Fourth Annual National Career Clusters Institute

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Fourth Annual National Career Clusters Institute

• June 12-14, 2006
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort

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Building Integrated Systems Career Clusters
Program Pathways

• Kathleen M. Beauman, Director
• Business Education Partnerships
• Anne Arundel Community College
• Lise M. Foran, Program Manager
• Smaller Learning Communities
• Anne Arundel County Public Schools

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Who We Are
Arnold
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75,000 students 120 schools5,000 teachers
33.2 of high school graduates enroll at AACC
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Arnold Glen Burnie Town Center Arundel
Mills

• During FY 2005, the college served 56,402 credit
  and non-credit students
• 20,920 credit students
• 35,482 non-credit students

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Building Integrated Systems

• Professional Learning Communities
• Shared mission, vision, values, goals
• Collaborative teams
• Collective inquiry into best practice
• Continuous focus on student learning
• Action orientation/experimentation
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Results orientation
  
  
  Dufour, 2000

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Shared Mission, Vision and Goals

• Business and Industry Partners
• Chambers of Commerce (9)
• Anne Arundel County High Tech Council
• Business Advisory Boards
• Business Advisory Committees
• Leadership Anne Arundel
• Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation

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Shared Mission, Vision, Values, Goals

• A Retrospective
• Maryland changing graduation requirements
• Students not prepared for college/workplace
• The Neglected Majority, Dale Parnell
• Changing external environments

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• With so many reform reports coming so fast, it
  would be easy to grow cynical to say These too
  will pass. But such an attitude will result in
  the loss of a tremendous opportunity . . . These
  reform reports provide motivation for taking some
  positive additional and public steps toward
  educational excellence at all levels, steps
  discussed for years and residing in the hopes and
  dreams of those who live their lives in the
  educational trenches of your schools and
  colleges. Now is the time to move toward
  educational quality opportunity with
  excellence.
• -- Dale Parnell, 1985
• An Open Letter to the Leaders of
• American High Schools and Community Colleges

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Collaborative Team

• Development of the Tech Prep Work Team (1991) -
  first Professional Learning Community (PLC)
• Strategically selected participants
• Shared leadership (secondary/postsecondary/busines
  s)
• Shared vision/mission (student learning)
• Focus on learning about one another
• Develop articulated program pathways

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Collaborative Team

• School to Work (1994)
• Integrated into existing Tech Prep Team (Tech
  Prep Local Labor Market Team)
• Addition of Career Connection Facilitators
• Expanded work-based learning opportunities
• Career exploration activities
• Integration of academics/career technology
  education

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Collaborative Team

• Smaller Learning Communities (2000)
• Integrated with the Tech Prep Professional
  Learning Communities
• Worked with five out of 12 high schools
• Five broad career clusters identified
• Briefed AACC department chairs on SLC

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Note Cluster titles in italics indicate that
this federally-defined cluster belongs in more
than one county-defined cluster.


May 30, 2002 AB
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Collective Inquiry Into Best Practices

• Alignment with research-based framework
• Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
• HSTW Site development (10 key practices)
• Professional Development
• Implementation of ninth grade academies
• Teacher Advisory Programs
• Career Clusters/Pathways

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Collective Inquiry Into Best Practices

• College and Career Transition Initiative CCTI
  (2003)
• One of fifteen participating colleges
• Clearly defined outcomes
• Integrated into Tech Prep Local Labor Market Team
  
• Established CCTI Instructional Team
• Developed CCTI Guidance Work Team

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Continuous Focus on Student Learning

• Pulling it all together
• CCTI template (Teacher Education)
• Staffing Strategies (TEACH/advisement)
• Program Expansion
• Parent Information Sessions

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AGENDAOctober 12, 2005
500 P.M. Dinner Dining Hall 545 P.M. CCTI
Presentation Pascal Theater Dr. Andrew L.
Meyer Acting President Kathleen M.
Beauman, Director Business Education
Partnerships Colleen Eisenbeiser,
Director TEACH Institute Lois Burton,
Director Academic Support Center
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Continuous Focus on Student Learning

• Pulling it all together
• Early assessment (PSAT, Kuder, Accuplacer)
• Identify student needs/interests
• Pathway selection
• Transition strategies
• On-site AACC academic advisor
• College expectations
• Concurrent enrollment (Jump Start)
• Program planning

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Action Orientation/Experimentation

• Dissemination Strategies
• Tech Prep and SLC website developed and linked
  with Tech Prep, AACPS, AACC
• AACC department chairs pages linked with Tech
  Prep
• Developed Student/Educator/ Parent Tech Prep
  Presentations
• Parent mailings

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Action Orientation/Experimentation

• Student/Faculty Awareness Activities
• CCTI Focus Fall 2004 AACC Orientation
• Personal registration days
• Professional development for AACPS and AACC
  staff, faculty and administrators
• Campus tours/programs by career cluster

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HCAT COOK-OFF
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Commitment to Continuous Improvement

• Key Indicators
• Tech Prep articulation database
• Annual articulation updates
• Monthly meetings with Tech Prep Local Labor
  Market Team
• Monthly CCTI meetings
• Participation in Chamber education
  committees/involvement of business in
  school-related activities
• Post-event program evaluations

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Commitment to Continuous Improvement

• Key Indicators (continued)
• School-Based Managers monthly meetings
• Quarterly meetings with school administrators
  (SLC principals)
• Data review

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Results Orientation

• CCTI Evaluation/Data Analysis
• Student remediation
• Students requesting articulated credits
• Program pathway enrollments/retention
• Dual completers
• Concurrent enrollment

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Making it Work

• Strategies for Developing Professional Learning
  Communities
• Common vision/mission
• Respect of colleagues/partners
• Understanding of differences
• Understanding different cultures
• Relationship maintenance

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Additional Resources

• Professional Learning Communities
• Solution Tree (NES)
• http//www.solution-tree.com/Public/Main.aspx
• Smaller Learning Communities
• NWREL
• http//www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/index.shtml
• School Reform
• SREB/HSTW http//www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/hstwin
  dex.asp

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Additional Resources

• Maryland State Department of Education
• Career Clusters http//www.marylandpublicschools.o
  rg/NR/rdonlyres/00001017/uphlnweyuvhjinifwllgofgik
  ujzyvod/MarylandCareerClustersBooklet01062004.pdf
• Anne Arundel Community College
• Tech Prep
• http//www.aacc.edu/techprep/default.cfm
• Anne Arundel County Public Schools
• SLC
• http//www.aacps.org/aacps/boe/commu/slc/slchome.
  htm

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Questions?

• For additional information, please contact
• Kathleen M. Beauman
• kmbeauman_at_aacc.edu
• 410/777-2777
• Lise M. Foran
• lforan_at_aacps.org
• 410/674-7710 ext. 277

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Thanks for your time and attentionEnjoy the
conference!