LIVE WEBCAST TO LAUNCH NEW ONLINE LEARNING GUIDE

[Tim Poynton]

Join the U.S. Department of Education in a live webcast on *Wednesday,
December 12, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.* (ET) to discuss */Connecting Students
to Advanced Courses Online/*, the latest publication in the Office of
Innovation and Improvement's series, /Innovations In Education/.

The webcast will feature a panel of national education leaders and
experts in online learning, including Assistant Deputy Secretary of
Education Morgan Brown; Thomas Matts, Director of AP Course Audit at
The College Board; Liz Pape, CEO of Virtual High School; and two high
school administrators who partner with online course providers that
are featured in the publication. Among the issues the panel will
explore are what services to expect from online providers; how to
match students to appropriate online coursework; and how to ensure
academic quality of online content and instruction.

The book is a guide for school leaders who are inexperienced with
online education but who might be interested in using it to expand
student access to AP and other advanced course work. Case studies of
six online providers - Colorado Online Learning; Florida Virtual
School; Iowa Online Advanced Placement Academy; Johns Hopkins
University Center for Talented Youth; Virtual High School; and
Michigan Virtual High School - provide practical and proven approaches
to online learning challenges.

Secondary school administrators are particularly encouraged to bring
together school leadership teams to view and participate in the
webcast and then to obtain copies of the book.

*Register for the webcast at: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=42740*.

Copies of */Connecting Students to Advanced Courses Online/* will be
available for download in PDF format prior to the webcast. Copies of
the book will be available free-of-charge following the webcast and
can be ordered online at www.edpubs.org <http://www.edpubs.org/>; toll-
free at 1-877-4-ED-PUBS; or by mail at EDPubs, P.O. Box 1398 Jessup,
MD 20794-1398. When ordering online, enter the publication's name in
the EDPubs "Keyword/Title" search box. For phone and mail orders, use
publication order number ED003948P.

More information on this book and others in the /Innovations In
Education/ series is available at http://www.ed.gov/about/pubs/intro/innovations.html,
where the publications in the series can be downloaded in PDF or MS
Word formats. After December 12, a link to the archived version of the
webcast will be available at this same site.

--
Bradley Toney, Bilingual Counselor
President, Urban Counselors Association of Massachusetts (UCAM)
Chelsea High School
299 Everett Ave.
Chelsea, MA 02150
617 466-5009 tel. 617 889-7518 fax
617 466-5017 (Guidance Office)