is your team ready? linked learning certification visit
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Is your team ready?Is your team ready?Linked Learning Certification Visit
Is your team ready for a Linked Is your team ready for a Linked Learning Pathway Quality Learning Pathway Quality
Review?Review?
Knowing your Team
Knowing Linked Learning
Collaborating with your team
Consulting your support
Reminder- Reminder- Certification is a checkpoint not the goalCertification is a checkpoint not the goal
•Marathon of preparing all students for college and career
•Continuous Improvement using 40 criteria
•Process should invigorate, inspire and challenge your team
Knowing Your TeamKnowing Your Team
Projects
Work based learning
Interventions
Common Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
Key Questions: Key Questions: ProjectsProjects
Are projects a nice extra or a part of your culture?
Are projects guided by agreed upon student outcomes and your theme?
Are technical and academic skills developed through the projects?
Would business partners see the authenticity in the projects students complete?
Would your students speak to the value of the projects?
Key Questions: WBLKey Questions: WBLIs WBL an extra or is it a vehicle for reaching your desired outcomes for students ?
Do you have an active advisory board that is seeking out WBL experiences for all students in your pathway?
Is there an intentional sequence to the WBL experiences for students?
Can students speak to the value of the WBL experiences they are having?
Key Questions: Key Questions: InterventionsInterventions
Does your team take mutual responsibility for helping struggling students ?
Do you use student data to identify individual student needs?
Would students and parents report a high level of individualized support?
Common BeliefsCommon Beliefs
Does you team operate with a common set of high expectations for students?
Does your team generally agree about the best approaches to teaching and learning?
Are common processes evident in your team?
Knowing Linked Knowing Linked LearningLearning
Four foundations of Linked Learning
Linked Learning Value statements
40 Criteria and rubric
Collecting EvidenceCollecting EvidenceDocumenting your work allows you to build on it.
Most evidence should be artifacts, natural by-products of your work.
Some evidence is created to organize, summarize, or provide clarity for "others."
How good is good enough? ( future presentation )
Collaborating with Collaborating with your teamyour team
Team Self-Assessment
Make sure team members know what a certification visit entails
Align tasks to individual skills on you team- Distribute Leadership
Consulting your Consulting your supportsupport
SLC Coordinator
Principal(s)
District Pathway Coach
Key PointsKey PointsIs your team ready to schedule a Is your team ready to schedule a
Pathway Quality Review?Pathway Quality Review?
Knowledge of your team and of Linked Learning are equally important in making a decision.
Certification is a checkpoint, not the goal.
Decision should be done with your team and other supports.
"Not ready" does not "Not ready" does not mean "not good" mean "not good"
Having some of the elements is good for kids and is better than not having any of the elements.
Continuous improvement process implies building, aggregating, learning, and growing while staying focused on your outcomes for students over a period of years.
A mock review done within the district may provide important feedback.