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Richardson ISD College & Career Readiness

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College & Career Readiness Update October 2013

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The acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to enroll and succeed in credit-bearing first-year courses at a postsecondary institution (such as a 2 or 4 year college, trade school, or technical school) without the need for remediation

Our goal is to prepare ALL students to learn, grow, and succeed

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“Providing expanded access to high quality education and related supports—particularly for those young people who today lack such access—will not only expand economic opportunity for those individuals, but will also likely do more to strengthen the overall state economy than anything else a state government can do.”

Economic Analysis and Research Network. “A Well-‐Educated Workforce is Key to State Prosperity” August, 22, 2013April

Texas has had a job growth of 31.5%, growing almost triple the nationwide growth of 12%.

Texas unemployment rate has been at or below the U.S. rate for over 78 consecutive months.

Texas sales tax collections have increased for 39 consecutive months. Office of Texas Comptroller, September 2013April


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Elementary Junior High High School

•  College - Going Culture (developing)

•  Understanding of Careers and the Working World

•  Parent Engagement

•  AVID Skills

•  College-Going Culture

•  Career Opportunities

•  PreAP


•  AVID Skills

•  College Awareness

•  Career Opportunities

•  PreAP/AP

•  Dual Credit

•  SAT/ACT

•  AVID Skills


Initiatives for College and Career Readiness in RISD BA

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Elementary Junior High High School and Post

Secondary •  3rd grade Reading

Level (Lexile)

•  3rd grade Oral Reading Fluency Level (DIBELS ORF)

•  STAAR

•  ReadiStep

•  AP

•  Dual Credit

•  PSAT

•  SAT/ACT

•  FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

•  College Enrollment

•  Degree Completion

Measurables for College and Career Readiness in RISD BA

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Curriculum Planning

Preparing ALL to learn, grow, and succeed

Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum

Assessment Analysis

Student Support

Various Curriculum Opportunities

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Forming an Understanding of Work and Careers


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Career development in the elementary years is about an elimination process.

Essentially, students at this age are eliminating alternatives.

This happens in three stages up to age 13.

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Career Development in Elementary

-Linda Gottfredson

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How Children Form an Understanding of Work and Careers

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Career Development Stages in children

Orientation to Size & Power Ages 3 to 5

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•  Classifications of People

•  Understanding the Adult World

•  Symbolized Play

•  Fictitious Career Aspirations

-Linda Gottfredson

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Orientation to Gender Roles Ages 6 to 8

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•  Uni-dimensional thinking by gender

•  Concrete thinking with highly visible occupations

•  Connections with parents’ jobs

-Linda Gottfredson

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Orientation to Social Valuation Ages 9 to 13

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-Linda Gottfredson

•  Two-dimensional thinking by gender and status

•  Acute awareness of status hierarchies

•  Abstract thinking of occupations

•  Identifying occupational floors and ceilings

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Incomplete Occupational Map

+ Perceived Academic Ability

+ Personal Motivation

+ Social Status

+ Family Expectations

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Occupational Floors & Ceilings

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How Children Form an Understanding of Work & Careers

Sample Occupational Map

Masculine

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Unacceptably Difficult

Feminine

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Zone of Acceptable Alternatives

OCCUPATIONAL CEILING

OCCUPATIONAL FLOOR

Floors & Ceilings:

•  Incomplete map

•  Perceived Academic Ability

•  Personal Motivation

•  Social Status

•  Family Expectations

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knowledge of children’s development of an understanding of work and careers can work harder to influence work and career perceptions.

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Students need ample opportunity to explore and try a variety of different courses, programs, and activities.

It’s important for students to identify what they don’t want to do in the future and know why they don’t like something.

Exercises that encourage sustained personal reflection are great ways to get to this kind of self insight. -Dr. Greta Davis

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Addressing the implications of an incomplete occupational map

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•  Exposing students to clusters of careers versus singular options

•  Aligning Enrichment Clusters with the National 16 Career Clusters using kid-friendly language

•  Purposefully and intentionally exposing students to practicing professionals in occupations traditionally dominated by one gender

•  Developing an understanding of how careers in similar fields work together for a common purpose

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Transitioning from Elementary to CTE opportunities at the secondary level

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•  By Junior High, elementary students will have been ENGAGED in a variety of Enrichment Clusters with authentic methods that make connections to how the working world functions.

•  Students will be EMPOWERED to enter Junior High ready to make decisions according to their individual talents & interests.

•  Rising 7th graders will have been EXPOSED to CTE opportunities and career clusters at the 6th grade CCR event and through Naviance.

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Career and Technical Education

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•  Students are able to identify personal career interests and aptitudes, via utilization of the career guidance program Kuder

•  Students have 20 State Approved Career and Technical Education Classes in Junior High related to career exploration with ten providing high school credit

•  Students are able to develop a career educational plan, as well as develop generic career soft skills for successful employment

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Career and Technical Education in the Junior Highs

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Career and Technical Education in the High Schools BA

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•  High School students have the opportunity to select from

165 courses representing the 16 Federal career clusters

•  Each cluster offers varied means of instruction through

classroom, pre-employment laboratory, cooperative work

experiences, and paid and non-paid internships

•  Each cluster offers options to all students to earn

license, certificate, or certification relevant to their

career path

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Opening the doors for Elementary students to view Secondary practices

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Secondary CTE teachers are accepting requests from Elementary Enrichment Clusters to share authentic methods.

Cosmetology

Criminal Justice

Forensic Science

Automotive Technology

Culinary Arts

AV Technology Robotics

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SAT/ACT Assessments

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National Standardized Testing

College Board

•  ReadiStep •  Summary of Answers and Skills (SOAS)

•  PSAT/NMSQT •  PSAT Summer Camp •  Fall PSAT 4 Week Session •  Summary of Answers and Skills (SOAS)

•  SAT •  District - taught SAT after school prep •  Kaplan SAT On Demand SAT Prep class •  All 11th grade ELA classes now have

embedded SAT content lessons

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•  Aspire •  Grades 3-10 •  English, Writing, Reading, Math, and

Science •  35,000 assessments were given last

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•  ACT •  ACT for all 11th grade students •  District - taught ACT after school prep •  Kaplan ACT On Demand ACT Prep class •  Online ACT Prep from ACT – 500 site

licenses per high school •  Practice ACT test for all 11th grade

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RISD ReadiStep Mean Scores 2011 2012 2013*

*The 2013 results were the 1st year test was in the Fall

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SAT ACTCritical Reading

Sentence Completion Vocabulary Complex Sentences Passage-Based Reading Humanities Literary Fiction Social Studies Natural Sciences

Writing Identifying Sentence Errors Improving Sentences Improving Paragraphs Essay Writing

Mathematics Numbers and Operations Algebra and Functions Geometry and Measurement Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

English Usage/Mechanics Punctuation Grammar and Usage Sentence Structure Rhetorical Skills Strategy Organization Style

Reading Prose Fiction Humanities Social Studies Natural Sciences

Mathematics Pre-Algebra Coordinate Geometry Plane Geometry Trigonometry

Science Biology Chemistry Earth/Space Sciences Physics


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SAT/ACT NUMBER TESTED

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Advanced Placement

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Advanced Placement

PreAP – •  The expectation that all students can

perform well at rigorous academic levels

•  The belief that we can prepare every student for higher intellectual engagement by starting the development of skills and acquisition of knowledge as early as possible •  Springboard •  PreAP Math & Writing Camps •  Professional Development

AP – •  RISD currently offers 32 of the 36 AP

courses

•  T.I. Foundation grant to National Math/Science Initiative

•  Overall Mean Score – 2.86

•  Colleges can give credit or advanced placement with scores ranging from 3-5

•  Professional Development

•  Campus-wide work

•  Content area focus: •  English •  Math/Science •  Social Studies •  LOTE

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Dual Credit


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Dual Credit

Dual Credit - This past year, Dual Credit enrollment went up to 1023.

Changes in Dual Credit Offerings English 1301 and 1302 Physics US History Speech CTE Online opportunities

RISD received over $40,000 from Richland College for our students enrolling in these dual credit courses, up from $24,000.

We offer both stand alone courses and AP Overlay courses. AP Overlay courses are taught by RISD faculty, teaching the AP content, and students can receive college credit if they qualify through Richland College.

We need more qualified teachers (Masters with 18 hours in field) at each campus.


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Dual Credit Enrollments Duplicated Unduplicated

Richland College Data

Duplicated means enrolled in more than one Dual Credit class

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English Social Studies Math Science

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Naviance is a college and career readiness platform that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals. Its comprehensive college and career planning solutions optimize student success, enhance school counselor productivity, and track results for school and district administrators.

Naviance enables students to find college and career pathways that are right for them. Start by setting personalized goals, learn about your skills and interests, and explore career options based on those interests. Then search for colleges, apply for scholarships and track your admissions status.

School districts can more efficiently manage college planning and career goals for each of their students. Plus, maximize institutional effectiveness by automating transcript delivery through our electronic document delivery service, and enhancing communications with students and families through our built-in messaging and survey tools.

The Naviance platform gives schools and districts a central location to set goals and priorities for individual students, track their progress, and measure student outcomes across their entire student population in order to improve college and career readiness.


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“Courses” Tab

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“Colleges” Tab

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“Careers” Tab

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“About Me” Tab

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RHS PHS BHS LHHS RISD

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Apply Texas Applicants

% of Class of 2013 applied on ApplyTexas

ApplyTexas is a college application for students to apply to colleges in the state of Texas.

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Berkner Richardson

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50.30% 47.50%

55.40% 52.30%

FAFSA Completion Rates

31-Mar 31-May 31-Aug

FAFSA= Free Application for Federal Student Aid

RISD was part of a pilot project with FAFSA in which we received only 2 schools data as part of the FAFSA Completion project

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Assessments

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Percent of Students Enrolled in College at Any Time During the First Year After High School by Institutional Type

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Percent of Students Enrolled in College at Any Time During the First Two Years After High School by Institutional Type

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Where did RISD Top Ten Students from Class of 2013 go?

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CCR Website


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“DEPARTMENTS” TYPICAL WEBSITE TRAFFIC

The “Departments” portion of the website had an

average of 7092 hits from

March-September. 85%

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Average Hits All Departments CCR Website

The CCR Website has received 1/6th of the traffic in the “Departments” section of the RISD website.

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Hits on the College &

Career Readiness

site by month

March April May June July August September

Total Hits 173 1547 1364 664 730 1376 2588

Unique Hits 141 1251 1069 538 568 1053 1884

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•  Total Hits 8,442

•  Total Unique Hits 6,504

CCR SITE TRAFFIC

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•  Upcoming Events (always refreshed)

•  Importance of Post-Secondary Education •  What is it? •  Why is it important? •  What are my options?

•  Post Secondary “Boats” now clickable

•  Organizational Skills for Elementary •  Purpose •  Video w/PDF

•  CTE Opportunities in RISD

•  Dual Credit Rationale

•  Naviance information & links at all Levels (Elementary & Secondary)

Enhancements to the CCR Website:

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Strengths and Challenges


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•  Launch of the CCR Website

•  Enrichment Clusters aligned with 16 National Career Clusters

•  Elementary tapping into secondary CTE courses for authentic methods

•  Alignment with common language used at the secondary level

•  ACT for all juniors

•  National Math & Science Initiative

•  Dual Credit hours earned

•  Maintaining the interest of parents and students in the CCR Website

•  Implementing Naviance

•  Increasing AP participation and success

•  Providing additional Dual Credit opportunities

•  Closing the gap on SAT/ACT scores

•  Increasing college-going rates

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•  Expose, Engage and Empower elementary students

•  Provide Parent Ed classes for How Children form an Understanding of Work and Careers

•  Complete Naviance interest inventory by December with selection of career clusters

•  Conduct 6th grade CCR Program in December

•  Participate in random stratified sampling of college readiness benchmarks through ACT Aspire

•  Implement NMSI from TI grant with AP students and teachers

•  Monitor implementation of SAT/ACT prep classes

•  Monitor implementation of college transition courses

•  Implement Naviance at all campuses for all students

•  Explore Dual Credit online opportunities with DCCCD

•  Expand FAFSA completion project to all 4 high schools

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•  Continue providing updates for the CCR Website •  Promote the CCR Website via individual campus webpages •  Monitor trends with CCR Website

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