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Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP). Updates Connections Utilizations. Real Partnerships: Common purpose united and expanded our partnerships!. PWR and Dropout Prevention in Colorado’s Reform Agenda. The Education Accountability Act (SB 09-163)
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Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Updates Connections Utilizations
Real Partnerships: Common purpose united and expanded our partnerships!
PWR and Dropout Prevention in Colorado’s Reform Agenda • The Education Accountability Act (SB 09-163) • Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Indicators in School and District Performance Framework (Graduation Rates and Dropout Rates) • Priority Improvement and Turnaround plans Innovation & Choice • Priority Graduation Districts (HB 09-1243) • Student Graduation and Completion Plan • Practices Assessment Accountability & Improvement High Expectations Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAP) SB 09-256 Assist students in developing a personalized plan that ensures readiness for post- secondary and workforce success • Endorsed Diplomas and High School Graduation Guidelines (HB 07-1118 / SB 08-212) • Criteria for indicating a student’s level of post- secondary and workforce readiness upon graduation Educator Effectiveness • Concurrent Enrollment Act (HB 1319/SB 285) • ASCENT & Extended Studies
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Work Ethic Civic Responsibility Collaboration Communication Creativity & Innovation Personal Responsibility Learning & Behavior Skills Find and Use Information & IT Global & Cultural Awareness Postsecondary & Workforce Ready Social Studies & Social Sciences • Social, cultural, historical concepts • Interpret sources, evaluate evidence, build conceptual frameworks • Civic responsibility & political process • Interpret from a global perspective Literacy • Read with understanding & write coherently • Employ English properly & fluently • Use logic & rhetoric • Access primary & secondary sources Content Knowledge Arts & Humanities • Shaping of culture • Instruments of social & political thought • Awareness of innovators Mathematical Sciences • Be quantitatively literate • Algebraic & geometric principles • Problem solving • Data & statistics Science • Scientific method • Draw conclusions • Core concepts of disciplines • Scientific concepts can be challenged
Individual Career and Academic Plans The intent of the Individual Career and Academic Plans is to: • Decrease the dropout rates and increase graduation rates by assisting students in developing and maintaining a personalized postsecondary plan; • Assist parents and students in exploring the postsecondary career and educational opportunities available to the student; and • Align course work and curriculum to the students’ postsecondary goals.
Next Steps: • CDE in partnership with CDHE and the Community College System will coordinate resources to create ICAP best practices; • CDE will convene stakeholder workgroups to: • Explore valid and reliable methods to examine ICAP effectiveness; • Discuss methods for ICAPs and American School Counselor (ASCA) standards alignment; and • Examine ways to strengthen the ICAP connection to the postsecondary and workforce readiness attributes (SB 08-212). • Develop standard definitions for recording and reporting ICAP elements. • Common metrics and standardized approach to ICAP implementation • Works to inform a common template
College In Colorado: • ICAP Tools for students, counselors, administrators • Free • Comprehensive • Customizable • Portable • Regional Outreach/Training
For students, parents and staff: • Fully customizable ICAP page and milestones • Titles • Sections • Activities • Field Groups • Student Documents • Advising Documents • Direct Navigation • Print/E-Mail/PDF • Electronic, portable
For students and parents: • ICAP Activities One-Stop-Shop: • Goals • Interest/skills assessments • Career exploration • Coursework plan • Postsecondary • Financial aid • Work preparation • Middle & High School - PS too! • Aligns to Colorado’s Career Cluster Model • Lifelong Portfolio
For counselors and teachers: Reports, Plans, Tools, Resources View individual portfolios Reports and Milestone Tracking Curriculum & Lesson Plans ASCA correlations Site Lesson Plans Curriculum Communicate and Calendar Free Training, Webinars, online tutorials
For counselors and teachers: Curriculum & Lesson Plans Including ASCA correlations for: Site Lesson Plans Curriculum
For the leadership team: Reports and Planning Report Central ICAP Design Seminars
For pre-collegiate & concurrent enrollment partners: View and assist students with their ICAP Student invitation to view portfolio
How can we help? • FREE Training Opportunities for your ICAP, no matter where you are in the process • Contact Linda Fraser - Linda.Fraser@cic.state.co.us • Training and Outreach will work as a team to get you what you need!
Re-Cap ICAP = Comprehensive Guidance! (producing PWR students!)
What is it all really? The ICAP, or Career & Academic Plan of Study is a process that students participate in, which results in an actual plan. • Plan: • Student’s career cluster or pathway goal • Relevancy of student’s goal to post secondary institution / workforce or other future option • Student’s intentional courses sequence & relevant experience Process: Developmentally appropriate recommended activities Utilizing: CTE, core curriculums, existing & available resources (CDE, CDHE & CCCS), career & academic planning tools & assessments and “the village”.
Together We: Cultivate a culture of Career & Academic Success (P-20) Postsecondary Stages HS 6th -9th For some = ECE-5th MS Postsecondary & Workforce Opportunities
Seamless Transitions: Learning Earning Living Career Development Journey
Real Purpose Vision: Colorado CTE delivers intentional pathways & planning for lifelong career success! Mission: CTE ensures a thriving Colorado economy by providing relevant and rigorous education that is connected, responsive and real.
CLUSTER INDUSTRY PWR Standards! PATHWAYS PLAN OF STUDY
Missing CTSO Agricultural & Natural Resources Business & Public Administration STEM, Arts, Design & Information Technology Hospitality, Human Services & Education Skilled Trades & Technical Sciences Health Sciences & Public Safety Michael Womochil Laurie Urich Jennifer Jirous Katy Blatnick-Gagne Ben Nesbitt Cindy LeCoq
Missing CTSO Agricultural & Natural Resources Busines, Marketing & Public Administration STEM, Arts, Design & Information Technology Hospitality, Human Services & Education Skilled Trades & Technical Sciences Health Sciences & Public Safety & Technical Student Organizations (CTSO’s)
How do we take this back? • Conductan Inventory of what you are already doing, offering and needing. • Considerthe Individuals, the Community Members, the existing tools that can be utilized • (e.g. CTE, CiC, EPAS and more!) • Rememberthe process, scope and sequence, the milestones, alignment to PWR, • the BIG picture = Comprehensive Guidance! • Don’tloose hope, let go of the cause or falter under ‘negative ninnies’!
Website Resources! • CDE: www.cde.state.co.us/secondaryinitiatives • CTE: www.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm • CIC: www.CollegeInColorado.orgprocenter.CollegeInColorado.org • CIC Partner Site: www.CICPartnerNetwork.org • College Application Month: www.CICCollegeAppMonth.org
How to contact us: Charles Dukes, Senior Consultant CDE: dukes_c@cde.state.co.us Julia Pirnack, Director of Web Development, CIC: Julia.Pirnack@cic.state.co.us Shelby Burnette, Director of Outreach, CIC: Shelby.Burnette@cic.state.co.us Lauren Jones, CCCS/CTE-Career Guidance Trainer: lauren.jones@cccs.edu
Considerations: • Do I know who to call on to assist in our ICAP process? • How aware am I, currently, in the various tools and resources that my school has access to that support Career and Academic Planning? • Am I aware of the connections ICAP has with our other statewide initiatives? • From what I already know, how does ICAP and PWR connect to my districts’ / buildings’ strategic plan? • From what I know now, in what way(s) can we strategically implement ICAP to support our own data collection goals and more? • Considering our current education budget crisis, how can our ICAP and PWR process be as innovative, creative, sustainable and resourceful as possible?