Increasing Student Achievement

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• Increasing Student Achievement
• Through
• Career Clusters, Pathways and Academies
• By Lizanne Ippolito and Carla Sparks
• Hillsborough County Public Schools
• Career and Technical Education

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Getting to Know Hillsborough County

• Hillsborough County Public Schools ability to
  rise to a position of leadership is due to our
  long history and success with Magnet School and
  Smaller Learning Community initiatives within
  which the best practices of career academy
  structure and instructional design have
  flourished.

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More About Hillsborough

• We have a rich spectrum of articulation
  agreements and inter-agency cooperation supported
  by an effective, award-winning Career Pathways
  Consortium (Tech Prep).

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Hillsborough Fast Facts

• 8th largest school district in the nation
• 200,000 students -- multicultural
• 25 high schools
• 4 career centers
• 5 Hi-TEC adult vocational centers
• Hillsborough Community College five campuses

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VISION

• Our vision for implementing career academies in
  alignment with the Career and Professional
  Education Act (CAPE) is that our district becomes
  a model of excellence in the state for providing
  rigorous and relevant Career and Technical
  Education that improves secondary student
  academic performance and provides and encourages
  a seamless transition to postsecondary education.

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VISION continued

• This endeavor will involve collaboration with the
  Florida Department of Education, the Agency for
  Workforce Innovation, our local workforce board,
  the business community and postsecondary
  institutions. Together we will strive to respond
  to Floridas workforce needs by offering career
  academies to attract, expand, and retain
  targeted, high-valued industry in our community.

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MISSION

• By providing coursework that articulates to
  postsecondary and/or industry certifications, it
  is our mission to provide our students access to
  high-wage, high-demand careers that support local
  and regional economic development.

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Why Career Academies

• Personalization

Increased Student Achievement
Relationships
Rigor and Relevance
Goal of Career Academy Model Increased Student
Achievement
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Why Career Academies

• Increase Personalization
• Teacher Team with Common Planning
• Adult Mentor
• Cohort Scheduling
• Academic and Behavioral Interventions
• Capitalizes on Student Interests
• Differentiated Instruction
• Student Advisory
• Shared High Expectations
• In-house Procedures and Routines

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Why Career Academies

• Improve Student Relationships
• Team classes have at least 80 saturation
• Academy Homerooms/Adult Mentors
• CTSOs
• Business Partnerships
• Advisory Board
• Trips, Speakers, Internships etc.
• Links to Tutoring
• Incentives
• Memorabilia
• Common Planning Collaboration

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Why Career Academies

• Increase Rigor and Relevance
• Encouraging completers
• Flavoring core assignments with academy content
• AP, Honors and Dual enrollment whenever possible
• Integration on multiple levels
• Continuous Professional development
• Aligning work-based learning to industry
  standards/certifications
• Performance Mapping and Learning
• Encourages Future Thinking and Planning

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Florida 1995-96 High School Graduates
Highest Educational Credential Attainment as of
2005
89,461 Standard Diplomas (15,973 Never Enrolled)
Source PK-20 Education Data Warehouse
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Office of Program Policy Analysis Government
Accountability Report(OPPAGA)October 2007

• Findings
• Students in Career Academies
• ? tend to have lower absenteeism.
• ? score higher on FCAT Math and Reading.
• ? have higher graduation rates.
• ? are more likely to attend college if theme of
  career academy requires post-secondary education.
  
• ? earn higher wages if they receive industry
  certification.

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Advanced Placement and Career and Technical
Education

• Hillsborough County students
• Grades 9-12
• School Year 2007-2008
• Of 8,278 students taking Advanced Placement (AP)
  courses, 6,778 are also taking Career and
  Technical Education (CTE) courses.
• 82 of students taking AP are also taking CTE.

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Florida Career and Professional Education (CAPE)
Act

• Senate Bill 1232 (Gaetz), House Bill 965
  (Kendrick)
• Responds to Floridas critical workforce needs
• Requires district school boards to develop
  strategic plans to address and meet local and
  regional workforce needs
• Requires public schools and school districts to
  offer career and professional academies
• Requires that career courses lead to industry
  certification
• Requires academically rigorous and relevant
  career-themed courses that articulate to
  postsecondary-level course work and lead to
  industry certification
• Increases accountability for career and
  professional education results

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The Connections

• Career Academies (Major Areas of Interest and
  Career Pathways)
• Academic and Technical Integration
• Industry Certification
• End of Course/Program Assessments Technical
  Skill Attainments
• Secondary and Postsecondary Connections
  Articulation and Acceleration Mechanisms
• Collaboration with Business Partners
• Priority Workforce Needs
• Data and Accountability

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The Plan

• 142 Programs of Study
• Over 100 Career Academies
• 22 Career Academies currently working toward NCAC
  certification through implementation of the
  National Standards of Practice for Career
  Academies

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The Plan

• Programs and Academies evaluated on a continuum
• Level 1 Strong Programs of Study
• Level 2 Emerging Career Academies
• Level 3 CAPE Career Academies
• Level 4 Career Academies of Distinction

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How To Make The Plan Work

• Assign Career Academy Development and Support
  Specialists
• Communicate with individual sites through Academy
  Lead Teachers
• Make site visits
• Hold Academy Development workshops
• Require Perkins applications

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How To Make The Plan Work

• Curriculum Integration
• Cohort Scheduling
• Awareness of teachers on the Academy team
• Tag for Academy classes in SILK.
• List of the names of all students in the Academy
• DOE coding for the Academies in your school

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How To Make The Plan Work

• Dedicate a specific counselor to a Career
  Academy. This is a successful practice already
  in place in our district.
• Become familiar with and put into practice the
  four-year course sequencing for Academies at each
  school. (horizontal and vertical alignment)
• All key personnel at each school site must be on
  the same page regarding scheduling APC,
  guidance counselor, Academy lead teacher, data
  processor.

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Innovative Academies

• Academies of Distinction
• East Bay Wall to wall
• Chamberlain Culinary partnership
• King Shared inquiry
• Wharton Grant recipient
• Waters Career Center with community partnership
• Spoto Linked to other programs

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The Hillsborough Career Pathways Consortium

• all 25 high schools
• the four Career Centers
• the five Hi-TEC centers (postsecondary adult
  technical)
• Hillsborough Community College (five campuses)

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Hillsborough Career Pathways Consortium

• We have a grand total of 403 articulation
  agreements that affect 92 schools.
• We have over 15,000 Tech Prep students in our
  consortium.
• Career Pathways programs of study are developed
  in response to industry demand, based upon
  high-wage, high-tech areas and areas of projected
  growth.

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Career Pathways is Involved in

• Developing articulation agreements
• Supporting technical and academic dual enrollment
• Developing Career Academies
• Supporting content area reading
• Developing and supporting professional
  development for teachers and counselors
• Providing equal access
• Providing preparatory services to middle school
  students
• Coordinating with activities conducted under
  Perkins

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Career Pathways Initiatives

• CSI Career Seeking Investigation
• Amazing Race
• Wings of Imagination
• Career Pathways Connections
• Career College Fest
• Articulation Agreements
• Over 400 agreements
• Quad-Consortium Agreement

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Utilizing Career Clusters

• Theme Schools
• Elementary
• Middle
• High
• Environmental studies
• Gifted, Talented, IB
• Fine Arts

• Career Academies that implement the House Model
• Natural Resources
• Communications
• Fine Arts
• Professional Services

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Food For Thought

• Work with a student for one year, he/shes on
  your mind. Work with a student for four years,
  he/shes on your conscience.
• James Kemple

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Contact Information

• Lizanne Ippolito
• Staff Development, Career and Technical Education
• 813-231-1881
• lizanne.ippolito_at_sdhc.k12.fl.us
• Carla Sparks
• Career Pathways and Career Academies
• 813-231-1881
• carla.sparks_at_sdhc.k12.fl.us