CTE and College and Career Ready Standards: Preparing Students for further education and careers.

Blended CTE and Academic Assessments

KSBE Motions

Career Clusters Essential Knowledge & Skills 21st Century Skills Career Clusters Essential Knowledge & Skills Common Core State Standards

Descriptive Analysis Study

Goal: Provide students authentic educational experiences by integrating CTE & academic standards & assessments within a framework of 21st century skills

Objectives: 1. Creating pathway assessments that an industry-recognized & aligned with CCSS

Objectives: 2. Administering blended student assessments at the summative level to meet requirements for ESEA state accountability, and industry-recognized credentials; Other assessment components include: performance events, portfolios, project-based scoring rubrics, or work-based experiences

Objectives: 3. Providing each student with a performance level judgment & certification in tested content areas and Career Cluster pathways

Objectives: 4. Using 21st Century Learner Profiles to connect higher order constructs between content areas & the Career Clusters

Objectives: 5. Articulating standards, benchmarks, indicators/competencies vertically across grades, & horizontally through the Career Clusters

Kansas State Department of Education Tom Foster, tfoster@ksde.org Robin Harris, rharris@ksde.org WestED document found at: http://www.ksde.org