1. Guided Pathways March 9, 2018 Naomi Castro Director Michelle Simotas
English Faculty, City College of San Francisco
Aaron McVean
Vice President of Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness, San Mateo County Community College District

2. Welcome! Overview Design and process for collegewide inquiry
Hartnell’s inquiry needs
What are meta-majors?
What design principles might drive Hartnell’s version meta-majors?
Naomi

3. Guided Pathways
What do you know?
What do you wonder?
Naomi

4. Cross-Functional Inquiry
Clarifying the Structure and Process for Communication and Decision Making
How does a bill become a law?
How will the college be able to provide input and feedback?
What is the process for communicating progress and decisions?
Who has the final say?
Aaron

5. Mustafa
The outcome is a more intentional design team membership with broader campus engagement.
It represents all the different sides of the campus 
This is still evolving.  

6. SMC Design Team Structure
Aaron

7. Examples of the Inquiry Process
How many meta-majors will the college have, and what departments will be included where?
How to move from exploration to decision?
What process to use?
Who to include in the process?
How long could it possibly take? How long should it?
What are the High Impact Practices (HIPs) that will be included as part of the experience for students in their guided pathway?
Aaron

8. Inquiry Mixer! A window into inquiry and design: IDEO Start by...
Taking inventory of who is at the table
Assigning Shared Facilitation roles
Using the question on your table...
Dive deeper into inquiry
Michelle

9. Moving from inquiry to design
Reflect then share out…
Discuss the process for inquiry, ideation, design, and prototyping for inquiry groups at Hartnell
How long? Process to move from inquiry to design and implementation
Michelle

10. 10 min Break
When you return sit at a table with people you have not yet worked with today
MKB

11. Guided Pathways Design: Meta Majors
MKB
Guided Pathways Design: Meta Majors

12. Guided Pathways Design Cycle
GP Design: Meta Majors
Meta majors support students, particularly those under supported in education, by asking those with expertise in the field to gather degrees and certificates in to groupings which support student decision making.
IMPLEMENTATION
INQUIRY
Guided Pathways Design Cycle
Students who do not have a specific major in mind are required to choose an “exploratory major” or “meta-major” in a broad field of interest (such as business, allied health, education and social services, STEM, social and behavioral science, and English, arts and humanities), with a default curriculum that gives them a taste of the given field. Students are required to choose a specific major in the larger field of interest within a prescribed number of terms, or switch to another field.
DESIGN

13. Design Case Study: Mt. San Antonio
Faculty and staff teams reviewed existing degrees and certificates.
Then, sorted them into career clusters
After, Faculty and staff looked at the outcome and process, decided a voice was missing!
60 groups of students (cross-section of the college’s students) completed the sort
Students had fun and questions!
Students helped clarify the clusters
AND name them!
Mt. SAC’s GP team has just added AEBG!
Michelle

14. CA Guided Pathway Case Studies: Skyline College
164 Degrees and Certificates
Fall 2016 Test Drive Process
Spring 2017
Over two day period in January, 10 college-wide, cross-functional teams sorted the degrees and certificates
The Most Common Clusters
Health Science & Wellness
Business, Entrepreneurship, & Professional Services
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics)
Social/Behavioral Sciences & Public Service
Arts, Humanities, & Communication
Michelle

15. Sierra College DRAFT Interest Areas
Michelle

16. MS

17. Mesa Community College, Arizona Career PathwaysMS

18. MS

19. MS

20. Guided Pathways Design: Guiding Principles
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Guided Pathways Design: Guiding Principles

21. Skyline Design Principles
Agreed upon set of guiding principles that others can use to inform their work.
Reflect the colleges mission, vision, and values.
Useful for addressing points of contention or uncertainty.

22. Design Principles Meta-Major Design Principles
Focus on Student Perspective/Perception
Ease of identifying where a student’s interest leads them
Don’t bury programs in overly broad categories
Make it easy to understand the clustering of disciplines
Efficiency for Students
Shared/overlapping pre-requisites
Overlapping degree requirements
Reduce excess units
Commonality of community contribution and intellectual pursuit
Common career goal
Common transfer goal
Stackable certificates stay together
Opportunity to develop shared courses

23. Design Principles Meta-Major Design Principles Shared Ways of Knowing
Shared core content
Shared methodology
Example: Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Scientific Method, Artistic Expression
Inclusion and Equity
Promote diversity and equity in house
CTE programs integrated with transfer programs
Keep an open mind
Think outside the box
Freedom from traditional ways of organizing disciplines

24. Identifying Design Principles for Guided Pathways Hartnell-style

25. Hartnell’s Design Principles Brainstorm Activity
Goal: Begin to identify the design principles for Hartnell’s meta-majors
Instructions: Identify shared values that will form the foundation for your meta- major design

26. Experiencing Meta-major Organization
Goal: Experience sorting Hartnell’s degrees and certificates
Using the the cards on your table, sort Hartnell’s degrees and certificates into clusters/interest areas/meta-majors
Rules:
You can choose how many interest areas as you go
Don’t worry about naming your interest areas
Naomi

27. Where do you go from here?
Naomi

28. FOR MORE INFORMATION CareerLaddersProject.org Naomi Castro
Michelle Samotas
Aaron McVean
CareerLaddersProject.org