1. Career and Technical Education State Standards

2. Wisconsin’s Approach to Academic Standards Provides a vision for student success and guiding principles for teaching and learning. Improves Career and Technical Education for students and for communities. Assists Wisconsin educators and stakeholders in understanding and implementing the CTE content standards.

3. Overview of Process The dynamic world of the revised CTE Standards…

4. The Shift Model Academic Standards to Wisconsin Standards for CTE

6. Purpose of the Document Program leaders will find the guide valuable for making decisions about: program structure and integration; curriculum redesign; staffing and staff development; scheduling and student grouping; facility organization; learning spaces and materials development; resource allocation and accountability; and collaborative work with other units of the school, district, and community.

7. Wisconsin’s Guiding Principles for Teaching & Learning 1.Every student has the right to learn 2.Instruction must be rigorous and relevant 3.Purposeful assessment drives instruction and affects learning 4.Learning is a collaborative responsibility 5.Students bring strengths and experiences to learning 6.Responsive environments engage learners

8. Aligning for Student Success

9. WI Vision for RtI Wisconsin’s Vision for RI

10. What is Contemporary CTE? National Vision of CTE CTE in Wisconsin Quality Components of CTE in Wisconsin

11. National Vision of CTE Career and Technical Education is: critical to ensuring that the United States leads in global competitiveness; actively partnering with employers to design and provide high- quality, dynamic programs; preparing students to succeed in further education and careers; delivered through comprehensive programs of study aligned to The National Career Clusters framework; and a results-driven system that demonstrates a positive return on investment.

12. Wisconsin Vision of CTE CTE is both a collection of educational programs or content areas as well as a system of preparing students to be career and college ready. Contemporary CTE programs are delivered primarily through six specific content areas.six specific content areas.

13. Wisconsin’s Approach to CTE What is Contemporary CTE? –Quality Components of CTE –Delivering CTE through Career Clusters & Pathways –CTE Advocacy Resources Importance of CTE Work-Based Learning CTSO

14. Quality Components of CTE

15. Quality Components of CTE: Academic & Technical Skills College and Career Readiness

16. Quality Components of CTE: Work-Based Learning College and Career Readiness

17. Work-Based Learning Brochure

18. Quality Components of CTE: CTSOs CTSOs College and Career Readiness

19. Quality Components of CTE Activity With a partner, identify how a specific CTE course or department reinforces: –Academic & Technical Skills –Work-Based Learning –Leadership & 21 st Century Skills

21. The Powerful Outcomes of CTE 2/3 of Wisconsin Students take 1 or more CTE course Higher Graduation Rates CTE prepares College & Career-Ready *Statistics from 2011 Wisconsin Career and Technical Education Enrollment Report (CTEERS) data.

22. Wisconsin’s Approach to CTE Delivering CTE through Career Clusters & Pathways –Career Clusters Framework –Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) –Career Ready Practices (CRP) –Wisconsin Common Career Technical Standards (WCCTS) –Wisconsin Standards for CTE

23. Career Clusters Framework Links school-based learning with knowledge and skills in workplace. Developed by NASDCTEc 16 Career Clusters & 79 Career Pathways http://cte.dpi.wi.gov/cte_implementcc

24. Career Clusters 10 Components Framework

25. PK-16 Learning Continuum

26. Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) The Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) is a state-led initiative to establish a set of rigorous, high-quality standards for Career Technical Education (CTE) that states can adopt voluntarily. The standards have been informed by state and industry standards and developed by a diverse group of teachers, business and industry experts, administrators and researchers. The CCTC includes a set of standards for each of the 16 Career Clusters™ and their corresponding Career Pathways that define what students should know and be able to do after completing instruction in a program of study.

27. PK-16 Learning Continuum

28. Career Ready PracticesCareer Ready Practices (CRP) The Career Ready Practices (CRP) component of the CCTC provides a framework for the developmental experiences necessary to becoming career ready; experiences that can be “practiced” using many different approaches in a variety of settings. A student refines these practices throughout their full continuum of learning: through their journey in school, college, the workforce and when they return to advance their education.

29. PK-16 Learning Continuum

30. CTE Advocacy Resources: Importance of CTE in Wisconsin

31. CTE Advocacy Resources: Work-Based Learning

32. CTE Advocacy Resources: Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs)

33. PK-16 Learning Continuum

34. Wisconsin Standards for CTE Wisconsin Common Career Technical Standards Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Business & Information Technology Marketing, Management & Entrepreneurship Technology & Engineering Family & Consumer Sciences Health Science

35. Wisconsin’s Common Career Technical Standards (WCCTS) Development began with variety of national standards and related documents –Partnership for 21 st Century Skills (P21) –States' Career Cluster Initiative Essential Knowledge and Skill Statements – Career Readiness Partner Council Elements of Career Readiness –NASDCTEc Common Career Technical Core –Others

36. Common Career Technical Standards (WCCTS) Set of six standards that transcend CTE state-wide and across all CTE content areas Provide a strong foundation for students to complete a POS Vetted by workgroups from all CTE content areas and various other stakeholder groups

37. Wisconsin Common Career Technical Standards (WCCTS) Career Development Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration Environment, Health and Safety Global and Cultural Awareness Information, Media and Technology Leadership

38. Wisconsin Common Career Technical Standards (WCCTS)

39. Career Development Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration Environment, Health and Safety Global and Cultural Awareness Information, Media and Technology Leadership

40. Standards Formatting

41. Wisconsin Standards for YOUR Content Section IV

42. Connecting CTE and CCSS A Vision for Every Child A Graduate Guided by Principles Ensuring a Process for Student Success Connecting to Content: The CCSS

43. Connecting CTE and CCSS College and Career Ready Students WCCTS + CTE [Insert Content] Other Content Standards Literacy in All Subjects Standards Standards for Mathematical Practice

44. Career-Ready Person How do you define “career-ready?” Career Readiness Partner Council http://www.careerreadynow.org/http://www.careerreadynow.org/

45. Career-Ready Person A career-ready person effectively navigates pathways that connect education and employment to achieve a fulfilling, financially-secure and successful career. A career is more than just a job. Career readiness has no defined endpoint. To be career ready in our ever- changing global economy requires adaptability and a commitment to lifelong learning, along with mastery of key knowledge, skills and dispositions that vary from one career to another and change over time as a person progresses along a developmental continuum. Knowledge, skills and dispositions that are inter-dependent and mutually reinforcing. Career Readiness Partner Council http://www.careerreadynow.org/http://www.careerreadynow.org/

46. Classroom Connection CTE & CCSS Be part of a CTE community Be part of a bigger conversation Know who’s teaching what WCCTS + [CTE Content Area Standards] WCCTS + [CTE Content Area Standards]

47. Classroom Connection CTE & CCSS Literacy in All Subjects Standards

48. Classroom Connection CTE & CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice

49. Classroom Connection CTE & CCSS Other Content Standards

50. CTE Equivalency Credit Agriculture Science Equivalency - resources for applying for agriculture science equivalency credit Agriculture Science Equivalency Family and Consumer Sciences Science Equivalency - resources for applying for family and consumer sciences science equivalency credit Family and Consumer Sciences Science Equivalency Technology and Engineering Science Equivalency - resources for applying for technology and engineering science equivalency credit Technology and Engineering Science Equivalency Technology and Engineering Mathematics Equivalency - resources for applying for technology and engineering math equivalency credit Technology and Engineering Mathematics Equivalency Business & Information Technology Equivalency Options - resources for applying for English/language arts and social studiesBusiness & Information Technology Equivalency Options

51. CTE & CCSS Process of Alignment CTE + Other Content Standards Literacy in All Subjects Standards Standards for Mathematical Practice College and Career Ready Students B&IT Primary Source: BC5 Secondary Source: AF2 Anchor Standard Reading 2; Writing 2; Writing 4 Mathematic al Practices, 2, 3, 5, and 6 A performance task: complex, real-world challenge that is an authentic demonstration of K&S

52. Alignment of CTE & CCSS Elements of a Performance Task Performance Task Connection of ALL standards Value of Alignment

53. Let’s Take a Closer Look… Insert your content area standards work here…

54. Discipline, Content Area, Standards, Learning Priority, and Performance Indicators