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Dec. 3: Last day to transfer students into courses.
Dec. 5: New Virtual Support Center opens.
Dec. 5: Progress reports posted in registration system.
Dec. 14: End of Early Calendar block courses.
Dec. 19: Early Calendar final grades posted. Progress reports posted for traditional classes.
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NCVPS E-lert
| November 19, 2012 |
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| New Virtual Support Center | |
This message is from our Executive Director:
Dear NCVPS Teachers, Students, and Partner Schools,
I want to share with you an exciting change in the way NCVPS will provide support to all of our virtual stakeholders. For the past five years, NCVPS has provided a regional approach to supporting schools by assigning a Virtual Learning Consultant to each LEA who could respond to any support needs. This approach provided schools with a personal contact that has been highly valued. However, given the growth in enrollment over the past few years our Virtual Learning Consultants have increasingly been dedicating time to addressing a multitude of smaller issues rather than providing districts with support on higher level issues that many would like to receive. We believe by reorganizing how we support our schools, teachers, and students, that we can continue to provide all stakeholders with a timely response on the day to day support concerns as well as provide all with quality support on higher end needs.
Beginning on December 5, 2012, any NCVPS Teacher, Student, eLearning Advisor, or other school or district personnel who has a need for support will direct their needs to the NCVPS Virtual Support Center. Support needs may include technical needs, registration assistance, questions about teacher of record, and any other items for which a stakeholder needs assistance. Through the Virtual Support Center, you will have access to all members of the NCVPS staff as your request will be directed to the person who can best address your needs. Our Virtual Learning Consultants will transition into new roles within NCVPS, therefore, you should no longer contact them directly for support or questions. Instead, please go to http://www.help.ncvps.org/ to open a ticket. Your concern will be immediately directed to the person within NCVPS who can best address your need and provide you with a prompt response. Your ticket will be tracked and used to improve processes throughout the organization.
I am excited about the transition to the Virtual Support Center as it will allow NCVPS to provide timely, high quality support for all. I appreciate your patience in the transition to this new model.
Sincerely,
Tracy S. Weeks, Ph.D
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| Computer Science Principles |
 We began a pilot this fall with a course entitled, Computer Science Principles and the pilot has been very successful. We are going to pilot the course again in the spring and would like to invite you to enroll your students in this course. See the course description below. The Registration System is open for enrollments. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Karen Creech - karen.creech@ncpublicschools.gov
Computer Science Principles Course Number: 6460O Hours of Instruction: 135 (block) 150 (regular) Prerequisite: None
Computer Science Principles is a rigorous, introductory honors-level course intended to familiarize students to the general concepts and thinking practices of computing, computer science, and information science. Students will learn computing concepts through authentic visual and interactive projects using the BYOB/SNAP, GameMaker and AppInventor visual programming languages. Students will focus on the "big CS ideas" in creative ways that emphasize conceptual knowledge and thinking practices rather than on programming alone. The big ideas in CSP include computing as a creative activity, abstraction, facilitating knowledge creation through computing, algorithms, problem-solving, the Internet, and the global impact of computing. Emphasis is placed on problem-solving, communication, creativity, and exploring the impacts of computing on how we think, communicate, work, and play.Art, English language arts, and mathematical concepts are reinforced.
Prerequisite
None
Technical Requirements
Software: Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB), GameMaker, AppInventor
Work-based learning strategies appropriate for this course include entrepreneurship, mentorship, service learning, and job shadowing. Apprenticeship and cooperative education are not available for this course. Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) competitive events, community service, and leadership activities provide the opportunity to apply essential standards and workplace readiness skills through authentic experiences.
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| NCVPS Week 11 for the ELA |
 Follow this link to get information on SAR reporting, intervention strategies for struggling students, enrollment options, and much more.
If you're looking for course codes, you can find those either on the enrollment reports or in our catalogs here.
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| Success 101 for Middle School Students |
 NCVPS has redesigned its Success 101 course to meet the needs and abilities of middle school students. We plan to pilot the course in the spring of 2013. More details will be announced soon. See Middle School Success 101 brochure here.
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| OCS Financial Management for Spring 2013 |
NCVPS is pleased to announce that we are currently developing the OCS Blended Learning Financial Management course (course code 9222Z) and this course is now open for registration for SPRING 2013 in the NCVPS Registration System. This course is part of the NCVPS OCS Blended Learning program as described here: http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/courses/ocs-blended/Please email Michelle Lourcey (michelle.lourcey@ncpublicschools.gov) for any questions!
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| Medical Drops |
If you have a student who needs to be dropped for medical reasons, fax this form to the number that is on the form. Do not withdraw the student in the registration system. Withdrawals count in a district's allotment totals and medical drops do not. |
| Spring Arts Courses! |
We have a great list of arts courses for Spring 2013, including several new courses. Check out the flier here!
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| Credit Recovery Testing Standards | Based on information from NC DPI, course codes for Credit Recovery courses have changed based on the standards taught in the course.
The Credit Recovery courses currently in Registration for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 are for the courses based on the former NC Standard Course of Study standards and end in code (CR).
Following our directive from NC DPI, NCVPS will be adding additional Credit Recovery courses in the Registration for Spring 2013 that represent the new Common Core and Essential Standards with a different end code (XR). NCVPS assumes that any studentscurrently registered for Spring 2013 Credit Recovery need to recover the credit based on the the former standards. If this is not the case, students need to be dropped.
Any students who need to recover a credit based on the new standards that rolled out this fall will need to sign up for the new course with the end code XR. These courses (with the end code XR) will trigger the EOC whereas the courses based on the old standards (with the end code CR) will not.
Please contact Michelle Lourcey (michelle.lourcey@ncpublicschools.gov) for any questions!
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