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Fairfax County Public Schools
- 1. FCPS Work-Based Learning: Preparing Students to be College and Career Ready
- 2. Fairfax County Public Schools: Fact Sheet • 196 schools and centers • 48 alternative programs and learning center • 10th largest school system in the US; Projected to serve 188,545 students • Enrollment has grown more than 22,000 students over the last 8 years • Over 25% of students receive free/reduced price meals
- 3. College and Career Readiness in FCPS: Overview • Portrait of a Graduate and Strategic Plan – Ignite: Student Success, Caring Culture, Premiere Workforce, Resource Stewardship • Comprehensive School Counseling Programs – Career Centers / Career Counseling – Academic Habits • Executive Functioning • Persistence • Help-Seeking • Progress Monitoring • Self Efficacy • Student Learning Plan • College Success Programs
- 4. Portrait of a Graduate
- 5. College and Career Readiness in FCPS: Programs, Opportunities and Practice • Work-based learning: – Internships – Job Shadows – Resume Workshops – Career & Technical Student Organizations – Industry Partnerships • Workplace Readiness competencies in all CTE classes • Career & Transition Services for students with disabilities
- 6. Work-Based Learning promotes Student Engagement & Student Success
Editor's Notes
- This summer, the FCPS Strategic Plan: Ignite was introduced after gathering input and collaborating with stakeholders from across the division to determine the priorities for the system. Ignite represents the cooperative work of the School Board and Leadership Team to create a long term strategic plan for Fairfax County Public Schools. Ignite was created to ensure that our students receive the best possible education, preparing them for their best possible futures and is built around four strategic goals: student success caring culture premier work force and resource stewardship Each of the strategic goals includes overarching strategies as well as desired outcomes and specific action steps to reach those outcomes. Academic Habits: Researchers, such as Dawson, Guare, Galinsky, and others, have developed different lists of executive functioning skills we want students to develop. FCPS has identified the following executive function skills categories that we will focus on: attention and focus, cognitive flexibility/shift, goal-directed persistence, metacognition, self-control, and working memory. Persistance- Persistence is the ability to continue in the face of frustration and failure. It also means having grit, tenacity, and a growth mindset. Help Seeking - Another focus of these academic habits lessons was help-seeking. Help-seeking isn’t simply the ability to ask for help. It includes three components – the when, the where, and the how. Students must be able to recognize the difference between needing help immediately and needing to try something on their own first, before asking for help. They must also know from where or whom to access help. Finally, once they’ve identified the when and the where, they must know how to ask for help. What will they say or do to access the help they need? Progress monitoring is an academic habit that we also want teach students. In order to be able to progress monitor themselves, students must first be able to honestly self-assess their areas of strength and growth. Teachers can support them in accurately identifying these strength and growth areas. Once these have been established, students must be able to create, and continually evaluate the effectiveness of, their approaches to a task. Self-efficacy was the final focus of these academic habit lessons. Self-efficacy means that learners believe they can produce the outcome or effect they desire - in other words, that they control their own destinies. Implementation of the “Student Learning Plan” helps students develop a sense of self-efficacy by connecting that idea of students controlling their own destinies to considering and preparing for future careers. The Student Learning Plan provides a directed approach to help students explore their strengths and how they connect with future career options and interests. It also helps them outline a plan to meet their high school graduation requirements and achieve their career goals. College Visits New Families Orientation Parent Sessions SAT Prep School-based Meetings Senior Help Days Senior Reception Summer Experience
- Last year, our division introduced Portrait of a Graduate, which outlines what our community believes is important for our graduates to know and be able to do when they leave FCPS. While still focusing on the academic content areas, the Portrait of a Graduate also allows FCPS to move beyond the high stakes testing environment and develop the skills in our students that employers are seeking for their workforce. Through Portrait of a Graduate, the FCPS graduate will engage in the lifelong pursuit of academic knowledge and interdisciplinary learning by being a: Communicator, Collaborator, Creative and Critical Thinker, Ethical and Global Citizen, and a Goal-Directed and Resilient Individual Portrait of a Graduate encompasses all that we want our students to be, is connected to school counseling standards, and is the center of the FCPS Strategic Plan. The “Portrait of a Graduate” framework identifies the skills and knowledge that students will need in order to be prepared for their future after high school graduation.
- Some highlights of programs; Academy and Specialized programs (6) throughout our County. --MITRE Corp. hosts “Young Women in Engineering event opened to middle and high school girls to spend the day visiting the MITRE headquarters and networking with female engineers, scientists, and corporate executives. --Partnership with federal government DoD CIO office for job shadow day at various DoD agencies to allow students to explore opportunities for IT careers in the federal government. --Chantilly Academy has a mentor program for “Girls in Engineering” where girls meet quarterly in an evening program with professional female engineers for presentations and networking. --FCPS is hosting a STEM-H Expo to allow students, parents and community members a chance to visit with industry and academic representatives in the fields of science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and healthcare. The event is free of cost and in the past has hosted as many as 400 participants. VW /partnership: Virginia Tire and Auto/WANADA (Washington Area New Auto Dealers Association) Virginia Tire and Auto – funded job internships. Students leave the class for supplemental training to enhance learning in Auto Tech classes. They work 45 hours in a 10 week period and are paid WANADA – MOU- uses our facilities and pays teachers to teach a class on Tues/Thurs 4-10pm. Class is for technicians (our alumni or other graduates)