Now that you have seen your students' progress, is there anything that you can do to help struggling students?

The answer is YES!

 

1. Check for progress reports and report cards in the registration system regularly. Updates are made every two weeks.  You may contact teachers directly between updates to check on student progress.

 

2. Have students contact their instructors during their office hours for live help.

 

3. Try to establish a recurring time for student to meet with instructor (in Blackboard Collaborate or phone) for one-on-one tutoring.

 

4. Have student sign up for NCVPS Peer Tutoring, which is available for certain courses. There is a "Peer Tutoring" link in each course. Visit this link for additional details.  Peer Tutoring offers the following services:

• Peer Tutoring - Peer Tutors provides tutoring in specific content areas.
• Virtual Buddy - Virtual Buddies are select student volunteers who have agreed to work with NCVPS students who need more than content help in their online classes.
• Quick Questions - Services are available to all students via Blackboard IM at the start of the semester. For the first four weeks, this is the primary work we provide to ALL NCVPS students. 
   

5. Establish peer tutoring with other successful NCVPS students at your school (if available).

 

6. Have EC students meet with the school's EC specialist.

 

7. See our list of assistive technologies.  Go to this link to learn more: http://goo.gl/eryLQ 

 

8. Have students attend your school's review sessions (if available).

 

9. Have students attend your school's tutoring session (if available).

 

10. If the student is taking the course off campus, consider moving the student to a lab setting, especially if the student is not logging into the course.

 

11. If you have students in EOC courses, be sure that they take part in our EOC Reviews that are in each EOC course.  Have them contact their teachers for more information.  

 

12. Establish weekly or bi-weekly contact with instructors of any at-risk students.

 

13. Have parents log in with the students at home and monitor their work.  Parents can communicate with the instructor, too.

 

14. Be sure students are aware of our basic support structure:

• Teachers help with course questions and course content.
• The Virtual Support Center helps with technology issues in the course and login issues.
• The school ELAs help students with enrolling and withdrawing from a course and with transcript and report card questions about their NCVPS classes.

Credit Recovery : Credit recovery enrollment will remain open until November 25, which is the end of our third marking period. Schools can continue to enroll in credit recovery courses that have open seats. 

OCS: Schools can continue to enroll in existing OCS sections throughout the semester. We cannot open new OCS sections after Sept. 4. See the note below on OCS courses that are at section capacity. 

1/2 Credit Health Courses: Registration for our 2nd 9-week health courses will remain open until October 26. 

Transfer Students: We are now accepting transfer students.Transfer students must already be enrolled in the course at the traditional school and have a grade to transfer in with. Transfers are not for students who are new to a course.  If we have a seat available in the course, we will try to accommodate the transfer request.

Please note that each course transfer request for a student will need to have its own ticket.

We need this information before we can process the request:

Student's Name:

Course Needed:

Is course Year long or Block?

Is student a senior: (yes/no)

Numeric Transfer Grade:

The school's support plan if student does not have a passing transfer grade:

Reason for Transfer:

Student's School:

Student's PowerSchool Number:

Student's Email: (do not use ELA's email address)

Does the student have an IEP?

Does the student have a 504 Plan:

Please submit all of the requested information at one time. We cannot process the request without it.  

Schools can no longer drop students at this point, but they can withdraw students in the registration system throughout the semester. NCVPS will issue a W (withdrawal) grade. The enrollment will still count in your district's or charter school's allotment totals. If you run short on allotment funding, though, you can use NCVPS reserve funds.