1. Career Readiness Indicator
Implementation and Accountability Training
For Instructional Coaches
February 14, 2018
Brian
Paul Cindric

2. CEW Standards: A Closer Look
Career Readiness Memories
Think of one career-readiness activity that happens in a/the school in which you work.
Or your district
Or completed by yourself, your child
On the blue index card write a “title” for the activity
With a neighbor(s) briefly discuss and describe the activity. Include all the details you can remember including:
how long it took/takes to complete/the duration
what it involved/required by students to be done
what class or course it was/is completed in?
how it was/is graded or evaluated
what follow-up occurs/occurred after/later for it?

3. Background and History
Career Education and Work Standards:
22 Pa. Code § requires all school entities to have a written plan for the development and implementation of a comprehensive, sequential program of guidance services for kindergarten through 12th grade. The plan must be designed to promote equal opportunity and address the guidance service areas outlined in 22 Pa. Code § , including guidance services provided to AVTSs and implementation of CEW standards. The local board of school directors must approve the plan, and upon request make it available upon to the Secretary of Education.
Brian

4. Background and History
In 2006, the Pennsylvania State Board of Education promulgated regulations (22 Pa. Code Chapter 4) establishing the state Academic Standards for Career Education and Work (CEW Standards). These standards describe what students should know and be able to do at four grade levels (3, 5, 8 and 11) in four areas:
• Career Awareness and Preparation (Section 13.1);
• Career Acquisition (Getting a Job) (Section 13.2);
• Career Retention and Advancement (Section 13.3); and
• Entrepreneurship (Section 13.4).
Brian

5. CEW Standards: A Closer Look
Turn to page 2 in CEW Academic Standards from PDE
Identify the 4 CEW Strands
Notice the standards under each strand by letter
Pages 4-11 by grade span column
Glossary of CEW terms pages 13-18

6. CEW Standards: A Closer Look
Using the Academic Standards for Career Education and Work (CEW) packet, find the strand, grade level, and standard(s) that you believe most closely matches the activity you wrote about and write those three underneath the title on your blue index card.
Questions:
-Did you have difficulty matching your activity to the CEW standards? If so, why?
-Does your activity fully encompass the description of the standard as you read it?
-What did you notice about the CEW standards as you read them?

7. Place the post-it note on the CEW Career Strand in which you believe it is aligned.
Which strand(s) are most represented?

8. Background and History
ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)
Federal Accountability Indicators:
Percent Proficient and Advanced on PSSA/Keystone Exam
Meeting Annual Growth Expectations (PVAAS)
English Language Proficiency
Graduation Rate
Career Standards Benchmark
Chronic Absenteeism
Federal Requirements
Brian
PA Selected Indicators (Climate Change)

9. Reporting for Accountability
Federal Accountability – Selected indicators from Future Ready PA Index
State Accountability – Future Ready PA Index
Educator Evaluation – TBD (formerly known as SPP)
The first Future Ready PA Index will be released in the Fall of The Career Standards Benchmark/Indicators will be one of the components in the Future Ready PA Index

10. Background and History
The Future Ready PA Index: (A Dashboard Interface)
A more holistic tool for communities to measure school success
Less reliant on point-in-time standardized test scores
Comprehensive measures that values school’s efforts to help all students learn, grow, and succeed in the classroom and beyond
Federal Accountability – Select indicators from the Future Ready PA Index used to identify CSI and TSI schools as required by ESSA
Educator Evaluation – Building level score as required by Act 82 using current formulas and weightings identified in regulations; not part of Future Ready PA Index
Brian

11. The Career Readiness Indicators
CEW Standards: A Closer Look
The Career Readiness Indicators
○Were designed to ensure that all students have access to career exploration and preparation activities that are standards-aligned and evidence-based.
○Based on the percent of students who demonstrate meaningful engagement in career exploration and preparation and implementation of individualized career plans through separate, specific measures based on grade level benchmarks aligned to the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards (CEW)

12. Career Education and Work Standards
CEW Standards: A Closer Look
Career Education and Work Standards
●The CEW Standards were made mandatory for integration into the general curriculum in 2006 by the PA State Board of Education.
●Many schools and districts have been implementing the CEW standards for years and PDE would like to give them credit for doing this via the Career Readiness Indicators.
●The CRI are an opportunity to validate schools that have been addressing CEW standards and to build enthusiasm for career readiness. The indicators are not meant to “threaten” schools into compliance. ●Reporting CRI is an opportunity to be recognized for the good work that is in some cases already being done in schools

13. Data Reporting and Monitoring
Grade 5 Benchmark: must be met to indicate if each individual student has met the indicator outcomes.
●Six (6) total pieces of evidence are needed.
●Two of the six must be completed by the conclusion of grade 3. ●Two of the six must be completed in grade 4.
●Two of the six must be completed in grade 5.
●Each of the four Career Strands must be addressed at least once in the six total pieces of evidence.
Brian

14. Data Reporting and Monitoring
Grade 8 Benchmark: must be met to indicate if each individual student has met the indicator outcomes.
●Six pieces of evidence, in addition to the K-5 evidence, must be completed by the conclusion of grade 8.
●One of those six must be the student’s individualized career plan
●Each of the four Career Strands must be addressed at least once in the six total pieces of evidence.
Brian

15. Data Reporting and Monitoring
Grade 11 Benchmark: must be met to indicate if each individual student has met the indicator outcomes.
● Eight pieces of evidence, in addition to the K-5 and 6-8 evidence, must be completed by the conclusion of grade 11. (Twenty total pieces for regularly enrolled students.)
● At least two in grades 9, 10, and 11—minimum requirement, still won’t meet benchmark because students need a total of eight.
● Each of the four Career Strands must be addressed at least once in the eight total pieces of evidence.
At least two pieces of evidence for the 9-11 grade band must demonstrate implementation of the student’s individualized career plan.

16. Successful Completion of CEW
Evidence
Successful Completion of CEW
Participation alone does not demonstrate sufficient evidence of successful completion
Evidence must suggest each student has engaged in meaningful, standards-aligned activities, experiences, or tasks that enhance career awareness, preparation, readiness, and entrepreneurship
Not all students must have the same pieces of evidence; instead the evidence should be individualized to each student
Mike

17. Evidence (Yellow Handout)
Checklist: Is this CEW activity, task, or experience…
Aligned to CEW Standards
Evidence-based?
Requiring meaningful engagement by the student?
Connected to a student’s interest, skills, goals?
Aligned to the needs of our community or region?
One for which all students have access?
Part of a student’s individualized career plan? (by grade 8)
Demonstrate the implementation of the student’s individualize career plan? (grade 11)
Mike

18. Data Reporting and Monitoring
-Retrieve the post-it note from where you placed it on the CEW Career Strand
-Using the yellow “evidence” sheet handout, determine what evidence can/is used to document this activity

19. Data Reporting and Monitoring
Not all students must have the same pieces of evidence.
Individualized to student interests and learning styles, transition plans for students in special education programs, and activities for English learners, students in CTE programs, and students in online or alternative education placements.
Accuracy Certification Statement verifies the accuracy of the data, the successful completion of student evidence, and the quality of the program.
Statewide assessment monitoring verifies the data reported and/or graded student artifacts.
Performance is factored into the calculations for Comprehensive or Targeted Support. May be subject to additional auditing for identified schools.

20. Data Reporting and Monitoring
Discussion:
What is in your district’s Comprehensive K-12 Guidance Plan already? (aka 339 Plan)
What questions do you have regarding reporting and monitoring?
How will you collect, track and organize evidence?
What tools are you currently using?
Brian

21. Resources: Reverse Side of Yellow Handout
Appendix A in Guidelines for Evidence Collection, Monitoring, and Reporting
Mike

22. Recommendations - Partner
Local workforce development board
Chamber of Commerce
Business education organization
Career and Technical Center
Business and industry
Postsecondary institutions
Other community partners
Advisory council
Intermediate unit
Connie

23. Workplace and Postsecondary Experiences
Recommendations - Assess
Workplace and Postsecondary Experiences
Apprenticeships
Job Shadowing
Career Mentorship
Competitions
Informational Interviews
Paid Internships
Non-paid Internships
Practicum
Classroom Speakers
Visiting Professors
Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
Service Learning
On-campus Learning Experiences
Student-led Enterprises
Simulated Workplace Experience
Paid Work Experience
Non-paid Work Experience
Volunteering
Mock Interviews
Workplace Tours/Field Trips
Visits to Two-Year and Four-Year Postsecondary Institutions
Mike

24. Recommendations - Assess
Chapter 339 K-12 Guidance Plans:
Getting Started, Resources, & Examples
Add Quality Rubric or Checklist
Mike

25. Recommendations - Assess
PA CEW curriculum alignment tools:
PA CEW Standards
Gap Analysis - Grade K-3
Gap Analysis - Grade 4-5
Gap Analysis - Grade 6-8
Gap Analysis - Grade 9-12
Mike

26. Resources CEW 101 Resources: CEW 101, Activities K-3
and Google doc links:
CEW 101 Resources:
CEW 101, Activities K-3
CEW 101, Activities, 6-8
CEW 101, Activities 9-12
Mike

27. Resources Grades K-3 Grades 4-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12
“I” Statements for Curriculum Integration and Portfolio Development
Grades K-3
Grades 4-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12
Mike

28. Resources - www.pacareerzone.org
Mike

29. Rationale - Success in the New Economy
Watch the video Success in the New Economy (OFFICIAL) via YouTube
Record:
Three things you learned
Two things you found interesting
One question you still have
Share out
Dan

30. Rationale - Discussion
What mind-shifts are required in order for students to be successful in the current economy?
What are the implications for schools?
Dan