1. Session 3 Regional Centers of Excellence 2015
Planning for Students’ Successful Transition To Postsecondary and Employment Toolkit Workshop
Session 3 Regional Centers of Excellence
2015
“Leading for educational excellence and equity. Every day for every one.”

2. Agenda Welcome / Introductions
Personal Learning Plans Legislation: Statute 120B.125
What is a Personal Learning Plan?
Personal Learning Plans: The Implementation Process
Break
Strategies for Gaining Whole-school Buy-in
Grade Level Milestones
Lunch
Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data in Personal Learning Plans
Action Planning
Share Planning Ideas
Wrap Up and Next Steps
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3. Personal Learning Plans Legislation Statute 120B.125
Using the handout with the Personal Learning Plans Legislation, review and discuss your understanding of the nine components with your team. Any questions?
10-15 minutes
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4. Activity: What is a Personal Learning Plan?
At your table, review the handout “What is a Personal Learning Plan?”
Discuss which items you consider to be most important to communicate to students, parents, staff and stakeholders.
Share your ideas with the group.
15-20 minutes
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5. Personal Learning Plans: The Implementation Process
Goal: Build capacity to move from “paper implementation” to effective sustained implementation that will improve student outcomes.
Exploration
Installation
Initial Implementation
Full Implementation
Approx 60 minutes on Implementation slides and activity (5-12)
2-4 Years for School Based Implementation
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6. Stages of Implementation
Exploration
Assess needs
Assess fit and feasibility
Identify structural and functional changes
Promote “buy-in”
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7. Stages of Implementation
Installation
Structural changes made
Define and initiate training
Develop coaching plans
Evaluate readiness of data systems
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8. Stages of Implementation
Initial Implementation
Adjust implementationdrivers
Manage change
Deploy data systems
Initiate improvement cycles
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9. Stages of Implementation
Full Implementation
Maintain and improve skills
Policies regularly changed to support work
Data systems in use, reliable and efficient
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10. New and Improved Formula for Success
Effective & Usable Interventions
Effective Implementation Methods
Enabling Contexts
WHAT
WHO HOW WHEN
WHERE
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11. Implementation Stages
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12. Activity: Stages of Implementation Analysis
With your team, review the handout “Stages of Implementation Analysis: Where Are We?”
Identify which stage of implementation you are in.
Which activities are currently “In Place” or “Partially in Place”?
Which activities are “Not Yet in Place?”
Share your discussion with the large group.
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13. Activity: Strategies for Gaining Whole-School Buy-In
With your team, review the handout “Strategies for Gaining Whole-school Buy-in”
Discuss the different strategies and which ideas may work at your school.
Share your ideas with the large group.
20-30 minutes
Ask who is missing from the list in the handout.
JIGSAW activity (there are 4-5 main sections of the article).
How can those that are missing be included?
Who are the easy/difficult buy-ins?
What may be the root cause and why? Can you control it?
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14. Activity: Grade Level Milestones
Using the “Grade Level Milestones Chart”, determine or discuss which activities fit best at each grade level
Consider which activities correspond to the different Personal Learning Plan components and when they can occur during the year.
Consider how these activities can be implemented with fidelity.
Share out your ideas.
Review Eastview example
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15. Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
School Reports:
Student Score Reports
Presentation Packet
Profile Summary Report (Group Scores)
Item Analysis Reports
Early Intervention Roster
Student Data File on CD
Student Roster (Individual Scores)
Approx 90 minutes on Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data slides (15-30)
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16. Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
Student Score Reports:
Your Scores
Your Estimated PLAN/ACT Composite Score Range
Your High School Course Plans
Your Reported Needs
College Readiness: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science
Your Plans for After High School
PLAN only: Admission Standards
PLAN only: Profile for Success
Your Career Possibilities
Your Skills & Your Individual Item Responses
Find each section of the score report on the example score reports.
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17. Sample PLAN Score Report
Find each section of the score report on the example score reports.
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18. Sample PLAN Score Report
Find each section of the score report on the example score reports.
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19. Sample PLAN Score Report
Profile for Success
Engineering & Technologies
Successful college sophomores in majors related to your preferred Career Area typically have ACT Composite scores of:
24-28
Your Career Area Preference
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20. ACT World-of-Work Map
Personalized ACT Interest Inventory results are provided on the PLAN, EXPLORE and ACT student score reports in the World-of-Work map.
It highlights the Career Areas the student indicated that they liked the best, as well as Career Areas related to their interests.
To help your students see what career options are best suited to them, use the Interactive World-of-Work Map, which organizes thousands of occupations into an easy-to- understand system. html
Find each section of the score report on the example score reports.
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21. Becoming Career Ready To become career ready, students should:
Identify career fields
Describe career fields
Connect career fields to personal interests, skills and values
Identify how current courses relate to career fields
Become aware of the skill and entry requirements for careers
Engage in additional learning opportunities
Become aware of additional skills and development they need
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22. Activity: Student Score Report
Complete the “PLAN Test Interpretation Activity”, using the PLAN Test Student Score Report.
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23. Strategies for Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
Advising – counselors/advisors/mentors/teachers
Ask students to self-record scores/plans (MCIS or other career planning forms)
Use software (such as Naviance)
Plan early interventions for struggling students or those who have no postsecondary plans
Implement additional support programs (such as Ramp Up To Readiness, AVID)
Track college readiness scores for EXPLORE, PLAN, ACT (and Compass for some)
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24. Strategies for Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data (continued)
Track College Readiness scores for EXPLORE, PLAN, and ACT (and Compass for some)
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25. Ideas for Integrating EXPLORE and PLAN Data into Personal Learning Plans
Conduct pre-administration session to help students
Implement student-led conferences to share results
Have students put scores in MCIS or other systems
Distribute results in classes with student interpretation worksheets as part of personal learning plans
Provide opportunities for parent/student involvement with scores
Meet in small groups of students with similar scores; follow-up sheet
Use advisories to teach study skills and career/college planning
Emphasize how each of the legislative requirements can be addressed by the use of Explore and Plan data
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26. Ideas for Integrating EXPLORE and PLAN Data into Personal Learning Plans
Use results in career classrooms to connect careers with course plans
Use results in preparation for registration and credit review meetings- annual review
Share results at registration with students (& parents)
Use results in preparation for college fair
Use results for online research for careers
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27. Ideas for Staff Conduct session to help staff understand the testing
Preview of purpose with students by staff
Provide item response info to teachers to show areas of need and link results to interventions for reading skills and graphs
Use results to link interests to new programs
Assist with understanding results and personal learning plans in advisories
Provide data to teachers to help determine at risk students
Incorporate testing questions from PLAN and ACT into curriculum
Have middle school counselors provide spreadsheet of info for high school counselors
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28. Ideas for Parents Include test information at fall parent meetings
Send letter or brochure home to explain tests
Conduct parent information night to share results: overview and interpretation student worksheet
Conduct parent night: guest speakers, booths/career fair, students’ worksheets
Conduct parent sessions at conferences with PowerPoint
Post presentations for parents on Web site
Create student assignment to share results with parents
Have advisors discuss results at conferences or registration
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29. Example Opportunities Day: “Cougar Trail Guide to Success”
Self Paced PLAN Instruction Video for all 10th graders during Cougar Den Session
Students fill in test interpretation activity handout with PLAN information.
Students record academic and career information into their personal learning plans.
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30. Activity: Using EXPLORE and PLAN Data
At your table, generate ideas for tools or resources to assist students, staff, and parents in using or understanding the information provided by EXPLORE and PLAN.
Record on chart paper and post
Large group sharing
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31. Activity: Action Planning Sheet
Using the “Action Planning Sheet”, indicate your next steps to implement initiatives related to Planning for Students’ Successful Transition to Postsecondary and Employment. Be ready to share your action plans to the large group.
Approx 60 mins
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32. Wrap Up
Continue your work back home using the following handouts and resources:
Stages of Implementation Analysis: Where Are We?
Grade Level Milestone Chart
Action Planning Sheet
Blank Toolkit Template
120B.125 Toolkit, available on the MDE College and Career Planning Resources page -
Resources from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability (NCWD) -
Resources from other states, available on the Office of Disability and Employment Policy (ODEP) website at the following link -
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