Career & College: Ready, Set, Go!
NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative
State Board of Education
April 7, 2011
Webinar Overview
1. 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
Submission of Local DSW to DPI…
2010-11 (Nov. 8, 2010)
2011-12 (Aug. 3, 2011)
Local RttT DSWs
Local RttT DSWs
• outline plan for all
RttT activities
• outline plan for
RttT Dollars
State Detailed
Scope of Work
(DSW)
RttT “Guidance”
Documents
 outline State
Objectives
 outline State
Objectives (A2,
B3, D5, E2, P2))
 pre- Nov. 2010
 post- Nov. 2010
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
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2011-12 DSW Submission Timeline
Feb 10, 2011
DPI Finance
Informational
Webinars (2)
•Requirements for
submission of
budget and
detailed plans
March & April
June 1-27
August 3 - 11
August 12-22
Sept. 1
DPI staff follow
up with
LEAs/Charters to
resolve any
outstanding
issues
All Plans
Final
(posted
to RttT
Website)
DPI Informational
Webinars
focused on
RttT State
Initiatives
Regional Support
& Planning
Meetings
All Local Plans
submitted to DPI
•LEAs & Charters
combined
All Plans
reviewed by DPI
•LEAs & Charters
combined
•Review Webinar
Info
•Review
Requirements for
Local RttT Plans
•Review Approval
process
•Provide
LEAs/Charters
with greater detail
regarding State
Plan (by Initiative)
•Support
Implementation
•Support Updated
local DSWs
Based on feedback…Similar process, but extended planning window
Purpose of STEM
Attract students to choose careers in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
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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 Engineering
By the Committee of the National Academy of Engineering:
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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 Project
Aerospace
Craven County
New
Schools
Project
Anchor
School
Anchor
School
Pre-engineering
Wake County
Network Schools
Biotechnology
Agriscience
Washington County
Network Schools
Anchor
School
Anchor
School
Network Schools
City of Medicine
Durham County
Network Schools
Illustrative example of 16 networked schools linked with 4 anchor schools
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New Schools Project
• Teachers
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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 STEM
NC
$400 M
State
$200 M
$6.3 M
LEAs
$165M
Great
Teachers
& Leaders
NSP
$10 M
Operations
Cloud
$35M
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Schools
$3.7 M
Virtual
Public
Schools
STEM
Initiatives
~$45 M
Science
Technology
Engineering
Mathematics
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STEM
Virtual
Courses
PLTW
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New
Schools
Project
CTE
Academies
STEM Partners
School
Communities
Internal (DPI)
Partners
External
Partners
• Students
• Science
• Business/Industry
• Technology/Instructional
• External National
• Teachers
• Engineering - CTE
• School
Administration
• Communities/
Parents
Partners
• Mathematics
• Innovators
• Turnaround Schools
• Legislature
• Virtual Public Schools
• New Schools Project
• Support Curriculum
• NC STEM Collaborative
– Art
• Postsecondary
– World languages
– English
– Social Studies
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Education
• Others: museums , etc.
STEM Contact Information
Rebecca Payne
Director, Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) Education and Leadership
NCDPI
rpayne@dpi.state.nc.us
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NC Education Cloud Update
Monday, 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/shared
Results 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:
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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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Total Cost of Ownership
Cloud
Capital Investment
One-time migrate
Build/Migrate
E-Rate Eligible Services
Collaborative Procurement
Cost Avoidance
Cost Reduction
Flexible Funding Models
Operate
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The NC Education Cloud
Shared
Infrastructure
Services
NC
Education
Cloud
Shared
Service
Delivery
Platforms
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Shared Infrastructure
Storage
Servers
Appliances
X-as-a-service
Where “X” is Infrastructure or Software or Desktop or …
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Collaborative
Tools
Learning Objects
Repository
Transformation
Support
System
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NC Virtual
Public School
Identity
Management
Online
Professional
Development
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Standards &
Assessment
Learning
Management
System
State Data Use
Instructional
Improvement
System
A Platform for All RttT Initiatives
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Cloud Plan Development Process
Industry
Best
Practices
LEA
Webinars
LEA
Region
Meetings
LEA
Working
Groups
LEA Site
Interviews
Plan
Development
NC Education Cloud Proposed Plan
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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
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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 1015 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?
cloudhelp@ncsu.edu
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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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Neill Kimrey
Director, Instructional Technology
NCDPI
nkimrey@dpi.state.nc.us
NC Education Cloud Site: cloud.fi.ncsu.edu
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Questions?
Do you understand what you need to do to submit a complete local
DSW by August 2011 that DPI can approve?
Do you know what other RttT-related support DPI will offer between
now and August?
Are you clear what the State will be doing in 2011-12 related to:
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STEM
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NC Education Cloud
Do you know what you need to in order to move forward with your plan?
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Webinar Summary
1. 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!
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