizational supports to help students begin their courses
Create pre-‐assessment tools to determine learning styles, knowledge and skill gaps, and readiness for learning in a DL environment
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AISI Cycle 4 – Year 1 Initiatives
Developed ADLC Student Monitoring Guide to facilitate, coordinate, and make consistent student contact and monitoring procedures
Developed “AISI Tips of the Week” to share best practices, exemplars, and hints for success
Developed subject department brochures with friendly photos and contact information of teachers and DETs
Developed templates and criteria to assist teachers when developing/revising introductory material
collaborated with nine teachers in developing/revising introductory material
... And much more ...
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Partners in Teaching, Learning, and Development
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Challenges for the Future Understanding implications of Service Agreement – Extended to 2013
Accountability Pillar of Service Agreement Combined Ed Plan and AERR
Diploma exam administration off campus Course development & Ever-‐greening of courses Inspiring Education – role for ADLC Staffing Communication with:
Alberta Education Schools and School Districts Maintaining interactions with those outside of the provincial borders.
Succession Planning Successful Student Completions High School Completions OASIS –student information system
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ADLC DNA
• What are we the best at? • What comes most easily to ADLC, even though it may be difficult for others?
• What sets us apart from others?
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OASIS
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WEB Registration
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PHRD DL Strategy
• Rationale: • Enhance learning opportunities for all PHRD students enabling successful high school completion which will lead to better prepared students for today’s world of industry and post-‐secondary modalities of learning.
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By September 1, 2012 all graduates of PHRD schools
will have taken at least 5 online credits in their community
high school.
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Distributed Learning Definition
• Distributed learning is an instructional model that allows teachers, students, and content to be located in different, non-‐centralized locations so that instruction and learning occur independent of time and place. The distributed learning model can be used in combination with traditionTechnology Overviewal classroom-‐based courses or with traditional distance learning courses, or it can be used to create wholly virtual classrooms.
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Technology Overview
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Learning Technology
Team
Hardware & Network
IT Pillars
Information Systems
Course Development
Communications
Student Learning
Students & Partner Schools ADLC Teachers, Marker & Support Staff
Technical Infrastructure
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Pillars Information Systems • SIS • Registrations • Inquiry • Website
Course Development & Delivery • LMS • Web Meeting • Development tools • Educational software
Communications • Phone • e-‐mail • Chat • Video Conference • SMS • Texting
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Open Source
Interna
l
Web Based
Licensed
Hosted
Desktop
Technology Options
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Website • Joomla • Open source
• Linux • Entry Point • FAQ • Electronic Documents
Registrations • Java Interface for Partner Schools
• Paper based for individuals
• Tied to Student Information System (SIS) • Oracle
Education Delivery • Learning Management System (LMS) • Desire2Learn • Microsoft IIS
• Web Meeting • Elluminate • Saba
Student Inquiry • CGI/C++ • Marks • Course Information
• Teacher Information
Online Partner Experience
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Questions?