1. TNT Session 2 April 2006 Presented by: Southern Oregon ESD
Office of Professional Technical Education

2. Agenda Review and discuss your feedback for sessions
Review and discuss your homework
PEPs and Profiles
CRLES
Collaborative Leadership Activity
Assessing our Sessions

3. Your Feedback
Review results of your comments on your priorities

4. Your Homework: Setting the Stage for Change
Review and discuss Breaking Ranks II Self-Assessment Questionnaire/ 3-5 minute reports:
The most striking thing you learned from completing this assessment
Overall assessment of where you are now versus where you want to be
Your top priority next steps
THIS IS YOUR PEP!!!

5. Personal Education Plans Must:
Describe personal, academic and career interests
Describe personal, educational, and career goals
Identify next steps for HS and beyond
Identify and plan courses and CRLEs
Provide Annual reflection of progress towards goals

6. Meaningful Articulation of PEPs Requires:
Thoughtful design in scope and sequence
Conversations between middle and high school staff, assuring quality articulation of activities
Staff knowledgeable in career development
Communication with students about the relevance of high school

7. Let’s See Some Samples CIS’ My Plan ODE’s sample Grants Pass
David Douglas
Butte Falls
Medford
Klamath Union
Colton
Ashland
Reynolds and more….

8. The Profile Must:
Document student progress toward academic and career goals
Record awards, accomplishments, experiences, and skills
Here are some examples

9. Who Does What?
Student’s responsibility to organize plans and records for review by staff
Staff responsible to facilitate time for quality planning and verify student records and plans

10. Elements of the Ideal PEP & Profile
You tell me

11. Research on PEPs

12. CRLEs Must Be: Connected to student’s personal education plan
Planned for learning
Evaluated by self and adult
Require student reflection

13. How to Integrate CRLEs in Your School
As a required element of elective classes
As an assignment in core or PTE classes
As part of student leadership
Managed through a career center
Student part-time jobs or CWEs can be used
Teacher’s Aide work IS a CRLE
What else might be?

14. How to Implement As a class assignment
As a requirement of all elective classes
Coordinated through a career center
Student self-initiated
As a summer job, internship, or service learning experience
As a job within the school
As a project
As apart of a club or other extracurricular activity, like a class officer
Informational interviews
Simulations, like mock trail, model UN
As Internet-based investigation into a company or industry
A career class can be a CRLE
Students serving as teachers’ aides

15. Who Does What? Student plans, conducts, self-evaluates and reflects
Teachers encourage, facilitate and can evaluate

16. Sample CRLEs and Planner Templates
Butte Falls
Medford
CIS
Colton
N Clackamas
David Douglas
Others

17. Cornerstone Activity

18. Homework
Complete Breaking Ranks Questionnaire and read your chapter assignment

19. Assessing our Sessions
How do you think we should measure our success?

20. Questions? We are available to help you in any way! Please call:
Kathy Ayers: x2101
Martha Murphy:
Susan Roudebush:
See you next month!