Welcome to Futures A Model to Achieve Career Education

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Welcome to Futures- A Model to Achieve Career
Education
Northwestern Lehigh SD www.nwlehighsd.org
Dr. Brad Cressman, Superintendent Dennis Nemes,
High School Principal Leah Christman, Career
Technology Dept. Chair/
Distance
Learning Facilitator
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Agenda/Topics to Be Covered

• Curriculum Process
• Scheduling / Obstacles
• Why Futures was created
• Goals of the course
• Whos involved
• Curriculum
• Technology
• Grading
• Special Projects
• Whats next

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Curriculum is a zero sum game.

• if a school adds something, it must also take
  something else out

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Northwestern Lehigh School District

• Location - 60 miles Northwest of Philadelphia
• 110 square miles
• Rural/Suburban
• Enrollment 2350
• Staff
• 165 Professional
• 350 Total

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Northwestern Lehigh School District
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Step 1 PREPARATIONGOAL To review and gather
data essential to effective curriculum review and
development

• Membership
• Department Chair
• Subject Contact
• Assistant Superintendent

• Outcomes
• Research
• Assessment Data
• Regulations
• Survey
• Student
• Staff
• Community

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STEP 2 PLANNINGGOAL To conduct a broad-based
analysis of specific curricular areas and
formulate recommendations for study

• Membership
• Subject Contacts
• Teachers
• Department Chairs
• Building Administration
• School Board

• Parents
• Students
• Superintendent
• Assistant Superintendent

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STEP 2 PLANNING

• Outcomes
• Review of step 1 information
• Evaluate current curricula
• Identify needs

• Develop recommendations for school board
  consideration

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STEP 3 FOCUSGOAL To develop programmatic
goals, curriculum guides, textbook evaluation
guidelines and in-service recommendations

• Parent
• Assistant Superintendent

• Membership
• Building Administrators
• Subject Contacts
• Department Chair

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STEP 3 - FOCUS

• Outcomes
• Identify philosophy, goals and objectives
• Revise planned course documents
• Recommend textbook and materials

• Identify staff development needs
• Develop implementation plan
• Recommendations to school board

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STEP 4 - IMPLEMENTATION/ EVALUATIONGOAL To
evaluate, adjust and implement revised curriculum

• Membership
• Subject Contacts
• Department Heads
• Building Administrators
• Assistant Superintendent

• Outcomes
• Monitor staff development
• Implement revisions
• Recommendations to
• School Board

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Northwestern Lehigh High SchoolSchool
OrganizationCareer and Technology Department

• Faculty Members
• Ann Bender
• William Berk
• Leah Christman Department Chair
• David Kerschner
• Bryan Klass
• Lynn Oblas
• Janice Pavelco
• Gary Phillips
• Heidi Taylor

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Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Grading Outcomes Restructuring Committee
Student Council Faculty Parents
School Board
Project Portfolio Opt Graduation
Restructuring Course
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Requirements Committee Requirements

• Paradigm Shift
• What students know to what students can do
• Enhanced instructional time
• Technology incorporated for all students
• Increase graduation requirements to courses and
  outcomes
• Shift from electives to increase mathematics and
  science
• Cross curricular integration
• Enhanced performance assessments.
• Creation of teaming
• Measured proficiency in defined outcomes

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Northwestern Lehigh Intensive
Scheduling Parameters The parameters listed
below are the constructs of the intensive
scheduling model developed to incorporate the
paradigms, focus areas, research findings, and
rationale of the strategic planning process. In
the pages which follow are more detailed plans of
the intensive schedule model.

• Mapping of units
• Teaming
• Cross Curricular
• Enhancement of instructional time
• Student performance based
• Scheduling
• Cooperative leaning
• Topic interpretation
• Interdepartmental
• Planning
• Theme enhancement

• Recognized skill demonstration
• Enhanced assessment techniques
• Remediations component
• Enhanced academic diversity (electives)
• Chapter IV requirements
• Specialist access
• Mission/Belief statements
• Embedded technology
• Individualized instruction
• Interdependent schools/business/colleges
• Inclusion model

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  Northwestern Lehigh High School
• Student
  Name _______________

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Northwestern Lehigh Intensive
ScheduleSample Student Schedule
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For Grades 9, 10 and 11 2003-2004(Classes of
2005, 2006 and 2007) Suggested Curriculum Area
Course Sequence
Northwestern Technical Academic

• NINTH GRADE ELEVENTH GRADE
• Applied Communications I Applied
  Communications III
• U.S. History II World Cultures
• Algebra I full year part I/II, Algebra
  I Accounting I
• Conceptual Earth/Space Science Speedwriting or
  Communications/Mass Media
• Elective (Humanities) Web Page Design or
  Elective
• Wellness Applied Chemistry
• Futures I Wellness/Fitness
• Futures II
• TENTH GRADE TWELFTH GRADE
• Applied Communications II Applied
  Communications IV
• Government Economics Applied
• Practical Geometry Accounting I or Accounting
  II
• Applied Biology Speedwriting and/or Business
  Law
• Advanced Computer Applications Electives
• Elective (2) Applied Physics
• Fitness Applied Trig/Algebra
• Project Development

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For Grades 9, 10 and 11 2003-2004(Classes of
2005, 2006 and 2007) Suggested Curriculum Area
Course Sequence
Northwestern Traditional Academic

• Traditional Academic subjects are intended to
  prepare students for further study in two and
  four year colleges. Traditional Academic
  together with required English and social
  studies, students are offered college preparatory
  sciences and mathematics and are encouraged to
  study a modern foreign language. Depending upon
  how many years they study each of these major
  subjects and how they apply themselves, they can
  fulfill the requirements of any college in the
  country.
• NINTH GRADE ELEVENTH GRADE
• English 9 (Academic or Honors) English 11
  (Academic or Honors)
• U.S. History II (Academic) World Cultures
  (Academic or Honors)
• Algebra I, Algebra II or Algebra II
  (Accelerated) Geometry Honors or Geometry,
  Trigonometry
• Quantitative Earth/Space Science or
  Accelerated Trigonometry
• Spanish 1, French 1, German 1 Chemistry
  (Accelerated or Academic)
• Elective Foreign Language
• Wellness Electives (1)
• Futures I Wellness/Fitness
• Futures II
• TENTH GRADE TWELFTH GRADE
• English 10 (Academic or Honors) English 12
  (Academic or AP)
• Government (Academic or Honors) Themes/Critical
  Reading and Writing
• Algebra II (Accelerated) or Algebra II, Macro
  Economics (Academic or AP)
• Geometry or Geometry
  Honors Trigonometry Acc. or Trigonometry, Account
  ing I or Accounting II College Math, or Calculus
  (Acc. or AP) Biology (Academic) Physics (Acc.
  Or Acad.) Foreign Language (Recommended or
  Electives (3)
• Business Elective at
  least 2 years) Project Development

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REMOVE OBSTACLES

• Three Departments becoming One
• Business
• Family and Consumer Science
• Technology
• Budget Funding
• Curriculum
• Supplies
• Textbook/Reference Books
• Technology
• Room Assignment
• Classroom
• Large Conference Areas
• Scheduling
• Approach with can do attitude

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Why?

• PA Academic Standards (new regulations)
• Senior Survey/ Career Pathways /School to Career
  initiatives
• Curriculum mapping /overlap
• FCS / Tech Ed./ Business
• FCCLA/TSA/FBLA- Youth Leadership Organizations
• Research
• SCANS
• HSTW- Key Practices
• Integration / interdisciplinary
• Instructional Strategies

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Goals of the course

• Meet PA Academic Standards
• Do a better job preparing students for
  careers/future
• Infuse technology whenever possible and
  appropriate
• Stress importance of teaming for both staff
  students
• Implement strategies to improve achievement
• Differentiate instruction
• Cooperative learning/ learning styles/ multiple
  intelligences/theme-based learning/integration/aut
  hentic and portfolio assessment
• Flexible grouping- Small, Medium, Large
  rotations
• Schedule must be built around course

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PA Academic Standards

• Family Consumer Sciences
• Financial Resource Management
• Balancing Family, Work and Community
  Responsibilities
• Food Science Nutrition
• Child Development
• Technology Education (Science)
• Tech Education
• Tech Devices
• Science, Tech Human Endeavors
• Career Education and Work

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Career Ed Work Standards

• Career Awareness and Planning
• Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
• Career Retention (Keeping a Job)
• Entrepreneurship

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Career Awareness Planning

• Abilities Aptitudes
• Non-Traditional Workplace Roles
• Community-Based Jobs
• Career Selection
• Preparation for Careers Career Changes
• Career Plan Components
• Career Costs/Benefits

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Career Acquisition

• Interviewing Techniques
• Technical Skills
• Technology in the Workplace
• Workplace Health and Safety Practices
• Career Acquisition Documents
• Career Portfolio
• Manipulative and Motor Skills in the Workplace

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Career Retention

• Work Habits
• Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
• Teamwork
• Budgeting
• Time Management
• Workplace Changes
• Continuing Career Education

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Entrepreneurship

• Pricing Strategies
• Business Plan Development
• Principles of Entrepreneurship
• Problem Solving

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Who is involved?

• Graduation requirement for all 9th grade students
• Teachers from various disciplines
• Family Consumer Sciences
• Technology Education
• Business Education
• Health
• Community members /parents representing career
  clusters

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Curriculum follows PA Standards

• Careers 22 days
• Awareness Planning (Pathways/Clusters)
• Acquisition
• Retention
• Financial Resource Management- 21 days
• Food Science Nutrition, Child Dev. Balancing
  Family Responsibilities- 21 days
• Technology research development- 21 days
• Culminating Project- Entrepreneurship 5 days

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Scheduling

• Provides for
• Typical class size (20-25) activities
• Small community of leaders- teams of 4-6
• Large groups 60-70 students for large group
  activities/ guest speakers
• Flexible configurations- students are placed in
  new teams and classroom assignments every 21
  days- students never travel with the same 20-25
  students

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Technology

• Choices software program- Bridges
• Career Connection / Leaders at Work/ Dynamic
  Leadership- FCCLA
• Computer Labs available / scheduled
• Office Suite software Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  Publisher
• ESHA Food Processor software
• Quicken software budgeting
• Building Homes of Our Own- Homebuilders Assoc.
• Digital cameras, scanners, projection units
• Videoconferencing / Internet- Distance Learning

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Grading

• Authentic
• Best Works examples
• As real as possible
• Interviews Job Portfolio- based on real
  interests aptitudes- Community Members
• Finances based on real life simulation
• Child Dev.- 3rd grade
• Peer evaluation- teamwork rubrics
• Challenge with 3 different teachers and 60 to
  120 students
• Grade Machine software- set up on server in
  special folder
• Teachers must set up in advance
• Record grades as course progresses.

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Special Projects

• Teaming/ communication/leadership Activities
  that Teach, More Activities that Teach,
  Activities that Teach Family Values, Tom Jackson
  Inspire- CD
• Virtual Field Trip- I Want to Work in the Zoo-
  Columbus Zoo
• Guest speakers- Schools, businesses, etc.
• Career Day- Keynote workshops related to career
  cluster
• Teach all 3rd graders the missing FCS PA
  Academic Standards
• Entrepreneurship- Nike Project, GM Car Design
  final project/class competition
• Choices program decision making, teamwork,
  community member taught

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MoreCareer Ed Highlights

• 9 ½ 10 ¼ Career Ed Video Series (available at
  www.schoolco.com)
• Teamwork
• Communication Skills
• Interviews
• Application Forms
• Safety on the Job
• How to Quit a Job
• Labor Laws Gov. Agencies, and more
• Local Newspaper used for jobs/ help wanted
  classified ads
• In-depth comparison of 2 careers
• Matching career goals (cluster/pathway) with High
  School course offerings using our course
  selection book

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Career Ed Activity Highlights

• Choices software-
• Skills and aptitude analysis
• Interest Inventory
• Career exploration by cluster
• Demographics study
• Complete job application forms, cover letters,
  follow-up letters
• Practice, then have an realinterview with a
  local business person
• Secure real letters of recommendation
• Create a job portfolio
• Create Personal Business Cards

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FCS Activity Highlights

• Nutritional Analysis Improve a Recipe
• Create a Childrens Nutritional Cookbook
• Biotechnology- Impact on our Food Supply
• Diet Analysis with Client
• Barbie Action Figures- Body Image (Penn State
  activity)
• Publish a pamphlet for elementary childrens
  parents
• Analysis of childrens literature
• Plan and present standards-based lesson to
  children

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Financial Literacy Highlights

• Earnings- wages /salary calculations
• Withholding calculations
• Financial Literacy Activities
• banking, checking/savings, debit, credit,etc.
• Budgeting with Quicken software
• Working papers child labor laws
• Consumer rights and responsibilities activities
• Internet Computer Product research and analysis

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Technology Activity Highlights

• Web site evaluation
• Search engine analysis
• Activities on how technology has changed our
  lives
• Products with and without computer chips invent
  a new product with a computer chip
• Technology Timeline
• Digital camera use
• Build on MS Office skills from middle school-
  Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher
• Research development- Nike Shoe Design

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Data VERY preliminary

• Pre test Post test Our Scale
• A 0 A 4 93-100
• B 4 B 24 86-92
• C 16 C 52 77-85
• D 16 D 12 70-76
• F 64 F 8 0-69
• Test group 1 section / 25 students- Pre- Post
  assessment tied to PA Standards. A major goal for
  next year is to focus on achievement results for
  improvement using Classroom Performance System
  next yearhttp//www.einstruction.com/

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Whats next?

• Futures II- graduation requirement for 11th
• More ..
• Career Pathways continued time to get serious
• Partnering with Lehigh University- IPD program
  (Integrated Product Development)
• Higher-order (soft) skills
• Partnering with local business
• Technical Entrepreneurship with real-world
  problem / project based learning
• Standards based
• Technology
• Culminating Graduation Project

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Resources / Links

• www.pa.state.us PA Academic Standards
• www.nwlehighsd.org Futures curriculum (FCS)
• www.bridges.comv Choices software
• www.FCCLAinc.org- Career, leadership resources
• www.jumpstartcolition.org- Financial resources
• www.nytimes/lessons.com Archives of technology
  lessons
• www.nikeid.nike.com Design athletic shoes
• www.chrysler.com/design/vehicle_design/process
  Design cars
• www.homebuilders.org Home design software
• www.howstuffworks.com Great resource to
  understand technology
• www.choicesedgroup.org Choices Program (Not
  career software)

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QA

• Any Questions???
• www.nwlehighsd.org click on High School Distance
  Learning Power Point Presentations- Futures
• E-mail christmanL_at_nwlehighsd.org