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Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Updates Connections Utilizations
Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP)
UpdatesConnectionsUtilizations
Real Partnerships:Common purpose united and expanded our
partnerships!
PWR and Dropout Prevention in Colorado’s Reform Agenda
Innovation & Choice
High Expectations
Educator Effectiveness
Accountability &
Improvement
Priority Graduation Districts (HB 09-1243)•Student Graduation and Completion Plan•Practices Assessment
The Education Accountability Act (SB 09-163)•Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Indicators in School and District Performance Framework (Graduation Rates and Dropout Rates)•Priority Improvement and Turnaround plans
Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAP) SB 09-256 Assist students in developing a personalized plan that ensures readiness for post- secondary and workforce success
Concurrent Enrollment Act (HB 1319/SB 285)•ASCENT & Extended Studies
Endorsed Diplomas and High School Graduation Guidelines (HB 07-1118 / SB 08-212)•Criteria for indicating a student’s level of post- secondary and workforce readiness upon graduation
Postsecondary & Workforce Ready
Learning & Behavior Skills
Content Knowledge
Social Studies & Social Sciences
• Social, cultural, historical concepts• Interpret sources, evaluate evidence, build conceptual frameworks• Civic responsibility & political process• Interpret from a global perspective
Arts & Humanities• Shaping of culture• Instruments of social & political thought• Awareness of innovators
Science• Scientific method• Draw conclusions• Core concepts of disciplines• Scientific concepts can be challenged
Literacy• Read with understanding & write coherently• Employ English properly & fluently• Use logic & rhetoric• Access primary & secondary sources
Find and Use Information &
IT
Creativity & Innovation
Collaboration
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Civic Responsibility
Communication
Personal Responsibility
Global & Cultural
Awareness
Work Ethic
Mathematical Sciences• Be quantitatively literate• Algebraic & geometric principles• Problem solving• Data & statistics
Individual Career and Academic PlansThe intent of the Individual Career and Academic Plans is to:
1. Decrease the dropout rates and increase graduation rates by assisting students in developing and maintaining a personalized postsecondary plan;
2. Assist parents and students in exploring the postsecondary career and educational opportunities available to the student; and
3. Align course work and curriculum to the students’ postsecondary goals.
The ICAP journey…
Next Steps: • CDE in partnership with CDHE and the Community College System will coordinate
resources to create ICAP best practices;• CDE will convene stakeholder workgroups to:• Explore valid and reliable methods to examine ICAP effectiveness;• Discuss methods for ICAPs and American School Counselor (ASCA) standards
alignment; and• Examine ways to strengthen the ICAP connection to the postsecondary and
workforce readiness attributes (SB 08-212).• Develop standard definitions for recording and reporting ICAP elements.• Common metrics and standardized approach to ICAP implementation• Works to inform a common template
Statewide, CustomizableICAP Resource and Tool
College In Colorado:
• ICAP Tools for students,
counselors, administrators• Free• Comprehensive• Customizable• Portable
• Regional Outreach/Training
For students, parents and staff:
Fully customizable ICAP page and milestones
•Titles
•Sections
•Activities
•Field Groups
•Student Documents
•Advising Documents
•Direct Navigation
•Print/E-Mail/PDF
•Electronic, portable
For students and parents:
ICAP Activities One-Stop-Shop:
• Goals• Interest/skills
assessments• Career exploration• Coursework plan• Postsecondary• Financial aid• Work preparation
Middle & High School - PS too!
Aligns to Colorado’s Career Cluster Model
Lifelong Portfolio
For counselors and teachers:
Reports, Plans, Tools, Resources
• View individual portfolios
• Reports and Milestone Tracking
• Curriculum & Lesson Plans
• ASCA correlations – Site– Lesson Plans – Curriculum
• Communicate and Calendar
• Free Training, Webinars, online tutorials
For counselors and teachers:
Curriculum & Lesson PlansIncluding ASCA correlations for:
• Site• Lesson Plans • Curriculum
For the leadership team:
Reports and Planning• Report Central• ICAP Design Seminars
For pre-collegiate & concurrent enrollment partners:
View and assist students with their ICAP
•Student invitation to view portfolio
How can we help? FREE Training Opportunities for your ICAP, no matter where
you are in the process• Contact Linda Fraser - [email protected]
Training and Outreach will work as a team to get you what you need!
Re-Cap ICAP =
Comprehensive Guidance!
(producing PWR students!)
What is it all really?The ICAP, or Career & Academic Plan of
Study is a process that students participate in, which results in an actual plan.
Process:Developmentally
appropriate recommended activities
Plan:1.Student’s career cluster or pathway goal2.Relevancy of student’s goal to post secondary institution / workforce or other future option3.Student’s intentional courses sequence & relevant experience
Utilizing: CTE, core curriculums, existing & available resources (CDE, CDHE & CCCS), career & academic planning tools & assessments and “the village”.
Cultivate a culture of Career & Academic Success (P-20)
6th -9th
For some = ECE-5th
Postsecondary &
W
orkforce Opportunities
Together We:
MS HSPostse
condary
Stages
Career
Develo
pmen
t Journ
ey
Seamless Transitions: LearningEarningLiving
Real PurposeVision: Colorado CTE delivers intentional
pathways & planning for lifelong career success!
Mission: CTE ensures a thriving Colorado economy by providing relevant and rigorous education that is connected, responsive and real.
INDUSTRY
CLUSTER
PATHWAYS
PLAN OF STUDY
PWR Standards!
Missing CTSO
Business & Public Administration
Skilled Trades & Technical Sciences
Health Sciences & Public Safety
Hospitality, Human Services & Education
STEM, Arts, Design & Information Technology
Agricultural & Natural Resources
Laurie Urich
Michael Womochil Jennifer Ji
rous
Cindy LeCoq
Ben Nesbitt
Katy Blatnick-Gagne
Missing CTSO
Busines, Marketing & Public Administration
Skilled Trades & Technical Sciences
Health Sciences & Public Safety
Hospitality, Human Services & Education
STEM, Arts, Design & Information Technology
Agricultural & Natural Resources
& Technical Student Organizations (CTSO’s)
Who else is doing this?
How do we take this back?• Conduct an Inventory of what you are already
doing, offering and needing.
• Consider the Individuals, the Community Members, the existing tools that can be utilized
• (e.g. CTE, CiC, EPAS and more!)
• Remember the process, scope and sequence, the milestones, alignment to PWR,
• the BIG picture = Comprehensive Guidance!
• Don’t loose hope, let go of the cause or falter under ‘negative ninnies’!
Website Resources!CDE: www.cde.state.co.us/secondaryinitiatives
CTE: www.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm
CIC: www.CollegeInColorado.org procenter.CollegeInColorado.org
CIC Partner Site: www.CICPartnerNetwork.org
College Application Month: www.CICCollegeAppMonth.org
Q & A
How to contact us:Charles Dukes, Senior Consultant CDE:
Julia Pirnack, Director of Web Development, CIC:[email protected]
Shelby Burnette, Director of Outreach, CIC:[email protected]
Lauren Jones, CCCS/CTE-Career Guidance Trainer: [email protected]
Considerations:• Do I know who to call on to assist in our ICAP process?• How aware am I, currently, in the various tools and resources that my
school has access to that support Career and Academic Planning?• Am I aware of the connections ICAP has with our other statewide
initiatives?• From what I already know, how does ICAP and PWR connect to my
districts’ / buildings’ strategic plan? • From what I know now, in what way(s) can we strategically
implement ICAP to support our own data collection goals and more?• Considering our current education budget crisis, how can our ICAP
and PWR process be as innovative, creative, sustainable and resourceful as possible?
