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The Iowa CBE Collaborative Orientation November 19, 2013 # IACompED. IOWA Department of Education. More Children. Iowa CBE Collaborative. Housekeeping: Coffee/Water/RR/Electricity/Lunch Internet # IACompED Agenda: Orientation and Beginnings Team Building
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The Iowa CBE Collaborative • Orientation • November 19, 2013 • #IACompED IOWA Department of Education
More Children • Iowa CBE Collaborative • Housekeeping: Coffee/Water/RR/Electricity/Lunch • Internet • #IACompED • Agenda: Orientation and Beginnings • Team Building • Modeling Protocols You Can Use • Graphic Organizer • Video, Website, Webinar IOWA Department of Education
Iowa CBE Collaborative • Collaborative Members will: • Make connections with others doing this work • Develop a common understanding of CBE in Iowa • Understand the expectations of participation in the collaborative • Provide input on key learning and the timeline • Provide input on prioritizing non academic skills • Experience a series of protocols they can use with staff, parents, and community members IOWA Department of Education
The Iowa Journey toward CBE • 2010 State Board Priority • 2011 State Guidelines on CBE • 2011 Governor’s Blueprint on Education • 2011 CBE Forum IOWA Department of Education
The Iowa Journey toward CBE • 2012 Legislation eliminated the Carnegie unit as the basis for credit in Iowa high schools and required a task force to investigate • Credit Based on Competency Rather than • on the Carnegie Unit • Assessment and Accountability • Learning Plans and Templates • Professional Development • Using Technology to Enhance This Work IOWA Department of Education
The Iowa Journey toward CBE • 2013 Legislation requested a strategic plan for statewide implementation and provided funding for • Writing Competencies • Developing Assessments • Investigation Recording/Reporting Systems • Professional Development • Grants for the Iowa CBE Collaborative IOWA Department of Education
The Iowa Journey toward CBE • Legislative Task Force • Preliminary Report, January 2013 included: • A justification for the work • 22 recommendations toward developing CBE • in the state • Proposed timeline • Final Report turned in November 15, 2013 • The urgency of the work • Update on the 22 recommendations • 13 new or forwarded recommendations • Draft Strategic Plan • http://tiny.cc/IowaCBETaskForce IOWA Department of Education
The Iowa Journey toward CBE More Children The Iowa CBE Collaborative • Cedar Rapids • Collins-Maxwell • East Union • Howard-Winneshiek • Marshalltown • Higher Ed • Mason City • Muscatine • Nevada • Spirit Lake • Van Meter • AEAs/Others • Framework for Transformation • Iowa Demonstration Sites • Defining College and Career Ready IOWA Department of Education
National and International Perspective on • the Future of Education: CBE • Susan Patrick • CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning IOWA Department of Education
Are You More Proficient than Your Grandmother? • Groups—but wait for instructions • ● Central Office●Principals • ● MS Teachers and AEAs● HS Teachers • ●Higher Ed ●Elem and Other • Place yourself under the correct sign to indicate how you view your skills at doing laundry—be honest. • In your groups list why you believe you fit in that category. • Take your pink Graphic Organizer & a Pen IOWA Department of Education
Framing the Work & Building the Team • State Guidelines • Read the guidelines • Principles • How does this compare with what you experienced as a K-12 student? • http://tinyurl.com/IowaCompEdGuidelines IOWA Department of Education
Framing the Work & Building the Team • Definitions: • Competency: A competency is an enduring understanding that requires the transfer of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to complex situations in and/or across content areas and/or beyond the classroom. • Proficiency: Demonstrated skill or knowledge required to advance to and be successful in higher levels of learning in that content area or using that content. • http://tinyurl.com/IowaCompEdGuidelines IOWA Department of Education
Framing the Work & Building the Team • Examples • How does this example use competency? • What excites you about these examples? • http://tinyurl.com/IowaCompEdGuidelines IOWA Department of Education
Moving Again • Go to the Table with the Number on Your Name Tag IOWA Department of Education
More Children • Iowa CBE Collaborative: • Overview Document • Read the Overview • Process with those at your table: • What questions do you have about this document or anything form the morning? • Lunch Ticket: • Place your questions on sticky notes on the chart paper by the doors IOWA Department of Education
Addressing Your Questions IOWA Department of Education
Your Big Picture Questions • Will all schools be required to do this eventually? When? • Is this just about pacing or are we creating an environment where students explore and teachers record and teach? • Will competencies become like standards? Will they be different in each school? Are competencies just bundled standards? IOWA Department of Education
Your Big Picture Questions • Will this be for all Pk-12 students or just an alternative path for those who struggle? • Are students from CBE schools getting accepted to elite colleges? IOWA Department of Education
Your Nuts and Bolts Questions • What tech-supported collaboration opportunities will there be? • How will all of this be managed (shared resources, artifacts, plans, etc.)? • How is communication going to be facilitated within the collaborative? • Please note preferences on your feedback form. • iacomped.com IOWA Department of Education
Your Nuts and Bolts Questions • Who is going to approve/deny our CBE plan? • Is there a timeline for this work and how will this be rolled out statewide? IOWA Department of Education
Your Mapping the Work Questions • How long does it take to get a district fully implemented? • Suggestions/ideas are needed for taking this to scale in a variety of different district sizes • What are the biggest gap areas between where we currently are, and where we aspire to be in 5 years? IOWA Department of Education
Your Mapping the Work Questions • Are schools here today expected to be piloting CBE in the next few years?? • What will year 2 look like for us as a CBE Collaborative? • How do we know what districts already have so we can know who to collaborate with? IOWA Department of Education
Mapping the Work IOWA Department of Education
Mapping the Work • How will we contribute to the collaborative outcomes? • What are you doing or thinking of doing that might help the collaborative to move forward? • What are your needs? IOWA Department of Education
Iowa CBE Collaborative • Collaborative Members will: • Make connections with others doing this work • Develop a common understanding of CBE in Iowa • Understand the expectations of participation in the collaborative • Provide input on key learning and the timeline • Provide input on prioritizing non academic skills • Have a series of protocols they can use with staff, parents, and community members IOWA Department of Education
More Children Iowa CBE Collaborative • Housekeeping: Coffee/Water/RR/Electricity/Lunch • Internet • #IACompED • Agenda: Orientation and Beginnings • Team Building • Modeling Protocols You Can Use • Graphic Organizer • Video, Website, Webinar IOWA Department of Education
Mapping the Work • Choose a table recorder. Have the Overview document handy. • Review the collaborative milestones on the 11x17 chart at your table. Put changes to the milestones for the collaborativeon blue or pink Post-Its, corresponding with the topics. Write additional milestones or outcomeson the green Post-Its. • Write local milestoneson yellow Post-Its(be sure to include your district initials). • Place Post-Its on the timeline on the wall. • Write needs you identifyonto the recorder sheet at your table.
With an Elbow Partner: List 3 ways the world has changed in the past 35 or 40 years. List 3 skills people need today because of those changes. Which skills are you most concerned about for your students? IOWA Department of Education
More Children • Cross Walking 21st Century Skills • Skills and dispositions most predictive of student success • Reviewed various frameworks • Identified Core skills from the research synthesis IOWA Department of Education
Planning Next Steps and Messaging the Day • Brief experience with determining proficiency • Framing the Work: State Guidelines, Overview • Mapping the Work: Key Learning and Timeline • Non Academic Skills: Crosswalk • Next Steps: • Use Graphic Organizer notes to discuss what your next steps might be—as a district, institution, individual. • Discuss your ideas for messaging today • Use one of the blank sheets to turn in anything we didn’t capture on the screen IOWA Department of Education
Exit Ticket • Nametag and anything you want to keep in the envelop • Leave it on the table • Evaluation—leave them on the table IOWA Department of Education
http://tinyurl.com/IowaCompEdGuidelines www.CompetencyWorks.org www.IACompEd.com #IACompEd Sandra.Dop@iowa.gov IOWA Department of Education