Easing the Transitions: Elementary to Middle to High School and Beyond - Rolling Out the Program

Easing the Transitions: Elementary to Middle to High

and Beyond

Judy Hingle and Lynnette HarrisFairfax County Public Schools

Student Learning PlanWednesday, July 10, 2013

Rolling Out the ProgramVisionCollaborationPlanning

Who’s in the Room?

Who’s in the Room?

Easing the Transitions: Elementary to Middle to High and Beyond

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Vision

Collaboration

Planning

Student Voice

Vision

To create a comprehensive Student Learning Plan that captures the whole child – social, emotional, intellectual, and physical.

Vision

The Student Learning Plan is a dynamic process which allows students to identify their interests, incorporate their strengths, set academic, career, and personal goals, reflect on their learning, and develop a plan for their future.

DefiningCollege and Career Readiness

• Analyses of college courses reveal that the learning skills and foundational knowledge associated with college success overlap considerably those necessary for success in training programs that lead to careers.

• All students aspire to enter the workforce, and, to do so, all will need a comparable set of foundational skills and learning abilities if they are to succeed.

Life and Career Skills

DefiningCollege and Career Readiness

• A student’s interests influence the precise knowledge and skill profile necessary to be ready for postsecondary studies in their field of interest.

Dr. David Conley A Complete Definition of College and Career Readiness epiconline.org

“When you got a career, there ain’t enough time in the day…

When you got a job, there’s too much time”.

 A job is a means to an end, while a career is a meaningful

use of your life.

(Chris Rock, 2010)

Four Keys of College and Career Readiness

Student Learning Plan

Life and Career Skills

Student Achievement Goal 2Develop Essential Life Skills

Working in partnership with school and family, students will: • 2.1. Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and leadership. • 2.2. Courageously identify and pursue their personal goals. • 2.3. Develop the resilience and self-confidence required to deal effectively

with life’s challenges. • 2.4. Possess the skills to manage and resolve conflict. • 2.5. Work effectively within a group dynamic. • 2.6. Demonstrate respect for cross-cultural differences and perspectives. • 2.7. Develop practical life skills including but not limited to:

o 2.7.1. Time management.o 2.7.2. Work habits. o 2.7.3. Problem solving/critical thinking. o 2.7.4. Financial competency. o 2.7.5. Self-sufficiency.

• 2.8. Effectively use technology to access, communicate, and apply

knowledge, and foster creativity. • 2.9. Make healthy and safe life choices. • 2.10. Be inspired to learn throughout life.

Student Learning Plan

Core Academic Skills

Virginia Department of EducationAcademic and Career Plan

Required components of the Academic and Career Plan shall include, but not be limited to:

• The student's program of study for high school graduation that is aligned with a postsecondary career pathway and/or college entrance;

• A postsecondary career pathway based on the student's academic and career interests and goals;

• Developed at 7th grade, completed by fall of 8th grade and updated before the student enters the 9th and 11th grades.

• A signature from the student, student's parent or guardian, and school official(s) designated by the principal.

• Students who transfer from outside the district will develop a plan as soon as practicable following enrollment.

It is today we must create

the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Student Learning

Plan helps me know

where I want to go, who I

want to be, and how to

choose my path. An FCPS pilot school student

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Anchor Your Thinking

Turn and talk to your shoulder partner about the importance of vision in implementing a student learning plan.

Student Voice

CollaborationInstructional Services Department

PreK-12 Curriculum and Instruction• Language arts, mathematics,

science, social studies• School counseling services• Early childhood • Advanced academics programs• Special education instruction• Online campus

Language Acquisition and Title I• PreK-12 ESOL• Adult ESOL• World languages• Title I

Professional and Life Skills• Business and information technology• Career and technical education• Fine arts• Family and consumer sciences• Health and medical sciences• Health and physical education• Instructional technology integration• Library information services• Marketing• SBTS management• Technology and engineering education• Trade and industrial education

CollaborationAdditional Central Office Departments

Department of Special Services• Special education instruction• School counseling services• Intervention and prevention services• Special education procedural support

Technology• Information technology support services• Enterprise information services and assessment

Department of Communication and Community Outreach• Business and community partnerships• Family and school partnerships• Parent resource center• Strategic communications

CollaborationLeadership

School Board

Superintendent

Deputy Superintendent

Functional Assistant Superintendents

Cluster Assistant Superintendents

Cluster Directors

Principals

Assistant Principals

Directors of Student Services

CollaborationCommunity

Parents• Focus groups• PTA

Business Partnerships

Chambers of Commerce

Volunteer Fairfax

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Anchor Your Thinking

Stand up and find someone at another table and share:

What does this mean to me in my role in my school?

Planning

• Working from the middle then expanding both up into high school and down into elementary school.

• Early elementary foundation of vocabulary and concepts

• Strengthen 6th grade transition• Build onto 9th grade transition program

• Defining expectations of tasks• Division mission and goals• Developmentally appropriate• Reflect instructional practice• Simply defined• Reflects the individual student

• Providing a continuous feedback loop with leadership and schools

• Identifying and developing resources

• Lessons for teachers and counselors

• Goal setting resources• Electronic tool• Resources for students and

parents

• Expanding staff access – building capacity for student support

• Defining measures of success

Individually make yourself some notes about the essential elements of your system’s education process that would affect your planning.

Teacher Voice

Questions?

Contact Information

Judy HingleCareer Connections Specialist571-423-4430jkhingle@fcps.edu

Lynnette HarrisProject Manager, Student Learning Plan571-423-4639clharris@fcps.edu