2005 AVLN Online Conference Strand
Adventist LEAP: College Courses for Advanced High School Students

Facilitators
Shelley Bacon, AE21, bacon.home at juno.com
Dave Bullock, Walla Walla College, BullDa at wwc.edu

Strand Description
Educators around the country have begun talking about a seamless K-16 program that encourages high school students to continue on to college. Research indicates that high school students who take college classes are more likely to succeed in college. Public education has been offering dual enrollment/dual credit programs for quite some time, and every state has some sort of program. Adventist high schools are increasingly looking to public dual enrollment programs to suplement their students' education because Adventist education has nothing to offer them. Can we change this for Adventist education? Come learn about an initiative to offer exceptional Adventist students faith-based dual enrollment/dual credit classes through distance learning.

Big Questions

• What would coordination look like for Adventist LEAP?
• What barriers need to be overcome to put Adventist LEAP in place for North America?
• What should be the criteria for students to participate?
• How can a professor get involved?
• How can we advertise this program?
• How can this be a recruiting tool for academies vs. a threat for losing students?
• How can we determine the needs?
• How can we disseminate information to homeschool students?