College and Career Ready Resources for Teacher Educators

1. College and Career Ready Resources for Teacher Educators David W. Test National Secondary Transition technical assistance center Joanne Cashman IDEA Partnership Mindee O’Cummings The National High School Center

2. 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

3. Summary of Graduation and College Preparedness by Ethnicity

4. : 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

5. 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

7. 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

8. PARCC States

9. SBAC States

10. 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)

11. Dynamic Map States

12. NCSC States

13. 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

14. 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

15. College Readiness Key cognitive strategies Academic knowledge and skills Academic behaviors Contextual skills and awareness Conley (2007)

16. 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

17. Can we Find the Right Balance? Need for standards Individualized to preferences, interests, and needs Shift as students get closer to graduation

18. 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)

19. 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

20. NSTTAC’s College & Career Readiness 101 • College and Career Ready Standards • Career 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

21. Infusing Secondary Transition Skills into CCSS Table

22. Making Curricular Content More Meaningful and Relevant

23. Real Life Skill: Transformations in the Plane

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26. NSTTAC Homepage

27. CCR Document for Download/Print

28. 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

29. Partnership Collections An Introduction

30. Bridging tools to… • Translate research to practice • Build understanding • Use common language • Use by any stakeholder • Engage all stakeholders

31. To provide information… • Fact Sheet • Glossary • Resource Guide • PowerPoint with Presenter Guide

32. Fact Sheet Tools and materials available in the collection

33. Glossary User-friendly, plain English, definitions

34. Resource Guide Relevant resources, annotated for ease of use

35. Power Point with Presenter Guide Critical information and supports for the presenter

36. To initiate discussion… • Needs of the Field • Grounding Assumptions • Guiding Principles

37. Needs of the Field Gaps between current practice and vision of effective implementation in the future

38. Grounding Assumptions Fundamental concepts that ground implementation of the work

39. Guiding Principles Role definition and guidance in content development

40. To engage deeply… • Essential Elements • Dialogue Guides

41. Essential Elements Parameters of working together

42. DialogueGuides Focused interactive conversations

43. To grow the work nationally… • Your voice

44. 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

46. National High School Center College and Career Ready Resources for Teacher Educators Mindee O’Cummings, Ph.D. www.betterhighschools.org

47. CCR Technical AssistanceNetwork At-a-Glance Content Comprehensive Centers including theNational High School Center IES Regional Labs CCR TA and Service Providers, Resource Developers, and Stakeholder Groups 16 Regional Comprehensive Centers (RCCs) OSEP TA&D Centers including NSTTAC and IDEA Partnership State Education Agencies Local Education Agencies Local High Schools CCR High School Students www.betterhighschools.org

48. CCR Challenges 48 www.betterhighschools.org • What it means to be college and/or career ready is neither explicit, shared, nor easily measurable • The mission, organization, structures, and cultures of many high schools aren’t currently designed to support CCR for ALL students • A wide variety of service providers and implementers are targeting specific components of the broader CCR landscape with only minimal alignment of their efforts

49. CCR Definitions Word Cloud www.betterhighschools.org

50. College and Career Development Organizer 50 • 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 www.betterhighschools.org