Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD

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• Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
• ACTE Presentation
• Electronic Portfolio
• A Study of Best Practices
• December 6, 2008

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Presenters

• Paul E. Beeler, Executive Director, Career
  Technology Education
• Janet M. Beeler, Coordinator, Guidance and
  Counseling
• Jo Gillen, Counselor, Career Placement Center
• Steveann Smith, CTE Bridges Specialist

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Identified District Need

• Ensure that all high school students have
• 44 High School Post-Secondary Educational Plan
• Self Assessments to Evaluate Career Choices
• Formal/structured opportunities to Explore
  Careers
• Access to Current College Information
• Ability to Produce an Educational Portfolio
• Promote Concept of Life-Long Learning

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Plan of Action

• Use state-of-the-art technology to implement
  Pilot Electronic Portfolio System (EPS) for
  students in grades 8th 12th
• Align Electronic Portfolio System (EPS ) to
  AchieveTexas 16 Career Clusters and 81 Pathways
• Cross-walk C-FB Professional Pathways to
  Achieve/Texas clusters and pathways
• Align all C-FB courses to AchieveTexas clusters
  and pathways
• Provide training for secondary counselors,
  teachers, administrators
• Inform school board, parents community about
  the EPS program
• Create Four-Year Plans for all high school
  students --aligned to a career
  cluster/pathway and career goal

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National Pilot

• C-FB ISD is the first school district in the
  nation to launch an electronic 4 year post-
  secondary education electronic portfolio planning
  system for students in grades
• 8th 12th .

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C-FB ISD Achieve Texas/Career Clusters

• Achieve Texas - State initiative suggested
  pathways program
• 16 Career Clusters group of occupations and
  broad industries that share certain features
• 81 Pathways Course Work within Career Clusters
  (Program of Study)

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C-FB ISD Electronic PortfolioKey Points

• C-FB ISD customized landing page
• Student data is extracted from the Student
  Information System and used to pre-populate
  student portfolios
• Historical course data and student course
  completion grades are added to the student
  portfolios
• Students select courses to build their Four-Year
  High School Plan aligned to a career
  cluster/pathway/goal
• Career and Technology classes and dual credit
  articulated courses are flagged to provide Carl
  Perkins data requirements and reports

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C-FB ISD Counselors Role for Implementing
Student 4 Year Plan

• Understand
• How to use the Bridges Explorer and/or Planner
  component (s) and/or tools for the appropriate
  students and/or parents needs
• The appropriate components and requirements of
  NCLB and Perkins funding
• The alignment of CFB courses to the CFB
  Four-Year Plans and to the 16 Clusters and 81
  pathways of AchieveTexas
• How to use the appropriate Bridges Professional
  Tools and data bases as needed for administrative
  reports

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C-FB ISD Counselors Role for Implementing
Student 4 Year Plan Con.t.

• Ensure that every high school student has
• An on-line electronic portfolio for student,
  parent, teacher, administrator and counselor use
• Completed appropriate Bridges (and other) career
  assessments
• Selected a career cluster and/or pathway and a
  career goal
• Created an electronic four-year plan aligned with
  the students selected cluster/pathway and career
  goal
• 24/7 opportunities to explore careers,
  participate in career activities, and research
  post-secondary school opportunities
• A Personal Graduation Plan attached to their
  portfolioas appropriate

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C-FB ISD Counselors Role for Implementing
Student 4 Year Plan

• Annually re-visit revise each high school
  students Four Year Plan and revise as necessary.

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Student Assessment

• In establishing the 4-year plan and portfolio,
  students are exposed to
• assessments that aid them in the process and help
  to determine a
• pathway.
• Through Choices Planner, these assessments are
  available
• Career Finder - students select careers based on
  questions that help to assess what they are best
  suited for.
• Interest Profiler - questions that help the
  student find a career based on their interest.
  180 questions. It takes approx. 10 - 20 min.
• Work Values Sorter - connect work values w/
  careers. The student ranks 20 values in 5 - 15
  min.
• Basic Skills Survey - find out which basic skills
  are required for certain careers. Students select
  skills in 10 areas in about  10 - 15 mins.
• Cluster Finder - find the career clusters that
  best matches student interests by looking at
  activities they like, personal qualities, and
  school subjects. It takes 15 - 25 min. 

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Student Assessment

• Additional assessments available in Bridges
• Do What You Are - High School Myers Briggs -
  takes 30 - 45 min. and it is an online self-
  discovery assessment. It reveals valuable clues
  about a student's strengths, weaknesses, career
  paths, and college majors.
• Learning Styles - assessment takes 30 min. and it
  is an online learning style inventory.
• Ability Profiler - a multi-aptitude ability
  assessment. There are 6 sections. Timed test.
  Each test may be taken separately.
• Arithmetic reasoning 18 questions - 20 min.
• Computation 40 questions - 6min.
• Vocabulary 9 questions - 8 min.
• Name comparison - 90 questions - 6 min.
• Three- dimensional - 20 questions - 8 min.
• Object matching - 42 questions - 5 min.

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Under Development Pilot PGP Component

• Personal Graduation Plan
• Ability to monitor students PGP electronically
  while maintaining confidentiality
• Preserve historical record of students
  needs/progress
• Provide parent access to information in their
  students EPS folder

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Summary

• Students retain their Bridges Portfolio after
  graduation from C-FBISD which promotes concept of
  life-long learning
• EPS encourages students to investigate explore
  a wide range of educational career
  opportunities 24/7 using on-demand technology
• Students understand the relevancy of pursuing
  math, science and other high level courses needed
  to be successful in attaining future goals
• EPS provides transition from high school to
  post-secondary education, military service, and
  entry into the job market
• And, EPS brings campus administrators, CTE
  academic teachers, counselors and parents
  together to accomplish a common goal to benefit
  ALL students.

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