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Is your team ready?. Linked Learning Certification Visit. Is your team ready for a Linked Learning Pathway Quality Review?. Knowing your Team Knowing Linked Learning Collaborating with your team Consulting your support. Reminder- Certification is a checkpoint not the goal.
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Is your team ready? • Linked Learning Certification Visit
Is your team ready for a Linked Learning Pathway Quality Review? • Knowing your Team • Knowing Linked Learning • Collaborating with your team • Consulting your support
Reminder- Certification is a checkpoint not the goal • Marathon of preparing all students for college and career • Continuous Improvement using 40 criteria • Process should invigorate, inspire and challenge your team
Knowing Your Team • Projects • Work based learning • Interventions • Common Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
Key Questions: Projects • Are projects a nice extra or a part of your culture? • Are projects guided by agreed upon student outcomes and your theme? • Are technical and academic skills developed through the projects? • Would business partners see the authenticity in the projects students complete? • Would your students speak to the value of the projects?
Key Questions: WBL • Is WBL an extra or is it a vehicle for reaching your desired outcomes for students ? • Do you have an active advisory board that is seeking out WBL experiences for all students in your pathway? • Is there an intentional sequence to the WBL experiences for students? • Can students speak to the value of the WBL experiences they are having?
Key Questions: Interventions • Does your team take mutual responsibility for helping struggling students ? • Do you use student data to identify individual student needs? • Would students and parents report a high level of individualized support?
Common Beliefs • Does you team operate with a common set of high expectations for students? • Does your team generally agree about the best approaches to teaching and learning? • Are common processes evident in your team?
Knowing Linked Learning • Four foundations of Linked Learning • Linked Learning Value statements • 40 Criteria and rubric
Collecting Evidence • Documenting your work allows you to build on it. • Most evidence should be artifacts, natural by-products of your work. • Some evidence is created to organize, summarize, or provide clarity for "others." • How good is good enough? ( future presentation )
Collaborating with your team • Team Self-Assessment • Make sure team members know what a certification visit entails • Align tasks to individual skills on you team- Distribute Leadership
Consulting your support • SLC Coordinator • Principal(s) • District Pathway Coach
Key PointsIs your team ready to schedule a Pathway Quality Review? • Knowledge of your team and of Linked Learning are equally important in making a decision. • Certification is a checkpoint, not the goal. • Decision should be done with your team and other supports.
"Not ready" does not mean "not good" • Having some of the elements is good for kids and is better than not having any of the elements. • Continuous improvement process implies building, aggregating, learning, and growing while staying focused on your outcomes for students over a period of years. • A mock review done within the district may provide important feedback.