College Bound

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College Bound Career Ready The Kirkwood Model
CCTI Summit - March 2007 New Orleans
David Bunting Executive Director of Secondary
Programs
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Kirkwood Community CollegeCedar Rapids Iowa
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College Career Transition Vision

• High school graduates.better prepared for
  college success (no remediation)
• High school graduates.better informed (to make
  career decisions)

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Converting Vision Into Action

• Integrated into the fabric of the college, not
  one person or single department
• - KQIP - Under Prepared Students
• - KQIP - Strengthening K12 Partnerships
• - Kirkwood Futures Initiative Strategic
  Priority
• Not I or My, but We and Our
• Built on trust and on long-term relationship
  buildinginternal external

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College Career Transition Strategies

• Career Edge Academies
• The Workplace Learning Connection
• Pathway Planners
• Professional Development
• College Readiness Assessment
• Feedback/Data to High Schools

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Career Edge Academy Programs

• Shared 4 2 2 programs between area high
  schools and Kirkwood Community College launched
  in 1999
• Quality academic and career coursework
• Currently 13 programsover 70 program
  sectionsover 1500 students38 high schools
• Three Models
• - School Within A School
• - Central/Shared Sites (hospitals, auto
  dealers, etc.)
• - College Campus Sites
• Academy roots within academic department

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Career Edge Academy Programs

• Advanced Manufacturing Automotive Technology
• Automotive Collision Engineering
• Welding Health Science
• EMT-B Pharmacy Technician
• Ed. Human Services Graphics Media Comm.
• Information Systems Mgmt. Local Area Networking
• Computer Programming Geospatial Tech. start
  2007-08
• Culinary start 2007-08 Biomedical Science
  start 2007-08

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Automotive Collision Academy
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Graphics Media Academy
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Health Science Academy
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Welding Academy
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Career Edge Academy Core Elements

• 4 22 Program Design
• Career Academic coursework
• Career Pathway Planner
• College High School Credit
• Work-Based Learning
• Competency Certificates
• Scholarships
• Multiple options after high school (work,
  2-year and 4-year college
• Professional Development- Teachers

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Career Edge - Marketing

• Brochures
• Website www.kirkwood.edu/careeracademies
• Student/Parent Orientation Sessions
• Newsletter College Bound Career Ready
• Pathway Planner

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Strategy The Workplace Learning Connection
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Work-Based Learning through a Single Point of
Contact
Tours Speakers Job Shadows Internships Teacher
_at_ Work Career Days Career Fairs
Graphics _at_Work Staff Development
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Group Career Day..

• Health Careers Day
• Engineering Careers Day
• Emerging Careers Day
• Legal Careers Day
• Skilled Trades Day
• Graphics Media Comm. Careers Day
• Performing Art Careers Day

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Strategy Pathway Planners
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Career Pathway - Defined

• A Career Pathway is a coherent, articulated,
  sequence of rigorous academic and
  career/technical courses, commencing in the 9th
  grade and leading to an associate degree,
  baccalaureate degree and beyond, an
  industry-recognized certificate and/or licensure.
• Career Pathways Education With A Purpose
  Dan Hull

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Iowa Model

• Iowa Code 8th Graders Required to have 4-Year
  Plan with Career Focus S.F. 245
• Developed by Student, Parent, School
• Reviewed Annually
• Parent Signature
• Includes Model Core Curriculum 4-3-3-3
• Result.Better Informed Better Prepared

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Principles Guiding the Plan

• Customized to each high schools graduation
  requirements for each student
• Encourage early college readiness assessment
• Suggest co-curricular activities, service
  learning, career planning
• Guide work-based learning opportunities
• Spans a range of careers
• Shows multiples options after high school..short
  term certifications, and related 2-year and
  4-year college programs
• Identify career-related college courses
• Result.Better Informed Better Prepared

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Professional Development
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Professional Development Career Academy Faculty

• Faculty often qualified high school
  teachers.meet college requirements
• Center for the Advancement of Career Academy
  Programs
• Training is required before teaching college
  credit courses
• Training delivered by college faculty
• Teachers receive stipend
• Develop cadre of trained teacher achieving
  comparable learning outcomes

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College Readiness Assessment
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College Readiness Web-Based COMPASS

• Pilot in High Schools with Soph. or Juniors
• Software loaded on high school computers
• Collaboration with high school math English
  Faculty - Purpose
• Communication to Parent/Student - Purpose
• Students Assessed
• Results Interpreted
• Scores Correlated with High School Curriculum
• Results guide future course decisions
• Re-Test as Seniors
• Scores used for Kirkwood course placement
• Kirkwood funding COMPASS

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High School Feedback/Data
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High School Feedback/Data

• Math Writing Placement of Graduates Attending
  Kirkwood
• First-Year Student Data Major, Credit Hours,
  GPA
• Five-Year Student Data Currently Enrolled
• - Major, Credit Hours Earned, GPA, Awards
• Five-Year Student Data Ever Attended
• - Major, Credit Hours Earned, GPA, Awards
  
• 5. Data on High School Students Earning College
  Credit
• Career Academy Students
• On-Site Courses
• PSEO Students

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Do They Continue at Kirkwood?

• 30 of Area X high school graduates continue at
  Kirkwood
• 47 of Area X high school graduates attend
  Kirkwood while in high school or within 5 years
  after graduation
• 49.6 of Career Edge Academy students continue at
  Kirkwood
• 80 of Career Edge Academy students at Kirkwood
  continue in a related career program

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Thank You !

• dbuntin_at_kirkwood.edu