7. #nafnext
Rolling Forward
Certified & Model Academies:
1. Complete Data Center by October 15, 2013. You will either:
a. acknowledge current score is accurate and request rolling
forward
b. opt to take the Academy Assessment
2. Fill out the Action Plan available in Academy Support Hub.
3. If accepted to Roll Forward, academies will be locked out of Academy
Assessment.
If not accepted to Roll Forward, academies will be notified by November 1,
2013 and will be expected to complete the Academy Assessment by
January 20, 2014.
**Distinguished Academies also fill out the threshold form in Data Center by
October15, 2013.
8. #nafnext
What happens after I hit ?
Data Center Due: December 4, 2013
Academy Assessment Due: January 20, 2014
1. Provisional Status
2. Academy Revision You have a next
step!
3. Provisional Status
4. Finalized Status
9. Block Day
Time
Learning Seminar
C Thursda
y
2:15 PM
Academy Assessment 101
D Friday
10:30
AM
YOP Data Center: Welcome to the NAF
Academy Support Hub Training
D Friday
10:30
AM
The Road to Distinguished: Planning the
Trip
*Level: Advanced
E Friday
2:15 PM
YOP Data Center: Welcome to the NAF
Academy Support Hub Training
More about Data Center & Academy Assessment:
10. Collaboration Time
Use your Action Plan
Use the session planning tool to
deploy your staff to achieve this goal
Ask your regional staff for help on this!
13. Welcome!
• Please sit with your regional team to do the
following:
1. Debrief your learning sessions – share
your “a-ha’s”
2. Make any changes to your session
deployment strategy
14. Work-Based Learning Plans
Review the sample work- based
learning plan on your table
Underline or highlight parts of the
continuum that you already
implement
Circle parts of the plan that you
want to implement
15. Find someone you don’t know and
answer the following questions:
What stands out to you from the
sample WBL plan?
What about work-based learning
are you excited to implement
next year?
16. Use the sample Work-Based
Learning Plan to write your OWN
work-based learning goal
How will different stakeholders
(administration, Advisory Board,
etc) help you achieve your goal?
What is the benefit to your
STUDENTS of achieving this
goal?
17. Collaboration Time
Create a goal and action step(s) to
develop your own WBL plan (or to refine
it)
Ask your regional staff for help on this!
20. Welcome!
Please get some lunch! And while you do:
Find someone you don’t know in the lunch line
and answer the following question:
What is one goal and action step, focused on
WBL, that you will be putting in your action plan?
Complete the support cards on your table and
make sure to give them to a NAF staff person
before you leave
22. Goals & Action Steps
GOAL: Implement work-based learning
activities
How can we turn this into a SMART goal?
GOAL: Engage 3 Advisory Board members in
creating a work-based learning plan that will
include at least 5 activities per grade; plan
complete by October 1.
What are three action steps that can support this
goal?
23. Conference Debrief
• What are your biggest takeaways from the
whole conference?
• What are you most excited to implement in
your academy this year?
• What are your barriers to success?
24. Collaboration Time
Continue developing your action plans
Debrief your sessions and collaborate
on how to implement best practices
you learned
Ask your regional staff for help on this!
Editor's Notes
Hello and welcome to Team Time! This is the Western Region. If you are not in the Western Region, please check the conference book for the right room. We will get started in just a minute.Please make sure that you are sitting with your academy team.Let’s get started – introduce team
MORGAN: Each of you was given a name badge at registration. On the badge, you’ll see this statement, with a big empty line under it.NAF Next provides a prime opportunity for exchanging ideas. Your name badge provides a prime opportunity to share your biggest internship challenge, and maybe even find a solution.Take a look at your badge and write what you would need in order to get 100% of your students internships. You could write things like:10 more advisory board members4-year work-based learning planStart a fundraising committeeRecruit more studentsYour challenge may be somebody else’s solution. Right now, stand up, walk around, read name badges. Look for someone who wrote a challenge that you’ve faced and maybe conquered. Or If you have
KEVIN: Please find your conference books.On page XX, you will see a list of all the different sessions that you can take.We will be giving you some time in this hour to work on your conference deployment strategy – how you will cover all the sessions that you need to. For now, think about which elements of the model you want to focus on this year. If you have already done an action plan, you may want to refer to it.
AAZAM: Before we get into these “nuts and bolts,” I want to make sure we spend a little bit of time on the big picture. At the end of the day, we are all here to make sure more high school students graduate ready for college and careers.We have two things on the screen now: the cycle of continuous improvement, and the membership development model.In order to assess these things, we ask that you complete three pieces of information for us: the Data Center, the Academy Assessment, and an Evidence Binder.The cycle of continuous improvement is the way we support you in achieving these things for your students.The membership development model puts your academy in a category along with other academies that are at the same level of fidelity to our model.
ANA We’re going to cover a bit of information about the NAF Data Center & Academy Assessment. We want to mostly give you collaboration with your team, but know you can attend Learning Sessions about this, you have an FAQ sheet, and you’ll get lots more information in the fall.Data Center must be completed prior to beginning Academy Assessment. That’s because key Data Center information is pre-populated into your Academy Assessment, so you don’t have to do it twice!Here are the timeframes when your Review Team should be completing each step. Remember that your Review Team should be comprised of many stakeholders, including:academy design teamSchool leadersAdvisory boardTeachersGuidance CounselorsStudents and parentsWe have students here today in Team Time which is a great reminder to continually involve students in your academy development activities.
ANA In recognition of their Academy Quality, last year, Distinguished academies were invited to bypass the Academy Assessment process by completing some preliminary steps in the NAF Academy Support Hub. That’s called “rolling forward.”This year, we are inviting those academies who scored Certified and Model last year to join Distinguished Academies to apply to roll forward. If your Academy earned a Certified or Model membership level last year, pay attention!To be considered to “roll” your score forward:1. You MUST complete Data Center by October 15. You will choose either:Acknowledge current score is accurate-request rolling forward OR We opt to take the Academy Assessment. For example, if you want to seek a higher status. Just know it’s not like SAT scores: you can’t choose your higher score. 2. You’ll then need to fill out the Action Plan in the Academy Support Hub.NAF will either accept your request to Roll Forward or not. 3. If accepted to Roll Forward, academies will be locked out of Academy Assessment.If not accepted to Roll Forward, academies will be notified by November 1, 2013 and will be expected to complete the Academy Assessment by January 20, 2014.NOTE for STAFF: In case someone asks why could they be rejected?Don’t meet the October 15 timelineUnusual data (i.e. sharp decline in student #)NAF may want to review your evidenceIn case someone asks “what if I redo the Academy Assessment and I get a lower score?”it’s not like SAT scores: you can’t choose your higher score.
ANACompleting the AA is really important! We just want to quickly review the process since there’s a change this year:Once you hit “submit,” your Academy Assessment will move into “Provisional” status which just means that it’s in NAF’ s court to verify the score. **CLICK** Within 2 weeks, NAF will review your Academy Assessment. We will either:Finalize it, or we might ask you to submit evidence (if you didn’t provide an online evidence binder) orWe might ask you to make a change to your Academy Assessment to ensure it’s accurate.You’re more likely to move right to “Finalized” status if you’re in touch with NAF regional staff throughout the school year.After NAF reviews it, the Academy Assessment will be in “Academy Revision” status. You have a next step when your Academy Assessment is in “Academy Revision” status. NAF will have emailed you to explain your next step. Once you do the next step and hit “submit” again, your Academy Assessment will be back in “Provisional” status for another NAF review. If everything is taken care of, your Academy Assessment will be “Finalized,” and your score will appear on the last page in blue, like this. **CLICK**Remember that when your Academy Assessment is in “Academy Revision” status, you have a next step! That matters because if your Academy Assessment is in “Academy Revision” status after the January 20, 2014 deadline, your membership level will decline.
ANA Check out these sessions to learn more.FAQs were placed in your registration packetAcademy Improvement Guide will be available on the Academy Support Hub
KEVIN Action Plan – If you’ve already started the Action Plan in the Academy Support Hub, someone on your team received a printed copy in your Registration packet.If you HAVEN’T already started the Action Plan in the Academy Support Hub, make sure to check it out. It’s cool. In the meantime, we have blank copies printed for you to use this week.Please take this time to discuss as a team what you want your goals to be for the conference, and how you will divvy up the sessions that you want your team to attend.
KEVIN Now, you have been to two learning seminars. I would like you to take a couple of minutes to debrief your learning sessions
MORGAN introduce WBL activity
KEVIN: You will have three minutes per conversation – go!(time three minutes)Switch! Find a new clock buddy!
KEVIN
KEVIN
AAZAM As you are getting your lunch, please do your own clock buddy exercise. Every three minutes, I will tell you to switch, and please find a new person to have this conversation with.
MORGAN I’m sure most of you already know all about SMART goals, but we want to make sure that you are thinking about them as you do your action planning.To recap, goals should be:SPECIFICMEASURABLEACTION-ORIENTEDREALISTICTIME-BASEDYou may be wondering why we are continuing to beat this dead horse. And I know that, when you write goals in your action plan, YOU know what they are. But when you win the lottery and move to Guam, the person who comes in after you will need to be able to pick up these goals and continue to work on them. And when we look at your action plan to learn how we should deploy resources to support you, this will help us a lot.
MORGAN With that in mind, let’s look at this goal and see how we can re-write it so it is (click!):SPECIFICMEASURABLEACTION-ORIENTEDREALISTICTIME-BASED(click)What about this goal?(click)
AAZAMNow that you’ve thought about how you can write your goals, I want you to get back in your academy teams and go back to the action planning template. Spend a couple of minutes debriefing the conference with these questions.
