One School District's Experience with Local-Flex - The Seattle Success Story

Archive of a Horizon Wimba Webcast...online event, held 12/01/04

On the 1st of December 2004 NEIRTEC and WestEd’s SchoolsMovingUp featured a free online event, "One School District’s Experience with Local-Flex – The Seattle Success Story."

Description of Event

With regard to the No Child Left Behind Act, there is often talk about how prescriptive it can be. This interactive presentation with Jay Iman, Grant Manager and Jane Goetz, Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, both from the Seattle Public Schools, provided practical information on the Local-Flex provision available to districts interested in maximum funding flexibility through consolidation of certain local-level federal funds they already receive, to fulfill any educational purposes under the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act, reauthorized in 2001 as the No Child Left Behind Act.

The flexibility goes beyond that provided with Ed-Flex and Transferability.

During this online event, Iman and Goetz shared Seattle's experience including the decision-making process, benefits, challenges and progress of the district to date as they completed their first full year utilizing the Local-Flex provision to accomplish district educational goals to ensure that all children succeed.

Event Archive

The recorded archive of the event is now available for your review and for anyone else who is interested in the topic but was unable to attend the presentation. A webcast transcript is also available for review.

You will find the link to the archive, as well as instructions on viewing it at:

http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/wested/view/e/312

Once at this site, click "Login." If you do not have a SchoolsMovingUp password, click on Become a Member and follow the instructions to obtain a username and password. Once you have done this, you will be taken to the archive area, where you can download the PowerPoint presentation from the event as well as start the archived session.

You can also go directly to the event by using the following URL:

http://208.185.32.232/launcher.cgi?room=SMU1_2004_1201_1307_37

To start the archive you need to hit the Navigation button in the gray bar on the left had side of the screen above the chat area. This will launch a separate Navigation Window, which will appear to the left of the interface. The archived presentation should begin to play automatically after you access it. (Please note that you may experience a few seconds of buffering before it begins to play.) The presentation slides will automatically advance for you, and you will see everything as it happened in the live presentation.

If desired, you can use the Navigation Window to jump to specific transition points within the archive by clicking on the name of the slide in the archive Navigation Window.

The length of the archive is 1 1/2 hours but the technology allows you to move to the parts that are most relevant to you by clicking on the side board and title of the slides.

Please note, this archive combines streaming both the visual and the audio parts over the Internet so it requires running a DIFFERENT wizard test than for the live event (http://208.185.32.232/wizard/launcher.cgi?wc=rl). If you encounter any technical issues while viewing the archived presentation, please be sure that you have run and passed the Wizard that is appropriate for the archive. If you experience any difficulties, check if your browser has the popped up window blocker off) or contact dwlison@wested.org.

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This page last modified—July 22, 2005.