The document discusses a superintendent's response to online learning opportunities in their school district (PSD). The purposes are to provide alternative credit retrieval to help students graduate on time, reduce costs by limiting students lost to outside programs, and offer credit enrichment. It proposes collaborating with various education groups to study how disruptive innovation theory applies, the impact of new state laws and offices, and what data collection methods like interviews and surveys could shed light on anticipated outcomes of keeping students in the district and enhancing offerings and credit retrieval, and whether achievement and certain groups are affected. It notes the researcher's role and perspective in facilitating the study.

1. Disruptive Innovation:
A Superintendent’s Response
to Online Learning
Glenn E. Malone

2. Purpose
• PSD desires to potentially provide students
another method to accomplish credit retrieval in
order to graduate on time
• PSD desires to reduce the FTE and therefore
financial, impact of students lost to other
programs outside the district
• PSD desires to provide a method for credit
enrichment for students who want more from
their education, such as early graduation, AP
credits, etc.

3. Setting for the Study
• Disruptive Innovation Theory
• SB 5410
• New Office of Online Learning
• Washington State or PSD specific ?
• Study Students?
• Study Superintendents?

4. Collaboration—Who & How
• Who?
– NCCE
– WACOL
– Office of Online Learning
– ESD’s
– Vendors
– Superintendents
• How?
Meetings? Online? Surveys? Interviews?

5. Methods for Data Collection
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Literature
• Reports

6. Anticipated Outcomes
• Students stay in System
• Enrichment Offerings are increased
• Credit Retrieval Enhanced
• Is Achievement Effected?
• Who is Damaged?

7. Positionality
• My Role
– Facilitator, Researcher, Outsider
• My Perspective
– Disruptive Innovation, Profit Motivation