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Thompson to Life
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Objectives
Raise awareness about Competency-based Education
and the opportunity of new Graduation
Guidelines Help deepen understanding for what
this work can look like in Thompson Begin to
support planning for how to engage a broader set
of stakeholders
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Stakeholder Engagement
education
business
community
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Graduation Guidelines Competency Based Education
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Graduation guidelines
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Graduation Guidelines

• Focus on competency-based requirements rather
  than seat time
• Provide students with a menu of options to
  demonstrate readiness
• Promote multiple pathways for student learning
• Reinforce the next generation learning student
  outcomes

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Graduation Guidelines

• The Guidelines outline minimum components,
  expectations, and responsibilities for local
  districts to meet or exceed to support student
  graduation from high school. We find it helpful
  to think about them in two categories
• Student Competencies required for Graduation
• Structures to Support Student Competencies

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Student Competencies for Graduation

• Academic competencies to demonstrate
  postsecondary workforce readiness
• Demonstrations of 21st century skills
• Completion of the Individual Career and Academic
  Plan (ICAP)
• Align with the postsecondary and workforce
  readiness definition
• Align with Colorados Academic Standards, English
  Language Proficiency Standards, and Career and
  Technical Education (CTE) standards

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Student Competencies for Graduation

• Multiple, equally rigorous valued ways to
  demonstrate competencies
• Permit students longer or shorter time to earn
  their diploma
• Acknowledge the importance of subjects in
  supporting students' ability to succeed in the
  21st century
• Communication to students and families of the
  graduation requirements

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Competency Based
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Competency Based Education
Students advance upon mastery Explicit and
measurable learning objectives that empower
students ?? Assessment is meaningful and a
positive learning experience for students
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Next Generation Competencies
Academic
Self Knowledge
Professional
Entrepreneurial
Civic
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Thoughts
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Thompsons Story
Melissa Perricone Conrad Ball Middle
School Jessica Urfer Mountain View High School
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next
steps
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Stakeholder Engagement
Meaningful stakeholder engagement can be the
difference between a good idea and successful
implementation OR successful implementation at
one site and scale throughout the district. It
is one of the biggest potential liabilities in
this work and it often gets short shrift.
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1 Identify Key Stakeholders
2 Analyze Plan

• Set key objectives for each stakeholder group
• Prioritize who to engage when
• Discuss how to engage each stakeholder group
• Identify capacity-building needs

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3 Strengthen Engagement Skills

• Strengthen ability to communicate
• Develop internal competencies
• Work on and with stakeholder competencies

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4 Engage

• Identify engagement approaches and calendar
• Be clear how this directly integrates into the
  strategy
• Integrated communications strategy needed (face
  to face, web, forums, publications, and social
  media)

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5 Report, Review Act

• Data questions with all stakeholders
• What is our work?
• What is your feedback?
• How can it improve?
• What are tangible next steps?