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DOE Updates. High School 2025. Labor Workforce 2025 – Grow Dakota: Prepare students for tomorrows workforce Relevance: Advance career goals Relationships: connect students, teachers, parents, schools, & communities Rigor: prepare for postsecondary education and career goals
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High School 2025 • Labor Workforce 2025 – Grow Dakota: Prepare students for tomorrows workforce • Relevance: Advance career goals • Relationships: connect students, teachers, parents, schools, & communities • Rigor: prepare for postsecondary education and career goals • Results: evaluate student progress & improve educational outcomes
HS 2025 • Personal Learning Plans • Exploratory Curriculum – MS, 9th & 10th grade • Rigorous courses • Career Cluster Programs of Study • Career Guidance • SDMyLife.com • Course Registration = Career Clusters • Transition programs • Parental Engagement
Proposed Graduation Requirements • Senate Bill 185 passed during the 2009 legislative session • One recommended set of graduation requirements • Freshmen class of 2010-11 • Workgroup of teachers, administrators, counselors, state Board of Education members, and DOE staff to make recommendations
Rationale • http://doe.sd.gov/oatq/gradrequirements/ • Create the opportunity to develop a Personal Learning Plan • Create more flexibility • Reduce the inherent labeling • Maintain the rigor of core content courses and increase the rigor
Summary of Changes • Reduce the number of required credits for graduation from 17 to 15.5 • Math: Three units or more, including Algebra I, Geometry and a math elective • Lab Science: Three units or more, including biology, physical science and a science elective • Move non-core subjects outlined in the current graduation requirements into one category. • Option of allowing extracurricular activities to serve as partial credit for Physical Education and Fine Arts
Time Line • Sept. 29, 2009 State Board of Education meeting: First reading of proposed rules • September to November 2009 Public Comment Period • November 2009 Board of Education meeting: Public hearing of proposed rule changes
SDMyLife.com • SD Cap • 8th Grade Interest Survey • 10th Grade Career Aptitude
Professional Development • SDMyLife.com • Basic & Advanced training • Parent Portal • Career Cluster Exploration • Course Registration & more
Career Guidance Grant • Career Guidance Framework • Parental Engagement Framework • Career Guidance Core Standards & Sample Syllabi, • Career Cluster Resources • Career Cluster Posters
South Dakota Virtual School • A clearinghouse of distance courses offered by providers that have been approved by the South Dakota Department of Education • Courses available for any MS or HS South Dakota Student (Public, Private, Home School etc) • Registration for courses by school district personnel only.
SDVS Can Provide Solutions for: • Students with scheduling conflicts • Schools not able to find qualified staff to teach a particular course • Students who want to take courses not offered in their resident district • Students looking for advanced (AP) coursework • Students needing credit recovery due to failure or illness • Home school other non-traditional students i.e. colony Effective July, 2009 all distance courses must be provided electronically via South Dakota Virtual School http://legis.state.sd.us/rules/DisplayRule.aspx?Rule=24:43:01:09 http://legis.state.sd.us/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=13-33-29
Current Course Offerings: • Complete High School Graduation Requirement Course Offering (Exception .5 Speech Unit) • Over 200 Semester Course Offerings in : CTE, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Health Education, Science, Language Arts, Political Science, Technology, World Language, • Other offerings: Advance Placement and Credit Recovery
Graduation Calculations • 2009-2010 School Year • 4 years + summer • Calculations are programmed into system
Upcoming Conference • Parent Conference – Sept 25 & 26 • Registration information: www.doe.sd.gov or www.sdpirc.org • Indian Education and Dropout Prevention Summit – Oct 10 • Registration information: www.doe.sd.gov • Systems Change Conference – Nov. 4-6 • Registration information: http://tie.net/
DOE Contact List • SDMyLife.com – Steven Rounds • Graduation Requirements – Becky Nelson • SD Virtual School – Sarah Carter • Assessment – Gay Pickner