Is your district looking for an innovative way to expand or enhance your teaching, learning and assessment? Is your district considering creating a virtual academy, summer school or alternative school? Is your district exploring adding an online gifted or accelerated program? Are you concerned about community buy-in to your new curriculum program? Or is your district designing a professional development initiative and you are concerned about motivating teachers? Blue Ocean Planning is a three-part professional development experience that will help you discover opportunity and foster commitment for online teaching, learning and assessment. In this first session, you will learn about national trends in online education; explore district online initiatives that use blendedschools.net´s technologies, curriculum and professional development; and mine research about K-12 online models and market economics. You will leave this session knowledgeable of the online industry of your program choice, and more informed to make decisions about your program´s components and services.