School counselors are vital to the success of the Virtual Virginia Advanced Placement School and we look forward to developing a long and mutually beneficial relationship.

The school counseling profession promotes the concept of establishing comprehensive, developmental school counseling programs that meet the needs of all students and are viewed as effective and cutting-edge. As school counselors, we are charged with promoting the academic, career, and personal/social growth and development of our students. One of the most important ways we do this is by fostering our students’ academic achievement by providing opportunities for advanced coursework. Virtual Virginia can assist you in achieving this goal!

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What Virtual Virginia provides:

• 23 Advanced Placement courses and 4 Foreign Languages taught via the internet (Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and Spanish; Arabic coming in the fall of 2007) through a rich multimedia learning format. Each course contains video segments, audio clips, whiteboard and online discussions as well as text.
• Technical support for counselors, parents, and students
• A school counselor that works to promote the academic, career, and personal/social growth and development of the virtual students and serves as a resource for administrators, parents, and local school counselors
   

A Local School Counselor’s Role with Virtual Virginia:

Commitments

• Commitment to promote the courses available to students through Virtual Virginia
• Commitment to promote the Early College Scholars program with your students starting in the 9th grade

Responsibilities

• Approve students to take Virtual Virginia courses as part of a regular school day schedule or in addition to their regular school day schedule
• Register students for courses offered through Virtual Virginia
• Work with school mentors to ensure that final grades are received and appropriate credit awarded on the student’s transcript

AP Exam Reimbursement

Schools are asked to cover the AP Exam fees of their Early College Scholar students who take AP courses through Virtual Virginia. The schools will submit a request for reimbursement and the local school district will receive the reimbursement from DOE. To request a reimbursement, schools must submit a list of ECS students, the name of the course and exam taken, and a copy of the invoice showing the exam was purchased. This information is submitted to Betsy Gragnani (betsy.gragnani@doe.virginia.gov) for processing. In order to receive reimbursement the request must be into Betsy's office no later than June 1, 2008.