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ICAP & Work-Based Learning: What’s The Connection?For Counselors Only Conference

March 10, 2020Chelsea Hunt, MBA

Today’s FocusICAP + WBL = College & Career Ready

q Individual Career Academic Planning (ICAP)

ü Requirements & Post-Secondary Opportunity Indicator

ICAP + WBL = Workforce Ready

qComponents of Work-Based Learning (WBL)

ü Activity: Communication Skills

ü NEW! Resource: Service Learning and/or Work

Environment (WBL) Activities

Today’s Focus - 2ICAP + WBL = Future Ready

q Industry & Community Partnerships

ü Best Practices: Rural to Urban School Districts

ü Resources: OKEdge.com (Business & Education

Partnership Guides)

ü Activity: Business ICAP Action Planner

ICAP + WBL = College & Career Ready

Remember When. . .

You were asked these questions, or when you asked a student:

q What do you want to be when you grow up?

q Why did you choose that field?

q How do you plan to get there?

Keep ICAP Simple!

What is ICAP?Individual Career Academic Planning (ICAP)

qProcess that helps students engage in academic

and career development activities.

qProduct (tangible plan) that is created and

maintained for students’ academic, career, post-

secondary, workforce, and personal advancement.

ü ICAP is a multi-step process, not a checklist!

ICAP State RequirementsHouse Bill 2155

qCareer and college interest surveys

qWritten post-secondary & workforce goals and

progress toward goals

q Intentional sequence of courses

ICAP State Requirements - 2House Bill 2155

qAcademic progress includes:

ü Assessment scores, AP/IB, Concurrent or dual

enrollment, career certifications or endorsements.

qExperience in service learning and/or work

environment activities

Post-Secondary Opportunity Indicator

q This indicator reflects the percentage of students in grades 11 and 12 who successfully participated in at least one approve opportunity aligned with college-and career-readiness.

Internships

q OSDE Elective Course Codes

ü 2790 Internship I (Juniors)

ü 2791 Internship II (Seniors)

q Can be paid or unpaid

q One type of work environment (work-based

learning) activity that meets ICAP requirements

For more information, view Internships FAQs.

Post-Secondary Opportunity Indicator - 2

Service Learning

q OSDE Course Code

ü 2775 Service Learning

q This type of experience meets the ICAP

requirements, but the course code does not count

towards the Post-Secondary Opportunity Indicator.

For more information, view Post-Secondary Opportunity Guidance.

Post-Secondary Opportunity Indicator - 3

High School

Graduation Checklists

ICAP + WBL = Workforce Ready

ICAP: Preparing Students to be Workforce Ready

Communication Skills

Rules:

1. Pair up with a partner

2. Grab a sheet of paper & hold it in front of you

3. Choose your position: reader or task performer

ü Task performer = close eyes & listen to directions

ü Reader = give directions

4. No peeking or questions!

Communication Skills - 2

Directions:

q Fold your sheet of paper in half

q Now, tear off the upper right-hand corner

q Fold the paper in half again and tear off the upper left-hand corner

q Fold in half again in half

q Now tear off the lower right-hand corner

Communication Skills - 3

Reflection:

q Now open your eyes and unfold your paper. If your partner did a good job of communicating and you did a good job of listening, all of our sheets should look exactly the same!

q Hold up your sheet for everyone to see & compare your sheet with others.

q Group Discussion: Why do you think no one else’s paper matched your paper exactly?

Communication Skills - 4

Take-away:

q As a counselor, being an effective communicator is recognizing that your administrators, teachers, and students receive information in different ways in order to be successful.

q As a counselor, being an effective communicator is recognizing that you are alone in providing WBL activities to your students. It takes partnerships with your local community to make this happen!

NEW! ResourceService Learning and/or Work Environment (WBL) Activities:

qBasic Requirements

qDefinitions and Comparisons

qDocumentation for Student Progress

qSample Activities

qSample Student Learning Outcomes

To view this NEW! Resource, click here.

Best PracticeRural to Urban School Districts

qCareer Fairs

ü Chelsea Public Schools

v Learn first-hand perspective on how a rural school district was inspired by a large school district to host an ICAP: Career Fair.

v To learn a step-by-step process to implement a Career Fair at your school district, watch:Chelsea HS Career Fair

Best Practice - 2Rural to Urban School Districts

q Oklahoma Career Exposure Week

ü Career Focus: Service (Hertz)

ü Industry Leader: Jessica Mollica, Sr. HR Business Partner

ü Watch the virtual connection: https://youtu.be/PuwkDxFcct0

ü Join the Work-Based Learning Community via OSDEconnect. Join the conversation by creating a profile at https://osde.nextthought.com/login/. After you’ve signed in, click “Add," then select the 2020 Oklahoma Career Exposure Week module.

ICAP + WBL = Future Ready

Prepare Your Workforce Supporting Students Plan for the Future

Industry & Community PartnershipsStart Early: Outreach Plan

qPartnering with industry & community ensures

students have the opportunity to gain

experience in career pathways and enhance

employability (hard/soft) skills.

qActivity: Business ICAP Action Planner

For more resources, visit OKEdge.com.

Step 1: Problem of PracticeqCreate a Problem of Practice statement that

clearly identifies a current need based on

current pathway.

Step 2: Go Deep!qAnalyze the challenge you are trying to solve by

focusing on the root causes (discuss/identify,

share/organize, revisit/finalize).

Step 3: Theory of ActionqCreate an If. . .Then statement that describes

how you will tackle your problem of practice.

Step 4: Inputs & Actionsq Inputs: Individual and resources you need to

accomplish action plan.

qActions: Main actions you will implement to

respond to theory of action

qOutputs: Determine concrete tangible products or

program activities and strategies

qOutcomes: Short Term, Medium Term, Long Term

Step 4: Inputs & Actions - 2

Next Steps: How Will I…qCommunicate this action plan with leadership

team? School staff?

qUnderstand my role and responsibility to ensure action plan is effective?

q Implement strategies to respond to theory of action?

qAccomplish short, medium, and long term outcomes?

Office of College & Career Readiness

Chelsea Hunt, MBA (Executive Director )Work-Based Learning and Industry Partnerships Chelsea.Hunt@sde.ok.gov

Marissa Lightsey, MSHR (Executive Director) College and Career ReadinessMarissa.Lightsey@sde.ok.gov

Petra Woodard, M.Ed. (Executive Director) Academic CounselingPetra.woodard@sde.ok.gov

Thank you for your time!