Reflections+and+Questions

Day One

 * Students want virtual education opportunities and are benefitting from them– we heard that virtual education can be a solution tomeet the needs of diverse learners – advancement, flexibility in time and place, access for the homebound, credit recover
 * Federal administration that is invested in promoting, guiding, and informing work in virtual education – they get it AND how do they help states move forward in a purposeful, connected way.
 * There are pockets of success that we need to learn from and think about how to bring to scale
 * Assessment – how to create a viable balanced system of assessments that are technology based. from formative to interim to summati
 * Infrastructure – critical to ensure access
 * Partnerships – across states, with the private sector, across virtual education programs. Approaching vendor
 * Find ways to do this work that is synergistic – no one state or program has the resources to do it and do it all well.
 * Open Source – California digital learning resources, applications, student information systems, assessments.
 * Leverage – push the vendors, buying more for the buck, and asking for what we need – assessments that use AI to respond to and scaffold students’ learning
 * There really are pockets of success that can inform policy and practice moving forwa
 * Virtual learning as a disruptive force – will depend on how we move aheead
 * The need to ensure that all teachers and leaders can lead and teach using virtual education.
 * Purpose driven – 21st century fluencies – to develop citizens.
 * Workforce - college and career - the importance of people working across levels of the system.
 * Cloud technology - the virtual technology
 * Being good consumers - there is so much content and so many tools we need to be strategic.