1. Using the National Career Academy Curriculum Database for Curriculum Development
CTE Conference November 16, 2017
Session I
10:00 – 11:00 am
Sasha Kirkman
Consultant, ASKEducation Consulting

2. ABOUT CCASN High School: Make it fair, Make it real.
CCASN builds capacity of educators and communities to enact research-based strategies for student success now and in college, career, and civic life; collects and disseminates evidence on student outcomes and exemplary practices; and promotes policies to make education fair and real.

3. Who’s in the room? Say that’s me!
When I say:
a teacher or counselor
a site administrator
a regional or state education leader
a staff at a district office
a coach or technical assistance provider
Retired but not
Play another role in education

4. PURPOSE Build familiarity with the CCASN website resources
Introduce the use of the national curriculum database to facilitate curriculum development

5. Agenda
Why a Curriculum Database for this Work and What Does it Contain?
How to Leverage Instructional Resources for Teams
Test Drive the Career Academy Curriculum Database

6. Taking Stock
Discuss with a partner: What are some successful approaches to curriculum development? What are some challenges with curriculum development your team has faced?

7. TEAM SYSTEMS BIG PICTURE: Instructional Resources
Here you will find links to organizations and websites that provide valuable resources, beyond curriculum, for building or strengthening the instructional program of a career academy.  This is not a comprehensive list but rather a few gems. Instructional Resources opens an annotated list of links for working with teams on major areas of career pathway instructional program development.

8. Why a Curriculum Database for this Work and What Does it Contain?

9. Why Leverage a Curriculum Database for This Work?
Turn to a partner:
So discuss why you think a Curriculum Database is helpful?
Time
Integration of industry themes
Vetted
One-stop and customized
Coherence
Alignment
Rigor

10. CONTENTS 1-stop customized resource Standards aligned
Organized by Industry Sector across grade levels
Contains:
Stand-alone lessons and units
Inter-disciplinary and project-based lessons
A-G courses
Includes career exploration resources
Includes classroom materials and resources that support classroom content

11. INTEGRATING NGSS ACADEMICS AND CTE

12. Teams and the Curriculum Database

13. Learning Teaching and Leading Framework: Community of Practice Continuum ConnectEd 2013

14. Review Standards-based Curriculum and Performance Mapping and the Major Steps to Designing Integrated Curriculum

15. WHEN TO USE IT: TABLE TALK
Review Major Steps to Design an Integrated Curriculum Unit.
How, in the process of developing an integrated unit, might team members search a curriculum database for ideas, resources, or model integrated units?
What are the benefits of using a vetted Curriculum Database?
What are the challenges?

16. TEST DRIVE THE CAREER ACADEMY CURRICULUM DATABASE

17. YOUR SEARCH DEPENDS UPON YOU
Integrate the academy theme into an academic core class
Find curriculum ideas & resources for a specific integrated project
Find key resources to anchor a team interdisciplinary project
Find course outlines for pathway programs of study
Resources are grouped by type of resource, with some overlap.
To see the multi-disciplinary projects in your industry sector, click on the +
To find a lesson on a specific topic for a specific subject area, you will need to narrow the search.

18. LETS TAKE A TEST DRIVE Select A Handout:
Work with your team to find curriculum for an interdisciplinary project

21. Special FEATURES
Advanced very specific

22. Q&A

23. THANK YOU https://casn.berkeley.edu http://collegetools.berkeley.edu
Sasha Kirkman
CCASN UC Berkeley
@CCASN_UCB