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Questions Answered and Emerging Promising Practices

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Keeping up With Graduation Pathways

Questions Answered and Emerging Promising Practices

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Michelle ClarkeSchool Counseling Specialist

mclarke@doe.in.gov@CounselorClarke

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Graduation Pathways

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Graduation Pathways

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Technical

Honors

Core 40Academic

Honors

General

Overview

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Employability Skills Poster

Overview

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Project-Based Service-Based Work-Based

Experience + Student Work Product

Employability Skills

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What is the work product that is required?

• Examples include but are not limited to: presentation, letter of recommendation,

letter of employment verification, resume, reflection of experience, etc.

When can these experiences begin?

• Anytime between July 1 prior to freshman year through September 30 prior to

submission of the Graduate Report

• Can be during the school day, after school, during breaks, etc.

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Employability Skills

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How do I know if my experience satisfies the requirements?

• Each experience must be aligned to a specific set of design principles listed in the

Policy Guidance Document.

Can courses be used to satisfy this requirement?

• In the Policy Guidance document, courses lending themselves to executing the

design principles of each experience are listed, though completion of the courses

alone does not fulfill this requirement.

• However, these experiences are not limited to these courses alone. If a student’s

experience or a course curriculum aligns with the design principles of any of the

employability skills experiences, then that experience will qualify for this requirement.

Employability Skills

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How long do they have to last?

• There is not a set number of hours for an Employability Skills experience

• Schools and districts must ensure the experience has quality, scope, and value

for the student

How do schools validate completion of this requirement?

• By evaluating the student’s product and tracking the completion of the experience

on the student’s transcript or through the school’s Student Information System

(SIS).

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Employability Skills

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• Courses

• Part-time employment

• School-based enterprises

• Apprenticeships

• Internships

• Career and Technical Student Organizations

• Athletics

• After school programs (i.e., Marching Band)

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Overview

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Project-Based

Buck Institute for Education (PBL

Works) Project-Based Learning “Gold

Standard” Design principles

Overview

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Service-Based

National Youth Leadership Council K-

12 Service Learning Standards

Overview

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Work-Based

National Governors Association

design principles for Work-Based

Learning.

Indiana K-12 WBL Manual

Overview

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Overview

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Overview

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Indiana K-12 WBL Manual

● Introduction

● What is Work-Based Learning (WBL)?

● WBL Continuum and Definitions

● WBL Criteria / Indicators

● WBL Resources

● References

Competencies

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Students must complete at least one of the following.

6. Apprenticeship

7. CTE Concentrator

8. AP/IB/Dual Credit/Cambridge Int./CLEP

9. Locally Created Pathways

1. Honors Diploma

2. ACT

3. SAT

4. ASVAB

5. Industry Cert

Competencies

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Honors Diploma

• Fulfill all requirements of either the Academic or Technical Honors designation

ACT

• Currently 18 in English, 22 in Reading, 22 in Math, and 23 in Science; students must

meet at least 2 of the 4 score requirements, either the 18 in English or 22 in Reading

AND either the 22 in Math or 23 in Science

SAT

• Currently 480 in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (ERW) and 530 in Math;

students must meet the individual scores in each subject

Competencies

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ASVAB

• Earn at least a minimum AFQT score to qualify for placement into one of the branches of the

US military The minimum score a student must earn is 31; individual branch scores are the

following: Army is 31, Marines is 31, Navy is 35, Air Force is 36, and Coast Guard is 45

State- and Industry-recognized Credential or Certification

• NEW List of Approved Certifications.

• Must be entered in the Indiana Technical Education Reporting System (INTERS)

Federally-recognized Apprenticeship

• The list of federally recognized apprenticeships is posted on the DOE’s website

Competencies

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Career-Technical Education Concentrator

• Must earn a C average in at least two non-duplicative advanced courses (courses beyond an

introductory course) within a particular program or program of study.

• NEW The Office of CTE is no longer with the Indiana Department of Education. They now

reside with the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet.

Competencies

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AP/IB/Dual Credit/Cambridge International courses or CLEP Exams

• Must earn a C average or higher in at least three (3) courses

• Students must sit for the AP/IB Exams (no cut score)

• Students must earn a 50 or higher for CLEP exam to count

• If a student is taking AP/IB/Dual Credit courses to meet the postsecondary-ready competency,

either: 1. One of the three courses must be in a core content area. The Core Transfer Library

defines “core content” for dual credit/AP/IB requirement.

2. OR all three (3) courses must be part of a defined CTE sequence. A defined CTE

sequence of courses is based on the Indiana College and Career Pathways. These

courses must correspond with the CTE Technical Dual Credit Crosswalk.

Competencies

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Competencies

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Locally Created Pathways

• Developed in accordance with the framework adopted by the SBOE and is approved

by the SBOE

• The Board has approved three Locally Created Pathways (LCPs) thus far.

• To help clarify and simplify the components of each LCP, SBOE, and IDOE staff

developed guidance for schools and districts to follow.

• If you want to adopt a LCP, you must fill out this form.

Tracking

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Work-Based Experience

Student’s transcript

Student work product

student’s transcript, test

scores, certification score

report

Promising Practices

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Work-Based Experience

Promising Practices

● Parent Toolkit

● Middle School Toolkit

● Tracking/Reporting Examples

● PBL/WBL/SBL Examples

Promising Practices

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Work-Based Experience

Service Learning School Wide Initiative

● 2018-2019 School Year Implementation

● Used Learning to Give/Generation On as a template & guide for our lessons

● Every Monday during “PRIDE” (homeroom) is dedicated to service learning

○ SNHS “Be The Change” Service Learning Schedule

○ Everything is logged in google classroom/drive for easy access & tracking

● Community Service credit is awarded during a students 8th semester which is an unweighted “A”

● Helping change our culture, school, community & overall students self

● 2020-2021 Plan

○ We are doing modules, so students will go through a “9 week course” on various topics.

○ Each PRIDE will do 1 service learning project (plan, coordinate, do & reflect)

○ Each PRIDE will plan 1 school wide “fun” event (i.e. Talent Show)

Why we did this? Because I personally didn’t want to track down 275 students between WBL, Project

Based or Service Learning...so why not make it a school wide thing!

Frequently Asked Questions

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Work-Based Experience

● Graduation Pathways FAQ

● Guidance for students due to COVID-19 school closures.

○ 2020 Graduation Flexibility

○ COVID-19 FAQ

○ Graduation Flexibility FAQ

● CTE Listserve

○ CTE Contact: cte@gov.in.gov

Graduation Pathways

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Implementation Resources

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Michelle Clarke

School Counseling Specialist

Email:mclarke@doe.in.gov

DOEGradpathways@doe.in.gov

Website: www.doe.in.gov/graduation-pathways

Promising Practices

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