2. Welcome &
Introductions
• Where do you work?
• What do you love most about the
Career Development work you do?
• A memorable moment/new learning this semester.
• As we approach the holidays, what brings you joy?
3. Career Development
Placemat Activity
• Please reflect on the following prompts throughout
the day
and return to Vanessa at the end of our meeting.
• It is hoped our reflective responses will provide
ideas as to how to effectively work together and
continue to grow professionally
as a CD LEAD TEACHER TEAM.
Thank you!
4. Where are you at in your
CURRENT REALITY?
Do you have any specific
passions?
What sort of Big Vision Goals or
Aspirations do you have for
yourself?
NAME: _____________________________
Describe your personality
type and learning style.
6. AGENDA
• Role & Supports for Career Development LEAD
Teachers
• Division Initiatives
• Duke of Edinburgh Representative
• Great Plains College Representative
• CD Updates/Tools/Resources
• Future Meeting Dates
• Team Picture & Gift Exchange Fun!
7. Our Role as CD LEAD Teacher
• Supporting students/families with life/career development process:
– Career Education 6-9
• Grade 9 and Beyond Graduation & Post Graduation Plan
• Junior Achievement Grade 6 and 8 Implementation
– Continued Transition Plan/Portfolio Building for Grade 10 thru 12
– Grade 11 CAPS/COPS/COPES inventories
– Grade 11 and 12 Individual and Group Counselling (strive to meet with Grade 12’s minimum of
4 times/year, meet with Grade 11’s minimum of 2 times/year, connect with Grade 10’s through Portfolios)
– Ongoing updates and communication with families
– Support for TOKW, SYA, Job Shadowing, etc. opportunities
– Teach or Support Middle Level Career Education Teachers
– CWEX offered to all Sun West School Division Students
– Supervision of off-site work-based placements
– Organization and supervision of Apprenticeship Credits
– Career Fair (every other year)
– Ongoing professional development and continued active participation in
career development team meetings (PLT and LEAD Teacher)
– Collaboration on wiki/blog
– Incorporate PeBL in support of student learning
– Advocate for Career Development within our Division and Province
– Other related duties
8. SUPPORTS for
Our Role as CD LEAD Teacher
Blog
(Thanks all)
Wiki
(Thanks all)
CD Newsletter
(Thanks to Kevin/Chris in
the past – I am trying!)
FB Page
(Thanks Renee)
CWEX Moodle
(Thanks CD
Itinerant Team)
Scholarships QR
(Thanks to Chris in past –
what’s the future?)
Website
(What’s our plan?)
Our CD
TEAM
(Thanks ALL!)
10. DIVISION INITIATIVES
• A3: Graduation Rates Priority
– Grade 9 & Beyond Graduation and
Post Graduation Plan
11. Graduation Rates
Goals
1. Supporting School Divisions and
First Nations Education Authorities
as you implement the ESSP.
2. Sharpening the focus on Graduation
Rate outcomes.
Graduation Rate Symposium Overview
Disruptive Innovation in Action!
12. Graduation Rates
1.What are we doing that’s working? How do we know?
Students that are engaged are graduating
2.What are the barriers to graduation?
Attendance
Mental Health
Addictions
Student Transience
Administration and Teacher Retention
Professional Development – Strategies and Cost
3.What can we do differently?
Disruptive Innovations –
innovative practices to increase graduation rates
17. Graduation Rates
My Student First Classroom
The My Student First Classroom model consists of action items for
students, teachers, schools and school divisions. Together we share the
responsibility, to ensure that all students: are prepared to learn, belong
and are valued and are successful as they prepare for their future.
As part of the work on this priority, the Graduation Rates Leadership Team
was tasked with examining the current research and local promising
practices. Based on the research and promising practices shared at the
2016 symposium, the team has developed the “My Student First
Classroom” model. This will be implemented in Fall 2017, with an initial
focus on grade 10.
18. Graduation Rates
3 Areas of Focus
1. We are preparing to learn
2. We belong and are valued
3. We are successful as we prepare for our future
27. CD DIVISION INITIATIVES
• A3: Graduation Rates Priority
– Grade 9 & Beyond Graduation and
Post Graduation Plan
• Junior Achievement
– Grade 6 Our Business World
– Grade 8 Dollars with Sense
• CWEX and DLC Off-site Work-Based
Placements
• PeBL Implementation
33. CD UPDATES/TOOLS/RESOURCES
• Take Our Kids To Work (TOKW)
• Saskatchewan Youth Apprenticeship (SYA)
• CAPS/COPS/COPES
• Clevr
• ROADS TO SUCCESS Career Fair Planning
• Ministry Updates (relating to post-secondary)
• DLC
• Power School
• Chatter High
34. TOKW Day 2017
• Take Our Kids To Work 2017 Reflections
- see Nov 7th Email for TOKW day follow-up
link. Please record participation if you
haven’t already done so.
https://goo.gl/p5Htrr
36. CAPS/COPS/COPES
• If you need copies,
please take them
with you today.
• Online next year? Thoughts?
37. Clevr
• Last year was a ‘pilot’ year, this is a full
implementation year.
• www.sunwestsd.ca
– Staff, Teachers, QuickLinks, Clevr
• File Upload Info
• Where are you at?
38. ROADS TO SUCCESS CAREER FAIR 2018
May 8, 2018
(setup on the 7th)
Brainstorming
Ideas?
Format?
Keynote?
How do we want to collaborate on this?
All ideas welcomed and appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI
Millennials grew up in an electronics-filled and increasingly online and socially-networked world. They are the generation that has received the most marketing attention. As the most ethnically diverse generation, Millennials tend to be tolerant of difference. Having been raised under the mantra "follow your dreams" and being told they were special, they tend to be confident. While largely a positive trait, the Millennial generation’s confidence has been argued to spill over into the realms of entitlement and narcissism. They are often seen as slightly more optimistic about the future of America than other generations -- despite the fact that they are the first generation since the Silent Generation that is expected to be less economically successful than their parent
Why is Sun West Graduation Rate Dropping?
# Distance Learning students are growing
Large groups of non-academic students
Is our PeBL process in an implementation dip?
Have we increased the teacher workload to the point of saturation?
Has this had an effect on student success rate?
Staff feels like they are running on maximum effort. - More work but less staff. Increase in class size.
While distance classes are a great option to allow for a variety of student course options but the students who need the hands on electives are not always the best candidates for DLC environment.
We wonder if we might see the positive effects of our PeBL Implementation process in a few years?
Cyclical nature of classes may be having an impact on Graduation Rate since a few students can affect our Graduation Rate drastically.
Course Requirements: ELA Pathway is ridiculous? We need to look at the pathways required to Graduate.
Grade 10 ELA and Science 10 are a barrier
W and A Math 10 requires extensive Literary Skills
Suggestion: Teach ELA B sections first vs ELA A. Rational: ELA B is a more challenging than A and some think that
Do we have pockets of parents who are not engaged or not supportive or do not have the capacity to support their child's success in school
How do respond to pockets of disengaged students? Ie) trade or ag related focuses for groups of interested students? How do we help students engage? Middle Level is definitely a focus of concern.
Idea to help improve future rates: perhaps identify current Grade 9, 6, and 3 for at-risk and be sure proactive plans are in place. Continue to track them forward, look at data (must determine what to collect), review interventions regularly, etc. Collect the information and take a more focused view on the information to create change (intervention plans). Share successes. (We may need to create a data collection tool to report and share this information). Connect work we are doing so we are aligning and not adding.
Note: PeBL - University is interested in doing some research on this and determining whether or not it is making a difference (qualitative/quantitative) for students. How do we gather meaningful data?
With 3 year snapshots, we may be missing important information in between. Thoughts?
Compile the Stories of the Sun West Non-Graduates to share with the Board and/or Viz Wall
Ie: Non Parental Support, Mental Health Issues, Students no longer in the school division, Community Factor, (Group of students coming from Eastern Canada or EAL students?) SDS Errors
Review Graduation Data:
Compare Division Data with and without DLC #s for 3, 4 and 5 year Graduation Rate.
What is the Graduation Rate of EAL Students?
What percentage of EAL Students attend our schools? - Carol will share this data
School Division could run reports to show students who are off track to Graduate (Reference the On Track to Graduate Reports). Run Division Reports for other grade levels.
School Based Admin Roles:
Track and tell the stories of non-Graduate Report
Reference the On Track to Graduate Reports.
Identify School Graduation Leadership Team Roles
Compile the Stories of Sun West Non-Graduates
Question: What can we do to address this?
Review Graduation Rate A3
Update JooMag Magazine
Outline expectations for School Level Graduation Rate Teams
Note: November 3, 2017 - The Saskatchewan Career and Work Education Association is partnering with Graduation Rate Outcome Owners to offer a 1-day session for school division teams collaborate on grad rate priorities - "A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish". http://www.scwea.com/event/scwea-conference-2017/ Info was sent to Graduation Rate Leadership Team to pass on from Greg Enion on October 18th.
https://view.joomag.com/sunwestgraduates-sun-west-graduates-2/0912789001501191932?short