MCCTA July 2009 College Ready or Career Ready? The Same or Different

MCCTA July 2009

College Ready or Career Ready?

The Same or Different

Lee’s Summit R-7 School District 2MCCTA July 2009


Myth or Fact?

Nationwide about 70% of students entering high school do not graduate.

Fact: Nearly half of individuals included in “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts” report said that they were bored and not engaged in

school.

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Myth or Fact?

In Missouri, 18,000+ teenagers (who should have graduated in 2008) did not graduate.

Fact: Based on the average wage for Missourians, these 18,000 people would have the potential of earning 4.7 billion

dollars in wages.

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Continue to innovate during tough economic

times. --Jim Welch, author of Growth Leader

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Why?

• HSTW Goals and Key Practices

• Mo. General Assembly passed legislation

• Mo. Comprehensive Guidance Program

• Increased graduation requirements


• Formation of team called Connecting Each Student to the Future

• Career Pathways Advisory Teams recommendation

• District Design Team

THE PROCESS

http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/cesttf/default.htm


Activity

Employability Skills – foundation skills that apply across the board, no matter what the specific job may be.


Employability Skill/Character Trait

List the evidence or artifact that would support that skill or trait.

Ranking (write a 1 in this column if it is the most important, 2 for second in importance, etc.

What Are The Shortcomings of Applicants?Response Vacancies Percent

Lack of Positive Attitude 34,364 63%

Poor Customer Serv. Skills 31,304 58%

Poor Work Ethic 31,178 57%

Poor Communication Skills 29,409 54%

Lack of Industry Knowledge 24,458 45%

Poor Technical Skills 17,214 32%

Inability to Understand Written Information

16,333 30%

Other Shortcomings 13,145 24%

Poor Writing Skills 12,400 23%

Lack of Computer Skills 11,973 22%

Poor Basic Math Skills 11,392 21%

No Shortcomings 3,809 7%

Respondent Total 54,456 —Mo. Job Vacancy Study 2008, missourieconomy.org


• Advisory Team Input

• District Design Team Input

THE PROCESS


Possible Evidence• attendance

• tardies

• WorkKeys scores

• participation in activities/sports

• participation in internship programs

• Area of Focus

• community service

• discipline record

• resume

• 8th grade technology standard

• oral presentations

• senior project

• mock interview

• leadership roles in activities

• no late assignments

• teacher reference

• portfolio


Employability Skill/Character

Trait

Documented Evidence

Data Source

in Power

School?

Data Source in Career Portfolio?

Notes



Elements included on the R7 Employability

Transcript

THE PRODUCT


Five areas on transcript:

1st area validates Career Interest

Career Path:

Career Cluster:

Career Area of Focus:

Successfully completed?

THE PRODUCT


• Focused learning involves successful completion of four related units of credit

• Courses are chosen based on identified areas of interest within one of six career paths

• LSR7 has 37 areas of focus or concentration areas


Focused Learning Timeline

• 7th grade: investigate six career paths, Career Portfolio begins

• 8th grade: individual personal plans of study using MO Connections, EXPLORE test to identify academic and career readiness

• 9th grade: complete career unit and career inventory assessment, explore and enroll in focus electives


• 10th grade: declare an area of focus, take PLAN test to identify career strengths, area of focus shows on employability transcript, enroll in focus electives

• 11th grade: continue career assessments, select additional focus electives

• 12th grade: complete focus coursework, if earned four units of focus electives, request to add on academic transcript in addition to employability transcript


• Students can change a focus if they find this is no longer an area of interest

• Students are never locked into a specific focus

• Although not a graduation requirement, students must declare an area of focus as a sophomore

Be Flexible……….


Choices in Venues and in Delivery Methods…..


2nd area validates Dependability

Yearly attendance percentage and accumulative attendance percentage

THE PRODUCT


3rd area validates Career Readiness Academic Skills

ACT’s WorkKeys– Reading for Information– Applied Math– Locating Information

THE PRODUCT


4th area validates Supervised Internship Programs

– Marketing– CCE– SBE– Industrial Internships– Teacher Cadets

THE PRODUCT


5th area validates Technical Skill Attainment

third-party assessments or industry certifications

– NOCTI– Microsoft– A+, Cisco, etc.– PLTW End-of-Course Assessments

THE PRODUCT


• Available to the Class of 2011 and beyond

• Requested through the high school registrar’s office

• Student permission to release


Promoting Employability Transcripts

• To students?

• To parents?

• To employers?


Activity

What elements would you include on an employability transcript for your students?



Millenials (people born 1980 to 2000) are:

• Achievement oriented

• Busy, multi-taskers

• Ambitious yet clueless

• Short – very short – attention span

---LifeCourse Associates



Questions?

http://cesttf.leesummit.k12.mo.us

http://cesttf.leesummit.k12.mo.us/


Contact Information:

Tawni Boman, MBADistrict Career Explorations Teacher

[email protected]

Elaine Metcalf, Ed.SCareer Education Coordinator

[email protected]

David Sharp, Ed.DDirector, Summit Technology Academy

[email protected]

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MCCTA July 2009 College Ready or Career Ready? The Same or Different