Transforming Schools through Externships and PBL: A Strategic Approach

1. Teacher Externships & PBLNovember 6, 2015 Ken Talley Diane MacKenzie Ryan Deal

2. Welcome • Expectations of Workshop • Experiences with Externships • Experiences with Project-Based Learning

3. How JCPS Began • 2005: Teachers with Industry • 2008: 5-Star School Reorganization • 2012: Ford NGL Planning

4. The Big Picture • Redesign comprehensive high schools to focus on career themes • Provide equal access to themes within each geographical networks • Provide experiential learning opportunities for students interested in careers • Create schools of studies within schools and provide opportunities for credentialed diplomas

9. Transforming Schools, Teaching & Learning, and Business/Civic Involvement • 5-Star School Structure— • Access to all career themes, along with integrated academic and technical content • Teacher Externships— • Connect teachers to business and community partners, along with continuing support from the business community as teachers and partners develop PBL units. • Project-Based Learning— • Connects the technical and academic content within each small learning community.

10. Externship Planning • Created a game plan that included: • Work Breakdown Structure (Tasks) • Scheduling and Logistics • Responsibility Matrix (communications) • Work Based Learning Guide (Teachers) • Document Repository (Knowledgebase) • Marketing and presentation docs

11. Work Breakdown Structure

12. RACI Responsibility Matrix • Responsibility • Accountable • Consulted • Informed Link to WBS

13. Externships 14-15 & 15-16

14. Business Recruitment • Remember: It’s about context and expectations. • Have a sales packet to cover a continuum of discussions. • A formal 15-20 min presentation • Timeline and expectations info • A 30 second pitch • An ask document in • Hand out • Email • Verbal pitch • A paragraph narrative • PPT Slide • Outlook calendar invites

15. 2 Minute check • What would go in your sales package to help recruit businesses?

16. Business Planning • Help Businesses plan externships • Give best practices • Recommend options • Volunteer to help plan • Year 2: promote exemplar work Year 1 Year 2

17. Teacher/Business Training • Provided separate orientations in Spring for bothteachers and businesses. • Presented in the format: • The Overview • The Experience • The Plan • The Work • Teacher session: teacher testimonial

18. Teacher Training • 2 hour formal meeting in Spring • Informal meeting with each team at the school • Teacher workbook • Specialists/coaches accompany teams

19. 2015 Teacher Timeline Spring Fall/Winter Summer

20. Externship Week(s) • Allocate district staff resources to fix last minute problems • Take pictures / video • Have payroll plan in place • Have fun!

21. Switching Gears…

22. The Big Picture Recap • Career theme schools offer relevant programs of study • Alignment of common core classes with themes • Project Based Learning as a strategy for delivering instruction • Industry specific “wrap around” support for community

23. Project Based Learning The famous educator John Dewey said:“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” This practice is at the very center of PBL and STEM.- Michael Gorman

24. Project Based Learning

25. PBL PD 14-15 & 15-16

26. Connecting Systems

27. PBL Blended Model

28. SOURCES OF INSPIRATION • Your Community • Current Events • Real-World Problem • Your Content Standards • Externships • Your Colleagues • Your Students • Online Project Libraries • Project Search @ bie.org

29. PBL • Select Significant Content for Project • Develop a Project Idea • Determine the Driving Question – DQ • Decide on Launching Activity • Decide on Major Student Products • Decide on a Public Audience

30. DECIDE ON MAJOR STUDENT PRODUCTS

31. PBL in ACTION

32. Leading Others to successfully engage in PBL (2’ discussion) • How much PBL knowledge • District coaches • Principals • Assistant Principals • Counselors should …have? and why? • What is needed to develop a PBL culture?

33. Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) • 8 days PBL to externship teams • 4 days PBL to Adv. externship teams • 50 days districtwide across 16 HS • 10 half day sessions to Pathway Specialists • 10 half day sessions district leadership coaching

34. Buck Institute for Education (BIE) 2014-2015 • Career Pathway Specialists participated in PBL 101 training in Atlanta, GA (one week) • One Career Pathway Specialist participated in PBL World in Napa, CA (one week)

35. PBL LEADERSHIP (1 minute discussion) • Something I’m most likely to see • Something that I will have to support to see • Something I’d most like to see

36. PBL & TPGES

37. Driving Question (2’ discussion ) • How could I lead my organization into PBL? • Your current school context (district or school goals, initiatives) • The stakeholders you serve • What teacher practice currently looks like • Any challenges you are facing

38. How could I lead my organization into PBL? • Description of the success you anticipate and the outcomes you hope to see from your work • Description of the anticipated challenges, as well as your solutions to the plan. • Evidence of concrete actions that you will take in your school to support the culture of PBL • The artifacts that you will collect to illustrate the PBL work you’ll do in your school

39. How could I lead my organization into PBL?

40. The Green Bronx Machine

41. PBL = Changing Lives • Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx machine is teaching by Nurturing Minds & Gardens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWjQRwJP1w8 TEACHERS CHANGE LIVES SO CAN YOU!

42. Summary & Next Steps… • Identify Academic & Technical Content to be integrated. • Identify Teachers. • Identify Business & Community Partners. • Develop an Implementation Plan. • Questions?