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

6. Blended CTE and Academic Assessments

7. KSBE Motions

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

9. Descriptive Analysis Study

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

16. Kansas State Department of Education
Tom Foster,
Robin Harris,
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