Expanding

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Expanding the Positive Effect of Comprehensive
Career Guidance with Partnerships!
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ICAP Awareness, Understanding, MovementWhere
are you?!
1 Completely unsure of what to do and a bit
fearful
5 Got it Were good Ready to share our plan and
process today
3 Somewhat there, wanting more specific pieces
today.
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• Real Partnerships
• Common purpose united and expanded our
  partnerships!

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What is ICAP?

• Colorado Department of Education

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1.00 Statement of Basis and Purpose

• Pursuant to SB 09-256, the State Board of
  Education is required to promulgate rules to
  establish standards for Individual Career and
  Academic Plans (ICAP) for students enrolled in
  public schools in the state. The intent of this
  provision in the legislation is to ultimately
  decrease dropout rates and increase graduation
  rates by assisting students in developing and
  maintaining a personalized postsecondary plan
  that ensures readiness for postsecondary and
  workforce success.
• An ICAP shall be designed to assist a student and
  his or her parent or legal guardian in exploring
  the postsecondary career and educational
  opportunities available to the student, aligning
  course work and curriculum, applying to
  postsecondary education institutions, securing
  financial aid and ultimately entering the
  workforce.

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DHS ICAP definition

• Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) is the
  new Colorado state requirement for all students
  in grades 6-12. The ICAP process assists every
  student in setting life goals and forming a plan
  to achieve their goals. The ICAP will help
  students select a pathway of relevant coursework
  in Middle School and High School, based on their
  interests and desired career goals. ICAP is
  designed to provide each student opportunities to
  discover their talents and carefully plan a
  school program that develops marketable skills
  for life after graduation.

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How is this related to our Strategic Plan?

• Strategy 3 Standards of Excellence
  integrate 21st Century Skills
• Specific Result 2 Establish flexible
  educational pathways that allow all students to
  leave high school ready to enter the workforce
  and/or post Secondary Education.
• No.3 Identify additional educational pathways
  necessary to meet the needs of all students.

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Also

• Strategy 4 We will fully engage every student in
  meaningful, relevant, authentic learning
  experiences.
• Specific Result 2 Engage every student in
  developing implementing a plan to accomplish
  personal, educational and postsecondary goals.
• No. 6 Student begin their plan in 6th grade
  and all secondary students review their growth
  plans before class choices are made for the
  subsequent years.

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Ask the smart person next to you

• What is the very first word you think of when you
  hear the phrase
• ICAP
• Comprehensive Career Guidance
• Seamless Transitioning
• Plan of Study
• Postsecondary Workforce Readiness

http//www.wordle.net/create
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Colorados Current Pipeline
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ICAP Real Opportunities

• WHAT? Every student will create, revise follow
  a pathway that leads to career success.
• HOW? Through seamless career academic plans
• WHY? To develop a globally competitive workforce
  for Colorado.

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21st Century Skills

• 20th Century 21st Century

1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
of Jobs
Flexibility And Adaptability
Mastery of One Field
Job Skill
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Learning Model
PWR
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Real Purpose
Vision Colorado CTE delivers proven pathways to
lifelong career success! Mission CTE ensures a
thriving Colorado economy by providing relevant
and rigorous education that is connected,
responsive and real.
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Having a Career Goal and Plan makes a HUGE
difference in PS success!

• Preliminary findings showed desired learning
  outcomes were the best predictors of student
  success.
• Students whose desire was to Explore courses to
  decide career, had the lowest graduation rate,
  21. 
• This compares to a graduation rate for students
  who intend to, Prepare to change careers, of
  78. 
• Clearly, having a career goal and plan that a
  student is acting upon makes a big difference

- Rossol Byers, Johnson County Community
College, NE
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CTE Program Plans of Study shape Individual
Career Academic Plans
http//www.coloradostateplan.com/default_cluster.h
tm www.cccs.edu/CTE/Toolbox for Educators/ Plans
of Study
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Seamless Transitions
ASCA Standards Career Development A Students
will acquire the skills to investigate the world
of work in relation to knowledge of self and to
make informed career decisions. B Students will
employ strategies to achieve future career
success and satisfaction C Students will
understand the relationship between personal
qualities, education and training , and the world
of work.
Career Development Journey
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What is it all really?

• The ICAP, or Academic Plan of Study is a process
  that students participate in, which results in an
  actual plan.

ICAP A TOOL FOR HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
CAREERS AND GOALS

• Plan
• Students career cluster or pathway goal
• Relevancy of students goal to post secondary
  institution / workforce or other future option
• Students four-year high school plan (some use
  6-year), including courses, extracurricular CE
  options

Process Developmentally appropriate grade level
required and recommended activities
Utilizing Aligned content standards of ASCA
National Model CTE, IEPs, core curriculums,
CDE, existing, available village and college,
career academic planning tools and resources
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Utilize your VillageThe Experts

• You
• Administrators
• Professional School Counselors ASCA model,
  Career Development
• CTE instructors/directors Plans of Study
• SpEd/Transition Coordinators IEPs (Individual
  Education Plans)
• IT Specialists Data sharing, SIS pros
• Academic Core/AVID/IB/Elective instructors time,
  relevance and relationship
• May we suggest student(s), librarian, school
  board, PS rep, workforce rep, parent(s), business
  industry rep, BOCES and any others?

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The Potential of Individual Career Academic
Plans (ICAP)

• Creates Relevant Middle High School
  Experience
• Builds Academic Momentum
• Allow for Learn Earn opportunities within
  Career Pathways
• Increases Intentional Concurrent Enrollment
• Enhances the Career Development Journey

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Real Direction

• Expand postsecondary awareness and use of Plans
  of Study to connect certificate and degree paths
  for all students
• Develop and share models of institutionalizing
  secondary Plans of Study creating a culture of
  Comprehensive Career Guidance in Colorado
• Engage in seamless opportunities to transition
  from high school into college and from two-year
  institutions into four-year institutions.
• Increase local, regional and state interaction
  with business and industry

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The ICAP journey
Logo vernacular borrowed from CDE Academic
Standards
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John Taylor Gatto

• Education is a matter of self-mastery, first
  then self- enlargement, even self-transcendence
  as all possibilities of the human spirit open
  themselves into zones for exploration and
  understanding.
• Weapons of Mass Instruction, Pg 61 2009

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Who else is doing this?
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How about us?

• What does it look like?
• Elaborating on Plans of Study
• Addition of Freshman Seminar
• Altering School Day Schedule adding 30 minute
  advisory classes
• Integrating career planning into all class
  curriculums
• Training all staff, students and parents on
  career/college planning tools specifically CiC
• Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) Early
  release weekly for students.
• Bring in Alumni as guest speakers proof that
  Career and Academic Planning works!

Denver Public Schools Jefferson County Adams
County Boulder Harrison Durango 9R Eagle
County Western Slope San Luis Valley Gunnison Este
s Park Douglas County Trinidad Montezuma-Cortez Ar
kansas Valley Falcon Colorado Springs
D11 Northeastern BOCES Eastern BOCES
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ICAP will look different
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Blue Whales take 3-5 minutes to turn 180 degrees!
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• If 15-20 of Sardines commit to a
  direction, all others will turn and go with
  them almost instantaneously.

- Doug Manning
Find your Sardines because its best for
students!
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Find your experts, your sardines, your team,
your village Administrators, CTE, SpEd, IT,
Counselors, workforce, teachers, parents,
students others What is your
process, your activities, responsibilities and
timeline?
After a Year pilot What works? What doesnt?
What/who is needed?
Due September 30 2010
Implementation Cycle
Action Plan (4 Ts) Team Timeline Tool of use
(acTivity) elemenT addressed
Utilize The Village
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Implementation Strategies

• Julia Pirnack
• Director of Web and Curriculum Development
• College in Colorado
• Julia.Pirnack_at_cic.state.co.us

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GET STARTED

• Form/reconvene an ICAP design taskforce
• Collaborative design and implementation
• Leadership initiative
• Think about alignment/sequencing
• Who can help?

• Who knows what you are already doing in career
  college planning?
• Who already does student plans?
• What about school supporters pre-collegiate,
  BOCES, after school programs, parents????

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ACTIVITIES DESIGN

• Consider district-wide 2-day design seminar (CiC)
• Begin to formulate plan to design activities you
  wish students to accomplish
• Materials/Worksheets/Templates on CIC, CDE, CCCS
  Websites
• Career Guidance Handbook
• ASCA/ICAP/CIC Correlations
• IEP/CIC/ICAP Crosswalk
• CIC Roads to Success Curriculum Lesson Plans
• Validate plan to ICAP Requirements

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Personal Financial Literacy (PFL)Standards

• House Bill 1168
• Manage savings, investments, checking accounts
• Design and maintain a household budget
• Manage personal debt
• Understand consumer credit finance
• Manage personal credit options
• Select among short-term and long term investments

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Financial Literacy Four Key Areas

• Goal Setting, Careers, and Financial
  Responsibility
• Planning, Income, Saving, and Investing
• Credit
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Prepared Graduate Competency in Economics
• Acquire the knowledge and economic reasoning
  skills to make sound financial decisions (PFL)

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Assessing Personal Financial Literacy

• Within the new Colorado assessment system
• Within the mathematics assessment at each
  assessed grade level
• Details available in the future

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High School example
Economics Expectation Analyze the components
of personal credit to manage credit and debt
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IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

• By September 30, 2010
• Evidence of a Plan
• Policy and procedures in place consider
• Graduation Requirements
• Concurrent Enrollment
• Counseling and Guidance Standards
• Model Content standards and curriculum
• Workforce readiness policies
• Provisions for ICAP student data to be stored
  electronically
• Professional development planned

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ROLL IT OUT

• By September 30, 2011
• Access Assistance parents and students grades
  9 - 12
• Aligned to district program of instruction
• Widespread participation
• Annual review/comparisons
• Goal revision
• New career/education plans
• Financial aid opportunities
• Coursework plan changes
• Information and advising
• Data available in electronic and print

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EVALUATION

• Consider Evaluating constantly
• Specific policies to ensure access
• Method to evaluate planned
• Determine data points begin collecting and
  analyzing data

College In Colorado Free, Portable Locally
Customizable Default ICAP settings Self-Directed
Guideways 6 12 Electronic Academic
Planning Lifelong Portfolio Professional Support
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RESOURCES and TOOLS www.collegeincolorado.org w
ww.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm CDE
preferred plan template www.cicpartnernetwork.org

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CollegeInColorado.org
Guideways Too!
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RESOURCES and TOOLS www.collegeincolorado.org w
ww.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm CDE
preferred plan template www.cicpartnernetwork.org

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www.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm
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Remember..

• You R.O.C.K!
• R React with
• O Optimism
• C Challenge and
• K - Knowledge

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How to reach us

• Maria Elena River, Minority Outreach Coordinator,
  CiC
• Maria.rivera_at_cic.state.co.us
• Lauren Jones, CTE-Career Guidance Trainer
• lauren.jones_at_cccs.edu