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Career & College: Ready, Set, Go!
NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative
State Board of Education
April 7, 2011
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Webinar Overview1. Reiterate General RttT Requirements &
Process for LEAs/Charters (“Local”)
2. Clarify State Plan & Implications for Local Plans
• Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)
• NC Education Cloud
3. Address Questions
Key Take Away = Know how to move forward with your local RttT plan!
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General RttT Requirements
1. For 2011-12 submission to DPI…Local DSWs must include plans (i.e., a completed row on the spreadsheet) for implementing all RttT Required Activities
2. Local RttT detailed budgets (in BUD) must match Local DSWs (talk to your Finance Officer!)
3. Complete local DSWs must be submitted to DPI by August 3, 2011 (same process as last fall…but much more time to develop plans)
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General RttT Requirements
2010-11 (Nov. 8, 2010) 2011-12 (Aug. 3, 2011)
Submission of Local DSW to DPI…
www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt/district/ www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/rttt/state/plan/state-dsw.pdf
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RttT Guidance Documents
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State DSW
2011-12 DSW Submission Timeline
DPI Finance Informational Webinars (2)
•Requirements for submission of budget and detailed plans
DPI Informational Webinars focused on RttT State Initiatives
•LEAs & Charters combined
•Review Requirements for Local RttT Plans
•Provide LEAs/Charters with greater detail regarding State Plan (by Initiative)
Regional Support & Planning Meetings
•LEAs & Charters combined
•Review Webinar Info
•Review Approval process
•Support Updated local DSWs
•Support Implementation
All Local Plans submitted to DPI
All Plans reviewed by DPI
DPI staff follow up with
LEAs/Charters to resolve any outstanding
issues
All Plans Final
(posted to RttT
Website)
Sept. 1Feb 10, 2011 March & April June 1-27 August 3 - 11
August 12-22
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Purpose of STEM
Attract students to choose careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
NC’s Seven Economic Regions
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RttT STEM Goals• Offer rigorous course of study in STEM to face
“Grand Challenges for Engineering”
• Cooperate with community partners to:
– Prepare & assist teachers in integration of STEM
– Promote effective & relevant instruction for students
– Offer applied learning opportunities and careers in STEM
• Prepare more students for advanced study and careers in STEM
– Include underrepresented groups of women and girls
– Include more students from “turnaround schools”
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Grand Challenges for EngineeringBy the Committee of the National Academy of Engineering:
• Make solar energy economical• Provide energy from fusion• Develop carbon sequestration methods• Manage the nitrogen cycle• Provide access to clean water• Restore and improve urban infrastructure• Advance health informatics• Engineer better medicines• Reverse-engineer the brain• Prevent nuclear terror• Secure cyberspace• Enhance virtual reality• Advance personalized learning• Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
www.engineeringchallenges.org
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New Schools ProjectAerospace
Craven County
Biotechnology Agriscience
Washington County
City of MedicineDurham County
Pre-engineeringWake County
Network Schools
Network SchoolsNetwork Schools
Network Schools
AnchorSchool
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New Schools Project
Illustrative example of 16 networked schools linked with 4 anchor schools
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New Schools Project• Teachers
– Professional Development
– School visits - (In and out of State)
– Coaching
– Internships
– Summer employment for curriculum development
– Extended employment for four teachers
• Principals– Professional Development
– School visits - (In and out of State)
– Leadership facilitator to assist
• Equipment– $20,000 per school (approximately four classrooms)
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RttT Resources for STEMNC
$400 M
State $200 M
Great Teachers & Leaders
Operations
$6.3 M
NSP $10 M
LEAs $165M
20 Schools $3.7 M
Virtual Public
Schools
STEM Virtual
Courses
Mathematics
MEngineering
E Technology
TScience
S
STEM Initiatives
~$45 M
CTE Academies
New Schools Project
PLTW
Cloud $35M
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STEM Partners
• Students
• Teachers
• School Administration
• Communities/Parents
School Communities
• Science
• Technology/Instructional
• Engineering - CTE
• Mathematics
• Turnaround Schools
• Virtual Public Schools
• Support Curriculum
– Art
– World languages
– English– Social Studies
• Business/Industry
• External National
Partners
• Innovators
• Legislature
• New Schools Project
• NC STEM Collaborative
• Postsecondary
Education
• Others: museums , etc.
Internal (DPI)Partners
ExternalPartners
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STEM Contact Information
Rebecca Payne
Director, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Leadership
NCDPI
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NC Education Cloud UpdateMonday, April 11, 2011
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NC Education Cloud end game…
• LEAs pay substantially less as part of a buyers’ consortium
• A shift in emphasis from technology support to instructional support
• Increased IT efficiency – fewer more highly utilized servers and other resources
• Increased service reliability – servers hosted in professional data centers with backup, disaster recovery, and service level guarantees
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SHARED SERVICES
Attributes:•Aggregate demand and procure/statewide license•Buy services versus build infrastructure•Pay for use infrastructure model(s); sustainable/sharedResults in:•Equity of access to resources•Scale based on aggregate demand•Consistent high performance, reliability •Infrastructure & platforms to support 21st century education•Reduced, sustainable operating costs
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Some Really Important Things
• NC Ed Cloud is all about migrating to services• Migrating to services:
• Is not free• Is not always easy• Is not always hard• Requires a well-thought-out contract• Must include a service level agreement with teeth
• LEAs are not all the same so the benefits of cloud accrue differently
• Business intelligence and analytics tools will be important to the sustainability of broad cloud deployments
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Cloud
Build/Migrate Operate
Total Cost of Ownership
Capital InvestmentOne-time migrate
E-Rate Eligible ServicesCollaborative ProcurementCost AvoidanceCost ReductionFlexible Funding Models
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The NC Education Cloud
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Shared Infrastructure
Where “X” is Infrastructure or Software or Desktop or …
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A Platform for All RttT Initiatives
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Cloud Plan Development Process
LEA Webinars
LEA Region
Meetings
LEA Site Interviews
NC Education Cloud Proposed Plan
Industry Best
Practices
LEA Working Groups
Gather Inform
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PlanDevelopment
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How Are LEAs Involved in the Process?
• Round 1 of LEA Site Interviews; 54 completed May 13.
• Advisory and Working Groups• 52 community participants in our Cloud Advisory process
• Shared Services Advisory Group, 16 members• Identity and Access Management, Data Collection &
TCO Analysis, and Consortium Buying Working Groups: each with about 12 members
• When all projects are underway, nearly 100 LEA participants will be engaged in the process.
• In all groups, each region is represented, and assigned based on interest and subject matter expertise.
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Cloud Projects
• Identity & Access Management• Data Collection & TCO Analysis• Consortium Buying• Instructional Resources & Digital Content
Management Systems• Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications• iSeries RFP
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Site Interviews
• Objectives• Communications/community education• Data collection to support NC Education Cloud
plan development• Community buy-in
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Site Interviews
• DPI Regional Instructional Consultants schedule site interviews
• Distribute link to survey to LEAs• LEAs review the survey prior to the site
interview• Conduct site interviews – complete data
collection • Interview team typically - Dave Furiness, DPI
Instructional Consultant, Contractor - Systems Consultant, NC Ed Cloud Leadership Team
• LEA participants – CTO/Technology Director, designated staff, Instructional leadership
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Site Interview Status
• 36 of 48 Phase 1 site interviews completed – remaining 12 (Regions 7 & 8) to be competed by April 21st
• Phase 2 site interviews (six largest LEAs) scheduled to be completed May 13th
• Phase 3 site interviews (remaining LEAs and 10-15 charter schools) will begin May 16th
• Although phase 3 site interviews will collect identical information to phase 1 and 2, on-site discussions will focus on service and process validation
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Site Interview Insights – Service Considerations
• LEA and charter school challenges and initiatives
• Understanding the LEA and charter school IT and instructional technology environment
• “Full plate syndrome”• Managing hidden costs (e.g. service migration
costs)
• Economic/financial data and considerations• Where and how is money spent
• Service requirements• Functional• Service management
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A Few Early Examples
• iSeries RFP and Plan• Changes in State E-Rate filing process
• Firewall• Content Filtering
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What’s next?
• Updates and conversation at Regional Technology Directors’ Meetings in late April and May
• Complete Phase 1 site interviews and assemble feedback and findings to “inform” the projects and the Implementation Plan
• Assemble community needs into Cloud Project recommendations and vet with Advisory Process and industry leaders
• Align all levels of planning with other pillars, especially IIS and NCVPS
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Some conversation…
• We want to hear from you:• What are we not doing?• What are your concerns?• What are your pain points?
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RttT & E-Rate
1. Previous Funding Request
Must have used an appropriate competitive process and simply need to keep that documentation on file to present if audited by USED regarding use of RttT dollars. In other words, all E-rate and state and local procurement rules apply. While supplanting with RttT funds is not specifically prohibited, to be justified, the expenditures must enable new or expanded capacity that the LEA otherwise would not have had in the absence of the RttT dollars.
2. Future Funding Request
In addition to the “non-supplant” requirement, don’t forget the Interactive Purchasing System (IPS) state requirement for goods or services over $5,000.
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Sole Sourcing
• Can a local education agency (LEA) or charter school sole-source for a technology product or with a technology vendor?• LEAs should strive to use competitive bidding
procedures, but certain technology purchases can be sole sourced
• LEAs/charters MUST follow the guidelines posted at
http://snurl.com/ncrtttss
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Questions?
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Webinar Summary1. Reiterated General RttT Requirements &
Process for LEAs/Charters (“Local”)
2. Clarified State Plan & Implications for Local Plans
• Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)
• NC Education Cloud
3. Addressed Questions
Key Take Away = Know how to move forward with your local RttT plan!
