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Major Clusters

Porterville CollegeJanuary 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day

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A Brief Check-In!Capturing Guided Pathways Responses

Individually, please think about and note on post-its, with respect to guided pathways:⬛: what you have squared away?

⚫: is still circling in your mind?

▲: what three things do you need to move forward?

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Major Clusters

Porterville CollegeJanuary 11th, 2019 -- Flex Day

CCCCO Welcome!

Laura Lara- Brady, Ph.DGuided Pathways Regional Coordinator,

Central ValleyCCCCO

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Luis Chavez Amal Amanda Issa Senior Director Senior Program Manager

Career Ladders Project

17 September 201810-11:30 AM

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Targeted In Person Support

Tools (Vision Resource

Center)

Workshops

CoordinatedSupport to theCentral Valley

Region

Learning Clusters

Guided Pathways Supports

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Primavera Arvizu

VP Student Services

Guided Pathways Admin Lead

Porterville College

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14 Key ElementsINQUIRY DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

Cross Functional Inquiry

Inclusive Decision-Making Structures

Practice and Integrated Academic and Student Supports

Shared Metrics Intersegmental Alignment Integrated Technology Infrastructure

Integrated Planning Guided Major and Career Exploration Opportunities

Strategic Professional Development

Improved Basic Skills Aligned Learning Outcomes

Clear Program Requirements

Assessing and Documenting Learning

Applies Learning Opportunities

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● Summer 2018 Planning Meeting Kick-Off● Key faculty leads from every division were identified for the GP workgroups● September 2018 Feedback from Leading from the Middle Team (LFM Momentum Proposal)

○ Marketing and Communication Workgroup formed● October 2018 Porterville College Pathways Session Workshop ● November 2018 Achieving the Dream ICAT Focus Groups and Guided Pathways discussions ● Based on recommendations the Guided Pathways Planning Group was folded into the Success

and Equity Committee with the following workgroups:○ Mapping Existing Curriculum/Academic Clusters○ Communication/Marketing○ Entry○ Student Support/Advising○ Data Team

● Leads have been identified for each workgroup.

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…Reflections from the field …

Career Ladders Project and Guided Pathways

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What Works Collaboration Is Key

Examining Progression & Gaining Buy-In Ownership

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015)By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Collaboration Is Key

• Collaboration at all levels is critical to implementing guided pathways

• Work together to map out program pathways• Cooperating within and across departments to define

sequences of courses that students can take to fulfill program requirements

• Work together to guide, monitor, and support students as they enter and make progress along program pathways.

• Faculty must also collaborate to assess students’ mastery of learning outcomes and to improve instruction across programs, not just within individual courses, so that students build skills as they progress through the curriculum.

• And collaboration is necessary to strengthen teaching—especially in gateway courses (basic Skills) that are critical to success in particular programs.

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015)By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Starting the Process: Examining & Gaining Buy InOwnership

• Colleges need to know which programs students are in, how far along they are toward completing program requirements, and when they are straying from their plans

• To begin a steering team—made up of faculty, student services staff, and administrators from across the college—who will examine (inquiry phase) the clarity of current pathways and how effectively the college monitors student progress, facilitate discussion of the need for guided pathways widely

• College data is key for GP team(s) (at all levels) to understand current status and where further inquiry is needed.

What We Know About Guided Pathways (2015)By: Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins

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Key Questions about Student Pathways

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Timeline for Planning and Implementation

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Follow these steps:1. Introductions2. Each team should have a bag of candy. Empty the contents and examine

each piece3. Sort the candy into clusters that make sense to you4. Discuss the process of decided the clusters for your groups.5. List the guiding principles your team used6. Once you’ve completed your sort, move around and learn about how other

teams sorted their candy7. Share out

Sorting Activity

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● Behavioral economics research suggests that clustering options into similar buckets makes decision making manageable for individuals (Scott-Clayton, 2012).

Why Major Clusters?

● Goals with Clustering○ To help students choose a major

earlier in their career ○ Informed decision based their

interests, knowledge, skills and abilities

○ Empower students to select classes that relate to a specific degree

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Common Elements of Major Clusters● Major Clusters are aligned with local labor

market demand. ● Each major cluster includes a clear program

map. ● General education core courses and electives

are aligned with each major cluster. ● Counseling and student services are aligned

with the student’s major cluster.

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National Examples of Major Clusters

*Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is

quite iterative.

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Cleveland State Community College

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CUNY Guttman Programs of Study

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Georgia State University

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California Examples of Major Clusters

*Please note, while some examples provided are already student facing, others are shared in draft form to highlight Meta Major inquiry and design process is

quite iterative.

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Butte College

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Cabrillo College Career and Academic Pathways

● Creative Arts & Design ● Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics● Health and Public Service● Entrepreneurship & Business● Global & Human Studies

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Mira Costa College

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NORCO College

The College has developed four schools with the intent of helping students choose a major and degree based on their interests, knowledge, skills and abilities. The four schools are:

● Arts & Humanities● Business & Management● Social & Behavioral Studies● STEM (with subdivisions of Science & Health and Technology, Engineering & Math)

Within each School, a community of learners is created amongst students with similar academic interests.

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● One of the most important things Guided Pathways offers is strategies for structural, evidence-based guided exploration that empowers students to identify relevant programs of study early.

● One of these structural elements is major clusters (in some cases referred to as cluster or interest areas).

Involving Students in Redesign

Des ...

Building Blocks to Meta Majors

MOR Journey Questions: Meta Majors ● 279 Faculty, Staff, Administrators

participated

● Around 70% of Faculty participated

● 120 Students participated in groupings

● 52 Total Groupings ranging from 4-12 Meta Majors

Continuing the Journey : Narrowing Down Meta Majors

● Narrowed options down from 52 Options to 10

● 5 Faculty/Staff and 5 Student

● Entire college reviewed and chose their top 3

● Students will choose in September

● All Campus Vote in October

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Reedley College

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Reedley College

Student Voice Next Steps● 2018-2019 Leading from the Middle Team Project

● Goal - Collecting and disseminating student voice data to inform Guided Pathways process at Reedley College

● Video Survey - following freshman students from orientation through second semester - recording Q&A at new student orientation, mid-semester, end of semester, and beginning of second semester

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Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design: Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta Majors

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Can be used as an…INQUIRY TOOL to explore the concept of meta-majors or as a DESIGN TOOL when a college is prepared to create draft meta-majors

Degree and Certificate Sorting for Meta-Majors

Designed to encourage greater involvement in Guided Pathways, college-wide, by offering an opportunity for experiential learning and inter-departmental discussions.

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Goal: help understand the challenges faced by students navigating the options for degrees and certificates offered by the college

Inquiry/Process Development

Involving Students -- engage students in this activity prior to designing meta majors, in order to provide faculty and staff with insights into the ways students may think about the clustering of majors.

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Goal: The main goal as a design tool is to create a draft of meta majors, with supporting design principles, to be furthered developed and finalized at a later stage in the design phase.

Recommended Use: as an inquiry tool before utilizing it as a design tool

Once in the design phase it is essential to have a “critical mass” of counseling, student support and instructional faculty, administrators, and staff from across the college to ensure all stakeholders have input in the design.

DESIGN

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Degree and Certificate Sorting ActivityPrework1. Determine activity goals and logistics

2. Gather all of the colleges degrees and certificates

3. Prepare degree and certificate materials

The Process of Sorting - Pt 1

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Degree and Certificate Sorting ActivityDegree and Certificate Sorting1. Language and information norming

2. Form Cross-Functional teams of 5-10 people

3. Intentional Sorting - Design Principlesa. Create before sorting

b. Determine after sorting

The Process of Sorting - Pt 2

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Example of Design Principles Skyline College

Skyline College faculty and staff have developed a set of

design principles to guide their work:

● Agreed upon set of guiding principles that others can

use to inform their work.

● Reflect the colleges mission, vision, and values.

● Useful for addressing points of contention or

uncertainty.

Design Principles

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Degree and Certificate Sorting ActivityStatement of Logic Descriptor Worksheet

The Process of Sorting - Pt 2 cont

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Degree and Certificate Sorting ActivityPostwork1. Synthesize Community Data

2. Analysis (DESIGN ONLY)

3. Communicate Findings

The Process of Sorting - Pt 3

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Mt. SAC and Sierra College● Cross-functional college and community process● Included students, and adult ed/noncredit or K12 lens

College Approaches

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Bakersfield● Connected certificates and degrees to regional

workforce labor market information

College Approaches

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Skyline and Butte● Iterative! Faculty and staff team grew and changed with

the work.● Meta Majors are drafts (e.g. 13 to 5!)

College Approaches

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Mesa CC, AZ● Faculty and staff engaged in deep sequencing, including

SLOs, program outcomes, & ILOs

CUNY LaGuardia and Bakersfield* ● Organization of teams around career pathways/interest

areas

CUNY system and LA Trade Tech● Provision of student support services in pathways

West Hills Coalinga/Lemoore● Opportunities Career Exploration in Instruction

Sharing College Learnings

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RESOURCESwww.careerladdersproject.org

https://visionresourcecenter.cccco.edu/

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Guided Pathways Inquiry Guide

Major Clusters and Program Mapping

● Learning Cluster focused on Reedley College’s college-wide process to engage in cross-functional teams and equity data to inform their Meta Majors journey (ppt slides).

● A description of activities colleges can undertake to sort out their meta-majors● A webinar and presentation on the program mapping process at Cabrillo College – and one result, Cabrillo’s “Career and

Academic Pathways” handout ● GP Stories: Read how Skyline College approached the project of mapping its meta-majors

Integrating student services

● A webinar on how Modesto Junior College is integrating counselors and other supports into guided pathways reforms (also available as presentation only)

● A webinar on three experiences using technology in integrating student supports in reforms (at Bakersfield College, Chaffey College, and Contra Costa Community College District); here’s the presentation only

● GP Stories: Read how Santa Monica College brought student voices into their reform process

Student Voice

● Bringing Student Voices to Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design: Findings from Student Focus Groups at Two California

Community Colleges

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Guided Pathways Inquiry Guide

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THANK YOU!Laura Lara-Brady, Guided Pathways Regional Coordinator - Central Valley

llbrady@cccco.orgLuis Chavez, Senior Director | lchavez@careerladdersproject.org

Amal Amanda Issa, Senior Program Manager | aissa@careerladdersproject.org

Questions and Next Steps