Developing Career Pathways for At-Risk Students
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Developing Career Pathways for At-Risk Students: How Lee's Summit's Alternative Education Program is Addressing the Needs for Real World Learning and Empowering Marginalized Students to Take Ownership
Developing Career Pathways for At-Risk Students
- 1. Developing Career Pathways for At-Risk Students How Lee's Summit's Alternative Education Program is Addressing the Needs for Real World Learning and Empowering Marginalized Students to Take Ownership
- 3. Explore SRA's RWL Program Development Understand How Our Values Informed Us See How Our Personalization Model May Inform Yours Journey Mapping Community Liaison Role Opt-In Projects PLPs in Advisory Mastery Learning Goals for Today
- 5. Between 2015-2020*, we saw an increasing trend of students needing Missouri Options to graduate Wanted Better Post-Grad Results for Our Kids District RWL Initiative created push to increase MVA attainment Anecdotal internal data collected pointed us to a need for more personalization and relevancy in curriculum design and delivery *Pre-pandemic Impetus for Change
- 6. Development Timeline ID problems/Skills/Origins Form Design Team/Brainstorm Ideas/Gather Data Listening Sessions "Ease In" Slow Development (Student Driven Momentum) Paired with Strategic Structural Changes to Incentives & Schedule Design Team Think Tank (Site visits, book study, pitch meetings) Advisory Program Updates (PLP+YouScience Pilot) Inquiry Project Options in Eng 12, RWL Speakers/Events on Fridays Student PLP Binders in Advisory Housing Reflections, PLP Team, Artifacts of Learning (Self Advocacy Tool) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
- 7. One of our design team members gathered stories from existing and past staff in order to clarify our starting point and better measure our growth. Instituational Wisdom
- 8. UX Journey Mapping Before we laid out potential changes, we needed to have a common operational foundation
- 9. Can't we do more the stories kids bring to us?
- 14. Values Knowledge
- 15. Although school leadership must have a vision for the future, it should be used as a way to open up a dialogue rather than be handed down from on high. Source: How to Help Your School Thrive Without Breaking the Bank, John G. Gabriel & Paul C. Farmer, ASCD, 2009, Chapter 2. Developing a Vision and a Mission http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/107042/chapters/developing-a-vision-and-a-mission.aspx
- 18. New UX Vision Based on our values, capacities, and potential, we mapped our goals onto our journey map as we hoped students would get to experience our school
- 19. "...learner profiles are co-created by educators and learners and composed of rich, current information regarding each student." we need to "...launch and support the design of a very different learning ecosystem than most of us experienced in our formal education" rather than simply "settling for compliance" Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning, James Rickabaugh (p. 41).
- 20. Starting point for curious parents, definitions, potential community partners, and general FAQs Showcase of student work, examples of projects completed by SRA students SRA RWL Launch Page bit.ly/RWLatSRA
- 21. Who are we? Students and Teachers Reimagining Educational Access to Meaning What are we doing? Surveying Hazards and Opportunities that Advance Learning Where/How is innovation happening? Curricular Entry Ongoing Academic Reflection A Guiding Visual Metaphor S T R E A M s h o a l / c u r r e n t / o a r
- 24. We are moving into uncharted waters and asking students to do the same The challenges ahead include many unknowns It will take ALL of us working together to make it through Risks
- 25. Our First Steps Compose Student Guidebook - "Sacred text" including each student's Personalized Learning Plan and team Vision/Goals - Design team vision writing Planning Site Visits - Exploring model programs where Personalized Learning is prioritized Book Study - Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning Data Collection & Analysis - Need to establish baseline of both narrative and quantitative data that help tell our story
- 26. How It's Going
- 27. Open Fridays: Optional Events--Speakers, interviews, shadowing, site visits, field trips, project time Success Lab: PLPs & YouScience, + Optional OAR Activities In Your Class: Optional RWL Inquiry Project Opportunities Scope of Phase 1
- 29. PLP
- 38. What's Next
- 40. "Bookending" of the PLP: The STREAM team is investigating the use of a Mastery Based Transcript to showcase student learning. More RWL Examples: As we lean into this work, more students and staff will have valuable experiences to share & learn from. Learning Labs: as optional project space/time based on teacher interests and skills. Forecasting Phase 2
- 42. A Dynamic Team that has a heterogenous group of skills, dispositions, and experience profiles but a homogenous set of common values A Diffuse Narrative of the initiative that takes root easily and is durably connected to sustaining values A Limited Locus of Change initially will make shifts feel manageable Key Drivers of Success
- 43. Thank you! Steve J. Moore, Ph.D. Career Navigator & Teacher Summit Ridge Academy Lee's Summit R7 Schools steve.moore@lsr7.net 際際滷s Available: