Career Pathways for All Students

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Career Pathways for All Students

• PreK-14

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Compiled by Sue UpdegraffKeystone AEA

• Information from
• Iowa Career Pathways
• Iowa School-to-Work
• Iowa Tech Prep
• Iowa Department of Education

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Why Career Pathways?

• Societal Demands
• Prepare all students for both further education
  and for work
• Prepare all students for lifes roles citizen,
  worker, family member
• Lifelong Learning
• Organizer for Restructuring of Education
• Academic standards
• Employability standards
• Technical standards

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Each district will develop its own unique
approach to PreK-14 Career Pathways.
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What is a Career Pathway?

• Concept originated with Iowa Tech Prep
• April 1997 Definition
• Career pathways are clusters of specific
  occupations or careers grouped together because
  they share similar interests, strengths, and
  skills.
• Source Career Pathways Resource Guide (Iowa
  Department of Education)
• April 1997

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A New Definition, May 1999

• A Career Pathway is a PreK-12 structure for
  organizing instructional content designed around
  broad career areas. Progression in a career
  pathway is both vertical and horizontal and
  provides the basis for lifelong learning. A
  Pathway prepares a student for further education
  and/or employment.

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Components for Career Pathway Framework

• Integration of Career Education Standards and
  Benchmarks (Employability Standards and National
  Career Development Guidelines) into the PreK-12
  curriculum for all students.
• Integration of academic and technical instruction
  and school-based and work-based experiences.

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Components for Career Pathway Framework

• Articulation among elementary, middle, secondary
  schools, and post-secondary institutions.
• Preparation of the student for future employment
  in a broad occupational cluster and/or industry
  sector and/or continued education.

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Components for Career Pathway Framework

• Inclusion of career education opportunities for
  all students, in depth exploration of careers of
  interest to the student, and the understanding of
  the relevance of academic content in the
  workplace.
• Inclusion of specific occupational preparation
  which may link two years of secondary education
  with a two year or four year educational
  institution or an apprenticeship program.

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Six Career Pathways

• Agriscience/Natural Resources
• Arts and Communications
• Business/Information Management/Marketing

• Engineering/Industrial/Technological Sciences
• Family and Human Services
• Health Services

Endorsed in spring of 1996 by Iowa School-to-Work
and the Iowa Association of Business and Industry.
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Broadening of Career Pathways to a System-wide
Approach

• From 22 to PreK-14
• Merged Area Systems View
• Community Colleges
• AEAs
• Communities
• Counties

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Results of Systems-Approach

• Increased options for all students
• Connected series of educational experiences
  leading to goals
• Broad areas of study that are flexible,
  overlapping in nature, fluid
• Mixture of academic, employability, career
  education, and technical education

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How do Career Pathways fit into the Iowa
Comprehensive School Improvement Plans developed
by each district?
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CSIP Components
Community Involvement Data Collection, Analysis,
and Goal Setting Standards and Benchmarks Determin
ation and Implementation of Actions to meet the
Needs (Action Planning) State Indicators Assessmen
t of Student Progress Evaluation of CSIP Annual
Progress Report
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Comprehensive School Improvement Plan

• Purposes
• To address all aspects of teaching and learning
• To ensure a continuous improvement process
• To create integrated organizations with shared
  visions and shared goals
• To improve educational outcomes for all students

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Comprehensive School Improvement Plan

• Purposes
• To provide for local decision-making
• To increase the learning, achievement, and
  performance of all students
• To incorporate the consolidation of federal and
  state planning, goals setting, and reporting
  requirements.

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Community Involvement
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Data Collection, Analysis and Goal Setting

• Systems Approach
• Why data is important What data needs to be
  collected
• How to use and analyze the data How to
  communicate the data results
• How to use the data to inform decisions

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Categories for organization of the data
collection process

• Demographics
• Perceptions
• Student Learning
• School Processes/Programs

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Student Learning

• Overall student achievement
• Number of graduates with a career plan
• Student application of academic content

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Demographics

• Drop-out rate
• Post-secondary education rate
• Employment/earnings

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Perceptions

• Business/Industry satisfaction
• Student satisfaction
• Parent satisfaction

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School Processes

• Where are employability skills addressed in the
  curriculum?
• Where is career development addressed in the
  curriculum?
• Integrated curricula results

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Standards Benchmarks
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Framework of Standards Benchmarks
Student Learning Goals Standards Benchmarks Assess
ment Delivery Reporting
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The Career Pathways Framework breaks out the
standards and benchmarks as follows

• PreK-14 Iowa Career Pathways Framework
• Academic Knowledge Skills (K-14)
• Employability Knowledge Skills (K-14)
• Career Area Knowledge and Skills (K-14)
• Technical Cluster Knowledge Skills (9-12)
• Career Technical Knowledge Skills (11-14)

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Determination Implementation of Actions to Meet
the Needs
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• The Iowa Department of Education Technical
  Assistance manual (p. 43) states that the action
  planning phase Identifies the most powerful
  innovations
• to address student needs
• to improve educators skills, attitudes,
  understanding, and performances.
• Implementation
• Curriculum Restructuring
• Professional Development
• Learning Environment

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Curriculum Restructuring
Student Learning Goals Standards Benchmarks As
sessment Integrated, Articulated Curricula
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Integration Continuum Restructured
Curriculum Career Pathway Tech Prep
Academy or School-within-a-School Course
Sequence Career Maps Applied Academics
Integration of Standards Thematic
Units Incorporation Areas Curriculum
Integration Program Integration
Program and Curriculum Integration
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Professional Development

• To implement the curriculum restructuring, staff
  community will need some learning
  opportunities
• Understanding the New Culture
• Change Process
• Collaboration
• Partnership
• Teacher Internships
• Reaching ALL Students
• Assessment
• Alternative Scheduling

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Professional Development
Learning Environment and Delivery Methods

• Applied Learning
• Contextual Learning
• Learning Styles
• Multiple Intelligences
• Work-based Learning
• Service Learning

• Team Teaching
• Career Development
• Individual Learning Plan
• Career Maps
• Advisor/Advisee Program
• Project-based Learning

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Link to Student Learning Goals Standards Bench
marks Assessment
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Career Development

• A Goal for Most Iowa Districts
• Preparing our students for decision-making about
  their life goals

• Question Is a Career Development, PreK-14,
  system built into action planning? What could it
  look like?

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PreK-5 Career Awareness
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Grades 6-8 Career Exploration
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Grades 9-12 Career Preparation
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Community College or Four Year Institution
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State Indicators
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Data Collection Assists With...

• Improvement of Instruction
• Development of Curriculum
• Evaluation of Programs
• Student Feedback
• Reaching All Students

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Assessment of Student Progress
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Evaluation of CSIP
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Annual Progress Report
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Conclusion

• Career Pathways is a school improvement
  initiative
• Career Pathways fits into the Iowa process for
  the comprehensive school improvement plan.
• Career Pathways can help address the advancement
  of student learning.
• Career Pathways can help address the major
  educational needs of a community and school
  district.