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DPI Resource: Wisconsin's Guide to Publishing Your District's ACP E4E Plan

2023-24 Career Readiness Community of Practice

Module #2:

Professional Development for Staff

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Academic & Career Planning and Education for Employment

Wisconsin Legislative Statute PI26

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Let’s Take a Few Minutes to Share Out . . .

What knowledge, skills, and abilities do educators from core content areas need related to career readiness?

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Academic & Career Planning – PI26

Recap of the WHY behind Wisconsin Academic & Career Planning (Legislative Statute PI26):

“The purpose of ACP services is to assist pupils with planning and preparing for opportunities after graduating from high school.

These opportunities may include postsecondary education and training that leads to careers.”

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DPI Resource: Wisconsin's Guide to Publishing Your District's ACP E4E Plan

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Academic & Career Planning – PI26

Recap of the ADDITIONAL requirements of ACP embedded into the Education for Employment (E4E) statute that spans elementary, middle and high school grade levels. School districts must:

  • Prepare elementary and secondary pupils for future employment.
  • Ensure technological literacy; to promote lifelong learning.
  • Promote good citizenship.
  • Promote cooperation among business, industry, labor, postsecondary schools, and public education.

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DPI Resource: Wisconsin's Guide to Publishing Your District's ACP E4E Plan

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Academic & Career Planning – PI26

Engage with

Area Employers

Engage with

Families

Encourage Input from

Students

Recap of who needs to be at involved in the Academic & Career Planning process to best serve students in your school district. Best practice is to bring the following groups to the table, along with members of your school district career readiness team . . . and Why?

DPI Resource: Wisconsin's Guide to Publishing Your District's ACP E4E Plan

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Learning Objectives

Learning objectives of this training session include:

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  • Consider the importance of professional development to provide classroom teachers the background knowledge needed to embed career readiness practices into their classrooms

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  • Identify best practices for providing all K-12 educators with learning opportunities focusing on aspects of career readiness

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Refer to the Module #2 Session Guide for Districts

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Learning Objectives

Learning objectives of this training session include:

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  • Discuss how starting with the “why” instead of “how” in advising conversations could ground learners in a purpose-driven career paths, helping students to develop a more intentional focus on career goals

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  • Identify K-12 educator resources for career readiness professional development

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Refer to the Module #2 Session Guide for Districts

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Professional Development for Staff

DPI Resource: Wisconsin's Guide to Publishing Your District's ACP E4E Plan

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WI Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project

DPI Resource: Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project Findings 2022

What findings from the Youth Voice in Career Readiness project relate to the need for districts to provide staff development training to assist with delivering academic and career planning services?

  • Most students learn about career readiness activities from teachers, but they go to family for help. (Finding #1)

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  • Students need teachers to be engaged, excited, and encouraging during career readiness activities. (Finding #3)

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WI Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project

DPI Resource: Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project Findings 2022

What findings from the Youth Voice in Career Readiness project relate to the need for districts to provide staff development training to assist with delivering academic and career planning services?

  • Students need to see how learning is relevant in all their classes. (Finding #5)

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  • High school graduates feel the most important skills to teach in K-12 education are communication, critical thinking and self- or time-management (Finding #8)

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Encouraging Students to Provide Input is Key

DPI Resource: Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project Findings 2022

Quote from Participants of the Student Voice Project

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Top Career Readiness Resources in WI

Equity in Academic and Career Planning - This resource provides short activities that can help ACP or career readiness teams and leaders encourage their stakeholders to learn more about what equity means, how to explore who they are, what beliefs and assumptions they hold, identify their values, and consider how all of this can impact the learners and families they serve. The goal of each activity is to help educators learn a little more about their students and themselves and to leave with one simple action step to improve equity within their district.

DPI Resource: Wisconsin’s Top Career Readiness Resources 2023-24

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Youth Voice - Recommendations for Districts

DPI Resource: Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project Findings 2022

Create a comprehensive communication plan so that teachers, students, and families or caregivers are aware of the career readiness activities that are available.

Provide professional development for all staff on how to engage students in career conversations.

Integrate career-connected learning into all subject areas so that students understand how their learning can be used in various careers.

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Educators Need ACP Knowledge

Question: Of the best practices identified on the following slides, consider sharing which strategies you believe are most important.

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • Provide learning opportunities for ALL staff to assist with delivering Academic & Career Planning in grades 6-12

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  • Provide professional learning that includes K-5 educators and staff

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • Include K-12 leadership in the professional learning opportunities

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  • Onboard new leadership/staff each year

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  • Start with the WHY embedding Academic & Career Planning into all subject areas (consider youth voice and employer feedback)

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • After establishing the WHY with staff, continue with an overview about all components of the required ACP/E4E plan as a framework

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  • Provide staff with information about all K-12 career readiness programs

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • Provide staff with career readiness resources available in the districts and who to reach out to for additional information (Example: Youth Apprenticeship Coordinator)

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  • Provide staff with information on who students can go to for more intensive career advising

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

  • Provide staff opportunities to connect with employers

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            • Behind-the-scenes business tours
            • Employer panel or guest speakers to provide feedback to K-12 teachers regarding academic, technical & employability skills needed in the workplace
            • Teacher summer externship programs

Question:

Do you have opportunities to connect with area employers in your current role in the district?

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • Provide staff opportunities to learn about the future workforce from the students’ perspective and employers’ perspective

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  • Provide staff with training on how to conduct equitable and inclusive conversations with students.

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Best Practices – ACP Staff PD

What are the BEST practices for providing staff professional development when it comes to Academic & Career Planning?

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  • Provide staff opportunities to learn about instructional strategies K-12 teachers can incorporate into their classrooms to engage learners and provide students an opportunity to practice and strengthen employability skills

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Current Students & Purpose-Driven Futures

Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways

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Current Students & Purpose-Driven Futures

Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways

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Current Students & Purpose-Driven Futures

Sample “Contribution to Society” Reframing Used Research Focus Groups

Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways

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Current Students & Purpose-Driven Futures

What are the implications for students?

Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways

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Current Students & Purpose-Driven Futures

What are the implications for K-12 educators?

Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways

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DPI Community of Practice Webinars

https://dpi.wi.gov/acp/resources/acp-community-practice

Question: Have you checked out the DPI webinar recordings, presentations and resources from 2020-2021 with your career readiness team?

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Yes? Which are your favorites?

Not yet? Which topics are your top picks to explore?

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DPI Community of Practice Webinars

https://dpi.wi.gov/acp/2021-22-career-readiness-community-practice

Question: Have you checked out the DPI webinar recordings, presentations and resources from 2021-2022 with your career readiness team?

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Yes? Which are your favorites?

Not yet? Which topics are your top picks to explore?

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DPI Community of Practice Webinars

Note the drop-down menu for a full list of additional resources by topic

https://dpi.wi.gov/acp/2021-22-career-readiness-community-practice

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Resources, Activities & Exemplars

https://wlresources.dpi.wi.gov/courseware/lesson/3269/overview

Three Lakes School District

ACP Business Directory

  • ALL teachers have access to the document to add employer names to the list. All career clusters are listed on the document to meet the needs of ALL student.

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  • First ALL teachers need information on career clusters and information on work-based learning.

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Share Ideas & Celebrate Successes

  • Share ways in which the required component reviewed in this training session is being implemented in your district
  • Help brainstorm together additional ways to expand implementation of this component in districts
  • Consider sharing resources with additional staff members in your district
  • Remember to CELEBRATE the implementation successes in your district

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District Work Time

Consider working in teams to on the following:

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  • Complete the follow-up questions on the module session guide for districts

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  • Review your current district ACP/E4E Plan to determine ways to improve and/or add aspects of this component to your current plan

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Follow-Up Questions from Session

  1. When reviewing the best practices for providing educators with professional learning opportunities focused on career readiness, which strategies did you believe are most important?
  2. Do you have opportunities to connect with area employers in your current role in your district?
  3. Have you checked out the DPI webinar recordings, presentations and resources from 2020-2021 with your career readiness team? Yes? What are your favorites? Not yet? Which topics are your top picks to explore?
  4. Have you checked out the DPI webinar recordings, presentations and resources from 2021-2022 with your career readiness team? Yes? What are your favorites? Not yet? Which topics are your top picks to explore?
  5. What will be the next steps your district/team will take on this topic?

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Group Sharing and Q & A

Please share out with the group:

  • Next steps our district will take to on this required component
  • Questions, comments or concerns

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