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DAVID W. TESTNATIONAL SECONDARY TRANSITION
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
JOANNE CASHMANIDEA PARTNERSHIP
MINDEE O’CUMMINGSTHE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CENTER
College and Career Ready Resources for Teacher
Educators
The Issue
All students access high school curriculum
Legislative mandates and initiatives in high schools include and impact students with disabilities
Postsecondary education outcomes are not good
College Preparedness
VariableAfrican
American Hispanic White
1. On-time grad. with regular diploma
55% 58% 78%
2. Left prepared for college
23% 20% 40%
Summary of Graduation and College Preparedness by Ethnicity
:
CCR: Reauthorizing NCLB/ESEA
“Every student should graduate from high school ready for college and a career, every student should have meaningful opportunities to choose from upon graduation from high school.” President Obama in Blueprint for Success, 2010
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blueprint/index.html
The administration has a goal that by 2020, the U.S. will return to having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world
So What’s Happening?
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National Governors Association (NGA) developed and then released the Common Core State Standards June 2010
“fewer, clearer, higher”Federal grant funds: Race to the Top and
Investing in Innovation required use of CCSS for applicants
Currently 45 states & Washington, D.C. have adopted the standards
Assessment Consortia: General Assessments
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Fiscal state: Florida (26 States) Management partner: Achieve Amount: $186 million
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Fiscal state: Washington (31 States) Management partner: WestEd Amount: $176 million
Rooney, 2011
PARCC States
SBAC States
Assessment Consortia: Alternate Assessment
Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System Consortium (DLMAASC) University of Kansas (13 states)
National Center and State Collaborative Partnership (NCSC) University of Minnesota (3 centers and 19
States)
Dynamic Map States
NCSC States
Assessment Implementation
2011-2012 School Year Technology audit of states and districts Writing and piloting test items Create item bank and digital resources Develop participation and accommodations policies Begin teacher institutes in “governing” states
2012-2013 & 2013-2014 School Years Enlarge field testing Continue state and educator professional
development Design and implement test platform Setting performance level descriptors
2014-2015: first live administration
Are College and Career Ready the same?
Academic skills only?Some suggest that being Career Ready
involves more than core academic skills. What about employability skills and
technical, job-specific skills? “Soft-skills” – problem solving,
communication, teamwork, technology, adaptability…
www.academicinnovations.com/report.html
College Readiness
Key cognitive strategiesAcademic knowledge and skills
Academic behaviorsContextual skills and awareness
Conley (2007)
Career Readiness
Work Based Learning Experiences (Luecking,2009) Career Exploration Job Shadowing Work Sampling Service Learning Internships Apprenticeships Paid employment
Self-Determination (Kearns et al., 2011) Conley (2007) components of college readiness
expanded to include self-determination
Can we Find the Right Balance?
Need for standards
Individualized to preferences, interests, and needs
Shift as students get closer to graduation
• Standards
• Transition
• Individualized
• Self-Determinatio
n
• Life Skills
• Employment
• Standardized
• Math
• Reading
• Writing
Anxiety
“…While I like the idea of everyone in the nation finally (with skepticism) being taught and held to the same academic standards, I wonder how
that will have an impact on students with exceptionalities…” (Richard, on
CEC blog)
Emerging Guidance
College and Career Ready 101 at www.nsttac.org
CCSS Collection at www.ideapartnership.org
College and Career Development Organizer at www.betterhighschools.org
NSTTAC’s College & Career Readiness 101
College and Career Ready StandardsCareer Ready Standards
SCANS Skills Career Clusters/Essential Standards
Related Initiatives 21st Century Skills Next Generation Learners P-16: Cradle to College and Career Ready Race to the Top
Examples of infusing transition skills into CCSS
Infusing Secondary Transition Skills
into CCSS Table
Making Curricular Content More Meaningful and
RelevantStandard: Congruence:Experiment with transformations in the plane
Academic Context:Geometry class
Real life Skill:Setting the table
Instruction:
Teach students about transformations in the plane using a place setting.
Real Life Skill: Transformations in the Plane
Slide
Rotation
NSTTAC Homepage
CCR Document for Download/Print
IDEA Partnership Resources
Partnership Collection on Common Core State Standards
www.ideapartnership.org Guiding Principles Fact Sheet Grounding Assumptions Needs of the Field Glossary Resource Guide PowerPoint Dialogue Guide
Partnership Collections
An Introduction
Bridging tools to…
Translate research to practice
Build understanding Use common language
Use by any stakeholder
Engage all stakeholders
To provide information…
Fact Sheet
Glossary
Resource Guide
PowerPoint with Presenter Guide
Fact Sheet
Tools and materials available in the collection
Glossary
User-friendly, plain English, definitions
Resource Guide
Relevant resources, annotated for ease of use
Power Point with Presenter Guide
Critical information and supports for the presenter
To initiate discussion…
Needs of the Field
Grounding Assumptions
Guiding Principles
Needs of the Field
Gaps between current practice and vision of effective implementation in the future
Grounding Assumptions
Fundamental concepts that ground implementation of the work
Guiding Principles
Role definition and guidance in content development
To engage deeply…
Essential Elements
Dialogue Guides
Essential Elements
Parameters of working together
DialogueGuides
Focused interactive conversations
To grow the work nationally…
Your voice
Looking at each component…
Fact Sheet
Glossary
Resource List
PowerPoint with Presenter Guide
Needs of the Field
Grounding Assumptions
Guiding Principles
Essential Elements
Dialogue Guides
Your Voice
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National High School Center College and Career Ready
Resources for Teacher Educators
Mindee O’Cummings, Ph.D.
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CCR Technical AssistanceNetwork At-a-Glance
• www.betterhighschools.org
Content Comprehensive Centers including the
National High School Center
State Education Agencies
Local Education Agencies
16 Regional Comprehensive Centers (RCCs)
Local High Schools
OSEPTA&D
Centers including
NSTTAC and IDEA
Partnership
IESRegional
Labs
CCR High School Students
CCRTA and Service
Providers, Resource
Developers, and
Stakeholder Groups
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CCR Challenges
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1. What it means to be college and/or career ready is neither explicit, shared, nor easily measurable
2. The mission, organization, structures, and cultures of many high schools aren’t currently designed to support CCR for ALL students
3. A wide variety of service providers and implementers are targeting specific components of the broader CCR landscape with only minimal alignment of their efforts
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CCR Definitions Word Cloud
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College and Career Development Organizer
• Goals and Expectations - College and Career Readiness
– Core Content
– Pathways Content
– Lifelong Learning Skills
• Pathways and Supports - College and Career Preparation
– Personalized Learning Supports
– Rigorous Programs of Study
– Aligned Resources, Structures, and Supports
• Outcomes and Measures - College and Career Success
– On-track Indicators
– Attainment and Authentication
– Accountability and Improvement Feedback
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Organizer and Additional College and Career Readiness Resources
The Organizer and accompanying resources are located on the National High School Center’s Web site at:
http://www.betterhighschools.org/CCR/overview.asp
– College and Career Development Organizer [Brief]
– Goals and Expectations for College and Career Readiness: What Should Students Know and Be Able to Do?
– Pathways and Supports for College and Career Preparation: What Policies, Programs, and Structures Will Help High School Graduates Meet Expectations?
– Outcomes and Measures for College and Career Success: How Do We Know When High School Graduates Meet Expectations?
– College and Career Readiness Action Planning Template
– Defining College and Career Readiness: A Resource Guide
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College and Career ReadinessCommunity of Practice
• Open online community for technical assistance (TA) providers and education stakeholders interested in college and career readiness implementation.
• Members of this interactive group can:
– Interact with college and career readiness resources and tools as “social objects”
– Participate in discussions around college and career readiness resources, strategies, and initiatives
– Learn about upcoming events
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College and Career ReadinessCommunity of Practice
http://community.betterhighschools.org/
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College and Career ReadinessCommunity of Practice
• Use the navigation buttons on the group’s main page to:
– Interact with college and career readiness resources
– Interact with other members in discussion forums
– Get information on college and career readiness events
– Get tips for participating with the community
– Ask for support
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College and Career ReadinessArchived Webinar Series
http://betterhighschools.org/webinar/default.aspx#CCRWebinars
1. The Complexity of College and Career Readiness
2. College and Career Readiness and Linked Learning (co-hosted with the Alliance for Excellent Education)
3. College and Career Readiness and Students with Disabilities
4. Aligning Resources, Structures and Supports for Actualizing College and Career Readiness
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Discussion Questions
1. How you might use the resources presented in your role as
teacher educator/personnel development provider? 2. How can we best prepare professionals to provide secondary
students with skills necessary to become college and career ready?
3. What are the barriers to preparing professionals to provide
secondary students with skills necessary to become college and career ready?
4. How can we help develop knowledge of the complexities
related to CCR that have been discussed in the session?
Additional Resources
www.corestandards.org – resources and current information on the adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards
www.commoncore.org – a curriculum mapping project for resources regarding instruction and curriculum design, associated with the Core Standards
www.ideapartnership.org - Collection on Core Standards www.nsttac.org 101 Documents on Secondary Special
Education issues, including College and Career Readiness
www.cast.org www.careertech.org www.p21.org www.ncwd-youth.org http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop-assessment/i
ndex.html www.parcconline.org; http://www.k12.wa.us/smarter/
Contact Us
David W. [email protected], 704-687-88853 www.nsttac.org
Joanne [email protected], 703-519-3800www.ideapartnership.org
Mindee O’[email protected], www.betterhighschools.org
